This time, the British jumped out to "mediate" apparently at the behest of the Japanese, but it can be seen from the fact that they found the Manchu forces and did not directly go to the Jixian County government to show that they did not think about the reunification of China at all, and were even thinking about how to provoke a civil war in China. On the other hand, the British also hope that China and Japan will do more to remind the Japanese of their consciousness of being "little brothers". Therefore, the British ambassador did not directly face the Beiyang government in Jixian, but chose the Manchu forces that needed time to brew.

The war to recapture Luda and Qingdao was a war of self-defense against the invasion of a strong country by a weak country, a struggle for an unfair verdict, and a follow-up to the May Fourth Movement. Therefore, military setbacks, momentary defeats in the war, and the resulting partial passivity are inevitable. However, since China has always liked to report good news rather than bad news, and the news received by the people is "positive," Huaxia has not been pessimistic and disappointed because of the occurrence of such situations. On the contrary, the enthusiasm for Huaxia's "rise" this time is high.

In 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Jixian County, which was also "fought" into Jixian County, not "walked" into Jixian County, and the weak Qing army dared to go into battle and fight against the great powers, saying "no" to the great powers, and rising up to resist, if the Beiyang government of Jixian County dared to say a "yes" word to the Japanese, wouldn't it be even inferior to the Manchu Dynasty? It must be Yuan Datou's fate again. Therefore, no matter what faction it was before, no one dared to take the initiative to accept the "mediation" of the British when the war on the front line had already started.

Beiyang didn't dare, this time even the British came directly to them, and the Manchu princes and ministers who wanted to restore also hesitated. This acceptance of the "goodwill" of the British is tantamount to a war with Beiyang. It seems that there is nothing else except that the emperor can re-ascend the throne.

Not to mention, the emperor's ascension to the throne will cost a lot of lives, and these lives are all from the homes of these princes and ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, what benefits can the emperor get when he ascends the throne? The prince is still the prince, can he still be promoted? Those shells and lords, after they were promoted because of their military merits, did they really have to look at them on an equal footing with themselves? Is it a reward? Can those bottles and cans at home withstand a peaceful and stable life?

At present, the Beiyang government is still following the contract of treating the Qing court well, in case of an incident, if those soldiers and ruffians in Beiyang do not come to the door, they will be beheaded, and these princes and ministers themselves will not believe it. So several princes are worried about this matter, the emperor is young, and he is bewitched by foreigners, and he who is an uncle really has to sum up and get an idea. The palaces are usually full of people, with too many eyes and too many mouths. That's why the three princes had this meeting.

Zhao Yun didn't have any good ideas about this, and the Manchu princes had to make their own decisions. Of course, if there is any change in the Manchu Dynasty, Wang Chengbin, who controls more than 80% of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's troops, will definitely not participate, and the other "remnants" believe that the Chechen Khan, who is "close to the Manchu and Mongolian families", will handle it for himself.

However, being interrupted by Wang Yougui like this, Zhao Yun rarely enjoyed a quiet good mood, and there was no more, so he couldn't help but chatter, "I made mistakes all day long, and suddenly I heard that spring was strong mountaineering." Because of the words of the monks in the bamboo courtyard, he stole half a day of leisure. This half-day leisure is really rare! When will you be able to live a stable life every day? ”

Although hiding behind the scenes has improved Zhao Yun's own safety a lot, Zhao Yun suddenly felt that hiding behind the scenes seemed to be doing his own business, working hard every day, worrying day and night.

"Dodo" There was a knock on the door, "Young Master, General Wu is in a hurry!" Shao Laoer's voice appeared at the door.

"Hey!" Zhao Yun sighed, knowing that if there was nothing major, Shao Lao Er would not come to disturb him. "It's going to be busy again." Muttering to himself, Zhao Yun said loudly, "Come in!" ”

"This is the new history?" Zhao Yun swept the telegram spread out on the desk, and his expression was a little dazed.

After half a ring, his eyes were once again focused on the telegram that Wu Peifu had just sent: "Plan Q is launched", the target is Qingdao Port!

"Young master, we finally dare to do it first, it's really a little unbelievable." Shao Lao Er said excitedly beside him.

