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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 177 The Well of Sino-US Friendship

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    Update time: 2012-08-23

    On October 1, 1917, Wang Geng carefully explained to Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng in the Prime Minister's study that the Western Front strategy was to shoot Wu Peifu's third division from Suiyuan before the end of this year and advance with light cavalry to defeat Kulun.  The Mongolian prince canceled the autonomy of Outer Mongolia and returned Outer Mongolia to the embrace of the motherland.

    The Eastern Front Strategy plans to mobilize the newly formed 7th Division of the Wang Tingzhen Army to go north to Jilin, and at the same time start reorganizing the 8th Division of the Li Changtai Army in Jilin and the 5th Division of the Zhang Shuyuan Army in Qiqihar.  The 7th Division of the Participating Army marched north under the banner of a high-sounding vanguard of the Participating Expeditionary Force. They transferred from the Middle East to the Trans-Siberian Railway and headed to Europe to support Russia's Eastern Front.

    Jilin's Eighth Division is a direct team, Qiqihar's Fifth Division is an Anhui team, and Fengtian's Zhang Zuolin is his own team. For Wang Tingzhen and the newly formed Seventh Division, this is a hard job, but it is also a direct and Anhui team.  It was a test of whether the United Nations could sincerely unite. It not only responded to the diplomatic pressure exerted by the Allied Powers on China by going to Europe to participate in the war, but also made advance preparations for the Northeast-East Route contingency.

    Of course, Zhang Zuolin in Fengtian is a variable. Fortunately, Li Jishen's Sixth Division is in Rehe and can coordinate Jilin's actions at any time. At this moment, Lao Zhang does not have enough strength to challenge the two divisions of Zhiwan and the two participating armies.  A teacher.

    For Li Changtai of Jilin and Zhang Shuyuan of Qiqihar, who had just arrived in the Northeast and were not familiar with the place, they had both the heart and the courage to rebel and engage in rebellion. Everyone saw the fate of Zhao Ti, the local emperor of Henan, and it took ten days.  Cao Kun was swept away by Cao Kun. The third division of Cao Kun's army was defeated by the participating armies.

    At this time, Wang Tingzhen, who had been reorganized into the seventh division of the participating army, was also a strong member of the direct line. With 30,000 troops fully equipped with beautiful weapons and equipment, Li Changtai of the eighth division, the Jilin governor, did not  Dare to have any unreasonable thoughts.

    As for Zhang Shuyuan of the Shandong Fifth Division who has just arrived in Qiqihar, there is no reason to rebel. Firstly, he is a direct descendant of the Anhui clique. Secondly, the strength of the army will be further improved after reorganization and re-equipment. If the Zhili clique rebels, there will still be another Zhiwan.  What is the reason for the rebellion of a general of the Anhui Clan?  Are you dissatisfied with the participating troops and Wang Geng and Xu Shuzheng?  Ever since Cao Kun and Wang Tingzhen teamed up and were defeated in the field exercise in Bazhou Qiucao, who would dare to say no to the participating troops and Wang Geng?

    Even Wu Xiaogui obediently led the 3rd Division of the Participating Army to look at the three-acre land in Suiyuan for Wang Geng. Zhang Shuyuan only regretted that he and the 5th Division could not reorganize and join the big family of the Participating Army earlier.

    In the Northeast at this time, the Middle East Road is in the hands of Lao Maozi, and the South Manchuria Railway is in the hands of the little devils.  Then the Liaodong Peninsula was called Guandong State, which was also in the hands of the Japanese. In addition, Japan also occupied Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao from Germany.

    It stands to reason that Fengtian is the outpost guarding the south gate of Northeast China, and it is also the backyard of the Chinese participating armies when they use troops against Lao Maozi in the north. It is really not that safe to leave it to Zhang Zuolin, an ambitious guy. In the case of Zhiwan and Anhui, Lao Zhang  The desire to expand may have been suppressed, but if he had to surrender, he might not agree. Wang Geng didn't want to push him so hard. After all, China and Japan were far from turning against each other.

    In Wang Geng¡¯s Eastern Front plan, he even planned to allocate Sakhalin Island to Japan in the future, and drag Japan on his own ship to beat Lao Maozi together.  After all, with Japan's resources and strength, its courage to compete with Russia on the mainland did not strengthen after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, but weakened.

    The European War was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for China to develop and grow. Wang Geng had no intention of letting the Allies escape so early. In his previous life, if it had not been for the emergence of the main US military force on the Western Front in 1918, Germany and Austria would have won the occupation once.  The armistice after the upper hand.

    For Feng Guozhang and Wang Tingzhen, the gains gained from the compromise with Duan Qirui and the Anhui Clique were beyond imagination. Obviously, the Prime Minister was either really a leader of a big country with an open heart, or he was confused. Wang Tingzhen's Sixteenth Division was so quickly defeated.  It was reorganized into the 7th Division of the participating army and headed to the Northeast. According to Feng Guozhang's thoughts, the Anhui Clique may really intend to treat our direct clique as one of their own?  Or do you want the 7th Division to be used as cannon fodder?

    The 7th Division, which Wang Geng announced to the outside world, will serve as an elite unit from the Royal Guards of the Presidential Guard. After reorganization, it will serve as the vanguard of the participating armies. It will immediately set off to the northeast along the Middle East Road-Siberian Railway to support the Eastern Front of the European War.

