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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 179 The East and West Fronts are ready to go

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    In October 1917, the situation in Russia took a turn for the worse. On October 2, first the Bolsheviks won more than half of the seats in the Moscow Soviet, and Victor Nogin became the chairman of the Moscow Soviet. Then on October 8, then in Petrograd  The party of the little mentor in the Soviet also won a majority of seats, and Trotsky, who was known as the founder of the Soviet Red Army in his previous life, was elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet.

    Next, the All-Russian Central Committee of Soviets determined the policy of the armed uprising. Although the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries deliberately leaked the decision of the Soviet Central Committee to the Provisional Government and Kerensky in the newspapers, the Provisional Government had lost its momentum and was crushed not long ago.  During Kornilov's rebellion, it became the provisional government that was opposed to the Russian troops on the front line. It was too late to find the Russian troops on the front line to come back for rescue.  The torrent of the Russian October Revolution has been unstoppable.

    In China, by the end of October 1917, the 8th Division of the Participating Army in Jilin, which was fully equipped with German Mauser equipment, was officially reorganized. Li Changtai, the former commander of the 8th Army Division, was transferred back to the Staff Headquarters of the Participating Army as deputy chief of staff. The previous  Cai Chengxun, commander of the Army's First Division and now deputy chief of staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, happily led the two supplementary brigades and the Eighth Army Division in Jilin to form the new Eighth Division of the Joining Forces.

    Everything is like playing a game of chess. Feng Guozhang could not find anything else but satisfaction with the territory and treatment obtained by his confidants Cai Chengxun and Wang Tingzhen in the Northeast.

    After reorganization, Cai Chengxun, commander of the 8th Division of the participating army, Ji Hongchang, commander of the 22nd brigade, Gao Shuxun, commander of the 23rd brigade, and Li Changqing, commander of the 24th brigade!  The position of Jilin Governor was handed over to the Eighth Division Commander Cai Chengxun.

    With the arrival of the sixth batch of munitions at the end of October 1917, in addition to the munitions, there were production drawings and special production equipment for the Dodge v6 and v8 automobile engines, as well as 100 sets of v6/v8 engine production and assembly parts each, as well as the Dodge Company's partnership  Frederic Haynes, who had a disagreement with the Dodge brothers over whether to stay in Ford Motor Company, wanted to resign in anger, but was poached by Vivian on Wang Geng's behalf.  He has been working on Dodge cars with the Dodge brothers since the beginning. He is the first-class automobile engine design expert and automobile company general manager candidate in this era.

    Wang Geng gave him an annual salary of 100,000 yuan, plus 5% of the shares of the newly established China Automobile.

    At the end of October, Wang Gengfen increased capital and expanded shares to establish China Fudao Automobile Company on the basis of Nanyuan Dodge Ford Auto Repair and Assembly Plant. Ford and Dodge each held 10% of the shares, and Bank of China and Bank of Communications each held 10%.  Shares, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport each hold 15% of the shares, the China Charity Foundation holds 10% of the shares, HSBC, Citibank, and Zhengjin Bank each hold 5%, and Frederic Heines holds 5%!

    The industrialization of Zhili and Chahar, including the future Suiyuan and Baotou, has accelerated. Although Hanyeping is now under the control of Japanese capital, the output and quality of steelmaking and ironmaking are close to the world's advanced level. With Wang Geng  In the construction and commissioning of the Chahar Xuanhua Mining Area, the Xuanhua Base of China Iron and Steel Company will fully absorb and possess the steel smelting technology of the United States and Japan and the experience of Han Yeping.

    At least Wang Geng said that Han Yeping is the main supplier of track steel for many railway projects in Suiyuan. The Japanese undertook most of the railway projects in Suiyuan. Han Yeping is the first Chinese company controlled by Japanese capital.  The new steel conglomerate gives priority to becoming a rail supplier. Of course, the quality is even better than imported rail steel!

    During the process of the Participating Army reorganizing the 1st, 15th, 16th and 8th Divisions of the former Beiyang Army, almost all the division and brigade commanders of the Participating Army after reorganization were from the Teaching Corps of the Participating Army, while the original  Those brigade commanders, such as Li Kuiyuan and Yu Fufu of the 1st Division, Zhang Guo and Qi Baoshan of the 15th Division, Guan Zhonghe and Tian Xianzhang of the 16th Division, and Huang Yuankai and Wang Xuejie of the 8th Division were all transferred to join the war army.  The teaching team is back.

    Some of them who were heavy smokers were told to either go to a drug rehabilitation center or retire from the army. The results were without exception. Some of the smokers couldn't quit at all, so they retired and went to other places. However, Guan Zhong and Wada of the 16th Division  Xianzhang did not smoke. Wang Geng saw that the two brigade commanders were doing well, so he returned to the training group first, and he could be released and start as brigade commanders in the future.

    Earlier in early October, the candidate who took over after Wang Tingzhen resigned as the head of the teaching regiment was also beyond everyone's expectations. Although Wang Geng said that the arms had not yet arrived and the four strategic areas in Henan had just been recovered from that kid Zhao Ti, he did not  They promised to reorganize Cao Kun's 3rd Division of the Beiyang Army, but the Ministry of War ordered Wang Chengbin, commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade under Cao Kun, to serve as the leader of the training group of the participating armies.

