Chapter 353 Sell to the French?

April.

It is the time for all things to recover. The people of the Central Plains are already busy with spring ploughing, but Xinjiang is still cold and steep. Although the temperature in the desert rises rapidly under the direct sunlight during the day, they still need to be wrapped in thick cotton-padded clothes to fall asleep at night.

In the long cavalry, the few camels in the last row paid special attention, and the long camel bells rang from time to time, letting the front cavalry know that there was no partner falling behind.

Yongshan rode on the horse's back, with a yellow scarf wrapped in wind and sand on his face, a cavalry gun on his back, and his favorite 20-sound barge gun in his waist. If it hadn't been for that military uniform, he would have been dressed as a swordsman in the northwest.

Since the recovery of 30,000 Mongolian cavalry, officers of the first cavalry division like him have been transferred to three new cavalry divisions to enrich the strength of the officers and accelerate the formation of combat effectiveness of the three cavalry divisions as soon as possible.

And riding side by side with him is the Mongolian deputy battalion commander Agura. In Mongolian, his name represents the mountain.

Even if you don't use Mongolian expression, this guy is really like a mountain. He is tall and burly, his face is red, and the drums are clear. He is a Mongolian man. Especially when he rides on horseback, it really makes people wonder whether this guy will crush the horse.

From unwillingness at the beginning, and even forced to join the Xinhua Cavalry, to today's recognition, I am willing to even take the initiative to communicate with Han's comrades-in-arms, and willing to undertake the most difficult and arduous tasks. This 180-degree turn is not so much a strict ideological and political education as continuous. The family letter from the grassland has changed them.

Agula is the most obvious example. Although he used to be a centurion, his family was poor. Several brothers and sisters have been mingled on the grassland since childhood, and even if they were like this, they would be partially scolded by the men.

Originally, he wanted to leave when he joined the Xinhua Army, but as he learned that Li Mo had liberated all serfs and shepherds, he forced him not to levy taxes on cattle and sheep from ordinary herdsmen, he stayed with the idea of trying.

A few months later, the arrival of a family letter completely changed him. Although he only took a military culture class at that time and didn't know a few words, after the instructor read it to him, he became the most hardcore supporter of the New China Army.

Because the letter said that free education has begun to be implemented on the grassland, many Han people have come to the gathering areas. Together with many literate Mongolians, they began to teach children. Although it is a little hard to learn both Mongolian and Chinese, it solves the big problem that children can't read and read on the grassland. A large number of ordinary serf children like him also have the opportunity to study, and several of the age-appropriate brothers and sisters have gone to school.

In addition, the new government axe officials began to implement a new animal husbandry law, allowing everyone to change the traditional nomadic way. In addition, there is no need to pay cattle and sheep to the head, so the family has a lot of income all of a sudden. Recently, a small loan provided by the government axe has been used to set up a family-style breeding base. It will get better and better.

Although the letter was vague, it undoubtedly strengthened the determination of Agura and others to follow Li Mo and Xinhua. In particular, most of the 30,000 Mongolian cavalry were born poor. Almost all of these new policies were targeted at them and helped them.

This made them understand the difference between Xinhua and the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The resistance gradually turned into active integration, which also led to the rapid improvement of the combat effectiveness of the three cavalry divisions. Coupled with their excellent riding skills, a large number of Mongolian officers quickly emerged in the cavalry division. They all have one thing in common. They are all the children of poor serfs.

After embarking on the Western Expedition from Jiayuguan, they all became real soldiers of the Xinhua Army.

Drive!

A rapid shout sounded from behind. Yongshan and Agula almost twisted his neck at the same time. He only saw the correspondent running here on his back on the back of the radio.

"Report." Before the telegraph officer approached, he immediately saluted and shouted: "Thousands of Foshan 20 miles to the north, the second battalion of the first division and the enemy encountered, and the headquarters ordered us to help immediately."

