New Warlords 1909

Yesong Shipyard, one of the predecessors of the later Shanghai Shipyard, is located in the territory of the Concession, close to the later Oriental Pearl Financial Center.Not to mention that the shipyard is not conducive to the operation and development of the concession, and the shipyard is located in an inland river, which is not conducive to the construction of large ships.Therefore, Huafei's first consideration is the layout and future development of the entire Chinese shipbuilding industry.

The shipbuilding industry is related to all aspects of national industry, and it is an indispensable preparation for building a powerful navy.Without a strong navy, there would be no talk of revival or the status of a great power.Therefore, Hua Fei's pursuit of the Yesun Shipyard is not only for the actual economic interests, but also for far-reaching military strategic considerations.

Originally, Hua Fei hoped to build a naval base on Changxing Island and build a large shipyard at the same time.But since the last time the Japanese navy blocked the mouth of the Yangtze River and bombarded the fort of Changxing Island.Hua Fei realized that building a shipyard on an isolated island lacking defensive terrain was simply an extremely risky move before there was a strong navy and a strong command of the sea.

After comprehensive consideration, and the fact that the Yesun shipyard is located in the concession, it is not conducive to confidentiality.So through phase

It was finally decided that, under the premise of not affecting the existing production site of the shipyard, the relocated part will be built on Fuxing Island, an inner island in the Huangpu River, and a new shipyard, New Century Shipyard, will be built.

While dealing with the Jesson shipyard incident, the main task of Hua Fei and his change planning office is to formulate two reform plans.First, continue to implement and improve education reform.It is clear that the time is not yet ripe for the rapid implementation of comprehensive compulsory education in the autonomous region.Not only because of funding problems, but also a serious shortage of teachers.In order to resolve this contradiction, Hua Fei and the First Office finally adopted the method of giving priority to the development of higher education, especially teacher education.Adopt a top-down model, gradually expand the popularization of education, and gradually implement compulsory education.In addition, popularize knowledge and literacy education in the army, and strengthen knowledge education for these young people. The minimum goal is to enable those soldiers who cannot read a word to at least understand simple newspapers and learn to use dictionaries and other reference books before they leave the army.

The second is to reform the military service law.Not only the compulsory military service law was implemented, but also the professional soldier protection law was supplemented.The Compulsory Military Service Law stipulates that all youths who have reached the age of one must accept three years of compulsory military service and seven years of reserve service, for a total of ten years of military service.In this way, the country can quickly mobilize a huge number of combat troops when needed.

However, in order to strengthen the superiority of professional technicians, Hua Fei also decided to temporarily stipulate in the military service law that all workers with the title of senior technician or above can be exempted from reserve military service.

The implementation of the detailed bills of these two reforms has hardly encountered much resistance. The education reform is only to build a few normal colleges, increase funds, carry out pilot education popularization in key cities, comprehensively promote the educational model of coexistence of Western learning and private schools, and accumulate exploration and implementation obligations. educational experience.

The military service law has not encountered any resistance. You must know that joining the National Defense Forces has become one of the best ideals of many young people.According to the provisions of the Military Service Law, there are tens of millions of people in the autonomous region, and there are millions of young people above and below the age of 22.If all these people were included in the army, it would be an army of hundreds of divisions.Not to mention the actual weapons and equipment, these millions of people just eat, drink and sleep, which is too much for Hua Fei's current military expenditure!

Therefore, although the newly revised military service law has been promulgated, the national defense force of the autonomous region currently has no plans to expand new corps except for the three corps.

However, the National Defense Forces Recruitment Organization Office has also begun to select recruits with excellent quality in various parts of the autonomous region to prepare for the formation of new legions.

Just as Hua Fei was busy with education reform and military service law for recruits every day, a piece of military news from the European War made Hua Fei terrified and sweated profusely.The news is that on the afternoon of the 22nd, in the small town of Ypres in Belgium, the German army used chemical gas and gas bombs for the first time in the war.This cruel way of warfare, chemical gas warfare has entered the stage of history.

