When Yang Du walked into the office, Yang Qiuzheng and Yan Xishan were chatting and laughing, the latter became the mayor of Beijing and temporarily served as Tianjin, although he did not catch up with the good time, but under his combing Beijing and Tianjin became more and more stable, especially after the Xihuamen incident, he decisively ordered the blockade of the whole city to arrest the fugitives, and also took the opportunity to use the old and young remnants of the banner people in Beijing who did not leave to split the country and commit treason to the enemy, and strictly implement the means of sealing all the royal heritage and protecting places of interest and historic sites, which is very satisfying.

He and Yang Du are also old acquaintances, and the two had dealt with each other when Yang Du went to Japan to study for a short time, and the latter almost joined the Kuomintang at that time. ”

After the Henan incident, Yang Du's status in the national society increased day by day, so he talked and laughed a lot more cheerfully, and said with a smile: "Brother Baichuan, don't laugh at me." The chairman handed over the whole of Beijing and Tianjin to you, hoping that you would take good care of this treasure land, and maybe you would come back that year. ”

This sentence made Yan Xishan slightly stunned, and said in his heart, could it be that Yang Qiu had the intention of changing the capital? In fact, he was really right, Yang Qiu actually didn't like Nanjing as the capital, if he could be chosen, he would rather go to Wuchang or Beijing, but some things can't be moved yet. However, he secretly praised Yang Du's thoughts, because there are only a few people in this matter, and they are all their own henchmen who will never say it, so it can be seen through some words and deeds that it shows that their thoughts are very delicate.

But he didn't want to mention this matter now, and changing the capital was just an idea at the moment, and maybe it wouldn't take shape, so he didn't mention it at all and asked, "Is there something wrong with Brother Wanzi looking for me?" ”

"It's a war." Yang Du made his intention clear: "Germany declared war on France and Russia last night, and the army entered Belgium in only one day. Britain had not yet made a decision, but just now Japan had declared war on Germany by attacking early. Yang Qiu didn't care about the first news at all, but it was Japan's declaration of war with Britain in advance that made him secretly amused. Yan Xishan said after listening to this: "Japan has no choice, Shandong will be able to delay for one more day, it will be beneficial for us to do so for one day, and it will be very dangerous if we don't take Qingdao early." It's too difficult for Songpa this time. ”

Yang Qiu nodded, walked to the window, and turned his gaze in the direction of Shandong.

Can you even take Qingdao? At least Cai Ye doesn't dare to pack tickets yet. The line of defense, which is still full of holes, puts him in a dilemma. It shouldn't have been this hard. Compared with Mukden, the power in his hands is stronger, but the problem is that the battle of Qingdao is mixed with some politics. Because Yang Qiu did not want to use force against Qingdao first, he had to force the infantry to intervene in the chaotic battlefield to face the enemy's ferocious naval bombardment when the Japanese and German were at a critical juncture.

From the point of view of the military, what I hate the most is to fight this kind of war in the service of politics. But all wars are a continuation of politics, although I don't understand why Yang Qiu chose this way. But he felt that it should be for the future Sino-German cooperation in the future, so he also thought that it was worth paying some sacrifices for the time being, even if Germany was defeated in Europe, it would be a thin camel bigger than a horse. Lay the foundation and you'll get more in the future.

Therefore, when he heard that Qingdao had started a war, he rushed to Dongdashan in person regardless of the danger and observed the battle situation with his own eyes.

Dongdashan stretches south from Jiaozhou Bay to the center of the bay. It is less than 18 kilometers away from the sea, and the distance is completely within the radius of the Japanese Navy's capital ships, but before a few heavy guns in Qingdao Fortress are solved, Kato Kenkichi does not dare to let the old ships of the Second Fleet get too close.

After climbing the ridge more than 100 meters high, Cai Ye involuntarily bent over and panted hard, Kunming's injury still had a great impact on his body, and he always felt chest tightness and shortness of breath during strenuous exercise. In addition, I was tired during this time, so that my cheeks lost a lot of weight in just a few days. Zhang Xiaozhun next to him was also very worried about his body, and said, "Songpo." Why don't you rest first, and I'll record it? "It's fine, it's just a little gasping." ”

Cai Yi waved his hand and asked Lei Biao to take out eight times the Zeiss telescope, this kind of high-grade telescope is very expensive, and only high-ranking generals like him can be issued in the army. Germany deserves to be the world's first optical one, and he can still see it clearly from a distance of more than ten kilometers, only to see a huge column of smoke rising from the front of Mount Maultik, which should be caused by the 305-mm heavy artillery of the Japanese Navy, he does not care that the capital ship fired this shell, and his attention is all on the ground damage.

