Chapter 698: The First Balkan War

Concerned with the most important at present, the horse is going to enter the king class of sea trials, Germany's action is very fast, including 4 designers, 12 engineers, including a huge team, starting from Germany, and the northwest side, also began to carry out a series of expansions to Jiangyin, along the bank of the Yangtze River, respectively, dug a series of submarine docks, a total of 17 caves, 34 2000-ton submarine docks, can be used for 34 submarines together to lay keels and production. %77%77%77%2e%76%6f%64%74%77%2e%63%6f%6d【Latest Chapter Interview wèn:{Beechcraft}】A few twists and turns, but it has improved the strength of the navy, 34 docks, enough to break out enough submarines, it is enough for the current Northwest, as long as the commissioning is completed and there are enough workers to enter, the production of submarines will not have too many problems.

Yang Yuanzhao did not stay in Jiangyin too much, and did not even wait for the arrival of the submariners from Germany and left Jiangyin, as the supreme leader of the northwest, and even the direct leader of dozens of scientific research projects, he needs to be busy with a lot of things every day, and after the things accumulated before were dealt with in a hurry, there is now a lot of backlog.

In 1913, for the country, under the efforts of the northwest, a calm, the north of Russia, because of the previous defeat, in the silent licking of the wounds, the revolutionary party and Yuan Shikai, under the strong suppression of the northwest, became pragmatic, no way, the fangs exposed in the northwest, whether it is Yuan Shikai or the revolutionary party, do not dare to be its edge.

Yuan Shikai, who once competed with the revolutionary party and wanted to monopolize power, and even became the emperor, because of the emergence of the northwest and the emergence of various new technologies and businesses, the life has been much better, and the object of large loans has also changed from the bank group of the five countries to the Northwest Bank, the Northwest Bank is more reasonable, and there are not too many strings, it is nothing more than building roads and building cities, which seems to have no impact on them, and the tax has also increased a lot.

The north and the south are almost unanimously developing their military strength silently, relying on the convenience of the north. The Beiyang Army expanded to 24 towns, 600,000 men, a small airship force, and a part of the navy. As for the revolutionary parties in the south, they controlled the rich southeastern coast. They had more money in their hands, and in one fell swoop they expanded by 65 divisions, 850,000 men, and a small part of the navy.

The antagonism between the North and the South has become even more obvious, but no one dares to act rashly. Russia's million-strong army has been beaten by the northwest, and even the northwest has not yet poured out, if there is not enough possibility, they are impossible to go out lightly, because they can not withstand the anger from the northwest, the country under the premise of such a three-legged tripod, slowly calmed down, obtained a rare high-speed development, all aspects are more balanced, industry and commerce are also vigorous and urgent. GDP and exports have also increased.

The Northwest is not unaware that the Beiyang Revolutionary Party is frantically expanding its army, but in the first war with Russia, especially from the height of the world, their vision is greater, and the Northwest's investment in scientific research has never been cost-effective, a large amount of targeted investment, plus the arrival of a group of masters with world status, so that the military aspect of the Northwest is like a wing, and the caliber of artillery has not increased rapidly, but it is more powerful. The increasing pressure that the barrel can withstand has increased the power of the 155 heavy gun by one-third and the firing range by one-fifth on the previous foundation. This point, in the face of the previous 155, can be completely exploded.

The emergence and gradual enrichment of mortars, the popularization and transformation of a large number of machine guns, and the emergence of light machine guns have greatly increased the automatic firepower at the level of the squad platoon. More than 25 kilograms, plus various settings of more than 40 kilograms of Makqin, and the total weight of the light machine gun is only a dozen kilograms, the difference is not a little bit and a half.

Under the situation that the northwest does not seem to expand the army, it has silently increased its strength, and even retired some soldiers, filled in the urban management and industrial development, which seems to have weakened the strength, but this part of the people has played a vital role in the stability of the place, and the discipline and obedience of the soldiers have made the northwest more powerful. They will quickly enter the army shelf divisions and quickly expand the number of the army. It is precisely because of the powerful weapons and strength that the northwest is so calm, in order to let the country suffer from the chaos of war and have a good situation before the arrival of the next war.

The Balkans, the powder keg that triggered the First World War, a place that had never been calm, were again in turmoil because of ethnic and various disputes, and in October last year, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro formed a Balkan alliance under the premise that many contradictions could not be reconciled. On October 9, 1912, Montenegro first declared war on Turkey, followed by Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece, and the First Balkan War broke out.

