Update time: 2012-08-20

After the fourth batch of U.S. aid equipment arrived at the end of August 1917, the participating troops formed 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 first guy in the model army to be promoted from brigade commander to division commander.

The formation of the Fifth Division of the participating troops was unique, with the new brigade regiments and the first divisions of the brigade, and the second division replaced two infantry regiments, which was also considered the road paved by Wang Geng for Shi Jingting. The three brigade commanders of the Fifth Division were Feng Zhian, the brigade commander of the 13th Brigade, Shi Yousan, the brigade commander of the 14th Brigade, and Tong Linge, the brigade commander of the 15th Brigade.

Li Mingzhong, the commander of the Second Brigade of the First Division, was transferred to the commander of the First Brigade, and the position of the commander of the Second Brigade was given to Liu Ruming. The commander of the Armored Regiment of the First Division was Cai Tingkai!

After the formal army, the Fifth Division was transferred to Zhangjiakou, the capital of Chahar Special Zone. The commander of the model Fifth Division of the participating army was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and served as the Chahar military affairs assistant and the reclamation co-organizer.

Even so, the First Division of the Battle Army and the Four Supplementary Brigades were stationed in the base camp of Nanyuan, Fengtai. The water conservancy project of Yongding River gradually slowed down with the past of the summer flood, and the four Supplementary Brigades invested in the busy factory earthwork and road construction.

Zhili and Chahar got their wish and entered the sphere of influence controlled by the model army participating in the war as they wished. Wang Geng took the lead and worked hard. The first step was that the Renqiu Branch of the Sino-US Petroleum Company was established. The first refinery equipment with an annual output of 500,000 tons had been dormant in the Tianjin Port Area for several months. The equipment of the first refinery with an annual output of 500,000 tons entered the intensive factory planning, design and installation process.

At the same time, the Rockefeller Petroleum Exploration Team ended the extended struggle in Shaanxi and turned to the place called Renqiu west of Baoding for exploration. This time, Wang Geng didn't have much trouble. He personally rushed to the scene and spent two days, and like the fortune teller of a great god, he selected a well drilling point!

At the wellhead of Ren Sijing, the famous North China Oilfield in its previous life, Rockefeller, the captain of the skeptical Rockefeller Oil Exploration Team, frowned and pulled Wang Gengdao,

"gun, you can't be biased no matter what you say this time. You asked us to extend the problem. Can you have mining value for such oil wells? Our American oil wells with a daily output of 30,000 barrels are not young. Those wells you extend the daily output of those wells is only 3 tons? I heard that Morgan and others have made great discoveries on the grasslands in Suiyuan.

Are you sure there will be oil in this small place called Renqiu?! From my expert's perspective, there must be oil in this place and solar energy comes out from the west!" Little Rockefeller was obviously afraid that he would be smeared again!

Wang Geng patted the guy on the shoulder and said, "There must be oil. If you can't drill out, don't say I didn't give you a chance. The land in this area of ​​1,000 acres has been requisitioned by Sino-US Petroleum Corporation at the market price of 50 yuan per acre. You can do it for me!"

The exploration area is actually far more than one thousand acres of land, but Wang Geng didn't want to make too much noise when the time was ripe. However, even so, the nearby thousand acres of land were still classified as military restricted areas and tied up a wire mesh. Jiang Hongyu's 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 deposits in Longguan, Pangjiabao, and Yantongshan, Chahar. This was actually the location of Chahar Longyan Iron Mine in the past life. Wang Geng had been waiting for a long time, so a company called China Steel was officially established after Wang Geng served as the governor of Chahar at the end of August 1917.

Like several earlier companies, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport each holds 20% of the shares, Bank of China and Bank of Communication each holds 15% of the shares, China Charity Foundation holds 10% of the shares, Hanyeping Company holds 5% of the shares, HSBC, Citi, and Zhengjin Bank each holds 5% of the shares, and the company's registered capital is 30 million yuan.

