Ten o'clock, Jiaozhou Bay leased land"

Standing in the tallest building in Boli Village, you can see the German flag flying in the "neutral zone" of the leased area, although it is "completely possible." Even if the current Sino-German relations are good, this cannot be changed in the slightest" because this is related to the issue of Germany's face and also to the issue of "equalization of interests" of various countries in China, and under the current international situation, Germany really has no reason to take the lead in breaking the rules of the game. Otherwise. Germany will be the target of public criticism.

The tallest building in Zhouli Village is the ancestral hall in the village, but no one dares to go to the roof of the ancestral hall in normal times, and the villagers will be killed, and even the national head of the Republic of China must respect the folk customs and public opinion, so even in military exercises, the soldiers do not dare to set up a lookout post on the ancestral hall, and can only set up a lookout post on a dead tree near the ancestral hall to command the "battle".

The current Boli Village is the location of the former enemy headquarters of the Chinese side of the Sino-German joint military confrontation exercise on 6 times, and as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy of the Chinese side in this military confrontation exercise, Zhao Bei is seated here. Personally commanded the "offensive" on the German army.

Originally. The German side meant to ask him to continue to serve as the chief referee of the military exercise, but Zhao Bei politely declined, because he wanted to test the combat effectiveness of the elite units of the Chinese National Defense Force through this military confrontation exercise, considering that the main enemy of the squadron in the future is likely to be Japan, so. Zhao Bei also strongly suggested that the German ** team should be deployed in accordance with the combat regulations of the Japanese army, and accompany the squadron ** to train, out of respect for the Chinese president, and for the purpose of showing goodwill, the German commander actually agreed to this request, but at the same time, the German commander also put forward a quid pro quo, that is, in the military confrontation exercise the next day, the squadron should play the role of the British 6th Army, and deploy positions along the coastline to meet the German army from the sea Deng 6 operation, obviously. The German side also seems to want to test the ability of the German army to fight on the 6th.

The "battle" began at 9 o'clock in the morning and has continued to this day, and the "battle situation" is still very fierce. The German army's position was in the area of Xiahezhai more than ten miles east of Boli Village, which was also "five miles to the east, and the troops participating in the battle were mainly a regiment of Zhu Daniu's special operations brigade, as well as two divisions of the Fourth Division of the Wehrmacht stationed in Shandong, an infantry regiment and an artillery battalion. As the defender, the total strength of the German army was only 2,000 people, and the Chinese side had an advantage, but the advantage was not large, because according to the exercise plan, the German army in the area of Xiahezhai played the role of the Japanese Kwantung Army defending the fortress of Arthur, and it not only had strong combat effectiveness. Moreover, the fortifications were strong, and the artillery support of the 6 seas was also very fierce, and a slight advantage in troops alone was not enough to break through the strong defense line of the defenders.

In fact, the reason why Zhao Bei insisted on holding this military confrontation exercise on June 6 was to insist on holding it. It is precisely for the officers and men, especially the staff officers of the former enemy's general staff, to intuitively feel the military confrontation with the powerful countries of the Sixth Army and to practice the new infantry infiltration tactics.

In the past, the squadron fought low-intensity wars, and the opponents were basically local powerful warlords, and the opponents were often scattered after a burst of artillery fire, but now, facing Japan, a small power in the East. The old set of experiences is outdated. To defeat the Japanese army in a future war. You must make up the class first and find a good teacher, and this teacher is the German ** team.

The Japanese 6th Army first studied under France, but the French were defeated in the Franco-Prussian War, so the Japanese army quickly changed to the German 6th Army as a division, although the Japanese 6th Army still has a large number of outdated tactical ideas of the French 6th Army in its bones. However, at least in terms of firepower and troop allocation, the Japanese army did imitate the German army in place, so it was indeed more appropriate for the German 6th Army to play the role of the Japanese 6th Army, and the German artillery fire was more fierce than that of the Japanese army, and this military confrontation exercise did give the Chinese staff officers a lot of insight. If this was a real offensive battle, then, by now, the Chinese assault forces on the front line had actually collapsed, because the battle had been fought for two hours and had not broken through a single line of defense, and given the German artillery fire, even the most optimistic estimates of the troops on the front line "casualties." It's already more than halfway through, and combat effectiveness can't be talked about.

