Lin Youde took her with him almost everywhere he went this week, asking her to accompany him to inspect the results of nearly a year of "cultivation" in the "experimental field" in Northern Luzon. Lin Youde's move triggered a lot of speculation, but Only Chen Haihui accurately grasped the essence.
"He's just picking up girls." Chen Haihui said this to everyone, and without exception received all kinds of contempt from each other.
After Josephine left Northern Luzon and returned to Indochina, she submitted a long report to the Ministry of War of the French Republic. The core content of the report was to increase troops in French Indochina to prepare for "certain future events caused by rapidly expanding nationalism." incident".
This report coincided with the French government's intention to further carve up China. So in early 1898, the reinforcements Josephine expected set off from French Algeria. Their actions were even more aggressive than the Netherlands, which nominally owned the East Indies. Quickly.
During the Lunar New Year in 1898, all European countries knew that the Chinese who occupied the Philippines were preparing for a new war. A European reporter commented on this situation: On the one hand, China, as the largest invaded country in the world, is preparing for a new war. Like the once huge Inca Empire, which was cannibalized by European civilization, on the other hand, the Chinese are planning a war of aggression against European countries. It seems that the dying huge country is just a phantom of European expectations.
Lin Youde didn't care about this. He settled down in Horangabo and concentrated on planning the war he envisioned.
He was surprised to find that Xiang Qiyi, an old fox, actually spent half a year cleaning up his occupied area after the initial bad situation. This veteran ** boss had neither Lin Youde's advanced ideas nor the The cheat code that can increase the overall status, but still relied on traditional methods to rectify the security of the occupied areas, stabilize prices and people's livelihood, and with the assistance of white officers from Mexico, they completed the second town of the Nanyang Army, which was originally just a ragtag group of people. training.
This made Lin Youde admire him very much. He was able to achieve this by relying on traditional methods and his own connections. Xiang Qiyi, an old fox, should not be underestimated.
After Lin Youde visited Manila, the Second Town of the Nanyang Army controlled by Xiangyi also began war mobilization. As compensation for Lin Youde's unilateral agreement with the Americans on the timetable, Lin Youde provided a large amount of military supplies to the Second Town.
In this way, the Chinese war machine in the Philippines began to operate at full speed.
For Lin Youde, the goal of the war is to control the main oil-producing areas in the East Indies and Sumatra, leaving other places to Xiang Qiyi's second town. The purpose of controlling oil-producing areas goes without saying, and controlling Sumatra has There are two major reasons. First, Sumatra is the main rubber and palm oil producing area in the East Indies, and the plantations are highly profitable. The second is Malacca.
By controlling Malacca and Subic Bay, the future Nanyang Fleet will be able to block the throat of this maritime crossroads.
At the beginning of 1898, the Nanyang Army's First Town had expanded to more than 15,000 people, and the Hailufeng Mixed Association had also expanded to 7,000 people. In addition, the Nanyang Army's armed Shenji Jinguo Battalion had more than 2,000 regular accompanying troops. Lin Youde has nearly 25,000 regular troops in his hands.
The troops are basically equipped with Maxins and artillery in accordance with the U.S. Army's organization, and the rifles have long been replaced by the famous Winchester M1873 from the U.S. Army at the beginning of the uprising - every Hollywood Western hero will definitely use this gun.
Footage of the legendary gun battle survives.
In order to equip the entire first town with m1873, Lin Youde spent a lot of money. In fact, at this time, the pinnacle of manual magazine rifles, the Mauser 1898, had been developed, but the Germans' own army was not fully equipped yet.
There is no market price.
Since this m1873 is an old gun, there are many second-hand guns on the market, and the US government has opened up the supply, so it is very easy to buy.
Lin Youde's own chief mechanic Catalina is still working hard to improve the Dingyou-type flower mechanism, and has developed two improved models in one year. Because Lin Youde consciously put Catalina in contact with Chinese mechanism craftsmen, the Nordic girls have absorbed a lot of them.
The advantages of mechanism technology in terms of versatility have reduced the cost of guns a lot, but they are still expensive materials in arms. Lin Youde can only equip them for grassroots officers, and he can barely reach the level of one squad per squad in the Hailufeng Mixed Association.
The equipment density...
As for the rocket launcher, the supply is open. Catalina has developed a lightweight version of the disposable rocket launcher. Lin Youde's factory in Guangzhou can make 30 rocket launchers a day. Hailufeng Mixing Association basically has one for two people. In this era, there are still
No other country's military has such a crazy firepower configuration.
In general, due to the existence of Lin Youde, a time traveler, the Nanyang Army's most elite assault force, the Hailufeng Mixed Association, has individual firepower that far exceeds that of the major armies of this era.
But when it came to artillery, Lin Youde had no choice. The entire Nanyang Army was equipped with artillery replaced by the Americans, with only a small number of new artillery. Lin Youde really wanted to buy Krupp heavy artillery, but the Qing government secretly blocked his and the Germans' plans.
Contact, and German businessmen seemed more willing to sell the cannon to Yuan Shikai.
The equipment of Xiang Quyi's second town is naturally far inferior to that of Lin Youde's first town and Hailufeng Mixed Association, but it has more soldiers. Xiang Quyi actually mobilized more than 50,000 infantrymen. Each soldier of these troops
The ammunition in hand was only half or even less than that of Lin Youde's soldiers, and live-fire training was out of the question. The firearms were all made in a mess of all nations. Only the nearly 10,000 people who were direct descendants of Xiang Qiyi were well-equipped.
But there is strength in numbers, and Xiang Qiyi and the gang of old gangsters understand this very well.
In terms of unconventional combat power, Lin Youde has the newly formed Nanyang Army's armed Shenji Women's Battalion, mainly the Guangzhou Shenji Battalion pulled out by Nie Xueqiu. Lin Youde has supplemented them with a batch of new alchemy armors and guided weapons. This battalion
In this way, it became the only organized shrine unit in the hands of Lin Youde and even the entire Nanyang Army. The high-level shrines from Kashima Taisha Shrine were incorporated into the general reserve team for the campaign by Lin Youde. These high-level shrines are very precious combat effectiveness.
Lin Youde planned to use them as his "502nd Heavy Tank Battalion".
Originally, Lin Youde was planning to set up his own general camp, but his financial resources began to be somewhat stretched. Nanyang Bank and Lin Ji were certainly powerful tools for making money, but in the past few months, they had given Yuan Shikai financial support, leased fleets, and
They relied on military supplies to support the direction, and also prepared their own troops for war, so the turnover was somewhat inefficient.