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Next, Tirpitz proposed to establish joint shipyards between the two countries in Fujian and Vladivostok, and at the same time form a Sino-German joint fleet, which will be stationed in Mawei Naval Port and Bremen Naval Port for a long time.

Regarding the matter of the shipyard, Guan Xuqing is cautiously optimistic. At that time, China will just provide some manpower, and most of the experts and funds will be provided by Germany. This transaction can still be done.Regarding the formation of a joint fleet, Guan Xuqing was not in a hurry to express his opinion, but one thing was clear, he would never allow warships from other countries to berth in China's military ports.

The next day, at the suggestion of Wilhelm II, the two countries signed a draft treaty of Sino-German military friendship and mutual assistance, stipulating that as long as one of the two parties was attacked by another country, the other would provide unconditional military support and assistance.Guan Xuqing had other plans in his heart. Once war broke out, China would, like the United States in history, spend a large amount of war money first, and then make a decision based on the development of the situation.

Ps: Thank you Fairy Neck for raising the question of Concubine Lan. It is indeed a typo. It will be revised immediately. It will be changed to Concubine De in the future, and some data of the Zhonghua No. 1 ship will also be revised.There are too many clues in historical novels, and it is inevitable that there will be some mistakes. I hope that friends will give more valuable opinions.

Soaring Front: World War I Chapter 243 Submarines!submarine!

Guan Xuqing finished his five-day trip to Germany and returned to Beijing with a large delegation.During these five days, Germany only obtained a draft treaty of military friendship and mutual assistance from the Chinese that was close to a verbal promise, while the financial delegation headed by Sheng Xuanhuai successfully invested imperial funds in the pillar enterprises of the Germans. Purchased a large number of stocks and bonds of Hamburg Shipyard, Voltron Shipyard, Krupp, and Siemens, making China one of the decision-makers of these companies. Military enterprises have gained dozens of times the rich returns.Wilhelm II, who focused his attention on the world war, thought it was a friendly Chinese ally's military support for Germany. In return, he generously sold several of the most advanced weapon patent technologies to China at a low price. .The two sides have reached a number of industrial product trades, and Chinese business people have learned management experience that they could not learn in more than ten years from German companies.It can be said that Guan Xuqing fully achieved his intended purpose during his trip to Germany.

The first thing Guan Xuqing did after returning to the capital was to deal with government affairs first. Faced with a large pile of documents, his scalp felt a little numb. I really don’t know how Emperor Yongzheng managed to criticize more than 1 words every day.

Guan Xuqing's attention was immediately drawn to the report by the Governor of Malaysia, Feng Guozhang. In his mind, the South China Sea was the defense center of the imperial navy. Now that the world war is coming, if there is any trouble there, it will affect the entire strategic planning of the empire.

Feng Guozhang said in the report that since he took office, he first said that the life of the local people is stable and the social order is in order. Then he changed the subject and said that for nearly half a month, when the Australian and New Zealand fleets of the British Dominion patrolled the coast of the Philippines, It has repeatedly crossed into the South China Sea, repeatedly attacked Chinese fishing boats, and robbed people of their property, posing a serious threat to China's sovereignty over territorial waters.In addition, these ships often provoked and bombarded the patrol ships stationed in the South China Sea. The coastal defense officers and soldiers endured until they got orders.

"Go and call Feng Xianghua and Liu Buchan." Wang Shang responded and rushed to the military plane.Guan Xuqing held tightly to the armrest of the throne. Today, most of the sea and land in Southeast Asia are included in the territory of the empire. Only Indonesia and the Philippines are still under the control of the British country. These two areas have become a part of the southern part of the empire. The barrier has been blocking the empire's southward movement all the time. The Australian and New Zealand fleets have violated China's territorial waters many times, taking advantage of the weak maritime defense forces of the empire in this sea area. If they don't give them some color, maybe one day they will return The north will commit crimes on a large scale, causing lasting troubles to Southeast Asia.Therefore, a bold idea is brewing in Guan Xuqing's heart...

