the world is at stake

What does recruiting local female workers count?It is not impossible to raise pigs for meat. Many bad things in the "later generations" are caused by bureaucrats who do not take responsibility and pass the buck.

But if you want to stabilize the frontier, you must carry out industrialization, and if you want to engage in industry, you must follow science if you don't want to die.Anyway, everyone is equal, and there are no taboos. "

Talking about the past of building this factory, the political commissar of the Corps, a member of the 'Holy Light', was both proud and emotional.Pointing to the No. [-] blast furnace emitting raging heat, he said:

"It's not difficult to get along with the local people, but it's difficult to do construction. Urumqi is really far away from the mainland. It is more than 3000 kilometers away from Shanghai in a straight line, and it is located in the center of Asia.

Just to transport industrial equipment into Xinjiang, we set up nearly a hundred military depots along the way, mobilized 3 people to build roads, broke down more than 3000 trucks in five years, and sacrificed more than 200 soldiers and migrant workers.

Now driving into Xinjiang by road, you can still see the wreckage of abandoned vehicles along the Gobi Desert, with only metal skeletons left in the wind and sun, indicating the direction like road signs.

Also, when we first came, the Russians were very influential in the Northwest.They have been motivating the locals to fight against us.Either organize horse bandits to attack military depots and the government, or woo people to move out of the country. "

Speaking of this, the political commissar of the Corps cursed viciously, "Fuck", "Tsarist Russian businessmen are the most disgusting, stingy, full of evil, fanning the flames, spreading rumors and smearing, and doing things that harm others and benefit themselves.

Fortunately, we have more cars, more guns, more planes.Sometimes the reason cannot be explained clearly, and the army can only be sent to do it hard.If we win, the right to speak is on our side. "

Zhou Qingfeng has read the internal reference, and knows that there have been more than a dozen riots involving thousands of people in Northwest China in recent years.Every time the Russians are behind it.Fortunately, the transmission of information was slow this year. All the divisions stationed in Xinjiang are first-class troops with fast maneuvering speed, which can eliminate the problem in the bud.

After doing it more than a dozen times, the Russian personnel lost a lot and had to withdraw from Xinjiang, relying on Central Asia to continue to harass.

The wind, snow and sand in the Gobi and oasis recorded the achievements of the Corps.

Today there are steel plants in Urumqi, oil fields in Karamay, grain and animal husbandry in Yili, and cotton, melons and fruits in Aksu and Turpan.Regardless of life or garrison, the conditions are much better.

For example, 'Karamay' means 'Black Oil Mountain' in the local language, and it 'used to be' the largest oil source in China before the Daqing Oilfield was exploited.

'Xingang' is still being expanded, and a steel rolling project is about to start, with the aim of producing steel rails locally and connecting the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway as soon as possible.At the same time, several surrounding cities will be connected by railway.

There is no shortage of 'coal, iron and oil' around Urumqi, and the water source is relatively abundant. It is a rare treasure in the northwest and is very suitable for building a regional central city that radiates the entire Central Asia.

With industry, the situation in Xinjiang can be fully opened up, providing logistical supplies for the 10,000+ troops stationed in the frontier.

It is heroic to say, but it is full of tears and hard work behind it.Talking about the numerous achievements, Zhou Qingfeng and the political commissar of the Corps laughed and felt even happier.

"Where are the various ministries on the Northwest Front now?" Leaving the steel plant, Zhou Qingfeng asked the staff officer from the Northwest Front in the car.

The staff officer replied: "The troops went north to Altay, we have an airport there, and we have to bomb the railways and enemy troops around Novosibirsk, Russia every day.

Russian warplanes will come and bomb us too, with losses on both sides.But in the past two months, they have stopped a lot.It should be that the British stopped military aid, making it difficult for them to continue.

To the west, we are at the Tacheng Military Repair Station.The Ministry of National Defense hopes to control Astana, an important city in Central Asia, but the distance is thousands of kilometers and the Gobi is all along the way, so the logistics are extremely difficult.

