…… After going out and getting in the car, Lu Zhengxiang was still thinking about Taiwan's demilitarization. Taiwan is the gateway to the southeast coast, and it must be strengthened in every aspect, but Yang Qiu has gone the opposite way to promote demilitarization. After thinking about it, he still couldn't hold back and asked, "Vice President, why do you want to promote the demilitarization of Taiwan?" ”

"Minister Lu is a man of letters, and he doesn't understand military affairs." Yang Qiu leaned back in the car seat, gave up the Paris cityscape outside the car window, turned his head and said: "Taiwan is not only a barrier to the southeast of our country, but also a strategic point in Northeast Asia and the southwest Pacific. To the north is Ryukyu Japan and Korea, to the south is Luzon and Malacca, and to the east is the entire Southwest Pacific. Such an important position, especially since the United States still controls Luzon, you said that if we take back Chapter 478 and immediately garrison a large-scale army, what will Britain and the United States think? ”

Lu Zhengxiang does not understand military affairs, and when he heard that Taiwan is so important, he was a little worried that demilitarization would give others an opportunity to take advantage of it. Yang Qiu smiled, patted him and comforted: "It's not twenty years ago now, after this war, Britain and France have to cultivate and recuperate, although Japan has a heart, but North Korea is under our noses." There are several battles on the Western Front at the bottom, and any country that wants to fight us has to weigh it! Moreover, Taiwan is so close that Fujian used to be able to arrive in a matter of moments, and the National Guard was enough to ensure daily security. Therefore, the key to our country in recent years is still in the north. When the matter here is over, I want to trouble you to meet your old friend Kolchak and find a way to give him some support, I heard that he has a lot of gold in his hands, and he can't cheapen others for nothing. ”

Yang Qiu's expression was relaxed, but his heart was also full of helplessness. How can it be so simple for a country to rise, compromise and forbearance exchange all the way to pretend to be grandchildren, and it is still restrained everywhere. If it weren't for the reassurance of Britain and the United States, especially when Luzon was on the edge of Taiwan, he would definitely want to use Taiwan as a forward naval base, but he could only postpone it for now. But then again, the United States supported its complete abolition of the unequal treaties signed by the Manchus, so that Japan could get out of the land as soon as the 478th chapter of the angry sea point. Compared with these things to get back the northern territories, it is worth it for the navy to be wronged for a few more years.

Lu Zhengxiang nodded, remembered something and asked, "Since the vice president is so worried about the north, why didn't he let Xu Shuzheng die?" Poor partisans and Mongol rebels had been entrenched north of Chita for a long time. Recently, many Siberian Russian locals have joined, and I heard Ziqing say that the number is likely to have increased to more than 10,000, and when spring begins, should we organize a major operation to exterminate them, so as to save the trouble. ”

"Why exterminate?" Yang Qiu raised his eyebrows, and said with a cold gaze: "Do you know how many Russians there are in the Siberian region under our control?" That's 5.5 million. In addition to Vladivostok and other regions, there are more than 7 million in total, while our citizens are less than 300,000! How will this proportion of the population be managed in the long term? If the wives are all right, how can they be forced to leave? ”

These words made Lu Zhengxiang's heart suddenly chill. When he looked at Yang Qiu again, his eyes changed a little, and he finally understood why the Kuomintang and Yuan Shikai were so completely defeated in his hands, because his trick was clearly a desperate drag!

The world has changed, and if the massacre and expulsion of Russians from Siberia artificially would not only affect his own reputation, but also damage the image of the newly established democratization of the Republic of China, so he deliberately indulged this rebel army to drag on and fight slowly, forcing the region into turmoil. Because for the domestic. It doesn't matter what happens in this place, but the people who live there can't stand it! Under what circumstances will the population be lost rapidly? Turmoil and war! Siberia is not a fertile region, even if the two sides only toss for a summer. The long winter is enough to starve many people to death, and even if it is not needed for three or five years, the non-Han population will decline significantly! When the people are gone, the poor partisans will naturally have no cover, and when the time comes, they will emigrate from the hinterland, and Siberia will be completely held in the palm of their hands!