    As for the request by Britain, the United States and France to transport Chinese war troops across oceans to support the Western Front of the European War, Wang Geng shelved it. Wang Geng¡¯s reason was also very simple. Only a very small number of Chinese people got motion sickness on trains, but it was not possible to get motion sickness on ocean-going ships.  There is no such thing as seasickness, not to mention the ubiquitous German submarines under the sea, not to mention that it takes at least thirty days of sea journey from Tianjin to France.

    Without controlling the sea, the risk of transporting troops across oceans like this is too high. Once the ship sinks, a regiment's troops will feed the fish and shrimps, and the US military's own example of transporting troops on the Atlantic route is completely unacceptable.It is very convincing. It only takes eight days to cross the Atlantic Ocean from New York to France. It takes four times the journey from China to France across the ocean, and it has to pass through the equator in the middle. Chinese people cannot afford to be injured!

    Wang Geng refused to send large-scale troops by sea to support the Western Front in the European War, so the only option left was land transportation on the Eastern Front. However, Russia itself was in a mess at the moment. No matter how stupid Feng Guozhang and Wang Tingzhen were, they would not be stupid enough to think that Wang Geng would really send troops.  The reorganized combat troops went overland and took the Trans-Siberian Railway to support Russia's Eastern Front.

    The rest is the harvest of President Feng and the Zhili clique. The army reorganization in the three northeastern provinces will mainly take care of the Zhili clique. In other words, if Wang Tingzhen does a good job, he will have a chance to be the patrol envoy of the three northeastern provinces. If he is in the future  If the three military reorganizers who participated in the war still couldn't deal with Zhang Zuolin, Wang Tingzhen himself was too embarrassed to come back to see Feng Guozhang.

    According to Wang Geng's plan, Jilin's 8th Army Division will be directly reorganized into the 8th Division of the participating armies. However, the two recruit supplementary brigades will follow Wang Tingzhen's 7th Division to the northeast later. As for Qiqihar's Shandong 5th Division,  It will be later. In view of the temporary shortage of American equipment, the German Mauser 98 rifles that were replaced by the 1st and 16th Divisions will be temporarily used to equip the 8th Division of the Participating Army in Jilin and the 9th Participating Army in Qiqihar.  division.

    National Day on October 10, 1917 was a holiday celebrated by the whole country. On this day, the first deep well of Renqiu Branch of Sino-American Petroleum Company was drilled to a depth of 3153 meters. The drill bit weighing dozens of tons suddenly sank.  It is as much as ten meters, which is equivalent to a fierce plunge into the sea of ??oil that has been buried underground for hundreds of millions of years. For the first time in the Paleozoic era, oil has been discovered by humans at the bottom of the earth.

    The first oil well in the Renqiu Oilfield produced more than 1,000 tons of oil on the first day of the blowout. From then on, China was completely free of oil. Major media in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai made unreasonable exceptions on the National Day.  This is a moment of national celebration. Everyone in the North and the South is extremely inspired and proud to have drilled such a highly productive oil well in China.

    Rockefeller Jr., the leader of the Rockefeller Oil Exploration Team, even hugged Wang Geng who was present at the scene and cried and laughed. He finally knew that Wang Geng was not fooling him this time. The honor of drilling the first high-yield oil well in China belongs to the Rockefeller Oil Exploration Team.  , although this guy is just a distant relative in the Rockefeller family, at this moment, for Sino-American Petroleum Company, and for all the engineers and construction teams who worked hard for a month and a half to build the Renqiu Refinery.  , the oil column with a height of more than ten meters at the wellhead is the best return.

    On this day, China became the focus of the world's attention. Today, when the European War is deeply mired in the quagmire, the land of China actually drilled high-yield oil wells on the North China Plain. This subverted all previously known oil exploration knowledge and theories. North China  With the discovery of the ancient buried hill oil reservoir in the Renqiu Oilfield, Wang Geng, the war supervisor, once again became a national hero who did his duty. If not for his persistence, no one would have given up when drilling to two thousand meters.

    In 1917, the deepest oil well in the United States was only drilled to 3,800 meters. Sino-American Petroleum Company ushered in the first cash cow with a daily output of 1,000 tons of crude oil.  This means that the Renqiu Refinery's annual refining capacity of 300,000 tons may not be enough. The annual crude oil output of this oil well named "Sino-US No. 1" alone is at least 350,000 tons.

    China has always been known as an oil-poor country. Kerosene, also known as kerosene, is used as fuel. In the past 20 years from the 22nd year of Guangxu to 1917, it has been the largest import of goods to China by the great powers. On average, it imports 4.5 million yuan per year.  The price of a gallon of kerosene is about 0yuan per gallon.

    The general refining products of crude oil are gasoline, diesel and kerosene, in addition to asphalt and paraffin. Generally, a barrel of 159 liters of crude oil can be refined into 90 liters of gasoline, 25 liters of diesel and 25 liters of kerosene.  The successful drilling of Renqiu Oilfield in North China fundamentally expanded China's energy strategic space at this time.

    The equipment of Sino-American Petroleum Company¡¯s Renqiu Oilfield Refinery adopts the latest technology of thermal fractionation to synthesize gasoline, and the gasoline refining efficiency is as high as 56%.

    Wang Geng¡¯s participating armies have such a high degree of mechanization. With so many vehicles in each division, the consumption of a large amount of gasoline is always a hidden worry in their minds. Like Japan, which relies entirely on imports, not to mention that the price is too high and the cost is too high. What will happen if war comes?  At this moment, it is really a foolish dream for China to build a powerful navy, which will have to be at least a few years away!
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