By the end of the next month, six production lines and a team of backbone engineers and technicians at the Second Branch of the Meridian Plant under the Colt Gab Ordnance Company will be relocated to China as a whole. The first site of the American Machinery Arsenal selected by Wang Geng is located on the north side of the Xuanhua Station of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway 20 kilometers southwest of Zhangjiakou, where the China Iron and Steel Company is under construction.

This is the future railway transportation hub, and there is no shortage of water source on the main stream of the Yongding River. The north side of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway is surrounded by mountains and ridges, which helps to dig the mountain to hide important arsenal workshops and raw materials into the shelter of the mountains.

The location of the second arsenal near Suiyuan Baotou will be in the future. Wang Geng is thinking about strategic depth arrangements. The low-key and comprehensive preparation of the future will always be valuable! This is also the reason why Wang Geng chose the first substantial exploration oil field in the depths of Suiyuan, which is the Urat rear flag.

In fact, if Ren Qiu had not had a strategic depth of nearly 200 kilometers from the Bohai Bay, this guy would not have chosen to mine the oil here so early. The 200 kilometers of space gave his land-based fighter jets enough time to respond in the future to intercept air strikes from the sea, and it goes without saying who the enemy would be.

Compared with the military that has a huge amount of money-burning and very slow development of the navy and is prone to alert the great powers, the development of the air force can be regarded as a short and fast move. During World War II in his previous life, the Kamikaze Squad of Japan was able to fly a plane to the sky to bomb US warships within one week of training.

Not to mention that during the Battle of Great Britain in the previous life, countless Royal Air Force pilots who had only trained for one month went straight to heaven to fight with the Germans!

It is impossible to build and train a navy in a few years. Even if the ships are launched into the water and can fight in the army, it will take at least one to one and a half years, not to mention that the shipbuilding stage cannot cover up the purpose of people!

At the end of August 1917, Wang Geng's plan was far-reaching.

After the Fifth Division of the participating army officially formed an army and was stationed in Zhangjiakou, the capital of the Chahar Special Zone, the total strength of the participating army expanded sharply to 200,000 within four months, 150,000 in five reorganized divisions, 36,000 in four supplementary brigades, and 6,000 in military police brigades.

The aviation team formed 4 SE5 fighter squadrons, each with 16 fighters, 4 DH4 reconnaissance bomber squadrons, and each with 16 fighters. As for the Heldley Peji 0/400 heavy bombers, only 2 squadrons were formed, each with 12 heavy bombers, and the remaining 48 were converted into civilian models and rented to China Airlines together with pilot ground crew members.

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

Each armored regiment is also equipped with a six-door vehicle-mounted 75mm mountain field cannon company. However, it is equipped with four 41 mountain cannons and two 38 field cannons.

Due to the rapid expansion, the soldiers participating in the war who have only experienced the training and improvement of military skills for the water conservancy projects on both sides of the Yongding River have not yet been able to train and improve their military skills. In fact, training qualified drivers with such a mechanized level is a huge challenge.

As for the individual military qualities such as sting, fighting, and shooting, the individual qualities of the First and Second Division are almost the same as those of Cao Kun's third division, while the Third Division is obviously inferior to that of the Fourth and Fifth Division basically 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 is much greater than the standard of the general Beiyang army, so the speed of soldiers' shooting technology is also quite good.

The growth of the participating troops put China under greater diplomatic pressure. The envoys of the United States, Japan, Britain and France, surrounded Wang Geng, the generals of the war, and asked only one to send ground troops with the ability to undertake combat missions to the European battlefield as soon as possible. The advance detachment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which served as a guard battalion for Perxing, was simply a symbolic existence.

The Beijing-Sui Railway and highway construction that Wang Geng used Japan's loan to work overtime was more like a farce. When the Beijing-Sui Railway was built to the Siberian daylily, it was cold. The situation in Russia was so stormy that Kerensky's provisional government would not be able to stand 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 the international explanation, especially after both the United States and Japan paid such a huge aid and price!
Chapter completed!