The four-nation coalition was so powerful that Turkey was caught off guard and retreated, and in early November asked the European columns to halt. On December 16, Turkey negotiated peace with 4 belligerents in London. Turkey is an important country connecting the Eurasian continent, once across the three continents of the great empire, the Baghdad railway, the turbulent Balkan War, so that the construction of the railway slightly fluctuated, fortunately, the construction of the railway, has come to an end, the northwest railway construction corps, at a speed unimaginable by the powers, quickly through this more than 2,000 kilometers of railway, part of the section, has begun to build a double line.

When Yang Yuanzhao was in Europe, he missed the Balkan War, but after learning the news, he also asked the German ambassador and the German Foreign Office, mainly to ask if there was any impact on the Baghdad Railway.

Since it has no impact on the Baghdad railway, the German side will also accept it on time, the northwest side did not care, the northwest did not realize that this is actually more than a year later, the real fuse of the outbreak of the First World War, Yang Yuanzhao, the understanding of world history is only limited to 1914, because of the Sarajevo incident in Serbia in the Balkans, the outbreak of the First World War, the cause and effect of this war is not known.

After that, his intuition made Yang Yuanzhao feel that the intelligence department had to collect intelligence closely, and the intelligence department in Basra, through the network formed with great difficulty in Guò over the past year, collected some information, mainly in Turkey, it seems that there is a Young Turk Party that is quite active, and the rest does not know much.

Sure enough, on January 23, 1913, a coup d'état broke out under the impetus of the Young Turks, and the establishment of Envelpasha, Mohammed? Talat Pasha, Ahmed? After reading the program of the Turkish Al-Shabaab, Yang Yuanzhao finally understood why Germany's attitude was ambiguous before, and the attitude of the Ottoman Empire was relatively ambiguous, and it seemed to vacillate between Britain, France and Germany. This may be the only place where Germany can get a lot of supplies and support after the outbreak of future war, so it did not hesitate to take the Ottoman Empire.

These have nothing to do with the northwest, when Yang Yuanzhao thinks so, the Turkish side is making waves again, the Turkish al-Shabaab has a tough attitude, refusing to implement the armistice conditions reached in London in December 1912, which is also Turkey's withdrawal from all the territory in Europe, and sending additional troops, the war in the Balkans resumed, and on February 3, the two sides launched a fierce exchange of fire.

Al-Shabaab was hard-line and had German support, but Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Mennestro formed a Balkan alliance with Turkey, and they still had the shadow of Britain and France behind them, and since the resumption of the war on February 3, the Turkish army has been losing and is already on the verge of defeat.

Because of the pressure from Britain and France, Germany could not directly support Turkey, and the channels for transporting weapons to Turkey from the European side had been cut off, and at present Bulgaria and Turkey were facing each other in Thrace, Greece was besieging the fortress of Ioannina, and the rest of Adrianople and Shkodra were also under great threat, so it can be said that the entire Turkish territory in the European part was already precarious, and there was a danger of destruction at any time, and the situation was very dangerous.

Turkey is an important ally of Germany, especially the Turkish Al-Shabaab, which was almost single-handedly supported by Germany, and if it loses this war, the outcome may be unimaginable. At this time, the German War Department did not know, how did it remember the northwest, the northwest has a new port in Basra, stationed more than 10,000 soldiers, has built most of the Baghdad railway, but has not been accepted by Germany, so many conditions, it is enough for the northwest to send arms to Turkey, and even support Turkey.

This is simply the last straw, regardless of the quality of the arms in the northwest, it once relied on them, defeated Russia's 1 million army in the Far East, and Russia, the European steamroller, the Balkan alliance formed by Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Menegro is much weaker, plus the impact of the previous defeat, in the Balkans, it is not in a very good position, and it is very difficult to win.

Germany doesn't have many cards to play anymore, and since the northwest is possible, it needs to work hard and grasp this straw.

Soon, the War Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs jointly formed a resolution, this request, directly sent to the country through the secret radio wave Guò, Mu Mo knew that Yang Yuanzhao was in Baotou, immediately rushed overnight, made a request to Yang Yuanzhao, asking the northwest to send troops from Basra to help Turkey, at least to support part of Turkey's arms. (To be continued.) )xh118