Chapter 1 We are worried about the Japanese Navy

In the office on the second floor of the Shanghai headquarters of the Kuomintang Socialist Party, Yang Qiu sat under the lamp to review documents, and since he boarded the patrol envoy, he was busy every day, especially when he came to Shanghai this time, there were endless people to see every day, endless guests, and it was rare to have a steady stream of telegrams from Wuchang ().

Although Tang Shaoyi was appointed as the chief of civil affairs, and also used his influence to attract a large number of talents, and even many overseas Chinese joined the National Socialist Party, there were some things that he could not decide, especially those related to the army, because Yang Qiu implemented the strict principle of separating the military from the government, which ensured to the greatest extent the disadvantages of military interference, but brought endless documents.

For example, the document on the formation of two guard divisions in hand.

The guard division adopts the two-brigade system set by him, each brigade has three regiments, nine battalions, 27 companies, 81 platoons, and each platoon has four squads, and adopts a 12-man squad system, with a total of 324 squads. plus officers, artillerymen, officers, engineers, baggage, etc., a total of 13,252 people! In order to rapidly build up combat effectiveness, in addition to the current two or so regimental guard companies, two battalion veterans will be drawn from each of the five divisions, and 3,000 elite soldiers will be selected from the Dian and Gui armies, and the remaining deficiencies will be made up by selecting the best recruits from the recruits being trained, and all soldiers must be young people who have voluntarily joined the National Socialist Party or the Youth Officers' Corps, and the officers will be selected from the guard companies and the military academy, and the shortfall will be drawn from the various units.

In order to ensure that it becomes the core mobile force, the armed guard division is also built in accordance with the strongest goal in Asia, the new 1912 7.62 mm rifle is made in Germany, each squad has a Han and a modified machine gun, each platoon has four 50 mm grenadiers that have just been developed, each company has two 80 mm mortars, the regiment needs to add six 80 mm guns, four 120 mm mortars and two heavy machine guns, and four 70 mm infantry guns. The brigade simply formed an artillery regiment consisting of 12 120-mm mortars and 36 70-mm infantry guns.

In this way, each division would have 13,112 rifles (high-ranking officers are not equipped with rifles), 1,866 pistols, 8 heavy machine guns, 350 light machine guns (including special service companies, etc.), 324 grenadiers, 104 mortars, 48 70-mm infantry guns, 1,500 bicycles, and 1,100 mules and horses. If it were to be manufactured from scratch, the Hubei Industrial Company, which had not yet met the design requirements, would need to work at full speed for four months to fully arm the two divisions!

But even with such a powerful infantry firepower, the staff was obviously not satisfied, and was ready to use the Krupp 105-mm howitzers exchanged and the imitation guns of the same caliber that were being started, to form four artillery regiments with a formation of 36 guns, and in addition to the first and second divisions, the other two would be fully equipped with the guard divisions (). But this brings us to the problem, there is a serious shortage of mules and horses! Since the 1.3-ton 105-mm howitzer cannot be disassembled, in addition to purchasing horses from Yunnan and Xikang, it will also send people to Mongolia to buy horses, and for the first time it is also proposed to purchase about 300 trucks from abroad.

Truck technology does not need to be introduced, and there are enough military truck samples in the data machine to copy, but the truck production line is a considerable cost, and even the most rudimentary one will cost about $300,000. In this way, with the addition of auxiliary equipment such as mules and horses, water bottles, and sapper shovels and three bases of ammunition, the formation of these two divisions alone will cost a huge amount of 6 million, which is equivalent to Guangxi's financial revenue in the previous year! Compared to a standard Mule and Horse Master of World War II, this money may not seem like much, but it is the end of 1912, and decades of inflation have not been factored in, and if you add in the truck production equipment, it will be too much pressure on the southwestern finances that are on the bankruptcy line.