Wang Huaiqing in the north was able to organize an army of 200,000 people to eat and chew horses, relying on horses collected from Mongolia and other places to take charge of the rear transportation work, while Wu Peifu's logistics transportation relied on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which connected the north and south. Zhao Yun had already hoarded a large number of small boats suitable for inland waterway transportation in the south, and compared with the sea transportation, which was threatened by the Japanese navy, inland waterway transportation was undoubtedly much safer and much more hidden.

The northern part of China has always had insufficient food to eat, so it often uses Cao Yun to transport grain from the south to the north. This time, Wu Peifu's army suddenly appeared on the boundary of Shandong among these northbound ships and launched an attack on the Japanese army entrenched in Qingdao, Shandong.

Before the opening of the north-south railway, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal had become the most important channel in Zhao Yun's hands to communicate the north and the south. But on this passage, the Japanese first laid a "son", Qingdao.

From the geographical point of view, Qingdao is not close to the Grand Canal, but if Japan wants to interfere in the internal affairs of China, for example, when the southern government of the Northern Expedition, then as long as Japan stationed troops in Qingdao, it will obviously affect the process of the Northern Expedition. Therefore, it is impossible for Zhao Yun to pinch his seven inches to the Japanese, and while the eyes of the Japanese have been attracted by the Far East and Luda, Wu Peifu, Zhao Yun's trump card, was finally played.

The trump card is the trump card, and Zhao Yun's hand completely stunned the Japanese. Although there had been a large-scale troop movement in the south before, and even the banner of expelling the Japanese invaders had been raised. However, because Huaxia has always pursued the principle of not making the first move, Wu Peifu's surprise attack caught the Japanese by surprise. The war went very smoothly, and the Japanese army was not prepared at all, even when they heard the news of the attack in China, they thought that the insiders were joking.

The Japanese were already stretched thin due to the size of the plate stall. Only more than 3,000 people were placed in Qingdao, including logistical and civilian personnel, who of course were also combat-ready personnel if necessary. But in the face of Wu Peifu's surprise attack, the Japanese scrambling to organize only a counterattack of more than 1,000 people.

After breaking into Wu Peifu's forward, in the face of the surging Chinese army in all directions, he could only choose to retreat.

Although the Japanese did not succeed in their attempts, the Japanese had already estimated the combat strength of the southern Chinese army. Obviously, regardless of whether Huaxia really ignored the agreement in the Paris Treaty to accept the German interests in China, and whether Huaxia really wanted to capture Qingdao, Wu Peifu's accession had already restrained Japan's forces in the southeast. The Japanese army had to quickly dispatch 10,000 elites from Luda, the closest military base to Qingdao, to Qingdao for reinforcements by sea.

However, this move aggravated the foundation of the southern Chinese government's eventual war against Japan, and the spies arranged by Zhao Yun before also lost no time in continuing to muddy the waters in Japan, and squeezed the comprehensive combat strength of the Japanese army from the economic and intelligence aspects with Britain, the United States and Russia, which had long been intended, so that the Japanese military and political leaders were in a state of chaos for a while.

"Anyway, our Beiyang Army has finally waited for this opportunity to wash away the shame." Shao Lao Er thought in his heart, and couldn't help but glance at Zhao Yun, such a situation was promoted by this kid who was still rolling in the ravines and ravines in Anhui two years ago. Following Zhao Yun step by step, although there are many puzzles, but now this has become a reality, but it still gives people a sense of surprise that they are trapped in a dream.

"Where is Zhu Xi's third division?" Zhao Yun's sudden question interrupted Shao Laoer's thoughts.

Zhu Xi's third division, which can be said to be Zhao Yun's descendant, played the role of the vanguard of Wu Peifu's corps this time. Since most of the troops of the Third Division came from the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, the regions were relatively wealthy, and the sources of literate soldiers were relatively more than those in other regions, the technical arms became a major feature of the Third Division.

Unlike other 100,000-strong divisions in China, submarines, airplanes, and tanks were all equipped in Zhu Xi's Third Division, and when it comes to the use of these equipment, it can be said that in China, except for the accuracy of artillery, which is not as accurate as Yan Xishan's Shanxi "Lao Li" army, the rest can be ranked first in China.

