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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 171 Critical Point

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    Update time: 2012-08-20

    After the fourth batch of U.S. aid arms and equipment arrived at the end of August 1917, the participating armies organized and trained the fifth division on the basis of seven supplementary brigades. This time Shi Jingting, commander of the first brigade of the first division, got his wish and became the first model army participating in the war.  A guy who rose from brigade commander to division commander.

    The formation of the 5th Division of the participating army was unique. It replaced two infantry regiments with the new corps of the supplementary brigade and the 1st and 2nd Divisions respectively. This can be regarded as the road paved by Wang Geng for Shi Jingting. The 5th Division  The three brigade commanders are Feng Zhian, the commander of the 13th Brigade, Shi Yousan, the commander of the 14th Brigade, and Tong Linge, the commander of the 15th Brigade.

    Li Mingzhong, commander of the second brigade of the first division, was transferred to the commander of the first brigade, and the position of commander of the second brigade was given to Liu Ruming.  The commander of the 1st Division Armored Regiment is Cai Tingkai!

    After the formal formation of the army, the Fifth Division was transferred to Zhangjiakou, the capital of the Chahar Special Region. The model commander of the Fifth Division who participated in the war was awarded the rank of Army Lieutenant General and served as the Assistant Military Affairs Officer and Co-organizer of Reclamation in Chahar.

    Even so, the Fengtai Nanyuan Base Camp is still stationed with the troops of the First Division of the participating armies and four supplementary brigades.  The water conservancy project on the Yongding River has gradually slowed down as the summer floods have passed, and the four supplementary brigades have invested in the earthmoving and road construction of the factory area in full swing.

    Zhili and Chahar got their wish and entered the sphere of influence controlled by the Model Army. Wang Geng threw off his arms and started working hard. As a first step, the Renqiu Branch of the Sino-American Petroleum Company was established, which lay dormant in the Tianjin Port Area for several months.  The equipment of the first refinery with an annual output of 500,000 tons has entered an intense process of plant planning, design and installation.

    At the same time, after the Rockefeller oil exploration team ended their long journey in Shaanxi, they came to a place called Renqiu in the west of Baoding for exploration. This time, Wang Geng didn't bother too much. It took him two days to arrive at the site in person, like a dancing master.  Like a fortune teller, he selected a drilling site for an exploratory well!

    At the wellhead of the well-known Rensi Well in the North China Oilfield in the previous life, Rockefeller Jr., the captain of the Rockefeller oil exploration team who was doubtful, frowned and pulled Wang Geng and said,

    "Gun, no matter what you say this time, you can't be biased anymore. You asked us to extend the toss. Can oil wells like your extension be valuable? Our oil wells in the United States have a daily production of 30,000 barrels. We are all old and young. How many of you extended the oil wells?  The daily output of the well is only 3 tons? I heard that Morgan and the others made a big discovery on some remote grassland in Suiyuan!

    Are you sure this little place called Renqiu has oil?  !  From my expert perspective, this place is going to have oil and solar energy coming from the west!  "Little Rockefeller is obviously afraid that he will be cheated again!

    Wang Geng patted this guy on the shoulder and said, "There is definitely oil. If you can't drill it out, don't say I didn't give you a chance. A thousand acres of land nearby have been sold by Sino-American Oil Company at the market price of 50 per mu.  Just pay me for it, so you can do it for me!"

    The exploration area is actually far more than a thousand acres of land, but Wang Geng didn't want to make too much noise when the time was ripe. But even so, the nearby thousand acres of land was still classified as a military restricted area and a barbed wire fence was pulled up. Jiang Hong met the first  The Second Division directly sent an infantry regiment to garrison.

    As for Chahar, in 1914, Swedes from the Minerals Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs discovered the "Xuanlong-style" hematite deposits in Longguan, Pangjiabao, and Yantong Mountain in Chahar. This is actually the Chahar of the past and future.  Wang Geng had been waiting impatiently for the location of the Erlong Yan Iron Mine, so a company called China Iron and Steel was officially established at the end of August 1917 after Wang Geng concurrently served as the governor of Chahar.

    Like the earlier companies, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Communications each hold 20% of the shares, Bank of China and Bank of Communications each hold 15%, the China Charity Foundation holds 10%, and Hanyeping Company holds 10%.  HSBC, Citigroup and Zhengjin Bank each hold 5% of the shares. The company has a registered capital of 30 million yuan.

    By the end of next month, six production lines and equipment and a key team of engineers and technicians from the second branch of Meridian Factory, a subsidiary of Colt Garber Ordnance Company, will be relocated to China. The first site of the American Ordnance Factory selected by Wang Geng is located in  Twenty kilometers southwest of Zhangjiakou, north of the Xuanhua Station of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, is the location of the China Iron and Steel Company under construction.

