Rebirth of the National Marshal

In this era, many people viewed Mongolia as a bitter and cold place that was not worth the government's trouble to get back from the Soviets. Moreover, in the minds of most people in this era, the idea that those who are not of our race must have different hearts was deeply rooted.

In their view, the Mongols are not a part of the entire Chinese nation at all. Although they have been ruled by us in history, they were just slaves. Not to mention them, even some other ethnic groups in the country are not respected.

In addition, at this time the Japanese devils were launching a large-scale attack and the country was overwhelmed. There was not enough power to deal with them, let alone the Soviets. If they were to become enemies with the Soviets for some relatively rich places, it might be understandable. But Mongolia was a bitter and cold place that produced nothing every year. It would be a loss to fall out with the Soviets for them. Moreover, the central government also hoped to get some assistance from the Soviets to deal with the Japanese. This was also the case in history. Before the Americans provided assistance to the central government, the central government mainly obtained assistance from the Soviets.

In fact, it was not just the central government. Even many people within Mao Yuanshan's local government opposed Mao Yuanshan's enmity with the Soviets. Was it just for the sake of these hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of bitter and cold land?

In their view, it would be great if there was a piece of land between them and the Soviets as a buffer zone. If not, facing the Soviets directly would be too much pressure from both sides, and they would have to always maintain a large number of standing troops. Otherwise, if the Soviets tried to trip you up from behind, you wouldn't even have time to react.

If Mongolia was standing in the middle, it would take some time for the Soviets to get over there.

Mao Yuanshan could only smile and say nothing about their thoughts. They didn't know whether these hundreds of kilometers of land would be of any use in the mechanized warfare of the future. When the German blitzkrieg came out, they could rush over quickly even if they were separated by two Mongolias, let alone one.

Besides, even if it is used as a strategic buffer zone, this place should be in our own hands, not in the hands of the Soviet Union.

Why did the Germans fail so quickly in World War II? It was because they had too little strategic depth. Although the Germans were very strong in the early stages, they did not have that much depth when they entered the strategic defense stage in the later stages.

Why didn't the Japanese destroy China so quickly? It was because China had a vast depth. The Soviet Union was not destroyed by Germany on the European battlefield because it had a vast strategic depth.

This shows how important strategic depth is to a country. Now that we have Mongolia, which has more than one million square kilometers of land in the north, it is equivalent to an increase in our strategic depth, and it is in our hands. If it is in the hands of the Soviets, they can build all kinds of fortresses on this land. If it is in our hands, the muzzles of the fortresses are facing the Soviets, and the time gained is also given to us.

In addition, people of this era did not know how rich the mineral resources were under Mongolia. If they knew how many mineral resources were under Mongolia, they would never give this land to the Soviets even if they were beaten to death. Now Mao Yuanshan can certainly find out how many mineral resources there are under Mongolia.

Mongolia has discovered and confirmed that it has more than 80 kinds of minerals, mainly containing iron, copper, molybdenum, coal, zinc, gold, lead, tungsten, petroleum, oil shale and other resources. Among them, according to the information found by Mao Yuanshan, the copper reserves are more than 20 billion tons, the gold reserves are 3400 tons, the coal reserves are 3000 billion tons, the oil reserves are 80 billion barrels, the iron ore reserves are 20 billion tons, the fluorite deposit reserves are 2800 million tons, the phosphate reserves are 2 million tons, the molybdenum reserves are 24 tons, the zinc reserves are 6 tons, and the silver reserves are 7000 tons.

With so many rich mineral resources, the Soviets are currently only mining coal and gold, and other minerals have not yet been mined. If the Soviets were allowed to abuse their power over such a huge treasure trove, could our General Mao Yuanshan tolerate it?

It is because of the existence of these mineral resources that Secretary-General Wang came up with another plan, which is to immediately seize the three major coal mines in Mongolia. Now Mongolia's main production area is coal, and the three major coal mines in Mongolia can produce tens of thousands of tons every day.

Now the security team's fuel source basically relies on coal conversion. Although several coal mines in the country have been working overtime, it is still difficult for them to mine thousands of tons of coal every day because all the mines here are still manual.

It has not yet entered the semi-mechanized stage, but it is different in Mongolia. The three major coal mines in the country have all switched to semi-mechanized production. Although there is still a certain gap compared with the world's most advanced technology, it is much better than those domestic coal mines. The per capita mining volume is dozens of times that of domestic coal mines.

In fact, there are still many coal mines in the Soviet Union that are being mined manually. The reason why all these coal mines in Mongolia are converted into semi-mechanized ones is mainly because they also feel that these resources are on other people's territories, and they should speed up production to avoid being unable to transport them when they no longer rule this place. Over the years, the Soviets have transported millions of tons of coal from Mongolia.

Of course, this is also due to the limitations of mining equipment. If the latest mining equipment in Germany's Ruhr area is replaced, the production capacity will increase by more than three times.

Mao Yuanshan's plan was to replace all the coal mines here with German equipment. The German missionary had met with him several times. In addition, with the victory in this battle with the Soviets, the German government had basically confirmed the cooperative relationship with the Chahar local government. Their requirements were not many. They only asked that when the German government attacked the Soviet Union, the Chahar government could launch a small-scale battle in the Far East with a number of people between 20 and 30.

Mao Yuanshan certainly agreed to their request, because it could be exchanged for a large amount of German machinery assistance, and is 30 people really enough? I know very well how big your battle is, and you will definitely gather troops to share a piece of the pie.