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Yang Qiu received a report of the Sevastopol incident after arriving in Shanghai, and he did not expect Lu Zhengxiang and his wife to appear there, which also caused Mrs. Peide to injure his calf. Fortunately, the hospital confirmed that it was only scratched and did not hurt the bones, but even so, he scolded the Security Bureau and the Military Intelligence Agency, and sent Lei Meng to take the doctor to Russia to check the injury.

With his return, the whole state apparatus turned. The National Reserve Act sends a number of reservists who have been conscripted from all over the country to training centers. The psychology of Britain and France in their eagerness to send "cannon fodder" to the Western Front also prompted the first time to show an unimaginable spirit of sincere cooperation, and the equipment and materials needed by the government and the national defense forces of the Republic of China continued to arrive in Shanghai, Lushun and other places along with the troop transport fleets, and even in order to reassure the Republic of China, Britain and France directly warned the Japanese Navy that it must take the Tsushima Strait and Taiwan as the boundary, and not enter the inland sea area for the time being to cause conflicts.

Although Miao Luo was about to give birth, Yang Qiu still chose to go back to the General Staff Headquarters to listen to the report first, and Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi were also relieved after he returned. Of the 600,000 soldiers, in addition to the six main divisions, only four reserve divisions have completed 100 days of hard training, and the rest need to end their training before March next year, not to mention that even if they complete the 100 days of basic training, they will have to undergo 2 to 3 months of adaptation training after arriving in France before they can enter the war, so the actual available strength of the First Expeditionary Force led by Yue Peng before April next year is only 7 divisions.

It's okay for the two to engage in politics, when it comes to this kind of international cooperation and expeditionary operations, they are really not good at it, although the "Plum Blossom Entente" has gained a lot, but this heart has never been put down, and it was not until he came back that he breathed a sigh of relief, to put it bluntly, in case something happened, the two of them couldn't afford to carry this big black cauldron at all, so they were afraid.

"Yue Peng's headquarters and the 5th and 20th Divisions have arrived in Marseille, and the 103rd, 221st and 222nd Divisions will depart from Qingdao in 10 days. The 201st and 202nd divisions will depart in 20 days. The loans promised by Britain and France are already halfway through, and military spending is gradually being paid. There is no problem with money. At present, Britain and France have delivered three divisions of light equipment, and the remaining light equipment and heavy artillery equipment will be delivered by the end of the year. The military machinery shipped back was all supplied to the Zhengzhou and Fengtian factories as planned, but Minister Zheng Tingxiang said that these equipment are available in both metric and imperial systems, and they are compiling a system conversion manual, and the workers we trained and reserved in the early days cannot keep up with the needs of so many factories, so it will take at least 19 years for the factories and equipment to be fully operational to reach the design capacity. Due to the importance of the matter, not only did Song Ziqing personally report, but the conference room was full of ministers and core officers who could enter the General Staff.

He continued, "The manufacturing capacity of domestic factories has reached its limit, and it is difficult to improve even large-scale subcontracting. Although all the logistics were provided by Britain and France, we also had to reserve them ourselves, just in case. So I discussed with the President and Prime Minister that I had already placed orders with Britain, France and the United States. Including 50,000 Winchester 1912 shotguns, 5,000 sets of mortar optical sights, 500 tank standard assemblies, 500 French M1916 howitzers, 3,500 various gun barrels and ammunition and other materials, the total amount is 300 million US dollars, in addition to we have placed an order for 400 million food winter clothes in China. ”

Once the wheels of war roll, especially an expedition of this scale, which is several times larger than the Sino-Japanese War, it is impossible to be perfect even if someone provides logistics. What's more, many weapons of the Wehrmacht are exclusively owned, and they need to be equipped with some of their own ammunition. But Yang Qiu was not too worried about the armaments, not that he didn't know that the consumption was very large, but because he had already received a report from the Urals. Judging from the experience of last winter, once the Urals to Europe railway is completely paralyzed in November, two or three divisions can be transported, but it is difficult to transport a huge amount of ammunition reserves, so the supplies that are being transported from the United States to Russia through the main arteries of the Vladivostok and Trans-Siberian railways will definitely be squeezed, and as long as the revolution breaks out in February, it can be temporarily controlled under the pretext of preventing the supplies of the allies from falling into the hands of the enemy. Even Britain and France could not find an excuse to interfere.

On the contrary, it was the personnel who were the most worried, and asked, "How is the conscription?" ”

"A one-time payment of 500 yuan will be issued for settling-in allowance, and another 500 will be issued after the war. There is also a salary of 100 yuan per month to attract a lot of rural children, and 10 reserve divisions have been conscripted at present, just. Cai Ye, who is okay for the time being, took the initiative to take on the work of conscription and reserve training, because he is more aware of the shady scenes in conscription, you must know that at this moment, China only knows that Europe is fighting hard, but does not know how many dead and wounded. They don't know all the numbers yet. How much more so ordinary people.

Yang Qiu didn't even frown. The most brutal period of the Western Front has passed for most of the time, and after the outbreak of food shortage in Germany in the middle of 17 years, the meat grinder of the Marne River and Verdun can no longer be fought, and the war will enter a stalemate stage, until the German army withdrew the troops of the Eastern Front after the Brest Peace Treaty in 18 years, and fought several times again, but at that time, even if the United States did not send troops to Germany, it was no longer able to consume it, but it was the diseases such as water and soil adaptation and the mysterious plague of the century that made him a little worried.