As for the Southwest, troops have taken control of Almaty.However, there is not much population and industry in the local area, so the strategic value is not great, and the difficulty of road construction is not small. "

This place in the northwest is thousands of kilometers away, and the Gobi along the way is suitable for the rapid advancement of armored troops.But the logistics of oil production are even more difficult, even though the first phase of the Karamay refinery has been completed, the annual output is only a pitiful [-] tons.

The five stans in Central Asia look deserted, but they are actually guarding the golden mountains to beg for food.The mineral resources here are very rich, and it is close to the Persian Gulf.

The political commissar of the Corps knew why the Central Committee had Zhou Qingfeng come to the Northwest for research, and he was really a little afraid of the Russian Communist Party's "Bulletin".Lenin's entrepreneurial team should not be underestimated. If they are allowed to take control of the Russian regime, the situation in Central Asia will definitely change.

"The central government judges that the political situation in the United States will change drastically in a very short period of time, and the Pacific War will follow. The State Department has already prepared for a rainy day and increased military expenditure by five times, but no one can tell the future."

China is also facing two fronts, east and west. Zhou Qingfeng is here to determine where is the right line to draw an armistice with Russia in the future?At present, this will be determined by the industrial strength of the Northwest.

Urumqi can produce more steel, Karamay can refine more oil, and Yili can produce more cattle, sheep and grain, and more troops will march into the Western Regions to lay down further territories and gain a firm foothold.

The political commissar of the Corps whispered: "We need more industrial investment, especially the annual production of 50 tons that Karamay's oil fields and refineries need to increase, otherwise they will not be able to withstand the consumption of the war."

Just as Zhou Qingfeng arrived in Urumqi, Leon Trotsky, chairman of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Russian Communist Party, also arrived in Semipalatinsk, an important city in Central Asia.

This is a port city on the banks of the Irtysh River, with railways and waterways, and along the river, you can reach the Altay region controlled by China. It is currently the headquarters of the Central Asian Front Army of the Russian Army.

After Emperor Putin defected, the Russian army immediately collapsed, and the generals and officers lost confidence in victory, waiting for the new government to negotiate with China and Germany.

But for the Soviet government that just came to power, an unprecedented challenge is in front of it-China and Germany have no intention of truce, and they want to continue to carve a few pieces of meat from Russia.

As the chairman of the Military Council, Trotsky shouldered the important task of transforming the Tsarist Russian army into the Red Army of the Russian Communist Party.He continued to appoint the generals of the former Tsarist Russia and tried to open up the situation on the front line.

Compared with aggressive Germany, China, which has been relatively calm for the past year, seems to be easier to deal with.Trotsky came to the Central Asian front to boost morale and win a battle in exchange for better negotiation terms.

On the day Trotsky arrived in Semipalatinsk, he saw the spoils of war transported by the first-line troops from the waterway by steamboat-a Chinese tank destroyed by artillery fire.

"This is a new type of Chinese chariot, which has never been seen before." Lieutenant General Borat, commander of the Third Army of the Tsarist Russian Guards who commanded on the front line, received Trotsky and briefed him on the situation of the battle.

Your Excellency the Lieutenant General is still wearing a Tsarist Russian military uniform, his eyes are bloodshot.He fought against the Chinese army in Central Asia for several years. Before China and Russia officially declared war, he used his own transportation and logistics advantages to overwhelm the opponent.

With the support of Britain and France before, the Russian army was able to fight back and forth on the ground and in the air.However, as China continued to mobilize large troops to the northwest and carry out industrial construction, the Third Guards Army had to continue to retreat.

The crane at the port hoisted up the destroyed chariot on the steamship, and the steel cables that could easily carry a weight of twenty tons were stretched tightly, but they could not shake the lump of steel on the ship's deck.

"My No.60 Seventh Division captured this tank. The battle report said that it destroyed a company's line of defense before it was destroyed. Four anti-aircraft guns could not destroy it. In the end, it crushed one of its own. Heavy mines just stopped.

But later this guy acted as a fixed battery and continued to output firepower. It was not left on the battlefield until our support troops blocked the gap in the defense line and forced the Chinese army to retreat. "

Lieutenant General Borat's words were full of frustration.Trotsky was very angry about this, and asked abruptly: "After the Chinese dropped it, you picked it up?"

