In the 1890s, Germany built the famous Three-B Railway, namely the railway from Berlin through Constantinople to Baghdad. This was Germany's largest capital output in decades. The total length of the railway was 2,467 kilometers. The supply of rails, cars and other equipment on this railway brought a lot of profits to German capitalists. Germany also obtained the right to mine underground minerals along the railway.

The UK successfully drilled two oil wells of mining value in Masgid Suleiman, which borders Iraq in Persia in January and March 1908. On May 26 of the same year, the first large oil field in the Middle East was discovered in this area.

In January 1910, Kemal overthrew the Ottoman Empire with the help of Germany and established the Democratic Republic of Türkiye.

In March 1910, Chen Tian invested 5 million marks in East Prussia to establish Jiji Oil Company and sent two oil exploration teams to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Turkey for exploration. The following month, the oil field with rich reserves was discovered between Mosul and Kirkuk, and named William Oil Field.

With the full support of the Kemal regime, in May 1910, the William 1 oil field was officially mined, with a daily output of 5,000 barrels. In August of the same year, the William 2 oil field was officially mined, with a daily output of 8,000 barrels. Tens of thousands of barrels of oil were transported from the William Fiber to Mosul every day, and then transported to Germany via the Three-B railway, and then refined at Gigi Petroleum.

In August 1910, Chentian established several large oil storage warehouses in the East Prussia region, with gasoline reserves reaching tens of thousands of tons.

In 1910, Jiji Petroleum Company invested a lot of money in infrastructure construction, and lost 3.5 million marks that year.

In February 1911, Chentian and the Turkish government jointly established a large oil refinery in Mosul, and some of the oil was refined and then transported back to Germany.

In February 1911, Chen Tian suggested to German Emperor William II to implement strategic oil reserves. With the approval of William II, Germany immediately began to establish many large oil storage warehouses in the north and central areas, and purchased a large amount of oil and gasoline from Jiji Petroleum Company. Germany's oil and gasoline reserves increased rapidly.

In 1911, Jiji Petroleum Company made an annual profit of 8 million marks, and its profits increased year by year.

It is precisely because of sufficient fuel support that Chen Tian dared to request the establishment of a large armored force at this time. In his plan, a 50,000-man armored force was organized into an army, with 4 divisions, one tank division, one armored chariot division, two mechanized infantry divisions. The tank division included a logistics force composed of 250 tanks, 50 armored vehicles and 100 trucks. The armored chariot division included 50 tanks, 200 armored combat vehicles and armored personnel carriers modified from ordinary trucks, 100 ordinary trucks and 50 large-caliber howitzers. The mechanized infantry division was equipped with 200 trucks and 3,000 motorcycles carrying ordinary infantry divisions and all equipment.

For Germany, which has sufficient reserves, it is not difficult to recruit 50,000 new recruits and 100,000 reserve troops. Half a month later, Chentian's armored army has reached full capacity. Another 100,000 reserve troops will be recruited one month before the exercise and will be disbanded on the spot after the exercise.

After the factory with a full production capacity of 200 tractors per month is converted into tanks, it can produce 15 "Stone Type I" and "Stone II" tanks each month. At the same time, 20 trucks are converted into armored vehicles. Although orders have been sent to German automobile manufacturers, it will take 12 months to complete them all. Therefore, when the exercise is half a year later, Chen Tian's only tanks, armored vehicles and trucks are only a little more than half of the organization, but these are enough for him. The more difficult task is how to train an unprecedented rapid armored force.

A month later, the 50,000 new recruits in the armored unit had been reorganized. Chen Tian's armored army recruited new recruits instead of reserve soldiers. He mainly considered that the veterans of the reserve were already very familiar with the previous weapons and tactics and were prone to form a fixed mindset; and the recruits had a strong ability to accept new weapons and new tactics, just like writing better on white paper.

In the appointment of armored army officers, Chen Tian decided to build a team of officers who belonged entirely to him. The commander of the armored army was Chen Tian himself. Since Brigadier General Oli is currently the deputy commander of the First Army of the East Prussian Army, the deputy commander of the armored army was Colonel Olger, another classmate of Chen Tian, ​​and the chief of staff was also his classmate of Lieutenant Colonel Matthew. In addition to his classmate, the other middle and senior officers were his juniors at the Cornisburg Military Academy. Half of the low-level officers of the armored army were just brothers.

The other half of the non-commissioned officers and lieutenants who graduated from the Nisburg Military Academy were temporarily transferred from the East Prussian Army. Due to the limited number of equipment, Chen Tian arranged for the newly graduated officers to participate in the training of new equipment and tactics for practical operations. The officers temporarily transferred from other troops were responsible for imparting the discipline and style of the German army to the recruits. After that, they will return to their respective troops and select a group of outstanding soldiers from the recruits to fill the vacant positions.

On the training ground outside Cornisburg, hundreds of young officers were silently staring at the tanks and armored vehicles parked beside them, these were "monsters" they had never seen before. All countries have planes, so planes do not need to be particularly confidential. All countries have submarines, so submarines do not need to be particularly confidential, but tanks and armored vehicles need to be absolutely confidential. Although countries such as Italy already have the most primitive armored vehicles, their functions are completely different from those of the armored vehicles here. Therefore, it is a report handed to the emperor, and Chen Tian also stated that it is highly confidential. Please do not hand it over to the General Staff for research.

"Okay, don't stand here stupidly. We have explained the specific introduction and operation instructions to you in detail before. Now let's start the actual operation!" Chen Tian stood beside everyone, and he will participate in the training and practice of the officers throughout the process.

The officers climbed onto the tanks or armored vehicles and began to grop, while the technicians ran back and forth to solve the problems raised by the officers.

"Let's go, let's try it too!" Chen Tian pulled Orger and Matthew to climb onto a "Stone II" tank. This tank was equipped with a 37mm caliber rapid-fire gun and two water-cooled flamenbow machine guns. It was larger and faster than the "Stone I" tank. It also installed a radio generator on the tank that serves as the company command vehicle, and the members also added a transmitter and machine gunner.

Chen Tian skillfully launched the tank, advancing on the flat ground at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour, turning and regressing, which made the officers who were distinguishing the accelerator and brake envious. Unfortunately, after 1/4 of the incense stick, Orger in the turret could not stand the bumps and let Chen Tian stop the tank, and then climbed out of the car and vomited.

"Mr. Orger, you can't even sit on the tank. You, the deputy commander of the Armored Army, are so embarrassing!" Chen Tian opened the hatch of the cockpit and watched the motion sickness guy vomiting wildly there.

"No, it doesn't matter! If you vomit, you will get used to it!"

When other officers started practicing tanks and armored vehicles, there were another group of drunken beetles on the training ground.

When Orger spent two months accustomed to vomiting beside the tank, the number of tanks and armored vehicles finally allowed all tank soldiers and armored soldiers to take turns to conduct actual operations, and the infantry also practiced joint combat between the intra-tank under Chen Tian's guidance. In addition, Chen Tian also transferred 50 aircraft from two squadrons into the armored army, allowing the soldiers to become familiar with the most primitive ground-to-air coordination tactics.

The most painful thing in the world is that tanks fall off their chains halfway. A dozen or twenty tanks, armored vehicles and trucks break down on the road at a time, which makes Chen Tian sigh. However, there is no way to put forward high requirements for the quality of vehicles in this era. In addition to requiring factories to improve, drivers can only be arranged to participate in special training on vehicle repairs.
Chapter completed!