Needless to say, under the high-standard warm reception, it was another feast for the guests and hosts. After eating, Jiang Qiang asked people to arrange for Powell and others to stay at the Zhaoyuan People's Hotel, and sat on the boat for more than a month.

Walking out of the Zhaoyuan People's Hotel, Jiang Qiang smiled and said to Wang Qiang: "What do you think of this Edmund?" Wang Qiang said in a deep voice: "There is indeed something outstanding, I asked a lot of very professional questions, he can deal with it easily, and he will be a good foreign teacher in the future!" ”

Jiang Qiang nodded and said: "Our navy is all self-made, although I have collected a lot of materials, tutorials, and a lot of training equipment and facilities, but there is a great lack of naval officers with actual combat experience. In the past few days, you should first establish a good relationship with him, first find out his temperament and bottom line, if this Edmund is trustworthy, then absorb him! "Please rest assured!"

Wang Qiang naturally understood the meaning of Jiang Qiang's words, the most important thing for the Shandong Group Army was not personal ability, but absolute loyalty, especially senior officials who had access to core secrets. "Hmm!"

Jiang Qiang continued: "I have purchased a batch of ships, including 6 Type II.B U boats, 5 frigates, and 5 Canon-class frigates, and it will only take two or three days at most to reach Jiaozhou Bay, and then you don't have to sing empty city plans!" Among them, the II.B U-boat is the main submarine of Germany at present, with a crew of 24 people, a length of 40.9 meters, a width of 4.1 meters, a full load displacement of 381 tons, a cruising distance of 2,960 kilometers, a speed of 13 knots, and a diving depth of 150 meters.

The German Navy Class II submarine is an offshore mini-submarine and the first type of U-boat built by the Germans after World War I, the design of which comes from the Vesikk submarine, built for Finland from 1931 to 1933. The submarine was double-hulled, powered by a Cotting-style kerosene engine and armed with three torpedo tubes in the bow.

The Canon-class frigate is 93.3 meters long, 11.2 meters wide, has a full load displacement of 1,930 tons, a cruising range of 5,822 nautical miles, and a speed of 18 knots. Armament includes:

(1) Artillery: 3 US Navy 76mm 50? MK？ 22 naval guns; 3 twin Bofors 40mm naval guns;

(2) Torpedoes: 6 324mm MKs? 32 torpedo tubes;

(3) Anti-submarine rocket: 1 "Hedgehog" MK10 anti-submarine rocket launcher;

(4) Deep bombs: 8 deep bomb launchers; 2 deep bomb drop rails; 8 MK6 deep projectiles; 1 putting rail;

In addition to this, there is a helicopter take-off and landing platform. A frigate and a frigate may sound similar in name, and sometimes they may even be confused as the same type of ship, but in fact they are very different and are not of the same class at all.

A frigate is a medium-sized ship capable of maneuvering in ocean-going operations, and its power plant generally adopts a separate gas turbine or diesel, or a combined diesel-gas turbine power unit.

Frigates can perform escort, anti-submarine, air defense, reconnaissance, vigilance patrols, mine-laying, support landing, and support the army's littoral flank and other combat missions.

A frigate is a small surface combat boat, also known as a gunboat or patrol boat, that uses small-caliber naval guns as weapons and is used for patrolling, escorting, and protecting fishing in coastal sea areas.

The displacement is from tens of tons to 500 tons, the speed is 10~45 knots, and the hydrofoil patrol boat can reach 50 knots. It is equipped with 1~2 37~76mm single-barreled or double-barreled naval guns, several machine guns, and depth charges and other weapons.

The tonnage of a frigate is much larger than that of a frigate, and it can carry more in terms of the number of crews, fuel, materials, and weapons and equipment, so the frigate can perform tasks at sea for a longer time

At the same time, due to the larger hull, the frigate has better seaworthiness, so the frigate can perform tasks in the open ocean, while the frigate can only defend the near sea and ports.

