Yang Yuanzhao set his sights on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was only established in the Northwest in the past two years, and was useless before, but was just a translation department used to do business with foreigners and help Harpy sell Northwest products all over the world. After the Northwest fought against Russia, the Northwest suddenly rose like a comet, defeated Russia's million-strong army, and really stood in the club of the great powers, at least at the level of Turkey and Italy. This world is quite realistic, if you don't have the strength, no one will say anything to you, when you have the strength, especially the premise of strong strength, in this case, countries have established diplomatic relations with the northwest.

Although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the northwest is still relatively immature, and they are all temporary personnel like catching ducks on the shelves, they are constantly growing up under tremendous pressure, understanding international law, and understanding some international conventions. Sure enough, the advice given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is very simple, that is, it can maintain some commercial ties with Turkey, so that it is in line with international law, and it does not have a stalemate with Germany, which is the best of both worlds.

The opinion given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is basically in line with Yang Yuanzhao's thoughts, but how do I feel that it is not enough in my heart, Turkey's defeat has been decided, several major cities in the European part have been surrounded, and the strongholds have been cleaned up one by one, and the strength of the Balkan Alliance's army is not very good, but there are many personnel, and if you only provide arms, at most delay the time, Turkey will basically still lose.

The intelligence department is full of people, and they were even established when the factory protection team was just established. It has a history of almost 4 years, and his leader at that time was Shi Lei, who fled to Baotou from other places. Even the death of all the family members of the single-family family.

Yang Yuanzhao selected him from the factory protection team and entrusted him with important tasks, he was also loyal to Yang Yuanzhao, and the Intelligence Bureau was directly funded by Yang Yuanzhao from the beginning of its establishment, and in a sense, it was a private soldier under Yang Yuanzhao's personal control. They refer more to Yang Yuanzhao's opinions, the previous two opinions. Yang Yuanzhao was noncommittal, obviously, he was not satisfied with the above two opinions, and the opinion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was already excellent. It stands to reason that it is the best choice in the Northwest, is it ......

The Ministry of Intelligence quickly thought of the reason, and they summarized it a little bit according to the existing information, and they understood Yang Yuanzhao's inner thoughts, business can be done, the arms business is all huge profits, and at such a moment, it is a little difficult to let Turkey win. Is it true that Basra's Northwest Army entered Turkey, not to mention the impact of the squadron entering Turkey, maybe it will detonate Russia all of a sudden. The contradictions between Britain and Germany will outweigh the losses even more, and perhaps even the northwest will be involved in the complicated war in Europe.

Suddenly, a spiritual light flashed in Shi Lei's heart. He stood up and said, "Or send out the officer corps according to the German model!" ”

"Officer Corps?" Yang Yuanzhao frowned. said: "Germany is in the army, alone in Europe, especially after getting our reminder, Germany's strength in the army has soared, basically similar to us, which affected Turkey in the later stage, but Turkey still can't resist the Balkan Union!" ”

Yang Yuanzhao only knew the information and understood part of it, but after reading the text, he couldn't understand it, Shi Lei said with a straight face: "That's right, Turkey can't resist, but that's because of the lack of arms, as long as there are enough arms, Turkey can resist for a while, and our officer corps is not only training and helping to command, but also a marksman!" ”

Marksman? Yang Yuanzhao was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became enlightened, that's right, if there is a difference between the German Army and the Northwest, it is the marksman, from the very beginning, the Northwest has established the tradition of the marksman, even if it is an ordinary army, the soldiers are much stronger than the general army when training shooting, and therefore a large number of marksmen have emerged, these marksmen rely on AK11 and scopes, and played an extremely important role in the war against Russia.

But it is the war against Russia that made the Northwest Army realize the limitations of AK11, as an assault rifle, the performance of AK11 can be guaranteed, the ability to continuously project firepower, strong reliability, standard components, easy to replace, etc., but as a high-precision blocking rifle, this gun has a natural shortcoming.

At that time, for this matter, the military staff also cautiously reported to Yang Yuanzhao, after all, AK11 is the standard proposed by Yang Yuanzhao, and it is also the design that he mainly completes.

When Yang Yuanzhao received the replacement of more accurate firearms, he still felt a little redundant, but after a closer look, he understood that AK11 was born from AK47, and the basic structure is far from the famous AK47, but the fault is roughly the same, the performance is not very stable, and the accuracy is not enough.

With a stroke of the pen, not only the project was opened, but also funds were allocated to let the institute set up a project on it, let go of the foundation of AK11, and instead started a new stove on the basis of a single-shot rifle, using a combination of manual and mechanical methods to produce a high-precision rifle.