He emphasized: "The speed should be accelerated, the sooner you start training on the battlefield, the more confident you will be, in addition, we must take care of the military trainers not to pursue fancy and technical skills, and the idea of killing an enemy with a bullet must be completely abandoned!" The most important thing is individual tactics and squad tactics! Soldiers must be allowed to run every day and practice every day. ”

After Cai Ye and the others had recorded it, he continued to ask: "How did Russia arrange it?" ”

"Wu Peifu's 6th Division took the lead, the troops arrived in the Urals and rested for 10 days before continuing westward to Ukraine, the 121st Division is on the way to Kulen, they will get on the train directly from Irkutsk, and it is expected that all two divisions will arrive in Ukraine until the end of December. According to the agreement, they will train there for 50 days, and then depending on the situation, if there is a problem with Russia on the way, they will immediately find a way to withdraw to Ufa and stand by. The next three divisions will arrive in the Urals in early March, and they will also be deployed depending on the specific situation. ”

As soon as Song Ziqing finished speaking, Li Yuanhong interjected worriedly: "Chenhua, if you go to France, Britain and the United States have to give some face, and if you suffer a little, you won't be able to hold on, but on the Russian side, I heard Lu Zhengxiang send a telegram, I'm afraid it's not good!" "He was born a soldier and knows what it takes for the army to fight. Although Britain and France used themselves as cannon fodder, hundreds of thousands of troops were not too harsh over there. But Russia is different! Not to mention the few people who go, the conditions are also more difficult, just to survive this winter, I am afraid that many people will die, if there is no logistics and supplies, I am afraid that when the time comes, the army will be as disheartened as the Russian army, and will lose consecutive battles.

Tang Shaoyi also expressed a similar point of view, and the two of them sang and harmonized, which made the atmosphere a lot more solemn. Yang Qiu was also quite scratching his head, he couldn't tell them that there would be a revolution in Russia in four months, and the troops could withdraw to Ufa under the pretext that they could not get supplies, and then lock up the Ural Mountains and move when they broke out in October, right? They believe that Russia is in turmoil, but they say that the Tsar, who still has a millions of troops, will fall overnight, and it is estimated that the most predictable strategists in these years dare not make up their minds, right? In the end, he didn't have a problem, and simply said that when the time came, he would take over the Ural granary and supply it at close range.

Both of them are experienced people, how could they not hear the words in the words, but they still thought that he had any troubles, so they didn't ask for the time being. After the meeting, Tang Shaoyi couldn't sit still, after all, he was the prime minister, in case something happened on the front line, I was afraid that he wouldn't be able to escape, so he pulled Yang Qiu into his car, and asked the driver to leave first before asking: "There are no outsiders here, Chenhua might as well give me the bottom, why do you suddenly increase to 30 divisions and 600,000 people?" And how the hell did you arrange it on the Russian side? ”

Knowing that he was not steady, if he didn't say it, it was estimated that he would not be able to eat and drink well for a few months, so Yang Qiu analyzed: "The increase in troops is not my whim. After visiting France on the spot, I found that most of the British and American armies (group armies) were between 300,000 and 500,000, and if the number of troops sent was too small, they would certainly be scattered and incorporated into their armies, which would not be conducive to front-line command and coordination. If we can't get the command of the army, we will become a colonial army instead of an ally, and we will not have the confidence to speak in the future, so it is better not to send troops, so Zhang Xiaozhun and they all suggested that they get the command of the army level by increasing the number of people. ”

Tang Shaoyi didn't understand army command, and he didn't expect that there would be so much attention to it, but one thing he knew very well was that because of the unprecedented number of dispatches, the terms of the "Plum Blossom Entente" indicated that the Chinese Expeditionary Force Group Army was given the establishment of the ** Group Army, that is to say, the expeditionary force was directly subject to the fate of the British and French high commands, and could also get part of the campaign command. Of course, if you want Britain and France to rest assured that you will have part of the command of the battle, you also need to look at the performance of the army itself. Yang Qiu was confident in this, and he believed that he had single-handedly trained the organized army.

"The prime minister of Russia should know that from the intelligence point of view, it looks very similar to what my country experienced five years ago, and now Germany is biting the east and storming it in one breath, plus winter is coming soon, I think."

"Revolution!" Tang Shaoyi was shocked, there was a revolution in Russia! Is this possible? The Tsar still has millions of troops in his hands anyway. But if the prediction is accurate, the chances are too great! said: "That's too bad, if this matter really appears, it can make a fuss, maybe take over the border trouble in the northern border of my country for a hundred years in one go." ”

"Don't be too optimistic, Russia is too big and too far away to split them, and if they can't do it at the moment, they can only get some benefits." Yang Qiu smiled, Cai Ye and Li Zongren walked over: "Prime Minister, Commander Shi Jun sent a telegram that Peng Shouxin of the 6th Division has set off, and the cavalry brigade of the 121st Division can arrive in Kulun tomorrow night." ”

"That's a rabbit in the grass, right?" After Yang Qiu smiled and handed the telegram to Cai Yi, he looked at Li Zongren and suddenly said, "Go back and pack your things, and set off with Bai Chongxi to report to General Yue with the navy." Li Zongren was slightly stunned and was wrapped in joy in an instant, how could a soldier not want to go to Europe to see! Hurriedly ran towards the dormitory, looking at the back, Yang Qiu shrugged his shoulders and slowly leaned on the car chair.

From Mongolia onwards, the shackles of history will be slowly broken free, and the future will definitely be a new world! …… ()