Chapter 19 The Black Storm
"You said our baby would be a boy or a girl?"
"Of course it's a boy. I can't stop in my stomach like you. Oh, I'm kicking me again!"
"But our little Sasha was still kicking and making noise when she was in your belly. Now she is a little lady!"
Chen Tian put his ears on Lisa's belly and showed a childlike smile.
A golden piece of fields in the distance is another harvest season, and our Prince of East Prussia is about to harvest his second fruit.
Sasha is Chen Tian and Lisa's first child. When Sasha came to the world two years ago, the entire Cornisburg was having fun all night for their little princess, but soon after, everyone began to look forward to the early birth of the future heir of East Prussia.
"Your Highness, the Black Storm Legion has been reorganized. Major Arens asked you to go to the inspection!"
"Oh! I understand! I'll go there in a while!" Chen Tian reluctantly left his little baby.
"That legion is the black legion you mentioned last time?" Lisa raised her head and looked at him.
"Well, it's them!"
Two months ago, the Berlin Palace.
"Your Majesty, here is a report on the establishment of five large tractor factories in Frankfurt, Leipzig, Gedingen, Bremen and Brandenburg! In addition, the Prussian Armored Academy, located in the southern suburb of Cornisburg, has started construction and is expected to start in half a year!"
In William II's study, Chen Tian was making a report to the emperor.
"Well! Very good! I really appreciate the power of the armored forces! I hope to set up such a force in my Guards. I am going to hand over the Second Corps of the Guards to you for training. How long will it take?"
A regiment of the Guards is equivalent to an army of an ordinary army. Chen Tian felt that it would take a long time to raise enough equipment for them. The emperor really stood up and said without a pain in his back. However, since he was talking, he couldn't refuse. It would be better to make some small requests "by the way".
"Your Majesty, please give me a year, and I will train a real steel force! In addition, I have a good proposal that I hope you can approve it!"
"Oh? Tell me!" Seeing that he agreed so readily, the emperor was in a good mood.
However, Chen Tian did not go straight to the point at once.
“As far as I know, the Japanese have been coveting our bases in Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay!”
"What? They dare! Do they think we are incompetent Russians? We spent a lot of hard work in Qingdao and built a lot of fortifications. They could not take Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay from us!" In fact, the emperor also knew that the British, Japanese and even Americans coveted that high-quality Far East port.
"Your Majesty, the fortifications there are still very reassuring, but the only thing I worry about is that we have insufficient troops there, and there are only thousands of garrison troops there!" Chen Tian has been in Qingdao for nearly a year. In his opinion, the quality of Qingdao's fortresses and fortresses is still very good, but thousands of people seem to be a little small for the huge defensive area.
"I know this, but not many soldiers are willing to go there, and the soldiers who go there are very serious homesickness. Besides, additional soldiers need to increase logistics supply, alas..." The emperor was also helpless in his tone. There was a large fleet there, and some supplies still needed to be transported from the country.
"Weapons and food are not to worry about. The arms factories there are enough to supply a division's troops. Food can be bought from the Chinese government and the people at any time. As for the troops, we might as well establish a foreign legion!"
"Foreign Legion? Do you think the Chinese are too bad and not suitable to join the great German army!" The emperor shook his head and expressed his distrust. It seemed that he had a very good impression of the Chinese army, or to be precise, he had a very bad impression of the combat effectiveness of the Qing government army. In fact, the Qing Dynasty had been overthrown at this time, and the revolution led by Sun was sweeping the ancient Chinese land, but in fact Chen Tian did not intend to use the Chinese as cannon fodder for the Germans.
"Your Majesty, I mean not to recruit Chinese people, but to form a foreign legion of Africans."
“Black Africans?”
"Yes, hard-working and tenacious black Africans!"
At this time, there were already black policemen and a small number of black soldiers in Germany's colonies in Africa, so it was not surprising to recruit blacks as soldiers.
"Tell me about your plan!" The emperor did not object to this suggestion.
"We can recruit thousands of black soldiers from German East Africa to form a foreign legion and send them to the Far East to assist us in defense. Once a war breaks out, there may be an enemy invasion, especially the Japanese. I can almost conclude that they will reach their hands to Jiaozhou Bay." Chen Tian chose German East Africa because it is vast and its population of 7.65 million is simply a huge military source.
"Is that reliable? I mean those black people won't run away on the battlefield!"
"Your Majesty, the blacks are still very brave. As long as we train them enough, their combat effectiveness will not be much worse than our great German soldiers!" Chen Tian felt that the courage of African soldiers was greater than that of European soldiers, but their cultural quality was too poor.
"Okay, I agree! But now the Army can no longer allocate funds to support your corps, so you can do it yourself!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" The black soldiers were easy to support, and a smile of satisfaction appeared on Chen Tian's face.
Later, with the assistance of the German Governor of East Africa, Chen Tian sent people to recruit 5,000 strong black people from there. Some of these black people were bought by African patriarchs, and those who volunteered to join were equivalent to selling themselves to foreign legions, so that their families would receive an objective amount of money.
When Chen Tian came to the playground, the foreign legion had been reorganized, and 5,000 people were organized into 4 infantry regiments and two artillery battalions. They used standard equipment of the German army. Looking around, there were black skins under the gray uniforms and pointed helmets, which was a scene that had never appeared before. Chen Tian couldn't help but feel a little proud. This scene made him feel that he was changing history.
In fact, reorganization is not as easy as expected. Almost no officer is willing to command these black men with strong sweaty smell, and language is also a serious problem. Only one officer bravely stood up, and he is Major Arons, the commander of the foreign legion. He proposed that German-speaking black soldiers serve as the middle and lower-level officers of this force, and the instructors in charge of training were drawn from the military academy and Chentian's Guards regiment. At present, these black soldiers have only been reorganized, and they will receive half a year of training in Germany before they will station in Qingdao.
Major Arens is 29 years old, from East Prussian. He studied at the Cornisburg Youth Military Academy and the Senior Officer School in Berlin. His path to officers was not smooth. After graduating from the Senior Officer School, he joined the Emperor's Guards as a regiment staff officer, but he has not been valued. Four years later, he returned to the East Prussian Army and served as battalion commander and deputy regiment commander in the First Corps, and stayed in the position of deputy regiment commander for three years. When Chen Tian was recruiting foreign legion commanders within the legion, he resolutely signed up to participate. In his words, "I long to command a powerful force." Although he was warlike, Arens' tactical style was steady and steady, so Chen Tian felt that he was very suitable to lead this foreign legion to Qingdao.
The scene of these strong black soldiers fighting with the short Japanese must be very good! Thinking of this, Chen Tian nodded with satisfaction. For most of these black friends who do not understand German, he did not make any inspiring speeches, but asked the interpreter to tell these black people that after the army has served for ten years, they will be able to become German citizenship.
At this time, North Korea had been annexed by Japan, and the Goryeo royal family no longer existed. The 22-year-old last princess Li Xianyun was leading the other 35 young Koreans who were determined to restore the country to receive strict military command training at the Cornisburg Military Academy. Their Goryeo Blade and the Goryeo people were still fiercely resisting the Japanese invaders.
Chapter completed!