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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 267 Kolchak came to investigate

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    As early as the end of May 1918, the two major railway branches of Baotou-Bayun Obo and Baotou-Ordos were successfully connected. With the completion of the railway, the Baiyun Obo iron ore base and the Ordos coal mine base entered into intensive infrastructure construction. At the same time, 3  The infrastructure work of Baotou Steel Base, the second steel base affiliated to China Iron and Steel Company, which started construction at the end of the month, is also progressing quite smoothly.

    It is expected that by the end of July 1918, coking coal from Ordos and iron ore from Baiyun Obo will be gathered at the Baotou Iron and Steel Base for smelting through 90 kilometers of railway branch lines. Like the Xuanhua Iron and Steel Base, the thermal power plant of the China Iron and Steel Company's Baotou Iron and Steel Base  The iron-making, steel-making, coking and other branch plants will be put into operation successively at the end of July. The first phase of the Bayan Obo Iron Mine project that is put into trial operation is expected to produce 1.2 million tons of iron ore annually.

    The first 450-ton blast furnace of Baotou Ironmaking Plant has been installed, and the second and third 450-ton blast furnaces will also be installed, debugged and put into production before the end of July.  By then, the daily iron production will reach 1,500 tons, and the annual iron production will be more than 450,000 tons.

    The first phase of the Baotou Steelmaking Plant has four 140-ton open-hearth furnaces, with an expected annual output of 200,000 tons of steel, and four 5-ton electric furnaces for smelting alloy steel, gun barrel steel and tool steel, with an expected annual output of alloy steel and gun barrel steel.  and other special steel products of 7,500 tons.

    The first phase of the project will be completed by the end of July and reach the expected production capacity. The second phase of the Baotou Iron and Steel Joint Base will continue to be started in the second half of the year. By the end of the year, the iron ore production capacity will be expanded to 1.8 million tons per year, pig iron and  The annual output of crude steel will be doubled to 900,000 tons and 400,000 tons, and the annual output of electric furnace special steel will be increased to 10,000 tons.

    The good news at the end of May is that the fifth deep well "Zhongmei No. 5" in the Sino-US Renqiu Oilfield was successfully drilled. The well is 3,328 meters deep and has a daily crude oil production of 1,200 tons. This means that the Renqiu Oilfield now has five high-yield oil wells and four.  The combined daily crude oil production of these oil wells is 6,700 tons, or 46,900 barrels, with an annual crude oil output of more than 2.4 million tons. China's crude oil exports to Japan have also increased significantly to more than 200,000 barrels per month.

    The railway from Baotou along the Hetao area to the west of Bayannur has completed half of the distance. It is expected to be built to Bayannur by the end of August and to Urad Rear Banner by the end of November. There is a military restricted area on the other side.  It is a huge oil field confirmed by the Morgan Petroleum Exploration Team, and its reserves are expected to be more than three times that of Renqiu Oil Field.

    In view of the fact that Wang Geng's future military direction for China is to go all the way west, he does not plan to exploit the oil fields in Daqing, Heilongjiang, but instead strives to build the Urad Rear Banner in Inner Mongolia as the second large oil field to be officially exploited. Strategic needs  Deep in the hinterland, Urad Rear Banner and Baotou Steel and Petrochemical Base will become the preparatory production bases for the national defense strategy.

    As for Zhan Tianyou and his railway and highway exploration team, they have been working on the front line day and night over the past year. At this time, they have completed the railway exploration design from Bayannaoer to Yinchuan and Lanzhou. They are relying on Wang Geng, the Ministry of Transport Railway  Supervised the planning and began to explore the 1,600-kilometer railway line from Lanzhou to Dihua, Xinjiang.

    The emergence of penicillin and the health campaign advocated by Wang Geng at the beginning of the year made the Spanish flu significantly less lethal both in the world and in China. The mortality rate dropped from 2-3% in the previous life to only 10% more than the ordinary flu.  That¡¯s it, probably less than two thousandths.

    With the peace talks between Soviet Russia and Germany in May, a series of pro-German satellite states surrounding Soviet Russia's territory successively declared independence. The strength of the German-Austrian Allies has been restored and increased unprecedentedly. Not only did the Soviet Union exchange repatriated 700,000 Germans  Austrian prisoners of war became an effective force of the Allies. For the first time, Germany and Austria could devote all their energy to the Western Front. More than 100 divisions from the Austro-Hungarian Empire were continuously transferred from the Eastern Front to the Western Front, which completely offset the U.S. reinforcements on the French battlefield.  Those dozens of divisions.

