Chapter 410: The Law of Nomads
After the company gradually stabilized Liaodong, the Military Commission began to dispatch a large number of mobile troops equipped with vehicles and war horses according to the plan, and with the cooperation of the Ministry of the Air Force's delta-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and airships, troops were sent to Liaohetao.
The Far Eastern Army organized a northward detachment consisting of a brigade of the field division, a wing of the Death Army, and three overseas brigades, and divided its troops into the Liaohetao in several ways. The Mongol tribes living in the Liaohetao were taken by surprise by the Far Eastern Army.
In the face of the Far Eastern Army, which was armed to the teeth, the resistance organized by the Mongol Tatars of various tribes in a hurry collapsed in an instant, and they could only let the Far Eastern Army rush into the tribes and burn them on a large scale.
The greatest advantage of the Mongol tribal cavalry was their mobility, which used small groups of cavalry to test the battle, and then used a surprise attack to attack the enemy's weak points. If the attack is thwarted, immediately retreat, then look for an opportunity to break through from the flank.
At that time, fighting the Mongols was a painful affair, because they did not fight each other directly with their swords, and their most important weapon was the bow and arrow. Your nightmare begins when you run into the Mongol cavalry. Shoot arrows before the attack, shoot arrows during the attack, and even when he is running away, he is still shooting arrows. You can't catch up, you can't fight, this kind of rogue-like play can drive people crazy!
This is also the reason why when the Mongol armies later attacked Eastern Europe, Europeans who were far stronger than them were beaten to the ground. Basically, they were not hacked to death by swords, but by arrows. The Mongol Empire swept through Europe and Asia that year, and it was with this tactic that it was invincible.
But as soon as the Mongol Tatars lost the advantage of maneuvering, their nightmare began.
Before the attack, the Far Eastern Army had already sent an airboat detachment to reconnoiter the various Mongol tribes in the Liaohetao one by one. Although the steppe is vast, many people think that finding the Mongolian tribe is like looking for a needle in a haystack. In fact, this is not the case, all the Mongolian tribes in the steppe are traceable, as long as you explore all the way along the river, you can find the big tribe.
The approximate location of the Mongol tribes was determined. After the troops arrived at the Mongol tribes, they were not in a hurry to attack, but flew drones to reconnoiter the situation around the Mongol tribes, and then formulated a complete assault plan. Find the best breakthrough to block the escape route of the Mongol Tatars.
Once the battle began, the assault forces would break through to the Horde from the weakest part of the Tartars, and the assault detachments, often consisting of a few jeeps, would throw the Mongol Tartar tribes into great confusion.
When the unorganized resistance of the Mongols was broken, the young Mongols fled on horseback. This is also the survival rule of the Mongolian tribes, abandoning the old and weak, women and children in times of crisis, and preserving their vitality. In their eyes, women and children are just the goods of the tribe. If you don't have it, you can rob someone else. But if their own living force is lost, then there is no hope for the tribe.
But this time, the unparalleled mobility of the Mongolian Tatars in the past became a joke. No matter how the Mongol tribal cavalry galloped wildly, they could not outrun the cars and armored vehicles of the Far East. In the face of roaring steel monsters and a rain of bullets, countless Mongolian Tatars died under the rain of bullets and bullets of the Far Eastern Army.
The tribes of Liaohetao were easily swept away by the Far Eastern Army, and a large number of Mongols who had the same fate as Bagen were screened out. They and the woman were tied in a string by the Far East and sent back to Liaodong. This was followed by an overwhelming herd of cattle, sheep and horses.
A large number of cattle and sheep did not return to Shenyang, but in the area on the north bank of the Liao River. Grazing was carried out by some Mongol captives. The company's agriculture and forestry department has sent a large number of people to prepare for the establishment of a large pastoral area in the Hetao area between Quang Ninh and Shenyang.
After a large number of Mongolian Tatars arrived in Shenyang, they were assigned to horse farms and construction sites. He worked hard for a period of time, working more than twelve hours a day, and only two dry and hard coarse grain cakes every day to satisfy his hunger.
The soldiers in charge of the guards managed them almost cruelly during this time, and people were hanged on the edge of the shacks almost every day. The slightest slack will be whipped. Collective punishment has become the norm. There have even been cases of being punished for two days without food, and Mongolian Tatars have to do 12 hours of heavy work during the day, and if they resist the slightest, they will be punished again.
Some employees of the company's civil affairs committee have questioned the military commission's approach, arguing that it will sow the seeds of hatred in the hearts of the Mongol Tatars. It was not conducive to winning over the Mongols to work for the Far Eastern Company.
For different sounds. The Military Commission proposed to convene a meeting of the board of directors of the company, and introduced the military committee's plan for the transformation of Mongolian Tatars to the members of the Standing Committee of the board of directors.
In fact, there is a reason why the Military Commission did this, the previous battles have shown the Mongolian Tatars the strength of the Far East, but this is not enough, the reason why the management during this period is so cruel is to let the Mongolian Tatars know that the Far East Company still has an iron-blooded and cruel side.