"Tell the headquarters that the second division, the first regiment and the fourth battalion are on their way." The news of the enemy shocked Yongshan and all the soldiers. Agura even looked at Yongshan, nodded, and took the most elite 200 people to run north as planned.

Because riding on horseback is not easy to send news on the ground, the communication soldiers of the cavalry division carry the radio station on their backs, with a hearing receiver on their ears, and also tie the electric keys to their arms, so that even if they ride on the horse's bumpy, they can send out radio waves smoothly.

When the messengers sent the departure message back to the headquarters, Yongshan led the remaining 800 cavalry to suddenly accelerate, and the dust raised by the horses' hoofs for a moment submerged their backs--

Outside Daban City, a convoy of nearly 100 trucks and thousands of llas, under the protection of 16 wild cats, slowly headed for Urumqi, dozens of kilometers away. In the command car in the center of the convoy, there was an endless stream of telegrams.

"Report, the second division, the first regiment and the fourth battalion have set out, the third division, the first regiment and the first battalion, and the third battalion are also moving closer there."

"Report, the third battalion of the second division and the third battalion of the second division found two enemy thousands of cavalry in the West Sea (now Bosten Lake), which are currently being blocked."

In the narrow cabin of the rickety command vehicle, Sun Jiugong and several division commanders squeezed into a pile. Hearing that the West Sea also found traces of the enemy, he immediately asked, "What troops are there nearby?"

"The first division, the second regiment and the fourth battalion are 20 kilometers north of the West Sea, the fifth battalion is 10 kilometers away from the east, and the third division, one regiment and the first battalion are searching and advancing about 15 kilometers to the west." The staff member replied immediately.

"Order the three battalions to delay them, and the other three battalions accelerate to get closer and strive to eat these two thousand people!"

"Yes!"

Before the staff officer's words fell, another communication officer shouted again: "The first division, the first regiment and the second battalion found the enemy in the Baiyang River. About 500 people are fighting. Do you want to send support?"

"One division, one regiment and five battalions are here. Order support, and be sure to be completely annified!"

"Yes."

When the ticking sound sounded, Sun Jiugong had circled the position of the Poplar River with a pen, wiped the original two dotted lines on the edge, and re-targeted the direction of the Poplar River and drew two arrows.

Ouyang Xiu, the commander of the second division, nodded. Sun Jiugong's wolf tactic is actually not too surprising. It was born out of the Mongolian cavalry tactics that used to cross Europe and Asia. It took advantage of the 40,000 cavalry in its hand to break them up according to the battalion, with the convoy as the center line, and spread to the two wings. Each battalion is only a maximum distance of ten taels apart. In the middle of each battalion, a large number of scouts were sent to fill in the middle of each battalion.

In this way, the two wings are spread out for 100 kilometers, and the surrounding rivers and lakes are also focused on outpost guerrillas, which basically covers all activities along the way. Unless those rebels are willing to enter the desert area short of water, sooner or later, they will The scattered battalions encountered.

A battalion, a thousand heavily armed cavalry is more or less. If you encounter a small number of rebels, you can attack directly. If you encounter a larger one, you can use guerrilla tactics to drag the other party, and then the brothers around you can arrive in up to half an hour to launch a siege.

This tactic can not only maximize the mobility advantages of the cavalry, but also identify the factors that the water resources in Xinjiang Province are precious and the cavalry are inseparable from, and strive to consume the other party's strength as much as possible before arriving in Yili and attack the other party's confidence in fighting.

What really impressed Ouyang Xiu and several other division commanders was that almost all the places where the enemy were found were predicted by Sun Jiugong before the war. It can be seen that he was fully prepared for this western expedition. Otherwise, how could a big man who grew up in the northeast know the territory of Xinjiang so well?

With the first discovery of the enemy in the second battalion of the second regiment of the cavalry division, the wolf tactic has begun to enter the substantive stage. Now it depends on whether the newly formed Mongolian cavalry is the opponent of the northwest cavalry.

