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    Chapter 369 Sino-German Joint Military Exercise

    When dark clouds gathered in the north and various characters began to appear one after another, Yang Qiu, after submitting a bill to form a municipality to the parliament, quietly went south to Sanduao with Zhang Xiaozhun and Sa Zhenbing.  ".{"" .}

    Sanduao is located in the southeast of Ningde, Fujian, and is the middle point of China's coastline. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the gateway to and from the east of Fujian is the throat of five cities".  The terrain here is also quite peculiar. The bay is deep, 26 kilometers from the entrance to the bottom of the bay, and the entire water area is 714 square kilometers. However, the only outlet to the sea is Dongchongkou, which is only 2,600 meters wide. It is rare in the world.  Deep water sea lake.  Moreover, the deep water area and water channel depth here are among the highest in the world. The harbor is sheltered from the wind all year round, does not freeze or silt, and the dock construction is very convenient. It is one of the few world-class ports in China.

    This strategic deep-water port area naturally attracted the prying eyes of the great powers. As early as the 19th century, Italy proposed to the Qing government to lease Sandu'ao. After Germany monopolized Qingdao, it also had the idea of ??continuing to seize it. The United States  In recent years, it has also been proposed to lease Sanduao as a military port and coal terminal, and the British Navy even sent an admiral to inspect it.  Finally, under pressure, the Qing government opened the island as a treaty port in 1898. Within ten years, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other countries had built a large number of docks here. Oil depots for large companies such as Mobil, Texaco and Asia were also built on the island.  .  Naturally, banks and domestic capitalists did not miss this place, setting up factories and opening businesses here one after another. After the submarine cable was laid in 1905, it officially became a world-class commercial port. Last year alone, the total value of goods entering and leaving the country from here exceeded 10 million yuan.  , the import and export tax is as high as 500,000 yuan.

    After the Third Division captured Guangdong, Yang Qiu immediately ordered to take control of this place. This led to strong protests from Britain, France, the United States and other countries. Fortunately, with the efforts of the Beiyang and Navy personnel, the Qing government never leased this deep-water port.  out, so control of its seaport still belongs to the Republic of China government.

    Since Yang Qiu was always worried about the Cantonese clique, which had a deep relationship with the Democratic Party, the Cantonese army could be said to have been completely wiped out after national unification. Some of the soldiers Long Jiguang brought out from Guangxi were still absorbed into the National Guard, but the Revolution of 1911  At that time, several other Guangdong revolutionary armies established by Hu Hanmin and others were ordered to disband, and all their weapons and ammunition were confiscated. With the recent acceleration of the construction of the Zhengzhou Industrial Base, all arsenals and machinery and equipment in Guangdong were evacuated.  Even the technical staff were taken away. Even if they didn't want to go to Henan, they were all recruited by Jiangnan and other large factories.

    With the Third Division stationed in Zhejiang and the Seventh Division transferred to Guangdong, Xie Ruyi's Eighth Infantry Division took over the defense of Jiangxi and Fujian provinces and continued to be stationed here until the first batch of 12 brigades of the National Guard was formed last month, composed of soldiers from Lianghu and Sichuan.  The formed Third Guard Brigade began to take over the security work of Fujian Customs and Wharf, and the Eighth Infantry Division also gradually withdrew from Sanduao.

    Such a world-class seaport, Yang Qiu, would never let the foreign powers dominate it. Therefore, when the first three divisions took charge, they used various excuses to take back a batch of land and deep-water docks that had been illegally occupied by various countries, and also restored Tanwan Town in the depths of the bay.  All 7 deep-water berths and 130,000 acres of flat land in the entire port area were purchased for the construction base of the new Mawei Shipyard. Despite the opposition of Britain, France and other countries, they also built land at both ends of the Dongchong estuary and on the isolated island Jigong Mountain in the center of the channel.  To build forts, for this reason, when Liu Qingen visited Krupp and the Austro-Hungarian Skoda Company early last year, he placed orders for 4 305mm, 8 240mm and 16 150mm shore guns respectively.