Some employees of the company's civil affairs committee have been looking at the steppe tartars of this era with the thinking of modern society. It can only be said that they do not yet understand the nature of the nomads of this era.
The social structure of the Mongolian steppe in this era can be divided into three types: nobles, commoners and slaves. The aristocracy was, in effect, the violent plunderers and oppressors of the steppe. They are hardly engaged in any production. Survival depends mainly on the violent plundering of other people's wealth. Kidnapping others to produce for themselves.
Those who are kidnapped by them are slaves. Although not every inhabitant of the steppe is evil and brutal, the steppe is controlled by these aristocratic groups that violently slaughter, plunder, and enslave others. Over time, almost all civilian herders were kidnapped and enslaved.
The aristocracy killed each other in order to fight for slaves and pastures, and drove slaves to kill each other. As a result, the nomadic peoples of the steppes do not have a sense of dignity in a civilized society, and do not know that there are other ways for human beings to live and live in peace than to slaughter and be slaughtered, enslaved and enslaved. In a society where the law of the jungle is the strongest, there is no kindness or compassion in people's hearts, and children can be slaughtered for the sake of a little grassroots.
The cruel natural conditions make the living conditions of the nomads extremely bad, they often have no food and clothing, and in order to compete for food, fathers, sons, and brothers kill each other. Abandonment of the elderly, the young, the sick and the disabled is commonplace.
In any society, the act of murder and violence is hated by the mainstream of society. But in nomadic societies, this phenomenon is very common and is a part of their way of life.
The Mongolian Tartars take the predator of the animal world as the norm of life. When the opponent is strong, if you can't kill the opponent, use the most humble and obedient attitude to stammer, and deceive the other party's trust. Then look for an opportunity to kill them. In their eyes, revenge is a matter of course. The stories they use to educate future generations are a combination of deception and violent slaughter.
So when you see a Mongolian Tartar being so respectful to you, don't imagine that he is your loyal servant, because if you are down, he may be the first to raise a butcher's knife and cut you down. It's not about character, it's about their lifestyle. At that time, the harsh living environment of the Mongols, barbarism, cruelty, and revenge were the customs and nature of the Mongols.
Since the rise of Genghis Khan, acts such as killing brothers, betrayal, and revenge have occurred many times. They only respect the strong, and even when you are strong, never try to be kind to them. In their eyes, hatred depends on whether you are strong enough.
Even the ferocious Tartars know about mercy, but the nomads of the steppes do not have this concept. The first thing to do is to make them realize that you are powerful, and then to let them know that you are iron-blooded and cruel. In the end, they used their murderous and greedy nature to serve the Far East.
The rule of the Manchu Tatars over the Mongols was very distinctive, and they faced the same problem of worrying that the Mongol tail would not be lost. However, the Mongolian steppe is vast and boundless, with nearly 10 million Mongolians scattered in all corners of the steppe, stretching for nearly 10,000 miles from east to west. It is simply impossible to adopt the methods of genocide.
Therefore, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Manchus have taken history as a mirror, and they first shouted the slogan of the Manchu and Mongolian families to divide the Han and Mongolian ethnic groups. It seems that the Manchu court treated the Mongols very favorably, but in fact, the Manchus co-opted the Mongol nobles on the one hand, and on the other hand, put a large number of Mongol herders under house arrest like lambs in the sheepfold, and at the same time used Lamaism to turn the Mongols into a parasitic population.
The strict nomadic boundaries of the Manchu Qing Dynasty isolated the exchanges between Mongolia and the Han areas in the interior, and the strict nomadic boundaries strengthened the ecological isolation of the steppe peoples, which was precisely inconsistent with the productivity requirements of the nomadic society, so that the Mongolian people could not obtain the advanced production technology and production tools of the Han people, and remained in a nomadic position, and could not develop further for three hundred years.
However, the most ruthless thing is not to restrict the cultural and economic development of the Mongolian people, but to vigorously promote Lamaism in Mongolia and implement a long-term family planning campaign in Mongolia in the name of religion. Lamas were exempted from military service, conscription, and tax burdens, and this policy actually encouraged the vast number of civilians to abandon the lay and become monks, so that a large number of Al Batu, who were trapped in life, gathered in various temples to recite sutras and practice Buddhism, which greatly hindered the economic and cultural development of the Mongolian people.
In the Autobiography of Feng Yuxiang, there is such a record: "Mongolia has 12 million people. After three hundred years of long Manchu rule, it had dwindled to a million. The Manchus used Lamaism to rule the Mongol people, and seven of those who had eight brothers were required to be lamas; If there are five brothers, four of them must be lamas; Only one commoner can marry a wife and have children. When the lama wears red and yellow satin, he can sit and enjoy a generous salary.
To sum up, it can be seen that a Mongolian nationality with a large population and a very strong ethnic group once conquered many countries in Europe and Asia, and established a Mongolian dynasty that lasted for nearly 100 years, and after 300 years of rule by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the population dropped from more than 10 million in the early Qing Dynasty to more than 1 million during the Xinhai Revolution, and the entire nation was made into a weak and small nation that was in a state of collapse, unrelated, population decline, poverty and backwardness. (To be continued......)
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