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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 200 The imminent Eastern Front

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    At the end of January 1918, with the arrival of the ninth batch of U.S. reinforcements, Wang Geng used the First Division of the participating army as the basis, and formed two supplementary brigades composed of recruits recruited in January from the Second Division of Baoding where Jiang Hongyu was transferred.  The Sixth Brigade Zhang Zhijiang's Brigade and the Fourth Brigade Han Linchun's Brigade, together with Jiang Deng's Selected Section of the Third Brigade of the First Division, formed the 17th Division of the participating armies, all of which were elite.

    Zhang Zuoxiang, who had just served as the leader of the training group of the participating army for less than a month, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and served as the commander of the 17th division of the participating army. He also served as the garrison commander of Suifenhe, Heilongjiang. He led the first and second divisions of the participating army.  The 17th Division, composed of the main mixed brigade, formed an army at the end of January 1918 and went to Suifenhe, Heilongjiang to garrison!

    When Wang Geng announced his appointment, the two alliance brothers Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Zuoxiang looked at each other and couldn't believe their ears. The number of new reorganized divisions participating in the war has always been one mixed brigade plus two supplementary brigades from the original reorganized division.  After a while, Wang Geng transferred three brigades from the elite First Division and Second Division, the two earliest divisions into the army, to form the Seventeenth Division. This was so surprising!

    "It is my principle to employ people without any doubt, Commander Zhang. I believe you can lead this team well. If Zhang Zhijiang is naughty, feel free to kill him. Chief of Staff, what else can you not trust in your alliance brothers? I am the main force here.  The troops are in his hands, what if he gives up in front of Lao Maozi?" Wang Geng showed a smile, but he didn't finish his words!

    "Don't worry, Commander, if we lose the battle, I, Zhang Zuoxiang, will come to see you!" Zhang Zuoxiang, who had been the leader of the teaching regiment for less than a month, never expected that he would become the commander of the main division of the participating armies so quickly!

    Moreover, when Jiang Dengxuan was in the Fengtian Patrol Camp, we were all old acquaintances. Now he is President Feng¡¯s confidant. That Han Linchun is Zhang¡¯s fellow Fengtian fellow and a celebrity in front of Xu Shuzheng. Not to mention Zhang Zhijiang, according to participating in the war  According to the army's habits, the next commander of the new division is most likely to be Zhang Zhijiang. I didn't expect Wang Geng to trust him so much. He formed three main mixed brigades as soon as he was given. It seems that he made the right choice to follow the commander-in-chief and join the Central Committee and the participating armies!

    "It's so spicy! Zhang Zuolin, if you give me a fright on the front line, let alone come to see me by yourself, I, my old brother, will skin you first!" Zhang Zuolin was also surprised and delighted and couldn't believe his ears.  , I have finally put it back in my stomach after thinking about it for a month. Damn it, the superintendent¡¯s mind and courage are really unmatched by our Lao Zhang. At first, I was worried that I would be brought to Beijing to cool off. In the blink of an eye, the alliance brothers continued  He became the division commander and the guardian envoy!

    And obviously want.  .  .  It is time to lead the main force of the direct line of the participating armies to lead the entire army!  Former Fengtian Governor and now Chief of Staff of the participating armies, Zhang Zuolin, Marshal Zhang felt that he had really opened his eyes. Following Wang Geng, there was nothing he said!  No one will use the main force they have built as cannon fodder to die on the front line. Obviously this is not a tactic to kill with a borrowed knife, but a prelude to the war army's big operation on the Eastern Front that is about to begin!

    "Commander, give me a division, even a brigade, and I, Zhang Zuolin, will lead the entire army. Zhang Zuolin is still a little behind me, so why don't I go!" Lao Zhang patted his chest and wanted to steal the job from his alliance brothers!

    "Hey! Brother, no no, Chief of Staff, how can this be done? As the Chief of Staff, of course you have to sit in the center together with the Commander! It is our business to charge into the battle!" Zhang Zuoxiang shouted while blushing.

    At the moment, the main force of Soviet Russia is only 300,000, mainly in the core areas of Europe such as Petrograd, Tsaritsyn and Moscow. Lao Maozi's troops in the Far East do not exceed 30,000. Wang Geng is killing a chicken with a sledgehammer. In fact, because  The Russian Civil War will soon begin in full swing. Wang Geng does not think it is that difficult to regain the Far East and move the national border to the outer Xing'an Mountains.

    The plan drawn up by the General Staff Headquarters of the participating armies was to divide the troops on the eastern front into two groups, with Zhang Zuoxiang's 17th Division as the vanguard. It would go from Suifenhe in the eastern section of the Middle East Road to Lao Maozi's Far Eastern Primorye along the Middle East Railway.  After passing through the Suifen River in the Middle East, the troops split into two groups. The three brigades of the 17th Division headed south towards Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok, followed closely by the 7th Division of Wang Zhengting, which headed north along the Siberian Railway to the north of Khabarovsk.

