The twenty-eight armed escort trains can only carry a maximum of 500 tons of gold!
In other words, when Kolchak retreated from Omsk, he only took away the Winter Palace collection and 500 tons of gold. The remaining 1,100 tons of gold out of the 1,600 tons of gold were either left in Omsk or transported to other places by Kolchak! Because Kolchak couldn't take away the entire 1,600 tons of gold!
Yang Jing would not think about the 500 tons of gold that Kolchak took away. Although many people said that the 500 tons of gold was eventually sunk in Lake Baikal by Kolchak, Yang Jing absolutely did not believe it.
Perhaps a part of it, or even only a very small part of the 500 tons of gold was brought to Lake Baikal and eventually sank to the bottom of the lake, but the vast majority of the 500 tons of gold would never have been brought to Lake Baikal under such severe weather conditions.
The average temperature in Omsk in winter is minus 22 degrees Celsius, but when Kolchak's troops reached Tomsk, an extremely strong cold wave swept across Siberia, and the temperature dropped to more than minus 60 degrees Celsius in just a few days!
Kolchak's troops only arrived at Lake Baikal at the end of February 1920. From November 13, 1919 to February of the following year, in three months, only 200,000 of Kolchak's troops of more than 1.2 million remained!
If people can’t even survive, who would care about the gold?
Just like when people walk in the desert and see gold and water placed next to each other, they will choose water instead of gold. In the extreme environment of Siberia at that time, people would rather carry more food than take a gold bar.
Yang Jing estimated that the 500 tons of gold bricks were most likely buried by Kolchak at random, and a small part of them may have been left forever in the Siberian wilderness along with the White Army who died as they left. But it was impossible that the 500 tons of gold were all transported to Lake Baikal and then sank.
Kolchak was not a moron, he would not do such a brainless thing. One reason was that it was impossible to transport so much gold to Lake Baikal by manpower at that time. Another more important reason was that even if Kolchak was a moron, were his soldiers all moronized?
Would they leave the food behind and take these 500 tons of gold just to transport these 500 tons of gold from Tomsk 2,000 kilometers away to Lake Baikal to sink it?
This is pure bullshit!
So, the 500 tons of gold did not reach Lake Baikal!
It was just that it was hard to say where the gold was thrown or buried, and there was no clue pointing to the 500 tons of gold. Therefore, Yang Jing had completely given up on the 500 tons of gold.
Even if he has the ability of the Sky Eye, where can you ask him to find it in such a vast Siberia?
The only gold that could be found now was the 1,100 tons that Kolchak had hidden before he left Omsk.
These golds are also the focus of Yang Jing's attention.
Based on the evidence summarized above, Yang Jing was almost certain that of the 1,600 tons of gold shipped out of Petrograd that year, 1,100 tons of it had been secretly hidden elsewhere by Kolchak before Omsk was captured by the Red Army.
However, the total weight of this batch of gold is as high as 1,100 tons. Where can such heavy gold be transported? And how can it be transported?
It was obviously impossible to transport the gold by train. At that time, although Omsk had the Trans-Siberian Railway, it was the only railway. The gold was transported from the west through this railway, so it was impossible to transport it back. And if it was transported to the east, there were not enough wagons available, otherwise Kolchak would not have taken away only 500 tons of gold.
In other words, the 1,100 tons of gold would either have to remain in Omsk or be transported to other places through other means.
What possible means of transport could be used to transport such a heavy load of gold?
Yang Jing stared blankly at a huge large-scale map of the Soviet Union spread out in front of him, and finally his eyes fell on the river that ran across Omsk from north to south.
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