    This will be a railway transportation hub in the future, and there is no shortage of water resources on the main stream of the Yongding River. The north of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway is surrounded by mountains and ridges, which helps to dig out the mountains and hide important arsenal workshops and raw materials under the protection of the mountains.

    Suiyuan near Baotou will be the location of the second arsenal in the future. Wang Geng is thinking about strategic and in-depth arrangements. Being low-key and thorough in planning for rainy days is always valuable!  This is also the reason why Wang Geng chose the Urad Rear Banner deep in Suiyuan for the first substantial exploration of oil fields even though he knew there were oil fields near the Bohai Dagang.

    In fact, if Renqiu had a strategic depth of nearly 200 kilometers from the Bohai Bay, this guy would not have chosen to exploit the oil here so early. The 200 kilometers of space would give his land-based fighter jets enough time to react and intercept in the future.Air strikes from the sea, and it is self-evident who the enemy will be.

    Compared with the development of the navy, which is a hugely expensive, slow and easily arousing service to the great powers, the development of the air force can be regarded as a short and quick move. In the previous life, Japan's kamikaze squadrons during World War II could fly their planes into the sky to carry out bombings in just one week of training.  US military ship.

    Not to mention that during the air war over Britain in the previous life, countless Royal Air Force pilots who only trained for a month went directly to the sky to fight in air combat with the Germans!

    It is impossible to build and train a navy in less than a few years. Even if the ships are launched into sea trials and the army is ready to fight, it will take at least a year to a year and a half, not to mention that shipbuilding is impossible.  An act of concealment!

    At the end of August 1917, when the country was not yet unified, Zhijiang and Anhui were still constraining each other, and the south was only temporarily dormant, Wang Geng's plan was far-reaching.

    After the fifth division of the participating army was officially formed and stationed in Zhangjiakou, the capital of the Chahar Special Region, the total strength of the participating army expanded sharply to 200,000 within four months, with five reorganized divisions of 150,000 and four supplementary troops.  The brigade has 36,000 troops and the Military Police Brigade has 6,000 troops.

    The Air Force established 4 SE5 fighter squadrons, each squadron has 16 fighters, and 4 dh4 reconnaissance bomber squadrons, each squadron also has 16 fighters. As for the Handley Page 0/400 heavy bomber, it only formed  2 squadrons were formed, each with 12 heavy bombers, and the remaining 48 were converted into civilian models and leased to China Airlines along with pilots and ground crews.

    At this time, each division participating in the war had a heavy artillery regiment and an armored regiment. However, the number of 150-caliber heavy artillery delivered by the Japanese was far from enough. Each regiment was only equipped with 24 150mm howitzers, and each armored  The regiment is equipped with 108 wheeled armored fighting vehicles modified from Ford TT multi-purpose vehicles. Each vehicle has an M1917A1 Browning water-cooled heavy machine gun and a two-man machine gun crew above the cab, and is equipped with an 8-man infantry squad.

    Each armored regiment is also equipped with a six-gun vehicle-mounted 75mm mountain gun battery.  However, it is equipped with 4 Type 41 mountain guns and 2 Type 38 field guns.

    Due to the rapid expansion, it will take time for the soldiers who have only experienced the water conservancy projects on both sides of the Yongding River to train and improve their military skills. In fact, for such a mechanized army, just training qualified drivers is a huge problem.  challenge.

    As for the individual military qualities such as stabbing, fighting, and shooting, the individual qualities of the 1st and 2nd Divisions are almost comparable to Cao Kun's 3rd Division. The 3rd Division is obviously a step behind, and the 4th and 5th Divisions are basically  You have to rely on firepower and equipment to bluff people!  Fortunately, the training ammunition of the participating armies is quite abundant, and the amount of live-fire training for soldiers is much greater than the standards of the general Beiyang Army, so the soldiers' shooting skills are improving at a very good rate.

    The growth of the participating armies put China under greater diplomatic pressure. The ministers from the United States, Japan, Britain and France were noisy around Wang Geng, the war supervisor. They demanded only one thing: to dispatch ground troops capable of undertaking combat missions to the European battlefield as soon as possible. Which one should be given?  The advance detachment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force where Pershing served as the Guards Battalion was simply a symbolic existence.

    And Wang Geng used Japanese loans to work overtime to construct the Beijing-Suiyuan railway and highway, which is more like a farce. By the time the Beijing-Suiyuan railway was built, the day lilies in Siberia were cold, and the situation in Russia was so precarious that Kerensky's  That interim government looks like it won't survive the next month.

    ??The Chinese government and participating armies must take more active actions to participate in the war, otherwise they will not be able to give an explanation to the international community, especially after the United States and Japan have paid such huge aid and costs!
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