Beiyang 1917

After the fourth batch of U.S. reinforcements arrived at the end of August 1917, the participating army organized and trained the fifth division based on seven supplementary brigades. This time, Shi Jingting, the commander of the first brigade of the first division, got his wish and became the No. A guy who rose from brigade commander to division commander.

The formation of the fifth division of the participating army is different. The recruits of the supplementary brigade, the first division, and the second division were replaced by two infantry regiments. This can be regarded as the road paved by Wang Geng for Shi Jingting. The three brigade commanders are Feng Zhi'an, commander of No.13 brigade, Shi Yousan, commander of No.14 brigade, and Tong Linge, commander of No.15 brigade.

Li Mingzhong, commander of the second brigade of the first division, was transferred to be the commander of the first brigade, and the position of brigade commander of the second brigade was given to Liu Ruming.The head of the armored regiment of the First Division is Cai Tingkai!

After formally forming the army, the Fifth Division was stationed in Zhangjiakou, the capital of the Chahar Special Zone. The commander of the Fifth Division, a model participating army, was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General, and served as the Deputy Military Affairs Office and Co-organizer of Land Reclamation in Chahar.

Even so, the first division of the participating army and four supplementary brigades were still stationed in the Fengtai Nanyuan base camp.Water conservancy projects on the Yongding River have gradually slowed down as the summer floods have passed, and the four supplementary brigades have invested in the construction of earthworks and roads in the factory area in full swing.

Zhili and Chahar got their wish and entered the sphere of influence controlled by the model army participating in the war. Wang Geng let go of his arms and started to work hard. The first step was the establishment of the Renqiu branch of Sino-American Petroleum Corporation, which had been dormant in the Tianjin port area for several months. The first refinery equipment with an annual output of 50 tons has entered the intensive process of plant planning, design and installation.

At the same time, after the Rockefeller oil exploration team ended their extended toss in Shaanxi and went to this place called Renqiu in the west of Baoding to conduct exploration, this time Wang Geng didn't bother too much. Like a fortune teller, a spot for exploratory drilling has been selected!

At the wellhead of the well-known Rensi Well in the Huabei Oilfield in the previous life, Rockefeller Jr., the captain of the Rockefeller oil exploration team who was skeptical, frowned and pulled Wang Gengdao,

"Gun, you can't be biased any more this time. You asked us to extend the toss. Is it worthwhile for you to extend such oil wells? Our oil wells with a daily output of 3 barrels in the United States are not old or young. You extend those wells." The daily production is only 3 tons? I heard that Morgan and the others made a big discovery on the grassland in an unknown corner of Suiyuan!

Are you sure this little place called Renqiu will have oil? !From my expert's point of view, this place must have oil and solar energy coming out from the west! "Little Rockefeller was obviously deeply afraid that he would be scolded again!

Wang Geng patted the guy on the shoulder and said, "Of course there is oil. If you can't get it out, don't say I didn't give you a chance. The 50-acre land around here has been sold by the Sino-American Petroleum Company at a market price of [-] per mu." If you want to requisition for [-] yuan, 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 designated as a military restricted area and barbed wire was pulled up. Jiang Hongyu's first The second division directly sent an infantry regiment to garrison.

As for Chahar, in 1914, the Swedes from the Minerals Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs discovered the "Xuanlong-style" hematite deposit under the Longguan, Pangjiabao, and Yantong Mountains in Chahar. Wang Geng had been waiting impatiently for the location of the Erlongyan Iron Mine, so a company named Zhonghua Iron and Steel was formally established at the end of August 1917 after Wang Geng concurrently served as the governor of Chahar.

Like the previous companies, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Communications each hold 20% of the shares, the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications each hold 15% of the shares, the China Charity Foundation holds 10% of the shares, and Hanyeping Company holds There are 5% of the shares, HSBC, Citigroup, and Zhengjin Bank each hold 5% of the shares, and the company's registered capital is 3000 million yuan.

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

This is the future railway transportation hub, and there is no shortage of water sources by the main stream of the Yongding River. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway is surrounded by mountains and mountains to the north, which will help excavate the mountain to hide important arsenal workshops and raw materials under the protection of the mountain.