In addition to using these equipment, Xu Peng, who was in charge of the logistics of the Third Division, also controlled the Jinling Arsenal, the Taiyuan Arsenal with Yan Xishan, the Shenyang Arsenal with Zhang Huzi, and the Gongxian and Hanyang Arsenals controlled by Wu Peifu, and the Jinling Arsenal was already the largest arsenal in China that integrated R&D and production.

Most of the other four companies developed small arms and artillery, and the biggest success was the development of large-caliber artillery of more than 100 mm by the Shenyang Arsenal. However, the Jinling Arsenal mainly focuses on engines, engines for submarines, airplanes, and tanks.

An American working in Shanghai once commented after visiting the Jinling Arsenal: "What the Chinese lack is not manufacturing capacity. They do a great job of following the rules, combining manual and machine production, and small batch production. What they don't have is the continuous production process, precision equipment technology, and other organizational aspects of management technology. In this regard, the import of complete sets of plant equipment may be the most beneficial. After visiting the equipment of Britain, the United States, Russia and other countries, the old technicians in China found that the aero engine technology in Europe and the United States was at least 15 years ahead of Huaxia...... The first aircraft was launched in December 1903, which shows the level of China's own production. But Huaxia is not without people of insight, as early as before Zhao Yun started, Huaxia already had the conditions to import aircraft parts and engines from Europe and the United States, and then assemble them in China, but its own production and manufacturing are not achieved overnight. Such a huge gap cannot be overcome by an independent, step-by-step approach, or by importing some advanced engines as a model...... Like the automobile industry, the aviation industry can only be raised by direct technical assistance from abroad...... Therefore, after Zhao Yun conquered Siberia in Belarus, he introduced a complete set of Lao Maozi engines, and advanced China for 10 years in just half a year...... Compared with the most advanced aircraft engines in the West, the Chinese will lag behind by at least five years. This is also a matter of no choice, Russian aircraft were not good in World War I, only heavy aircraft can still be on the list. After World War I, the development of the aircraft industry in Russia almost came to a standstill due to the civil war. Although Zhao Yun can also get some of the latest technologies from Britain and France to expand the thinking of Huaxia technicians, some of them cannot be realized due to production technology.

Nevertheless, the practical results of the 10-year jump will mean that Huaxia will be more integrated with Huaxia's independent design and manufacturing capabilities in the future to build its own aircraft. As a result, the Jiangfeng seaplane, which was originally produced in China, gradually developed into the Jiangfeng series.

"The tank regiment has passed Zhucheng and is marching rapidly towards Jiaozhou, and the Jiangfeng bomber brigade has reached the vicinity of Baoshan Town and Tieshan Town in Huangdao." Shao Lao Er looked for it on the map, and said in combination with the telegram sent from the front line.

"Hmmm! Notify the Navy of the action! The myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army will be broken, and the opportunity for our Chinese rise has arrived! Zhao Yun looked out the window and looked southeast.

The Jiangfeng bomber brigade mentioned by Shao Laoer refers to the Jiangfeng No. 5 seaplane developed by Huaxia itself, which has a large fuselage and is slender and long. It is 3.8 meters high, with a fuselage length of 9.85 meters and a wingspan of 14.4 meters. The empty aircraft weighed 1,300 kilograms, weighed 1,860 kilograms, had a speed of 184 kilometers per hour, and had a range of 400 kilometers, and a third engine was installed in the nose, a 360 hp engine, while the other two engines were replaced with 230 hp. The aircraft was equipped with two sets of aerial bomb pylons and bomb/shooter compartments, and was equipped with a mobile airborne machine gun, and its overall combat performance was much better than the Handley-Pety O/400 that the British had previously sold to Zhao Yun.

Of course, these treasures will not act alone, and before they arrived, a large number of "Fokker" fighters had already driven away the surrounding Japanese French planes, and so far the Japanese reconnaissance planes could only wander around Qingdao without discovering the arrival of large formations of bombers.

After all, in this era, the take-off and landing of planes had to be completed at the airport, and Wu Peifu took a surprise attack, and the Japanese had not found any place to build an airport near Qingdao before. Therefore, the Japanese side judged that on the Chinese side, the offensive force from the air, that is, the light fighters that did not have high requirements for take-off and landing during World War I, could still appear, but the bombers that needed to take off on a solid ground did not appear in the Japanese army's consideration at all.