Chapter 578: A Huge Plan
Wang Haiyang waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Clean up the battlefield, tie up the prisoners, and be careful that the enemy plays dead." ”
The fighters of the field division walked over and tied up these Chahar cavalrymen one by one with ropes. They also stabbed the badly wounded cavalrymen to death with bayonets and gathered the frightened horses around them.
Wang Haiyang also walked up and came to the side of a wounded Mongolian soldier, the right arm of this cavalryman was cut off at the shoulder, and the rest of his body was bleeding, looking at Wang Haiyang with a frightened face, speaking Mongolian language that he did not understand, and his eyes were full of pleading.
"Bang".
Wang Haiyang raised his revolver with an expressionless face and shot the Mongolian in the head, ending his painful life.
"Company commander, come here......"
Hearing the call of several warriors not far away, Wang Haiyang hurriedly ran up and saw a Mongol who was holding half of his body by a war horse. Several warriors, seeing that he was dressed extraordinarily, guessed that he was not an ordinary person, and called him over.
Wang Haiyang looked at Erke Kongguo Erzhe, he knew that this must be a big fish, and he really didn't make much effort in this battle, but his luck was really good. Erke Kongol Ezhe was dragged out from under the horses by several fighters of the field division, struggling and shouting.
Wang Haiyang couldn't understand Mongolian, so he turned around and summoned Lian Li, who was worthy of a Mongolian interpreter. When the Mongolian interpreter heard this, he was stupid, he turned his head and stumbled to Wang Haiyang and said, "My lord, he ...... He said he was...... He is the Great Khan of the Chahar tribe......"
After listening to the words of the Mongolian translator, Wang Haiyang was also numb, this luck is too good!
He hurriedly made a report to the battalion commander, this is good, even the division commander of the field division, Wang Yaowu, was blown out, and he led a large group of brigade commanders and regiment commanders to come here. I saw Erke Kongol. And had a brief exchange with him and confirmed his identity, and he was very excited. When Wang Yaowu was leaving, he also patted Wang Haiyang's shoulder affectionately and encouraged him, his face full of excitement that could not be concealed.
Li Ming was also relieved when he received Wang Yaowu's telegram. He knew that the battle was a complete victory. Not only did the Great Khan of the Chahar Department be captured, but the main force of the enemy was also destroyed, and the Chahar Department was currently very empty, and the first phase of the Far East plan could now add a Chahar Department.
Although the time is not yet ripe to occupy the grasslands of the Chahar Division, the Far Eastern Army can send an elite main cavalry brigade into that steppe. Enlist the support of the vast number of poor herdsmen on the steppes and establish a base there in preparation for the second phase of the Far Northeast plan.
The attacks of the various units of the Far Eastern Army were very fierce, and more than 100,000 elite cavalry of the Chahar Division. Divided and surrounded into pieces, in less than a morning, they surrendered one after another. The few cavalrymen who were lucky enough to break out of the encirclement were also stopped and annihilated by the field division's blocking troops.
At this point, the first phase of the fighting of the North Army Group was completely over. Although in the later part of the campaign, the Chahar Department that advanced westward brought some trouble to the Far East, in the end, the Chahar Department was annihilated and the mission was successfully completed.
The northbound group army not only cleared the south of the Great Khing'an Mountains. The grassland east of Yanshan also annihilated the 100,000 main cavalry of Chahar and other departments. He also captured the Great Khan of the Chahar tribe, Erke Kongol, Ezhe.
After this battle, the Chahar Ministry has existed in name only. The 12 main cavalry brigades and 10 militia brigades are ready to go, and they will take advantage of the emptiness of the Chahar Department to suddenly enter the Xilin Gol grassland in recent days and completely control the Chahar Department. This steppe will become a buffer zone for the Far East and the Mongol tribes in southern Mo, and the lesson of the Chahar raid on the Far East is too profound.
**The direction of the grassland has the Great Khing'an Mountains as a barrier. Holding a few important valleys will be able to block the Mongolian tribes in the ** steppe north of the Great Khing'an Mountains. But the terrain in the west is much more complicated, and without the huge buffer zone of the Chahar Ministry, the Far East would have a lot of troops involved. Moreover, the Far Northeast plans the second stage, when it enters the Xilin Gol grassland. It will also become a forward base for the Far East.
At present, the three corps of the Beishang Group Army are actively sweeping the grasslands and vigorously collecting the small and medium-sized tribes on the grasslands. The Far Eastern People's Committee also dispatched a large number of personnel in due course to set up a large number of camps along the banks of several major rivers, such as the Xiliao River, the Xilamulun River (Huang River), the Laoha River, the Songhua River, and the Naowen River (Nenjiang River), as well as their tributaries. In addition, a large number of pastures in the Far East around the Liaohetao and Xingkai Lake could also house a large number of prisoners and Mongolian women and children.
The cattle, sheep and horses and other trophies captured in this battle were also placed in the vicinity of these camps, which had long been in the company's planning, and the infrastructure had already been built as part of the company's plan to go north.
The Far Eastern Group Company began to actively prepare two years ago, and mobilized the masses to plant a large amount of high-quality forage grass in this area during the slack time, and also established several large-scale feed bases and stored a large number of refined feed.
In order to relocate these herds of cattle, sheep and horses, as well as the young and strong Mongolian captives, the old and weak women and children, the Far Eastern Company has invested a large number of personnel and materials, and will also invest a large number of personnel to conduct systematic winter training for these Mongolians this winter.
This is the most vast and arduous strategic task for the Far East since the advent of this era. Hundreds of thousands of Mongolians in the steppes will undergo a centralized and unified winter training this winter to receive all-round ideological education in the Far East.
Transforming these poor Mongolian herders into the Far East was a top priority of the Northward Expedition. These Mongolian herdsmen who have received winter training in the Far East will become Cossacks in the Far East in the future, opening up territories for the Far East.
But this work is definitely a severe test for Far East Corporation. Moreover, this year, the number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty has exceeded 350,000 for the first time, and if these victories are to be thoroughly digested, even the Far East, which has deep pockets, may face a dilemma of breaking its muscles and bones.
The work is even more multifaceted, requiring not only a large number of personnel, but also astronomical materials. For this reason, the company has been preparing for more than two years, hoarding a large amount of food and materials, but the Far Eastern Company still feels that it has no bottom in its heart. Although the winter training work of immigrants is very effective, it is also like a giant beast that can never get enough to eat, frantically devouring the wealth of the Far East.
The Far East has made profits in various places over the years, which can be described as a sea of gold and silver. However, every year, immigration alone costs a lot of money. Coupled with the winter training of immigrants, the implementation of the policy of immigrants guaranteeing production to households, and various infrastructure projects in eastern Liaodong, which one is not a gold-swallowing beast and a gold-selling cave.
Fortunately, the Far East has a way to make money, and there are a lot of annual inputs, and many highly profitable commodities are exported to Japan, North Korea, the Ming Dynasty, the Arab region, Southeast Asia and Europe, and also occupy Manila, which has become a distribution center for East Asian commodities, and also controls the commodity circulation channels in East Asia, and can earn countless profits every year. Without these inputs, the Far East would not have been able to sustain such a huge plan. (To be continued......)