Chapter 632: Expansion of the Cavalry Force
Although the company does not attach importance to other subjects of the winter training of Mongolian herdsmen, hundreds of thousands of poor Mongolian herdsmen have gained a lot in this winter's winter training.
In the hearts of every poor Mongolian herdsman, a feeling is born: without the Far East Company, there would be no better life for them in the future. Only under the leadership of the Far Eastern Company, defeating all the nobles on the steppe, Nayan, can they have their own pastures and cattle and sheep.
Their love every day is extremely full, as if they have suddenly changed into a different person. Whenever the company organizes various forms of activities, they actively participate, and they also truly regard themselves as a part of the Far East, and are full of hope for the future.
The company is also very satisfied with the ideological education of Mongolian herdsmen. They scattered all the herders and carried out a massive reorganization. Squadrons of herdsmen were established, each of which was composed of 100 young men between the ages of 15 and 50, supplemented by a certain number of old and weak women and children.
The squadron leader and political instructor of each herdsman squadron were former musket militias in the Far East, and the five squad leaders were active members of the Mongolian herdsmen. Once mobilized in the Far East, the herdsmen's squadron will select some young and strong men to gather in various brigades to temporarily form Mongolian cavalry brigades to fight with the main cavalry brigades in the Far East.
All Mongolian youths who participated in the war would enjoy wartime benefits and could share the spoils of war. The Mongolian cavalry brigade in the first phase of the northward plan has received a lot of benefits, so when the militia is selected by each squadron in the future, these herdsmen will definitely break their heads and fight for it.
After the large-scale reorganization of Mongolian herdsmen was completed, the Military Commission also expanded the six main cavalry brigades of the Mongolian Army Corps in due course. Expand each main cavalry brigade into a division-level unit. The newly formed Mongolian cavalry division has three main Mongolian cavalry brigades under its jurisdiction, as well as units directly under the division. The total number of people is about 10,000.
Each cavalry brigade consisted of six battalions, each battalion of a cavalry company of 100 men. The total number of people in the brigade is 3,000. The equipment was no different from the original, four Mongolian war horses per person, a short-barreled double-barreled fire-capped cavalry standard musket, imitation six-five style swords, steel plate horse bows, and steel arrowhead feathered arrows.
All personnel were selected from the Mongolian militia that participated in the first phase of the battle of the northward plan, and the officers and men of the original six Mongolian cavalry brigades were also dispersed. Served as a backbone non-commissioned officer and company and platoon cadre in the expanded unit.
At the same time, the six main cavalry brigades in the outer northeast also began to be expanded, and the same expansion was made into the main cavalry division. Personnel were also selected from the Outer Northeast Indigenous Militia that participated in the first phase of the Northbound Plan.
At this point, the main force of the second phase of the Far Eastern Company's northward plan was completed and a new round of training began. After more than a year of arduous training, they will then participate as the main force in the second phase of the campaign of the northward plan, targeting the entire southern Mongolia.
The Reserve Training Center of the Military Commission also conducted two mobilization exercises in various resettlement camps after the reorganization of Mongolian herdsmen was completed. This time, because of the relative abundance of personnel. The number of Mongolian militia brigades increased to fifty, and the number of indigenous militia brigades in the Outer Northeast increased to thirty. Each mobilization exercise will be accompanied by a month-long intensive training and a long-distance training exercise.
In this way, the main cavalry units of the second stage of the future Far Northeast plan will reach 120,000, and the second-line militia units will reach 240,000. The number of troops was enough for the Military Commission to carry out the second phase of the campaign of the northward plan.
In addition, the remaining Mongolian herdsman squadrons during the war will also form logistics nomadic brigades in the form of brigades. All the young and strong, the old and the weak, the women and the children will also go with the army. Their main job was to be responsible for the logistical supply of the main force, to take care of the spoils of war, and to collect the old and weak women and children on the grassland.
The plans of the Far Eastern Company were: In a few months of winter training, hundreds of thousands of Mongolian herders will be transformed. Build an armed group. Later, under the leadership of the Far Eastern Company, they will sweep all the pastures in the north. In the future, they will slowly encroach all the way to the west and north. Their iron hooves will travel all over Siberia, the South Asian subcontinent, Central Asia, Russia, and finally hit Europe, so that yellow goods will once again wreak havoc on Western Christendom.
In addition, in the future, Australia and the New World of America will also need the conquest of the Mongol legions, and the Far East will immigrate a large number of Mongolian herders to these areas to help the Far East with grazing. After all, there are also vast and beautiful grasslands. It is also a well-known high-quality pastoral area in modern society, and the environment is much better than that of the northern grassland.
Next spring, the Far East will send an advance team to Australia to establish a base in Australia, and then send supplies and personnel there year after year. Slowly occupy Australia.
At present, the main strategic direction of the Far Eastern Company is the north, before the implementation of the second phase of the campaign of the northbound plan. So the expansion of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea in southern Oceania will have to wait a few years later.
Before the Far Eastern Company carries out large-scale expansion, it must sweep away the desert in the south and the north to ensure that the company's interests in Liaodong are in an absolutely safe environment. Moreover, in the future, the company will have to rely on the Mongolian nomads in the northern steppes to control the vast steppes in the north and the main force of expansion to the northwest.
If you want to do this, only these Mongolian herders, who have been nomadic herders in the steppe all year round, can do it. Therefore, the company spared no effort to transform these Mongolian herdsmen, brainwashed them in all directions, and made other subjects so-so after a few months of winter training, but only the political and ideological work, the Far East invested great strength.
This is only the beginning, and after the expansion and formation of the six main cavalry divisions and 50 Mongolian militia brigades of the Mongolian Army Corps, all commanders and fighters and militia will continue to carry out in-depth ideological education work.
The hundreds of thousands of Mongolian herdsmen in this year's winter training will also be seeds sprinkled in the vast northern steppes in the future, leading the vast number of poor herdsmen to defeat the Mongolian nobles who oppress and exploit them, and return the grassland to a clear sky.
They will also spread the ideas of the Far East everywhere in the steppe, so that all the poor herdsmen will deeply understand that only the Far East Company can liberate them from the oppression of the evil aristocracy. Only the Far Eastern Company can make them live a good life.
Although before the winter training, the Far Eastern Company was still a little worried about the winter training of hundreds of thousands of Mongolian herdsmen. However, after a few months of winter training, all the Mongolian herdsmen seemed to have been reborn, and their mental outlook had also undergone tremendous changes. Most importantly, all the herders are extremely loyal to the Far East Company. (To be continued......)
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