Salvation

It has been more than a month since Chentian returned to Qingdao. After several years of painstaking management by the German authorities, it has become an economically and culturally developed area and an important coastal defense strategy. Qingdao Port began accepting oil tankers in July 1908; in September of the same year, the Governor of Dejiaoao announced the "Terminals and Warehouses Regulations" and "Cargo Loading and Unloading and Storage Regulations", and established a management terminal bureau to manage the affairs of warehouses in tax-free zones; In October, the Qingdao Special Higher School (also known as Dehua University) jointly established by China and Germany opened. This is the earliest university in Qingdao. The school has preparatory and higher courses, and the higher education has 5 departments of politics, law, medicine, science and engineering. There are more than 400 students.

When Chentian came to Qingdao for the first time, the German army had just begun to plan Qingdao's fortress defense system, and now this system has been roughly completed:

Permanent coastal defense forts include Tuandao Fort, Taixi Town Fort, Yamen Fort and Huiquanjiao Fort. Tuandao Fort is located in Tuandao Bi at the front end of Tuandao Peninsula. It hangs solitaryly in the mouth of the Jiaozhou Bay. The situation is dangerous. It was originally a Qing army fort, but it was invaded by the Germans before completion. The German army expanded and built the existing fort on the basis of the original fort, equipped with 3 cannons with a caliber of 88 mm. The fort of Taixi Town is located in the Xiling Highland behind Tuandao. It was originally built by the Qing army for the Xiling fort, but it was invaded by the Germans before it was completed. The German army expanded it and built the existing fort, and renamed it Taixi Town Fort. Equipped with 4 cannons with a caliber of 210 mm. The Yamen Fort is located in front of the Qing Army's General Army's Yamen. It is named Qingdao Fort because it is close to Qingdao Port. It is the only fort completed by Zhang Gaoyuan when he was stationed in Jiaoao. After the Germans invaded Jiao'ao, it was renamed the Yamen Fort. Its artillery was still the Krupp cannon installed by Zhang Gaoyuan. There were 3 cannons with a caliber of 150 mm. Bismarck South Fort. Located on the southern slope of Bismarck Mountain (Qingdao Mountain), it was built in 1899 and completed in 1905. It is equipped with 4 1904-style 280 mm howitzers. A large-scale underground concealed headquarters is built on the hillside of the Paotai, equipped with generators, watch towers, searchlights, etc., with 42 rooms large and small, with a total area of ​​1,600 square meters, and a tunnel connecting with the Bismarck Barracks on the southern slope. The fort is the largest, the largest, and the most important among the German forts built in Qingdao. Huiquanjiao Fort. Located at the front end of the southern corner of Huiquan, Qianhai, it was built in 1902. It is the first German self-built fort in Qingdao. It is equipped with two 240mm cannons and two 150mm cannons. The artillery is a turret-type rotating artillery, which was originally purchased by the Qing government from the German Krupp factory and placed in the Dagukou Fort. In 1900, the German Army joined the Eight-Power Allied Forces and swept the artillery from the Dagukou Fort to Qingdao and deployed it at Huiquan Point. fort. The fort area is constructed with a large-scale underground shelter, and there are tunnels connecting the Ilkis Barracks and other places. The above-mentioned fortresses are all located in important areas of Qingdao's Qianhai, forming the Qingdao Qianhai defense system.

Permanent land defense forts include Bismarck North Fort, Ilkis North Fort, Ilkis East Fort and Zhongjiawa Fort. The Bismarck North Fort is located on the northern slope of Bismarck Mountain. It has an underground shelter of hundreds of square meters and two cannon positions, equipped with two 150 mm cannons. Ilchis North Fort. Located at the northern tip of the Ilchis Mountain (Victoria Mountain), it has a large-scale underground shelter and is equipped with 6 120mm cannons. It is the largest and most important gun position in the German army defense turret. East Fort of Ilchis. Located on the mountain top of the eastern part of Ilkis, it has an underground shelter and is equipped with two 150mm cannons. Zhongjiawa Fort. It is located in the highland on the north side of Zhongjiawa. It is very large, with 8 gun positions, but no artillery. The above-mentioned land defense turrets have the same construction style and defense conditions as the coastal defense turrets. They are equipped with different sizes of shelters, watch towers, parapets, barbed wire, and trenches. They are the main artillery support positions and defense lines of the land infantry fortress.