"You can think of it this way, it's not easy."

The lieutenant general shook his head, and the accent of his words fell on 'it's not easy'.

"Under normal circumstances, the Chinese army would completely blow up the heavy equipment they left behind when they retreated, and even dispatched bombers. This is especially the first time we have obtained such a heavy tank."

Fearful of Chinese night-time bombers, the port is blacked out, with only a few carefully shaded lights illuminating the pier.

When it was found that the wharf crane was unable to unload the Chinese tanks, the River Port Authority dispatched another crane to assist, and it took more than an hour to complete the work.

The barrel of the chariot was artificially blasted, like twisted iron bars.The sloping armor at the front of the hull was full of bullet holes, but none of them were penetrated.

Technicians from the Kazan Artillery War Factory circled the tank twice, then climbed up the turret and entered its interior.After a while, they got out and reported that the inside of the turret was also bombed in all directions, and it was difficult to distinguish in the dark.

Trotsky saw a pattern of a beast painted on the turret, with twelve red stars under the pattern.The evil beast bared its teeth and danced its claws, with a ferocious shape.Each red star represents the record of its crew, destroying twelve Russian tanks.

Lieutenant General Borat cursed fiercely: "This unknown beast is the symbol of China's Ninth Armored Division, and it is driven by an ace team. This division has always been known for its boldness, and often raids our defense line from a long distance. Very difficult to deal with."

Trotsky saw Chinese tanks for the first time, and even heard about the Ninth Armored Division for the first time.He ignored the rumors of his battlefield, only knowing that the Bolshevik-led government desperately needed a victory to prove itself.

"Since it is very difficult to deal with, it is even more important to deal with it. I came here to deal with difficult enemies. Let's target this Ninth Armored Division and kill it."

Chapter 66

On a snowy and cold night, the sound of cannons shook the sky.

The searchlight troops radiate beams of light to illuminate the sky, the anti-aircraft guns in the anti-aircraft position are spewing projectiles desperately, and tracer whips light up from time to time in the dark night, concentrating on a certain airspace.

Trotsky's office was in a log cabin hidden in the woods on the outskirts of Semipalatinsk.He was sitting in front of a kerosene lamp, writing a report for St. Petersburg.

"Dear Comrade Vladimir..." The tip of the fountain pen scraped across the rough paper, rustling, "I have been on the front line in Central Asia for a week, and the situation is not very optimistic."

There was a sudden shock in the room, and the closed doors and windows shook a few times.There was a loud noise outside the house, and the wooden house creaked a few times, as if it was out of place.The flame on the kerosene lamp faltered as the wooden table shifted.

The dust accumulated on the beams for many years was shaken off and dispersed in all directions.

Trotsky hurriedly supported the kerosene lamp, but was coughed by the dust.The guard came in from the door and asked nervously, "Comrade Chairman, are you alright?"

Because of the shock and fright, the page I just wrote was scratched by the tip of the pen, leaving black marks.Trotsky crumpled up the torn paper angrily and threw it on the ground, and asked the guard, "What happened?"

"China's night flight bombers dropped heavy bombs on nearby air defense positions, less than 500 meters away from us." The guard replied.

Trotsky was even more puzzled, "Why can Chinese planes fly at night, but ours can't?"

The guard couldn't explain it, and only said that he could go and ask.

With a wave, Trotsky told the guards to leave.He walked to the window, lifted the thick curtains and looked out.Semipalatinsk, a logistics depot, is being brutally bombed, but ground air defenses are doing nothing.

Over the past year, the Russian army has learned war by war.The combination of infantry and artillery has been replaced by armored assault, and the joint air-ground strike is gradually taking shape, and everything looks decent.

The quantity and quality of Russian fighters and bombers are no worse than those of the Chinese army.In addition, there is support from Britain and France, and there is actually no difference in equipment between the two sides.But in terms of organization and discipline, the Tsarist Russian army is far inferior to its opponents.

