"One" falls on the West Mountain, and the desert is lonely.

In fact, it was not any smoke, it was just a whirlwind, because it was covered with too much sand and dust, looking from afar, it was like a wisp of lonely smoke, standing straight on this land that was reflected red by the sunset, indescribably lonely, indescribably desolate.

This is Jiayu Pass, the westernmost part of the Great Wall, known as the "second pass in the world" and the easternmost "first pass in the world" Shanhaiguan Pass is as majestic and magnificent, although with the passage of time has long lost the glory of the past, but still maintains a mystery, as well as a desolation.

Jiayuguan was built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, located in the middle of the famous Hexi Corridor in the northwest of Gansu, guarding the famous ancient Silk Road, since ancient times it is the first pass in Hexi, the place where soldiers must fight, if the nomadic tribes from the west occupy here, they can spy on the ruling area of the Central Plains farming civilization, and if the Central Plains farming civilization in the east occupies here, they can defend the core area of the farming civilization, and then sweep the Western Regions, and raise the prestige of the Central Plains in the heart of the Asian 6 hinterland.

Thousands of years of war and history have turned this place into a melting pot of culture and civilization, where not only the famous Silk Road, but also the grotto art left over from the past dynasties, the most famous is the Mogao Grottoes.

Of course, the Mogao Grottoes in this era are just a desolate place, except for foreign adventurers and thieves, the only concern here is probably the local garrison, the central government has already issued an order, all the grottoes and cultural monuments in the Hexi Corridor must be sealed, and no one is allowed to enter these cultural relics without permission before the center officially sends professionals to investigate.

In the past, it was the local armed forces of Gansu that carried out the order of the center, but now, with the successive submission of Ningma and Qingma, the local armed forces of Gansu have also expressed their intention to the center to the center, so the army that carried out the task of protecting the cultural monuments in the Hexi Corridor area has become the unit of the National Defense Force.

Of course, the troops stationed at Jiayuguan were also replaced by units of the National Defense Forces, and to be precise, the troops stationed at Jiayuguan were the first and fourth divisions of the National Defense Forces.

The division commander of the National Defense Army's murderous division is Brigadier General Zhang Licheng, and now, Brigadier General Zhang is sitting in a domestically made car, heading in the direction of Jiayuguan, and this is not a car, but a convoy, but the whole convoy is only the car of Division Commander Zhang, and the other cars are all trucks.

There is no road to speak of along the way, it is the yellow earth that is dried by the sun, covered with dust, in the past few thousand years, I don't know how many horse teams, ostrich teams from here to Jiayuguan, now, stepping on the footsteps of the predecessors, Zhang Licheng's car tenaciously on this road that can not be called walking.

It's just an ordinary sedan, not an off-road vehicle, and there is no concept of an off-road vehicle these days. The reason why I didn't lie down on this road is that in addition to the hard ground, there is another important reason. This kind of domestic sedan is modeled after the American Ford, the model car is made, and the Ford, the design of the model car originally took into account the bad road conditions in the American countryside, so this kind of Chinese sedan also has the same excellent quality, can adapt to the worst roads, the only drawback is that it is bumpy.

As for the trucks that followed, they were originally used for military purposes, and they were not as good as towing cars.

Zhang Licheng came back from Yumen Pass, this is not to travel, he does not have Wu Zhenhan's hobby of paying attention to historical places and historic sites, this to go to Yumen Pass, Zhang Licheng's task is very simple, is to inspect the situation of Yumen oil mine, to see if there is a need to strengthen security.

According to the records of the ancients, the Yumen oil mine at that time did not need to be exploited, the oil of the Yumen oil mine gushed out of the ground like a spring, and merged into a river, the "river water" was turbid and yellow, fat like gravy, and it was quickly turned black, this is the oil, the ancients illuminated it, and the brightness was far better than that of plants and animal fats.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the local people still use the oil lighting of Yumen, when Zuo Zongtang led the army to the west, he learned about it, so he went to check it in person, and deliberately took some samples, and transferred them to the coastal areas to ask people who knew the goods to identify, and finally confirmed that it was oil, and it is said that the samples were sent to Germany, and German technical experts were asked to conduct laboratory tests, which were confirmed to be high-quality oil, and it is for this reason that German businessmen believe that there may be oil fields in the Gansu region of China.

