Although the harsh weather in the spring of this year in the north forced the Northern Army to change the time of its northward operation, Song Tao's special operations team could not wait any longer, and the bad weather may be difficult for large troops, but it provided convenient conditions for the infiltration of the special operations team.

Song Tao divided the special operations team into four squads, led by him, Wang Xiaojie, Liu Baoguo, and Zhang Yufei, carrying the necessary special combat equipment, and left Shenyang in four airships in advance and flew to the northern grasslands.

The targets of the Beishang Group Army's attack in the first phase of this year were the Nenkorqin Division, which was south of the Xiliao River Valley to the Great Khing'an Mountains, and the three divisions of Zarat, Dulbert, and Golros, which were herding with them. The Nekhalkha tribe east of the Laoha River has five tribes under the jurisdiction of Zalut, Bahrain, Ongit, Bayott and Uziyat. The Alu Korqin and Karaqin tribes of the Zhaowuda League, as well as the nearby Bahrain tribes, Keshiketeng tribes, Weng Niute tribes, Ao Han tribes, Naiman tribes, Alu Korqin tribes and other large tribes.

Historically, the Mongol tribes in Lingnan were almost all conquered by the Later Jin and became the loyal lackeys of the Tatars entering the customs, making Monan Mongolia completely subsumed into the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Manchus and Mongolia had formed an alliance to expand their soldiers and strength, so that the Manchu Qing Dynasty included the territory from the East China Sea to Qinghai, and had a stronger political, economic, and military strength to compete with the Ming Dynasty for the world. The contrast of power between the Ming and Qing dynasties has changed dramatically.

After the Far East came to this era, the Later Jin regime in the Far East of Liaodong was eliminated, and the pattern of the Mongolian steppe in the north became more complicated. Although Huang Taiji did not launch a third expedition to Chahar Lindan Khan, Lindan Khan still did not escape the fate of history and died of illness in 1634.

His son, Erke Kongol, with the support of his mother, Lin Dan Khan Fujin's Sutai, finally mastered the Chahar Department after some struggle. However, the five tribes of Inner Khalkha, Bahrain, Zalut, Bayout, Uziyat, Hongjirat and Korqin on the periphery of the Chahar tribe all defected to the Later Jin regime, and the power of the Chahar tribe, which had always been powerful, had been greatly weakened.

Moreover, Erke Kongol Ezhe is the bloodline of the Golden Family. But he was unable to command the Mongol tribes in southern Mo, the three Transkhalkha tribes in northern Mongolia, the Monan Mongol tribes in the west of the Great Khing'an Mountains, and the Erut tribes in the west, all of whom were eyeing him.

Taiji, the minister of Nenkorqin, Zalut, Balin, Naiman, Aohan, Karaqin, Tumut, Alukorqin, Wengniut, and Asut in the eastern part of the Great Khing'an Mountains, has also met many times in the hope of forming an alliance with Chahar Erke Konggol Ezhe. Jointly dealing with the Far East.

But Chahar Erke Konggol Ezhe is now unable to protect himself, and he can only barely maintain the Chahar Department. Although a consensus was reached, Chahar Erke Konggol Ezhe did not have the prestige of his father Lin Dan Khan, and Chahar was no longer able to command the Mongol tribes of Monan, and Monan Mongol was leaderless at this time.

Although the Mongolian tribes in the eastern part of the Great Khing'an Mountains of Southern Mongolia formed an alliance against the Far East, they also had their own evil intentions. In addition, the Far East opened the door to the mutual market, and the virtual and the snake were separated. As a result, the Nen Horqin, Zalut, Balin, Naiman, Aohan, Karaqin, Tumut, Alu Korqin, Wengniut, Asuut and other departments in Lingnan are now all unable to screw together and are wary of each other.

In the face of the Far East Company, which swept away the Later Jin regime in Liaodong in a few months, no one in the Lingnan Mongolian tribes wanted to offend lightly. They had also sent their own envoys to meet with the Far East, and they all had the intention of annexing the Far East, but they had not yet made up their minds.

In the face of such a complicated situation in the grassland, the special combat team only needs to act at the opportunity, knock out the Taiji of some big tribes, and create some more incidents. The grasslands are bound to be in chaos.

Li Ming is also waiting for the weather to improve, even if he launches an attack now. The huge temperature difference between morning and evening on the steppe, as well as muddy soil, will also bring difficulties to the troops on the march. Moreover, the ice on the surface of the Liao River has not completely melted this year, and the inland steam barge cannot travel on the Liao River at all.

In view of the above situation, Li Ming decided to stay still and wait for the best time to send troops. And he was still waiting for the Mongols in the steppe to raid south. In this way, there was ample reason for the Far Northeast to use the pursuit of the southward Mongol tribes as a cover to confuse those large tribes and achieve the suddenness of the battle.

The forces of the northbound army group have been deployed, and they are divided into three directions of attack. The Western Corps was to attack and advance to the northeast in Quang Ninh Wei. Focusing on sweeping the area around the Zhaowu Dameng and the Laoha River, the barge fleet of the inland river detachment will enter the Daling River to provide logistical support to them, and in addition, another inland river barge fleet will be loaded with officers and men and supplies of the field division and enter the Laoha River through the Guò West Liao River waterway to support them in the north.

The Central Army was to march north from Shenyang, and was responsible for sweeping the north and south banks of the West Liao River, as well as the vast area of Tainingwei, while the river deck barge fleet was to be fully loaded with men and supplies to support them through the Guò Liao River.

The Eastern Military Region will advance from the Thorn Luwei to the northwest and be responsible for sweeping the vast area in the direction of Fuyuwei and Duoyanwei, while the inner deck barge fleet will go all the way north along the waterway of the Songhua River and enter the Naowen River to support them.

At present, the three legions have been deployed in place and deployed on the spot, and only waiting for Li Ming's order, the three legions will sweep across the northern grassland.

Just when the Far East was sharpening its knives and preparing to go north, the northern grasslands encountered a rare snowstorm in a century this winter. This year's white plague is very severe, with snow covering 5 inches to 1 foot on the grasslands and 1-2 feet in some areas. Heavy snow covered the sky, and the pastures turned into a vast sea of snow, and the snow clinged to the belly of the sheep and could not walk. Caused a rare and extraordinarily large white plague.

After the heavy snowfall, the temperature in the grassland continued to be low, and the temperature in early November was five or six degrees lower than normal, and the lowest temperature reached more than minus 30 degrees. The sharp drop in temperature after the snow, coupled with the continuous snow conditions, caused the snow to melt until the end of March, and a large number of cattle and sheep were frozen to death.

It wasn't until mid-April that spring came late on the grasslands, but a large number of tribes on the grasslands were also in a desperate situation. Whenever the grassland is hit by a snowstorm, the grassland will blow a bloody wind the next year.

There is no way, once the grassland encounters a snow disaster, the big tribes can still resist, but the small and medium-sized tribes will have a hard time. If they want to survive, they can only rob and where to rob, they can only rob other tribes, or go south to rob the Han people. This has been the law of steppe nomads for thousands of years.

There are many small tribe herdsmen who can't survive, and they are coerced by the nobles of the tribe and want to go south to plunder. For them, survival is the most important thing, as for the rest, let's talk about it after grabbing, anyway, the grassland is so big, after grabbing it, drill into the grassland, where to find them. Even if the Far East takes revenge, it can only go to those big tribes. (To be continued......)

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