?Yang Jing remembers that when he was in junior high school, he once had a geography exam and asked a comprehensive question like this.

"Excuse me, how many inland provinces in our country? Which province is the farthest from the sea? So, can you go to sea from this province? No, please explain why. Yes, please briefly describe the route of the boat."

Yang Jing remembered very clearly that he answered the first few questions of this comprehensive question correctly, but the last question confused Yang Jing.

At that time, China had a total of 34 provincial administrative regions, including 23 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities and two special administrative regions.

Among the thirty-four provincial administrative regions, except for Guangxi, Guangdong, Qiongdao, Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, Min, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Jinmen, and Liao Province In addition, the other provincial administrative regions are all inland provinces.

But among these inland provinces, the farthest distance from the sea is none other than the Krai. The Krai is not only the provincial administrative region with the largest area of ​​China, but also an inland province with the furthest distance from the sea. All the provinces in China are counted together, and none of them can be farther from the sea than the Krai.

So is it possible to take a boat out to sea in the Territory?

This question confuses Yang Jinzi at that time.

You have to say that other inland provinces, including Tibetan areas with the highest altitude, can reach the sea directly by boat. The Jinsha River, Lancang River, Nu River, and Yajiang River can all reach the sea directly by boat.

Other inland provinces, including the Pearl River, Yangtze River, Yellow River and Heilongjiang River systems, can also go to sea by boat.

But only in Krai, how can this province go to sea by boat?

It seems that the rivers in the Krai are seasonal inland rivers, right? How can the inner river have an outlet to the sea?

Therefore, Yang Jing happily answered an answer "No!"

As a result, this question was naturally judged as wrong by the teacher.

And there are not a few students who stumbled on this question, and only a few people in the class answered this question correctly.

Without him, because most of the classmates including Yang Jing remembered that there were inland rivers such as the Ili River and the Tarim River in Xinjiang, coupled with the unique topography of Xinjiang Province, so they all forgot that they were actually in Xinjiang. There is also a river that can directly lead to the sea.

And the sea that this river leads to is not the Indian Ocean in the south, nor the Pacific Ocean in the east, but the northernmost Arctic Ocean.

This river is the Irtysh River!

The Irtysh River, originating from the Altai Mountains on the border between China and Mongolia, flows through the four countries of China, Kazakhstan and Russia. It merges with the Ob River in Khantymansiysk, Tyumen, Russia, and finally flows into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is the only inflow of China. An international river in the Arctic Ocean.

Therefore, starting from the Territory, taking a boat along the Irtysh River all the way north, you can finally reach the Arctic Ocean.

Some people may say, isn't this nonsense? If the river originates in the Krai, you can go to sea by boat? The Chipchap River, one of the sources of the Indus River, also originated in the Pamir Plateau in the Krai, but that river doesn’t have much fish, let alone boats?

Origination and sailing are two different things, okay?

Indeed it is. The source of the river is usually not navigable, such as the source of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, but the Irtysh River is indeed navigable in the Krai.

Because although the Irtysh River originated in the Altai Mountains, the source area is indeed unnavigable, but after the Irtysh River flows through hundreds of kilometers in northern Xinjiang, it can be navigable before it flows out of the country.

Because when the Irtysh River flows down from the source for hundreds of kilometers, after the small town of Burqin merges with another tributary of the Burqin River, the section of the Burqin River that makes Burqin down instantly becomes much wider, with the widest part of the river. It can even exceed 300 meters, and the average width is more than 100 meters. Therefore, it is completely navigable from Burqin down.

As early as the 27th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1901, the Qing government set up a wharf on the Irtysh River Burqin in the territory of the territory to conduct regular navigation with Russia. The route starts from the port of Burqin on the Irtysh River, passes through the main stream of the Irtysh River, Lake Jaisan, and the plains of Western Siberia, and eventually reaches the Arctic Ocean all the way.

From Burqin down the river, even 300-ton ships can be navigable!

And down from Burqin, the Irtysh River will reach Omsk after passing through Lake Jaisan, Eskemen, Semiyi, and Paplodar!

If Kolchak secretly transported the 1,100 tons of gold to other places to hide, then the most likely means of transportation would be ships!

From Omsk by boat, whether you are going north along the river or going up the current, there is no problem.

Although going upstream from Omsk, if you want to travel 300-ton ships, you have to wait until the rainy season in July each year, but Kolchak regarded Omsk as early as June 1918. The seat of the White Army government was abandoned until November 1919.

In this year and a half, the Irtysh River had two flood periods, enough for Kolchak to make any decision.

In this year and a half, no matter where Kolchak will ship the gold, it is possible. But the only certainty is that whether it is going down the river or upstream, this lot of gold will inevitably be hidden in a place not far from the Irtysh River. Otherwise, so much gold would be impossible at all. Move to a place too far from the river.