I have to say that the current Northwest, in terms of scientific and technological heritage, compared to 5 years ago, has been improved too much, countless scientists, Chinese, foreign, plus the new rising stars, is just a gun, under the huge investment, a new sniper rifle was born, compared to the simple and durable AK11, this gun is extremely complex, and even the ordinary butt has dozens of different parts, which can be adjusted after fixing, so that the butt is more suitable for the shoulder of the marksman.

It is this kind of meticulous design, the cost of this gun is extremely high, up to more than 20 times that of ordinary AK11, but the accuracy and range, it is extremely terrifying, a marksman who has been trained as a special sniper for more than 3 months, can ensure that within 50 meters, within an inch range of three consecutive firings, 150 meters is not more than 2 inches, and the range exceeds 1250 meters, with the help of 12 times the sniper scope, complete a sniper kill of about 1 kilometer.

After rigorous and meticulous testing, the gun was named AWP1912, finalized in September 1912, and 1,200 units were produced that month, and successively equipped with marksmen and special forces in various units.

The role of the marksman is general in siege warfare and field warfare, but under the premise that the fortifications of the city defense have not been thoroughly cleaned up, it is simply an unsolvable proposition, especially if the opponent is only a second- or third-tier opponent such as the Balkan Alliance, as long as most of his commanders and low-level non-commissioned officers are killed, these unsubstantiated armies will collapse at the touch of a button.

Yang Yuanzhao approved of Shi Lei's approach and ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact the German side, which could selectively intervene in Turkey, provide no more than 600 military advisers, and enter several tight cities, and the first batch could be equipped with 7 Turkish divisions (the standard of Turkish divisions, About 14,000 men, only about half of the Northwest Division) can also be transported to Istanbul via the Guò Baghdad Railway at any time, but only gold, mark, pound sterling and US dollars are accepted, not Turkish currency.

The German side just wanted the northwest to help solve the urgent need, of course, there was also the idea of pulling the northwest into the war, but the northwest was not fooled, and in terms of arms, it was according to commerce, there was no support, and even the price was a little higher, and as for the personnel, it was only 600 military observers, divided into three cities, and played a very small role.

Even if it is a poisonous apple, Turkey must eat it, the former glory of the Ottoman Empire has become dim because of the Russian-Turkish war, but the Ottoman Empire, as a former powerhouse, is still very rich, and even found Britain before and customized two battleships, which is more than 2.5 million pounds.

In terms of arms, the Northwest has turned over a heel, reaching twice the price of the ordinary market, Turkey has also eaten, and the direct delivery is gold, which makes the Northwest more surprised, with the help of an all-in-one machine, the gold reserves in the Northwest are constantly increasing, but who will think that there is more gold, the more the merrier.

Turkey is eager, especially the payment of gold spots, so that the northwest is extremely surprised, the other party is so generous, they can not delay, one day earlier to complete the transaction, one day earlier to get this batch of gold, under the approval of Yang Yuanzhao, the personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, directly opened the arms warehouse in Basra, from this storage materials, directly mobilize the purchase, and on the other hand, in the Wuhan arms warehouse, 5 10,000-ton giant ships, are also urgently loading, they will carry about 40,000 tons of arms, to the Middle Eastto fill the gap in the port of Basra and store it in situ.

The Baghdad Railway, after a year of construction, has basically been completed, in fact, in a few months, small-scale transportation has begun, from Baghdad to Basra, through the port of Guò Basra, to replenish some living resources and fresh water in Baghdad, but like now, it is a test train running at the same time, there are really not many.

The Russo-Turkish war lasted for 2 centuries, so that Turkey lost a lot of land, this sudden Balkan war, and lost a large number of soldiers and weapons, the Young Turks came to power, under the chaos, so that Turkey had empty soldiers but no weapons, which did not order 7 divisions of weapons at once.

7 divisions, close to 100,000 people, according to the standards of the German army, artillery, machine guns, ammunition and the like, together, almost 20,000 tons, with the current 40 tons of a carriage, 500 carriages, the northwest side, for the time being, only 12 trains, 144 carriages, but the big deal is to transport a few times, from Basra to Turkey, it may have taken a lot of time before, when the Baghdad railway is almost completely completed, almost a day or more, you can arrive, which greatly saves time.

The train moved slowly, the first batch of supplies filled the whole train, in Basra, in the entire Iraqi sand mold, there are not many forces of other countries, no one would have thought that there was such a strong force of personnel and materials, on this day, set off for Turkey, injected Turkey with a shot of strength. (To be continued)