Beiyang 1917

On October 1917, 10, Wang Geng told Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng carefully in the study of the Prime Minister of the State Council. The strategy on the western front was to take Wu Peifu's third division from Suiyuan before the end of this year, and Qingqi dashed forward to settle Kulun The Mongol princes of China canceled the autonomy of Outer Mongolia and let Outer Mongolia return to the embrace of the motherland.

For the Eastern Front strategy, it is planned to transfer the newly formed Seventh Division of Wang Tingzhen’s Army to Jilin, and at the same time start to reorganize the Eighth Division of Li Changtai’s Army in Jilin and the Fifth Division of Zhang Shuyuan’s Army in Qiqihar.The banner of the Seventh Division of the Participating Army going north was the high-sounding vanguard of the Participating Expeditionary Army transferred from the Middle East Road to the Trans-Siberian Railway to Europe to support the Russian Eastern Front.

The Eighth Division in Jilin is the team of the Zhili Department, the Fifth Division in Qiqihar is the team of the Anhui Department, and Zhang Zuolin of Fengtian is a team of his own. It is a test of whether the United Nations is sincere and united. It not only used the action of going to Europe to participate in the war to cope with the diplomatic pressure imposed on China by the Allied Powers, but also made early preparations for the emergency in the Northeast and the Middle East.

Of course, Fengtian's Zhang Zuolin is a variable. Fortunately, Li Jishen's sixth division is in Rehe, and can respond to Jilin's actions at any time. Lao Zhang doesn't have enough strength to challenge the two divisions of Zhiwan and the two divisions of the participating army. teacher.

For Li Changtai from Jilin and Zhang Shuyuan from Qiqihar, newcomers to Northeast China who were not familiar with their place of life had both the heart and the guts to pull up flags to rebel and seek independence. Everyone has seen what happened to the local emperor Zhao Ti in Henan. Cao Kun swept away, and Cao Kun's third army division was defeated by the participating army.

And at this moment, Wang Tingzhen, who has been reorganized into the seventh division of the participating army, is also a member of the direct line. With 3 horses and horses fully equipped with American weapons, Li Changtai, the Jilin governor of the eighth division, does not Dare to move an unreasonable idea.

As for Zhang Shuyuan, the Fifth Division of Shandong who just arrived in Qiqihar, he has no reason to rebel. Firstly, he is regarded as a direct descendant of the Anhui Clan. Second, the strength of the troops will be further improved after the reorganization and reorganization. According to the argument of the dispute, what is the reason for the rebellion of this Anhui general?Dissatisfied with the participating army and Wang Geng and Xu Shuzheng?Ever since Cao Kun and Wang Tingzhen were defeated in the field exercise in Bazhou Qiucao, who would dare to say no to the participating army and Wang Geng?

Even Wu Xiaogui obediently led the third division of the participating army to watch over the three-acre land in Suiyuan on Wang Geng's behalf. Zhang Shuyuan only hated himself and the fifth division for not being able to reorganize and stand in the big family of the participating army sooner.

In the northeast right now, the Middle East Road is in the hands of Lao Maozi, and the South Manchurian Railway is in the hands of the little devil.Then the Liaodong Peninsula is called Guandong Prefecture, which is also in the hands of the little devil. In addition, Japan also occupied Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao from Germany.

It stands to reason that Fengtian is the outpost guarding the northeast and south gates, and it is also the backyard of the Chinese war army against the old Maozi in the north in the future. It is really not so safe to hand it over to Zhang Zuolin, an ambitious guy. His desire to expand may be suppressed, but if he wants to arrest him without a fight, I'm afraid this guy really won't agree, and Wang Geng doesn't want to push him so urgently, after all, China and Japan are far from the time to turn their faces.

In Wang Geng's plan for the Eastern Front, he even planned to hand over Sakhalin Island to Japan in the future, and then dragged Japan to board his own ship to beat Lao Maozi together.After all, with Japan's resources and strength, the courage to compete with Russia on the mainland did not increase after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, but weakened.

The European War is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for China to develop and grow stronger. Wang Geng did not intend to let the Allied Powers escape so early. In his previous life, if it was not for the emergence of the main force of the US military on the Western Front in 1918, Germany and Austria could have won once. The armistice after the upper hand.

For Feng Guozhang and Wang Tingzhen, the gains from the compromise with Duan Qirui and the Anhui faction were beyond imagination. It is clear that the Prime Minister is either really an open-minded leader of a big country, or he has lost his head. Wang Tingzhen's Sixteenth Division was so quickly defeated Reorganized into the Seventh Division of the participating army, and headed to the Northeast, according to Feng Guozhang's thinking, maybe the Anhui Clan really intends to treat our immediate Clan as their own family?Or should the Seventh Division be used as cannon fodder?