Trotsky was ordered to form the Russian Red Army. He noticed the construction process of the Chinese army and absorbed many advantages of his opponent.For example, 'equality between officers and soldiers', 'strict discipline', 'build the party branch on the company'.

The Russian Communist Party 'B' believes that the transformed Tsarist Russian army can also be rejuvenated, become heroic and invincible.Trotsky came to the Central Asian front to test his ideas.

A large number of members of the Russian Communist Party 'B' are taking over the ideological and political work of the army and reforming the thinking of old officers so that they can stand on the side of the Bolsheviks.

But "sitting in the office and thinking" and "executing in the army" are two different things. During nearly a week of investigation and practice, Trotsky faintly noticed that there was a huge gap between reality and expectations.

The Chinese army was established by the party and the government themselves, through land reform, conscription, and training.Political chiefs have received complete military training and can work closely with military chiefs.

The Russian Communist Army came from taking over Tsarist Russia, and most of the officers were former Russian nobles.

If it weren't for being beaten by China and Germany on the battlefield and losing confidence in victory, these guys would never consider the Russian Communist Party.They are actually representatives of the landlords and the bourgeoisie, and they chose to obey because of Pu Dadi.

No... you can't use the word 'obedience', it should be called 'cooperation'.

These guys are speculators, and their leader is another 'Vladimir', the mayor of St. Petersburg, the right-hand man of Nicholas II.

"A despicable traitor, an unreliable fool, a conspirator who tried to infiltrate the Russian Communist Party." Trotsky sneered when he thought of the bald mayor.

"If it wasn't for taking power as soon as possible, Comrade Lenin would never have cooperated with that butcher. When we completely control the army, Comrade Dzerzhinsky will naturally cleanse this unreliable element and his subordinates."

The Russian Revolution was too smooth, without any tragic sacrifices and twists and turns.Tsarist Russia is like a dilapidated house, which will fall down with a slight push under the joint forces of the inside and outside.

The Russian Communist Party 'Bu' did not demolish all of this dilapidated house.Faced with internal and external difficulties, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin chose to rebuild on the original basis.

Returning to the battlefield, Trotsky resumed writing to the Military Council in St. Petersburg.He first mentioned that the reformed Russian Red Army did improve morale and effectively took advantage of Russia's geographical advantages.

Tsarist Russia has operated Central Asia for hundreds of years, and its basic conditions are far better than those of China.

From the hinterland of China to Central Asia, all the way is the Gobi Desert, and the transportation and logistics are nightmare difficulties.However, there are a large number of rivers and railways for Russia to go to Central Asia, and the population along the way is large, so the logistical difficulty is reduced by one or two orders of magnitude.

China has only stabilized its northwest frontier in the past two years, and is preparing to expand westward in the Altay area, colliding head-on with the Russian Third Guards Army in Semipalatinsk.

But the war lasted for nearly a year, and the Russian army suffered more than [-] casualties, and was pushed back by the opponent a little bit.The Third Guards Army commanded by Lieutenant General Borat rotated two groups of troops, but still could not stop the opponent's advance.

The abandonment of military aid to Russia after the armistice between Britain and France was a merciless blow.

Trotsky used to engage in revolutionary theories, mobilization speeches, and suddenly came to army building, only to discover that many details determine that there is a gap in the combat effectiveness of the Russian army, and he is considered the weakest among the great powers.

For example, the smooth flow of the Siberian Railway in the past was based on the use of Chinese dispatch workers for a large number of positions.Those dispatch workers can get very low wages but do a good job because the Chinese government will give subsidies.

The reason for the subsidy is that China needs to use the Siberian Railway to transport goods from European countries, which is faster and more timely than the sea route, and the transport capacity is very valuable.

When the war broke out, Chinese workers were either evacuated or arrested, and thousands of problems suddenly appeared in the originally efficient railway freight.Even vicious incidents such as derailment and car crashes have emerged one after another, because there are no skilled workers in related positions.

The original Russian skilled workers were attracted by high salaries and went to China to engage in railway operations, and they did not want to come back.