When he sighed in his heart about Yang Qiu's step-by-step method, the convoy also returned to the embassy. When I entered the door, I found that the representatives who had participated in the various negotiations had returned. After nearly a month of separate attacks, it was finally time to harvest, especially in the procurement of war surplus materials.

First of all, the military delegation, Germany's sophisticated weapons and military supplies are undoubtedly the focus of distribution, as a direct dispatch of the Western Front expeditionary force and made outstanding contributions on the Western Front, this time finally and Britain, the United States, France and Italy were listed as the first priority countries. But in the face of billions of dollars worth of military supplies handed over by Germany and Austria and other countries. In fact, Britain and France had a headache, because they themselves had too many weapons waiting to be sold and disposed of, and the German-Austrian system was different from theirs, so the difficult negotiations that Zhang Xiaozhun expected did not happen at all. The Chinese delegation not only successfully won the most important ...... of 1,100 doors and 240 heavy guns of four levels, as well as 1,500 Maxim heavy machine guns, and 5,000 German imitation Han II light machine guns. There are 600 Fokker C fighters and 500 other types of aircraft. Plus 3,000 aero engines, 3,000 automobile engines, 180 steam turbines, 500 military boilers, 500 field generators, 1,000 trucks, 500 trains (including 20 carriages) and so on. In the end, in order to thank the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and of course most importantly, to disgust Germany, France also shoehorned hundreds of thousands of completely useless Mauser 98K and a large number of German stockpile artillery shells.

What should I do if someone gives it? Gotta take it.

The idea of the military delegation led by Zhang Xiaozhun and Ye Zugui is very simple: since they don't need money, then they will take everything that should be taken, and they will find a way to take what they shouldn't. In the end, not only did they seriously exceed the task, but also because France disliked the fact that it was very complicated to modify the wheel base of German trains, after learning that the Chinese delegation intended to buy them with cash, they simply sold all the 2,000 German trains worth $50,000 they were allocated to Zhang Xiaozhun for $15,000 each. Although Britain, the United States and Italy had the same gauge as Germany, Britain suffered little loss and there was no shortage of trains, the United States was simply not interested in transporting heavy trains back, and Italy only wanted cash, so it also learned from France and immediately exchanged for cash. If it weren't for the fact that the remaining 500 vehicles were to be taken out and shared with the second-class distribution countries, including Japan, Zhang Xiaozhun would probably be directly rounded.

This attitude of devouring evil shapes and vicious forms made the Japanese military delegation go crazy. In fact, they don't need these trains at all, because Japan and North Korea use narrow gauges, but watching the Chinese delegation stuff hundreds of millions worth of loot into their pockets is like knocking over a five-flavor bottle. Many Japanese officers lamented that if they had taken the initiative to send troops to the Western Front, they would have been reduced to a second-class country. Seeing that China has obtained so many weapons and equipment, the army is bound to be even more difficult to deal with. So I really wanted to pay for a batch, but considering that the German ocean fleet that I wanted to get the most had not been allocated, I had to endure it.

Although the Army and Air Force had a bumper harvest, Ye Zugui was not happy. Because the British and French did not have the complete distribution of the German fleet in Tiscapa Bay, this made the Navy's desire to acquire one or two battleships slim.

There are no imaginary difficulties in the procurement of complete sets of industrial machinery, after private "exchanges" with France, Belgium and Italy, they are willing to exchange German and Austrian machine tools and equipment for cash, and even before the end of the Paris Peace Conference, they have opened a list of factories and equipment that can be provided, and Italy has seized two large machine tools seized from Austria-Hungary for the manufacture of super-large ship spindles and large machine tools for armor heat treatment are put on the shelves, Xu Xiujun and Zheng Tingxiang will certainly not be polite. not only bought it immediately, but also asked Song Ziqing to dispatch a troop carrier to transport the equipment first.

On the one hand, there were too many military supplies that had been produced over the past few years that were too much to digest and were eager to be realized, and on the other hand, there was a general shortage of food, cotton clothing, and medicines, which seriously polarized the Paris Peace Conference. France and Italy are to catch what they sell, retaliating and plundering Germany and Austria in exchange for the funds urgently needed to rebuild the country, Britain is also in a hurry to dispose of the weapons and equipment used by millions of troops, and the United States itself has a strong manufacturing capacity, not to mention that the cost of transporting them back is not small. So only technology and not material are wanted.