Yang Qiu twisted his eyebrows vigorously, this scene made Miao Luo feel a little heartbroken, and after making a cup of coffee for him, he came over and took the initiative to rub his temples for him: "Things can't be done, don't hurt your body." ”

"This is a document for the formation of two new armies, and Song Ziqing and they are still waiting for my reply." Yang Qiu pushed the formation document forward, leaned back in the chair and held Miao Luo's hands and said with a smile: "The sooner we finish it, the sooner we can grow stronger, and we can also regain the lost national fortune as soon as possible." ”

Miao Luo secretly glanced at the final cost, and was also taken aback by the number, and asked, "So much money!" It's enough to build a new shipyard. ”

Yang Qiu deliberately blinked his eyes, and suddenly hugged his waist in his arms, making her forcibly sit on top of her, causing a few coquettish voices and laughing: "Are you afraid that I won't have the money to marry you?" After so many days together, Miao Luo was much bolder, and he scratched his nose with amorous eyes, and deliberately pouted: "Who said I was going to marry you?" ”

"Huh? How do I remember last night someone kept calling me to marry you, I want to marry. Hearing him say what was embarrassing last night, Miao Luo suddenly couldn't resist, his body softened, and he hurriedly gagged his mouth with his hand: "Don't say it!" Just know to bully me, huh. ”

Before he could finish his sentence, his ruddy little mouth was gagged, and a moment later a big hand poked into his pajamas, and when the pervasive strange hand covered his chest, Miao Luo fell again, and when the snort was about to cause a violent storm, an inopportune knock sounded ().

The knock on the door frightened Miao Luo and hurriedly covered his exposed breasts, glared fiercely and walked into the bedroom next to him. The delicious taste was disturbed, so Yang Qiu felt the taste of defeat, smiled dumbly and took a deep breath before letting people in.

Coming in was 26-year-old Murong Han, a bespectacled and polite young man, one of the Chinese children in the United States recruited through the American Zhi Gong Court, graduated from Columbia University in the United States, majoring in law and politics. Because Dong Yongwei Liude and Chen Guofu took up more of the party affairs of the Kuomintang and the party, after half a year of training, he became Yang Qiu's political secretary, as for the military secretary, he has not yet been elected, and can only be concurrently served by Jiang Fangzhen, and will be selected after returning to Wuchang.

Murong Han also wore the badge of the Youth Officers Corps of the National Socialist Party on his chest, and after approaching and smelling the faint fragrance in the air, he secretly laughed in his heart, and said: "The chairman, President Jiang is here, and he also brought an officer named Zhang Xiaozhun, who is waiting for you in the living room. ”

The Kuomintang Youth Officers' Corps was formed by like-minded supporters in Bingwen and the guard company, and was strongly supported by Yang Qiu at the beginning of its formation, and gradually developed into the military and political system as its influence expanded, absorbing a large number of fanatical young people who agreed with the theory of national social democracy, who claimed to be Yang Qiu's followers, and usually called him chairman rather than adult or commander, so Yang Qiu was not surprised by this title, but Zhang Xiaozhun's arrival surprised him.

Murong Han grew up overseas since he was a child, except for a few others such as Sun Wen, he didn't know what the three non-commissioned officers were, and they only had Yang Qiu and the National Socialist Party in their eyes, I am afraid that even Yuan Shikai would not show the slightest surprise in front of the door.

Zhang Xiaozhun is not handsome, and his temperament is also relatively introverted, after seeing Yang Qiu, he just made a salute, and then sat next to him and looked carefully. Yang Qiu is also looking at him, he may be the least famous among the three non-commissioned officers in the parallel world, and he is also the least lucky, but he also chose to go to Japan first and then study in Germany, he has a wider vision than Cai Ye in Europe and the United States all the year round, but unfortunately he did not succeed in his studies because he returned to China in Xinhai, and after coming back, he met Huang Keqiang and Tan Yanhong, who were not successful, and finally did nothing and borrowed alcohol all year round to kill his sorrows, and even died suddenly because of hangover.