Poison gas warfare belongs to the style of unconventional warfare. Since it appeared on the battlefield, it has developed rapidly due to its powerful lethality and low price.Poison gas warfare not only spurred the progress of the chemical industry, but also led to the emergence of related anti-gas equipment.Today's poison gas warfare is just simple irritating gas like gas, and after the production of mustard gas, which is known as the king of poison gas, the original gauze gas mask has become a complete waste.Therefore, if Hua Fei takes the lead and starts to mass-produce rubber gas mask equipment, it will be an extremely profitable project.

But after hearing the news, Hua Fei's first thought was not about gas masks, nor about making money, nor about forming a poison gas force.Instead, it reminds me of an event that seems to have nothing to do with it, that is, the 918 Spanish flu that did not start to break out until 918.

The horror of this pandemic flu, which people have talked about in history, is beyond the imagination of today's people.According to incomplete statistics, about 4000 million people died in this flu.It is several times more than the total death toll of all soldiers and civilians in World War I, the greatest catastrophe in human history

People in later generations generally believed that this was a disaster caused by influenza virus, and later some researchers believed that it was a mutation of bird flu.However, when he served in the mercenary army, he heard such a statement occasionally.The main culprit of the Spanish flu was poison gas warfare.

Later, Hua Fei checked the relevant information and found a very strange point.The flu first appeared at Camp Finson in Kansas, which is very confusing in itself.But I don’t know if people were not aware of the dangers of this virus at that time or it was hard to turn the tide. The virus passed through the American Expeditionary Force, spread across Europe at an extremely fast speed, and swept the world.

The flu was so sudden and highly contagious that it broke out at the end of World War I.Through the well-developed consulting network of later generations, some people put forward such a hypothesis.This virus is very likely to be a weapon developed by the Americans for war, but it was leaked for unknown reasons, and many American soldiers were infected with the virus.Whether those soldiers were the first to be infected with the virus has forever become a mystery.

The virus spread rapidly. Although the United States and other countries quickly adopted various responses, the lethality of this virus obviously exceeded the expectations of the original developers.This kind of virus has caused such a huge disaster, let alone any scientist, even the US government, absolutely dare not bear the world's anger and such huge moral condemnation.As for how much insider trading was hidden after this incident, with the destruction of a large amount of evidence and materials, this disaster, which is very likely to be man-made, will forever become a vague history and is destined to be forgotten in people's minds. sight and memory.

When Hua Fei thought of this incident, it was not because he was interested in solving a big puzzle he had in the past, but because the impact of the 918 flu on the entire world was simply too huge.For Hua Fei, this not only means that he may save this disaster, but also earn unimaginable money and profits from this incident.At the very least, he can also completely block the flu virus in China, at least outside the autonomous region, when this event comes.

Therefore, some preparations are about to be made now, and they are to be done in an extremely secretive manner, absolutely no information shall be leaked.

214 Entering Taiwan

9155 end of month.Hua Fei did it himself.Set up a|Secret machine gauge war research laboratory.This laboratory brings together the top medical scientists that Hua has mastered.mathematician.Chemist Physics.Biologist and military strategist.Although these young people selected by Hua Fei are not well-known in the international academic circle.Not to mention how many achievements.Some people are even under Hua Fei's arrangement.If you don't graduate and get a certificate, you will return home early.Follow Nikola Tesla as an assistant.

These young people are after Hua Fei made a fortune in the Shanghai stock market and returned to his hometown.Just pay attention and cultivate it.The vast majority of them have been sent individually or by him to famous universities abroad for further study.His loyalty is grateful to Hua Fei for his respect.You can definitely rest assured.Hua Fei was just a telegram and they didn't even have time to pack their luggage.Just a large number of academic notes and professional books.Quickly rush to the country.

This room only had 11 people at the beginning.In the early summer when almost no outsiders knew about it.It was quietly established at the end of June 1915.

