He didn't expect the Japanese to arrange for a shooter. This must be their trump card.
"Everyone, be careful. The Japanese have sharpshooters.”Xiao Shenglin shouted.
He immediately determined the general location of the shooter and began to change his position. He rolled to a small ditch by the side of the road.
Although there were many of these spies, they were at an overwhelming disadvantage in terms of firepower.
When the shooter saw this, he began to change his target and aimed at other soldiers.
Xiao Shenglin took a fancy machine gun from a dead guard and fired at the men in black who were shooting from afar.
When the bullets hit their heads, some blood sprayed out in the air.
" Retreat, Natsuye-kun."
"But?"
"The mission has failed. The enemy has automatic firearms, and we have short guns. We can't suppress their firepower at all. When their reinforcements arrive, none of us can escape.”
Soon, these men in black gave up on attacking and took turns to cover, not even caring about the corpses of their fallen teammates.
"Don't chase, protecting the young marshal is more important.”
Seven of the guards were killed, five were injured, and two were seriously injured. The other soldiers were giving them first aid, but it seemed that they could not hold on any longer.
Xiao Shenglin said," Hurry up and send the injured brothers back to the city.”
"But, Major."
"It's okay. Reinforcements are coming soon. Don't you feel an earthquake? It's our cavalry."
"Thank you, Major." The platoon leader was very touched. He quickly called out to his subordinates to get the injured soldiers into the car and bring them back to Jinan City for treatment.
"Giddyup!"
A long line of cavalrymen was rushing toward the scene of the accident. They were charging around, causing the other people who were rushing to the side of the road to dodge to avoid being trampled to death.
"Young Marshal, what's wrong?" Ma Lianhong said to Xiao Shenglin.
"A few little thieves, let me send them away.”Xiao Shenglin knew that he had been assassinated, so it was better not to make a big fuss about it.
... A few guards died, and it was still a small matter?
However, since the commander said so, he could only give up. He collected the dead soldiers and brought them back to Jinan.
After this incident, the Japanese had given up on using force. They would not use force in the future. Instead, they would use assassination or honey traps.
After this time, Xiao Shenglin planned to add a sniper department to the newly established Jinan Lu Shi.
However, China's industry was too poor, so they could only go to Germany to get some optical technology.
Not to mention the holographic and red dots, he had to get at least a 4x and 8x scope.
When they returned to the Xiao Mansion in Jinan, Xiao Shengnan was a little nervous and asked,"Who could it be?"”
"They should be Japanese, don't worry.”Xiao Shenglin waved his hand and went to wash up. The grass and mud all over his body were detrimental to his image.
Baoding Military Academy had been closed. Xiao Shengnan had used some connections to invite some local and foreign instructors. The location of the military academy had also been chosen, and construction was underway.
Xiao Shenglin was very ambitious. He suggested to his sister to establish two military schools, one army officer school and one army university.
One was used to train middle and low-level military schools, and the other was used to train high-level military officers. Jinling had also set up a military university.
"Are you crazy? You want to build navy, army, and air force military schools? That's too much money. We only have one province's territory, and I'm not someone who can scrape three feet off the ground. "Xiao Shengnan did some calculations.
Last year, Shandong's financial revenue was 1 million yuan, which was also 1 million yuan in Xinlu bills.
One yuan for a Lu bill was equivalent to 300 yuan in modern times, and Shandong had a population of 30 million.
If it was distributed to everyone, each person would only earn 0.11 yuan. The wealth created by a person in a year was only 33 yuan. How poor was that?
No wonder those warlords wanted to tax the country for fifty or even a hundred years.
At that time, China was still a country with heavy taxes on agriculture. Industry and commerce were not good at all. How could they have money? Dream on.
After occupying the territory, the Xiao siblings were the only warlords in China who invested money into the construction. The rest were mostly making money, just short of robbing.
"So, I'm not going to make money. I just need to survive these few years. When we become strong, we won't have to be afraid of the Japanese.”Xiao Shenglin was not afraid of the Japanese. The four islands in Japan combined were not even as big as Shandong. What was there to be afraid of?
As long as they couldn't take the northeast, they wouldn't have the capital to fight.
The foreigners would not support them now, and Japan did not have much financial income. If they wanted to fight, they could only issue bonds, and only their own citizens would pay.
It was fine in the short term, but it was almost a dream in the long term.
Xiao Shenglin dared to think that it had been almost 70 years since the Meiji Restoration. They still had a lot of talent reserves to become a superpower. He was an unreliable system, but he wanted to catch up with Japan, which had developed its industry for half a century, in a few years. He was too willful.
The industrial countries in the world today, the old England and France, the emerging Germany and America, and Russia, although somewhat crude, were still above the Japanese.
The most important thing was steel. Warships, weapons, and railroads all needed it. In this aspect, Japan was trampled under the feet of other countries. There was a gap of dozens of times between Japan and the United States, which was number one.
The iron mines in Shandong had just begun to be developed, and the steel mill had just been put into use. The steel produced was not even comparable to that of Japan.
Xiao Shenglin wanted to take a cruise ship, but he changed his mind. It was safer to take a warship.
On the 20th day of the first lunar month, he boarded a special train with two beautiful twin girls. He bid farewell to his sister and the others before heading to Qing Dao.
Shandong was not the three northeastern provinces, so the Japanese forces were not deep. In addition to the previous incident, most of the Japanese had left Shandong, so Xiao Shenglin did not have to worry about following in the footsteps of the two Marshal Zhang.
At present, Qing Dao was the largest military port in China after Lushun. This was thanks to the construction of the German and Japanese.
He did not know how the system managed to do it, but the Japanese did not destroy the cannons and equipment. They left everything behind.
Chen Shaokuan was currently busy training the Marine Corps and establishing the Navy Academy. He was tired, but he was very happy.
He almost used all his skills to write letters to his classmates, colleagues, and teachers. He pulled many people over. This was the effect of connections.
Just like his sister, Xiao Shengnan, as long as he had the money, it was not difficult to establish a military school.
This guy somehow found out that Xiao Shenglin was rich again. He had been pestering Xiao Shenglin since early in the morning, asking him to build two warships.
"Commander Chen, you're a general who leads troops.”Xiao Shenglin was speechless. How shameless.
"Young Marshal, you took my flagship away. Aren't you going to compensate me?”
"That's borrowing. No, that ship was originally mine. You're borrowing a chicken to lay eggs.”
"I don't care." Chen Shaokuan unbuttoned his white navy uniform and took off his brimmed hat, looking like he was going to pester him.
"Alright, alright, alright. I'll give you a million Lu votes.”
Chen Shaokuan stretched out three fingers and said," Young Marshal, you have to understand me. Look at me, Old Chen. I went to work on the third day of the new year. Is it easy for me to run a military academy and train soldiers?"”
"Alright, alright, alright. I'll give you some face at your age. Two million.”Xiao Shenglin also did not dare to build warships wantonly, or else the foreign powers would immediately come to him and force him to sign a treaty to reduce military forces.
According to the treaty, the total weight of the Japanese cruisers was limited to 100,000 tons. If it was converted to a heavy cruiser of 10,000 tons, there would be less than ten of them.
But this time, the Japanese did not join the treaty.
The fuel used by the warships was imported, which was very expensive. After all, China had yet to develop oil fields.
This was also a big worry for Xiao Shenglin. He could only import from the United States like Japan and store them.
Xiao Shenglin knew that there were oil fields in Shandong. However, he did not have the ability to develop it. If it was for financing, it might attract the Japanese.
He could only wait until his wings were full before making plans. At this stage, it would definitely benefit others.
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