Chapter 306: The Imperial Expeditionary Force
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The opposition within the empire was very high as whether or not to take the chariot of the German Empire, from the General Staff to the army and even the navy, the country had just been reunified, and it was a good time for people to think about development and construction, and if they rashly intervened on a large scale in a battle with unknown outcome or outcome, it was likely to cause incomparably huge losses to the Chinese Empire as a whole. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Even Lin Haijiang himself could not convince himself to be involved in such an inadequately prepared war, although the German goal was very obvious, that is, to eat France, and to eliminate the possibility of the rise of the French here, because the Germans knew that once the French recovered, then the first to be troubled would be themselves, in order to avoid this kind of trouble, the Germans were ready to strike first, breaking the French conjecture of the intention to rise again.
The strategic center of gravity of the German Empire was in Europe, while the strategic center of gravity of the Chinese Empire was in Asia, and now Lin Haijiang planned to take Ceylon at most and cause trouble to India by the way, so it was decided that even if Germany defeated Lin Haijiang, it would be difficult to obtain enough gains to make up for his losses.
Two days later, Lin Haijiang officially replied to Feng Haijiang in his office. Count Dwys, the Chinese Empire can send two Shanghai dispatch corps to Germany, nominally as skilled workers who go to Germany to study, but this corps is not under the command of the German staff system, China and Germany will form a joint command, and the Chinese Empire does not declare war in the early stage of the war, and appears as a third-party neutral country, once the territory of the German Eastern Front is disturbed and invaded, then the overseas dispatch corps of the Chinese Empire will directly enter the battle in the name of protecting the Empire's assets in Germany, The German Empire needed to provide 500 million Reichsmarks in free aid, and provide some metal smelting equipment and machining equipment, especially 10,000-ton hydraulic presses and other production equipment urgently needed by the Chinese Empire.
Feng. Count Dewis was slightly stunned by Lin Haijiang's decision, this decision of the Chinese Empire was also one of the results he had expected, in addition to gratuitous assistance, the meaning of the Chinese Empire is to see the trend of the war situation before deciding whether to join the war group, simply put, you first hit a standard and then say, if the German army can invade France as quickly and mobile as in the implementation of its plan and strategy, and achieve its strategic goal in a very short period of time, then the Chinese Empire will have the option to join.
Taking a deep breath, he decided to do his best to try to persuade Lin Haijiang to join the war to re-divide the world's colonies, but Lin Haijiang responded to Feng very indifferently. Earl Dewis said: "Mr. Earl, before we want to start a war, we must first figure out what the original meaning of the war is. The Earl of Dewis left his name, then the people who started the war are the people of this nation, the sinners of this country through the ages, war is a continuation of politics, a means to quickly obtain benefits, but in this war launched by William I do not see the interests of the Chinese Empire, I only see endless risks, and in just one year the Chinese Empire is simply unable to complete the preparations for the so-called big war, we need at least two and a half to three years to achieve the preparation for a large-scale war against Russia, You must know that the cold in the Far East is even greater than that of Moscow, Napoleon's army was defeated in the bitter cold, and if there is no adequate preparation, the Chinese Empire can only choose the right time to decide whether to enter the war! ”
Feng. After listening to Lin Haijiang's words, Count Dewis also breathed a sigh of relief, because the other party did not block all the roads, that is to say, if the German Empire can postpone the time point of launch, then the Chinese Empire is still willing to join the war group. Earl Dewis knew very well that the Chinese Empire was absolutely important to Germany, and if there was no containment of the Chinese Imperial Navy, the British Royal Navy would be able to attack any German port unscrupulously and cut off all German maritime trade routes.
Feng. Count Dewis also knew that the empire could give too little to the Chinese empire, and it was definitely not proportional to the risks it paid and assumed. The Earl of Dewis remembered the Middle East, and he von . Count Dewis vaguely remembered that Lin Haijiang had said that everywhere, including Afghanistan, was the inherent territory of the Chinese Empire, so he hesitated and thought for a moment: "If the Empire defeats France and defeats the Russian army on the Eastern Front, the Empire will deploy heavy troops in Africa to seize the original French colonies and open up the communication lines in the Middle East, so that the Imperial Army and the Imperial Chinese Army will join forces in the Middle East and recover the land lost by your ancestors, is there a more important achievement than this?" ”
Although, von. Earl D'Affaires didn't understand why Lin Haijiang cared so much about the wasteland and desert? The Middle East, like the desert Siberian plateau, is a barren land, and it can even be said that it is a land abandoned by God. The Earl of D'Avis was unaware of the black gold buried underground in the Middle East.