But since the president didn't say, "Stop." Then the offensive in front of the front can not be stopped, and the defending German troops must also accompany the squadron to continue training, so the direction of Naxia Hezhai is still dense with gunfire, and the artillery is roaring, although there is no shell landing and exploding, but the intensity of the "battle situation" can still be imagined.

"Report! The fifth offensive of the 1st Division was again thwarted. ”

"Report! The separate artillery brigade was suppressed by enemy heavy artillery fire and was no longer able to provide artillery support to the front

"Report! The enemy fleet in the direction of Lingshan Bay is moving frequently, and it seems that there is an attempt to concentrate on the flank of our army. ”

"Report! Our aviation units have flown over enemy fortifications. On the way back from dropping the bomb, it was attacked by the enemy's air force, and although it was covered by fighter planes, it still suffered heavy losses. ”

The staff officers and adjutants came and went, presenting all kinds of information sent from the front and the referees of the exercise jury to the commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

Zhao Bei sat under the dead tree, under the scorching sun in the sky, sweating like rain, although a tent was set up next to it, but he was really not in the mood to go to the ventilated tent on all sides to avoid the scorching sun, the reason is very simple, he used to overestimate the strength of the Wehrmacht artillery, and in this exercise, the Chinese side was indeed a little careless, and did not carry heavy artillery, but this can't be blamed on the staff officers, because in the previous exercise plan, the "position" of the German army was a field position, not a military fortress like Lushun, Zhao Bei originally wanted to see how powerful the Air Force's 100-kilogram aerial bomb was, but after the morning exercise began, after the live-fire test of the artillery of the Qingdao Fortress in Germany, Zhao Bei now at least for the Qingwu Fortress, the 100-kilogram bomb is basically equivalent to scratching Cao Ran, and now the Ordnance Industry Administration has produced heavier aerial bombs. But the best weapon for the weeping wind to attack the fortress.

"We need heavy artillery, long-range and powerful heavy artillery! Navy heavy artillery! ”

Zhao Bei patted the table and looked at Lan Tianwei and Jiang Fangzhen who were sitting on the side, perhaps because of the "defeat" of the exercise, the two of them looked a little unrefreshed.

Jiang Fangzhen was strong and said: "The navy's heavy artillery is indeed a good thing to deal with fortresses, but it is not easy to maneuver. It was the commander-in-chief who had the vision to let the Wuhan Locomotive Factory try to build a train cannon, but at present, because of this cannon, the train cannon cannot be put into service for the time being. ”

Lan Tianwei was not as optimistic as Jiang Fangzhen, he hesitated and said: "The technical difficulty of the train cannon is too high, and the cost is also high, and the Admiralty also had objections to this in the past, they believe that instead of spending a lot of money to build train guns, it is better to buy two more battleships for the Navy, which is really not good, and heavy cruisers are also OK, in the opinion of the Admiralty, heavy warships can not only be used to attack fortresses, but also to carry out sea attacks."

Zhao Bei shook his head and said, "The navy is not a matter of buying a few warships, there is also a problem of personnel, which cannot be done in a short period of time." If nothing else, even if the Germans had given us the battleships "Wittesbach" and "Hesse", we would not have been able to find suitable officers and sailors to pilot. Train artillery is different, as long as you are an artilleryman, you can train a little bit, you are a qualified train artilleryman, and then you will talk about it. The train cannon can not only be used to bombard the fortress, but also can be used in field battles, giving full play to the characteristics of heavy naval guns with long range and strong power, and completely suppressing the enemy's firepower on the battlefield. ”

"However, naval heavy artillery is still quite difficult for the current level of military manufacturing in our country, and the German side does not seem to be very active on this issue. In consultation with the German government delegation, both the Admiralty and the 6 th Military Department expressed the hope that the government could directly import a batch of processed large-caliber gun barrels from Germany and hand them over to the arsenal for assembly. Lan Tianwei reminded a few words.