    The strings on France's Western Front were very tight throughout May, but neither side launched a new offensive. They were just sharpening their knives. On the one hand, for the Allied Powers and the Central Powers, May and June were at their most lean.  , Secondly, both sides also need to transport and reserve large quantities of ammunition and fuel, and repair railways and roads.

    For the US military, they are still collecting all the artillery, machine guns, aircraft and tanks that can be used on the French battlefield. The next battle on the Western Front is likely to be the decisive battle in 1918. Neither the Entente nor the Allies hope that they will not have it.  Be well prepared, but at least this is the first time that Germany and Austria are on par with Britain and France in terms of military strength on the Western Front, or even a little more.

    The biggest beneficiaries of the armistice between Soviet Russia and Germany, apart from the series of satellite countries such as Finland, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia that declared independence, can breathe a sigh of relief and no longer have to worry about being launched by the Bolsheviks.  movement to overthrow and subvert the nascent regime.

    It was Ulyanov and his comrades who actually gained the greatest benefit. This time, the Central Committee of Soviet Russia finally realized that the benefits of peace talks with Germany were huge. Leaving aside the occupied territories, at least Soviet Russia  got a chance to breathe, and the 800,000 armed people who were repatriatedThe pro-Bolshevik Russian prisoners of war were immediately reorganized into the Soviet Red Army.

    Although it is difficult to say whether the so-called Russian prisoners of war who came out of the prison camps and were screened by the political commissars truly supported the Bolsheviks and their doctrines deep down, at least when they raised their fists and swore allegiance to the Soviets, this group of people fought more than anyone else.  Working as hard labor in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp in Germany was either exhausting or starving to death. Compared with being able to return to the motherland, swearing allegiance to any doctrine was not as difficult as imagined.

    Kolchak was unable to break through the siege of Kazan by the Soviet Eastern Front Army throughout May. Although the number of people in the east of Kazan supported Kolchak's newly established "All-Russian Provisional Government" was increasing day by day, Kolchak's  The White Guards also swelled to 200,000 men, but the Soviet Red Army on the other side of the Volga River obviously continued to receive more active forces. The 800,000 Tsarist Russian prisoners of war who returned to the country almost completely filled the Soviet Red Army.

    The strength of the Eastern Front Army, with Wazeski as commander, has been greatly strengthened. The numbers of the five armies from the 1st to the 5th within the Eastern Front Army have been greatly enriched. In the past month and a half, each group army under the Eastern Front has  All have a size of more than 50,000 people, and each newly formed Red Army division is close to a size of 8,000 to 10,000 people. Of course, the Soviet Red Army still lacks weapons. The number of cannons and machine guns is far insufficient, but the human sea tactics  Still giving them an advantage over the White Guards.

    "My dear Commander-in-Chief, I am deeply disappointed that the Chinese, Japanese and Russian coalition forces are standing still in Omsk. On the Kazan front, the soldiers of Free Russia are fighting bloody battles, while in the east, you and your troops are still in the barracks.  Stay and sleep! Isn¡¯t the price we paid in Russia heavy enough? It can be said that I gave up the entire east of the Ural Mountains to you. I will definitely be called the biggest traitor in history by the Russian people!¡±

    Kolchak, who rushed back from the front line in Kazan, did not stop doing anything. He left Ufa directly and took the train to Omsk to launch an army and question the charges. The Chinese can't occupy the place and fail to fulfill their promises, right?  Otherwise, he decided to transfer the Ural Cavalry Group Army from the Sino-Japanese-Russian coalition forces, and the Russians would march westward alone!

    "My dear Supreme Consul, I express my sincere appreciation for the struggle of you and your army on the Kazan front, but please face the fact that I and my people came from five thousand kilometers away.  China rushed here and without enough rest and storage of fuel, ammunition and food, the Sino-Japanese-Russian coalition forces could not rush into battle and advance to the west! "

    Wang Geng looked at the supreme consul of Russia in front of him with a smile. Compared with Wang Geng's muscular and slender height of 1.80 meters, Kolchak in front of him was obviously a small man, probably not even 1 meter tall.  Of course, Russia is a country rich in small leaders, from Ulyanov to Joseph, and this Kolchak, obviously there is no advantage in height.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I have no doubts about the ability of you and your army to fight continuously in a difficult environment. In March, in the freezing ice and snow, your people managed to conquer the 4,700-kilometer stretch of Siberia in two weeks.  Great Railway, how many people did the Chinese Communist Party dispatch at that time? Now you have 200,000 troops but you are standing still. Is this how the Allies repay Russia for its heavy suffering? "

    Kolchak stared sharply at the King of China, who was a head taller than him, as if he wanted to see from Wang Geng's eyes what the most powerful young guy in China and even Asia was thinking about.
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