Zhang Xuewu's original intentions and actions of the Soviets can be described as very incomprehensible? In fact, as long as we refer to the various uses of China by various countries in World War II, it is not difficult to conclude that whether it is the Soviet Union or the United States, what they need is the Chinese theater to hold back the main force of the Chinese army and army, and exchange the blood of Chinese soldiers for the little assistance needed to maintain the war situation.

Historically, until the end of the war, the US political axe provided China with various supplies and arms in accordance with the "Lend-Lease Act" was worth more than $800 million at the price at that time, including more than 60,000 Chinese troops stationed in India, vehicles, ammunition, weapons and equipment, and clothing, food, housing, and transportation expenses stationed in India.

As well as the material consumption of the US Flying Tigers and strategic bomber units stationed in China, the consumption of arms, oil, and food transported by the Yunnan-Burma Highway and the Hump Route, and the consumption of fuel for cars and planes on the voyage, it can be said that the Americans have played a calculating role in aiding China.

During World War II, Britain and the Soviet Union received strategic materials worth $30 billion and $15 billion from the United States respectively, and China's aid was less than a fraction of that of Britain and the Soviet Union. In the most difficult time in China, the despicable and shameless British still lie on the Chinese arteries and suck blood, and for every dollar of supplies they steal, the Chinese [***] people are paying a gallon of blood on the battlefield.

Historically, when the frontal battlefield was frequently tight, China used the most elite army for the Yunnan-Burma battle, while the elite of the domestic battlefield such as the 74th Army only replenished six rounds of ammunition per soldier in the same period! Not to mention the rest of the miscellaneous troops, it is difficult to resist my own steel with no blood.

Zhang Xuewu remembered that after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States of America officially declared war on the Empire, and the Americans had been worried about a very headache problem, because from the perspective of comprehensive national strength and military strength, the United States did not have a big problem to defeat Yueben, but the question was how much it would cost the United States to defeat Yueben. After all, the United States is a multi-party country, and it cannot be like the book of scholars, military and political axes, and the state excessively demands that the people sacrifice their lives and property for the sake of the leader and the so-called country. If the Americans sacrifice too much in the war against the United States, the loneliness and anti-war sentiment in the United States will rise, and the political axe of the current world will have to be forced to conform to the will of the people and make a truce in the middle of the war.

In fact, when I started the Pacific War, I also bet on the weakness that the United States can withstand the consumption of things, but cannot withstand the consumption of people! The military department believed that if the military could inflict huge casualties on the US military, the US political axe might suffer from both gains and losses, and reached an armistice agreement with the Japanese army in the middle of the way, acquiescing in East Asia and Southeast Asia as the sphere of influence of the Japanese empire.

From the beginning of the exhibition, the United States has been considering opening up a second battlefield and allowing third countries to participate in the war to share the casualties and losses of the US military. Historically, under the leadership of the United States, 26 countries formed an anti-fascist alliance and swore an oath to fight together against the German-Italian Axis bloc. At that time, the American political axe considered that it could effectively help the United States to fight together and share the casualties of the American military There were only three countries, that is, Britain, China and the Soviet Union, but the British were known for their selfishness, and in the face of the huge advantage of the Germans, it was good for the British to hold on, and the Americans on the Soviet side estimated the existence of the Soviet neutrality treaty, and were worried that the Soviets would take the opportunity to open their mouths. So the only option for the Americans is China.

First, China has been invaded by the Yue army for many years, and it is the bounden duty and obligation of the Chinese to launch a counteroffensive against the Yue army; second, China's human resources are very sufficient, and what is insufficient is only in terms of weapons and ammunition. Therefore, the US political axe side conceived a plan of "Americans pay for it, Chinese pay for it", the United States provides weapons and equipment to China, and the Chinese [***] team opens a second battlefield in the Chinese theater to jointly attack the Yue army.

However, the Americans are still the biggest supporters of Yue Ben at this moment, and from US aid loans to aircraft engines, rubber, crude oil, and scrap steel, the Americans' support for Yue himself is far greater than that of China, and this is very much in line with the concrete embodiment of the US spirit, that is, interests are greater than everything else, and the interests of the fishermen are reaped by sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

Therefore, in Zhang Xuewu's view, whether it is the assistance of the Soviets or the assistance of the Americans, it is very unreliable, and Rehe must rely on himself and wait for the victory of the war, I am afraid that history will return to the original trajectory, that is, China's huge sacrifice will not be rewarded in any way.