They are just decision makers. Whether they can delay the enemy or not, when the brother troops arrive to launch the final siege and anniper war, it depends on the front-line officers and soldiers! ——

In the port of Kundian, Borneo, Hipel stood on a bumpy traffic boat, looking at dozens of banners of the Second Fleet of the Xinhua Empire in the distance, which were wiped and lined up in columns to wait for inspection. A strange feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

At that moment, he seemed to feel that it was not the Xinhua Empire Fleet that was moored in the distance, but the German high seas fleet that was working together in China to strengthen and catch up head-on.

Under the leadership of His Majesty William and General Tirpitz, the German Empire is getting rid of the embarrassment of walking on one foot. Under the stimulation of the Navy Act, the new high seas fleet is revitalizing. In addition to the four old Saxon-class still exerting heat, four Brandenburg-class and five Brunswick-class battleships, also It has been fully put into service, and the five updated German class based on the Duke of the New China Empire has also started construction, and the first one will be in active service next year.

In addition to the most important battleships, nearly ten large armored cruisers have joined the active service over the years, and more cruisers are still on the platform. The powerful German empire is expanding its navy at a rate second only to Britain, even slightly faster than France. When the German class is fully in service in the next few years, Germany will become the world's first-class navy.

It may be worse than Britain, but compared with the French, which is known as the second in the world, it has gradually changed its weakness. More importantly, the German learning officer corps led by itself will officially leave here today and return to China with the strongest and richest battleship combat experience in the world!

Even the British didn't get these things!

In the past three years, in addition to technical restrictions and concealment, the Xinhua Navy has not been too difficult in tactics and experience sharing. Instead, it has actively cooperated, not only teaching themselves the four naval battles they have gained from the blood fire, but also their young officers have often been with their own [***] officials. Discuss tactics. .

What Hipel admires is that in terms of comprehensive national strength, the Xinhua led by Li Mo is far less than that of Germany. Although he tried his best to improve his industrial capacity, after all, the time is too short. The industry built entirely by foreign aid is like a castle on the beach, but Li Mo uses no one in his hand. Knowing the huge amount of money from the source, he forced the castle to take root. The industrial support plan he proposed was shocking in Europe, and he was very concerned about innovation. When the wind of innovation blew to the navy, some new tactics and equipment were constantly put forward and studied, and finally turned into the Jinghai level. A lot of fruits.

Although the Jinghai class is not a battleship, and there is even a gap compared with large cruisers, only those officers who have gone deep into internal practice understand that this new cruiser has no intention to be used as a capital ship from the beginning. Their work is mainly to patrol their own side and disturb the other party's maritime shipping line. It is used to attack and support the battle against the ground.

What a disaster it will be when a big guy who fires 72 shells every minute and has a range of nearly 20,000 meters participates in the mission that was originally a second-class cruiser from various countries!

And according to his observation in the past three years, Xinhua actually has the ability to build battleships and large armored cruisers, but to the strange thing for him and the world is that Li Mo has no idea of starting construction at all. Except for the construction of the subsequent four Jinghai-class and the twelve large torpedo ships that have been launched, there is no one at all. Signs of building a new capital ship.

What on earth is he thinking about? Or does he think the current capital ship is enough? Or has he been busy with the army and domestic construction recently, and the funds have been broken to support the construction of the new capital ship?

Hipper shook his head. Not only him, but all countries were paying attention to every move of the Xinhua Navy. You know, the appearance of the Jinghai class was really amazing, which made everyone unwilling to look back on this mysterious fleet.

Everyone is guessing, what are they going to make next?

As the traffic boat slowly crossed the lined fleet, Hippell searched for the large white ocean-going cruise ship. When his eyes rested on the figure standing at the top, his breath suddenly became short.

"Your Majesty, the German naval intern has arrived."

In Yan Fu's reminder, Li Mo turned his head and only saw a naval officer in his thirties with a pinch of moustache leading more than 20 newly graduated German naval interns on the viewing deck.

