Under the repeated urging of the Chinese authorities, the British and French authorities had to speed up the evacuation of the concession officials, but it was stipulated in the negotiation agreement that the British and French citizens in the original concession could freely choose whether to join the Chinese nationality or retain the original nationality, and the Chinese authorities could not confiscate the property of the British and French citizens in the concession, if the British and French citizens in the concession chose to become Chinese nationality, they could retain the ownership of real estate and other land, and if they did not join the Chinese nationality, they only had the right to use the land and real estate, and the British and French citizens could leave with their own property. You can also choose to stay, if you leave China, you can't take the cultural relics out of China.

Due to the revocation of the concession, the British and French officials will soon leave, and some of the British and French in the concession are not very at ease with the attitude of the Chinese authorities, so they returned to Europe with their families, some went to French Indochina, some went to Australia, and some went to India or the Americas, but still half of them chose to stay, these people have lived here for most of their lives, their lives, property, wives and children are here, and they are really reluctant to leave at this time, many British and French were born here, I belong to the second generation, and I am used to living here, and I may not be able to adapt to it when I go back.

Within a week, all the British and French concessions in China were revoked, including the French concessions in Shanghai, Tianjin, Hankow, Chongqing, Guangzhou and other large cities, and all the British and French officials in the original concessions withdrew to their own countries.

At the same time, Hong Kong and Canton Bay were also taken over by the Chinese authorities, and the army was the first to enter. The handover of garrisons with the British and French armies, and the transfer of administrative power between the executive and British and French officials.

Germany's relations with Xiao Zhenlei's new government have always been good. This time, when the Chinese authorities announced the resumption of the first qiē concession, the autonomy of tariffs, and the abrogation of the unequal treaty, Germany also announced the return of Qingdao and the abrogation of the unequal treaty with China. After all, Germany's interests in China were really limited, and it was impossible to make a stalemate with China for such a city, and at this time the Allies did not know that China had secretly joined the Entente, so in order not to push China into the arms of the Entente, Germany chose to give up its interests in China, returned Qingdao, and was preparing to evacuate the garrison in Qingdao.

When Germany was evacuating the Qingdao garrison and German citizens, the German East Asian Fleet, which was scattered on various islands in the Pacific Ocean, was ordered to rush to escort the ship, and with the permission of the Chinese authorities, it entered the waters of China and headed for Qingdao.

Ma Xiaoliang, director of the Military Intelligence Investigation Bureau, who has just joined the staff group of the presidential office, reported the news. "President, all the large and small ships of the German East Asian Fleet scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean have entered the waters of the Yellow Sea and can reach Qingdao within three days."

Xiao Zhenlei waved his hand: "Got it!" ”

Ma Xiaoshuang saluted and turned to leave, Xiao Zhenlei remembered something again, and hurriedly shouted: "Wait! ”

Ma Xiaoshuang turned back and asked, "What else does the president command?" ”

Although the two know each other very well, they still have to call their positions during working hours, and they have to do what they should do.

Xiao Zhenlei asked, "What is the size of this German East Asian fleet?" How many ships, how many sailors, what is the situation of each ship, do you know what? ”

Ma Xiaoshuang saw Xiao Zhenlei and asked about this. He immediately relaxed, fortunately he had made preparations before he came, and immediately replied: "President, Germany's East Asian Fleet has six capital ships. They were: the armored cruiser Scharnhorst, the armored cruiser Gneizenau, the light cruiser Dresden, the light cruiser Emden, the light cruiser Leipzig, the light cruiser Nuremberg.

Among them, the armored cruiser Scharnhorst, the flagship of the German East Asian Fleet, is of the same class as the Gneizenau, and was built ten years ago. They have a standard displacement of 11,616 tons and a full load displacement of 12,985 tons. The total length of the hull is 144.7 meters. The total length of the waterline is 143.9 meters, and the total width is about 21.64 meters. With a draft of about 8.38 meters, all of them are high-freeboard, long-bow ships, and also have four tall chimneys of equal size, and also have a cylindrical mainmast with a large battle mast in the middle. The waterline armor belt reaches 150 mm at its thickest point, gradually decreases in the direction of the bow and stern, and 76 mm at its thinnest point; The frontal protection of the turret is the strongest part of the ship, with an armor thickness of about 180 mm, and the armor thickness of the turret seat is also 180 mm; The deck armor remained relatively thin, with a thicker amidship and a gradual weakening of the bow and stern, 63 mm at its thickest point. The propulsion system is a three-expansion steam unit, three-shaft propulsion, the design rated output power is increased to 26,000 horsepower, and the design speed is 22.5 knots, and the actual speed of this class of armored cruisers is not less than 24 knots.