Below the pillar of smoke, the terrace-like barbed wire defense layer was torn apart, the smoke wave spread directly to about 100 meters, and two large trees about 50 meters away from the center of the explosion were broken together, from which it can be seen how large the killing radius of the 305 naval guns is, not to mention the 356 naval guns on the King Kong. "For the record, when attacking Fortress Hill, all soldiers must be pulled to a distance of 35 meters, and in close combat, the number of submachine guns must be increased to increase individual firepower. The city has not been bombarded at present, there are many buildings in the city, it is easy to smash and injure people after the explosion, everyone is strictly required to wear a helmet and is not allowed to take off their clothes to avoid being scratched, after entering the city, immediately fill sandbags to establish a bunker, after grabbing the fortress, the time difference tactics must be strictly observed, the enemy infantry must all retreat into deep bunkers when retreating, and the sappers must go in as soon as possible, and find a way to dig out the cat's ear hole in the mountain bomb shelter area. Artillerymen should pay attention. ”

Under the bombardment of heavy artillery, Maultik, the central fortress, the Taitung Zhendong fortress and the coastal fortress were all attacked, and one shell after another caused visible injuries to the naked eye.

"Songpa." Zhang Xiaozhun was also inspecting the fortress, and after seeing the two Japanese destroyers trying to get close to the mouth of the sea, he immediately reminded: "The Japanese Navy is testing the mine array, see if you can talk to Germany, simply let us scatter all the 200 mines that we transported yesterday to the mouth of the sea so as not to be broken through by Japan." ”

"200 is not enough!" Cai Ye said: "Immediately send someone to Qingdao to contact the German army, send a telegram to the logistics department, no matter what method is used, another 100 must be shipped within five days, and the entrance to the sea must be completely blocked!" Deploy a 105th Heavy Artillery Battalion at Redstone Cliff to be ready to suppress enemy minesweepers. ”

"Commander, our air force."

While the two were discussing the attack plan, two sparrow reconnaissance planes roared past the top of Higashidai Mountain and flew towards the observation balloon over the Japanese battleship Tango.

The huge observation balloon was undoubtedly the target of the unrivaled air team boys, and when the first one passed by the balloon, the improvised light machine gun in the back seat let out a roar, and the surface of the balloon was suddenly punched with a dozen bullet holes. When the second one arrived, the pilot simply pulled out a grenade, stopped in his hand for a few seconds, and then threw it at the balloon. The flame of the grenade exploded in the air ignited the hydrogen inside the balloon. In the blink of an eye, the balloon turned into a giant fireball. The Japanese naval observers hanging from the gondola below smashed directly into the sea from a height of several hundred meters, and the huge fireball also frightened the Tango deck into chaos.

Piloting the Curtiss seaplane, the two Japanese pilots had just taken off from the Miyawaka seaplane carrier, and the two Japanese pilots hurriedly pulled up the fuselage to try to drive away the sparrows' attack, just as they slowly lifted into the air. The first sparrow had already flown over, and a string of accurate bullets shot down the first seaplane. The second Japanese seaplane took off though. However, in the face of the flanking fire of the two sparrows, there was no advantage, but fortunately, because the rear-seat light machine gun was not a specialized air combat machine gun, the Japanese pilots were able to constantly dodge left and right.

A moment later, the two futile sparrows began to return. The Japanese pilots breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this. Just as he was about to take over the reconnaissance balloon work over Qingdao, a fighter plane that had never been seen before suddenly rushed out of Jiaozhou Bay due north by grazing the sea.

"Yaga! Shoot it down! "Inside the bridge of the Tango, Kato Kenkichi was very unhappy with the Chinese planes flying overhead, although at this time the whole world knew that the planes could not deal with the rough-skinned battleships, but after the loss of the observation balloon, the accuracy of the fleet's shelling had decreased a lot, and if the seaplanes were lost again, they would have to close to 10,000 meters from the coast and fire. But the problem is that the Qingdao fortress is unusually strong. In particular, the southern fort halfway up the northwestern slope of Mount Bismarck was very advantageous for defending against shells from the sea because of its excellent location. Hundreds of heavy shells were consumed in a row, but they could not cause serious damage, but the two German-made 280mm heavy guns deployed on them constantly threatened the safety of the fleet.

