Beiyang 1917

As early as the end of May 1918, the two branch railways of Baotou-Baiyun Obo and Baotou-Ordos were successfully completed. With the completion of the railway, the Baiyun Obo Iron Mine Base and the Ordos Coal Mine Base entered the intensive infrastructure construction. At the same time, 3 The infrastructure work of Baotou Iron and Steel Base, the second iron and steel base under China Iron and Steel Corporation, which started construction at the end of the month, is also progressing quite smoothly.

It is estimated that by the end of July 1918, the coking coal from Ordos and the iron ore from Baiyun Obo will each be smelted at the Baotou Iron and Steel Base through a 7-kilometer railway branch line. Like the Xuanhua Iron and Steel Base, the thermal power plant at the Baotou Iron and Steel Base of China Iron and Steel Corporation Branches such as ironmaking, steelmaking, and coking will be put into operation successively at the end of July. The first phase of the trial production of Baiyun Obo Iron Mine is expected to produce 90 million tons of iron ore per year.

而包头炼铁厂的第一座450吨高炉已安装，第二第三座450吨高炉在7月底前也能完成安装调试投入生产。届时ri产生铁将达1500吨，年产生铁45万吨以上。

The first phase of Baotou Steelmaking Plant has four 140-ton open hearth furnaces, with an expected annual output of 20 tons of steel, and four 5-ton electric furnaces for smelting alloy steel, gun-tube steel and tool steel, which are expected to produce alloy steel, gun-tube steel 7500 tons of special steel products.

The first phase of the project will be completed before the end of July and reach the expected production capacity. The second phase of the Baotou Iron and Steel Joint Base will continue to start in the second half of the year. By the end of the year, the production capacity of iron ore will be expanded to 7 million tons per year. The annual output of crude steel has doubled to 180 tons and 90 tons, and the annual output of electric furnace special steel has been increased to 40 tons.

The good news at the end of May is the successful drilling of the fifth deep well "Zhongmei No. 3328" in Renqiu Oilfield, with a depth of 1200 meters and a daily output of 6700 tons of crude oil. The four oil wells add up to 46900 tons of crude oil in Japan, or 240 barrels, with an annual output of more than 20 million tons of crude oil. China's crude oil exports to Japan have also increased significantly to more than [-] barrels per month.

The railway from Baotou along the Hetao area to the west to Bayannaoer has completed half of the distance. It is expected to be completed at the end of August to Bayannaoer, and at the end of November to Urad Rear Banner, which is surrounded by a military restricted area. It is a huge oil field confirmed by Morgan Petroleum Exploration Team, and its estimated reserves will be more than three times that of Renqiu Oilfield.

In view of the fact that Wang Geng designed for China to deploy troops all the way to the west, he did not intend to exploit the oil field in Daqing, Heilongjiang, but to build Urad Rear Banner in Inner Mongolia as the second large oil field to be formally exploited. Strategic needs Deep in the hinterland, Urad Rear Banner and Baotou Iron and Steel Petrochemical Base will become preparation production bases for national defense strategy.

As for Zhan Tianyou and his railway and highway survey team, they have been working on the front line day and night for the past year. At this moment, they have completed the railway survey design from Bayannaoer to Yinchuan and Lanzhou. According to the plan of the supervisory office, the exploration of the 1600-kilometer railway line from Lanzhou to Xin Jiang Dihua began.

The emergence of penicillin and the sanitation campaign advocated by Wang Geng at the beginning of the year made the lethality of Spanish flu sharply reduced, both in the world and in China, and the mortality rate dropped from 2-3% in previous lives to only 10% more than ordinary flu That's it, probably less than two thousandths.

Following the peace agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany in May, and after a series of pro-German satellite countries around the territory of Soviet Russia declared du li, the strength of the German-Austrian Allies has been restored and increased unprecedentedly. Not only did Soviet Russia exchange and repatriate 70 German The Austrian prisoners of war became a vital force of the Allies, and for the first time, Germany and Austria could use their full strength on the Western Front. More than 100 divisions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were continuously transferred from the Eastern Front to the Western Front, which completely offset the US reinforcements on the French battlefield. Those dozens of divisions.