Infantry fortress, that is, the infantry land defense fortress group. The German army started from Xiaozhan Mountain on the west bank of the Po River in the south, and built a large infantry fortress group at the mouth of the Haibo River in the north, including six forts at Xiaozhan Mountain, Xiaozhan Mountain North, Central, Taitung Town, Taitung Town North, and Coast. Because the northern fortress of Taitung Town is relatively small, it is collectively called the fortress of Taitung Township. The fortress is generally composed of a large shelter and 1-2 small shelters, used to store ammunition, supplies and soldiers. Most of the fortress line extends northward. The fort is about 100 meters away from the river. A trench with a depth of 5 meters and a width of 6 meters is excavated between the river bed and the fort. The bottom of the trench is covered with energized barbed wire. Connect the north and south waterfronts. On the west side of the trench, a long series of infantry bunkers have been built along the trench. These small fortresses are equipped with light artillery, machine guns, rifles and other weapons, forming a solid defense line of 6 kilometers.

At present, the German army in Qingdao is mainly the coastal artillery battalion and the marine battalion, with a strength of more than 2,000. More than 10 ships belonging to the German Navy's Far East Squadron are also stationed here. In addition, Chentian also transferred a small team from the mainland. A new type of "Flying Fish III" seaplane.

After leaving this ancient land for more than 20 years, Chentian can finally taste the delicious food here again. So he took Lisa, Renee and others to a Chinese restaurant as soon as he was free. Everyone was very confused about why Chentian was so obsessed with Chinese food, but their stomachs were also captured by those food a few times later. Renee has stayed in Japan for several years. Chopsticks are not difficult for him. Chentian is born with chopsticks. Chicken Balls can be picked up easily. Only poor Lisa can pick up the dishes from time to time. With chopsticks and forks everywhere, She was laughed at by others countless times.

That night, Chentian patted his stomach and Rennie came out with satisfaction from Yuxiang Curie. Lisa and the other two guards looked pained. The delicious fish was a torture for them. It is good to use chopsticks to pick up the fish. There is no way to pick out the spines inside. They have been stuck by the fish bones several times a night.

boom!

There was a gunshot not far away, Rennie's strong body quickly blocked Chen Tian, ​​and Chen Tian hid Lisa behind him, and the two guards also looked forward nervously with their rifles. Yuxiangju is located on the edge of the German concession in Qingdao. A few dozen steps further ahead, the rental sector, a figure staggered towards Chentian in the dark, and the guards raised their guns and aimed at that person.

"You are not allowed to shoot without my order!" Chen Tian found that behind that person, several Qing soldiers with hats were chasing after him, "Lennie, stop him!"

The man seemed to have suffered serious injuries, and when Rennie was about to step forward to grab him, he fell to the ground by himself.

"His Royal Highness, this person has a gunshot wound!"

Chentian asked Lisa to stand behind the guard and walked over by himself. This is a young man with a whip on his head, one arm is soaked in blood. He tried hard to get rid of Rennie, but was pressed there firmly.

"Don't move! We won't hurt you!" Although Chentian's standard Mandarin has been a bit blunt after being used for a long time, as long as the other party can understand it.

The man stared at Chen Tian in a daze, and then gave up the needless struggle.

"Mr. Yang, this man is our fugitive, please return him to us!" At this time, seven or eight Qing soldiers have also chased them. They discussed for a while, and then a leader came forward to talk to Chen. Tian and the others negotiated, but Chen Tian pretended not to understand and ignored them.

Wow! Click!

The two guards behind Chentian slammed their guns and aimed their guns at the Qing soldier, scaring him back two steps.

"Head, what should I do? Yang Maozi seems to be reluctant to hand him over!" A small soldier from the Qing army walked up to him and was about to raise his rifle, but the leader stopped him. "Don't move, this is already the ground of the concession!"

The leader of the Qing soldiers wanted to step forward to show something, Rennie glared at him viciously, and he had to take his soldiers back along the way he had just come angrily.

"Help him bandage first, let's go to the hospital!" Chen Tian looked at the young man, his face was a little pale due to a lot of blood loss.