1900！

It is the dividing line of the new century, but also a new era, at least for the Northeast 1900, to a certain extent marks the difference between the "new era" and the "old era", this year, after nearly ten years of savings, the industrial and commercial economy of the Northeast has developed like a blowout. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is a simplest figure to prove everything, in 1899, the steel production of the Northeast including Incheon was only 720,000 tons, and in 1900, it exceeded 1.5 million tons, an increase of more than double, which was not only due to the commissioning of the Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, but more importantly, thanks to the demand for steel in the Northeast, that year the United States produced 10.35 million tons of steel, Germany 6.65 million tons, Britain 4.98 million tons, Russia 2.21 million tons, France 1.59 million tons, and it was in that year, The Northeast moved to sixth place in the world.

Such a large amount of steel was absorbed by the rapidly growing railways and industries of the Northeast, and in 1900, a new industrial category quietly appeared in the Northeast. After years of development, in 1900, under the leadership of the government, the automobile manufacturing industry in Northeast China developed rapidly, and 3,000 vehicles were manufactured that year, which is even more than the rest of the world combined.

Before 1900, automobile exhibitions in Tohoku were held in the name of sub-exhibitions of bicycles and other mechanical products. Beginning in 1900, a large number of news media and advertisements began to build momentum for the promotion of automobiles. It was also in this year that the Governor of the Northeast was replaced by a car, and the carriage was eliminated by the Governor's Palace. And as early as a year ago, in 1899. Tang Haoran became the first official in history to travel by car. Of course. Out of concern for the reliability of the car. The special car on that trip was followed by a horse-drawn carriage for emergency purposes, which was also rumored to be a joke at the time.

After 1900, the Governor's travel by car has become a very common thing, and the government official car has begun to replace the horse-drawn carriage, just as in the process of the promotion of the telephone, the government has become the promoter of the automobile, and it is also under the drive of the Governor's Office and the government office, the automobile as a new means of transportation has been quickly accepted by the people.

This year in order to promote the car. After 20 days and 52 minutes of hard work, the Dongfang Automobile Company sent the runners to drive the Dongfang brand car over various dirt roads, and the first to rush to the finish line, and behind it were hundreds of cars from other countries around the world, half of which failed to complete the race.

In 1901, 35,000 cars had been produced in Tohoku, and although one-third of them were ordered by the government, 20,000 of them were ordered from home and abroad. And perhaps the most amazing thing is its production, this year. Thirty thousand cars were produced in the Northeast! The reason why such a large number of cars can be produced is entirely due to the experiments that Taylor, the management master of the Northeast Business School, has done in the past many years - the test of the production line. In the book "Scientific Management Research", he systematically expounded the working principle and assumption of automatic assembly line.

As early as 1897, the world's first production line was built in the rifle workshop of the Shenyang Arsenal, and the work efficiency and product quality were significantly improved. By the summer of 1900, all the workshops of the Shenyang Arsenal were equipped with automatic production lines. The production process of the product is divided into one link, the division of labor between workers is more detailed, and the quality and output of the product are greatly improved. The endless flow of conveyor belts connects the entire factory.

It was also in that year, in the face of a surge in car orders, the newly established Oriental Automobile Company decided to open its own production line, the production line was put into use, changed the industry in Northeast China, and the change to the Oriental Automobile Company was huge, in this year in the Oriental brand car was sought after by people, "Minsheng" brand 2.5 tons of trucks completed the trial production, but also in the summer of this year, by ten "Minsheng" trucks composed of a fleet, completed the test of 35,000 kilometers, and "Oriental brand" When the car was born, it was different from the news and newspapers to promote the car, but the "Minsheng" brand 2.5-ton truck using a 55-horsepower diesel engine was quietly put into production, and its first purchaser was the army.

In October 1901, the Northeast Army issued an order to the automobile company for 30,000 "Minsheng" brand 2.5-ton trucks, and from November, the truck production line that had just been put into use began to go all out into production to complete the army's order. At the same time, a new specialty "car driving and maintenance" appeared in the Northeast Army Heavy Soldier School. When the Sino-Russian War broke out in 1902, the Northeast Army had trained more than 4,000 car drivers with maintenance skills, and by May, the number had exceeded 10,000, and more importantly, the production of 2.5-ton trucks under the "Minsheng" brand had exceeded 9,500.

In Northeast China in 1901, even the car drivers trained at the training ground of the Northeast Army did not know how much the car would change the war, and for them the car only replaced the horse-drawn carriage to some extent, nothing more. When the war broke out, the automobile corps was organized into automobile regiments, and in the past month, 23 automobile regiments consisting of nearly 8,000 automobiles had been assembled by rail from all over the northeast to the Mongolian plateau, and even at this time, no one knew what the automobile meant.

Only a handful of people know that cars are going to change everything!

On May 13, 1902, in a dozen warehouses made of wooden planks, soldiers in blue-gray overalls were inspecting the equipment that had been brought in by horse-drawn carts from Coulomb in the past month—all the equipment needed to repair the cars, and, of course, more importantly, the spare parts, hundreds of tons of which were stored in the merchants' warehouses. This is a field maintenance center, and in the mountains tens of kilometers east of the maintenance center, a huge convoy of thousands of vehicles is gathering in the mountain pass, and the forest around the mountain pass provides cover for the convoy.

And around the convoy, there were heavily armed fighters, just a few hours ago. On the night of May 12th. They arrived in a vehicle with headlights on. The motorized march lasted less than twelve hours and covered 305 kilometers. Last year, it was almost unimaginable, and now, it's not even fast enough. In fact, in the open grassland, a fully loaded car can drive up to 35 kilometers per hour, although its maximum speed is only 45 kilometers per hour.