The Japanese sailors who received the order pulled out the anti-balloon cannon, but the anti-balloon cannon was not an anti-aircraft gun, and neither the elevation angle nor the air explosion fuse shells could threaten the aircraft, and the density was sparse unless it was directly hit by the shell, otherwise it was simply an itch.

Xue Muhua didn't look at this level of attack at all, his eyes were fixed on the Japanese Curtis seaplane that was still circling, and his index finger was always on the trigger of the synchronous heavy machine gun connected to the control lever, and the corner of his mouth sneered. This kind of circle tactic is no problem to deal with sparrows, but it is impossible to deal with the "Haidongqing" under him! As he approached, the Japanese pilot was nervously looking at the new plane, which he had never seen before.

Wide, stout, steel pipe and wing combination number, and significantly faster than itself.

"Is this the latest aircraft from Germany?"

He knew there that the plane was supposed to be a product that would have appeared three years later! Since the engine breakthrough, Feng Ru and other technicians who have already obtained a full set of drawings and materials of the First World War aircraft began to build a new generation of fighters, and finally under the instruction of Yang Qiu, they directly skipped the dazzling model and directly chose Germany to start equipping it in 1918, and was hailed as the best Fokker D.VII fighter in all countries in World War I. Needless to say, the performance of the Fokker D.VII fighter in this era can make the camel and the Newport 28.C1 dare not fight, can turn excellent pilots into ace pilots, and not all the novices in the following decade have predetermined the ace standard, and after the war, the Entente has forbidden Germany to continue to equip, and even destroyed all the fuselages and parts that have been built!

How tough and coquettish it takes!

Of course, Feng Ru and others have also made significant changes, mainly because the 250-horsepower engine of the Espano-Siza V is much lighter than the Mercedes 180-horsepower engine used in the German Fokker DVI, and the volume is also smaller, so the original thicker fuselage looks much thinner.

In fact, this kind of aircraft could have been equipped at the end of last year, but because the Ministry of Defense did not want a double-mounted Han-san 7.62 mm heavy machine gun, it hoped to use the 12.7 mm fanged heavy machine gun that had just been successfully copied at that time. The main reason is that the boys of the air team found that the 7.62 mm machine gun bullet was too light, and the accuracy was very poor when firing in the air due to the wind speed and dead weight, and it often took hundreds of rounds to hit the flexible target, while the 12.7 mm bullet trajectory was relatively stable.

Because of this problem, it was not until the beginning of last month that the first twin-mounted air-cooled 12.7 mm Fangs aviation heavy machine gun was actually produced, and the ordinary engine could not accommodate this kind of twin machine gun weighing more than 100 kilograms because of horsepower and size, and only this new aircraft could carry. Although it was more than half a year late, it was worth the wait. As a result of the tests, it was found that the new aircraft with a 12.7 mm machine gun with a synchronized fire coordinator was incredibly powerful. The sparrow is almost defenseless against it, and because of the weight of the bullet, it can kill targets on the ground. Maneuverable, nimble and powerful. So after Yang Qiu promised the air team that it could name the new aircraft on its own. Everyone immediately thought of the fierce Hai Dongqing.

"Hai Dongqing" went around in a circle, and directly cut into the inner corner of the Japanese seaplane with speed, and when the two planes were parallel, Xue Muhua also made a spit at each other. This insulting gesture made the Japanese pilot scream in anger, pull out his pistol and shoot. A scene that stunned him and the sailors watching the battle below appeared. ..., only to see!

Hai Dongqing shook the wing suddenly, and then rolled directly from the upper part of the wing of the Curtis seaplane to the other side! Amaterasu is above. A wooden and canvas plane in front of you? Or a nimble seahawk?! When the Japanese pilot rubbed his eyes, Hai Dongqing, who was operated by Xue Muhua, rose again and directly rose to an altitude of 5,000 meters beyond the reach of his opponent. Then it rolled sideways again and roared down towards Curtis.

No matter how idiotic you are, you know that the other party is going to attack. Therefore, the Japanese pilot also showed twelve points of spirit, but when his plane began to circle and avoid, the diving Hai Dongqing had already spewed out two tongues of fire from his head.

Nose fire? God, won't this break the propeller? How did you do that?!

On a German plane flying from Qingdao, the German pilot, who claimed to be well-informed and first-class, had been deeply attracted by the dazzling maneuver just now, and now he saw that Hai Dongqing was able to fire directly from the nose of the plane regardless of the safety of the propeller. Even more eyeballs! But before he could figure out how the other side did it, he saw that the left wing of the attacked Japanese Curtiss seaplane was directly torn in two by bullets. The plane spiraled down.

