Q Province's Renaissance Army headquarters had already completed the expansion of four infantry brigades, with three infantry divisions and nine infantry brigades. Each infantry brigade currently had 6000 soldiers. Chu Tianyun naturally wanted to complete the allocation of one division and three brigades. Then, he would form a division with 24 75mm Mountain Cannons!
The artillery of the infantry brigade was mainly a 40mm grenade launcher, coupled with a 12-gun mortar battalion.
Chu Tianyun had no choice. He hoped to increase the firepower of the artillery by more than three times, but he did not have the money. The infantry divisions of the western countries each had hundreds of cannons, and their caliber far exceeded 75mm. Those heavy cannons with a caliber of more than 100mm would be killing machines in China!
Industrial production could not keep up. There was not enough industrial power to complete such a high firepower configuration!
As for the heavy machine guns, they were the most important part of Chu Tianyun's firepower configuration. At the end of World War I, the machine gun configuration of the three European countries, Britain, France, and Germany, had reached 150 machine guns per infantry brigade.
Chu Tianyun's machine gun configuration was divided into infantry battalions. Each infantry battalion had two Maxim heavy machine guns, and with the addition of a brigade-level machine gun battalion, there were about 20 heavy machine guns!
In the country, other than the Feng army, which had such a configuration, there were also elite troops from the Wan family. Chu Tianyun's firepower configuration should be the highest.
"Report!"
"From Hangzhou, Lu Yongxiang, the inspector of the three southeastern provinces, sent a telegram!”
Chu Tianyun was lying on the map of southwest Zhejiang. He was staring at the railway that ran from east to west. One of the sections happened to pass through Q Province.
East to Tianhai, west to Jiangcheng, this railway that ran from east to west covered a quarter of the Yangtze River. Along the route, there were convenient water transport points from various tributaries of the Yangtze River!
(This railway is purely fabricated, don't take it seriously…)
At present, the Zhejiang operation rights of this railway were in the hands of an island country investment consortium. When they first bought the operation rights, they paid a price of only 20 million yuan!!!
This Japanese investment consortium was simply robbing them!
"Commander, Lu Yongxiang wants our autonomous coalition government to join the Zhejiang system. All military spending will be provided by Hangzhou. At the same time, Lu Yongxiang has written a check of 5 million yuan, hoping that the commander will be under him!”
Chu Tianyun had close to 20,000 men under his command. Compared to Chu Yonglong's original 11th Division, both the number of combat weapons and the number of soldiers were much more than that of the original 11th Division, except for the lack of combat experience.
Therefore, Chu Tianyun was now known as Marshal Chu!
After Chen Luo finished speaking, he immediately stood at attention. Lu Yongxiang really thought that he had become a real patrolling inspector with real power like Zhang Zuolin!
One had to know that Zhang Zuolin had been in charge of the northeast for many years. The Feng army under him was even more powerful in the Dragon Country. His patrol envoy of the three northeastern provinces was the real feudal lord who ruled the three northeastern provinces!
As for Lu Yongxiang's Patrol Envoy, it was just a means for Duan Zhirui to win the hearts of the people. The many armies in the southeast were not convinced by each other. For example, although Chu Tianyun's Renaissance Army was nominally under the command of Hangzhou, the financial, military, and political power were all concentrated in Chu Tianyun's hands. It was impossible for Lu Yongxiang to interfere!
"Draw up a telegram for me. Tell them that I, Chu Tianyun, am very willing to be transferred to Hangzhou and join the Zhejiang Army, but my subordinates are unwilling. I, Chu Tianyun, cannot go against their wishes!”
Chen Luo chuckled. He understood Chu Tianyun's meaning. If that was the case, then Lu Yongxiang could only swallow his bitterness in silence!
"Marshal, we have found out about the railway. This Japanese investment consortium is the Japanese consortium!”
Since 1873, the consortium had been focusing on the transportation industry. It had received the support of the Japanese royal family and had built many warships for the Japanese navy. From this, it could be seen that the consortium's funds were extremely rich!
"At present, there are many factories in Tianhai in the China's Samsung branch. In the Japanese concession in Tianhai, they have repeatedly invaded.|"They have violated the interests of our Dragon Country and the interests of the factory workers. They have been deducted by these Japanese people!”
Bang!
Chu Tianyun was furious. No one in China knew the Japanese better than Chu Tianyun about the deep-rooted bad habits of the Yamato people and their greed for the land of the Dragon Kingdom.| The heart of greed.
"Chen Luo, Jiaozhou is currently in the hands of the Japanese, right?”
In 1914, taking advantage of the outbreak of World War I, Japan sent troops to the Jiaozhou Peninsula and occupied the entire Jiaozhou territory from the hands of the Japanese. As such, the Japanese held the railway, iron ore, and land tightly in their hands!
"Marshal, regardless of whether it's the Feng lineage, the direct lineage, or the Wan lineage, they have all maintained a silent attitude towards Jiaozhou. In order to obtain the support of Japan and suppress the D people, the British have also tacitly agreed to the series of actions of the Japanese in Jiaozhou and the three eastern provinces.”
There were also conflicts between the big powers. It was impossible to allow one to be dominant. What the big powers had to do was to do their best to maintain their interests in China.
After a moment of silence, Chu Tianyun also quieted down. Although Japan was an island country, its industrial strength was definitely not something that the Southeast Renaissance Army could compete with.
"Marshal, if you insist on getting the railway operation rights, then we will definitely be on the opposite side of the consortium!”
"Humph, the railway belongs to us, the people of China. You want to buy a railway for five million silver dollars? I, Chu Tianyun, don't agree with the Japanese's plan. Moreover, the purpose of our current Q State's autonomous coalition government is to abolish the unequal treaty that the foreign powers have in our Dragon Country!”
"Inform the 1st regiment of the 1st regiment to immediately set off along the railway tonight and station near the train station in Q Province!!”
"We have to end this quickly and not give the Japanese any time to react. Other than the troops in Tianhai, none of the Japanese troops in the southeast can pose a threat to the hinterland of our Q Province!!”
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