    Using the data machine, the later-generation Japanese Type 99 l30/105mm howitzer with a range of 12,000 meters and the Type 92 l45/105mm cannon/shore gun with a range of 18,200 meters have already entered the engineering trial and are still in the shipyard.  After a field airport was reserved in the rear, the prototype of a naval fortress gradually emerged.

    Since Britain and France did not agree to allow the Second Fleet to deploy across the Leizhou Peninsula, Yang Qiu could only settle for the next best thing and build it as a base for the Second Fleet.  According to the plan, a complete system of naval base including shipbuilding, aircraft and shore artillery will be built here within ten years.  But after all, this is not the time 20 years ago when you could build a fortress along the coast if you wanted to. The ambitious Sanduao Naval Base plan was obstructed by the powers led by Britain from the beginning, so when the plan was proposed in 2013, it was only  As the base of the new Mawei Shipyard, but after 14 years, the attitudes of Britain, France and other countries began to loosen in the face of the pressure of European reality.  The first to change was Germany. Germany never wanted this world-class port to fall into the hands of Britain and France if it could not get it. So Traun took over the job of helping to build the fort in a high-profile manner, and then the United States also began  Avoiding this question, because it is related to a large order worth millions of dollars for the shipyard, and at the same time, the United States also has the idea of ??using this to contain the growing Japanese navy and break the Anglo-Japanese alliance.

    After Germany and the United States changed their attitudes at the same time, and Yang Qiu promised that he would not change the policy of opening up the three capitals, Macau and Hong Kong, Zhu Erdian had to pinch his nose and admit it, because he found that the more he pushed Yang Qiu too hard, the more he would become involved in Germany.The embrace of beauty is even more detrimental to the relationship between China and Britain.

    After the three countries of Britain and Germany acquiesced, other countries had no way to stop it. They had no choice but to watch the fort take shape little by little, and watch the construction of the new Mawei Shipyard in Tanwan Town begin.

    This time the new Mawei Shipyard is not a relocation of the old factory, but a completely new one.  According to the plan, after the shipyard is completed, it will have four shipyards, including a 20,000-ton shipyard and a 10,000-ton shipyard. It will also have two refining Martin furnaces, as well as several supporting factories including a boiler and a steam turbine factory.  After completion, it will be merged with Lao Mawei into the state-owned Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding Group.

    In order to complete all construction tasks before the United States entered the war in 2017, the government mobilized 20,000 civilians and soldiers, and even the Navy sent a cruiser, three gunboats and a working group to live and eat on the construction site for a long time.  In addition, Yang Qiu ignored the outside world's personal doubts about him and strictly required the United States to deliver all the equipment before the end of 2015. Even if it is all piled up at the dock and slowly assembled, it must be delivered first.

    Such a huge project naturally alarmed the Mawei people who had been frustrated for seven years. Since the Qing government ordered Mawei to stop shipbuilding in 1907, the Mawei factory could only survive by selling scrap iron. This company built more than 40 ships for the Qing Dynasty.  Ships accounted for 70% of the domestic total. The shipyard that built the country's first steel-armored cruiser was on the verge of collapse, and the original more than 3,000 outstanding skilled workers began to fend for themselves.

    But this time they all came back. After hearing that Sanduao was going to build a new Mawei, many people came back with tears in their eyes from their motherland and even from Southeast Asia to join the construction.  The construction of New Mawei also alarmed the Nanyang Chinese community. These people did not believe it at first, because Yang Qiu used to like to build industries in the interior of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It was not until the construction started that they believed that the largest shipbuilding company in South China was coming back.  Therefore, many Nanyang technicians who have studied in Europe and the United States also joined this construction torrent.