After arriving at the pre-site. For the past ten hours, they have been waiting quietly, while the infantry repairs and the motorcades are there to overhaul the cars. It was only after twilight that the soldiers were allowed to bathe in the nearby creek, one company at a time, and these fighters who had lived through the Coastal Campaign knew very well that they would strike again, only the last one was different, this time. They will launch a surprise attack in a car.

"Motorized March!"

Get out of your tent and look at the cars around you. Breathing in the air the smell of diesel fuel during the test run of the car, Wu Peifu still couldn't believe what he had experienced, and just a few days ago, he had doubted how the logistics of the troops would be supported.

But last night's march completely subverted his perception of marching, what is a thousand miles in a day? Last night's march had finally made him understand the term.

"This is the engine, this is the spare oil drum......"

On the side of a car, Xu Shuzheng listened to the driver's introduction with blank eyes, if he wasn't afraid of damaging the car, he even wanted to drive this truck to try.

"The car fuel tank can allow the car to travel 270 kilometers, and the fuel in the spare oil drum can also guarantee 600 kilometers, because of the pre-fuel, now we have replenished the fuel, if everything goes well, we can travel at least 800 kilometers, even if the whole line is bad, 700 kilometers without any problems......"

Listening to the driver's introduction, Xu Shuzheng silently calculated in his heart, this fuel is just enough for Ulan-Ude to go back and forth, which can be said to be more than enough, there is no doubt that this must be the handiwork of the General Staff, and only they will make such a plan. A car carrying two squads of 24 soldiers, plus four bases of ammunition and ten days of field food, weighed exactly between 2.3 and 2.5 tons.

Precise!

If the German instructors taught the Northeast Army how to use the railway to make precise plans, now they are learning to use that precision to use automobiles and maneuvering with automobiles, which is also a fresh attempt.

Of course, the premise is that there is no damage, in fact, during last night's march, more than a dozen cars withdrew from the march due to breakdowns, and all the personnel and supplies on the vehicles were transferred to other cars. And according to such a proportion of losses, the march to Ulan-Ude is acceptable, that is, the loss of 5% of vehicles.

It doesn't matter, more cars will be built in the Northeast, not to mention that there are still labor groups rushing to repair the railway.

As the curtain fell. The air was filled with the smell of diesel, and at 5:40 p.m., an order was whispered from the company tents of each company:

"Assemble at 6:30 tonight." The telephone man immediately passed this order to their company commander, and then, shift after shift, passed it on.

When night fell completely, all the companies gathered in the preface of the car. At the front of each company, the captains' gaze swept over their men, their faces blurred under their steel helmets. The soldiers lined up in a black wall.

"4th Company!"

Captain Kim Bi-dong, the officer of Korean descent shouted loudly in a slightly stiff official language.

"Now I will read to you the order from the Great Marshal."

There was a dead silence in the woods. The captain turned on the "L" shaped military flashlight hanging from the shoulder strap and illuminated a piece of paper in his hand. He read in a slightly hoarse, but somewhat excited voice.

"Heroic Northeast Army Officers and Soldiers......"

They were no strangers to this appellation, as in the past, and it would have appeared in telegrams three months earlier, before they crossed the border, when they planted their flag in Vladivostok, when they had defeated the Russians again and again.

Captain Kim Bi-dong continued to read the order.

"I have been anxious for months, our compatriots have been anxiously waiting, waiting for the news of victory, and our warriors on the banks of the Shikle have been waiting, waiting for the order for an all-out attack, they are willing to sacrifice for our nation, they are willing to shed their blood for the dignity of the nation, but, as your commander-in-chief, I must value your young lives, after all, you are the real hope of this nation, and now I can finally be open to you, my soldiers......"

The soldiers listened eagerly, and they had already vaguely guessed what the marshal was going to say.

"At this moment, the heroic officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army, the assembly of the army is underway, and its scale and number are unprecedented in history. Our comrades will launch an attack on Siberia in Mongolia......"

Yes, this is something that everyone knows, otherwise why would they come to Mongolia.

"Soldiers, in this land where our Han army once sealed the wolf, you will once again raise the battle flag of our China, so that the world can see the strength of China...... The aim is not only to create the necessary conditions for the final end of this great war, or to protect the Northeast, which is threatened at the moment, but also to save the civilization and culture of the entire Northeast...... Soldiers of the Chinese nation! You are about to go into battle, and it is a hard-fought and vital battle. The destiny of Asia, the future of China, and the survival of our nation are now entirely in your hands. ”

Captain Kim stood there silent for a moment, the light of the flashlight flickering on the paper in his hand, and by the light of the flashlight, people could see the tears in his eyes. Then, he spoke softly, as if these were his own words and not from the end of the offensive ******.

"May ...... Buddha bless everyone! ”

Regardless of whether the warriors in front of him believed in Buddhism or not, at this time, no one would question anything, and after the disbandment of the ranks, there was a chattering discussion. More people have smiles on their faces, for them it seems that this is nothing, just a battle, they can defeat the Russians in Vladivostok, then they can defeat the Russians here.

After the final mobilization, the motorists hurried back to their cars, and when the motorists checked the car for the last time, the machine gunners stuck their machine guns on the side of the car, which was simple but could hold the machine guns in place, allowing them to strafe the enemy on the side of the road while the car was moving.

"The company commander ordered everyone to check the ammunition on the car again......"

At the same time, the heralds were again and again informed by the car, and as the soldiers checked the spare ammunition on the car, there was a nervous rush in all directions, the tents were dismantled, and the cars were being prepared. After being busy, the soldiers waited. They smoked cigarettes and stared to the north.

It was destined to be a sleepless night. (To be continued.) )