Chapter 264 Northwest Counterattack 1

Electricity.

It is changing China.

50MW generator sets and 30KV transmission and relay protection systems have begun to be promoted on a large scale in eastern China. In the infrastructure investment in 1902, the total investment of state-owned power plants reached 45 million yuan.

More electricity investment still comes from the capital market, especially the capital of the Hu family.

At the Wells Fargo Industrial Research Institute in Shanghai, researchers are attacking the 75MW thermal generator set to overcome this difficulty. At present, one of the main obstacles is the arc breaking strength of the isolation switch.

Regional power grids have begun to be united, and relevant theories and calculation formulas have been continuously updated and developed in China.

Special electric power schools have been established in Shanghai and Fuzhou to train talents specializing in electric power, and the state has also set a set of electrician training and assessment standards.

In Shandong, with the emergence of sodium benzoate and the industrial ice storage system based on ammonia compressor, Shandong's food processing industry is becoming an emerging industry, especially the processing of meat products, thus promoting the high development of animal husbandry in Shandong.

In Fuzhou, Shanghai, Qingdao and Tianjin, electric fans, heaters and water heaters are gradually becoming new products of household appliances. Fuguo Heavy Industries has purchased the invention patent of the condensed air conditioning system of the American inventor Willis-Carill, and on this basis, it has studied a larger-scale central water-cooled air conditioning system. Unification.

Electricity.

It will completely change China.

No country has been able to realize this for the time being.

What Hu Chuyuan has to do is to make accurate estimates, continue to increase the construction of power plants and power grids, and ensure the stability of the national power supply. In fact, China's total power generation capacity almost doubles every year.

... The prologue of 1902 began.

After the New Year in Yanjing, on the second day of the Chinese New Year, on February 10, 1902, Hu Chuyuan secretly took the Prime Minister's special train to the northwest front, accompanied by almost the staff of the confidential secretariat.

In Shanshan, a temporary Prime Minister's mansion has been built and is waiting for Hu Chuyuan.

He will command the first full-scale counterattack of the Far East war there.

Of course, before that, he must first confirm a problem... The Chinese army is indeed ready for a comprehensive counterattack.

Two years.

It's not very long, but in the magic of money, under the leadership of national policy, Shanshan has initially presented the rhyme of an industrial city.

On February 17, Hu Chuyuan's special train quietly arrived in Shanshan. When he passed through the window of the train, he looked at the industrial factories, open mines, and towering chimneys in the distance through the windows of the train... Everything proved that this city with a large number of industrial raw materials was rising.

Shanshan is a good place.

Perhaps, it is just an oasis town 70 kilometers away from Turpan, which is not inconspicuating.

In fact, it is the most densely resource-intensive area in Xinjiang Province. The total reserves of coal mines, iron ores and oil are very rich. There are also world-class sodium saltpetre mines and bentonite mines. Although the local reserves of manganese, chromium, zinc, lead and copper are not abundant, they are all small deposits, which are still enough for the time being. .

From March 1900, Hu Chuyuan began to invest heavily in the construction of Shanshan City, ahead of Jiangnan Group and Fuguo Heavy Industry. Zibo Chemical also opened the first oil well in Xinjiang Province here, and thus established a new chemical base.

Since July 1901, Shanshan Arsenal began to provide ammunition for the northwest front. Under the leadership of Hu Yanyuan, CITIC and some Hui merchants contracted wasteland in Shanshan, improved the underground water channel system, invested in cotton cultivation, established textile factories, and produced military cotton quilts, which effectively reduced the supply of materials in the northwest. The pressure of railway transportation.

China Electric Power Investment Corporation, a newly listed company separated from Shanghai Yinghua Electric Company, has established the first thermal power plant in Xinjiang Province in Shanshan. The expected goal is to build six 50MW units. At present, two units have been put into operation.

Money.

For Hu Chuyuan, this may not be a very important thing.

According to his investment plan, within ten years, he will invest 380 million yuan in Shanshan, which is a long-term investment project. Ten years later, the profit he collects from Shanshan every year may be as high as 100 million yuan.

After passing through Shanshan New City, the train gradually entered a military camp in the suburbs. This is the logistics dispatching station of the National Military Commission in the Shanshan area, which is specially designed to ensure the supply and supply of materials for the northwest counterattack, and to coordinate the coordinated operations between the various regiments.

In order to ensure that there is no mistake, Hu Chuyuan decided to sit in Shanshan in person.

Passing through the supply station outside the entrance of the camp, the train stopped. There were two rows of soldiers standing on both sides of the track, lined up several kilometers away, and at least nearly 10,000 soldiers were used.

They are wearing thick gray cotton-padded clothes, carrying new rifles, and dark green helmets on their heads.

Several military off-road vehicles were parked at the entrance of the railway station, and Li Kaiye led several main commanders of the northwest front to wait in front.

Hundreds of agents of the Secret Service got off first. Hu Chuyuan came out of the train with his wife Wu Shuzhen, accompanied by more than a dozen staff members of the VIP secretariat.

Seeing Hu Chuyuan, Li Kaiye immediately led other commanders to salute together.

Hu Chuyuan was very happy that they also came to meet him. He came forward and said a few words, and then asked Li Kaiye and others to go to the Shanshan Logistics Terminal of the National Military Commission with him first.

During this period, he will work at this logistics terminal, and the office building and residence are ready.

When the group drove to the office building, Hu Chuyuan specially asked Li Kaiye and himself to take a car and got on the car. When the car drove on the gravel road, he asked Li Kaiye, "How are the preparations in the northwest?"