    Although the entire South China industry was stirred up by Sanduao and Xinmawei, Yang Qiu remained calm.  It is not difficult to build a factory, and millions of dollars can always be spent, but the workers are not so easy to train. Mawei's technical strength is not as good as that of Jiangnan. In addition, it was delayed for seven years in vain, so even if it has the best equipment, it will not work.  Ten years of training slowly won¡¯t help.

    Therefore, he attaches great importance to technology and talent construction. In addition to retaining all the old Mawei and Nanyang technical personnel, he will build four technical schools here in Fuzhou and here, and also directly kick out old officials who do not understand technology.  In the selection of the new leader, he boldly hired the first batch of Boxer Indemnity students who were only 28 years old. He Maoqing (also known as Mianwu), who studied shipbuilding engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his classmate Xing Qi.  Xin, but Xing Qixin said that he would have to study aviation manufacturing and ship design in the United States before returning to China. In order not to disturb his studies, he could only let him shoulder the responsibility first.

    He Maoqing knew that he was young and had insufficient qualifications, and he was not comparable to foreign large-scale project engineers, so he was extremely serious about the facts, for fear of delaying national construction events, and even gave an extremely detailed introduction to Yang Qiu and his party.

    "The Jigongshan Fort is located in the center of the waterway and is an important barrier for the east to enter the sea. Therefore, I have strengthened the strength of the fort. The materials selected are all products from the United States, Germany and France." He Maoqing has lived in the United States for many years and is used to calculating dimensions in the metric system, pointing.  The deep pit in the center of the fort said: "This is the base of the 30.5 mm coastal gun. After it is built, the base is equipped with slide rails, which are driven by electric motors for aiming and turning. This fort has a total of two 30.5 mm guns and two 24 mm guns.  mm shore guns and six 15 mm shore guns, and eight 10.5 mm gun mounts were added according to the requirements of the Navy. At present, the bases of the three gun turrets are almost completed. German engineers said that the installation and debugging of the shore guns will take about  It will take 10 months, and the navy is expected to be stationed within this year."

    Although He Maoqing is the general manager, the designers of the three forts are German experts. The rigorous Germans don¡¯t know whether they want to show off their sophisticated construction technology or win over Yang Qiu. Instead, they designed the forts to be extra strong, with reinforced concrete bunkers that have enough strength.  It was so thick that Yang Qiu, who had never seen a real fortress, was stunned. He thought to himself that this thing could withstand a few inches of direct artillery fire.

    After all, the fort is a dead thing, and no matter how powerful the fortress is, it will be breached. Therefore, whether Sanduao can be built and turned into a truly world-class military port depends on the navy itself, so in his opinion, the value here is far less than the construction.  A simple airport is important, but the huge 305mm shore gun base made Zhang Xiaozhun's eyes light up: "Good guy, these three turrets alone can stop a fleet, right?"

    Sa Zhenbing was not as optimistic as he was: "Don't be too optimistic, Runnong. Before the Sino-Japanese War, the fortresses of Lushun and Liugong Island were stronger than here, and the number of cannons was countless, but in the end it was not"

    "Chief of Staff Sa is right. No fortress is invincible. It is actually very simple to crack Sanduao. As long as you send small warships to deploy mine belts outside the sea outlet, you can block the fleet in the bay. The cost of 500 mines is less than  240 if you don¡¯t go to the next door?? meters heavy artillery.  Seeing that Sa Zhenbing was aroused, Yang Qiu continued: "If we want to build this into a real naval base, we still need to rely on our own strength.  "

    Sa Zhenbing nodded with deep sympathy, but Zhang Xiaozhun was still a little puzzled: "It is difficult to send small warships. With these three forts to guard the waters within 20 kilometers, it is difficult. After this range, let alone 500, it is 5,000.  It¡¯s not enough.¡±

    "That's not necessarily true. Night and bad weather can help small warships break into offshore mines, not to mention what if they mine mines underwater?"

