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    The total length is 9,330 kilometers, 1,778 kilometers from St. Petersburg to the Urals, and 5,937 kilometers from the Ural to Chita Middle East Railway Interchange, of which less than 800 kilometers are double tracks.  No matter how sparsely populated the route is, there are still eight strategic chokepoints that need to be controlled.  A garrison point every 20 kilometers requires 300 companies to be garrisoned.  Calculated based on the average train speed of 20 kilometers per hour, even if it travels at full speed without sleep, it will take 13 days to enter the border line from Yekaterinaburg, and the round trip will take a full month, and this does not include the more than 1,400 kilometers of the China Eastern Railway.

    People have it.  There are currently four divisions west of the Urals, and one division is on its way to the Urals.  100,000 soldiers plus 200,000 Chinese workers along the way, as well as about 200,000 local overseas Chinese, form a 100,000-strong road protection team Chapter 437.

    There is no problem with being quiet, not to mention that the 15 new infantry divisions have been established for 2 months and will be fully ready to deploy northward by November.

    The problem is that the transportation volume is too large!

    Yang Qiu is the kind of character who either doesn't do something or does it thoroughly. This character comes from the habits he developed when he was a soldier in his previous life. Because scouts often need to hibernate for days and a half, no one wants to miss the target when it appears. Sometimes  Willing to pay the price to achieve the goal and complete the task.  Therefore, it is impossible for him to leave any industrial facilities east of the Urals to future opponents. But based on tonnage, even if he transports important equipment, it will require at least 15,000 trains. That is to say, if there are only 1,000 trains, then 15 trains will be needed.  It can be shipped in months.

    It¡¯s impossible to give him 15 months!

    Starting from November to the end of April, it is the coldest season in Siberia with the least outdoor activities.  No matter how powerful the guerrillas of the Poor Party are during this period, they must reduce their activities.  However, Siberia gradually recovers after entering May. Such large-scale acts of destruction will inevitably trigger conflicts. The railway tracks and roadbeds will likely be damaged, so only about half a year of winter time can be used.

    "I have an idea."

    To solve the thorny transportation problem.  Yang Qiu went to the Ministry of Railways specifically to find Zhan Tianyou, Chapter 437 later

    The Quiet Ones were so shocked that Yang Qiu¡¯s plan to evacuate the east of the Urals was so shocking that their eyes popped out!  But it is undeniable that if the plan succeeds, it will directly double the industrial scale of the Republic of China and increase the development speed by 5 years!  But it is even more difficult to succeed. Not to mention whether Russia will really "rebel", even if it rebels, the long railway lines and transportation capacity are really insufficient.  But this plan was too tempting, so even an honest man like him couldn't bear it.  After reading the information, I thought about it and said: "Chen Hua, look, the road from Irkutsk to Manzhouli is 1,200 kilometers long, and the population along this area is several times denser than the previous area. The Mongolian rebels are active in this area.  It is also close to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok and is prone to destruction. If we continue on this road, we may have to deploy a troop every 10 kilometers. But if we bypass Lake Baikal and take Uland and go directly south to Chahattu, the Mongolian border, it will only be 150 kilometers away.  , it¡¯s only 380 kilometers to Kulun, which saves almost two days on the 820 kilometers.¡±

    "Did Mr. Huancheng remember it wrong?" Yang Qiugang came back from there.  Therefore, he is very familiar with the local area and said: "Russia has stopped construction of the Uland-Kulun railway because of the war. It is still dozens of kilometers away from the border. Even the materials have been privately purchased by local Russian officials."

