Chen Tian has been back in Qingdao for more than a month. After several years of hard work by the German authorities, it has become an economically and culturally developed region and an important strategic location for coastal defense. Qingdao Port began to accept oil tankers in July 1908; in September of the same year, the Governor of Dejiaoao announced the "Regulations on the Rules for the Transfer of Docks and Stacks" and the "Regulations on the Loading and Unloading of Cargo Storage" and set up a management terminal bureau to manage the wharfs and warehouses in tax-free areas. In October, the Qingdao Special Higher Education (also known as Dehua University) jointly organized by China and Germany started school. This is the earliest university in Qingdao. The school has preparatory and higher subjects, and the higher subjects have four subjects of politics, law, medicine, science and engineering, and more than 400 students.

When Chen Tian first came to Qingdao, the German army had just begun to plan the fortress defense system in Qingdao. Now this system has been basically completed:

The permanent coastal defense fortress includes the Tuandao Fort, Taixi Town Fort, Yamen Fort and Huiquanjiao Fort. The Tuandao Fort is located in Tuandao Bin at the front end of the Tuandao Peninsula, which extends alone and extends forward in the Baykou Strait of Jiaozhou. The situation is dangerous. It was originally a Qing army fort, but it was occupied by the German army before it was completed. The German army expanded and added the building based on the original fortress, which was equipped with three cannons with a diameter of 88 mm. The Taixi Town Fortress is located in the Xiling Highland behind Tuandao. The Xiling Fortress was originally built by the Qing army, but it was occupied by the German army before it was completed. The German army expanded and added the building.

The existing fort was built and renamed as Taixi Town Fort. It is equipped with 4 cannons with a diameter of 210 mm. The Yamen Fort is located in front of the Qing army general yamen. Because the fort is close to Qingdao entrance, it is named Qingdao Fort. It is the only fort completed when Zhang Gaoyuan stationed in Jiaoao. After the German army occupied Jiaoao, it was renamed Yamen Fort. Its artillery is still the Krupp platform cannons installed during Zhang Gaoyuan. There are 3 cannons with a diameter of 150 mm. The Bismarck South Fort. It is located on the south slope of Bismarck Mountain (Qingdao Mountain), and was built in 1899. It was 190.

Completed in 5 years, there are four 280mm howitzers in 1904. A large underground hidden command center is built on the hillside on the north side of the fort, with generators, watchtowers, searchlights, etc., with 42 rooms of size and size, with a total area of ​​1,600 square meters, and an authentic tunnel connected to the Bismarck Barracks on the south slope. This fort is the largest, largest gun caliber, and the most important position among the forts built by Germany in Qingdao. Huiquan Point Fortress. It is located at the front end of the southern corner of Huiquan, Qianhai. It was built in 1902 and is Germany.

The first self-built in Qingdao was equipped with two 240mm cannons and two 150mm cannons. The cannons were turret-type rotating cannons. They were originally purchased by the Qing government from the Krupp Factory in Germany and placed them in Dagukou Fort. In 1900, the German army joined the Eight-Nation Alliance and fled the cannons from the Dagukou Fort to Qingdao and were arranged at Huiquanjiao Fort. The fort area was constructed with a large-scale underground shelter and a tunnel connecting the Ilchis Barracks and other places. The above forts are located in important places in Qianhai, Qingdao, forming the Qingdao Qianhai defense system.

The permanent land defense turret includes Bismarck North Fort, Ilchis North Fort, Ilchis East Fort and Zhongjiawa Fort. The Bismarck North Fort is located on the northern slope of Bismarck Mountain. It has hundreds of square meters of underground shelter and two large cannons, equipped with two 150mm cannons. The Ilchis North Fort is located at the top of the northern hill of Ilchis (Taiping Mountain). It has a large-scale underground shelter and is equipped with 6 120mm cannons. It is the largest and most important artillery among the German land defense turrets.

Position. Ilchis East Fort. Located on the top of the eastern hill in Ilchis Mountain, it has an underground shelter and is equipped with two 150mm cannons. 4. Zhongjiawa Fort. It is located in the highland north of Zhongjiawa. It is very large in scale. There are 8 artillery positions in total, but no artillery is installed. The above-mentioned land defense fortresses are built with the same construction style and defense conditions as the coast defense fortress. Both have shields of different sizes, watchtowers, chest walls, barbed wire and trenches, etc., and are the main artillery support positions and lines of defense for the land infantry fortress defense line.

