With the departure of the fourth military observer mission to Europe, the number of officers sent to Europe by the Al-Shabaab has reached a staggering 1,000. These officers will eventually become regimental, battalion, and company-level officers of the future expeditionary force through half a year of study in France, which is an important guarantee for the combat effectiveness of the future expeditionary force.

At the same time, in accordance with the order of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, the 240,000 recruits of the 48 recruit training bases set up by the Armed Mobilization Department in all 12 provinces and municipalities have been recruited. Most of these recruits came from the rural areas of Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi provinces, and they did not know how risky it was to choose to join the army. At this moment, they are secretly rejoicing that they have received free military uniforms and canned fish and meat. And they didn't feel too hard in the rigor of training, and it seemed that they were much more tired than this when they were busy farming in the village.

The equipment promised by the British and French was finally delivered from Australia to Canton, China, in early July, with a full set of equipment for 200,000 infantry, as well as weapons including heavy artillery of various calibers.

The British and French are also gambling, betting that these damned Chinese obediently went to Europe to fight after getting so many benefits. Their initial request was to send the Chinese to Europe for training to prevent the Chinese from defaulting, but this was quickly rejected by Wang Zhenyu. Zuihou everyone can only negotiate a low-interest loan of 300 million pounds (30 billion Chinese dollars) secured by the customs and salt taxes in the jurisdiction of the national government, and if the Chinese army reaches Europe, then the money will go to the Chinese's account, and vice versa. Moreover, the British also threatened that not only the loan was gone, but all the agreements signed with the Nationalist Government would be nullified. That means that when the British have dealt with the affairs of Europe, they will still have to settle accounts in the future.

Wang Zhenyu smiled at this, you Britain is now bullish, and 300 million pounds can be lent out without blinking. Waiting for this European war to drain a drop of white people's blood, the British will begin to live frugally. At that time, British diplomats will change from the most bullish people on Shijie to the most grandsons, and they will be polite to everyone, because Britain will not be able to send any troops to interfere in affairs outside its own country. It is not how many people died in the First World War, but that the British used up all the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years in the First World War, and the treasury was empty.

However, Wang Zhenyu did not intend to break the contract, his Jihua was very large, relying on Britain and France to help him arm, train, and support 400,000 troops, this huge army will reach its peak after the European war, when the United States will also enter the war, and the Germans will definitely lose. And when the European war is over, this huge army with all British equipment will return to China, and then not only the Beiyang warlords in the north, but also Japan itself will not be afraid.

Second, according to Wang Zhenyu's line of thought, he wanted to first achieve partial reunification in the south and lay the foundation for economic development and industrial construction, and it was by no means enough to rely on the seigniorage of 10 billion yuan in exchange for printing money by himself. He needs a large amount of foreign capital loans and a stable external environment, so that overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia will come back to invest, otherwise they will not come back just by relying on Sun Wen and their mouths. And all this requires the consent and support of the old powers of Britain and France, this is the national situation, although it is not happy, but there is nothing to be done.

Out of his understanding of history, Wang Zhenyu clearly remembered that Japan did not launch a full-scale war of aggression against China until 1937. There are several reasons why it was delayed until 1937:

First, China's economy was still relatively strong at that time, although it was divided, but 9% of Shijie's total economic output was not covered, and Japan could obtain huge benefits from China through trade.

Second, the control of the great powers over Asia is still relatively strong, and although Britain and France are in decline during this period, they are still the hegemon of Asia, not Japan. Japan can be naughty, but that's all. At the same time, in Asia, the pace of expansion of the Americans has not stopped, and the Japanese are indeed not too arrogant.

Third, there is the problem of Japan itself, everyone knows that Japan made a fortune in the Sino-Japanese War (200 million taels of silver, Japan's first pot of gold). However, history textbooks do not tell us that Japan did not live happily ever after, on the contrary, in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, Japan wiped out all the money they had earned and owed a lot of foreign debts to Britain and France. Zuihou, in turn, with the intervention of Britain and France, accepted the victory without paying a penny (is this different from defeat?). ）。 It can be said that the so-called victory in the Russo-Japanese War is more like Japan being put together by Britain and France, and it has a half-dime to do with the victory?

Therefore, Japan could only encroach on China, and it was not until 1937, when China fell from 9% to 4.5% of Shijie's total economic output through decades of civil war, and the whole country was in a pulp, and they also recovered from the trauma of the Russo-Japanese War and the Great Kanto Earthquake (the country's small recovery capacity was naturally slow), and they dared to fully invade China. Therefore, the Japanese Zuihou invaded China, not so much because Japan was greedy, but because the Chinese themselves did not fight for it, and it was too disunited.