The Sulawesi Sea is located in the southern part of the Philippine archipelago, surrounded by the Tapur Islands.The Philippine Islands are still under the actual control of the empire on which the sun never sets. The Australian and New Zealand Fleet, which consists of seven warships, is in charge of this sea area. The commander of this fleet is Colonel Simon of the Australian Navy.China's weak defense in the South China Sea has made this fleet feel like no one has been in the country for several months. Simon even thought that under the current situation, as long as the Ministry of the Navy gives an order, the Australian and New Zealand fleet can drive straight in and take down the Singapore military port.

At night, Simon's Australian and New Zealand fleet was escorting the three Chinese merchant ships that had just been looted, as well as hundreds of tons of tea and raw silk, and rushed to his country full of joy. He was sure that this harvest would be rewarded by the Admiralty.

Simon sat comfortably in the command cabin, smoking a Panama cigar, drinking pure black-brand whiskey, squinting at the dark sea outside the cabin.Suddenly, he felt the entire warship vibrate violently, and with a bang, half a bottle of whiskey fell to the ground and was smashed to pieces.

"Bastard Jack, how did you steer the boat!" Simon thought it was the driver's mistake, and yelled angrily.

"The Nottingham seems to have a mechanical breakdown," a signalman reported.

"Ask the semaphore what the hell are they doing?" Simon said angrily.

The moment Simon turned back to the cabin, the warship Aurora where he was on trembled violently. Simon staggered and fell to the ground. He clearly saw a jet of water gushing out from the port side with a height of tens of meters. The soldiers panicked and shouted loudly.

"Report to the commander, the hull below the port side has ruptured, we...we seem to be under attack!" A soldier's face was pale, and he couldn't speak clearly.

Before Simon could react, the bottoms of the other six warships exploded one after another. They desperately signaled to the Aurora Goddess: "Unknown attack, please request action orders."

Simon was very anxious. He took the binoculars and looked towards the sea surface. The sea water was sparkling under the bright moonlight. A huge black object occasionally undulating on the sea surface caught his attention. What is that?Is it a whale?Impossible, whales rarely attack ships.What the hell is that!

At this time, the semaphore from the Southampton made Simon realize, "We are under the attack of a trigger mine!" But this sea area has been under the control of the Australian and New Zealand Fleet. How can there be mines here?

"Order all warships to stop advancing!" Simon ordered decisively.

Sure enough, after the warship broke down, the series of explosions stopped, and the sea seemed to be calm again.The first officer of the Goddess of Aurora asked Simon for instructions on the next step. Simon frowned and said, "Before you figure out the situation, wait patiently here. Immediately send a telegram to the Admiralty for support."

The lightning incident just now was just the beginning of tonight's troubles. All seven warships suffered varying degrees of damage. The most damaged were the Tiger and the Princess. The front still looked so fragile, and a big hole half a meter wide was severely torn open, and sea water was poured into the main power cabin crazily, and then quickly spread to other cabins.The Tiger was like a fat man with a belly full of water, shaking constantly on the sea surface.

The Grand Princess was in even greater trouble. In addition to the damage to the port side, the rudder frame on the bottom of the ship was also blown beyond recognition, the transmission device was basically scrapped, and even the ability to drive was lost. All I could do was watch the huge hull slowly tilting.

"Colonel Simon, what should we do now, should we first find out the cause of the attack or..." the first mate asked sadly.

"No matter what the reason is, hurry up and rescue the two warships that are on the verge of sinking, that is the national treasure!" Simon's eyes were bloodshot, looking at the inclined Princess and the sinking Tiger, his heart was in a mess ball hemp.

Just when Simon was worried, trouble came again!

Someone on the deck exclaimed: "What's that!" Simon looked around, and a few big black guys gradually appeared on the sparkling sea, one, two, three... a total of seven.Simon took a look through the binoculars and was shocked: "Submarine! Submarine! Order all warships to align their guns and fight back immediately! Immediately!"

Seven submarines lined up in a butterfly formation, slowly approaching at a speed of 8 knots, and the black hole on the top of the submarine was aimed at every warship of the Anzac Fleet. For Simon, it was even more terrifying than a nightmare. .As far as he knows, only a handful of countries in the world (Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States) are currently developing submarines, but they are all still in the theoretical design stage, but suddenly a submarine formation appears in front of them. The shock and fear can no longer be described in words.