Infantry fortresses, namely, infantry land defense fortresses group. The German army built a large infantry fortress group starting from Xiaozhan Mountain on the west bank of the coastal bourd river in the south and reaching the mouth of Haibo River in the north, namely Xiaozhan Mountain, Xiaozhan Mountain North, Central, Taitung Town, Taitung Town North, and the coastal 6 fortresses. Because the fortress in Taitung Town North is small in size, it is collectively called Taitung Town Fortress with Taitung Town Fortress. The fortress is generally composed of 1 large cover and 1 to 2 small cover parts to store ammunition.

Supply and garrison. Most of the fortress lines extend northward along the coastal moor river channel. The fortress is about 100 meters away from the river channel. A trench about 5 meters deep and 6 meters wide is dug between the riverbed and the fortress. The bottom of the trench is covered with barbed wire, which is connected to the north and south coasts. On the west side of the trench, a long series of infantry bunkers were built along the trench, and light artillery, machine guns, rifles and other weapons were equipped in these small fortresses, forming a solid defense line of up to 6 kilometers.

Currently, the German army in Qingdao is mainly the coastal artillery battalion and the naval army battalion, with a force of more than 2,000. More than 10 ships belonging to the German Navy Far East Squadron are also stationed here. In addition, Chen Tian also transferred a small team of 5 new "Flying Fish III" seaplanes from the local area.

After leaving this ancient land for more than 20 years, Chen Tian was finally able to taste the delicious food here again. So he took Lisa, Rennie and others to a Chinese restaurant for dinner when he had time. Everyone was confused about why Chen Tian was so obsessed with Chinese food, but after several times, their stomachs were captured by those foods. Rennie stayed in Japan for several years, and chopsticks were not difficult for him. Chen Tian was born to use chopsticks, and meatballs could be easily picked up. Only poor Lisa occasionally used chopsticks forks everywhere, and was laughed at by others countless times.

That night, Chen Tian patted his stomach and Rennie and walked out of the fish fragrant Curie with satisfaction, while Lisa and the other two guards looked painful. The delicious fish was a torture for them. It was good to be able to pick up the fish meat with chopsticks, and there was no way to pick out the thorns inside. They had been stuck several times in one night.

Bang!

A gunshot suddenly came not far away, and Rennie's strong body quickly blocked Chen Tian, ​​while Chen Tian hid Lisa behind him. The two guards also held rifles and looked ahead nervously. Yu Xiangju is located on the edge of the concession in Qingdao in Germany. After walking dozens of steps forward, he went out of the concession. In the dark, a figure staggered towards Chen Tian. The guards then raised their guns and aimed at the man.

"No shooting is allowed without my order!" Chen Tian found that behind the man, several Qing soldiers wearing hats were chasing him, "Renie, intercept him!"

The man seemed to have suffered a serious injury. When Rennie was about to come forward to catch him, he fell to the ground by himself.

"Your Highness, this man was shot wounded!"

Chen Tian asked Lisa to stand behind the guards and walked over by himself. This was a young man who had his whip on his head, and one of his arms was soaked in blood. He tried hard to break free from Rennie, but was pressed there tightly.

"Don't move! We won't hurt you!" Although Chen Tian's standard Mandarin has become a little stiff after not using it for a long time, it's fine as long as the other party can understand it.

The man looked at Chen Tian blankly, then gave up his meaningless struggle.

"Mr. Yang, this person is our fugitive. Please return him to us!" At this time, 7 and 8 Qing soldiers had already chased after him. They discussed for a while, and then a leader came forward to negotiate with Chen Tian and the others, but Chen Tian pretended not to understand and ignored them.

Wow! Click!

The two guards behind Chen Tian pulled the gun tie hard and pointed the gun at the Qing soldier, which scared him to take two steps back.

"Boss, what should I do? The foreign Russians seem to refuse to hand over the person!" A Qing army soldier behind him walked to him and was about to lift the rifle in his hand, but the leader stopped him. "Don't move, this is already the ground of the concession!"

The leader of the Qing army wanted to go forward and gesture something. Rennie glared at him viciously, and he had to take his soldiers back along the way he had just arrived in disappointment.
Chapter completed!