As for destroyers, cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers, Yang Fan will not consider it for the time being, and it will not be too late to buy some small and medium-sized ships for the navy to practice and train enough skilled navy.

Of course, the main reason is that it is too expensive, and now the economic strength can't afford it much, even if you buy a few of them, it will only be a target ship to attract hatred! These ships currently procured can be anchored in Jiaozhou Bay, relying on powerful coastal defense fortifications, but there is no need to worry too much about the Japanese devils coming to carry out air raids and bombing.

After a year and a half of all-out construction, Jiaozhou County has built a very complete naval base, as well as a submarine military base.

Among them, the submarine base has dug several tunnels along the coast of Jiaozhou Bay, and the exit and the inside of the tunnel are reinforced with concrete, the longest of which is 350 meters long and 15 meters deep, enough for multiple submarines to hide at the same time.

At the same time, the naval force under Huzi's command has reached more than 3,000 people, and all kinds of naval theoretical knowledge have been learned, and the difference is practical application. Therefore, Jiang Qiang could only grit his teeth and save enough start-up funds to buy a full 16 ships in one go, which can fully meet the current needs of offshore training.

After listening to Jiang Qiang's introduction, Huzi rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "That's really good, the brothers have been looking forward to this day for a long time!" Hehe, to put it mildly, if I don't see the ships in two or three months, my navy won't be able to do it! Jiang Qiang scolded with a smile: "Okay! Don't complain to me! In this year, you have to use money everywhere, and you need to buy household belongings everywhere, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are! ”

Huzi hurriedly smiled and said, "That's!" Is that! There is always this means of reaching heaven in this world, little brother, I admire it so much! If it were someone else, not to mention breaking through the immortal foundation of today's Shandong Group Army, even if it could stand tall in the encirclement of devils, it would be a great miracle! ”

Jiang Qiang waved his hand and smiled: "Don't pat yourself on the back!" I won't entertain you, what are you supposed to do! Today is the master's introduction door, and the next thing has to be operated and operated by you! "Howler! Please rest assured, I will definitely redouble my efforts and never dare to live up to the high expectations and cultivation of Soza! ”

Huzi nodded emphatically, and then turned away with both hands. After Huzi walked away, Jiang Qiang said to Chang Yuan, who was smiling and silent: "Chief of General Staff, there is something you need to prepare!" Chang Yuan hurriedly restrained his smile and said solemnly: "Please take the command, I am not afraid of too many things, I am afraid that I will be idle!" ”

Jiang Qiang said with a smile: "We now have an area of 272,000 square kilometers, the population of the area under our jurisdiction has reached nearly 17 million, and there are 50,000 or 60,000 reserve recruits who have been trained cumulatively, so we can expand the army again." I plan to expand the formation of four more infantry divisions within half a year, and on this basis, to reorganize four corps-level units, it is time to make the banner of the Shandong Group Army worthy of its name! ”

"It's so easy!" Chang Yuan smiled very relaxedly: "With our current background, the expansion of the four infantry divisions is simply a matter of one sentence!" "Actually, that's not the point I'm going to talk about!"

Jiang Qiang smiled and said: "But I want to say that the appointment of officers at all levels of the expanded division, and which four divisions should be expanded into an army, is the focus of the problem!" There are so many things involved in this, you need to plan in advance! "Oh, I see!"

Chang Yuan pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and nodded again and again: "That's true, the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat!" All the brothers are very good, and their abilities and military merits are all in the middle, and it is indeed difficult to achieve a bowl of water! ”

Jiang Qiang nodded and said: "Therefore, we need to formulate a perfect expansion plan, try to be fair and just, so that everyone has no gossip!" "It won't be long before the Polish campaign is about to break out in World War II, and World War II is approaching, Jiang Qiang should take the initiative to attack and face the little devil for about a year!

