In fact, after the Time Traveler captured the Weihai Guard, the first thing that attracted the attention was the German team stationed in Qingdao. Because the Weihai Guard lost, Qingdao was the first to be hit. Moreover, more than a month ago, the German fleet was defeated by the Time Traveler, and only seven warships fled back to Qingdao. Although the German fleet lost a little confused in this battle, if they lost, they would lose, which proves that the Time Traveler's military strength is strong. The Germans are not the kind of person who will not admit their mistakes if they beat them to death.

On the second day after the Weihai Guard fell, Marshal Wadesi, the commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and Ye Shike, the German Governor to Jiao, jointly generated electricity to the country, indicating that after the overseas Chinese captured the Weihai Guard, the next goal would definitely be to attack Qingdao. However, Qingdao's garrison is weak now, and if there are no reinforcements, it will not be able to defend at all. Therefore, I hope that the country will try its best to send more troops to Qingdao.

Soon, Qingdao received a reply from the German domestic staff headquarters. The German government was conducting diplomatic operations to seek reinforcements for Qingdao and demanded that Qingdao stand as long as possible and wait for the reinforcements to arrive. At the same time, Marshal Wadesi was appointed as the military commander-in-chief guarding Qingdao, fully responsible for Qingdao's defense, and Jiao'ao Governor Ye Shike was the deputy commander-in-chief.

Germany's army system is the most advanced in Europe. Of course, I know the importance of unified command. Qingdao is actually a situation of double-headed leadership, that is, Qingdao has Governor Ye Shike, and the commander of the German fleet is Marshal Wadesi. Although according to common sense, Qingdao's defense should be under the Governor Ye Shike, after all, Qingdao is under the jurisdiction of Ye Shike, but Ye Shike's rank is only a colonel, and Wadesi is Germany's field marshal. He has served as the chief of staff of Germany for more than ten years. His prestige in China is as high as the top one, and he is only a handful of them. Therefore, it is possible that Wadesi will serve as the commander-in-chief of Qingdao's defense. The appointment of the domestic staff headquarters to make this appointment and clarify the person in charge of Qingdao has also reduced a lot of trouble.

After receiving the official appointment in China, Wadesi immediately began to arrange Qingdao's defense. The biggest problem in Qingdao now is that its troops are insufficient, with a total of more than 600 troops. However, there were many people on the seven German ships that fled to Qingdao. The flagship Earl Bismarck was 620, while the battleships were elected Emperor Hunter was 560, and the Saxony-class ironclad ship was 320. In fact, there were about 2,300 people on the seven German ships. In this way, there were actually quite a few soldiers in Qingdao, but most of them were naval soldiers.

Therefore, the first thing Wadesi solved was the problem of insufficient troops in the defenders. They organized all the extra personnel on each ship, sent weapons, and joined the army to guard Qingdao. As a result, the army suddenly had more than 1,000 people, totaling more than 1,600 people. Now the troops guarding Qingdao were much more sufficient. It was much easier to allocate Wadesi.

However, Wadesi also knew that the naval soldiers who came down from the warship were not full-time troops after all, and their military qualities and training were not comparable to those of the army. Moreover, although Qingdao is not big, it is surrounded by the sea on three sides, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend. It has not built solid fortifications and not many artillery. It is not easy to rely on more than 1,600 soldiers to defend Qingdao. Therefore, it is impossible to expand the defense circle and defend the enemy outside the national gates. They can only concentrate their forces, shrink the defense line, focus on defense, strive to hold on for more time, and strive to drag until reinforcements arrive.

The core of Qingdao's defense is of course Bismarck Mountain (Qingdao Mountain). After the German army occupied Qingdao, it was the first to build a fort on Bismarck Mountain. It was precisely because of the important role of Bismarck Mountain in Qingdao that Wadesi arranged more than 500 soldiers on Bismarck Mountain, and more than 200 soldiers were arranged on Maudtch Mountain (Shuishu Mountain), Irtis Mountain (Taiping Mountain) as an auxiliary to Bismarck Mountain. More than 400 soldiers were arranged in the Qingdao Bay area to protect the temporary Governor's Office and mobile reserve forces.

At the same time, Wadesi arranged 150 German soldiers in Laoshan as a frontier position. It did not require the German army to stop the overseas Chinese army from advancing in Laoshan, but to discover the enemy's whereabouts as possible, as well as to understand the enemy's strength and attack, so that the German army guarding Qingdao could prepare in advance. Moreover, Wadesi repeatedly instructed Lieutenant Colonel Nedewitz, the commander of Laoshan position, to retreat immediately once the enemy's army was forcing forward and could not defend the dead in Laoshan. Because now every part of the German army is a precious force and cannot be wasted on the irrelevant battlefield.