    "The materials have been sold, but the roadbed is still there. What is missing is just the roadbed from Chahatu to Kulun. If the 130-kilometer roadbed has enough manpower and equipment, it can be completely opened in a month at most!" Zhan Tianyou also knows that just  It is not enough to connect Kulen to Uland.  After all, machinery and equipment cannot be left outside for a long time to rust, so when the 800 kilometers from Kulun to Baotou can be completed becomes the key!  But he was confident: "After you inspected Baotou last year, the Baotou-Kujiang railway roadbed construction began. As of last month, we have built 100 kilometers of roadbed. This is because the rails cannot be transported and the speed has slowed down. Although the road from Baotou to Suiyuan has  Construction has started, but the rugged mountain roads along the way will not be open to traffic until at least the end of next year. However, the speed from Taiyuan to Baotou is relatively fast, and the single line will definitely be opened to traffic in January next year at the latest. As long as it is open to traffic, we can transport the needed rails across Shanxi."

    Yang Qiu understood what Zhan Tianyou meant. He wanted to concentrate on repairing the Baoku Railway subgrade first, and then lay the rails immediately after the Zhengtai Line extension was completed.  In fact, the roadbed can only be completed, and laying the rails can be done very quickly.  The 9,330-kilometer Siberian Railway, which has far more difficult conditions than the Mongolian Railway, only took 13 years, of which the roadbed took up 80% of the time. Therefore, as long as the roadbed laying can be completed, the 800-kilometer track will never take more than half a year. But there is still a problem.  That is a serious shortage of rails.  Currently, the Southwest Railway Network is in its final sprint. A large number of rails are needed for the reconstruction of the Beijing-Hankou Line and the Tianjin-Puzhou Line. Construction of another important Longhai Line extending to Urumqi is also intensifying. The gap is unimaginably huge.  Do we really want to stop all railway construction across the country?  The price is too high.

    When he was in a dilemma, Zhan Tianyou narrowed his eyes, and the light behind his eye lenses flashed: "Chen Hua is a fan of the authorities!"

     "Oh? Mr. Huancheng, please tell me."

    "Haha" Zhan Tianyou laughed, pointing to several branch lines along the Siberian Railway and said: "Actually, there are plenty of railway tracks. Doesn't it say in the data that the Ural Steel Plant in Yekaterinaburg has a large amount of reserves?  There is a lot of cement and lime for the rails, and the sleepers can be cut down directly from the Irkutsk forest. I think that since we have to move, we should just move them all. By dismantling all these materials and railways and transporting them to Kulun, we can save at least one year.  Time! As long as we have enough manpower, we will accelerate the repair of the roadbed from now on. Once these materials arrive, the single line can be completed by August next year at the most. As for the double line, it can be repaired slowly. "

    Next August, that means the machine only needs to be stored in Coulomb for three months!  In this case, the two lines can be divided.  Equipment that is too valuable to be stored for a long time will be transported to the Manzhouli Middle East Railway, and equipment that can be stored will be piled in Kulun first.  Moreover, the 800 kilometers less distance, plus the 1,400 kilometers for internal transshipment, will save a lot of time and energy, and avoid the harassment of the Russian army and the Mongolian rebels, so he immediately said: "According to sir, how many people are needed?  "

    "Now is the best season of the year in Mongolia. If we want to speed up the construction, at least 100,000 people will be required to work at the same time."

    "Then just do as the teacher said!" Yang Qiu gritted his teeth.  Sunrise planning is so important.  So he also said cruelly: "I immediately asked Ziqing to mobilize 5 divisions from Fengtian to help, and then mobilize 50,000 civilians and 200,000 livestock from Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Suiyuan. There are also those princes and nobles on the Mongolian grasslands.  Our private army currently has about 20,000 members, all of which are under your command, sir! This railway must be opened before August next year!"

    5 divisions, plus 50,000 civilians and 20,000 recruited and transformed private troops.  It is unique in the world that nearly 200,000 people build an 800-kilometer railway at the same time.  Thinking that it took 30,000 prisoners of war, migrant workers and criminals a year and a half to open the 2,500-kilometer railway from Murmansk to St. Petersburg that ran through the Arctic frozen plains and swamps, Yang Qiu agreed to Zhan Tianyou's plan.  But one thing is still very difficult: "Train Is there anything Mr. Huancheng can do?"

    "No."

    Zhan Tianyou¡¯s honest answer gave Yang Qiu a continued headache.