Although Zuo Zongtang had the intention to exploit the Yumen oil mine, but in the end he had to give up because of the technical and transportation problems that could not be solved, and the Yumen oil mine was thus missed from the industrial age, and it was not until the eve of the fall of the Manchu Dynasty that the Yumen oil mine re-entered the field of vision of the merchants along with the Yanchang oil field in Shaanxi.

The first idea of Yanchang oil fields in Shaanxi was a foreign businessman, that is, the German retired colonel Hannagan, this officer of the 6th Army who had served in the Beiyang Naval Division may not be good at naval warfare, but for commercial affairs, he has always been very discerning, when he learned that the people in the Yanchang area of Shaanxi Province in China used a black liquid to burn lamps and make ink, he rushed to the Yanchang area, and after checking it in person, he decided that the so-called "black liquid" was oil, and the reserves were considerable. Colonel Hannagan was ready to do a big job, but he soon realized that the location of the oil field was a college, which theoretically belonged to the official property, and it was impossible for private individuals to exploit, but this was difficult for Hannagan, and he skillfully used the two local Zhuzhong to submit an application for mining to the local government, but at that time, it was just in time for the Qing court to run the "New Deal" Shaanxi had set up a general bureau of mines, and they did not allow others to touch their hands, not only that, but the governor of Shaanxi at that time was a banner man who had no good impression of businessmen, and as a result, The plan to exploit the extended oil field was shelved, and the foreigners could not exploit it, and the Chinese businessmen did not succeed in exploiting it.

The Qing Dynasty was finished, the republican system was established, and the center supported industry: Qianis. Hannagan used his brain again. But the problem is dry. When the six governments did not have a good opinion of the German merchants, it was the British merchants who finally negotiated with the central government, but the British merchants finally died down because the Beiyang government had fallen and the United Front had seized the central power.

At this time, Hannagan confidently went directly to Zhao Bei, the leader of the United Front and the president of the Republic of China, and asked Mr. President to hand over the Yanchang oil field to his "old friend" to operate as a sole proprietor, and in exchange, he was willing to ask Mr. President to buy 15 percent of the dry shares and give Mr. President a huge dividend every year.

However, the President rejected Hannagan's proposal, and instead proposed that a joint venture between China, the United States, and Germany should form an oil company to exploit not only the Yanchang oil fields, but also the oil mines in Yumen, and not only oil wells, but also an oil refinery, mainly for the production of gasoline and diesel, and the petroleum products produced must also be supplied to the central government of China on a priority basis. In this cooperation plan, Chinese businessmen contribute funds and share half of the profits, and German businessmen and American businessmen contribute technology and share the other half of profits, which is fair and reasonable, taking into account the interests of all investors.

Hannagan had no choice in the face of a strong president, and after careful consideration, he agreed to the cooperation plan, and immediately invested in technology, and as for the American companies, they also caught the train of the Shaanxi-Gansu Petroleum Industry Exhibition in time, and they all believed that as long as the cooperation with Chinese businessmen was pleasant, the future oil industry in the Far East may not be without their share.

The Yanchang oil field has begun large-scale exploitation last year, and the Yumen oil mine has not yet begun commercial exploitation, and at present, only a Sino-foreign joint exploration team is carrying out preliminary exploration work in Yumen, and once the construction of the oil refinery is completed, Yumen's oil will soon enter commercial exploitation.

Although there was only one exploration team stationed in Yumen, the center did not dare to take it lightly, so when Zhang Licheng led the Fourth Division of the National Defense Army from Qinghai to Jiayuguan, the 6th Army Headquarters immediately issued an order, asking Zhang Licheng to take his staff officers to personally go to the Yumen Oil Mine to assess the local security situation, and in the future, the Longhai Railway will be extended to the Yumen Oil Mine.

