Beijing, ZN Sea. In a screening room.

The current Chinese emperor sits on a couch and looks at a picture flashing on the big screen.

"This is the Austro-Hungarian Knight tank, with a tonnage of 10 tons, belonging to the category of light tanks. The Europeans should have invented a relatively mature diesel internal combustion engine, and the speed of the Cavalier tank was at least 30% higher than that of the previous Anglo-German light tanks. ”

"Armed with a 30 mm cannon and a 7.92 mm caliber machine gun and a Zeiss periscope with a wide field of view. Hull armor: front 25 mm, side rear 10 mm, bottom 10 mm; Turret armor: frontal 25 mm, side rear 10 mm, top 20 mm; Maximum speed: 20 km/h on dirt roads, close to 30 km/h on highways.

Crew: Commander (and gunner), driver, loader, communicator. ”

"The kind of light tank that appeared on the battlefield in Albania has caught up with China's main battle light tank before the Land Rover V tank was finalized. It's just that they haven't yet discovered the beauty of the inclined armor, which is much inferior to the Wehrmacht's Land Rover V in terms of defensive power. ”

Liu Sheng sat on the sofa without saying a word, and with a wave of his hand, another new type of tank appeared on the screen, which was not small compared to the knight tank.

The narrator's voice continued to sound, "This is the French Renault FT-17 light tank. The total combat weight is 7 tons, the maximum speed on the road is 20km/h, the off-road is 10km/h, the crew only needs 2 people, it is armed with 1 8mm Model 1911 machine gun, 4800 rounds of ammunition, and the armor thickness is 6-22mm. ”

"There are two more modifications of this tank. One of them was the replacement of the machine gun with a 37mm gun with 240 rounds of ammunition. The speed did not change, and the crew was three. The weight increase is 11 tons. The other weighs 19 tons. It is equipped with a 50mm gun, an 8mm heavy machine gun, 200 rounds of ammunition, 10mm~25mm armor, and a crew of five. The French improved the maneuvering part of the tank, increased the diameter of the load-bearing wheels, added tracks with rubber, and adopted highly elastic suspensions, which increased the driving speed of the tank. Its maximum off-road speed has been increased to 12 km/h and its range has reached 160 km/h. ”

There is no doubt that the French used all the tanks they pressed at the bottom of the box on the Albanian battlefield. Prior to this, the 19-ton Renault FT-19 medium tank had never been seen in public. No matter how you look at it, this is the best tank of the French.

Liu Sheng thought about the performance of the Land Rover 5 in his mind, but he muttered a little uncertainly. The French and the Austro-Hungarian tanks of the same kind are not Land Rover's opponents at all, and the Europeans are so powerful in science and technology, and they have been chasing after each other in anger over the years, is it really so much weaker than China?

Don't look at the Germans' armored iron flow that swept across Europe during World War II, you think that the Germans have the most powerful tanks. The fact is. Lao Mei, John Bull and Soviet Russia all had excellent tanks on display. This is not to deny the armor technology of the Germans, but to be relatively fair.

Especially for Liu Sheng, they don't think that the Gallic rooster is really worse than the Germans. They were not old emperors, and the impression of the Germans in their minds was fixed on the label of 'militarily strong'. The current Gallic rooster is both in terms of national strength and strength. They are definitely the first-class powers in Europe. In the opinion of Liu Sheng and others, it is not weaker than the Germans.

Therefore, Liu Sheng subconsciously compared the Renault light and medium tank as the most powerful tank in Europe today. It's really a lot worse than China.

Could this be the result of more than a dozen years of hard work by Europeans? It can't be a defective product that they deliberately came out to attract attention, right?

The emperor's question silenced the people around him, who were unwilling to believe that this was possible. But they knew it was definitely possible. Just like China has been shouting outside with the remnants of the Land Rover Five, no one knows the real performance of the Land Rover V. Not to mention, the 22-ton improved version and the 39-ton Lu Liu have already produced hundreds or thousands of vehicles.

The screening room was silent for a moment, and the screen was once again a blurry image of a biplane. This is a picture taken from a hidden base somewhere in Germany, for which OEU spent at least 200,000 marks.

However, it is worth it!

China was finally able to determine that the Europeans had invented the airplane. Although it is not known what kind of performance the Europeans have achieved, this confirmation is of great significance to China.