    On the west line of the Middle East Railway, the three brigades of the Ninth Division Li Mingzhong will attack from Manzhouli and advance along the Middle East Railway. The first goal is to capture Chita!  After capturing Chita, the troops divided into two groups and pushed the front all the way west to Nerchinsk. Although the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk" was signed in 1689 until now, Nerchinsk has always belonged to Russia, but since Tsarist Russia has been  After the Soviet Union was overthrown, many things can be re-examined.

    For Lao Maozi's immigrants in Siberia and the Far East, not many people still know how the Nerchinsk border was drawn between China and Russia 200 years ago. Of course, the Chinese soldiers who participated in the war did not know, so even if it was to establish a buffer zone to support Russia  The White Guard puppet regime and the Chinese participating armies will not stop at the borders drawn by Nerchinsk.

    The border only exists before and after the war. When the war is going on, if it can reach Moscow, Wang Geng will not refuse it. Of course, there will be dozens moreThe Wanbai Guards will take the lead, and it would be best to add another twenty divisions of little devils as human shields.

    The Xuanhua Arsenal is copying French mortars very quickly. As the arsenal was put into production in early January, the 81 and 60 mortars of the French Brand Company were the first to be successfully copied. In the initial stage, the monthly production of 60mm caliber mortars was 300, and the 81mm caliber mortars were produced at a monthly rate of 300.  The monthly output of mortars is 200. As the arsenal's production capacity is fully adjusted, the production capacity is expected to increase by half in the second month and double again in the third month.

    The 60-caliber mortars of the participating armies are equipped to platoons, each platoon has a 2-gun 60-caliber mortar squad, while the 81-caliber mortars are equipped to battalions, and each battalion has an 8-gun mortar platoon!

    60 mortar parameters:

    Total weight: 18kg

    Grenade weight: 1.5 kg

    Maximum range: 1300 meters

    Number of operators: 2 people

    81 mortar parameters:

    Total weight: 47kg

    Willow bomb weight: 3.6 kg

    Maximum range: 2000 meters

    Number of operators: 3 people

    In addition, the Xuanhua Arsenal's British Mills-style oval hand grenade was also successfully imitated. This grenade was developed by British engineer Mills in 1915. Its structure and principle later became the mainstream of hand grenades in the world. It was used in Wang Geng's previous life until 21  century.

    The hand grenade production capacity of Xuanhua Arsenal is expected to reach 100,000 by the end of February 1918. After that, the production capacity is expected to increase gradually every month, reaching a monthly production of 500,000 pieces in half a year.

    At the same time, various types of artillery shells at the Xuanhua Arsenal were quickly put into mass production at the end of January 1918. The production capacity expected to be reached within March is as follows:

    75mm caliber field artillery shells: monthly production 10,000-12,000 rounds

    75mm caliber mountain artillery shells: monthly production 10,000-12,000 rounds

    150 caliber howitzer shells: monthly production of 6000-8000 rounds

    60mm mortar shells: monthly production of 30,000 rounds

    81mm mortar shells: monthly production of 25,000 rounds

    Working overtime, the first batch of mortars and grenades produced were given priority to equip the participating armies on the Eastern Front, and a steady stream of arms was shipped to Harbin, Manzhouli and Suifenhe.  The war was imminent. Wang Geng planned to formally launch the Defense 18 military operation to regain the territory lost due to the Nerchinsk Treaty at the end of February and no later than the beginning of March, that is, after the Soviet Union and Germany finally signed the Brest-Litovsk Treaty and negotiated peace.

    By then, the Chinese participating army will deploy 60,000 troops from the 17th and 7th Divisions in the direction of Suifenhe, and 30,000 troops from the 9th Division in the direction of Manchuria. Wu Peifu will dispatch the elite 3rd Division from Kyaktu to the north from Outer Mongolia.  The third division's goal is to reach Lake Baikal.

    At the same time, the four divisions of Suiyuan, Jilin, Chahar, and Rehe will each draw two mixed brigades as reserve teams to enter Outer Mongolia and Heilongjiang respectively. Recruitment of new soldiers will be accelerated, and efforts will be made to recruit 6 brigades by the end of February.  The new recruits of the replenishment brigade entered the Nanyuan base camp.

    In fact, if it were not for the fear of too much logistical pressure, with the combat army's food and salary benefits being twice as much as those of the Beiyang Army, it would be almost no difficulty to recruit soldiers, and the reorganized divisions of the participating armies stationed in various provinces were actually clamoring to regain control as Wu Peifu and Wang Tingzhen had done before  Fighting like that in Outer Mongolia and the Middle East Road, everyone knows that only by serving as a soldier can you achieve meritorious service. How long will it take for you to be promoted by just guarding the camp and practicing?
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