"Baili, Runnong and Songpo just make up a table of mahjong, and when Brother Songpo is good, you might as well play eight circles first and then talk about heroes." Yang Qiu smiled and quipped: "It's good for the two of you to look like this?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen was amused, and said with a smile: "I think this suggestion is very good, just now I took the leap farmer to visit the shipyard, and he said that the patrol made you rich in the world, and decided to come to you to eat and drink for nothing, and the right to rob the rich and help the poor." ”

Just now he was just trying to probe his breath, but he didn't expect that Jiang Fangzhen had persuaded Zhang Xiaozhun to join the National Defense Force, Yang Qiu suddenly became excited, afraid that he was looking for him to be happy and asked: "Brother Runnong, is this matter serious?" ”

Jiang Fang Zhenao, Cai Songpomou, and Zhang Xiaozhun were not good at words, and their temperament was a little introverted and got up and said: "Zhang Xiaozhun has seen the commander. ”

Since he called the commander, Yang Qiu knew that he chose to go to the army, thought about it and said: "The guard division is being formed and needs senior staff officers, Brother Baili is dedicated to studying, Songpo is unfortunately seriously injured, if Brother Runnong doesn't mind, just help me take care of those boys, and by the way, how about a name in the General Staff?" On the way here, Jiang Fangzhen roughly introduced the news that Yang Qiu was going to form two of the strongest infantry divisions in Asia, and he didn't think that he would be one of them just after he came, and he was very happy to finally be able to show his strengths, and hurriedly saluted: "Everything is subject to the commander's arrangement." ”

After settling Zhang Xiaozhun's position, Jiang Fangzhen took off his hat and hooked it on his fingertips, and his expression gradually became solemn: "On the way back just now, I analyzed it with Runnong, and I felt that Yuan Shikai's illness this time seemed to be very coincidental, if it was not bad, I am afraid it was." ”

"Angry with me and Mr. Dunchu?" Yang Qiu pointed to his nose, in fact, he had already guessed that there was this possibility, after all, Yuan Shikai didn't understand party politics too much, and he suffered a big loss in the parallel world, and now he lost even more because of himself! Even the certainty of using force is much smaller, and it is not impossible to get sick out of anger.

I don't know if it's smiling or when talking about business, Zhang Xiaozhun's face is more serious than Jiang Fangzhen, and he obviously entered the state of a staff officer, and said: "The strongest in Beiyang is not the army, in terms of army strength and equipment, we are actually not bad, as long as Songpo can stabilize Yunnan as soon as possible, we can fight in half a year!" From the Manchu to Mongolia, from Guangdong to Guanwai, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang and even our southwest do not dare to say that they definitely have no heart for his forces, Britain and Zhu Erdian are his biggest supporters, so the two of us very much agree with the commander of your method of using external forces to make them unable to break apart so as not to leave a disaster, but Runnong thinks that you should be careful, Japan ()! ”

"Runnon is right! The two of us have studied in Japan for many years, and we have often dealt with Japan after returning to China, so we know how much Japan has interests in China. If Han Yeping fed Hachiman Steel, then our country fed Japan! Jiang Fangzhen also continued: "Japan lacks resources, and even rice is difficult to meet the needs of the people in peacetime, so after the Russo-Japanese War, the people's lives did not improve because the country was strong, but became very bad because of the huge debt. If it weren't for the fact that Japan had not relied on our country to repay its foreign debts, Japan might have been in turmoil long ago, so Japan would never want to see you come to power! ”

"The Japanese Army has shrunk very badly after the war, although it has recovered some vitality in the past two years, but it has not yet reached the strength to defeat our country in one go, what we are worried about is" Zhang Xiaozhun glanced at the brightly lit shipyard outside the window: "Navy!" If Japan intervenes in this matter, then we will not be able to fight the Japanese Navy at all! With Taiwan as a base, the entire coast will not be stable. ”

Yang Qiu nodded, in fact, he has been worrying about this problem in the past few days, although in the parallel world, Japan did not directly send troops to intervene in the civil war in the early Republic of China, but now everything has changed, familiar events and people have been faced, he knows very well how much a strong China will make Japan worry about a strong China, and he is not afraid of the army, but the navy is indeed a big trouble! Thinking of Japan's powerful naval lineup in the battle of Qingdao between Japan and Germany, it is estimated that even the United States does not dare to intervene easily, so why should it interfere?

It seems that we still need to do a big deal with Germany.

Thinking of this, Yang Qiu looked at his watch and got up to Murong Han to make a gesture to prepare the car: "I have made an appointment with the German minister, how about Runnong go with me?" ”……

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