Now in the northwest, in the eyes of Wilhelm II and Tirpitz, the status has risen, Fabian's survival zài, so that they are very assured of the quality, the rapid travel of the Far East warship production capacity, so that Germany has the ability to explode battleships, even stronger than the British ability to explode battleships, a forcible occupation of Jiaozhou Bay, in exchange for a considerable amount of hard currency and warships, although it is an indispensable move, but the expansion of capital ships and the enhancement of the high seas fleet is real.

The number of warships purchased from the northwest at one time is a little too much, and the high seas fleet needs ships, but it is not so many ships that have been launched in a short period of time, and the demand for personnel is also a lot of 19,000 people, which is not an army or a navy, and such a demand is not so easy to meet. The navy itself is a military with strong technical equipment and more personnel, and the navy is also a military with a very high level of education in the whole world, let's say the Chinese Beiyang Naval Division a few decades ago, almost all of their officers have the experience of regular naval academies, and most of the officers have studied in foreign naval schools, and ordinary sailors also have more cultural knowledge.

After the personnel are transferred, it can't be said to be perfect, but it can only be said to be unsatisfactory, but how to send them to the Far East makes Tirpitz a little headache, fortunately, Vice Admiral Spee's East Asian fleet, a month ago, returned according to the usual practice, among the personnel who originally needed to be rotated, all of them were on duty, and the posts that could be added were all on double posts, or even three posts, so that the return fleet of East Asia could take about 5,000 people. This is already the largest crew of the East Asian Fleet.

In terms of personnel transfer, Tirpitz took into account the principle of proximity. Of the 700 men drawn from the few East Asian fleets, this is 5,700 men. The remaining 13,300 people need to take various means of transportation to pass, and they can't take cruise ships, which are too obvious and almost impossible to hide, and they will definitely be discovered by the British side or the Entente.

13,300 naval soldiers, Germanic with distinctive characteristics, and very distinct military characteristics, if you take a cruise ship. It will definitely be noticed by the British, and when the time comes, it will be found that there are even some relatively well-known naval officers, God knows how the British will react, and it is even possible to kill the killer for this, you know, in order to ensure combat effectiveness, Tirpitz transferred 3 officers above the captain of battleships, and as many as 20 former commanders of heavy cruisers and destroyer fleets. The commander of the lightning strike fleet was a senior officer, and in the event of an attack there were less than 13,300 navy, which also included captains and officers of all ranks, which was important for the German navy. For the high seas fleet, it was an unbearable blow, which was comparable to losing a naval battle. The sinking of three or five battleships came with a deep sorrow.

Tirpitz thought about this for 3 whole days, finally. The casual remark of an officer of the Navy Logistics Department made him suddenly enlightened. It turned out that he was in charge of logistics statistics, and it happened that from 1909, after the high seas fleet entered the era of dreadnoughts, the changes in military supplies were found, and it was found that from 1911, the military supplies ordered from China gradually increased, and in 1912 it reached four times that of the previous one, and in 1913, in the first six months, it reached 1.5 times that of the whole year of 1912, and it is expected that the whole year will also increase to four times.

Why will this qiē be realized, on the one hand, because of the Baghdad railway, which is definitely a huge support for Germany, Germany can not pass the Mediterranean, directly from the Middle East, such a railway, and even has a huge new port in the hands of Germany and the northwest, Basra Port, especially when Yang Yuanzhao bought a large number of merchant ships from Europe and had a transportation capacity of more than 2 million tons, the play of this line reached the extreme, starting from 1912, Almost 800,000 tons of materials entered the territory of Germany through the port of Guò Basra and the Baghdad railway, and in the first half of this year, in six months, it actually reached 1.2 million tons, and the whole year almost certainly broke through to 2.8 million tons, which is a huge number.

Previously, when the northwest was building the Basra port, it was mentioned that the construction of the Basra port into a huge port of 5 million tons, or even 10 million tons, was a joke at the time, and even Germany thought that the Basra port, even if the Baghdad railway was fully open, was at most 7.8 million tons per year.

But now it seems that the northwest has long had a vision, and the total amount of freight passing to Germany this year may reach 2.4 million tons, but the passage to Austria-Hungary and Turkey, there are almost 300,000 tons and 1.2 million tons, not to mention a small part of the Balkan Peninsula, just these, the transshipment capacity of Basra Port has reached about 4 million tons, which is not counting the Guò Baghdad port, 3 million tons of goods transported to the northwest, so that the annual throughput has almost reached 7 million tons, It is about to reach the number of 10 million, which is a small port on the border of the Far East, which seems to be inconspicuous at all, is actually a huge port in the world, which is another miracle of the Northwest Creation.