The first research topic Hua Fei gave them was chemical gas warfare.Research this new type of unconventional weapon.Focus on how to prevent and resist this form of war.Pre-flu.plague.plague.Ultimate contagious diseases like cholera were used as weapons.How to take preventive measures.

No one knows why Hua Fei suddenly established this laboratory.Even let these elites studying abroad not complete their studies.Just return home early.But none of the dozen or so people complained.In their view.Hua Fei could do it when poisonous gas chemical warfare first appeared.take such an attitude.This is the calculation and planning of a strategist. This is the forward vision that a great hero in their minds should have.

Just when the ultra-conventional warfare research laboratory was being built.Britain and France.In particular, the attitude of the UK towards the autonomous regions has gradually slowed down.The British still can't at this moment.Lost a huge friend.Although this friend has a vague attitude towards Britain and France.But it is very positive for exporters and materials.The British government is reluctant because of a commercial piece.Push Hua Fei to the German camp.Although the British can choose to strengthen their alliance with Japan.Hostile to Hua Fei.But at first, Japan's military power made the British uneasy.Second, the strength of Japan is not in line with Britain's interests in the Far East.Come three.If the Far East is involved in the fire again, it will greatly affect the export of materials from the British colonies in the Far East.It will even spread to India.And the United Kingdom hopes that the Allies|Japan may send troops to Europe.It's even more distant.

What scares Britain the most is that once China joins the camp of the Allies.Germany may send their legions.From the ally Türkiye into Central Asia.And came to China United Huafei.Open up a new way of war.This is not a fantasy.Opening the Far East battlefield is for the Germans.The strategic significance is huge.Just send a dozen divisions.More than [-] people.Allied with Huafei.The Chinese Beiyang government can only submit to the coalition forces.The Japanese Army was still hopeless.

The coalition forces of the Chinese and German Hua Fei can not only go north to attack Tsarist Russia.Going south can also attack Hong Kong.Vietnam and other British and French colonies.westward.Being able to attack India far away caused the British to lose this largest raw material.This is not a British nonsense.It was the latest piece of information obtained by their intelligence agency.There are top generals in the German military.He made such a proposal to the Kaiser.A small number of high-level German Army Staff believed that when the national sea was restricted by the British and there was nothing to do.The German Army should open a strategic breach.And China.It is undoubtedly their choice.

The British worry that Hua Fei seems to be unaware of this time.All his energies were drawn to a detailed intelligence letter.This information was obtained by the military intelligence bureau, but it was not inland military information.It was an island that Hua Fei stared at for a long time in front of the map.

台湾自从甲午战争后。一纸关条约令她成为了日本殖民地。从1895年开始到1915的二十余年。台湾人民进行了无数次地抗日斗争。20年中。有超过40万的台湾忠义男儿被杀害。至1915年的西来事件截止。从此台湾地武装抗日斗争基本偃旗息鼓。

And this time the intelligence.Regarding the Xilai incident, the leader Yu Qingfang.Yu Qingfang was originally a police officer in Tainan City.Later, I saw that Taiwanese were oppressed under Japanese colonial rule.So he resigned and used religion to carry out anti-Japanese activities.The noise is getting louder and louder.The Taiwan and Japan Governor-General's Office is preparing to issue a wanted warrant.And this Yu Qingfang didn't know why.Then I found an autonomous person in Taiwan.With the help of that businessman.In the end, I got in touch with the famous outside line of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

So the Military Intelligence Bureau quickly dispatched intelligence agents to secretly enter Taiwan to contact Yu Qingfang.The reason why Yu Qingfang contacted the Autonomous Region was simple.It is hoped for arms assistance to the autonomous region.Start the decisive battle against Japan.That intelligence officer was well aware of Taiwan's strategic position to China.Don't be careless.Quickly return to the Autonomous Region.The information was conveyed to Hua Yan as quickly as possible.Hua Yan also realized the importance of this information.Send it to Hua Fei personally.

