The idea of a Sino-German alliance has failed, but it does not mean that the relationship between China and Germany has fallen into a freezing point, on the contrary, because of this cooperation, the relationship between the two countries has become more intimate. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Mummer had already made a vague indication of Germany's attitude, which was considering the question of returning the sovereignty of Shandong in the near future, and did not rule out the return of the war reparations taken from the Chinese Empire at an appropriate time in the future.

Germany has shown goodwill, of course, there will be no pie in the sky, for the olive branch of the Germans, Wang Shizhen is very clear in his heart, Germany really needs an ally, although this ally is too far away from Germany itself, but there is no doubt that if Asia can have a strong ally, then it will also be of great help to Germany.

For example, the honeymoon period between China and Germany should be after World War I, when China refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles, so that in some respects, China and Germany have the same position, and finally made the German government realize that Germany can be restored through China, and at the same time, cultivate an ally for Germany in the Far East to prepare for future troubles.

Therefore, during that period, all the military equipment that could be sold, Germany sold them to China without reservation, and helped them form German armourers, although in the end they did not complete the reorganization according to the plan, but the first few German armourers in the Battle of Songhu performance is still very eye-catching.

Of course, the reason behind this was that China really couldn't support it, or that the gap between China and Japan was too great, and the continuous internal friction weakened China's strength, and finally forced Germany to form an alliance with Japan.

Historically, after the outbreak of World War II, the first German soldier to die in battle was in Asia, and at the hands of the Japanese.

However, these are some of the things in the original history, driven by the butterfly effect, and now the whole history is already developing in another direction.

And Wang Sirui has basically lost his advantage as a prophet of history so far, and the only thing he can do is to use some of the resources in his hands to let the world go according to his own arrangement as much as possible.

And the strength of the Chinese Empire also gave Germany a new hope, although it is too far away from Europe, but at least, with the strength of the Chinese Empire, they have the ability to fight on two fronts, attack Russia in the north, and drag Russia as much as possible, this is already going on, the Germans don't need to care, and the other is to go south, to capture the colonies of other powers, causing them to panic, at least to weaken their strength.

For this reason, in this deal, Germany even equipped them with two separate production lines of artillery shells according to the standards for the purchase of warships by the Chinese Empire. Of course, there is also some artillery technology.

In addition, Germany was well aware of the blockade they were facing, and even the possibility of building naval warships in the Chinese Empire was secretly beginning to be discussed in the German leadership.

But these are all later words, the war on the front line, the good news has been spread one after another, and even the listening is a little numb, even the ordinary people in the country, now after seeing the news of the victory in the north, they are not excited at the beginning.

There is really nothing to be excited about, the war has only started for a month, and there are more than a dozen good news from the north, full of news of victory, of course, there are some people who do not believe that these news are correct, because Russia is a great power after all, and they still have their own strength, and even if the Chinese Empire can achieve victory, it should not be as easy as the newspapers say.

But it doesn't matter, most people still believe it, and the official does not give a positive explanation, so people don't care about those rebuttals at all.

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Port Arthur, Guangxu years had spent a lot of money, it took ten years to complete the construction of this port, and since the completion of the construction, here has been covered with a huge halo, as the station of the Beiyang Navy, which was once the first navy in Asia, it was also in the limelight.

However, with the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, Port Arthur was forcibly occupied by the Japanese, and after that, the three countries intervened to return Liao, and the Russians forcibly leased it for seven years.

After the establishment of the Chinese Empire, it forcibly took back Port Arthur through strong means, and spent a lot of money to improve the port conditions of Port Arthur.

Because there were not many navies in the country at that time, this was also the only naval fleet of the Empire, and the Imperial Interior Guard Fleet composed of only five slightly more modern warships such as Hai Yi and more than a dozen old wooden warships was stationed here.

Because the naval fleet was not superior in all respects and was no match for Japan and Russia, the empire had to vigorously build sea-based fortifications to strengthen the defense of Port Arthur.