At sea, the only seven remaining German warships were of course unable to compete with the overseas Chinese navy. Therefore, Wadesi decided that all warships would not go out to sea to fight with the overseas Chinese fleet, but stayed in Qingdao Bay as active turrets, so they simply ran aground on shallow stalls to make up for the shortage of Qingdao coastal defense turrets.

However, the deputy commander Major General Falkenhai made a suggestion to Wadesi, that among the remaining seven German ships, only the battleships, the Election of the Emperor, the large ironclad ships Saxony, Byrne and Baden acted as active turrets in Qingdao Bay, while the faster armored cruisers Earl Bismarck, the protective cruisers Ferya and Queen Augusta left Qingdao Bay and carried out a crackdown on the sea.

Overseas Chinese are not connected to Shandong by land, so Buji can only be carried by sea. These three German ships can cruise on the sea from Tianjin to Weihaiwei, waiting for an opportunity to attack overseas Chinese transport Buji ships, and even raid Weihaiwei or Dagukou. This will restrain the energy of overseas Chinese and prevent them from concentrating on attacking Qingdao. The repair and maintenance of these three warships can be completed in Shanghai. I believe that through diplomatic efforts at home, this is not a difficult task. Otherwise, the remaining German fleet will remain in Qingdao Bay, and will only repeat the mistake of the Beiyang fleet trapped in Weihaiwei and was completely wiped out by the Japanese joint fleet.

This tactic is actually very reasonable and correct, and it is also in line with the navy's tactics, because the navy's tactics are not just a confrontation between heavy ships and giant artillery, but also a strike against the opponent's maritime logistics and supplementary line. What is a merchant ship, it is also an important link, called the tactics of breaking the tactics. Because it is for a weaker navy, head-on confrontation is obviously not the best strategy, so the tactics of breaking the tactics at sea have become the main tactics of the weak navy.

However, this plan was denied by Wadesi. Rich is that the overseas Chinese navy is too strong. The three German ships went to sea and could only fight alone. In fact, it may not last long. Therefore, it is better to stay in Qingdao Bay and strengthen Qingdao's maritime defense power.

In fact, although the German government has decided to build a powerful navy and formulated a huge shipbuilding plan, it is a traditional mainland country after all, and warships may be easy to build, while the navy's combat experience and maritime concepts cannot be cultivated in a short time. Wadesi is the Army Marshal and knows nothing about naval tactics, so he naturally would not agree with such tactics that are equivalent to suicide based on the Army concept.

Of course, if the German army really adopts tactics of breaking the enemy, it will almost impossible for the crossing to play any role. This is not that the tactics are wrong, but that the crossing us is too advanced. Because all the crossing warships are equipped with powerful sea and air search radars, and coupled with carrier-based helicopters, the entire sea surface search range can reach 150 kilometers, while the three German ships have only 21 knots at the fastest, and the crossing warships can reach more than 27 knots. In addition, the missile strike range of the crossing warships, it can be said that as soon as the German ship goes out of the sea, it will be sunk. And Wadesi's wrong decision has become the correct arrangement.

Colonel Needwitz, who was responsible for guarding the frontier positions, set up defense lines on Hualou Peak in Laoshan. At the same time, he sent 3-4 reconnaissance teams of 10-12 people every day to reconnaissance the whereabouts of the enemy in the surrounding areas.

On this day, a reconnaissance team encountered the enemy at night, killing six soldiers, while the remaining soldiers fled back to their positions and reported the situation to Nedewitz.

Needwitz immediately understood that the overseas Chinese army had indeed launched an attack on Qingdao. Of course, he remembered Wadesi's advice to find out the enemy's strength, but not to confront the enemy's army. Therefore, Needwitz first sent people back to Qingdao to report to Wadesi, and early the next morning, Needwitz immediately sent a reconnaissance team to reconnaissance the number of enemy troops.

In the afternoon, the reconnaissance team came back to report to Needwitz that the number of enemy troops was about 400. At this time, it was stationed about 20 kilometers away from Hualou Peak, and there were no artillery. After learning about the number of enemy troops, Needwitz judged that this should be the vanguard of overseas Chinese, not the main force, and he was not in a hurry to retreat from the Hualou Peak position. After all, if it was just an army of more than 400 people, if there were no artillery, Needwitz thought that his position could still be defended. Moreover, Nedwitz also wanted to fight with overseas Chinese troops to see how strong the overseas Chinese army was.

Nedwitz was a German Army lieutenant colonel and had been stationed in Qingdao. He did not fight with the German fleet, nor had the chance to fight with overseas Chinese. Moreover, the German fleet lost naval warfare, not land warfare. Although the overseas Chinese defeated the Eight-National United in the subsequent Tianjin Defense Battle, the German Army was recognized as the strongest army in the world in this era. Therefore, defeating the Eight-National United without the German Army was not strong at least in Nedwitz's heart. At most, it can only admit that the overseas Chinese naval is powerful. If a war is fought on land, the German Army will never lose to overseas Chinese.
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