Until the twenty-first century, von. The sixteenth heir of the Earl of Dwess von Von. Dewes. In a biography of "My Ancestors Gave Half the World's Wealth", Bob lamented the foolish decisions made by his ancestors, and William I, who seemed to have taken advantage of it, slaughtered Arabs in the Middle East, plundering their gold and jewelry, and indirectly helped the Chinese Empire to consolidate its rule in the region. The Earl of Dewis was still William I, and the Germans did Lin Haijiang a great favor at that time, so that almost the whole world had to look at the face of the Chinese Empire in the future, otherwise an energy shortage crisis could make the economy of some small countries collapse suddenly.
Feng. The advice of the Count of Dwys really touched Lin Haijiang, because Afghanistan and even the Middle East are hard to pay, and Islamic fundamentalists have to act madly. Count D'Wais has led all the invaders of more than a thousand years to retreat, and it is still unknown whether the Chinese Empire will be able to conquer this damned land.
Lin Haijiang stood in front of the globe and slowly fluctuated the globe and said: "If this is an additional condition, the first batch of Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Forces will leave for Germany in a month, but please note that it is not your condition that has moved me, but the deep friendship between the two countries. I have been touched by your convictions, Earl de Weis! ”
"Oh my God!" Feng. Earl Dewis seemed to be almost out of strength at this moment, and an impossible task was accomplished, but then Lin Haijiang's other words made Feng Haijiang. The Earl of Dewis fell back to hell from the top of the nine heavens, because Lin Haijiang wanted to take out the list of industries that the German Empire had assisted the Chinese Empire and was discussing! Feng. The Earl of Dewis sat down with a bitter face, like an angry little daughter-in-law. Opposite Lin Haijiang, Earl of Dewes, looking at the interested Lin Haijiang, Feng . The heart of the Earl of Dewys seemed to be replaced by von. Earl Dewys slammed something a few times, as if his nightmare had just begun.
Feng. Count Dwis seemed to be a little entangled in the face of the list of free aid to the Chinese Empire that had been readjusted by Lin Haijiang, but Lin Haijiang told him very seriously that without the capacity of the above ships, the troops and equipment of the two legions would not be able to reach Germany within a year. The Earl of Dewes's doubts had to stay in his stomach.
Sent away as if he had been robbed and violated dozens of times. After the Earl of Deweis, Lin Haijiang decided to reorganize the so-called two non-existent overseas dispatch corps into the Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Force, the commander of the expeditionary force is the former commander of the Fourth Army Corps Zheng Zhipeng, deputy commander Xu Zhiming, chief of staff Huang Tao, the expeditionary force has five integrated divisions, each integrated division is a standard four-brigade formation plus a total of more than 26,000 troops directly under the division, the expeditionary force directly under the cavalry division, heavy artillery division, field artillery brigade, guard regiment, military police regiment, engineer regiment, field hospital, etc., the expeditionary force is about 200,000 people, The firepower is about five times that of the normal standard equipment, especially the 82 mm caliber mortars are equipped to the battalion level in company units, the 100 mm howitzers are equipped to the brigade level in battalion units, the heavy machine guns and general-purpose machine guns of the combat units at the company level are doubled, and the 60 mm mortars are set up in the fire platoon at the company level. The Germans will be shocked by the consumption of ammunition by this force, and saturation strikes with fierce fire have become the specialty of the Imperial Chinese Army, especially the so-called Führer's ammunition capacity, with the Führer as an example, the commanders at all levels below are of course scrambling to follow suit.
Lin Haijiang did not know that Feng. Whether the Count of Dewis was able to persuade Kaiser Wilhelm I to postpone the offensive, but the principle of the Chinese Empire is that it is absolutely not easy to risk intervening in a very dangerous war, and the military system of the empire is also being adjusted, Lin Haijiang intends to draw up eight military regions, focusing on the northern military region and the southwest military region, because the northern military region and the southwest military region are different from the Southeast Asian military region and the Indochina Peninsula military region, and even more different from the southern military region and the Northwest Military Region Central Plains Military Region, and the northern military region has entered a state of readiness in the face of Russia. The Southwest Military Region, on the other hand, will conduct training for Sichuan and Tibet, and when the time is ripe, it will recover Tibet Province in one fell swoop.
The British, who had been making trouble on the Tibetan issue, had been much more honest recently, and the previous act of sending weapons to the leaders of the Tibetan province through Budawila had also begun to rein in and stop, because the Indian Ocean fleet of the Chinese Empire was cruising in the Indian Ocean, and as soon as the British made a small move, Tang Ziqiang immediately commanded the fleet to blackmail and retaliate against all the port cities along the Indian Ocean.
(To be continued)