Chapter 548: The Northbound Plan Opens
The Far Eastern Company's pasture in Liaohetao also experienced a heavy snowstorm last winter, but the Far Eastern Company is a local tyrant, not to mention rich material reserves, and has also made a lot of preparations before winter.
First of all, when the Far Eastern Company mobilized immigrants to farm slack, it planted all kinds of fine pasture grass in the ravines, river beaches and highways in various parts of Liaodong by means of ridge sowing and sowing. Moreover, all kinds of excellent pastures planted on both sides of the Liao River are all over the banks of the Liao River, almost connected together.
The Far East invested a lot of manpower, harvested several crops of pasture in a year, and made a perfect reserve. The grass harvested before winter is enough to meet the needs of several pastures and military horse farms in the Far East. The experts and technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry also use the mature feed matching technology of modern society to prepare a large number of high-quality feed for the cattle, sheep and horses that overwinter.
In addition, a lot of resources have been invested in the establishment of greenhouses in major pastures, so that lambs and calves have received almost no losses in the devastating snowstorm. The company also mobilized a large number of immigrants and troops to participate in the disaster relief, so that the ranch of the Far Eastern Company successfully resisted the snowstorm last winter, and the loss of cattle, sheep and horses was very small.
After entering the spring, a large amount of fine pasture and a large amount of concentrated feed prepared in the Far East are enough to support the major pastures and military horse farms in the Far East until June, when the grassland grass will be fully green, and the grassland will usher in the best season of the year.
Since the beginning of the spring, the Central Military Commission has strengthened its defense of the northern part of the Far East-controlled district on the basis of information learned from various quarters and in light of the situation of the winter grassland snow disaster. The Air Force Department's airboat detachment has intensified its reconnaissance of the north, and the Central Military Commission has also deployed heavy troops in various parts of the north to prevent the scattered tribal herdsmen of the northern grasslands from moving south to attack the grass valleys.
Although the Far Eastern Group Company knew that the big tribes in the north did not dare to go south, the small and medium-sized tribes that had experienced the heavy snowstorm, those poor herdsmen who could not survive did not care so much, and the wives and children at home were waiting for them. Who cares so much.
As expected, these days, the Mongols from the northern steppes continued to plunder southward, with as many as 1,800 people and as few as 30 or 50 people, and there was no organization at all, and they frantically rushed to the Far East to control the zhì area. Hope to plunder food and women in the rich Far East.
However, before these hard-pressed stragglers arrived at the borders of the Far East, they were discovered by the air boat detachment of the Air Department and notified the Military Commission by radio. Even the Mongol cavalry, who was lucky enough to evade the reconnaissance of the airboat detachment, was stopped head-on by the Far Eastern Army stationed in the north.
In the face of the heavy machine guns and artillery of the Far East, as well as the airships in the air, the overtime barges on the river, the barbaric massacres of the Trinity, and countless bitter herdsmen, the corpses of the Far Eastern Army were killed all over the field. Li Ming saw that the time was ripe. Immediately the order was given to Army Group North to attack.
At this point, the curtain of the Far Eastern Company's plan to go north was slowly opened, and the famous northern battle in the history of the Far Eastern Company was also launched.
Now Bagan is very depressed, because he was transferred to the Mongolian militia brigade by the group army headquarters and became a militia battalion commander, and the Mongolian cavalry of the squad he led also became a company platoon commander in the Mongolian militia battalion he managed, and these guys are not as depressed as Bagan is. One by one, they were very excited. In the past few months, they have been cleaned up by Bagan, and they finally have a way to vent. Use these two months of intensive training to plague these Mongolian militia to the death.
The main reason why Bagen came to the Mongolian militia battalion was that his battalion commander Zhao Guan was transferred to this Mongolian militia brigade as a brigade commander, and he was brought over by Zhao Guan. When he came here, Bagan couldn't look down on the 500 Mongolian militiamen in his battalion.
He really didn't want to spend time with these poor herdsmen. He would rather be a small squad leader in the Mongolian cavalry brigade and make meritorious contributions to the enemy in the first line of troops. But now that he has come here, it is estimated that there will be many fewer opportunities for meritorious service in the future.
The only thing that made him happy was that as the commander of this Mongolian militia battalion, his equipment was also upgraded. Not only did he receive a Type 28 long-barreled revolver. He was also equipped with a 40mm grenade launcher, and he fired a few shots during training, and the pieces of shotgun and dart that came out made him love this big killing weapon, and he had to wipe it several times every day.
The Mongolian militia brigade in which Bagan belonged was attached to the Central Army Corps. They left Shenyang, crossed the Liao River all the way, and had been walking on the grassland for several days. At this time, the grassland is still slightly muddy, but it does not affect the gallop of the war horse on the grassland, but it will also have some impact on the speed, and you should always pay attention when riding a horse to prevent the war horse from slipping in the process of galloping.
The Central Army Corps had a total of eight Mongolian militia brigades, scattered on the steppe and kept a distance of dozens of miles from each other, and the main cavalry units of the four brigades in front also had a nearly day's journey with them.
Above their heads are four airships of the Air Force, providing them with support such as reconnaissance and early warning, communication relay, and battlefield command. In a large area south of the West Liao River, there are no tribes anymore. The last time the Far East went north to suppress bandits, the tribes here either migrated or were driven south of the Liao River by the Far East.
At that time, the tribes of Horqin's left wing were also frightened by the strong military situation in the Far East and fled to the north bank of the West Liao River. The Horqin Department arranged tens of thousands of iron cavalry there, for fear that the Far Eastern Army would kill all the way across the West Liao River, although in the end the Far Eastern Army did not attack Horqin, but the Horqin tribes that crossed the river did not return to the south bank of the West Liao River.
Bagen said hello to a company commander on duty in the militia battalion and asked him to manage the whole battalion, and then he rode to the brigade headquarters and walked side by side with the brigade commander Zhao Guan.
Zhao Guan turned his head and glanced at Ba Gen, who was full of reluctance, and laughed secretly in his heart, this guy has been making trouble for the past few days, but Zhao Guan didn't ignore him, in fact, he also has a feeling, but who dares to disobey the order of the group army headquarters, no matter how affectionate you are in wartime, you have to reserve your opinion. Bagen used his hand, so he transferred him to his subordinates and became the commander of the militia battalion.
"Lao Ba, don't always look like an angry little daughter-in-law, Lao Tzu is still holding his breath, if you pull my old face again, I will clean you up."
When Bagan heard this, he quickly changed his smiling face, and his smile was so sweet.
"Hey...... Battalion commander, ah no...... Brigade commander, you said that if we follow the ass of the main forces, there will be no chance of meritorious service. You don't know those bastards, they rush like crazy people, and they all fucking don't want to die, and when we go up, maybe we won't even be able to drink the soup. ”
It's okay if he doesn't say it, but Zhao Guan was also angry when he heard it.
"You are a soldier, and it is your duty to obey orders. Where did you get so many whining, fuck off...... Don't hang around me......" (To be continued......)
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