While most people in China were still at a loss for the sudden European war, Sichuan had already begun to harvest. The first batch of German university teachers and students to arrive in Sichuan totaled 200 people. They all took the train from Shandong.
After arriving in Shanghai, they then transferred to a ship to Chongqing. The last part of the journey was by train to Chengdu. The person responsible for receiving them was Zhang Lan, the Minister of Education of Sichuan. According to the plan, these students will be temporarily placed in Sichuan University, but it will not be merged into the university.
Sichuan University, but as a team to prepare for the establishment of Southwest University of Technology.
After they arrived in Sichuan, they found that they had entered a completely new world. The streets were full of well-dressed people walking hurriedly, especially the women wearing gorgeous cheongsams with slits that exceeded their thighs and flesh-colored stockings.
The snow-white skin was looming, making those energetic students feel dizzy.
In many people's impressions, Shanghai is the most open place in China, with bright lights and bright lights, and people showing off their individuality everywhere. However, it is unexpected that the degree of openness of Sichuan, which is far inland, is higher than that of Shanghai. Moreover,
Ordinary people on the streets seemed not to have seen this, and were obviously used to it.
Not far from the train station, there is a newly built road. Workers are busy with construction. Their dark muscles are covered with sweat. There are several construction sites not far away. It seems that they are building Western-style buildings. The entire Chengdu
It's like a big construction site, busy but still in order.
"Minister Zhang, Sichuan's construction is indeed the best in the country. The scale of the streets and buildings is far greater than that of Shanghai. When I was in Shandong, I heard that Qiao's inspection methods in local governance were amazing. Now I see that what he said is true.
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The speaker was a German scholar in his fifties. His name was Liu Changshan, a Chinese language teacher at Dehua University. He had passed the Juren Examination in the former Qing Dynasty and was very knowledgeable. He was mainly responsible for this group of students.
"Teacher Liu, Chengdu has indeed changed a lot in the past few years. The road in front of us has been widened three times. However, with the outbreak of the European War and the gathering of European and American businessmen, Sichuan will probably have greater development!"
There were not many German teachers, but Zhang Lan took everyone around a street and temporarily arranged these students into a student apartment. Several German teachers arranged special villas. Everything was arranged properly. These students started
A new life in Sichuan.
The war situation in Europe was unfolding rapidly. After Germany declared war, it first attacked Luxembourg, and then attacked Belgium. Soon the whole of Belgium fell, and the German army continued to march into France. The two destined enemies began to fight to the death.
At this time, Qiao Yuzheng, Jiang Baili, and Wu Tong, who were in Sichuan, gathered in the office. A huge Western European sand table was placed on the table. The three of them carefully deduced the development of the war situation based on the telegrams sent from Europe.
Wu Tong spoke first: "Commander, Mr. Jiang, in this European war, Germany and France are the main warring parties. The other countries are only playing a supporting role. Looking at the current situation, the German army has obvious power.
On top of the French army, after occupying Belgium, hundreds of thousands of German troops have marched into France and are heading straight for Paris. Once Paris is captured, France may not be able to sustain itself, and the war will end quickly!
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"Otherwise, Chief of Staff Wu, I have been in Germany for a while. Germany's national and military strength is second to none in Europe, but Germany also has a fatal weakness. That is, the victory of the Franco-Prussian War made the upper echelons of Germany a little forgetful. Even the Kaiser.
Down to the ordinary German people, they firmly believe that they can win quickly. Although there are some worried voices, it is obvious that this voice does not occupy the mainstream. A country that underestimates its enemy may not be able to defeat its opponent no matter how powerful it is, and France does not
It needs to be defeated. As long as we can draw, we can use the huge resource advantages of the Allies to bring down Germany. I think the winner is still the Allies!" Jiang Baili expressed his opinion, and then looked at Qiao Yu...
"Inspector, I wonder what you think of the outcome of this war?"
"Haha, why don't you two take a guess?"
"Commander, looking at your arrangement, I think the Allies will win, but I also have some doubts. For example, everyone now mainly believes that no matter which side wins, the battle will end within a few months. If this is the case, we in Sichuan will be so
It is not worthwhile to adjust the industrial and commercial structure on a large scale. Does the commander-in-chief think that this is a protracted war that will last for more than a few years?" Wu Tong asked at the side.
Qiao Yu smiled at the two men: "My judgment is that there is no winner, it is just a lose-lose outcome. The key to this war lies in the first month. If Germany can quickly defeat France, then the victory will be determined.
, but Mr. Jiang said that the Germans made the same mistake that all victors make, that is, being overly arrogant. This arrogance made Germany lose its only possibility of victory. Although the Allies had a geographical advantage, the three parties were infighting.
At most, it’s just a partial victory!”
