The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Jiang Cheng is not stupid. After sitting here for a while, he can understand what the Marshal is going to do just by looking at today's personnel configuration.

Isn't it just planning to send his troops south to help He Fenglin and Lu Yongxiang fight Qi Xieyuan and Wu Peifu?
Yang Yuting even said: If you don’t help this place, you will lose Shandong!

It's not that he doesn't want to help, he also understands the importance of this matter.

But Jiang Cheng just hated being put here and doing things under coercion and inducement.

And the way Zhang Hanqing looked at him, he knew clearly that he was well aware that he was pretending to be confused.

But this "stupidity" is not clear enough.

Because sending troops to Shanghai, although it was absolutely necessary for him to protect Shandong, it was not the only way.

In other words, Jiang Cheng had to get some more chips from the Marshal.

After taking a deep breath, the Marshal made his point clear.

He ordered Zhang Hanqing to lead his troops through the pass, directly to Shanghai, and then help Lu Yongxiang stabilize Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai;

The reason why Jiang Cheng was asked to come was not to let him serve in the army, but to let him serve in the navy!
I always thought that the Marshal wanted to draw his Jilin Army, but I didn't expect that he wanted the navy.

But after a brief moment of shock, Jiang Cheng quickly calmed down.

What a good old fox, you really have a good plan - you pull out the entire navy that I just rebuilt and use it as a troop transport for your son;
That's fine, but once the army lands in Shanghai, will my fleet still have to drift on the Bund of the Huangpu River, with our guns pointed at the shore to provide support at any time, leaving a way out for your son?
He was a little angry, but he didn't show it.

He was waiting for the second half of the Marshal's promise of "reward", but the other party was silent at the critical moment - it was obvious that he was going to make his trip in vain.

"Master, I'm not helping the situation... It's just that the sea has been a bit uneasy lately, and winter is coming soon. A large number of merchant ships will be imported in these few months."

Jiang Cheng quickly found an excuse, "If the escort fleet is withdrawn, the merchant fleet will be in trouble."

Jiang Dengxuan immediately understood what he meant and quickly added, "Marshal Yu, when I was working in Harbin, I often heard about the rampant pirates and the Japanese often took the opportunity to make money—"

"If we withdraw the fleet to Shanghai, it will not only cause problems in Vladivostok and the Tumen River, but will also be detrimental to Yingkou and Huludao."

How smart is the Marshal?

A pair of dark eyes quickly swept across the two of them, and immediately revealed a vigilant smile: "Don't hide your wicked mind... It is said that you, Jiang Feilan, have a magic needle that can stabilize the sea,"

"But I'm not lending it to you for free like Sun Wukong was lending it to the Dragon King!"

After saying this, the Marshal glanced at Jiang Dengxuan and said, "If the dust settles in Shanghai, when we enter the customs again in the future, let you guys with 72 transformations enter the customs first and take the lead. Is that okay?"

"In addition, the military expenses for this expedition will be paid from my account!"

Jiang Cheng stopped.

The Marshal has already made it clear that there will be a battle with the Zhili clique in the future, and he easily intends to give the credit to himself and Jiang Dengxuan!
Very good, if that's the case, then the future governor of Zhili...will belong to my brother.

Once this happens, Zhili and Shandong will be connected. Will I still be afraid of anyone?
After a brief moment of contemplation, the Marshal saw that he didn't say anything, and thought that this little bit of "benefits" would not satisfy the brat, so he immediately pretended to be angry and slapped his thigh like an old child: "Fuck it, that's enough!"

"I've already told you that I'm in charge of the military expenses, what else do you want? Do you want me to stand up and kowtow to you?" Jiang Cheng was amused by this old rogue, and he quickly bowed and said, "Hey, Master, you're shortening my life!"

"When I heard you were so kind to me, I was thinking about how to mobilize troops and help my brother to cross the ocean to Hainan."

"Hehe... and I'm also thinking about the dance halls in the foreign land, but I haven't been there for years!"

The Marshal was so amused by his words that he raised his hand and pointed at his nose repeatedly: "You little bastard, you are so slick and have no sense of propriety. Send a telegram to your father one day and I will give you twenty military sticks first."

Jiang Cheng pretended to beg for mercy with a smile, but when his eyes fell on Zhang Hanqing's face, he realized that this young commander, who had said nothing from beginning to end, had a hint of jealousy in his cold eyes.

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The troops boarded the ship in Yingkou, and the fleet left the port under the cover of night and sailed out of the Bohai Strait under a sky full of stars.

Jiang Cheng took off his military cap, leaned his arms on the fence and looked out - the moonlight was bright tonight, and it was shining all over the vast waves that came into view.

He was a border guard in his previous life. Strictly speaking, this was his first time on a warship.

What’s even more dramatic is that this huge and fierce fleet is his.

After being modified and expanded in the past three years...his fleet is almost as powerful as the Combined Fleet.

It will continue to develop. He knew very well that the German engineers were planning to build a new type of battleship based on the design blueprint he gave.

The Construction Bureau also began theoretical research on this 6-ton battleship in June this year, and conducted feasibility studies on its weapons, armor and speed:
The displacement is 5 tons, the waterline length is 260 meters, the width is 36 meters, the full load draft is 10.7 meters, and the maximum speed is 27 knots.

In terms of protection, it can withstand 2 mm shells at a distance of 3 to 403 meters; the ship's side can withstand the hit of a 250 kg torpedo.

In terms of firepower, Jiang Cheng proposed to install four twin-mounted 403mm main guns, 4mm secondary guns, 150mm long-range anti-aircraft guns, and 105mm short-range anti-aircraft guns.

Once such terrifying parameters were proposed, these German engineers who had seen the world were dumbfounded.

You have to know that was in 1921. Even in Germany several years later, the Hindenburg class was aborted due to its overly abnormal design, and it was not built until the end of World War II.

Now...is it possible with just them?
However, after two years of dedicated development, coupled with the strong support of Red Russia and the United States, the industrial chains of Mongolia and Jilin have become increasingly complete, industrialization has been fully completed, and the possibility of manufacturing such a behemoth has actually emerged.

If it really succeeds, and they really dare to live a good life in the future, this battleship alone will make them suffer.

While he was deep in thought, Zhang Hanqing's voice came from behind him: "Feilan, what are you thinking about, sitting here alone enjoying the sea breeze?"

Jiang Cheng suddenly gathered his thoughts and turned around.

Seeing him quickly avoid his gaze, Jiang Cheng shook his head and smiled: "I didn't think anything--"

"It's just that the cabin is stuffy, so I came here to get some fresh air and smoke a cigarette."

As he said this, he actually took out his cigarette case, but the matches he brought were not windproof, and the sea breeze extinguished them twice in a row. Jiang Cheng smiled awkwardly. (End of this chapter)