Li Kaiye replied decisively, "It's all ready. Just wait for the Order of the Military Commission!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded awe-inspiringly and did not continue to ask.

Only he can issue this order, but before it is issued, he has to confirm this matter in person, which is of great importance and cannot be neglected.

Arriving at the dispatching center of the logistics terminal, Hu Chuyuan first took people to the office building, and Wu Shuzhen went to the residence to settle down.

Before Hu Chuyuan arrived, Sun Zongyuan had brought people here first, and all aspects were ready. In Hu Chuyuan's office, the whole Central Asian map was hung horizontally on the wall, marking the garrison status of various forces in red, blue, green and yellow.

In the past two years, the Yeerqiang Khanate has firmly occupied the western part of Xinjiang Province and established its capital in Usu, with a large force of nearly 200,000 people in Urumqi, in addition to the Russian Army Group in East Central Asia.

Of course, there is no need to be intimidated by the 200,000 troops of the Yerqiang Khanate. Those are just a mob, and the military strength that is really worth paying attention to is Russia's Eastern Central Asian Army Group.

In the two large-scale military concentration zones of Aldeka and Semipalatinsk, Russia also has two armies, namely the Army Group in the south of Central Asia and the Army Group in the North. In Semipalatinsk and Barnaul, France also has a group of troops to ensure the supply security of the entire Far East Railway.

At present, the number of troops stationed by Russia and France in Central Asia is about 1.1 million. The French army has two armies with a total strength of 370,000, while Russia has three armies and a number of local garrisons, with a total strength of 750,000.

These data alone are enough to see the scale of the whole Far East War.

Its scale has actually exceeded that of the Napoleonic Wars, but for China, such a big war is not uncommon in history, but now it has begun to use guns and artillery on a large scale, and used spears and knives.

That's all. The nature of war has not changed.

For so many years, the tactical principles that Hu Chuyuan has adhered to have always been the same - deceiving and annihilating opponents.

Entering the office, Hu Chuyuan stood in front of the big map and looked at the situation in the whole Central Asia calmly and solemnly, as if all the picture scrolls appeared in front of him. He had already seen the soldiers.

Li Kaiye and Ha Peiying, the division commander of the 24th Division of the Shaanxi-Ganning Corps, stood behind Hu Chuyuan and also looked at this big map. In fact, they didn't need to read it, because they read too much and had already remembered all the useful information in their minds.

Harpeying should be the commander of the army, and Li Kaiye has also become the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Front.

With the development of the war, the size of the original regiment- division- brigade-group was not enough to support the use of tactics. The domestic army was readjusted to 74 divisions, and three to five divisions were set up into one army, and each army was transferred to the commander-in-chief of the front headquarters.

At this time, Li Yuanhong, who arrived at the logistics terminal first, also hurried in and sent the northwest military information report that Hu Chuyuan needed.

Hu Chuyuan put a thick stack of reports on his desk and was not in a hurry to look through them. Instead, he continued to compare the map and directly inquire about various situations with Li Kaiye and Ha Peiying.

The northwest front currently gathers three regiments in Huguang, Shaanxi, Ganning and Xinjiang Province, divided into four armies, with a total of 620,000 people.

For the Russians and the French, relying on this force to fight back, which is simply a fantasy, but for China, for Hu Chuyuan and Li Kaiye, everything is possible.

It was not until the evening that he sent Li Kaiye and others away that Hu Chuyuan calmed down and carefully read the Northwest Military Report.

Overall, the situation is very good.

Whether it is military training, material reserves, or other details, the Northwest Front has the ability to fight back in an all-round way.

In the desert area 30 kilometers away from Shanshan New Town, the staff of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Central Museum are intensely excavating the ancient city of Loulan. After two years of work, it has made good progress.

As a Chinese cultural relic, Hu Chuyuan has no intention and time to go there to have a look.

When he arrived in Shan's aftermath, he began to reorganize the new strategic rationing problem. In case, he still transferred a batch of new 175-horsepower military trucks from Jiangnan to distribute gasoline.

In the past two years, China has been secretly stockpiling gasoline. The oil production areas in Dongying, Beiping New Area, Sumatra and Brunei have also been increasing production capacity. Gasoline reserves transported from the United States are generally hoarded in North China and Shandong, and can be equipped to various battlefields at any time according to their needs.

In Shanshan, the local oil well has just begun to be put into operation, and the logistics terminal has hoarded 600,000 tons of gasoline.

At that time, gasoline will be transported not only through trucks and railways, but also through horse teams and camels. Whereverized troops attack, gasoline and other war materials will be transported.

What Hu Chuyuan has to do in Shanshan is to ensure the normal operation of the whole logistics supply, so that Li Kaiye and the whole northwest front army can continue to move forward without worries until the predetermined goal of occupying Omsk.

February 24th.

In the attention of Hu Chuyuan, Li Kaiye organized a large-scale military exercise in the Kumish area, using more than 400 armored vehicles, **, more than 20,000 infantry to fight together. After capturing the target area, the whole army carried out maintenance on the spot, and a large-scale delivery team composed of more than 1,000 trucks for timely replenishment... After the whole exercise, Hu Chuyuan did not find out what made him dissatisfied.

This also means that the Northwest Counterattack can be officially launched.

In March, the mechanized army of the Huguang Corps began to assemble. The Shaanxi-Ganning Corps was followed by cavalry, and the first and third divisions of the Huguang Corps under the jurisdiction of the Northwest Third Army were assembled as the main infantry.

March 14th.

The final counterattack is coming.

(to be continued)