Therefore, we must also get a good grasp of the expansion of armaments and warfare, and we must move steadily and steadily step by step. "Okay! Good! I know what to do! ”

Chang Yuan nodded again and again, this task is not only an honor and trust, but also a hot potato that offends people, but since Jiang Qiang handed it over to him, it must be followed no matter what, and it must be perfect. "So be it! I'll go back first, please take care of yourself. ”

After explaining the business, Jiang Qiang walked directly to the parking lot, and after working for most of the day, he should go home and rest. In the evening, Jiang Qiang took Tingting to attend the reception and dust washing banquet organized by Xia Yu, and had a good conversation with Xia Yu's parents and girlfriends, and swiped a wave of presence and favorability.

A week later, on June 2, the USS Charlotte set sail from the Qingdao terminal. In addition to a large number of export commodities such as stockings and clothing, there are more than 200 Shandong Group Army, most of which are naval officers and sailors who are adaptable to the voyage, and the others are mainly special teams that go to Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and other places to perform tasks!

In March 1939, after Hitler's Germany annexed the Czech Republic, it was determined that Poland would be the next target of attack. To this end, Hitler approved the "White Plan" for an invasion of Poland, which was planned to be attacked on September 1, targeting Poland's allies, Britain and France.

At this time, Europe was in a state of imminent rain, and Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union stood on three legs, objectively maintaining the balance of power and peace in Europe. However, proceeding from their own best interests, each country has subjectively tried to break this balance of power and balance and strive for the situation that is most beneficial to itself.

The goal of Britain and France was to unite with the Soviet Union and contain Germany so that it would not dare to let go of aggression and thus endanger its own interests. Germany's goal was to co-opt the Soviet Union and make it neutral in future conflicts, so that Germany would have no worries about waging war. Therefore, whether or not peace can be maintained in Europe, the decision of the Soviet Union is crucial.

As a result, in April ~ August 1939, Britain, France and the Soviet Union held a months-long tug-of-war negotiations in Moscow to conclude mutual assistance treaties and military agreements.

Although the Soviet Union was originally willing to cooperate with Britain and France to stop the German aggression and thus ensure its own security. However, Britain and France were unwilling to pay their due efforts and costs for the alliance with the Soviet Union for various reasons, while Germany lost no time in giving the Soviet Union everything it needed, coupled with the efforts of Poland and other small Eastern European countries to block the Soviet Union and unwilling the Soviet Union to send troops to Poland to attack Germany, which eventually led to the breakdown of the negotiations between the three countries.

Finally, the Soviet Union and Germany joined hands, and on August 23 in Moscow, the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact and the Secret Protocol were signed, valid for 10 years.

At the same time, because the anti-fascist collective security system was never established before the war, this result undoubtedly further expanded the contradictions between Britain and France and the Soviet Union, prompting the Soviet Union to pursue a policy of avoiding war and protecting itself, thus accelerating the outbreak of World War II.

At this time, the Japanese Kwantung Army in mid-May 1939, provoked the Nomenkan Incident, which had reached its final stage. At the end of July 1938, the Japanese army attacked Heilongjiang and repeatedly fought for the highlands such as Shacao Peak and Zhanggu Peak.

However, the "northward marching faction" in the Japanese cabinet and military was not reconciled. Emperor Hirohito, in order to appease the belligerent army generals, promised them that they could provoke Wang Yizhe again. In the early days of the campaign, the Japanese army repeatedly succeeded and progressed smoothly.

However, in late August, Wang Yizhe commanded the mechanized troops of the Heilongjiang Army to counterattack on all fronts, encircling and annihilating all 1.1 people of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army.

Due to the fact that the Japanese army was much stronger than in the original history and was equipped with a large number of new combat vehicles and anti-tank weapons, Wang Yizhe suffered more serious casualties this time.

During the general offensive on August 20, Wang Yizhe invested 524 tanks, 385 armored vehicles, 542 suppressed artillery pieces, and 500 aircraft. In the whole battle, Wang Yizhe had a numerical advantage of tanks and armored vehicles of more than 7 to 1, a 6:1 advantage in the number of artillery, and a 3:1 superiority in troops, but the casualties were greater than those of the Japanese: 9,703 killed and 15,251 wounded.