They are all equipped with 8 210 mm 40 times caliber main guns, with an elevation angle of 30 degrees, which is the largest elevation angle of current naval guns, so they have obtained a maximum range of 14,900 meters, and the secondary guns are 6 150 mm guns, their main guns have a relatively fast rate of fire, with a rate of fire of 4-5 rounds per minute, which is higher than the British-made 234 mm and 203 mm guns of the same period, and almost comparable to the German-made 150 mm rapid-fire guns!

The Dresden light cruiser and the Emden light cruiser were of the same class, with an angle of attack installed in the bow, a standard displacement of 3,660 tons, a full load displacement of 4,270 tons, 12 boilers, 3 vertical three-stage expansion reciprocating steam engines, double propeller propulsion, and the main engine output of 13,500 shaft horsepower and a speed of 23.5 knots. Some important parts of the side are equipped with armor 80-100 mm thick, the deck thickness is about 18 mm, but some positions are reinforced to 78 mm, the bow angle bulkhead is about 40 mm thick, and the conning tower is surrounded by 100 mm thick steel plates. The main guns were 10 Krupp 40x diameter 105 mm rapid-fire naval guns, as well as a number of 37 mm small-caliber guns and some machine guns as auxiliary fire, and two 450 mm torpedo tubes under the waterline.

The cruiser Leipzig has a length of 177 meters, a width of 16.2 meters, a draft of 4.88 meters, a standard displacement of 6,619 tons, and a full load of 8,382 tons. 6 boilers, three-shaft power propulsion, 18,000 horsepower, 25 knots, endurance 6,200 nautical miles, equipped with three triple 150 mm guns, six 20 mm machine guns, four 533 mm torpedo tubes. The performance of the cruiser Nuremberg is about the same as that of Leipzig, and we don't know exactly how many people there are on board for the time being, but here is the detailed information! After Ma Xiaoshuang finished speaking, he took out a stack of detailed information from his briefcase.

Xiao Zhenlei took it and looked at it, and said, "Put the information here with me first, you go back first!" ”

"Yes, President!"

Xiao Zhenlei looked at the information of these ships again, in addition to these capital ships, the German East Asian Fleet also had some auxiliary ships, the number of which was more than a dozen, such as armored frigates, destroyers, mine-strike ships (large torpedo boats) and gunboats, which also included some slightly older cruisers, such as the Kaiser armored frigate, the Prince William light cruiser and the cruiser Cormoran.

Although these ships cannot be compared with the cruisers launched in the last year or two, they are not at all inferior to the firepower and performance of the cruisers of the Japanese Combined Fleet of this period.

The number has always been very objective, and the performance is no worse than that of the ships of the Japanese Combined Fleet at the same time, Xiao Zhenlei's heart suddenly moved, he pondered for a moment and then walked to the desk and picked up the phone and said: "Xiao Gao, inform Premier Song and General Cai Yi, General Sa Zhenbing, Mr. Yang Du, and Mr. Yang Shiqi to come to me!" ”

"Yes, President!"

Soon, several people who were notified came to Xiao Zhenlei's office, and because of the confidentiality of this meeting, Xiao Zhenlei did not arrange the meeting place in other conference rooms, but directly arranged it in his own office.

"Look at these materials, this is the information of all the ships of the German East Asian Fleet!" After Xiao Zhenlei waited for a few people to sit down, he handed the stack of materials brought by Ma Xiaoshuang to Sa Zhenbing and asked everyone to take turns to read it.

Xiao Zhenlei sat aside while smoking and drinking tea, until half an hour had passed since several people had finished reading it, and then he smiled and said, "What do you think after reading it?" ”

Sa Zhenbing is the commander of the navy, and he is an expert in ships, he said: "Except for a few capital ships, the other ships have a history of one or two decades, and their performance is much worse than the current ships, these six capital ships almost all began to be built ten years ago, and they have been launched for five or six years at the latest, which is too far from the performance of our current cruisers, but the performance of these ships is not much different from the mainstream cruisers in the world today, such as Japan's combined fleet. Many of its ships are not as good as that! ”

Yang Shiqi asked, "President, what's the matter?" Do you have any ideas about this fleet? ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a few puffs of cigarette and said with a smile: "I think, if this fleet goes back, it will pass through the waters of the Entente along the way, with the strength of the Entente in terms of navy, the probability that they can safely return to Germany is no more than thirty percent, and there is a great possibility that they will all be sunk on the way, so why go back?" Wouldn't it be nice for our country to treat the German sailors and naval officers on these ships badly from a humanitarian standpoint, and then let them go after the war is over? ”

Cai Ye quickly came back to his senses and said in shock: "The president means to seize this fleet?" ”

Several people here know Xiao Zhenlei's plan, sooner or later China will join the Entente, if it does not join the Entente, it can still join the Allied Powers, if it joins the Entente in the future, the seized German East Asian Fleet will naturally not have to be returned, if it joins the Allied Powers, then the Chinese Fleet can join the German East Asian Fleet and the Japanese Combined Fleet to deal with the Allied fleets in the Pacific and Indian Oceans! (To be continued......) R1292