    That afternoon, Yang Qiu asked Song Ziqing to order five divisions to be stationed along the line from Kulun to Mongolia. At the same time, he began to recruit civilians to go north. In order to open up this vital railway, he went to the Mongolian Plateau three times within six months to supervise the progress on the spot.

    The construction boom in the depths of the mainland did not disturb many people, and time flew by with the waving of tools such as guns, engineer shovels, and pickaxes.  The summer and autumn of 1917 was probably the quietest period since the founding of the Republic of China, after the last three divisions on the Western Front rushed away.  More than 400,000 soldiers were trained in addition to training. Although Britain and France had also thought about allowing the Chinese Expeditionary Force to be deployed in advance, since weapons and ammunition now need to be given priority to replenish the American volunteers who are constantly arriving from across the Atlantic, they simply ignored it.  And Yue Peng had no objection to Britain and France giving priority to supplementing the United States.  He also kept the ammunition away forever, so that no one could drive an army that was running out of ammunition onto the battlefield.  On the contrary, it was the issue of military discipline that gave the commander of the expeditionary force a huge headache. Thinking about a group of victorious men living in an area full of orphans and widows, it would be strange if something didn't happen, but faced with a situation that was impossible to prevent.  In the end, he just didn't care, as long as it didn't delay training.

    After the war, according to statistics from French civil organizations, during the 11 months when the Chinese Expeditionary Force rested in Chalons, about five French women said they had had sex with one or more Chinese soldiers.  There were at least 3,000 officers among them, so much so that the area later surpassed Marseille to become the area with the largest number of Sino-French mixed-race children.

    But who has time to take care of this now?  As of the end of October.  The first batch of 1.5 million American volunteers all arrived in France.  Song Ziqing implemented Yang Qiu's suggestion and not only sold all weapons in stock to the United States.  It also replaced all the rifles provided by Britain and France in the newly formed 15 infantry divisions with its own Type 12 rifles, and the replaced guns and grenade launchers were handed over to the United States as part of the order.  In fact, he was right to do so. Britain and France had never manufactured Type 12 rifles before, so they were improved by Lienfest or hastily imitated using drawings. Moreover, after a large number of skilled workers were mobilized to the front line, the quality of the weapons dropped seriously, and they were far inferior to those of several domestic factories.  original goods.  As for the grenades, it is because the National Defense Forces have begun to equip 60mm mortars and a new infantry suppression weapon is about to be born, so we might as well get rid of the inventory.

    The United States has obtained weapons, and the domestic troops of the National Defense Force have completed the liquidation. Everyone is happy.

    After also disposing of a large number of captured weapons that did not meet the standards, the expeditionary force became much more relaxed.  However, more than 200 K28 105mm and K16 150mm long-range cannons, as well as several heavy artillery pieces with extremely high research value, similar to the Big Berta gun, were shipped back to China in advance.  The French government also turned a blind eye to this. After all, according to the "Plum Blossom Agreement", the Chinese Expeditionary Force had the right to dispose of its own seized items, and the reason given was to support the main force of the upcoming Eastern Front Expeditionary Force.

      Compared with the quiet western front, the eastern front is turbulent.

    First, on July 1, 1917, the provisional government planned an attack on Germany, but failed again in just ten days.  After the news came, the Poor Party once again planned an anti-imperialist war demonstration movement, demanding an end to the war, and formally proposed the slogan of returning all rights to the Soviets.  Soon after, Kerensky announced a crackdown, which led to a complete split between the Poor Party and the Provisional Government, and armed confrontation was inevitable.  Later, in order to attack the Poor Party, Kerensky led the wolf into the house again and foolishly instigated the Kornilov coup, but it failed again.

    At the same time, the German army launched a massive attack on Ukraine to force Russia to withdraw from the war. The four divisions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force that arrived earlier simply fought and retreated without the support of the Russian army.

    History seems to have returned to a parallel line But except for one person, the entire world did not expect that in the snowy season, the most complex and far-reaching events that will have the most profound impact on the post-war world will begin to brew.

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