    In the Third Division of the Army, Wang Chengbin was the most capable and strategic general besides Wu Peifu. He never dreamed that his division commander was crying and shouting that he wanted to join the fighting army, but Wu Peifu refused to do so.  Following in his footsteps, he joined the army.

    At this time, the important people participating in the war were no longer like Corporal Wang Geng Lixian who went to visit in person.?Wu Peifu is so troublesome. At this time, the total number of soldiers and horses is only 300,000. The participating troops are a miracle in the history of the founding of the Republic of China. There are only 1.5 million people in Beijing. If all the participating troops who started in Nanyuan are here now, there will be Beijing.  One-fifth of the total population.

    Although Cao Kun felt distressed and a little reluctant to let Wang Chengbin go, his emotions rose again when he thought about it. Just like Wu Xiaogui, he was the soldier brought by the Third Division of our army everywhere.  Wu Xiaogui played the role of military governor in Suiyuan, and Wu Xiaogui seemed to be particularly valued by Wang Geng. The entire third division of the Model Army that participated in the war was the most powerful division besides the first division that Wang Geng himself served, and it was also the most powerful division.  The first unit equipped with a squadron of dh.4 reconnaissance bombers.

    Sure enough, Wang Chengbin became the leader of the training regiment of the participating army for less than a month. By the end of October, the Ministry of War ordered Wang Chengbin's sixth brigade to be removed from Cao Kun's third division in Henan and go north to Nanyuan to change its equipment. After that, he and two  The supplementary brigades were mixed together to form the 10th Division of the participating armies, fully equipped with American weapons and equipment, an artillery team pulled by American Dodge trucks of the same color, and the armored regiment's 108 wheeled armored vehicles equipped with Browning M1917a1 water-cooled heavy machine guns.

    Wang Chengbin was also promoted from the position of head of the training regiment of the participating army to Army Lieutenant General, and was appointed as the commander of the 10th Division of the Model Army. At the end of October, he went straight to Suizhou through the Beijing-Suiyuan railway line that was completed in advance. At this time, Suiyuan  Wu Peifu, Assistant Military Affairs Officer of the Yuan Dynasty, has led the 5th and 6th brigades of the 3rd Division, as well as the division's armored regiment, to sneak into Outer Mongolia from Guisui along the Guisui-Kulun Highway that is being widened.

    As early as a month ago, Wu Peifu, under Wang Geng's instructions, had already established an advance base, built a military depot, and even built a military base that could take off and land at Hande at a place called the Second Company at the junction of Suiyuan and Outer Mongolia through vehicle transportation.  At the field airport of Li. Peji 0/400, a large amount of fuel and food were stored and a regiment was stationed to garrison it.

    At the end of July earlier, when the Zhangjiakou-Guisui section of the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway was repaired to the Ulanqab place in the middle, a railway branch line ran north from Ulanqab to the second company at the junction of Suiyuan and Outer Mongolia.  The project started while surveying. Since it was already grassland after leaving the mountainous area, the project progressed very quickly. By the end of October, one-third of the railway from Ulanqab to Erlian had been built in three months.  , and the highway has been completely connected and widened and reinforced based on the original road.

    Under Wang Geng's overall planning and arrangement, at the end of October 1917, when Wang Chengbin led the 10th Division of the participating army to Suiyuan, Wu Peifu had already led two brigades and divisional armored regiments to the forward base of the Second Company, and a squadron  Dh.4 reconnaissance bombers also stationed at the Second Company Field Airport.

    At the same time, a squadron of SE5 fighters and a squadron of Handley Page 0/400 heavy bombers in Nanyuan also transferred to the Second Company's forward base.

    In addition to Wu Peifu on the western front who was preparing to take advantage of the opportunity of the Russian October Revolution to regain Outer Mongolia, on the eastern front, by the end of October, Wang Tingzhen's 7th Division, the leading force of the participating army, had arrived in Harbin along the Middle East Railway and established its own former enemy headquarters.  The three mixed brigades of the Seventh Division were deployed along the eastern route.

    At the same time, the reorganization work of the 5th Army Division stationed in Qiqihar did not stop. The other two supplementary brigades that followed the 7th Division arrived in Qiqihar by train. On the last day of October, the 9th Division of the Army joined the war.  The Ninth Division, which had the same German weapons and equipment as the Eighth Division, was reorganized into an army in Qiqihar.

    In view of the changes in the domestic situation in Russia, although the situation on the Eastern Front may be tense, Wang Geng still sent a plane to take Zhang Shuyuan back to the participating army as the leader of the teaching regiment, and the commander of the Ninth Division appointed the former First Division of the participating army  Li Mingzhong, the brigade commander of the first brigade, serves as the commander!  He was awarded the title of Lieutenant General of the Army and appointed as Assistant Military Affairs Officer of Heilongjiang and Qiqihar Governor!  The position of Heilongjiang Governor was given to Wang Tingzhen of the Seventh Division in Harbin!

    Li Mingzhong was the second guy in Wang Geng's first division to be promoted from brigade commander to division commander after Shi Jingting. Half a year after Wang Geng stepped into the Langfang military camp, all the aspiring young officers in the 16th mixed brigade could only watch feverishly.  He is the leader of his own fighting force and has forgotten that Mr. Feng who punishes people all day long and asks them to beat him!
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