    "Underwater mines?" Zhang Xiaozhun found out why he couldn't understand it?  When they went to ask him to explain, several small black spots in the far distance of the channel suddenly came into everyone's sight. After taking the telescope from Lei Meng, Yang Qiu's lips suddenly turned up: "Back."

    Four long black small warships rising and falling in the waves suddenly appeared in the middle of the blue waves. Behind them were two Dutch special transport ships. He Maoqing studied shipbuilding and design after all. When he saw them, he blurted out in surprise: "  Submarine?"

    "It's a submarine."

    Yang Qiu is very excited. After waiting for a year, the first four of the six U-type submarines ordered from Germany are finally back!

    Shortly after taking a speedboat back to the Tanwan Town Shipyard Pier, four submarines, which had been launched in advance and returned to the sea, appeared outside the pier. The submarines that appeared on the Chinese Navy list for the first time undoubtedly caused a sensation. Not only were several of them stationed here.  The warships and sailors swarmed onto the deck, and even the workers at the shipyard construction site came to watch. Many Mawei people even murmured whether they could build such a small boat that could submerge underwater.

    Because of the fear of leakage, the telescopic snorkel has been retracted, and the narrow deck looks very simple and smooth.  After receiving the order, Germany still put a lot of effort into special design. In order to meet Yang Qiu's requirements for endurance and the deployment of four torpedoes in the front and one in the back, the displacement was slightly enlarged, to 537 tons above water and 505 tons underwater, using man  The company provides two 250 diesel engines, with a maximum speed of 12 knots on the water, 10 knots in the snorkel state, an endurance of 1,300 nautical miles at a speed of 6 knots, a maximum underwater speed of 6 knots, a battery self-sustaining capacity of 2 hours, and five 450mm German blackhead torpedoes.  No matter, there is also a German-made l40/76mm German-made naval gun on the bow deck.

    Because of the snorkel technology and the special requirement to be equipped with a diesel engine, this U-shaped submarine is undoubtedly one of the most advanced equipment in the world. Unfortunately, Germany did not continue to place the order after ordering 6 submarines because it still had doubts about the use of submarines.  It will take a year or two for China to digest Germany's pressure-resistant steel technology, so it cannot produce it itself for the time being.

    "Your Excellency, Vice President, with all due respect, this submarine is one of the most perfect products of German industry. With it, you can have an elusive fleet." Traun, who accompanied him to welcome the submarine back home, was so eloquent that he almost ignored the submarine.  It is said to be more powerful than a battleship, which means that the submarines are back, and it is time for you to attack Japan.

    , but just when he was about to say a few perfunctory words, Xie Ruyi, the commander of the Eighth Division who came all the way, suddenly came over. Fujian and Jiangxi were his defense areas, and the vice president was the commander-in-chief and it was his duty to come to inspect. However, at this moment, his face was obviously not good, and he approached quietly.  Muttered a few words.

    "Tang Jiyao became the commander of the Manchu Army?!"

    "Yes, the news was sent by Zhang Renjun who returned to Shanghai from South Manchuria. It seems that he doesn't want to get involved in this whirlpool. Deputy Chief of General Staff Cai sent an urgent message asking me to remind the Commander-in-Chief to be careful about this person." No wonder Xie Ruyi's face turned sour.  No, no matter what, Tang Jiyao was inseparable from their Yunnan clique. He rebelled against the country and threw himself into the arms of Japan. This undoubtedly added salt to the wounds of the Yunnan clique generals who had just recovered from the Northern Expedition.

    Traun saw that his expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly asked the whole story. Of course, Yang Qiu would not tell him about Tang Jiyao. He suppressed his anger and looked at the row of submarines, thinking that it was time to break through this veil.  .

    He immediately turned his head and said: "Your Excellency, Minister, I have always admired your troops. I wonder if I would be lucky enough to conduct a friendly military exercise with your troops stationed in Qingdao?"

    "A Sino-German joint military exercise?" Traun's eyes lit up.

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