It was this seemingly unconnected thing that made Tirpitz think of a way, the Baghdad Railway and the growing prosperity of the Northwest Shipping, which made Tirpitz feel that China currently has more than 3 million tons of maritime transport capacity, of which a third, that is, more than 200 ships, are active on the shipping line from China to Basra, and the resources and various industrial products imported by Germany from China are transported here, and of course, there is a part, Tong guò Turkey entered the Mediterranean Sea and was sold to Britain and France.

13,300 people, if divided into 200 ships, may be on a boat, at most one or two hundred people, as for the Baghdad railway, it is more abundant, at present about 90% of the double line has been completed, under the locomotive and command of the northwest, the transportation volume of the entire railway, before the completion of the Oriental Express.

This transport is a soldier, and not a rich businessman or an ordinary civilian, they are very good at discipline, in the choice of trains, you can completely ignore the passenger car, take the freight direct train, get on the train at the transfer station in various places, directly enter the carriage, until Basra does not get off, and not at the commercial port, but at the military port, so that the secrecy is quite high. After careful consideration and careful study by the staff officers of the Admiralty, it was found that the feasibility was very high, much stronger than the previous hastily determined plans, and it was not easy to be discovered.

Tirpitz is a decisive person, since he found the plan, he urgently contacted the northwest, in the specially set up telegraph network, directly contacted Baotou, received Tirpitz's telegram, Yang Yuanzhao was surprised and delighted, it has long been clear that Germany agreed to the northwest to take back Jiaozhou Bay before the war, which will become the first step for the northwest to really move towards the sea, when the northwest occupies Jiaozhou Bay one step ahead of the premise, no one can take it away, the Qingdao fortress built by dense land-based artillery, Add to this the well-trained Northwest Army, and there is almost no chance of it being captured, unless the army retreats to the fortress in defeat, as the Russians did in the Russo-Japanese War.

The Northwest National Defense Army, is Yang Yuanzhao came to Baotou, one of the biggest gains, it was established for a short time, but the military achievements are outstanding, not only to disintegrate the independence of Outer Mongolia, but also to resist the invasion of the Russian million-strong army, so that the northwest has become a force that makes the world look sideways.

As the only force that can be relied on in the Northwest to fight the rise of the war, Yang Yuanzhao has not reduced his investment in the Northwest Army from the very beginning, whether it is personnel or equipment, as much as possible, and now the Army has developed into an army with 1.25 million troops, 2,000 aircraft, including the epoch-making bomber of Northwest No. 2, more than 70,000 cannons of large and small calibers, and the most important thing is that he has received modern training, with an average service time of more than 3 years, is a force that can be relied upon.

Germany sent a large-scale sea trial army, which made Yang Yuanzhao see the hope of the rise of another important army, the navy. Germany will send a total of more than 19,000 people, and allow no more than 14,000 Chinese naval personnel on the ship, of which 6,000 are still real naval posts, although only low-level posts, but it is of great help to the northwest, the Northwest Tongguò Naval School, poaching people from Beiyang, from the former graduates of Mawei and those who have participated in the Beiyang naval division to find personnel, but the plate of the Northwest Navy is still not large, combined, no more than 15,000 people, these people, very few people can really become battleship sailors, not to mention the captain, chief captain, detachment captain These professional positions, a fleet, from launching to successful serviceIt takes a long time, even if the Northwest saves the sea trial project in artillery, and uses the computer to find the best artillery installation method, but other projects, at least 6 to 8 months, with the help of the German Navy, all-round participation in the German Navy's sea trial, which is very important for the growth of the Chinese Navy, in Yang Yuanzhao's view, even if the future war breaks out, he is also willing to selectively enter the German fleet, to continue to strengthen the practice, after this batch of warships are launched, The production of the next level and batch of warships will start in three to five months, and in terms of a nine-month cycle, the navy has at least one year to conduct sea trials and familiarize itself with it in advance, which is very critical for the formation of the Chinese navy's combat effectiveness.

Under Yang Yuanzhao's personal concern, the staff officers contacted Germany, compared and connected the time, as much as possible to meet the needs of the German side, and even delayed the shipping schedule of some ships at the expense of this, which made Tirpitz very satisfied, and the entire transportation and program, also with the joint efforts of both sides, was completed smoothly, and finally this transportation and sea trial program was positioned as the code name Operation Hope, yes, this is not only the hope of the German high seas fleet, but also the hope of the Chinese Navy. (To be continued......)