Wu Tong and Jiang Baili were both listening to Qiao Yu's words. Although they still had doubts about the inspection judge's judgment, they also knew that Qiao Yu was always very accurate in his judgment of problems, so they believed most of it in their hearts.
"Mr. Jiang, modern war is the ultimate competition of scientific and technological resources of an era. After all, it must be guided by advanced strategic thinking. The Europeans' brains have not yet completely changed, and they will pay a heavy price for this!"
The war situation in Europe did develop as Qiao Yu said. The Germans had a smooth journey, but they obviously did not realize that the French were not defeated, but a planned retreat. Finally, the Germans pursued them to the Marne River, and the French along with them
The British Expeditionary Force was also ready to counterattack, and at this time the war began in Asia.
At this time, Longkou Beach was full of Japanese corpses, and the smell of corpses rose straight into the sky. More than 300 Japanese landing troops had been annihilated here. All this was naturally done by the German army.
Japan's plan to attack Qingdao was to use the navy to blockade Jiaozhou Bay, then land the army from Longkou, penetrate directly behind Qingdao, and conquer Qingdao in one fell swoop. This plan can be said to be very complete, but they got one thing wrong, that is, the Japanese knew
There were only more than 3,000 German defenders in Qingdao, and even if temporary mobilization was included, they would not exceed 5,000. That's why they dared to land in such a brazen manner, because it was impossible for Germany to divide its forces to stop it.
After a group of Japanese soldiers landed on land, they started camping to prepare sufficient conditions for the incoming large force. The Japanese soldiers who had been busy for a day took a rest. Even the sentries were a little exhausted at this time. Just when they were sleeping soundly
, more than a dozen artillery shells streaked across the sky, showing a graceful arc and hitting the Japanese military camp. A huge explosion was heard instantly, and dozens of Japanese soldiers who were still sleeping lost their lives.
Other Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to survive started to fight in search of guns. At this moment, another round of artillery shells fell. The Japanese camp had become a sea of flames under the fierce artillery fire. Under the cover of the artillery fire,
More and more figures jumped up from the darkness, firing hot bullets from the rifles in their hands, killing Japanese soldiers who were panicking and choosing their way out.
The troops who came to ambush the Japanese landing troops were all wearing German military uniforms, but they all had Oriental faces. These were the bandit troops Qiao Yu provided to Germany. Germany had barely gathered 5,000 people in Qingdao. With this,
The troops were unable to hold Qingdao at all, and Governor Meyerwardek turned pale with sorrow. However, he actually received a guarantee from the domestic authorities that more than 6,000 troops would join his side...
The German governor obviously did not believe this telegram. Could it be that he was joking at home? Does Germany still have so many troops in the Far East? However, more than ten days later, the first batch of soldiers arrived in Qingdao, which made the German governor suddenly
To my surprise, there were hundreds of Germans among these people. They were all German workers working in Sichuan. In addition, there were hundreds of heavily armed Easterners. They all used German equipment and wore German clothes.
If he saw the military uniform, yellow skin and black eyes, Meyerwadek almost thought he was a German general.
However, the governor quickly figured out the situation. These troops were mercenaries provided to Germany by a powerful Chinese figure. There were as many as 5,000 people. With the joining of these people, the power in the hands of the governor had exceeded
Ten thousand people, this also expanded the governor's ambitions and diversified his tactical choices.
Of course, the governor still didn't trust these Chinese bandit soldiers, so he left all the Germans who had risen together in Qingdao to defend the fortress, and sent 700 Chinese bandit soldiers to attack the Japanese who landed.
The leader was named Hun Jianglong, and his men carried a total of twenty mortars to attack the Japanese military camp.
"Brother, look at how powerful this German equipment is. If our brothers had this kind of equipment at that time, maybe the Sichuan army wouldn't be able to catch us. Otherwise, we would run away now and stop working for the Germans. Here is
Shandong, not Sichuan, let’s just occupy a place and continue to be the king of the mountain!”
Hun Jianglong did not speak, but kept wiping the rifle in his hand, "Lao San, during the past few months of road construction in Sichuan, I wanted to understand one thing. One cannot live his whole life doing evil things, he must always make some noise.
Otherwise, this skin will be in vain. I don’t know anything else, but Shandong is our territory. The Japanese and Germans are fighting in our place, and those officials don’t dare to step in. I
If you are not afraid, your life will be ruined. If you can kill one more Japanese, your life will not be in vain!"
These bandit soldiers may not really understand why they want to attack the Japanese, but they all have a surge of pride from the bottom of their hearts. This time is different from the previous raids on homes and houses. A mortar attack caused chaos in the Japanese military camp and caused heavy casualties.
Most of the bandit soldiers were people with excellent marksmanship, and soon the dead bodies of Japanese soldiers were lying on the ground.