The result was satisfactory, but it was sad for Song Ziqing, and the domestic shipping capacity itself was weak. In the past few years, they have worked hard to build, but because of the poor overall manufacturing level, the main force of the national ocean-going fleet is still those ships that were exchanged with Germany before the war. Not to mention that it would take thousands of times just to transport so many trains and carriages back, but due to the serious losses of shipping from Britain and France, the captured ships would not be distributed at all, so they had to lease cargo ships from Italy and other countries.

Yang Qiu didn't pay much attention to these things, because taking these things back would not greatly promote the country's national development, and it was nothing more than to prevent the finances of 1919 from plummeting. His mind is still on the dangerous Arctic Ocean route, and the fleet that has spent a total of 150 million has not been heard from so far is too important! Not to mention anything else, the light can be used for the finished products and drawings of large oxygen concentrators in the top blowing furnace. Dozens of alloy formulations and treatment technologies sold by Krupp and Rheinmetall, as well as self-tightening technology, which is known as the pearl of the metallurgical industry, are the real good!

He picked up his coffee and walked to the window, looking up, the moon in the cold mist seemed to be covered with a thin veil, hazy and very beautiful. Such a beautiful night. Bingwen: Did they see it?

"Cut the signal rope! The bow of the left rudder should always face the waves! Power cabin debriefing! Go signal! Whatever the method, I want to know the condition of each ship. Come! Three flares to let them see where we are! In the Davis Strait in the northwest of Greenland, Bingwen didn't have time to even glance at the sky, he was wearing a rubber raincoat like everyone else, his face was pale and his eyes were red.

After more than a month of continuous day and night travel, paying the price of 11 overboard or accidental deaths, the fleet was about to cross Greenland Island to Canada, only to encounter the most terrible winter storm in the North Atlantic.

Poseidon seemed to be enraged by the small fleet trying to challenge him, and suddenly roared under the north wind, and the continuous waves of several meters high crashed against the bow of the ship, and the ship was pushed high and then thrown down in the stormy seas, and everyone felt like they were rag dolls running and shaking wildly in the hands of children. The violent jolting made the most experienced old sailors spit out bile. However, the sea did not stop to vent because of the vomiting, the hail wrapped in the storm slammed against the steel and portholes, and whenever there was a hole, the cold wind swept in mercilessly, and the sailors tried to block it, but the air in the cabin still fell rapidly.

"Bingwen, look!"

After the three flares rose into the sky, everyone saw an unforgettable scene, only to see the 20,000-ton displacement of the 11th ocean-going freighter on the left side like a sampan suddenly lifted by the huge waves, and before it could regain its balance, it plunged into the waves with the waves. It was as if a force was pulling the steel bow down from the bottom of the sea! The stern of the ship was raised high, and the two cast brass propellers could be clearly seen still spinning desperately. This picture made everyone's hearts wry, will it just keep sinking?

When the ocean liner disappeared from view and everyone was about to scream, it stubbornly suddenly came out of the water again, and was held high by the second wave and faced the test again.

"Don't look at it! It's coming to us! Pull up the handrails! Ha ha. Hakan burst out laughing, pointing to the waves rushing towards the bow. The look was indescribably crazy: "Come on, son of a bitch!" This is a German ship, the best ship in the world! Don't try to knock us down! Boys, you won't know. If you're looking for a ship that can pass through here in one piece, it's made in Germany! ”

Come on...... In the midst of the ventive screams, the waves that nearly dragged the freighter into the sea crashed violently into the bow, and at that moment everyone was worried about the bow that had been damaged by the collision with the British submarine, but this fear quickly turned into dizziness, tremors, and jolting. Hundreds of tons of seawater washed along the deck, pulling the icebreaker down with such force that it turned into a lift in an instant. All items slide backwards, leaving only the magnified sky in view.

At this moment, Bingwen and everyone were really scared, they never thought that the sea would be so manic one day, looking at the fleets that appeared and disappeared in the waves around him, he thought of disbanding the formation. After disbanding the formation, each ship will move separately, and they can choose to move on or leave. It was a difficult choice, as the ships were full of much-needed industrial equipment and drawings for the country. But if you don't disband, I'm afraid you won't be able to go back.