But, which direction should Kolchak choose? Is it the lower reaches of the north or the upper reaches of the south?

According to the information collected by Niam, Yang Jing can also know that after Kolchak occupied Omsk, he built a large number of defensive facilities on the Irtysh River to the west of the city. He was not only in the east of the river. A large number of military fortresses were built along the bank, heavy artillery bases were arranged, and many inland gunboats were arranged on the Irtysh River to patrol the upper and lower reaches of the Irtysh River to prevent the Red Army from breaking through the Irtysh River defense line from the upper and lower reaches.

In other words, when Kolchak occupied Omsk, Kolchak held a large number of inland river gunboats. These gunboats are mostly ships with a displacement of about 300 to 600 tons, but they can be transformed into transport ships with a little modification. Kolchak is very likely to use these modified gunboats to transport the gold.

It's just that according to Yang Jing's careful analysis, combined with the situation at the time, Kolchak will most likely not be shipped downstream, but will be shipped upstream.

The main reason for drawing such a conclusion is because of the direction of the Irtysh River and the situation at that time.

First, after passing through Omsk, the Irtysh River first flows eastward, then turns a bend and heads straight to the northwest, and finally ends in Tobolsk and Tobol, which are less than 200 kilometers away from Tyumen. Rivers meet. In short, if Kolchak wants to transport this lot of gold downstream, it will inevitably pass through Tobolsk, and from Tyumen along the Tobol River to Tobolsk, it takes only seven or eight hours!

At that time, the leader of the Bolshevik Party in Chelyabinsk in charge of fighting Kolchak was Marshal Blyukher, one of the first five marshals of the Soviet Union.

Blyukher was the political commissar of the Red Guard in Chelyabinsk.

The situation at the time was like this. The Red Army occupied Chelyabinsk, facing Kolchak's white army to the east. Blyukhe led the Red Guard to liberate Orenburg in early 1918, and since then formed a huge oppression on Kolchak. .

But in May of that year, the Czech Army rebelled, which caused the situation in Chelyabinsk to become rotten. At that time, someone even proposed to disband the Red Army stationed in Chelyabinsk, and everyone fled for their lives. At this time Kolchak also commanded the army to attack Chelyabinsk, the situation was extremely dangerous.

However, under the leadership of Blyukher, the Red Guards quickly quelled the rebellion of the Czech Army. At the same time, in order to be able to join the main force of the Red Army, Bryukher sent the Red Guards to the Tyumen generation and harassed the White Army from the rear of the White Army. The tactics finally persisted until it merged with the main force of the Red Army and fought Kolchak's White Army back to Omsk.

In other words, before the arrival of the Irtysh River flood season in 1918, the situation was actually very favorable for Kolchak.

At that time Kolchak was sitting on 1.2 million White Army and a huge amount of gold and jewellery smuggled from Petrograd. Although Nicholas II was executed in July, if it was in accordance with the situation at the time. Generally speaking, the White Army is fully capable of occupying the vast area east of the Urals.

So at that time, Kolchak shouldn't make a decision to flee while taking advantage of the situation.

In other words, from June 1918 to September 1919, Kolchak held the strategic thinking of sticking to Omsk and looking for opportunities to counterattack western Russia.

If it was Yang Jing, he would think so too. No one would even think about how to escape while occupying an advantage, let alone a figure like Kolchak who was loyal to the tsar.

I have money and some have guns, and the situation is still in my favor. Why should I go east? Even if I run, I have to run west to attack!

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for Kolchak to transport the gold in his hands.

However, with the Red Army occupying strategic locations such as Chelyabinsk and Tyumen, after the large-scale attack on Omsk began in September 1919, Kolchak's situation instantly changed from favorable to unfavorable.

Therefore, in this situation, Kolchak began to wonder how to escape, how to find a place to hide the gold that can't be taken away~lightnovelpub.net~ But in this situation, the Irtysh River The Red Army has already appeared in Tobolsk downstream, and it is impossible for Kolchak to ship gold downstream under such circumstances.

Therefore, if you want to transport gold, you can only transport it upstream along the Irtysh River.

Moreover, in September, the Irtysh River will still be navigable to ships of more than 300 tons. The transport ships modified from these gunboats are fully capable of transporting the gold to somewhere in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River to hide!

Moreover, transporting this batch of gold to the upstream would also surprise most people. At the same time, in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River, surrounded by mountains, it is the best place to hide gold.

No wonder that in the information collected by Niam, there are several mentions that in September 1919, in Paplodar, someone once saw the White Army inland gunboats upstream from Omsk along the river... ..

There is also information that vaguely mentions that Kolchak may transport a lot of valuable property to the mountainous area on the border between China and Russia before he withdraws from Omsk...