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A small car that looked a little like a wild cat, but did not have a machine gun mount on the top, under the protection of two wild cats, with two black tire prints, quickly stopped at the dock area of Lushun Military Port. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

As the convoy arrived, a noisy sound of gongs and drums suddenly sounded in the dock area, and Chen Ping, who pushed the door open and got off the jeep improved by the wild cat, frowned.

Standing at the port wharf and looking at it, the majestic posture of the northern ice-free port is in full view, the former Beiyang military port is constantly expanding, and with the merger of Lushun Jinzhou and other places into Dalian municipality, the role of the commercial port has declined a lot, only in the case of winter when the sea is frozen and can not enter Dalian and Donggang, the freighter will temporarily dock here to evacuate the goods.

However, with the opening of seaports such as Yantai, Weihai and Qingdao, the railway line began to extend there, and "there were very few merchant ships coming here, and it gradually became a special military port."

In addition, after the return of the southeast, the Prime Minister's Office stipulated that foreign ships were no longer allowed to call at ports at will, and they must call at 20 designated ports, including Pontianak, Honolulu, Manila, and Dalian and Tianjin in China. In order to reduce tax evasion, the national guard was also arranged to patrol with the navy, and "according to the regulations, they all have the right to seize and even directly sink the fleeing ship."

After seizing and sinking a number of ships that tried to escape customs at the beginning, "now the fleets of various countries dare not dock at will, so Port Arthur is a little less lively."

But today, the long-lost liveliness has appeared, "even a little excessive, because the military port is full of colorful flags, gongs and drums are noisy and noisy, and the hired lion and dragon dance team is shaking hard" to welcome guests from afar, in this lively background, a group of sailors are still carrying guns on their backs, "posture is straight, staring at the waterway, as silent as a stone sculpture."

The world seemed to be split into two, and the dancers couldn't figure out what the world of the navy and the world of the military was like.

Looking at the thunderous dock, Chen Ping couldn't help frowning and asked, "Old Dragon, is this too much?" This is Asia's first military port, not a theater. ”

Long Guozhang, who had just walked out of the jeep, was also full of grievances, and spread his hands and said helplessly: "It's not that our ambassador to Osman sent a telegram saying that Admiral Hakan, who led the team this time, is particularly fond of being lively." ”

Following Long Guozhang's fingers, Chen Ping saw the Ottoman ambassador to China who was watching the lion dance team perform, and couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth: "Grass!" ”

The navy likes to be lively, every navy in the world likes it, because it is caused by a long period of going to sea, "think about how boring and boring it is to be adrift at sea for a few months" without fine food, without clean fresh water, "without women", and if you are forced to be serious after going ashore, it is simply persecution.

Hua's military discipline was very strict, but it was not so strict that the sailors who were not allowed to dock were allowed to frolic, and in order to reduce the problem of the sailors disturbing the people after they went ashore, Li Mo and the General Staff Department also recruited many women from the Japanese capital for the first time in the past two years to participate in the logistics service.

Of course, "this is not involuntary coercion, in fact, for those women who lack food and clothing in the country, and even become commodities, the treatment of the Chinese army is already very good, not only the army also forces the soldiers not to be too rough, but also after three years of service, they can also get a lot of severance pay, which can not be obtained in the ten years of Japan." 【 I want: super fast update 】

This is the fate of backwardness and being beaten, under the strategy of "equalizing interests" of Master Li, Japan has suffered greatly: "Since half of the annual financial revenue needs to be divided to repay China's war reparations, all countries are desperately blackmailing the other half, and in the end, this government does not even want to save a copper plate every year, which eventually leads to social chaos and national construction is almost zero."

In this case, not to mention protecting women, many young adults will be kidnapped when walking on the street, and then sold to Americans to build railroads" to replace the huge gap after the Chinese left.

Hua is already very good, not only in Shikoku Island to handle a large number of textile factories, but also opened a garment factory, printing and dyeing factories and other factories, "and even recently opened a factory specializing in the manufacture of bombs", although there is no wages, but can get enough food to maintain the family's food and clothing, compared to the main island of "Japan" This is already a great blessing, so in the past two years, a large number of "Japan" himself crossed the strait and poured into Shikoku Island, seeking opportunities, but also gave Hua the conditions for recruiting labor and "logistics personnel".

Of course, this is more than money from military spending, and it is impossible for the Prime Minister's Office to give an extra dime for this expense, so how to save this money every year, the bastards of the navy, army, and even the air force can be active, and it is said that it is also proposed. "I'd rather eat less meat than have good logistics." ”

These bastards!

