The Third Reich: The Return of the King

The King of the Northeast was still relatively low-key in 1919, and the strength of the Feng warlords at this time was not the strongest.

However, it is precisely because of this low-key attitude of the King of the Northeast that Mainz is impressed.

Building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming the king are the strategies of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, to seize the world, and at this time, the warlords of the Feng family are undoubtedly taking this step.

Of course, the backbone and national integrity of the king of the Northeast is also one of the reasons why Colonel Mainz values him, although Zhang Zuolin has always been supported by the footbasin people, but when the footbasin people proposed to damage the interests of the nation and the country, Zhang Zuolin did not retreat and tolerate at all, and even paid the price of his life for this, such a person, even if he is a warlord, is also worthy of admiration.

"Your country would like to donate a batch of weapons to us?".

"That's right, General Zhang!".

Mainz nodded, his tone was very sincere, but looking at the other party's appearance, it seemed that he still had doubts in his heart.

Zhang Zuolin was a little curious, he looked at his henchman and thinker, Yang Yuting, who was known as Little Zhuge .

Yang Yuting understood, and immediately asked, "I don't know what weapons your country plans to donate to us?"

"Rifles, machine guns, artillery, even planes and tanks, we have it all!".

Mainz noticed that the eyes of the five people sitting across from him lit up as he said the weapons, and it was clear that the weapons had a huge attraction to them.

"Mr. Colonel, is what you said true? As far as I know, your country is a defeated country at this time, and your weapons will be confiscated by the Entente, so I'm afraid these weapons you are talking about are no longer yours, right?"

A person far away in the Far East can actually learn about the latest situation in Europe, which makes Mainz have to look at the middle-aged man in front of him differently.

In fact, Yang Yuting studied in the footbasin in his early years, graduated from the footbasin army non-commissioned officer school, he is one of the few foreign generals in the warlords, as a representative of the academy, Yang Yuting not only has outstanding personal ability, resourcefulness, but also has a better international vision, more interested in international events, especially for the footbasin-related things.

As a participating country in the First World War, the foot basin was also in Europe at this time to participate in the Iron Tower City Peace Conference, and not long ago the Iron Tower City side of the word to hand over the German occupation of the Celestial Dynasty Jiaodong and other places to the foot basin people, which caused great dissatisfaction among the people of the Celestial Empire, and even broke out for this May Fourth Movement, under the influence of this movement, people of insight in the country are concerned about the progress of the Iron Tower City Peace Conference, and naturally have some understanding of the Entente to divide up the assets of the Allied countries.

"General Yang is right, the donated weapons are not delivered in the name of the state, but in the name of private individuals, calculate the time, it should be almost time now!".

As soon as Mainz's words fell, someone came in outside the door and reported: "Dashuai, there is a merchant ship flying the Eagle Sauce flag over Huludao, and all the weapons transported on it are said to have been ordered by you!"

Hearing this latest information, everyone in the Northeast Army paid attention to the German colonel in front of them.

Just now the other party said that he wanted to send weapons to the Northeast Army, and also said that he would send planes and tanks, everyone thought that this guy was running a train with his mouth full, if it weren't for the fact that the other party had a German military certificate, they would almost treat each other as a magic stick!

But at this time, when they heard that there was really a merchant ship laden with munitions, everyone's impression changed!

They did not expect that a German colonel would have such energy and be able to transport a large number of munitions under the noses of the Entente.

"Let's go, let's go!".

Fengtian is not far from Huludao, so Zhang Zuolin couldn't help the curiosity in his heart, and planned to take someone over to have a look.

If it is really as the other party said, if they are given planes and tanks, then this may be the first batch of fighters that can be put into actual combat in the Northeast Army and even the entire Celestial Empire!

Their Northeast Army may be ahead of the rest of the country, ahead of other warlords, and take the lead in building an air force of their own!

As soon as they thought of this, Zhang Zuolin and others were excited!

Because he had seen the fight of millions of troops in the Russo-Japanese War, Zhang Zuolin has always been fond of advanced weapons, he knows what modern warfare is like, both the Japanese army and the Russian army are equipped with a large number of artillery and machine guns, these weapons have left a deep impact on him in the war.

So, more than ten years ago, Zhang Zuolin fantasized that one day his troops could also be equipped with these weapons, for which he vigorously developed and built in the northeast, opened military factories, mined and repaired roads, and founded military academies, the purpose of which was to be self-reliant one day, and produce all kinds of aircraft and artillery to arm himself

One of the important reasons why the footbasin people are eyeing the Northeast is because Zhang Zuolin has laid a good industrial foundation in the Northeast, and with these foundations, once they occupy here, the price they need to pay is much smaller, and they can easily build this place into an industrial base as a springboard for a full-scale invasion of the Celestial Empire!

In addition, the Northeast is rich in products and fertile land, which has a huge attraction for the footbasin people, and a large number of landless footbasin people can be transferred and settled, so the footbasin people are desperate to infiltrate the Northeast and try to eat the Northeast as soon as possible.

At this time, the advanced weapons delivered from Europe, and some new weapons that he had never seen before, appeared in front of him like pies in the sky, how could he not be excited?

Two hours later, Zhang Zuolin and a large number of high-ranking generals of the Feng Department arrived at the port of Huludao, where they met the first fighter belonging to the Celestial Empire, the German Fokker D.VII fighter, codenamed Red Baron!