"Look here, after the Lanza Railway exits the old border from Alashankou, it extends northwest along the southern shore of Lake Alaa and Sussercol Lake to the border town of Akdouka at the eastern end of Lake Balkhash, and then turns south from Akdouka to Sareozek...... Now that the main forces of the Front have been assembled towards Akdouka, the daily traffic volume of six pairs between Sareozek and Tashkent is enough to maintain the 10th Army:+ momentum, and based on the maximum daily volume of forty pairs of the Lanza Railway, there are still thirty-four pairs per day to support the summer offensive in the Northwest Theater, which is already relatively generous compared with the Northern Theater with more troops and heavier tasks. ”

The 10th Army mentioned by Su Sanling here was the product of the "first reorganization" of the Northwest Front Army after the capture of Tashkent in the second half of April.

According to the advance planning of the base camp, after the capture of Tashkent, the main forces of the North-Western Front should return north as soon as possible to prepare for the summer offensive. In addition, a powerful part of the force was active in the vast area east and south of the Aral Sea and between the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers, closely cooperating with the strategic activities of the secret services, waiting for an opportunity to liberate the two khanates of Bukhara and Khiva, and opening up links with the Persian national liberation forces according to the situation, so as to indirectly respond to the Indian strategy. This "powerful part" is the 10th Army of General Yan Meng, under the jurisdiction of the 21st Army (Reserve Infantry Division 4142), the 25th (Pre-Infantry 49, 50), the 7th Cavalry Army (Pre-Cavalry 24, 25, 32 Brigades), ~.?. 10,000 people

After the main forces of the Front Army were ordered to return north, the 10th Army was consolidating the lines of communication with +|. In the early 5th, he concentrated his mobile forces along the Syr Darya River and captured Turkestan, a key communication pass between the Syr Darya River and the Moinkum Desert to the east, and built a defensive line here to shield the enemy from the north. Then the main force drove south, attacking and advancing southwest of Tashkent. In 524, he entered and occupied the famous city of Samarkand in Central Asia, and after a little rectification, he turned to march to the capital of the Bukhara Khanate, 300 miles west of Samarkand.

Su Sanling paused for a moment to catch his breath, and then added in a low voice: "And most of the supplies consumed by the existing troops in the Northwest Theater can be solved in Xinjiang Province, and there is no need for inland transshipment......

It turned out that after the Russo-Asian War, the top of the empire felt that the northwest economy was weak and too far away from the economic center of the interior. It is difficult to support the activities of the army, and it is determined to use national strength to promote the development of munition-related industries in the northwest, especially in Xinjiang Province.

The central government in Xinjiang was the first to concentrate its efforts on promoting the development of grain production. To this end, in addition to recruiting immigrants from the interior to Xinjiang for reclamation under various preferential conditions, with reference to the production and construction corps system implemented in the newly recovered areas in the northeast, four agricultural reclamation divisions have been established in the whole province of Xinjiang, including the newly recovered areas in the northwest, under the guidance of specialized agricultural reclamation companies, to build intensive farms in the Dihua-Shihezi area, the areas along the Tarim River, and the areas north of the Ili River.

All agricultural reclamation divisions are mainly veterans of the Asian-Russian War, and encourage veterans to bring their wives and mouths (and other relatives can also be taken out) with preferential conditions beyond ordinary immigrants, such as free housing and land distribution (self-reserved land), full tax exemption, and additional subsidies. Ordinary immigrants who are willing to abide by the regulations of the Corps are also welcome to move in with their families, and production is organized by the regiments, battalions, and companies under the agricultural reclamation divisions in peacetime. During the off-season, regular training was held, and it was planned that each agricultural division could recruit a full quota of heavy infantry divisions in wartime, and could ensure the supply of the division for a long time.

By 1914, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps had 150 peasants, 15 of whom were included in the Army's First Reserve. The cultivated land developed by the XPCC accounts for one-fifth of the arable land in Xinjiang, producing one-quarter of the wheat and more than half of the cotton in Xinjiang, raising half of the horses in Xinjiang in its pastures, and supplying the entire Northwest Military Region with bacon and jerky produced by the XPCC's meat processing plants, accounting for more than 60 percent of the normal consumption of the military region in peacetime......

In addition, a large number of private agricultural enterprises are attracted by the coveted preferential policies. With the opening of the Landi Railway, all kinds of private farms and ranches have sprung up in the desert and on the edge of the Gobi, capital drives industry, and industry drives immigration. The influx of a large number of agricultural migrants from the hinterland. The ethnic composition of Xinjiang was completely changed, and according to the data of the 1914 national census, Han accounted for 3 of the total population of Xinjiang Province. It doubled ten years ago.

After the war against Russia, more than 90 percent of the supplies (excluding ammunition) supplied by the 36 officers and men of the Northwest Front Army and 10,000 8 war horses came from the local supply, so that the railway capacity from the interior could be concentrated on the transportation of other materials.

During the Asian-Russian War, almost all the weapons and ammunition of the Northwest Front had to be supplied from the interior, and it was difficult to receive help in the war, so at the beginning it was attacked by the Russian army, which had relatively convenient transportation, and fought for a while.

While vigorously developing Xinjiang's agricultural land, the central government has drawn up a 10-year plan for the development of Xinjiang's industry, hoping that Xinjiang's local military production will be able to supplement some of the needs of the Northwest Front Army in the future and reduce the consumption of long-distance transportation from the interior.

Xinjiang itself is rich in mineral resources, with a relatively complete range of minerals, and in particular, several important minerals needed for the development of the military industry are of good quality and rich in minerals, and it has a natural advantage in developing the military industry.

In 1905, Xinjiang's industrial ten-year plan was formulated> the construction of production facilities for steel, ammunition, light weapons and fuel, and the establishment of large industrial and mining enterprises such as Hami Iron and Steel Plant, Dihua Heavy Industry, Imperial Petroleum Karamay Oilfield, Xinjiang Coal and Iron United Group, Beijiang Machinery, and Anxi Chemical Industry in the form of financing led by a large consortium supported by the government. After the opening of the Landi Railway, the province's arms industry developed rapidly under the support of large-scale government procurement, and the output doubled year after year, after the war against Russia, the ammunition and oil used by the Northwest Front Army more than 8 can be supplied by Xinjiang Province nearby, in addition, most of the vehicles, including trucks, armored vehicles, combat vehicles and locomotives, can be overhauled or even modified in the province, including 80 mm mortars, 75 meters of infantry guns and other infantry weapons can also be replenished by factories in the province.

"It seems that there is nothing to worry about in terms of logistics, I have no problem, Director Su, you continue."