After Hua Fei received this information.It quickly turned to contemplation.Not to mention the integrity of the territory and the sanctity of sovereignty.Taiwan's military strategic position with respect to China.Clearly a big deal.If Taiwan was in Hua Fei's hands back then.Then in the naval battle against Japan.The possibility of blocking the Taiwan Strait will increase infinitely.The strength of the Japanese submarine team to contain Hua Fei will also be weakened a lot.With Taiwan as a barrier.Go eastward to block the Bashi Channel.Balintang Strait.It's even easier.like that.Japan's maritime lifeline would be dealt a fatal blow.

But.The armistice against Japan has only been a few months away.For this matter.Start the war against Japan again.Not only will it greatly anger Britain and France internationally.It is also very likely to lose the support of the United States.And Taiwan is different from Shandong.Hua Fei can rely on his own army power.Under the obstruction of a strait.will be weakened infinitely.There is no powerful sea control.Japan's powerful naval fleet cannot be suppressed.Want to land on the main island of Taiwan to fight.Not only will you pay a heavy price.And the chances of winning are slim to none.

Moreover, after a major war in the autonomous region.The finances have long since dried up and the deficit has reached its limit.The urgency now is to recuperate and take advantage of this precious opportunity.Fully develop industry and commerce.Improve overall strength.Go to war rashly again.It's not just a poor soldier's move.It is more likely to ruin the good situation created so far.

But not to send troops.Could it be just sitting and watching the Japanese suppress Yu Qingfang?The killings may be the last of the rebel Taiwanese.From here on.Taiwan will become the agricultural development base of the Japanese.It is also an outpost for their southward advance.Not only has Japan's sphere of influence completely blocked China's outer seas, but it has also controlled the shipping of Huafei's own region.

Just judging from the current series of information.After Japan's temple cabinet came to power.It has begun to strengthen the construction of Taiwan's naval base, and the number of cruisers and destroyers in Taiwan is obvious.And began to vigorously build the two major ports of Keelung and Kaohsiung.Build appropriate ship repair facilities and docks.In order to form two important military bases in the north and the south and a shipping center.

"Commander, why don't we send the First Army over there. Take this opportunity and take Taiwan back!" Wu Tao, who was standing aside, said angrily after knowing the situation.

"The First Army? Then we will launch another one? Do you think the current financial resources of the autonomous region can continue to support a new war?"

Wu Tao was silent.Watching Hua Fei staring at the map in deep thought.He couldn't help saying Commander.Do you want to call someone from the staff office? "

The Office of the Staff is the Office of Change Planning.Because I am used to the name of the General Staff.Therefore, the vast majority of people around Hua Fei are accustomed to calling the new reform and planning office the staff office.

Hua Fei said slowly, crossing his chest with one hand and touching it with the other. "Well. It seems that I can do something. Okay. I basically have an idea. You go and call Li Yue and Cao Yuan and ask the headquarters to prepare some materials for me at the bottom of the army. I want the kind of brave The type of officer who is calm, kind, and tolerant.

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Li Yue gradually rose from an unknown person to the core of Hua Feidi's staff.Although he was transferred from the army's staff department and entered the change planning office.strictly speaking.It is a transition from the military system to the political field.On the surface.Li Yue was transferred from Fei's direct power center.But in fact, neither Li Yue's current rights nor Hua Fei's trust in him.All rise to a height that has never been reached.With the support of Li and Cao Yuan.The plan in Hua Fei's heart is to further modify the details.Very difficult to be.After they learned the information.They all agreed with Hua Fei's decision.It is believed that it is really inappropriate for the autonomous region to carry out large-scale wars at this time.I also think that this matter does not need to be discussed on a large scale.Instead, confidentiality should be the premise.

This plan is.Under the premise of not publicly declaring war.Secretly dispatch a regiment of elite and reliable troops.Carrying German weapons and equipment and Japanese rifles captured on the Shandong battlefield.Enter Taiwan.Contact Yu Qingfang.Or conduct guerrilla operations alone in the mountains in the central and eastern part of the bay.Attacks on Japanese troops and officials.Break the Japanese rule in Taiwan.Propaganda, nation-state consciousness.Lead and launch Taiwan's resistance and return movement.