Since no matter how you look at it now, Japan did not have a decisive Liliang intervention in itself, and it completely went beyond the scope of history and completed the partial unification of the southern region in 1916, so what are you waiting for? It is the king to seize the time to develop heavy industry so that the war, which brought great disasters to the Chinese nation and continues into the 21st century, will never have a chance to happen again.

On July 29, Wang Zhenyu personally visited the Army University in East Lake, Wuhan, and gave a lecture to the first batch of enlisted students. There are 5,000 enlisted students in the first phase of the Army University, but only 3,000 are actually studying in the school, which is also the standard enrollment scale of the Army University in the future. In the end, the president of the Army University was concurrently served by Wang Zhenyu himself, after all, where is history, and the protégé of the Son of Heaven is also an honor for these enlisted students, and today they will meet their president.

"Dear enlisted students, please allow me, on behalf of the Army University of the Youth Army and the Military Committee of the Nationalist Government, to pay the highest tribute to you young people who have devoted their pen to Rong."

The applause was thunderous, and the students were very excited, it should be said that they were extremely excited, and at this moment they felt that they were really the most glorious group in this country.

"Since the Opium War, our great Chinese nation has been bullied by the great powers, Beijing, as the capital, has been trampled by the iron hooves of the foreign powers many times, and the rotten Manchu government has been torn apart by the mentality that it would rather be a slave to a foreign thief. So we, as soldiers, overthrew the decaying Manchu Qing and established the Republic of China. However, after the Republic of China, the great powers were still stuck in our necks, and the rotten Beiyang government continued to be weak externally and internally, so we, the soldiers, rose up again and defeated them. But is our country strong? Has our nation risen? No, weishenme? Because the great powers are still there, our country has not yet been united. ”

All the enlisted students held their breath and listened carefully to every word Wang Zhenyu said.

"With the establishment of the National Government, the country is about to start on the right track, and industrial, economic, and social construction is about to start. So what can we military men do? We're just going to hold our weapons, we're not going to build? Now let me, the principal, tell you that your greatest role is to provide a stable and safe environment for our industrial, economic, and social construction. Use the weapons in your hands to protect every citizen, to safeguard the sovereignty and honor of the country, and to defend the independence and dignity of the nation. As we all know, our country has already declared war on Germany, the same Germany that led the Eight-Nation Coalition into Beijing that year. I would like to inform you here that by March next year at the latest, our invincible youth expeditionary force will set foot on the soil of the Great Powers to destroy these Germans. A lot of intellectuals don't understand, don't understand that we weishenme are going to go and shed blood for the white people? Here I want to correct that we are not fighting for white people, we are fighting for ourselves, for our country and nation, for hope and glory. And you are the hope and glory of this country......"

The enlisted students applauded wildly, and at this moment their chests were full of pride, and they shouted loudly: "Long live the Republic of China, long live the Chinese nation, long live the national government."

After leaving the Army University, Wang Zhenyu visited the 801 Recruit Base, which is located not far from the Military Academy, and watched their training. The current officers of the British and French were nervous themselves, but they still sent a large number of officers to China to train the Chinese expeditionary force that was said to help them defeat the damned Germans.

The 801 base belongs to the artillery base, and the artillery of the expeditionary force is naturally not the latest French 1915 artillery, but the Schneider 1909 mountain gun, with a caliber of 76.2mm and 105mm. The range of the 76.2mm is only 8550m, and the range of the 105mm is even worse, 6000m. If this is really playing an artillery battle with the Germans, it is estimated that it will make people nest in a few clicks.

The youth army immediately protested to the French, but the French and British were very taboo about it, and their Type 1915 guns belonged to the new jishu, and they did not want the Chinese to master this weapon.

Wang Zhenyu also lost his temper, is this what allies should do? If you don't give it, pull it down and play by yourself!

No way, Zuihou's result was a compromise, the French took out a 152.4mm 1910 howitzer, this thing is no worse than the 1915 type in power and range, reaching 12400 meters, the only shortcoming is that the weight is 600 kg heavier than the 1915 type, it is very inconvenient to transfer the position after the fight, but considering the range, Wang Zhenyu also accepted it, and the use of this gun is also a key subject of 801 base training.