Before the ships could adjust from the panic, under the undulating waves, advanced air compression powered torpedoes drew more than a dozen white wavy lines, like a group of ferocious tiger sharks. The lower side of the Goddess.

"Full right rudder! Quick!" Simon didn't dare to blink his eyes, his pupils dilated due to panic.

However, with a displacement of more than 5000 tons, it is definitely not an easy task to adjust the hull of the Dawn Goddess in a static state.boom!boom!Amidst the two loud bangs, the Aurora Goddess vibrated violently. The soldiers on the deck were like mosquitoes without legs. Some fell, and some were directly overturned into the sea.Two torpedoes penetrated the lower hull and exploded with astonishing force in the displacement compartment.

"Close the drainage compartment! Adjust the berth!" Based on his years of combat experience at sea, Simon immediately judged that the diameter of these torpedoes was at least 230mm. In the face of such huge torpedoes, the flat armor plates of the Anzac fleet were like window paper. Same thin.

At the same time, the Grand Princess, Tiger, Southampton, Nottingham, Australia, and New Zealand continued to experience huge explosions, especially the Tiger, which had already sunk below the waterline under multiple torpedo attacks , The sea water continuously opened three drainage hatches, instantly flooding the main engine compartment and the ammunition depot.Three more torpedoes directly entered the ammunition compartment after tearing apart the steel plates of the hulls of Nottingham and New Zealand. The explosion ignited hundreds of kilograms of ammunition piled there. Burned alive.

After a wave of torpedoes, the 85mm cannon on the top of the submarine began to spit out flames frantically at the Australian and New Zealand fleet. Fleet soldiers in a mess on the deck fell in a pool of blood, and the upper control rooms of each ship were destroyed. It was riddled with holes, and the raging fire on the Tiger and New Zealand quickly engulfed everything on the deck with an unstoppable force!

"The semaphore commanded all ships to fire back quickly!" Simon hid in the command room with a hoarse voice.

After a burst of chaos, the Goddess of Aurora was the first to escape from the panic, and the three Gatling cannons on the mast plate launched an effective attack on the black back floating on the sea.Under the command of the flagship, the ships also went into battle one after another, and the machine guns and side guns spewed out flames one after another.In an instant, the water column on the sea surface undulated continuously, the water vapor evaporated into thick fog, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke.

Soaring Front: World War I Chapter 244 Submarines!submarine!

"The Reef ordered the boats to turn on the No. 2 and No. 4 suction pumps, quickly dived 20 meters, and the formation remained unchanged." Zhao Guoqiang, the leader of the command boat Reef, issued orders to the submarines with advanced radio communication devices.

Soon the entire submarine formation completed the dive, the thick fog and gunpowder smoke slowly dissipated, and the original calm was restored on the sea.Simon looked at the dark sea water, his whole body was soaked in sweat, because he knew that the danger was not lifted.

"Colonel, what should we do now?" asked the first officer of the Goddess of Dawn.

"Order the ships to keep a distance of 500 meters, keep a close watch on the situation at sea, and open the torpedo launch bay at the same time, as long as the target appears, launch the torpedo to attack." Simon turned back and said to the signal soldier: "Resend a telegram to the Admiralty, We have been attacked by an unknown submarine, please send a reinforcement fleet as soon as possible."

Under the dark sea water, in order to reduce the noise from the submarines, Zhao Guoqiang ordered each boat to turn off the main circulation pump, and the atmosphere in each submarine suddenly became extremely tense. The well-trained Chinese submarine soldiers remained dormant and did not even dare to speak Voice.

"The Octopus and the Black Dolphin detour to the tail of the enemy fleet from the side. Even if all the torpedoes are released, the enemy's Grand Princess and New Zealand must be sunk." Zhao Guoqiang ordered that the two kerosene-powered submarines Octopus and Black Dolphin , like two underwater ghosts, quietly detoured from the right side to the tail of the Anzac fleet, slowly pressurized and floated up...

The cruiser Tiger is sinking irretrievably, the sea water has swallowed up one-third of the bow deck, and the soldiers on board are transferring to other ships in kayaks in batches.