Regarding this matter, Chen Ping also thought about affecting the morale and reputation of the army, but in front of a group of guys who screamed for serious excess hormones, it was better to spoil outsiders than to let them fight and make trouble or even spoil their own people.

Since the logistics service, the appearance of the army has been much better, especially the navy, which used to be noisy, and the cases of disturbance of the people near the bases have plummeted" Even Tan Sitong said that the army has finally done a good thing.

But those who make a lot of noise are sailors and junior officers, who has ever seen an admiral who loves to be boisterous? There are too many factors that affect naval warfare, and as a general, you should always be calm, but this Ottoman admiral actually likes to be lively, which is a big problem in itself.

If a general loves to be lively, then the officers and sailors below are afraid that they will be "lively".

After shaking hands with Chen Ping and Long Guozhang, the Ottoman ambassador circled around the jeep and the wild cat, eager to take them back to China immediately.

Since the end of the Anglo-Boer War, Britain also put into a kind of armed car in South Africa, "this trend seems to have begun to spread, Germany and France have successively made armed cars to provide to the army, although the number is not large, but it has aroused the interest of Hamid II, but the Ottoman industrial capacity is too poor to make this kind of armed car, so he has been trying to buy some equipment from abroad to maintain his dictatorship's secret "police" inspection force.

Seeing the ambassador circling around the jeep and the wild cat, Chen Pina didn't know what the other party meant, but this self-use model equipped with a pot engine can't be sold," so he immediately smiled and said, "Your Majesty, Honorable Ambassador," If you like it, I can give you one. ”

"Really!" Ambassador Osman did not expect to be able to get one by looking around, and secretly regretted that he had known to turn around a few more times.

"Huh." Long Guozhang smiled, shook his head and said: "These few are not good, they have been incorporated into the army" But for the sake of the friendship between the Ottoman Empire and our country, His Majesty Emperor Yan has asked us to bring three vehicles, but it is too late to install the machine gun, or are you waiting for a few months? ”

"It's okay" It's okay! The Ottoman ambassador immediately waved his hand, but the machine gun was not installed, and this small problem could still be solved in the country, if he waited a few more months for the machine gun, wouldn't he be able to return home with the fleet to ask for credit? So it doesn't matter if you hurry up and say one sentence at a time.

Sending three ordinary steel-powered jeeps is not difficult for the Chinese army, and it also has a special meaning to send them out, because the military is very tight, and the details of the equipment of the Chinese army have been very little known to the outside world, except for mortars and grenades, which have been imitated by the country, the others are basically very strictly controlled.

But the tighter the cover, the more interested Britain and the United States and other countries become, so in recent years, the military will often deliberately give away or sell simple versions of equipment similar to the three jeeps as military exchange gifts or to small countries, "just to give the outside world a channel to understand China's equipment level and mislead the powers, so I believe that with the Ottoman status as the sick man of Europe, after these three armored cars return to Istanbul, they will definitely attract Britain, France and other countries to ask for research."

In fact, this kind of speculation is indeed good, according to the Ministry of Intelligence, in the past two years, many things as gifts have flowed into the hands of Britain, France and other countries, and it has indeed produced some misinformation.

For example, a year ago, after the Chilean Navy's battleship Estrada, which was similar to the Polaris, came to China for naval gun upgrades and returned home, Britain immediately sent technicians to board the ship for inspection, and found that the great power of the Chinese naval guns was achieved by increasing the charge of the shells and reducing the life of the medicine room.

This is exactly the illusion that Li Mo wants to give to the outside world, and the experience of later generations tells him that "if you want to cover your secret, you must put it behind a glass that looks almost transparent but cleverly conceals key parts."

The Ottoman ambassador, who had been given three armored cars, apparently did not know that he had become another test subject" and still talked and laughed with Chen Ping, until a whistle sounded from the mouth of the waterway, and everyone found that two Ottoman warships were slowly entering Port Arthur under the leadership of a Guard-class destroyer.

Looking at the Ottoman sailors on the decks of the two warships that were slowly docking, huddled together in twos and threes, attracted by the lion dance team on the pier, Chen Ping couldn't help but feel a trace of emotion in his heart: "The Ottomans are indeed old, and the sailors have lost their discipline and dreams" And they actually called these two Ashali Shivkot-class warships with a displacement of ten years and only more than 2,000 tons as second-class battleships, in fact, this kind of displacement is now very reluctant to count second-class cruisers in various countries.