Similarly, China not only uses the Siberian Railway, but also uses the rivers in Russia leading to Central Asia.For example, the Irtysh River flows through Semipalatinsk.

Originating in the Altay region of China, this river is an important tributary of the Ob River and runs through West Siberia.Hundred-ton cargo ships can go directly to Zaisangbo upstream.

Relying on this river, China has used Russian resources to build thousands of wooden steamships in the past five years, and they are rushing to transport materials from Russia to northwest China.

From the beginning of transportation of wood, to the transportation of building materials and grain, to the transportation of steel and generators.

Altay, an extremely remote northwest town, forcibly built a city, started a mining industry, built a small ironworks, and laid a narrow-gauge railway to Karamay, and reclaimed land around Ulungu Lake. Build a farm.

Most of the mining equipment in the Karamay Oilfield is imported from Europe and transported by waterways in Russia. Even the mining personnel are hired from Russia's Baku and Tyumen regions.

The Russians themselves don't know how much material China has transported to the northwest by using its own waterways. Anyway, those seemingly simple and even dilapidated wooden boats have been flowing in an endless stream.

The transportation volume is definitely more than [-] tons, and a million tons may be an exaggeration, but a [-]% discount is always the same.

If the war hadn't interrupted this transportation route, and let China continue to transport it in such a sneaky way, I don't know what it would look like in the northwest.

Now China has built a shipyard in Jaisangboli, and uses [-]-ton wooden boats to provide logistics transportation for frontline troops downstream.The two sides fought fiercely for the control of the river, and both invested in armored forces to fight.

Once Semipalatinsk falls, China can attack Novosibirsk along the river and even Omsk.At that time, let alone the Far East, Russia's heart will be completely wiped out.

Fighting on the open Gobi in Central Asia, the two sides are competing with armored forces.In this regard, China's new heavy-duty combat vehicles on the battlefield present a great threat.

60mm artillery, 52 times the diameter of the barrel, more than [-] tons of vehicle weight, [-]-degree inclined hardened front armor is [-]mm, equivalent to [-]mm homogeneous steel plate.

Its engine uses a supercharger, and its power is increased to 250 horsepower.And the chassis is changed to torsion bar suspension, the overall performance far exceeds that of similar tanks of the Russian army, and it shows a strong aggressiveness on the battlefield.

Lieutenant General Borat said that the front line needs stronger tanks, but the current situation in Russia is a mess due to the coup, the bureaucratic system is paralyzed, and the military industry system cannot obtain funds and raw materials.

"What we can do is to bring in more troops. If we don't have enough tanks, at least we can bring in more anti-aircraft guns. And we don't need small-caliber models. We need ones with a caliber of more than [-]mm to penetrate the opponent. armor."

Trotsky wrote a new report and ordered the guards to send it to St. Petersburg immediately.He believes that the comrades in the rear can understand what he means, and do their best to transport what is needed to the front.

After finishing the report, I feel sleepy.

Trotsky worked continuously for three or four days, his eyes were bloodshot.He told the guard: "I'll sleep for a while, don't wake me up if there's nothing important to do." After that, he put on two military overcoats and fell asleep on the camp bed in the cabin.

Outside the wooden house, the Chinese bombers flying at night continued to drop bombs.The crew used the high-precision inertial navigation provided by the British as a navigation and flew at an altitude of more than 6000 meters.

After they arrived at the destination, they first dropped flares, and then used guided bombs to destroy river ports, artillery positions, barracks, and all targets worthy of bombing.

After paying a cruel price, the Russians learned to blackout, camouflage on the ground, set false targets, and even turn on the radar for a short time, and set up anti-aircraft guns for air defense.

The shock waves produced by heavy bombs spread throughout Semipalatinsk, and dust fell from time to time in the cabins in the woods on the outskirts, but Trotsky at most covered his nose and fell asleep.

The guard outside the house took the report to the nearby electrical and mechanical room and ordered the report to be sent.

But the radio operator in the electromechanical room shook his head and said: "Now we can't send a report, and we can't even erect an antenna. The Chinese have electronic warfare planes hovering at high altitudes that can search for our radio signals."

"When will it be released?"