In Shandong, the propaganda of Japan, is in full swing, many Shandong fathers, driven by practical examples and propaganda, into Qingdao, the developed railway, so that they can quickly arrive, the promise of wages, as well as living conditions, in order to settle these people, the northwest urgently mobilized a large number of steel materials and board house materials from Baotou, these can be built with the help of cranes, quickly built houses, in a long time, will become the main residential in Qingdao.

Seeing is believing, some Shandong people with the attitude of giving it a try, settled down, and convenient transportation, but also spread their experience to their hometown, real cash and a more superior environment, so that these people believe, and increase the speed of immigration.

After discovering this qiē, the propaganda team took the initiative to adjust the direction of propaganda, focusing on this, and hired some new and old immigrants to Qingdao, showing up to say, the effect was good, to the moment of the arrival of the Japanese, in the Japanese advance area, the people moved more than 9 percent, and in the Qingdao area, the final concentration of about 2.1 million immigrants, huge Shandong, a full population of 31 million Shandong, in addition to the northwest absolute control zhì area, only less than 700,000 people remained, It can be said that it has been reduced to the extreme.

On the Shandong side, when the population was reduced as much as possible to prevent being slaughtered by the murderous Japanese soldiers, in Japan, a fleet of about 100 ships was preparing to set sail, and Japan sent a large number of escort fleets, accounting for almost half of the remaining fleet, and they hurriedly boarded the ships before they even had training, and started the warships with a time span of up to 25 years. Only then was Tokyo able to enter the Sea of Japan. This unit is a patchwork fleet of the Japanese Navy, as well as the 6th Division, the vanguard of the Army (the 4th Division was mistaken in the previous chapter, and it has been changed!). ）。 Their mission is to rush to Qingdao to rescue Kamio Mitsutomi's department, and to find out as much as possible what is going on in Qingdao.

After the Meiji Restoration, divisions that had been changed from the original garrisons in various places became permanent divisions after the Russo-Japanese War. This is the entire strength of the Japanese Army. The 6th Division, which is the most combative division in Japan, has the title of Kumamoto Samurai. Its combat effectiveness is extraordinary, and it is one of the most powerful divisions and regiments among the permanent divisions.

This Sixth Division is so strong. It's really because of Kumamoto, the main recruitment place. Japan's permanent divisions still recruit from the places where they are stationed using the same method as before, so there is a considerable difference in combat effectiveness. For example, Kumamoto, such as Sendai, these more backward places have a little stronger combat effectiveness. Correspondingly, some economically developed places. For example, the Fourth Division came from Osaka, Kyoto, and Wakayama, all of which were economically developed places, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined. The Fourth Division also has the title of the Merchant Division, which has been repeatedly defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, and there is nothing that cannot be sold, if you have money, you can sell the weapons in your hands, such a division does not have much combat effectiveness at all.

The 6th Division was different, this samurai from Kumamoto was one of the most powerful divisions in the whole of Japan, and played a mainstay role in many wars. It is precisely because of this that they were chosen, and the base camp believed that the strong Kumamoto samurai, even in the worst environment, would maintain a steady posture and create a good condition for the attack of the remaining Japanese army, and strive to defeat the northwest and occupy Shandong, laying the foundation for Japan's next action.

The Sixth Division, due to its location, was embarking in Nagasaki, almost half of the warships currently being raised, about 30 ships, 2 armored cruisers and 3 old battleships, with different speeds and not weak combat effectiveness.

At present, Mitsumi is not the opponent of these ships, Mikai has sufficient armor protection, and on a certain range, it can wrestle with the patrol, which has lost about half of its combat effectiveness, and now the Japanese escort fleet has full combat effectiveness, and the construction age is no more than 3 years, which has greatly enhanced the firepower. As for the battle columns, although they were 20 years ago, they didn't even have the strength to patrol them, but after all, there were 5 ships, and the caliber of the guns was larger than that of Sanhai, and when they were put together, they had an overwhelming advantage.

In this case, two patrols and three battleships are equivalent to five warships of the same level as Mikkai, which already has a great advantage over Mikkai. With the advantage of armor, Mikai has the protection of a heavy cruiser at the level of a light cruiser, which does not mean that he is a heavy cruiser, and the tonnage in the naval battle cannot be said to be an absolute role, but it is also quite an important role. Although the armor on the opposite side is not good, but the thickness is enough, the 210 mm guns of the three seas cannot pose much threat to the other side at all, and in this case, in the face of the overwhelming numerical superiority, the navy in the northwest has not done much.