"Welcome, Mr. Percy."

"I feel very proud to see His Majesty the Emperor." Happel bent his chest, raised his head and immediately corrected: "But I think Your Majesty probably doesn't know that your translator made a mistake. My name is Franz Happel."

"Franz-Hipelle!"

Li Mogang's outstretched hand suddenly froze. He looked back at Yan Fu. The latter immediately explained, "Your Majesty, when Colonel Hiffel first came, our translator made a mistake and translated Hiffel into Percy. In addition, everyone usually called him Pell, so he didn't find it until a few days ago that he sent them graduation. It was only changed at the time of the certificate.

"Fuck you! This is ridiculously wrong!"

Although Master Li continued to smile and shake hands with Hipel, his heart was already full of waves. This Doge Sandbar became famous in the First Battle and launched a suicide charge in the Battle of Tehran. The famous German admiral who saved the German high seas fleet with one hand actually came to his navy. Internship!

The important thing is that it doesn't matter if this guy has learned for a few years, but if he learns everything that can be revealed by the young master, will he lead the German high seas fleet to victory in Tehran in the future?

Imagination!

When Li Mo's little abacus ticked in his heart, the second fleet in front of him also began to come slowly. As part of the visit, it was arranged a long time ago to inspire the Nanyang soldiers.

"New China, New Navy!"

"The place where the ship goes is the sea that needs to be guarded!"

Whenever a majestic warship sails more than 100 meters away from the Oriental Princess, the moment the ships meet, the soldiers under review will shout these two naval slogans at the same time. Although the sound is a little distorted under the roar of the sea breeze due to the lack of good amplification equipment, the craze is still scalded. All the people who accompanied the review, even Happel and other officials, couldn't help raising their hands and saluting at the intersection to pay tribute to the group of young soldiers who had lived with them for three years.

They came out of blood and fire and made a huge sea in the Far East. No matter ideology, no matter the country or the nation, just from the perspective of the navy, they are all respectable soldiers!

Looking at these warships, the hearts of Happell and all the de [***] officials were beating more and more fiercely, looking forward to the scene of His Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm reviewing the high seas fleet in the future. However, when the last shadow appeared in front of them, their eyes suddenly straightened, and they didn't even care about the hats. They suddenly crossed Li Mo and others and rushed to On the deck.

Hipper gasped, watched the shadow approaching little by little, and slowly drove past the Oriental Princess, and the finger bones holding the railing began to turn blue.

"That's that?"

"Five double 12-inch naval guns!"

"This is a new test ship, which is mainly used to test the structure and new recoil reduction technology. It will go to Europe with the emperor and you this time."

"What about the test results?"

As soon as Yan Fu finished speaking, Hipel suddenly turned his head, regardless of politeness, and stared at the other party closely. With his eyes, he naturally knew very well what this new battleship would change!

"There is also a little regret, mainly because the speed is a little poor, but everything else is very good." Yan Fu smiled, pointed to the Zhonghua, which was far away and waiting in front of him, and said the last two words as if he was appetizing: "Perfect!"

"Perfect!"

Before Hipper's saliva was finished, the corners of Yan Fu's mouth suddenly hooked up, as if to say to himself, "Oh, unfortunately, we have paid too much for this test ship, resulting in a serious shortage of naval military expenses, so we contacted France and prepared to sell it."

Yan Fu just said a selling word. Tang Shaoyi on the side quickly pulled his sleeve and seemed to remind him not to talk nonsense. Yan Fu also pretended to wake up at this time. He quickly put aside the topic, smiled and pointed to another approaching passenger ship: "Mr. Shipper, the ship arranged for you has come, and we carried it. Special modification, increased living cabin, and hired a German chef, I'm sure"

Hipper didn't listen to the words at all, and there was only one word left in his mind.

Sell!

They want to sell this warship that can change the development of battleships and even become a turning point to the French!

Is it possible?

(to be continued)