Zhang Licheng led his troops to Jiayuguan only five days ago, and he originally planned to engage in a one-sided battle with the Ma family armed forces in Qinghai, but what made him a little depressed was that perhaps the center's persuasion letter played a role, or perhaps the center's strength was too strong, in short, after several bombers of the 6th Army Air Force came to the base areas of Ningma and Qingma, these two powerful local armed forces immediately chose to surrender to their vassals, so the center almost did not spend a single shot, and successfully solved the problem of Gansu, Qinghai's local powerful factions not only incorporated the local armed forces, but also transferred the local real power figures to the center to take up idle posts, everything is so peaceful, only people in the bureau can understand the frightening step by step.

After receiving the order of the center, Zhang Licheng led the troops to advance lightly, and it took only a short time to cross the lofty mountains and mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, from the cool and oxygen-deficient plateau to the hot and dry Hexi Corridor, bidding farewell to altitude sickness, and ushering in a face full of sand and dust, although the staff officer swore to Zhang Licheng that in ancient times, the Hexi Corridor was a green state, and it was a matter of the last few hundred years to become a desert, but Zhang Licheng did not believe this statement at the beginning, until this time when he went to the Yumen Oil Mine and passed by the ruins of Yumen Pass, He saw the remains of the Han Dynasty garrison barracks, and he believed the staff officer's statement, indeed, if it were not for a land with abundant water and grass, Yumen Pass would not have been able to accommodate so many troops stationed, and the ancients probably would not have sighed that "the spring breeze does not pass Yumen Pass".

Now, Zhang Licheng's car on the back seat dagger is engraved with a stone tablet engraved with "the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass", which he picked up on the road near the Yumen Pass, the staff officers can not tell the origin of this stone, perhaps, this stone is the work of a certain border general in ancient times, but it is more likely to be the work of a literati who passed through the Yumen Pass, in a word, Zhang Licheng and his staff officers felt for the first time that they were so close to the golden iron horse and the foggy ancient times, so everyone unanimously decided, Take this half-human-high stele back to Jiayuguan, and then find a way to place it on top of the city, which comforts the homesickness somewhat.

Because the railway has not yet reached Jiayuguan, the logistics can not keep up, now, the conditions of the Yu Division are extremely difficult, the officers and soldiers are living in the sand nest, there is no entertainment, there is no hustle and bustle of the city, life is lonely and monotonous, the only thing that can calm the emotions of the people is probably these cars and trucks, this is still Zhang Licheng from the commander of the rainy season and said that he "borrowed" it, and he still has to pay it back in the future, so this time he inspected Yumen, Zhang Licheng specially used these vehicles, so he had a good time first, as for the road conditions are too bad, the vehicles may be damaged, This was not in his mind.

However, when Zhang Licheng led the convoy back to Jiayuguan, he was surprised to see that Ji Yushuang had come, and when he met, Zhang Licheng immediately returned the car to him, the reason was very simple, because the center had already sent someone to send the first batch of logistics materials of the murderous division to Jiayuguan, and it was Ji Yushuang's troops who escorted the materials.

How can you not be jealous? There are 200 trucks delivered alone! Two hundred, what is this? Monsoon Frost now commands five divisions, with a total of two trucks.

In the past, "the Yu Division was under the command of Ji Yushuang, but now, the prisoner division is not only promoted to a division by the center, but also officially separated from the command of Ji Yushuang and placed under the direct command of the Commander's Hall, and the number of the troops has also been changed to "The First Division of the Commander's Hall" accordingly

The first division, there is also a "commander's hall" in front of it, and the murderous division is only afraid that the black chicken will become a phoenix in the future, and he will be the president's royal forest army, and it is strange that Commander Ji is not jealous! ,If you want to know what happened next,Please log in to 6 Gang,More chapters,Support the author,Support genuine reading!