As for the coastal defense artillery, the artillery that has been shown before will not be of any use, Britain and France have already informed Japan in detail of the location of the northwest battery, and the place where the battery may be owned, counting on the other side to be fooled and hit by the battery again, it is impossible, the Japanese will not be stupid, unless the northwest re-lays large-caliber shore artillery near the position of Mitsutomi Kamio.

This is a tempting idea, the northwest is capable of building this fort again, and can increase the intensity of the attack on the Japanese navy at a very small cost, with some ambush meaning, and once again send the Japanese navy into the sea, so that the blow to the Japanese navy is much more powerful than the tonnage of sinking.

15-inch naval guns, definitely a good thing, powerful, long range, in a relatively high position, absolutely a nightmare for any warship, for the northwest, if there is a chance to take China, especially in most of the important ports, a large number of 15-inch guns will be arranged. With the industrial upgrading of the northwest, especially the investment in some new processes of special steelmaking, the cost of making high-quality artillery steel, compared with before, has been greatly reduced, according to the early international practice estimates, the cost of producing a 15-inch gun in the northwest is only one-third of the British 14-inch gun.

Such a cost advantage, coupled with the continuous explosion of production capacity to form a large-scale production capacity, to strengthen the entire China's seaport coastal defense, has become possible, although the shore defense battery, in the current world mainstream, is outdated, unless in key areas, important straits, will be arranged, along the national coastline to arrange, some too extravagant, but the northwest can do this, in terms of shore fire resistance, 15-inch guns, if upgraded and modified, especially with stronger materials, Even after 50 years, it's not particularly outdated.

Qingdao here, add another battery, dozens of hundreds of guns, this is nothing, the input is only the cost of raw materials and labor, there is no problem, compared to the Qingdao battery, a little repetitive, not a waste, increase the level of defense in Qingdao, no matter what, here is the future military port of the Northwest Navy, but also the largest military shipyard in the whole of China.

Yang Yuanzhao did not choose this way in the end, Yang Yuanzhao also found that he laid a little more artillery, the British and French side, have been knocking on the side to ask, why China has so many more 15-inch guns, if they know, China's side, 15-inch guns can be taken out casually, a large number of arranged on the shore fire force, I am afraid they will think more, even if they are caught in the European war, Britain and France are also quite vigilant against China, and vigorously support Japan, which is clear evidence.

The shore-based fort is to be built, for Qingdao, the current ones are enough, do not rely on these forts, the Shenwei Guangchen Department plus the upcoming Sixth Division, it is also very easy to deal with, the northwest has formed three very stable defense lines on the periphery, enough to station more than 200,000 troops, so that the defense line is even more stable than the once bought and sold city defense line, it is absolutely no problem to deal with two or three times the enemy army, only less than 1 square kilometer of the landing zone, the northwest has no continued attack, but how many people can be accommodated.

Not to mention that the army in the northwest is almost armed to the teeth, not only does each division have more than 50 artillery pieces of 100 mm or more, and the mortars are almost delegated to the platoon level, and even the military region has a strategic army brigade, this temporary, strategic artillery brigade added to the establishment below the division level, has a total of 54 210 mm super heavy infantry guns and 108 155 mm long-range heavy artillery, which can be said to be armed to the teeth.

The Sixth Division was a whole division, 22,000 people boarded the ship, and used almost 30 cargo ships of different sizes, and the reason why a quarter of the personnel had half of the ships of the previous Kamio Mitsutomi Division was because the Sixth Division used all its heavy firepower, and a heavy artillery brigade supported by the First Division, 21 150 howitzers, this part required at least 10 ships to transport, and 30 frigates of different sizes.

This is a huge move, and Japan has not hidden much of it, and under the continuous development of Japan, the intelligence bureau cannot hide the eyes of the northwest at all, and when the news of the arrival of the confirmation that it is ready to leave, the intelligence bureau has intensified its investigation of these places. As a result of the in-depth investigation, it was not only discovered that this part came from the Sixth Division, but also that the remaining Japanese navy had not all come out, only less than half, and the rest, due to personnel and some other reasons, were still undergoing training in various military port associations, and it would take half a month at the earliest before it was possible to leave the port to fight.

If Yang Yuanzhao needs to fight the Japanese, the navy is definitely the most important, whether it is against North Korea, Taiwan, or even the Ryukyus in the future, without the Japanese navy by his side, many things can be done more easily, and even more losses can be reduced, and it is easier to capture these territories. After knowing that Japan still had almost half of its navy and did not come, the Northwest had already decided not to do it for the time being, and that the Northwest would not do anything about being bitten by a snake instead of dying. (To be continued......)