The key to this plan is an elite guerrilla force.Must put pressure on the Japanese army in Taiwan.But they cannot obtain reliable evidence.It proves that this is the army sent by the Huafei Autonomous Region.There is no need to have a head-to-head confrontation with Japan in Taiwan to give full play to the essence of guerrilla warfare.However, since the establishment of the National Defense Forces.Most of the fights are strange and tricky battles.Just the tactics of guerrilla warfare.But rarely used.So for the officer's challenge.Just enough resourcefulness is required.Calm and bear.Good at improvisation.

at last.Only on the issue of whether to unite with Yu Qingfang's strength.Li Yue and Cao Yuan had a disagreement.Li Yue thinks.Yu Qingfang and others are just a group of unorganized violent civilians.Allying with them would certainly help the guerrilla infiltrators in the first place.But this will also slow down the mobility and combat effectiveness of the guerrilla army.It is more likely that the secret of this force will be exposed.And Cao principle thinks.Most of the guerrilla troops were selected as soldiers from the Jiangsu and Anhui regions.Without a local as a guide.The position of the guerrilla army is bound to be difficult.It will easily expose their identity as outsiders.

Both words make sense.Hua Fei has not considered this detail yet.Carefully.Hua Fei decided to choose the officers to send to Taiwan first.Then decide on this detail.The officer who will surely lead the infiltration army.on this matter.Have more say.

Headquarters in three hours.Just sent the detailed information of five people.Hua Fei just took a simple look.Immediately, one person was chosen with great satisfaction.This man is considered an old man in the Wehrmacht.As early as when Hua Fei formed the Revolutionary Xindi, he was a member of the first regiment.Later, due to military exploits.Quickly qualified as the squad leader of a regiment.

This person is Feng Zisong.Now he is the deputy commander of the Fifth Division of the Second Army.It started with a student who accidentally joined the army and followed Hua Fei.Within a few years.He was promoted to the rank of deputy division commander.Although the speed is not eye-catching in the Wehrmacht.But it was also an extremely fast result.And there was one thing that was very surprising to Hua Fei.This Feng Zisong directly led the troops in many battles.It has always been the unit with the lowest combat casualty rate.Even on the battlefield between Shandong and Japan in Shanghai.A regiment led by him with more than 200 people abandoned positional warfare.The flexible harassment and sneak attack was adopted.After many encounters.They wiped out more than [-] days.But the battle casualties were less than half.It is an extremely proud result.

But fighting.Feng Zisong's tactics were criticized by many people as an act of fear of war and avoidance of war.So although he made outstanding achievements in the First World War in Shandong, he was still only promoted to the first rank.It was also mentioned that the position was not as good as that of the deputy division head of the regiment.

Feng Zisong is about 26 years old.Although he is a few years older than Hua Fei, he always looks harmless and smiling.Also a military uniform.But wear it on him.I always feel that kind of casual taste.Even seeing Hua Fei.He didn't seem too restrained, but spoke very self-sufficiently. "Commander. Captain Li, Staff Officer Cao. Suddenly called me from the army. Maybe it's to promote me!"

Since Cao Yuan had been in the gendarmerie for a long time, many people still call Cao Yuan Captain Cao.

"It is indeed to promote you. And the commander wants to treat you to a meal in person!" Li Yue's smile is completely different from that of Feng Song, although he looks very happy.But it was so cold that people couldn't feel that it was a smile.

Feng Zisong was taken aback for a moment, although he knew that this visit to see Commander Hua definitely had a serious business to do.But Li Yue smiled "seriously".But it made him groan in his heart, wondering if the commander also thought that the tactics he adopted in Shandong were to fear the enemy and fear death.To punish him?to be honest.Commander in China faced.Feng Zisong didn't have much fear.But looking at Staff Li's happy smile, he felt guilty for no reason.

Hua Fei stood up from his seat.He took the information on the table and walked over to pass it to Feng Zisong.Slowly said. "Watch him as fast as you can. Then guess what we called you here for!"