A series of pictures were quickly sent to Xiangshan to live in another place, Liu Xian was preparing to 'die of illness' recently, and asked Emperor Liu to keep it secret, all for the stability of his rule. I also want Emperor Xiao Liu to strictly reprimand a few vassal kings who are making trouble to return to China to visit their father, and put on another good show between brothers!

Seeing what his son specially came to 'send', Liu Xian could clearly feel his son's loss. His hopes for the Air Force were too high. It's hard to come to terms with this brutal truth right now.

"It's been more than ten years since our plane came out, and the scale is so large, it's much easier to detect than the Germans." China's roots in Germany can sell what they want with money, and the Germans may have already gotten their planes. After all, the size of China's flight force is much larger than that of the West.

Liu's implication was that the Germans' planes were likely to have been 'learned' in China. Liu Sheng was stunned on the spot. When he was young, all he saw, heard, and learned was that China was lagging behind foreigners. When I grew up, I also found that although China's science and technology developed rapidly, a considerable number of scientific researchers were 'imported' from Europe, especially the most famous Nikolai. Tesla.

Therefore, Liu Sheng has an inherent impression in his mind that China's science and technology are more backward than those of Europe and the United States. But now listening to Liu Xian's meaning, his mind was a little dazed by the countercurrent of his thoughts in an instant.

Liu Xian does not blame his son's lack of self-confidence, it is really due to reality, the rapid development of various technologies in China in recent years is inseparable from the efforts of European and American scientists, even if the outbreak of the last war caused a large number of European and American scientists to leave China, but there are still many people left. All of these people are meritorious figures in China's development, even if they are just ordinary teachers. It has also made great contributions to the development of science in China.

Seriously, New Qin has been established for more than 30 years. The history of science in China can be divided into two phases, marked by the East-West War. Before that. Even though China's military industry secretly produces tanks, submarines, and airships, the engines used on them are all invented by foreigners. That is, after the war, a large number of college students who have undergone systematic education and training have gradually filled various positions, opening a new chapter in China's scientific development.

In July 1914, a sudden news spread secretly in the city of Beijing, which soon spread like a gale to the entire Greater China Circle - the old emperor was critically ill and would die.

August. The old emperor Bintian, the little emperor is secret.

The government did not admit that the old emperor died of illness on the surface, saying that he was alive and well, and he was still living in Xishan. But all kinds of gossip in the capital have already spread vividly, and seven out of ten people believe that Liu Xian is really dead, otherwise the gossip has spread to this extent, and the old emperor should always come out to refute the rumors, right?

No, nothing.

The Chinese people haven't seen the old emperor for a few years?

All by the end of August. The whole world believed that China's old emperor had died of illness.

The vassal kings of various countries clamored to enter Beijing, but the current emperor resolutely refused to let them, and in this imperial battle, the Chinese government was all passers-by.

And see this situation. Italy and Austria-Hungary did not hesitate to re-engage in the Ottoman War. Since the Ottoman army's victory in the Battle of Albania two months ago, the tide of the war has fallen in favor of the Ottoman Empire, and the Balkan Alliance has relied entirely on air superiority and strategic defense. Without the huge help from outside, what awaits them is bound to be a second failure.

The Ottomans were already plotting how to bite off their flesh.

As a result, China has just seen a change. Austria-Hungary and Italy couldn't help but jump out. Austria-Hungary sent 300,000 troops at once, and the Italians also mobilized a large number of fleets. The landing operation from the heel of the 'Italian Leather Boots' towards Albania was carried out, and soon the southern Albanian seaport of Vlora was taken.

Vlora is located in the southwestern part of Albania and is the capital of Vlora district. On the northeastern shore of the Bay of Vlora in the Adriatic Sea. Outside the bay, there is Sazan Island as a barrier, the port is wide and deep, and it was once an important military port of the Ottoman Empire. However, with the decline of the Ottoman navy, it has gradually become a mere commercial port.

Of course, the Ottoman army had a local garrison, but the Italians had notified the Ottoman Empire 12 hours before the war, and it was almost undeclared. The Ottoman army did not have time to mobilize troops to reinforce Vlora, and the result was that Vlora was easily taken by the Italians, and then a large number of Italian troops began to land.