What to do?

Bingwen looked at Hakan, but the latter scolded angrily: "Give up all thoughts, this is the last lesson you have to go through!" Haven't experienced a storm. There will be no navy to conquer the world! After he finished speaking, he pressed the steering wheel with his body, and stared at the waves without blinking. The messy flying hair, the cold bronze face, the bruised tendons on the arms, and the roar all made the people present throb.

Men, men who belong only to the navy! A navy man who is in danger of the country but still can't let go of his persistent beliefs!

"To send a light signal to Chen Yuqiu, the pilot ship must shoot a flare every five minutes to indicate the direction! Command all ships to follow the flares! Hakan's anger brought Bingwen to his senses. He found himself thinking too much. At this moment, you must concentrate on fighting the wind and waves, even if you lose? An offshore navy that does not dare to respond to the storm cannot support a big country!

When he regained his open-mindedness and composure, the order was much clearer. But the manic sea does not stop its anger for a man. In the flares of the pilot icebreaker every five minutes, the flotilla can still be seen facing dangerous waves again and again.

Chen Yuqiu doesn't have as many distractions as Bingwen, he is responsible for piloting the icebreaker, which is the key to whether the entire fleet can break through the storm and reach the predetermined rendezvous! "What is the wind speed? Currents, tell me how far we yawed at the speed of the currents? The icebreaker was full of such shouts, and Chen Yuqiu commanded against the wind and waves. It is also necessary to calculate the approximate position and yaw distance as soon as possible. As time passed, the haze in his heart became more and more intense, because he had to sail against the wind, so at this moment the fleet was actually sailing towards the Arctic Circle, which meant that the fleet was likely to have crossed 55 ° north latitude and entered the most dangerous iceberg intensive activity area!

There's nothing scarier than an iceberg caught in the middle of a storm, and all it takes is one of these big creatures that hide underwater to destroy an entire fleet!

"Send someone to the watchtower, change shifts every 15 minutes, I need more accurate observations!"

The first mate from the intelligence department was shocked: "Captain, the temperature outside is about minus 30 degrees, and the storm is too big and once it gets wet, I'm afraid it will ...... No fear! Rush over or die all here! Chen Yuqiu, the diminutive ensign's eyes widened. Looking at his emotionless gaze, the first mate wrapped his raincoat tightly and took the lead in gritting his teeth and climbed up the half-open watchtower above the bridge.

He came down 15 minutes later, almost frozen to ice. Then came the second place, and the third place saw that the waves were gradually decreasing, and when the day was about to come, Chen Yuqiu's worst fears appeared.

"Iceberg! Port. The dark shadows that appeared and disappeared in the waves made the lookout forget the severe cold, and desperately screamed to inform the following. When Chen Yuqiu rushed to the port side, a freighter was heading in the direction of the iceberg.

"God, ship 16 is heading that way, and they certainly haven't spotted the iceberg yet!"

"Be prepared to circumvent. 5 hurried flares to spread the boat behind to the left! In order to remind his partners, Chen Yuqiu fired 5 orange-red signal flares in a row as planned, and a series of fireballs made the entire fleet like ants that had exploded the pot, and everyone's backs were cold and sweaty hair stood up, and the most worrying thing still appeared!

The signal flare saved the ship behind, but it could not save the No. 16 freighter that had been sailing side by side, when it found the danger and hurriedly turned the rudder, the iceberg hidden in the water had hit the bow, and the huge waves from the side of the violent impact turned the whole ship over at the same time, this scene was too exciting to the eye, and the freighter of more than 10,000 tons was suddenly pressed upside down by the sea like a toy in the hands of a child, revealing a blue-gray belly.

The pilot icebreaker also did not escape its doom, and Chen Yuqiu, who was leading the boat to try to avoid it, seemed to feel that his body was slammed by something, and the whole person flew out upside down. After the back slammed against the bulkhead, a puff of hot air immediately came out of the nasal cavity. Before he could wipe the blood, a wave rushed in, and the icebreaker, which had lost control, sped to the right and deflected...... To be continued) rq!!