The timing of the middle route army was very good, and the luck was also good, taking advantage of the battle between the Horqin tribes to enter the grassland, annihilating most of the elite of the Horqin tribe, and solving the main force of the Horqin tribe in one fell swoop.

Gao Qiang changed the battle plan at the right time, concentrated all the cavalry of the Mongolian Cavalry Brigade, the Overseas Brigade and the Mongolian Militia Brigade, and entered the grassland with lightning speed, completely solving the Horqin steppe.

After receiving Gao Qiang's battle report, Li Ming was also excited, but he didn't expect that the Horqin Department, which he thought was the most difficult to gnaw before, was the first to solve it.

Horqin belongs to southern Mongolia, east of Zarat department, west of Zarute department, south of Shengjing border wall, north of Heilongjiang River. The east and west ends are 870 miles apart, and the north and south ends are 2,100 miles apart.

The Horqin tribe originally lived in the area of the Erguna River, the Hailar River and Hulun Lake. During the Ming Hongxi, Horqin was broken by Erlut, and he lived in Nenjiang, and he had Alu Horqin in the same clan, and he was called Nenjiang Horqin to say goodbye. The three tribes of Zarat, Dulbert, and Golros and their fellow pastors belong to Chahar. During the reign of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, the death of Dayan Khan led to the rebellion of the Wuliang Hawanhu in the north of the desert, and there was a war. In order to avoid the war, the Nen Horqin tribe moved south to the land of Wuliangha Sanwei, which had moved westward, in the Jiajing year.

In the Ming Dynasty, in order to get rid of the situation of fighting on both sides with the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, the Later Jin actively contacted the relationship with the Horqin Department; In order to get rid of Lin Dan Khan's bullying and control, the Horqin Department also took the initiative to associate with Houjin.

Under this form, the marriage between the Korqin tribe and the Houjin naturally became active. Nurhachi married the daughter of Korqin Taiji Ming'an, Nurhachi's eighth son, Emperor Taiji, married the daughter of Manggusi of the Horqin tribe, Nurhachi's twelfth son, Azig, married the daughter of Kongor, Huang Taiji married the daughter of Korqin Taiji Zaisang, and the leader of the Horqin tribe, Oba, married the daughter of Tulun, the fourth son of Nurhachi.

In 1624, the chieftain of the Korqin tribe formally formed an alliance with Nurhachi in the Iketang Kali Slope Punishment White Horse Wuniu. Only before entering customs. The Qing court and the Horqin tribe had 33 marriages, of which 12 were married to each other and 21 were to marry each other's daughters. This shows the importance of the Korqin Ministry in the minds of the Later Jin regime.

The Horqin army is strong and strong, and the pastures are abundant, and it is the most relied on force of the Later Jin regime. It was also with the support of Horqin and other Mongolian tribes that Huang Taiji defeated Lin Dan Khan. The whole of Monan Mongolia was included in the territory of Houjin.

Therefore, in the first stage of the northward plan, the battle of the Central Route Army against the Horqin Department was the top priority. Li Mingdu set up the headquarters of the Beishang Group Army in the Central Army Corps, and the combat logistics support units directly under the Beishang Group Army were all placed in the area of the Xiliao River, ready to support the Central Army Corps at any time.

However, what is unexpected is that the Central Army was the first to solve the main force of the Horqin Division, annihilating tens of thousands of elite cavalry of the Horqin Division in the First World War, and completely laying the foundation for the victory of the entire campaign. Now the cavalry of the various units of the Central Army is sweeping across the Horqin grassland north of the Xiliao River. Even the Mongolian youths of the logistics detachment of the Central Army Corps have entered the grassland, and the tribes of Horqin have all surrendered to the wind.

Unlike the Shun lì of the Central Army, the battle of the Eastern and Western Legions was not so easy.

The main direction of attack of the Eastern Army actually belongs to the sphere of influence of the Nen Korqin Division. The Nen Korqin tribe consisted of four tribes: Korqin, Golros, Dulbert, and Zarat, and the leaders of each tribe often had similar views on some important issues, and were in step with each other, and could help and support each other in times of difficulty, forming a powerful Mongol tribal group in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia.

With the expansion of pastures and the multiplication of the population. These four tribes, led by the Horqin tribe, gradually moved southward and became the Nenjiang River basin in the north. The master of the vast grasslands that reach the west to the west of the Mulun River basin in the south. This area is also often referred to as the Horqin Steppe.

The main enemy of the Eastern Army Corps is the northern part of the Horqin steppe, which also belongs to the three divisions of Nenkorqin, Golros, Dulbert, and Zarat. Although the strength of these three divisions cannot be compared with the Horqin division in the north of the West Liao River, the three divisions are very united.

Although the special operations team led by Wang Xiaojie successfully sniped the leaders of the three departments, the three departments were not as complicated as the Horqin Department. All of them were stabilized under the deterrence of the tribal elders, and the direct descendants of the deceased leader also succeeded in taking over. Although there were struggles in the process of changing the head of the tribe, it was far less chaotic than that of the Korqin tribe.

Moreover, there was no fire between the three divisions of Golros, Dulbert, and Zarat, so that the operation of the special operations team in the northern part of the Horqin grassland did not achieve the expected results.

Although the situation on the steppe did not reach the expected chaos. However, the commander of the Eastern Army gave the order for a general attack. The main force of the Eastern Theater consists of only four Outer Northeast Indigenous Cavalry Brigade and the Third Brigade of the Field Division, and the second-line troops are six Outer Northeast Militia Brigades and a logistics detachment composed of a large number of young and strong people in the Outer Northeast. The Eastern Legion, which is composed of natives from the Outer Northeast, is the smallest in number, but it is very powerful.

Moreover, in the past few years, under the deterrence of the Far East, the various tribes in the Outer Northeast have been carrying their tails and behaving with their tails between them, and they have been very respectful to the Far East Company, and they have sent people to send a large number of tributes every year. When they learned of the sweeping of the steppes in the far northeast, these tribes sent a large number of tribal warriors to help, numbering tens of thousands.

They all wanted to form a coalition with the Far East Company in this campaign, hoping to establish good relations with the Far East. Of course, they also felt that the Far East was very powerful, and if they followed the Far East to fight, they would definitely be able to plunder a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and other spoils.

Although the Far East is vicious, it has always done what it says, and it is very generous to its own people. If it weren't for the fact that they had to give up their tribal rights to the Far East, they would have flocked to the Far East.

In the face of tens of thousands of warriors from the Outer Northeast tribes who came from all over the country, Qiang Quansheng directly contacted Li Ming and made a detailed report to him. Li Ming and the people in the headquarters studied it and decided to leave all of them and integrate them into the logistics detachment and enter the grassland with the Eastern Army.

Isn't this an opportunity to win over the warriors of these tribes, who follow the Far East to fight in the steppe, and the Far East will reward a large amount of spoils to the warriors of the major tribes, which is definitely more than what they have gained from fighting for the major tribes before.

Moreover, after this expedition to the steppe, they have seen the strength of the Far East, and maybe they will also return to the Far East in the future. Without these powerful and battle-hardened tribal warriors, there would be no threat to the major tribes in the Outer Northeast.

Even if they did not annex the Far East, they would not dare to fight with the Far East when the Far East sent troops to the Northeast in the future. (To be continued......)

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