The Albanian Front of the Ottoman Empire did not launch an offensive against the Italians. The Italians had more than two hundred airships converging in Vlora, which was not at all something that the air power of the Albanian Front could provoke. High-altitude bombing, hindering its landing will clearly not work.

As a result, in just 20 days, the tide of the battle changed dramatically, the Ottoman army switched from offensive to defensive, and just like that, Albania lost half of it.

Persia was the first to stand up for the Ottoman Empire, and 200,000 Persian troops marched to the Ottoman front. Then there was Afghanistan, where the Afghan government organized a volunteer army of 30,000 people, and then Chinese military advisers sent another 3,000 Ottomans. It is very ridiculous that both sides have played out their brains in the Balkans, the oil fields of the Arabian Peninsula are still working peacefully, and China's trade with the whole West is also proceeding normally.

In September, first of all, the Koreans could not sit still, and a very high grand public festival was held on the banks of the Han River, in which all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were present, as well as the royal nobles and more than 500,000 Korean people. This public festival was only held for seven days for unspeakable reasons, so that after the public festival ended, a large number of people from other places came to the Han River one after another, and they had no choice but to spontaneously hold a sacrifice at the ruins!

Emperor Liu's prestige and reputation in North Korea are the highest, and the people of North Korea have long compared him with Zhu Ming's Wanli Emperor, and as Emperor Liu's achievements are getting bigger and bigger, he quickly surpassed Emperor Wanli and continued to climb. Because North Korea is a very, very lucky country. The Japanese envy them, the Nguyen Dynasty envy them, and the subject countries of the Greater China Circle envy this country that can still play on its own. It's all because of the big tree of China behind him.

Even in the West, Europe and the United States, when it comes to North Korea, there is nothing to say about the country's luck so far, except for the bad words such as unenterprising and stubborn conservatism. This is like a primitive tribe in the feudal era, because there are people covering, so they have no external threats, they have always existed safely, and they are still very comfortable.

The Xinqin royal family reprimanded North Korea very harshly, and Liu Sheng sent a 4,000-word telegram to severely criticize his brother-in-law. But the smoke has risen, and it is difficult to extinguish it. The little emperor's approach only made people more sure that the old emperor was really dead. As a result, throughout September, large-scale public sacrifices were held in Japan, the Nguyen Dynasty, the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, and even the Chinese mainland and other vassal states. Liu Xian's shrines, statues, and temples have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and they are constantly popping up all over the Greater China Circle.

There are many small-scale public festivals held at the local level.

There are also portraits of Liu Xian and small porcelain statues, which quickly poured into the market, and then sales exploded.

If there is an air quality monitoring system like the 21st century in this time and space, then it will definitely be found that the air quality of the countries in the entire Greater China area is much worse than last month. The sales of incense candles this month are comparable to Qingming.

Anyway, in China, in East Asia, in the whole of Greater China, no one pays attention to the Ottoman Empire anymore. The only people who really remembered the Ottoman War were those at the top of the empire.

The second intervention of Austria-Hungary was beyond China's expectations, and Liu Xian had been thinking about whether Germany and Austria would make a move against Russia, and then Britain, France, and Italy destroyed the Ottomans, seized the Middle East, and divided the Persian Gulf among the five countries. As a result, things did not go according to his imagination at all, and Austria-Hungary was so obsessed with the Balkans?

The help of the Persian kingdom to the Ottoman Empire was extremely important, and their intervention not only shared the pressure of the Ottoman Empire to a certain extent, but also gave the Ottomans a sense of confidence that they had not been abandoned, let alone forgotten.

By now, the Persian kingdom had provided the Ottomans with 45% of its army, including 65% of its armored forces, 60% of its air power, and 50% of its artillery fire. Afghanistan also provided 50,000 volunteers and donated 500 million Chinese dollars to the Ottoman Empire. Not to mention how many tanks, artillery, airships and cars China secretly supplied to the Ottomans.

Therefore, the Ottomans were still able to stabilize the battle line and actively expand their army, gather forces, and prepare for a counterattack.

Austria-Hungary was also rapidly recruiting troops, and even Hitler, who was far away in Munich, received a notice from the Austro-Hungarian conscription office. The standing army of Austria-Hungary rose from 800,000 men to nearly 1 million. Italy's latest army expansion is 200,000, and the Gallic Rooster wants to expand its army to 1.5 million...... (To be continued.) )