The vicinity of Baotou in Suiyuan will be the location of the second arsenal in the future. What Wang Geng has in mind is the strategic arrangement. A low-key and thoughtful plan is always valuable!This is also the reason why Wang Geng chose the Urad Rear Banner deep in Suiyuan as the first oil field to be substantively explored, even though he knew there were oil fields near the big port in Bohai Sea.

In fact, if it weren't for Ren Qiu's strategic depth of nearly 200 kilometers away from the Bohai Bay, this guy would not choose to exploit the oil here so early. The 200 kilometers of space will allow his land-based fighter jets to have enough time to respond in the future. For air strikes at sea, it is self-evident who the enemy will be.

Compared with the development of the navy, which burns money very slowly and easily arouses the vigilance of the great powers, the development of the air force can be regarded as a short and fast move. During the previous World War II, the kamikaze squadron in Japan during World War II could fly a plane to the sky to bomb in a week of training. U.S. ships.

Not to mention that countless Royal Air Force pilots who only trained for a month during the Great Britain Air War in the previous life went directly to the sky to fight the Germans in air battles!

It is impossible to build and train a navy within a few years. Even if a ship is launched into the sea and tested to become an army capable of fighting, it will take at least one to one and a half years, let alone shipbuilding. A cover-up!

At the end of August 1917, Wang Geng's plan was not far-reaching at the end of August 8.

在参战军第五师正式成军并调驻察哈尔特别区首府张家口之后，参战军的总兵力在四个月内急剧膨胀到了20万人，五个整编师15万人、4个补充旅36000人、宪兵旅6000人。

The aviation team formed 4 SE5 fighter squadrons, each with 16 fighters, and 4 DH4 reconnaissance bomber squadrons, each with 16 fighters. As for the Handley Page 0400 heavy bomber, only 2 Each squadron has 12 heavy bombers, and the remaining 48 were converted into civilian models and leased to China Airlines together with the pilot and ground crew.

At this time, each division of the participating army had a heavy artillery regiment and an armored regiment, but the number of 150-caliber heavy artillery delivered by the Japanese was far from enough. Each regiment was equipped with only 24 150mm howitzers, and each armored regiment The regiment is equipped with 108 wheeled armored combat vehicles modified with Ford TT multi-purpose vehicles, each with an m1917a1 Browning water-cooled heavy machine gun and two-person machine gun team above the cab of each vehicle, and an 8-man infantry squad.

Each armored regiment is also equipped with a six-door vehicle-mounted 75mm mountain artillery battery.However, it is equipped with 4 2-type mountain cannons and [-] [-]-type field cannons.

Due to the rapid expansion, the soldiers of the participating army who have only experienced the tempering of the water conservancy projects on both sides of the Yongding River still need time to train and improve their military skills. challenge.

As for the military quality of individual soldiers such as stabbing, fighting, and shooting, the individual quality of the first and second divisions is almost comparable to that of Cao Kun's third division, and the third division is obviously not as good. The fourth and fifth divisions are basically You have to rely on firepower and equipment to bluff people!Fortunately, the training ammunition of the participating troops is quite abundant, and the training volume of soldiers' live ammunition shooting is much higher than the standard of the general army in Beiyang, so the speed of improvement of soldiers' shooting skills is also quite good.

The growth of the troops participating in the war put China under greater diplomatic pressure. The envoys of the United States, Japan, Britain, and France quarreled around Wang Geng, the supervisor of the war, and demanded only one, to send ground troops capable of undertaking combat missions to the European battlefield as soon as possible. The advance detachment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, where Pershing served as a guard battalion, was simply a symbolic existence.

And Wang Geng used Japanese loans to work overtime to build the Beijing-Suizhou railway and road construction, which is more like a farce. When the Beijing-Suizhou railway is repaired, the Siberian daylily will be cold. The situation in Russia is so precarious. Kerensky’s That interim government doesn't seem to be able to survive the next month.

The Chinese government and the participating troops must take more active actions to participate in the war, otherwise there is no way to give an explanation to the world, especially after the United States and Japan have paid such huge aid and costs!