Wang Geng announced that the Seventh Division would serve as an elite unit from the Royal Forest Army of the Presidential Guard. After reorganization, it would serve as the vanguard of the participating army, and immediately set off to the northeast along the Middle East Road-Siberia Railway to support the Eastern Front of the European War.

As for the request from Britain, the United States and France to transport Chinese troops across oceans to support the European battlefield on the western front, Wang Geng put it on the shelf. There is almost no seasickness, not to mention the ubiquitous German submarines under the sea, not to mention the sea journey from Tianjin to France at least 30 days.

In the absence of control of the sea, the risk of such an ocean-going troop transport is too great. Once the ship sinks, a regiment of troops will feed the fish and shrimps. However, the example of the US military’s own Atlantic troop transport is not convincing at all. Transatlantic from New York It only takes eight days to get to France, and it takes four times the journey from China to France across the ocean, with the equator in the middle.

Wang Geng refused to send troops on a large scale to support the European war on the western front, so the only option left was land transportation on the eastern front, but Russia itself is in a mess at the moment, Feng Guozhang and Wang Tingzhen will not be so stupid as to think that Wang Geng will really send gangsters The reorganized participating army went to support the Russian Eastern Front by taking the Trans-Siberian Railway by land.

The rest is the harvest of President Feng and Zhili. The reorganization of the army in the three eastern provinces will focus on taking care of the forces of the Zhili. In other words, Wang Tingzhen has done a good job. The three reorganizers of the participating army still couldn't handle the words of Fengtian Zhang Zuolin, Wang Tingzhen himself had no face to come back to see Feng Guozhang.

According to Wang Geng's plan, the Eighth Division of the Jilin Army will be directly reorganized into the Eighth Division of the participating army, but the two supplementary brigades of recruits will follow the footsteps of Wang Tingzhen's Seventh Division to the northeast after a little later. As for Qiqihar's Shandong Fifth Division, It will be later. In view of the lack of American equipment for a while, the German Mauser 16 rifles replaced by the first division and the No.98 division will be temporarily used to equip the eighth division of the participating army in Jilin and the ninth participating army in Qiqihar. division.

On October 1917, 10, the National Day is a holiday celebrated by the whole country. On this day, when the first deep well of Renqiu Branch of Sino-American Petroleum Company was drilled to a depth of 10 meters, a drill bit weighing dozens of tons suddenly sank. As much as ten meters, it is equivalent to a fierce son plunging into the oil sea that has been buried underground for hundreds of millions of years. It is the first time that humans have discovered oil at the bottom of the Paleozoic Era.》

The first oil well in Renqiu Oilfield produced more than [-] tons of oil on the first blowout day. Since then, the label of China's poor oil has been completely removed. By the way, this is a moment of national celebration, whether in Beiyang or in the south, everyone is very encouraged and proud that such a high-yield oil well has been drilled in China.

Rockefeller Jr., the leader of the Rockefeller oil exploration team, even cried and laughed while hugging Wang Geng who was present at the scene. This guy finally knew that Wang Geng was not fooling himself this time, and the honor of drilling the first high-yield oil well in China belonged 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 Corporation, for all the engineers and construction teams who have worked hard for a month and a half to build the Renqiu Refinery , the oil column at the wellhead up to more than ten meters is the best return.

On this day, China became the focus of the world's attention. Today, when the European War was mired in the quagmire, China's land actually drilled high-yielding oil wells on the North China Plain, which overturned all previously known oil exploration knowledge and theories. North China, China For the discovery of the ancient buried hill oil reservoir in Renqiu Oilfield, Wang Geng, the supervisor of the war, once again became a national hero who did his part. If it were not for his persistence, no one would not give up when drilling to 2000 meters.

In 1917, the deepest oil well in the United States was only drilled to 3800 meters, and Sino-American Petroleum Company ushered in the first cash cow with a daily output of 30 tons of crude oil.This means that the Renqiu Refinery's annual refining capacity of 35 tons may not be enough, and the oil well named "Zhongmei No. [-]" alone can produce at least [-] tons of crude oil per year.

In the past, China has always been labeled as an oil-poor country. The kerosene used as fuel is also called kerosene. In the past 22 years from the 1917nd year of Guangxu to 20, it has been the bulk of the imports of foreign powers to China, with an average of 450 million gallons per year. The price of kerosene per gallon is about 0.20-0.25 yuan.

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

The Renqiu Oilfield Refinery of China American Petroleum Corporation adopts the latest thermal fractionation synthetic gasoline technology, and the refining efficiency of gasoline is as high as 56%.

Wang Geng's participating army is so highly mechanized, and the large amount of gasoline consumed by so many vehicles in each division is always a hidden worry for this man. Like Japan, it is all dependent on imports, not to mention that the price is too high and the cost cannot be lowered. What will be done once the war comes?At this moment, China wants to build a powerful navy, which is really a dream, at least a few years later!