Beiyang 1917

How big was Russia in 1918?From Irkutsk on the west of Lake Baikal to Omsk is 2200 kilometers away, and from Omsk to the west to Kazan, there is still a full 1600 kilometers, from Kazan to the west to Moscow, then 800 kilometers left.

The beautiful road vision Wang Geng described to Japan is far away in the Ural region, starting from the northern section of the Ural Mountains in the north and adjacent to Kazakhstan in the south.Including Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Orenburg, Kurgan, Bashkir and Udmurt.

It has an area of ​​82.4 square kilometers and a population of about 1000 million.To the east of the Ural Mountains is the West Siberia Plain, and to the west is the northwestern part of the Russian Plain.

Oil, natural gas, iron, copper, bauxite, zinc, nickel, titanium, vanadium, gold, platinum group, potash, magnesite, asbestos, coal and other minerals are abundant.The economy is quite developed, and it is the largest heavy industrial area in Russia.

The industries are mainly iron and steel, colored metallurgy, machinery, chemical industry, and electric power, as well as forestry, timber, and agricultural and livestock product processing, etc. Agriculture and animal husbandry are relatively developed.It mainly produces wheat and feed crops, and ru-meat husbandry is important.The transportation industry with railways and pipelines as the main body is well developed.The main cities are Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ufa and so on.

The Ural, which is located in the Ural Mountains on the dividing line of the Eurasian continent, is the brightest pearl in the Russian heavy industry. The question is, how much energy will it take for Japan, a small island country, to occupy such a far place?How many troops were invested?

The Japanese ruling and opposition parties really didn't dare to think about such a far place, but the West Siberia Plain east of the Urals made the young generals of the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters salivate a little. The West Siberia Great Plain is the largest plain in Asia.

It borders the Yenisei River in the east, the Ural Mountains in the west, the Kazakh Hills and Sayan Mountains in the south, and the Kara Sea in the north. In Wang Geng’s previous life, this territory included Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Tom Oklahoma and parts of the Altai Krai and Kemerovo Oblast.

The West Siberia Plain is 1000-1900 kilometers wide from east to west, 2500 kilometers long from north to south, and covers an area of ​​274 million square kilometers. The altitude of the area is 50-150 meters, and the Ob River-Irtysh River runs through the whole territory.

If Japan wants to expand the continental space and accept the olive branch extended by China to join hands with Japan, the Great Plains of West Siberia is really a goal worthy of the emperor's lifetime struggle!

Although it was not recognized by the Allied Powers, as the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army Department sent a new head of the military section, Army General Yan Junliu led a five-member liaison team to participate in the Nanyuan Command of the Chinese War Army to undertake the two After the high-level liaison and communication between the armed forces, the two sides quickly reached a new agreement on the division of power in Russia under the joint participation of the foreign ministries and military of the two sides in the negotiations.

The goal of the first stage of China and Japan's intervention in the Russian situation, for China, is to take back the territory from the Grabic River, the south and east of the Outer Xing'an Mountains to the sea. Everything to the north belongs to Japan's scope of action.

The key second-stage goal, for China, will control the area east of the Yenisei River and south of the northern end of Lake Baikal, while Japan will control the area west of the Yenisei River and north of Lake Baikal The vast area of ​​the Siberian Plain.

As for the Ural region, the consensus reached by China and Japan is that within the framework of the Allied Powers, it is necessary to support a Russian regime centered on Ufa as a buffer zone. As for the future of this Russian regime, it will be left to the local residents in the future. To be decided by a referendum.

Of course, at this moment, the above consensus only exists in the form of a memorandum after consultation between China and Japan. When to seek the opinions of the leaders of the Allied Powers of the United States, Britain and France depends on the progress of the military operations of the Chinese and Japanese intervention forces in Siberia and the Far East.

In fact, for this closed-door secret consultation between China and Japan, the Japanese side sent Foreign Minister Hirano. In order to deceive people, they came to China under aliases, while the Chinese side was the old pair of Wang Geng and Xia Yiting.