In addition, more than 280 tanks and 90 armored vehicles were destroyed in the Heilongjiang Army, and the Japanese army only lost more than 30 combat vehicles and armored vehicles, and the Angang tank detachment was not annihilated, but after running out of ammunition in July, it retreated on its own.

Although the Battle of Nomenkan ended in failure, the Japanese side saw both its own shortcomings and hopes. After the Battle of Nomenkan, many mid- and high-ranking officers of the Japanese army who disobeyed the orders of the military headquarters and started conflicts without authorization were purged, and the discipline of the army was rectified.

The Japanese army strengthened the ability of the superior to control the subordinate units, so that the Japanese army's tradition of inferior subordinates basically ceased to exist, at least superficially. Japan has further stepped up the construction of its military industrial system, as well as the research and production of new weapons, and is desperately accumulating forces to brew a larger-scale war.

At this time, Jiang Qiang had already expanded and reorganized four army-level combat units in accordance with the original plan, and directly expanded the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th divisions into armies out of comprehensive considerations.

The newly reorganized 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th divisions were respectively incorporated into these four armies, and Chen Zhengnian, Zhao Zhengbi, Gu Liangmin, and Li Shucun were the first to be promoted to army commanders.

In order to take care of Xie Jinyuan and the others, Jiang Qiang opened a back door and promoted Xie Jinyuan to the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division. As the wheels of history rolled, the Polish campaign, which marked the full-scale outbreak of World War II, finally broke out as scheduled a few days later.

When the chairman of the NPC National Committee learned that the Nomenkan War had broken out between Japan and Wang Yizhe, especially when the two sides were inseparable, he was extremely excited and surprised, and he was full of hope that the five generals Tang Juwu would declare war on Japan, and then the situation in China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would be greatly reversed. It's just that I didn't expect that this time it was still a bamboo basket and a joyful game, although the two sides fought a lot, and once killed red-eyed, the casualties exceeded 10,000.

The Soviet side had just undergone a purge and was now preoccupied with its own affairs, not wanting to escalate the situation. In 1937-1938, the Soviet Union carried out a terrible thing, and the whole country began a massacre of itself, which was the "Great Purge".

During this period, 1.3 million people were sentenced, of whom 682,000 were shot, and the Soviet Union was devastated by the event, which was humiliated by the subsequent Soviet-Finnish war and led to heavy losses in the Great Patriotic War.

Of the first five marshals, Tukhachevsky, Blyukher, and Egorov were executed. 13 out of 15 army commanders were executed, 85 army commanders were executed out of 57, and 110 out of 159 division commanders were executed. Until 1939, although the "Great Purge" carried out by the Soviet Union was gradually coming to an end, the campaign showed no signs of being completely ended, and many people were still killed and even killed.

Marshal Zhukov was also spared because of the victories in this war, otherwise the Soviet Union would not have Marshal Zhukov, who was known as a "symbol of victory" and one of Stalin's right-hand men, in World War II. At the same time, because of Germany's demonstrated ambition and strong military strength, the Soviet Union was very worried that Germany would take the initiative to attack.

At 4:45 a.m. on September 1, the German army launched a lightning attack on Poland. The German army, 62 divisions, 2,800 tanks, 2,000 aircraft, and 6,000 artillery pieces carried out a centripetal breakthrough on Poland from the northeast and southwest.

The "fifth column" lurking in Poland also took action, seizing radio stations and taking control of the military command organs. Poland was in chaos. On September 3, the Germans crushed the main force of the Polish army on the first line and approached Warsaw at a speed of fifty or sixty kilometers a day.

In the face of German action, Britain was forced to declare war on Germany on September 3, marked by the outbreak of war in the European theater and the full-scale outbreak of World War II.

China has become one of the important battlefields of World War II, the world pattern has changed dramatically, and the cloud of war has loomed over the world.