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu found that although Rehe was facing a full-scale siege by the Yue Army at this moment, it seemed to be a critical situation, but in fact it was not dangerous, because Zhanyang's Fifth Reorganization Division and Tang Ziqiang's Mechanized Division, plus the new First Division of the Youth Army that he secretly hid in Baotou, he also controlled three mobile troops, plus five second-line finishing divisions serving as local garrisons, Rehe's defense was almost impregnable, and four of the five mobile artillery groups of Zhang Tianpeng's artillery cluster belonged to Chengde, Chaoyang, Chifeng, and Zhangjiakou. In the face of the Rehe flight unit that had mastered air supremacy, a large number of heavy artillery and rocket artillery were continuously evacuated to the front line from the Dingyuan Battalion and Baotou.

The firepower of the Chinese defenders increased, and in the face of the fortified fortress city with more than 30,000 troops, the Chinese army did not dare to easily divide their troops to cross, because the vast steppe of Chahar was the domain of the Chahar Army's chariot troops and fighters.

Although Li Xinkai is not as good as Li Songtao in command, his regularity and loyalty make Zhang Xuewu very satisfied, Zhang Xuewu more and more finds himself in a strange circle, that is, he likes to be a commander who is decent and well-guarded, like Li Songtao, Ye Yunfei, Tang Ziqiang and other adventurous commanders will always have some scruples, and there are too few excellent commanders like Zhanyang.

Zhang Xuewu is not worried about the war situation in Rehe at all, he has been operating the four for nearly four years, invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and the fortress cities built according to the war mode are to consume the living force of the Yue army, and there are sufficient mobile troops to carry out annihilation strikes against the Yue army that has broken through from any side, and with a chief of staff like Li Xinkai in command, Li Xinkai will naturally grasp when to attack, so he is very relieved about the war in Rehe.

However, a report from the Geological Survey Institute from the Rehe side was sent to the war-torn Nanjing in the form of a secret telegram? Zhang Xuewu was curious and glanced at this inopportune secret telegram, and a geologist named Sun Jianchu jointly wrote to the Rehe political axe, saying that there might be oil fields in Yumen, Gansu, asking for funds and sending personnel to protect them for effective exploration.

Yumen Oilfield? Zhang Xuewu suddenly remembered a thing that seemed to have been forgotten by him for a long time, that is, a large oil field with reserves of about 140 million tons was explored in Gwendur Town, Urad Houqichao, Inner Mongolia in later generations, and the oil quality was high, the average drilling depth was 950 meters to 1,200 meters, the oil layer was medium permeability, and the crude oil was paraffin-based.

Zhang Xuewu recalled that in the "Modern History of Yueben" of later generations, you can often see the words and phrases that he lamented how he would have been if he had found the Daqing Oilfield, because if the Daqing Oilfield could be discovered at that time, it might directly affect the southward expansion policy of the Sayben, and it would have turned into a sandwich attack on the Soviet Union with Germany, and he always regretted that he had not been able to find the Daqing Oilfield before the war.

However, Zhang Xuewu knew that this was just a nonsense regret, and the reason why he failed to find the Daqing Oilfield was entirely because the oil drilling depth of the book before the war only reached about 700 meters to the deepest 820 meters, and it was difficult to reach enough depth with the drilling technology at that time, even in 1940, only the Gotlov deep well platform owned by the Soviets in the world could drill to 1,000 meters.

In fact, the Songji No. 3 well, which marked the discovery of the first oil well in the Daqing Oilfield, was drilled to the paraffin oil layer between 1,350 meters and 1,380 meters, so even if the current Daqing is in the hands of Zhang Xuewu, Zhang Xuewu cannot be exploited, because the drilling technology cannot meet the requirements at all.

The Yumen Oilfield mentioned by Sun Jianchu is located in Yumen County, Gansu Province, and its geography is based on the Qilian Mountains in the south, the Gobi Desert in the north, the Jiayuguan Pass in the east, and Dunhuang in the west.

Zhang Xuewu recalled that in history, around the end of 1938, Sun Jianchu, Yan Shuang, Jin Xigeng and other scholars formally carried out exploration and geological confirmation and development next to the Laojun Temple in Yumen.

About half a year later, the No. 1 well located in the north of Laojunmiao more than ten meters was manually excavated to see the oil, and the No. 1 well proved the K oil layer, which opened the prelude to the industrial development of Yumen oil mine, and then began to be used in the Laojunmiao oilfield in Yumen through the rod pump oil recovery technology aided by the Soviet Union.

During the entire period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Yumen Oil Mine produced a total of 250,000 tons of crude oil, accounting for more than 90 percent of the country's crude oil output during the same period, and made an extremely important contribution to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Zhang Xuewu immediately replied by secret telegram, asking Li Xinkai to send a considerable armored detachment and special forces to escort Sun Jian and other junior scholars to Laojun Temple for exploration, and to investigate and map military maps along the way, so as to do preliminary work for preparing for the westward expansion and support mining.

For the survey team, three batches of air escorts are provided! Be fully protected!

(To be continued)