The Japanese side has been deeply worried about the status of the South Manchuria Railway, Kanto Prefecture, Jiaozhou Bay, and Qingdao. During the talks, the Chinese side reiterated the proposal to temporarily shelve it and wait for a package solution at the end of the European War. This made the Japanese Foreign Minister With a sigh of relief, with the continuous growth of the Chinese army participating in the war, now Japan's instant benefits in China are gradually becoming a bit like a hot potato in the throat.

Just let go? Japan's domestic public opinion is really hard to explain, so hold on?The criticism and pressure caused by the Japanese occupation of these four places by the ruling and opposition parties in China are also increasing.

"Wang Sang! Your boldness, this!" In the private room of the Liuguo Hotel for the talks between the two sides, the Foreign Minister sincerely raised his thumbs up at Wang Geng.

"Mr. Hirano, as a man of insight between China and Japan, he shoulders a heavy responsibility! Of course, I would like to thank Minister Lin for making the bridge, and the sixth chief officer, Yan Jun, who is really a talent. How about it, Your Excellency, sir. Not interested in joining my army?"

Wang Geng smiled and raised the champagne in his hand, and greeted Hayashi Quansuke and Hata Shunroku who were beside Hirano.

"Hey... this... thanks to the attention of your Excellency, General... this... I have to follow the arrangements of the General Staff Headquarters!" Yan Junliu, who appeared as a special liaison officer of the headquarters of the participating army in China and a military attache of the legation in China Da Zuo was taken aback by Wang Geng's invitation.

"To be honest, Japan still has more ways to train officers, especially young officers, than China. Whether it's your non-commissioned officer school or the Army University, the quality of teaching is better than ours! I'm looking for talents, Your Excellency Hirano , Minister Lin, how about it, say something nice for me, how about Hata Junliu coming to my army and being my special military adviser?"

"Wang Sang, thanks to your great love, the commander himself can't decide. In fact, the army is not under my control. I have to ask the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters for instructions. I'm afraid they won't let him go!" Hirano Ichiro looked at him in surprise Wang Geng, originally thought that the war supervisor was joking with him, why, did he really like the kid from the Tian family?

"Mr. Hirano, you ri have too many worries. I have a characteristic, that is, no matter what kind of conspiracy and tricks I engage in, I will spread them on the table. In other words, I, Wang, only engage in conspiracy and not conspiracy. Now that China and Japan are negotiating to work together, if one party is half-hearted all day long, this matter will simply be dropped!" Wang Geng narrowed his eyes and looked at the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs in front of him!

"Master Superintendent, if you really want to use me for the diplomatic relations and friendship between the two countries, why would Hata Toshiroku spare me!" Rimoto pouted his neck, obviously going all out, and China, the superintendent who participated in the war for less than a year Over time, he has jumped from a West Point graduate to a model and idol for all young soldiers in China and even Asia. Among the young Japanese military officers, Wang Geng has quite a few fans at the moment.

Although the United States Military Academy at West Point is not considered the top military academy in the world, and it trains only non-commissioned officers, but looking at the world, who can single-handedly build a modern army for the country in a year?And so young?

The guy in front of him who is No. 1 in the Chinese Communist Party actually designed a good gun like the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle, and he returned it. . .He also invented something against the sky like penicillin. . .It even single-handedly created the oil, steel, coal and military industries for China.

It is said that this Chinese has no private property in China and is the largest philanthropist. The China Charity Foundation he founded has become the largest charity organization in Asia within a year, with total assets exceeding [-] million yuan.

This Wang Geng used penicillin's symbolic patent income to create a global gv scientific development charity foundation. It is said that the total assets of this foundation have exceeded 1 million US dollars!

Such a person actually popped up among the ignorant and backward Chinese. Shunro Hata's curiosity about Wang Geng was no less than Wang Geng's admiration for him.

For Wang Geng, his staff headquarters really lacks staff talents like Hata Toshiroku. This is the master who drafted and revised the "Imperial National Defense Policy" and "Imperial Military Program" for the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters. This is the Japanese Army University in 1910. The saber chief among more than 51 graduates!