Chapter 776: Secret Weapon

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When more and more people were about to survive under the pressure of high taxes, the imperial court and the Beiyang Army bowed their heads and opened the border gates. As long as they emigrated outside the Guan, the Liaodong Army would give them rations and work, and everyone would share five acres of fertile land...... As soon as these news reached the ears of the people, the people became eager for the Guanwai and the National Defense Army.

Then try to find out how to inquire about the Northeast Defense Army.

You know, businessmen who have business dealings with the Wehrmacht have earned more or less money.

In the face of the people's inquiries, they must have said good things about the Wehrmacht. In their opinion, the better the Wehrmacht develops, the more money they can earn from the Wehrmacht.

In this way, there are people who really can't survive in the local area.

At this time, the merchants who were dealing with the Wehrmacht received another message from the Wehrmacht, that whoever brought an immigrant to the Wehrmacht would be paid one or two pieces of silver.

For merchants, they would go back and forth every few days anyway, and if they followed the caravan and brought some immigrants out of the customs, the caravan only needed to provide some food, and the cost was less than two cents of silver. If the Wehrmacht really gave one or two pieces of silver, then he could earn eight dollars of silver by taking an immigrant with him, so why not do such a good business.

In this way, stimulated by the silver, merchants who traveled to and from outside the customs began to trade immigrants by the way. 【】

The Beiyang Army and the Imperial Forbidden Army defending the border knew that after these immigrants arrived in the three northeastern provinces, they would definitely increase the strength of the National Defense Force in disguise. However, in order to buy enough weapons and ammunition from the Wehrmacht, they could not offend the Wehrmacht, and could only watch as the emigrants went out of the border with the caravan and entered the Wehrmacht.

As soon as these caravans enter the three northeastern provinces and reach the first checkpoint set by the National Defense Forces, there are people from the government who specialize in taking over the migrants. After determining the number of immigrants, the caravan was directly given silver to send the migrants to the nearest settlement, and then dispersed to the entire three northeastern provinces.

In the past two months, there have been too many caravans coming and going inside and outside the customs, and dozens of caravans have left the customs and entered the three northeastern provinces at each checkpoint every day. Even if each caravan only brought out fifty immigrants, all the checkpoints in one day would add up to tens of thousands, and at most twenty thousand, it would be possible.

In two months, through this way of ant moving, the population of the three northeastern provinces has directly increased by more than 500,000.

And as the trade continues, the population is growing.

The Wehrmacht took advantage of the brief tranquility of these two months to rapidly develop and build strength.

The Japanese government, which had lost a lot of intelligence personnel, finally confirmed the specific strength of the Wehrmacht.

In the past two months, through the German salvage company, the Wehrmacht has scooped up a total of six warships sunk by devils.

After a repair and refit, four of them directly joined the Wehrmacht naval formations.

Together with one warship directly captured by the Wehrmacht on the battlefield and seven large and small warships owned by the Liaodong Army itself, the Wehrmacht Navy has a total of 12 naval ships that can sail and fight.

In addition, although the remaining salvaged warships cannot be used, the high-quality steel used by the devils to build the warships and the large-caliber naval guns on the warships are treasures for the Wehrmacht.

As a result, the Yingkou Defense Artillery Regiment, which was wiped out by the Beiyang Fleet of the Imperial Court, was re-established. Because of the large number of naval guns, the coastal defense artillery regiment was directly divided into two by Yang Xingguo, one garrisoned to protect Yingkou Wharf, and the other garrisoned to protect Dalian Military Port.

The torpedo boat squadron, which played a key role in the last naval battle, has now been expanded into three torpedo boat squadrons, and there is also a torpedo boat squadron of nine torpedo boats, which will be delivered to the navy in another month.

Nine submarines of the First Squadron of the Submarine Brigade, which Yang Xingguo had given high hopes for, had already entered a deep-water wharf near the Dalian Military Port a few days ago after nearly a month of diving.

In order to protect these submarines from being discovered by the Japanese, from the moment the decision was made to set up a submarine brigade, Yang Xingguo sent people along the coastline to look for docks that might become submarine stations.

In the end, Yang Xingguo really found such a place.

About 60 kilometers of coastline from the Dalian military port, the navy unexpectedly discovered a natural cave that was connected to the sea. After several months of modification, the submarine could dive directly into the cave from the modified two-day channel without exposing the target.

At this time, all nine submarines stopped in the cave to replenish fuel and supplies in preparation for the next voyage.

Now, with the exception of the submarine group secretly established by Yang Xingguo, all the information of the Wehrmacht naval fleet, including the information of two coastal defense artillery regiments that could threaten the Japanese Navy, is all in front of the Japanese Minister of Navy.

"Baga, the cunning Liaodong Army, actually used the naval guns on the ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy as shore defense guns, this is simply a shame for the Empire, and the next attack, I must blast them all into scrap metal." Thinking that the weapons that should have belonged to the Reich were actually equipped by the Wehrmacht, and then in turn to attack the fleet of the Great Japanese Empire, the Minister of the Admiralty's face was shrouded in gloom, and then scolded with an angry face.

The chief of staff next to him also had an ugly face, and then scolded: "Of the twelve warships equipped by the Wehrmacht Navy, five of them are from the Imperial Navy. If His Majesty the Emperor were to know about this, he would certainly be furious and dissatisfied with us. ”

"Also, when we received the farewell telegram from the First Squadron, we did not believe that the Wehrmacht had inflicted heavy damage on our detachment with torpedo boats, and now it seems to be true, otherwise the Wehrmacht would not have developed torpedo boats on a large scale."

"The General Staff has studied that naval battle, and as long as there is a favorable environment for the Wehrmacht, a large number of torpedo boats will be assembled to suddenly attack our fleet from a kilometer away. Even if the fleet reacts quickly to evade, dozens of them swimming sideways can bring great losses to the entire fleet. What's more, our first squadron was parked in the warring sea area at that time, and even if we activated the warships at the first time to evade it, it would be too late. ”

Seeing that the Admiralty's face slowly became more and more solemn, the chief of staff continued: "However, torpedo boats also have a drawback. Because of their small size, torpedo boats could only operate within fifty nautical miles offshore. Moreover, a sneak attack on a warship with a torpedo boat can only be done at night, and there must be a suitable environment. Otherwise, the torpedo boat will be destroyed by the warship as a target before it gets close to the warship! ”

"So, for the torpedo boats equipped by the Wehrmacht, we just need to be more prepared and we'll be fine."

The Minister of the Navy, whose face was much better, immediately said: "In other words, we need to deal with twelve warships of the Wehrmacht and two coastal defense artillery regiments. As long as they are solved, the coastal waters of the Great Qing Kingdom will become the backyard of the Imperial Navy. ”

"Hey!" The chief of staff affirmed with a confident expression.

"Yo Xi!" The Admiralty Minister also had a satisfied smile on his face, and after thinking about it carefully, he immediately ordered.

"Then do it, Chief of Staff, you immediately draw up a battle plan, and tomorrow we will go together to face the saint. As soon as His Majesty agrees, we will send troops to retaliate against the Wehrmacht. I'm sure Your Majesty should be in a hurry. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.