The strings on the French western front were tense throughout May, but neither side launched a new offensive. Second, the two sides still need to transport and store a large amount of ammunition, fuel, and repair railways and roads.

For the U.S. military, they are still collecting all the cannons, 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. Both the Allies and the Allies do not want their own I didn't make enough preparations, but at least, this is the first time that Germany and Austria have the same strength as Britain and France on the Western Front, or even a little more.

The biggest beneficiaries of the armistice between the Soviet Union and Germany, except for the series of satellite countries such as Finland, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, etc. who announced du li, can breathe a sigh of relief and don't have to worry about being launched by the Bolsheviks Movements to overthrow and subvert nascent regimes.

It was actually Ulyanov and his comrades who got the most benefits. This time, the Soviet Russian Central Committee finally realized that the benefits of negotiating peace with Germany are huge. Russia got a respite, and the repatriated 80 pro-Bolshevik Russian prisoners of war with weapons were immediately reorganized into the Soviet Russian Red Army.

Although it is hard to say whether the so-called Russian prisoners of war who have been screened by the political commissars from the prisoner-of-war camps really support the Bolsheviks and their doctrine in their hearts, but at least when they raised their fists and swore allegiance to the Soviets, these people were more than anyone else. Working as a hard laborer in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp in Germany either died of exhaustion or starvation. Compared with being able to return to the motherland, swearing allegiance to some doctrine is far less difficult than imagined.

Kolchak was unable to break through the siege of Kazan by the Eastern Soviet Army throughout May. Although the number of people supporting Kolchak's newly established "All-Russian Temporary Government" in the east of Kazan increased day by day, Kolchak The White Guards in Croatia also swelled to a size of 20, but the Soviet Red Army on the other side of the Volga River apparently continued to be joined by active forces, and the 80 Tsarist Russian prisoners of war who returned to the country were almost fully organized into the Soviet Russian Red Army.

The strength of the Eastern Front Army under the command of Vaczeski has been greatly strengthened, and the number of the five armies from the 1st to the 5th in the Eastern Front Army has been greatly enriched. Each has a scale of more than 5 people, and each newly formed Red Army division is close to the scale of 8000 to 10000 people. Of course, the Soviet Red Army still lacks weapons, and the number of cannons and machine guns is far from enough, but the sea of ​​​​people tactics Still let them still have an advantage in front of 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, free Russian soldiers are fighting bloody battles, while on the east side, you and your troops are still in barracks I stayed in bed and fell asleep! Isn’t the price we Russia paid heavy enough? It can be said that I have given up the entire east of the Ural Mountains to you, and I will definitely be called the biggest traitor in history by the Russian people in the future!”

Kolchak, who came back from the Kazan front, did not do anything. He left Ufa and took the train to Omsk to inquire about the crime. Can the Chinese take up the place and fail to fulfill their promises?Otherwise, he decided to transfer the Ural cavalry group army in the Sino-Japanese-Russian coalition army, and the Russians would go west alone!

"My esteemed Supreme Consul, I express my sincere appreciation to you and your army for their struggle on the Kazan front, but please face up to the fact that my people and I came from five thousand kilometers away. China rushed here, without enough rest and hoarding enough fuel, ammunition and food, the Chinese, Japanese and Russian coalition forces cannot rush into battle and advance westward!"

Wang Geng smiled and looked at the Russian Supreme Consul in front of him. Compared with Wang Geng's strong and slender 1 meter tall, Kolchak in front of him was obviously a small man, maybe even less than a meter. Of course, Russia is a country rich in small leaders, from Ulyanov to Joseph, and this Kolchak obviously has 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 and snowy world, your people managed to complete the 3 kilometers of Siberia in two weeks. The Great Railway, how many people did the squadron dispatch at that time? Now you have 4700 troops in your hands but are standing still. Is this how the Allied Powers repay us Russia for their hard work?!"

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