Almost two-thirds of the soldiers on the New Zealand were fighting the fire, but the fire had already spread, and almost all the combustibles on the upper deck of the ship were reduced to ashes. The bottom of the boat is pouring backwards.

"The Gulang and the Tigershark turned around to the left side of the enemy's flagship Aurora, released two torpedoes after surfacing, and then dived quickly. The other three submarines deployed mines to the south of the enemy ship." The first phase of the Imperial Sea University Graduate Zhao Guoqiang calmly made an attack deployment.

"Octopus, Black Dolphin, eight for each boat, four batches, target at 90 degrees, launch!"

Following the command of Wang Hui, the leader of the Octopus, a narrow white light erupted from the front of the two submarines at a depth of more than ten meters. The first batch of two air-compressed torpedoes aimed at the scarred Princess. The location is coming at a high speed.

The signalman on the Grand Princess was the first to discover the torpedo, and shouted in panic: "Two torpedoes were found 600 meters to the north, and they are attacking the position of our warship!"

At the same time, the communicator on the Dawn Goddess also reported: "Two torpedoes were found 900 meters to the northeast, and they are attacking our warship at high speed!"

Simon was taken aback, opened his mouth and couldn't speak. He knew in his heart that his warship couldn't escape at such a close distance. He could only watch the torpedo rushing towards this side at high speed. The propeller at the tail of the torpedo shot out two long The swipe trajectory, the feeling seems to be seeing the god of death is coming.

Boom... Two torpedoes hit the Grand Princess first and exploded violently. After only 2 minutes, the entire hull had rolled to 20 degrees. The soldiers on the ship threw away all their equipment and jumped into the water one after another. The soldiers who couldn't swim were quickly submerged by the waves. Before the other soldiers could wait for the rescue kayaks, they encountered fierce fire from the submarine's machine guns, and the sea water was quickly dyed red.

The Grand Princess was carrying more than 610 soldiers, and after another 5 minutes, two thirds of the hull were swallowed up by the sea water, and the loud sound of the broken steel plates spread far along the sea surface, which was creepy.In the end, only less than 30 soldiers and sailors jumped into the sea to escape, and the rest were all taken into the deep sea by the Grand Princess.

The frantic cruiser New Zealand immediately rushed to the torpedo-launching Octopus, frantically throwing torpedoes at the Octopus, but after launching the first wave of torpedoes, the Octopus quickly dived forward, even away from the princess. The sinking of the No. 300 is only about 760 meters away.At this time, the New Zealand was just within the range of the Black Dolphin, and the entire side of the New Zealand was almost completely exposed in front of the Black Dolphin. Two torpedoes were fired in salvo.

Two torpedoes hit the right front side of New Zealand's hull, one of which broke the entire bow, and the other also blasted the hull with a large opening with a diameter of 5 meters.Seawater poured into the hull without hindrance, and in less than 2 minutes, hundreds of tons of seawater pressed the entire front of the hull into the water, the tail of the hull was raised high, and the two huge propellers were idling at high speed.The relatively weak flat armor plate could not bear the weight of several thousand tons at the rear of the hull. After a loud rattle, the hull began to break from the middle, and the entire rear hull fell heavily on the sea.The broken hull accelerated the sinking speed, and in less than 3 minutes, the sea water had submerged the New Zealand above the waterline.

The tiger shark and the Gulang submarine aimed at the same target at the same time, the flagship of the Anzac fleet, the Aurora, and two torpedoes hit her left side almost simultaneously. The huge explosion even threw the ship's capital out of the water, and then hit the fell down.Overpressure-negative pressure-the huge tension of the overpressure completely broke the steel plate at the front of the hull. Although the girder was only severely bent and not broken, several large pieces of cracked steel plates made the entry of seawater appear extremely smooth.The rapidly influx of seawater even broke through the deck to form a high water column. The girder of the hull could no longer withstand the pressure and broke suddenly, and the entire hull was also broken into two pieces. It sank to the bottom of the sea together with this warship.

Simon finally boarded the Australia, and immediately ordered all warships to move south at full speed.

This time, the four submarines including Octopus just took a powerful attack position, and launched a fierce attack on the remaining three enemy ships from the left and right wings.