Chapter 587: Mongolian Migrant Camp
After the first phase of the campaign was over, the Mongol militia brigades were also disbanded and returned to their respective nomadic squadrons. However, there were still many Mongolian herders who were excellent in this battle, and they were selected by the company.
They will receive half a month of intensive training, and then go to various Mongolian immigration camps to act as the squad leader of each squadron, assisting each squadron leader and squadron instructor in managing the Mongolian immigrants of each squadron.
Mongolian herders in the steppes south of the Great Khing'an Mountains will receive several months of training and ideological education from the company, and then they will be assigned to various pastures in the Far East. In the future, they will be the main force of the Far Northeast plan, forming a huge nomadic army, crossing the Great Khing'an Mountains and Yanshan Mountains, and entering the vast steppes of southern Mongolia. Under the leadership of the Far Eastern Army, they swept through the tribes there.
In the future, the Far East will not have so many resources and energy to conduct such large-scale winter training for Mongolian herders in the rest of the region. Therefore, these Mongolian herdsmen are the spark that the Far East will put on the northern steppes in the future, and they will fan the flames on the steppe...... Ah no, it is to unite the vast number of poor herdsmen and fight against the noble Nayan of the grassland.
Therefore, the Far East spared no effort in the winter training of this group of Mongolian herdsmen, even if it consumed a lot of resources. This is related to the success or failure of the Far Eastern Company's plan to go north in the future.
Bagan, who had always wanted to meet the original troops, did not get his wish this time. He was taken by Zhao Guan to a Mongolian migrant camp and served as the deputy captain of the migrant camp, cooperating with the team leader to manage the detachment of 1,000 Mongolian herdsmen.
For this appointment, the frustration in Bagan's heart was swept away. Let him take care of a thousand people, that's already a small tribe on the steppe. Although he is a deputy, Bagen knows that the specific management work should still be based on him, after all, the captain and the instructor of the brigade do not know Mongolian, and the leader of the brigade must grasp the overall work. The specific work of communicating up and down, uploading and issuing these tasks, still has to rely on him, a Mongolian.
What makes him most comfortable is that the detachment leader is Zhao Guan, and the top boss is an acquaintance, and only when the work is done well can people see it. After all, leaders pay attention to familiar subordinates first, and put in much less effort than others.
However, after Bagen came to the Mongolian immigration camp, he learned that this deputy captain was not so easy to be a captain. A thousand Mongolian young men are relatively honest. But the company's task for the migrant camps is also very difficult.
In normal times, not only do they train, but also make all the Mongolian herdsmen in the brigade proficient in Chinese before the winter of this year, at least to be able to understand and communicate with the Han people in a simple way. In addition, there are tasks such as basic queue training, proficient memorization and understanding of the rules and regulations of the camp.
These are really not a big deal if they are put on the Han people, but the men on the grassland have been grazing on the grassland, the environment is relatively closed, and they can be said to be ignorant of the outside world, so you let them ride horses to graze. Maybe they will be born from birth, but if a large group of Mongolian men learn the rules of the Far East and become proficient in Chinese, they will have to learn basic queue training, and it will be better to kill them.
The squadron leaders and squadron instructors of each squadron are all ordinary militiamen of the musket militia company, and they were all the squad leaders of the Ming immigrant squadron, but they had only received two months of training before coming. The work experience at the grassroots level is not abundant. The squad leaders of the Mongolian militia were even more unbearable, and they could only speak with whips every day. As a result, the work of the brigade is progressing extremely slowly.
Of course, this is not an isolated situation, as it is common to all Mongolian migrant camps. After all, the number of Mongolian immigrants this time is too large, and the experienced musket militia can be sent to the camp of the Ming immigrants, and the camp of the Ming immigrants is guaranteed first.
This is a bitter thing for Bagan. He is busy from morning to night every day, but most of the time he is blindly busy, and it has no effect at all. He can be regarded as a militia battalion commander for a few days, but the situation on the battlefield is completely different from the present, and there are all kinds of broken things. He can't use his strength.
In the eyes of the company's people, Mongolian immigrants are a one-shot deal, and they will go to the northern steppes to graze in the future, and there are not too many requirements for them. The immigrants of the Ming Dynasty are different, and they will be the key training objects of the Far East in the future, and that is the real immigration force of the Far East.
This attitude also led to the lack of management capacity in Mongolian migrant camps, which made the work lag behind. It was not until a month later, when the company carried out a large-scale mobilization, with the support of a large number of forces from the Military and Civil Councils, that the situation was alleviated.
Bagan's brigade was also stationed in a working group with several staff members from various departments of the Far Eastern Military Council and the Civil Council. These newly transferred personnel are the first batch of backbones trained in the Far East, who have been working for the Far East for a long time and have rich work experience.
Soon after the working group arrived, it drew up a work plan and conducted a pilot project in one squadron, and brought in all the cadres and backbone cadres of other squadrons to observe and observe, and in a short period of half a month, the work of each squadron of the brigade made progress.
This also gave Bargan a great shock, so he collapsed and followed the work group every day to learn. Although his brain is not good, this thing really made him learn something, and it just so happened that he also had a place to practice, and it was really like that in a few months.
The transformation of hundreds of thousands of Mongolian herdsmen is definitely not an easy task, but fortunately, there is still plenty of time in the Far East, and the second phase of the campaign planned to go north is tentatively scheduled for the spring of the following year, and there is still more than a year to do work in the Far East.
After more than a month of effective work, the work in the various Mongolian camps is finally on the right track. These Mongolian herders now not only train and learn, but also have a heavy daily workload, herding, horse training, planting and harvesting forage, as well as a large number of manpower in forage processing plants and feed bases. In addition, there are a large number of projects in the Far East that need their involvement.
This winter they will carry out harsh winter training, followed by a full range of ideological education work, if the Mongolian herdsmen do not understand Chinese, it is not to play the piano to the cow, so the company requires that the Mongolian herdsmen must be proficient in Chinese before the winter, which is not a simple matter.
But under the whip of those Mongolian dogs, and if they can't complete the task, they won't have anything to eat, which also puts a lot of pressure on these herdsmen. The Mongolian squad leaders of the squadrons in the camp also threatened them with the idea that if they could not learn Chinese before the winter, they would be driven out and let the Mongolian herdsmen who could not speak Chinese go to the steppe for the winter.
They study hard every day, for fear of being driven out, and winter is about to fall, and if they are driven away at this time, they can only die on the grassland. A few months later, before the first snowfall, all the Mongolian herders had a basic grasp of Chinese, at least able to understand it. (To be continued......)