Beside Rui's Guard-class destroyers, they were like two old women on crutches, "Although they are equipped with a nine-inch gun and four seven-inch guns, if they really fight, two against one may not be able to defeat a Guard-class, not to mention that their speed is only a pitiful fifteen knots."

When the Ashali Shivkot lowered the gangway, Chen Ping and Long Guozhang finally met the legendary admiral Hakan, who loved to be lively, and he was really very lively, and after getting off the boat to say hello, he was always attracted by the lion dance team, and even walked to the side to watch for a long time and walked to a corner of the port under the urging of Dashi.

When he saw the brand-new battleship with the flag flying and the bow of the ship with "Ismail" written on it, the Admiral Hakan put the excitement behind him and hurried over.

"This is our battleship?" Ascend to the deck and stroke the thick, cold barrel "Admiral Hakan's eyes were straight, although he had seen this kind of warship before when Li Mo visited, but when he touched it himself" and the Ottomans really appreciated the power of this kind of battleship after owning one.

"Yes, Admiral Hakan, it's yours!"

"It has ten 12-inch 45-fold high-powered naval guns, when firing to one side, it can provide you with eight heavy guns, which can tear any enemy within 10,000 meters, it also has a speed of sixteen knots, and the endurance can reach 7,000 nautical miles" It can sail freely in the Mediterranean Sea without worrying about supplies, this is an epoch-making battleship, I believe that under your command, it will truly become the patron saint of the Ottoman Empire! ”

Chen Ping smiled and watched Long Guozhang constantly boast about the data of the warship, and when the Ottoman admiral's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to take the ship out to sea immediately to fire a few guns, he immediately suggested going to sea for testing, and said that he would bear the required shells and coal.

Being able to test his battleship with other people and materials made Hakan, who was shy in his pocket, quite excited, and immediately ordered to set sail, and with the black smoke billowing from the three large chimneys, the Ismail slowly sailed out of Port Arthur under the joint operation of 300 Ottoman sailors who arrived half a year earlier and more than 200 Chinese sailors" and conducted live firing in the open sea.

When the eight guns roared and knocked a small wooden target ship into the absence of a trace in a matter of minutes, let alone Hakan, even the Ottoman ambassador, who did not understand warships, excitedly pulled the admiral and said something, as if he had seen the hope of the Ottoman Empire's resurgence.

And Admiral Hakan was also shocked in his heart, "While lamenting the power of the Ismail, a gloom also rose on the old face for the first time, because the industrial capacity of the Ottoman Empire was too poor, and after Hamid II ascended the throne, the Ottomans lost several wars in a row, which caused domestic contradictions and the economy to suffer heavy losses, and they were unable to carry out naval industrial construction" Even if this rainbow ship was obtained, it was also exchanged for Kuwait's mining rights.

He even thought that if Hamid II hadn't hid in the Ilditz Palace all day and relied on the secret police to maintain his rule, and had risen up decisively like Limer and led the Ottomans to continue fighting, even if he had failed, it would have been better than now!

Looking at Hakan's uncertain face, Long Guozhang quietly bumped Chen Ping with his shoulder and asked, "Yuanshou, what do you say this old guy is thinking?" "I guess I'm thinking about the glory of the Ottoman Empire in the past. Chen Ping took a breath, this empire across the Eurasian continent did have dazzling brilliance "but it is really old now" A powerful battleship in their hands can't change anything.

Long Guozhang narrowed his eyes and whispered: "It's a pity, they can only be proud for a while, Germany's Nassau-class has been delivered for testing one after another, and Britain has also introduced to build six Nelson-class ships in one go to suppress Germany, I believe that France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and the United States are all coming out, so I don't know what Nicholas II is going to do." ”

"Build, build as much as possible, and when our four ships are launched, they will know how to write the word garbage!" Chen Ping narrowed his eyes, and his sharp eyes pierced the smiling and sorrowful Ottoman General in front of him like a sharp needle.

A few hours later, when the Ismail returned to Port Arthur, Zhang Zuoshuang had been waiting at the dock for a long time with an impatient face, and immediately handed over a copy of the information he had just received after seeing Chen Ping.

Seeing the information, Chen Ping's eyebrows suddenly raised suddenly, which suddenly made Long Guozhang feel a trace of surprise, "In the past two years, it has been a peaceful day, but it is rare to see this old partner have this expression."

"What's going on?"

"The Russians are coming!" Chen Ping snapped the sharp piece in his hand, his face solemn.

PS It's been a long time since I've asked for a monthly pass, brothers, "How about a few?" Let's blow up the chrysanthemum in front of the puppet!!!

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