In order to avoid the embarrassing situation that occurred during the First Sino-Japanese War, a division of permanent infantry was stationed nearby around Port Arthur, and this division surrounded the three layers of Port Arthur and built a large number of permanent fortifications, only machine guns and dark forts, there were more than 5,000 of them, although there were not so many machine guns, but the fortifications were placed there, and most of the machine guns were arranged in the outermost periphery, once the periphery was lost, the troops could carry the machine guns through the trenches to the next position, There are also ready-made permanent fortifications.

And this has another advantage, that is, the more the defenders retreat from the line of defense, the stronger the firepower, in this defense system, when the defenders retreat to the third line of defense, it can basically ensure that there will be a heavy machine gun stationed within every 100 meters, if you do not calculate the attrition, all the machine guns of the entire division are moved out, then you can be equipped with a heavy machine gun every 60 meters or so.

Coupled with a large amount of inclined artillery fire, it can resist the threat of the enemy's naval artillery, and under such a firepower arrangement, even if there are three infantry divisions of the same size to attack, don't even think about taking this line of defense for ten days and half a month.

As for the base for frontal defense against the sea, although it does not seem to be as scary as the infantry positions behind, it is not stingy at all.

The whole front starts from the west of the temple, goes all the way south, goes to the east corner of Laotie Mountain, enters the west to the west corner of Lao Tie Mountain, and finally goes north to Hongshui Bay, a total of 24.5 kilometers long, all of which are used as shore artillery positions, and here, Wang Sirui is even more frenzied to arrange 130 shore artillery positions.

On average, there are 5.3 shore artillery positions per kilometer, that is, 5.3 shore guns per kilometer, and an average of one shore gun every 200 meters or so.

However, one thing is the same, no matter what the caliber of the shore guns is, the fortifications of these shore guns are the most frustrating design, and some earthy hills are better to say, dig them directly and make a dark bunker, only exposing the muzzle of the gun. But some of the stone hills are not a little more difficult to construct, and all the stone hills are dug down two meters and then those works are done.

Well, if it's just that, in fact, the difficulty of the project is nothing, and the most speechless thing is that all shore artillery positions use the same standards, that is, steel bars, concrete, armored steel plates, using the construction standard of 483.

Well, to put it simply, it is a six-meter-thick reinforced concrete permanent fortification composed of four layers of steel bars, eight layers of concrete and three layers of armored steel plates, and outside, if it is a protruding position, it is also necessary to make a two-meter-thick inclined fortification.

Lay a layer of concrete at the bottom, then quickly lay a layer of steel mesh, continue to lay concrete, pave armor steel plates, and then concrete, and so on, such a fortification, it is estimated that only a nuclear bomb can completely destroy it, right?

Although there is some fuss with this kind of fortification, and even some labor and money, but there is no way, who makes their own navy weak? Port Arthur is a port that many countries are aiming at, and it is a natural ice-free port, an absolute high-quality port.

Anyway, everything can be produced by themselves, it's just a little more effort and more time in terms of manpower, and they still have this time.

Therefore, in addition to the expansion of the dock and dock in the port, plus a complete set of permanent fortifications of these army and shore defense, it took a full three years to complete the whole port, and if it were not for the extremely convenient means of transportation such as trucks in the later stage, it is estimated that the entire construction period would have increased by half a year.

Since this place was classified as a military restricted area, the nearby people have moved out of here, although this is the place where they have lived all their lives, very reluctant, but in the face of the cause of national defense, no one can stop it.

Fortunately, they also received a settling-in fee, and the government promised to help them with their livelihoods, so it was easy to empty the place, and through the past few years, a large amount of baggage has been hoarded in this no-man's land.

And this no-man's land is full of a large number of underground fortifications, because it is only digging earth, and with the help of some small machinery, the speed is even faster than those shore fortifications, and the heavy ammunition hoarded here is enough to use the army and navy stationed here for ten years.

It can even be said that unless all the people here are killed, they will never be short of supplies.

Today, Port Arthur has ushered in the first batch of social people, there are many ordinary people, there are also some media reporters, and even some foreigners, and in the entire base, only the port is open to the public today, and the rest of the place is still a military restricted area.

However, everyone was very confused, they only knew that they could come to the port to visit today, but there was nothing in the port, it was empty, and there was not even an old warship, which was very disappointing.

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