Headquarters of the Shandong Group Army. Jiang Qiang convened an enlarged military meeting of officers at and above the company level today, and the large auditorium with a headquarters capacity of 1,600 people sitting at the same time was almost full. At present, the Shandong Group Army has 10 infantry divisions, each with a full strength of 20,000 and 200,000 regular infantry.

Together with special operations divisions, tank and armored divisions, heavy artillery divisions, air force divisions, and navy, the front-line combat units are as high as 245,000. If the General Staff, Military Police Brigade, Intelligence Department, Communications Team, Health Team, Service Team, Field Hospital and other armies are established, the total number of military personnel in the Jiaodong Group Army is as high as more than 260,000!

If the 260,000 military personnel are compared with the peak strength of the Soviet Union, Germany, the United States, and Japan during World War II, which was several million or even tens of millions, it is not half a star, or even a fraction of their strength.

But for Jiang Qiang, this is not easy, just to maintain the daily consumption of food, training ammunition and military salaries, is an astronomical amount. Not to mention that Jiang Qiang has always advocated the supremacy of firepower, and the problems that can be solved with guns and equipment will never be filled with human lives, and it is completely to build elite soldiers at any cost, and all the front-line troops are armed to the teeth.

Not only did Shanghai's support bottom out, but even the United States frantically transfused blood, constantly purchasing oil, steel, rubber, automobiles, food, and other materials. In the past few months, although Jiang Qiang has not had a large-scale frontal war with the little devil, he has not been idle

On the one hand, Jiang Qiang focused on the construction of defense areas, the expansion of armaments, and the attack, infiltration, and relocation of the surrounding occupied areas by means of clearing the wilderness with fortified walls, encircling cities from rural areas, and special warfare.

After half a year of water grinding work, more than 1,300 Japanese puppet troops in the surrounding enemy-occupied areas were killed, the villagers in various villages were basically emptied, and even the citizens of the surrounding counties and towns were flowing into the Shandong Group Army defense area in a steady stream.

Lunan and other counties and other counties have almost become isolated cities, devils and puppet soldiers dare not go out of the city and leave the stronghold at all, and the supply lines are often sneak attacked, and the life of these devils is becoming more and more difficult. "Good! Now let's get down to business, we have convened a meeting today to give you a briefing on the changes in the international situation and our future strategic guidelines! ”

Looking down at his watch, Yang Fan swept around the stage, and then said loudly into the microphone: "On the 1st of this month, Germany carried out a lightning attack on Poland with a centripetal breakthrough, in other words, World War II officially came!"

As we all know, the main battlefield of the First World War was in Europe, with about 65 million people fighting, 10 million killed, and 20 million wounded. Now I want to tell you that the Second World War that we are experiencing will be more widespread and more destructive, from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and most countries and regions in the world will be plunged into wars, and more than 2 billion people around the world will be involved in this war.

This is the general trend of the world, we were born in this era, there is no way to avoid it, and there is no way to be alone, even if you want to be in a safe corner, the little devil will not give us this opportunity!

Therefore, in the situation of the full-scale outbreak of world war, we have no choice but to fight to strengthen ourselves and defend our homeland with our lives and blood. On the surface, we seem to be strong now, and even the little devils can't do anything about us, but in fact, we are still very weak, and we still have a long way to go! ……”

Jiang Qiang spoke for nearly two hours, the main purpose of which is to vaccinate everyone, establish the concept of World War II, and make everyone mentally prepared to continue the war of resistance and continue to fight a tough battle.

After a pause, Jiang Qiang changed his words and said: "At present, we already have enough self-protection ability, and it is not necessary or impossible to stay on this acre and three lands all the time. In order to gain more living space and strategic space, and to reduce the pressure on friendly forces to resist the war, I decided to launch an autumn counteroffensive and launch sustained strikes against the surrounding Japanese-occupied areas.

The time of this autumn counteroffensive is tentatively set for 4 months, and the strategic objectives are not limited, at this stage, on the premise of reducing casualties as much as possible, the attacking troops can cross the sea with eight immortals to show their magical powers, and how many devils can be killed and how much lost territory can be recovered depends on your ability! ”