But Xue Muhua was obviously unwilling to let the opponent have a chance to survive, and continued to chase the plane without a wing and swept it until the opponent's fuselage was broken. Just when everyone thought that Hai Dongqing was going back, he aimed at the Miyaruo seaplane carrier on the sea and rushed towards the other party. The Japanese fleet, which didn't even have a few anti-balloon guns, had no choice but to watch him fly towards the Miyawaka, and just when everyone thought that this was just a show-off, because the machine guns could not deal with the battleship, the two fangs roared again.

Bullets rained down from a height of more than 100 meters, clanging on the steel plates of the battleship, and the wooden deck was swept to pieces. The worst thing was that the remaining seaplane, which was on standby on deck, was smashed by 12.7mm bullets before it could go to battle. But even so, Xue Muhua and Hai Dongqing were still unwilling to stop, and flew over the deck twice in a row, spilling bullets at those unprotected sailors. The Japanese sailors went back and forth to avoid scolding, but the German pilots jumped their eyelids, and they were really speechless about the character of this Haidong Qing flawed and bound to die, and it was not until Xue Muhua shook his wings at him and flew away, that he came back to his senses and circled around the Japanese fleet a few times before lazily returning home. Due to the loss of the artillery reconnaissance balloon and all the seaplanes, Kato's plan to try to kill all the batteries in the Qingdao fortress before the arrival of the First Fleet was in vain, and he was worried that the fleet would be attacked by shore artillery if it was too close to the shore, so he had to order a temporary halt to the shelling and wait for the arrival of the First Fleet support fleet.

The attack ended because of a Hai Dongqing that everyone had never seen, which made the three warring parties stunned, but at this moment, everyone did not think of what changes the appearance of powerful fighters would bring to future wars, and even Yang Qiu did not pay much attention to the aviation team at present, after all, a real air force could not be supported by a wooden frame, so they had not been organized separately so far.

But the end was also short-lived, when the German army advanced in Europe, relying on mortars and Stern submachine guns to form a strong company of firepower arrived under the fortress of Liège two days earlier than in history, the fortress of Qingdao was also in danger, the Japanese fleet supported by the King Kong launched the largest artillery bombardment of Qingdao, a full thirty heavy naval guns ravaged the fortress over and over again, except for the excellent position of the southwest battery of Bismarck Hill, the other batteries suffered heavy losses.

However, both sides knew that naval artillery could not achieve a final victory, so after gradually gaining an advantage in artillery fire, the landing fleet led by Mitsutomi Kamio and Hanzo Yamanashi, escorted by an escort formation composed of more than a dozen cruisers and destroyers, arrived belatedly off the coast of Laoshan Bay. ..., In the narrow conference room of the Chitose cruiser, Vice Admiral Mitsutomi Kamio looked at a circle of confident officers and raised his glass: "You all already know the war situation, Jimo behind the bay has been occupied by the Chinese army, and they have built a lot of temporary fortifications there in a vain attempt to prevent my heroic Kurume Division from stepping into Qingdao and marching into Jiaodong!" For the sake of the great prosperity of the Japanese Empire, I hope that you will fight bravely when you go ashore and use your cannons to tell those who support the Empire that the Empire is not weak enough to be bullied by them! ”

"Cheers!"

In the toast of Mitsutomi Kamio, the 48th Wing of the 18th Division took the lead in landing in Laoshan, and for a time the wide Laoshan Bay was full of dense landing boats, and a large number of baggage and artillery shells were piled up on the coast, waiting for the infantry to open the passage and transport them to various places in Shandong.

Just as the Japanese were speeding up the delivery of more infantry and equipment to the coast, soldiers were building fortifications for four 19-ton Zhenlei Type 14 150-mm long-range cannons with the help of tractors on Taizi Mountain outside Jimo City, while 12 160-mm heavy mortars scattered 15 kilometers in front of them were slowly erecting their long barrels outside the Tianhou Gate of Laoshan Mountain. The soldiers pulled the front half of the barrel apart, filled it with a 41-kilogram shell, closed the two barrels again, and then grabbed the rope and took refuge in the bunker.

"The target Wangjiatai coastal wind speed is 3, the elevation angle is 67 degrees, and the distance is 6,300 meters, fire quickly!"

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ps: I encountered a little accident today, because the decoration is almost over, the hippo is usually busy with work, so I took advantage of the weekend to see, I didn't think that I happened to meet the crystal lamp, the result is just the tragedy of the beads that took me a morning, and after the installation was found to be inconsistent with the drawings, the result was dismantled and reinstalled.