Zhao Bei waved his hand and said, "It's okay to buy a small amount of cannon barrels, but in the long run, the manufacture of this heavy artillery must be done by ourselves, and it is shameful and even more dangerous to look up to people's breaths." I understand the minds of certain people. For them, foreign machines are of better quality and cheaper, and it is better to buy them. But you have to buy it, huh? It's easy to say in peacetime. Who did you buy it from during the war? During the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing court bought warships and cannons all over the world, but how much did they buy? That is a lesson from the past, and the teaching is profound. Now we have to learn to play left and right, the Germans refuse to transfer the technology of heavy artillery production for the navy, so we will learn from the Americans, from the French. On the issue of naval heavy artillery, I have made a request to the US minister in China through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the US minister has asked for instructions from China, and although the US Government has concerns, it has not rejected it all, and perhaps the German submarine incident last time stimulated the US Government, and the United States may transfer the production technology of naval heavy artillery to China

Seeing that the president mentioned the submarine, Lan Tianwei glanced at Jiang Fangzhen, and Jiang Fangzhen was shocked to lead the meeting, so he talked about the submarine on the side.

"In this naval exercise between our army and the German army, a German naval officer asked me why our army did not send submarines to participate in the exercise, and I replied with a smile that it was because our submarines happened to be sailing and were not in the military port."

"Baili, why do you talk around the bush? Don't you just want to ask me, why don't you send submarines to military exercises? ”

Zhao Bei smiled faintly, then restrained his smile, and said: "I did consider letting the submarine participate in the exercise, but then I pondered it again and decided to rein in the edge. Baili, you may also understand that it is the high-profile appearance of our Chinese aviation units that has led to the rapid development of aviation technology in the world in the past two years, and even Japan has several aircraft factories. Our Chinese industry is backward and cannot compare with those powerful countries, so it is necessary for us to hide this military technology, and we can only take it out at a critical time

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Zhao Bei also sighed, as a traverser, he can promote the exhibition and even innovation of some technologies, but on the other hand, the biggest beneficiary of the exhibition and innovation of this technology is not China, but the industrial country, so he must carefully deal with the problem of this new concept of technology, for example, he knows that the tank has a profound impact on infantry offensive and defensive tactics, but he can not now make tanks in the open, but can only make real tractors in the name of "heavy tracked tractors", This is not only out of the accumulation of technology, but more importantly, it is to prevent the provocation of the great powers, especially Japan.

Everything has advantages and disadvantages, the advance development of technology in China will definitely cause a series of chain reactions, Zhao Bei does not dare to take too big a step now, he must wait patiently, waiting for the establishment of China's basic industrial system.

For Zhao Bei's theory, Jiang Fangzhen and Lan Tianwei have no objection, they did witness the Chinese air force and the world's air force exhibition, they really did not expect that China's air force tactics would make a brand new military so quickly on the stage of war, although the Italians insisted that they created an era of air war, but the Chinese did not agree with their views.

Just when everyone was talking about the air force, there was a roar of motives in the sky, and several people looked up and saw a group of planes flying from east to west, which was the bomber group of China's "air force" participating in the exercise, and after this group passed, another group of planes came, but it flew very messily, this is the fighter unit of the Chinese and German armies, and they continued to "fight" while flying to the west. Even Zhao Bei stood up.

This posture is also spectacular blue sky and very emotional.

"This is modern warfare, and the era of mere competition of forces is over.

Jiang Fangzhen sighed.

Zhao Bei glanced at the two of them. He said lightly: "In the future battlefield, the status of the air force will become more and more important, so let's work together to turn China into an air force power."