Li Ming was in the Luliangshan base area at that time, and it was also because he had endured the hardships of not having any talented people and industrial workers in all walks of life that he made this request to the Central Military Commission. After all, he knew that the engineer regiment directly under him was the lifeblood of the Military Commission.

Fortunately, Gao Jianguo and others have always spared no effort to support Li Ming, and although they were distressed, they still transferred the directly subordinate engineer regiment to the Beishang Group Army. We should vigorously strengthen the infrastructure construction of the Hetao base areas in the future, and strive to do a good job in the Hetao base areas in the shortest possible time.

In order to strengthen the company's ties with the Hetao base area, the company's infrastructure construction department mobilized a large number of foreign laborers, and since this spring, they have been going to the Keshiketeng Department to build an easy road from the Keshiketeng Department to the Naturalization City.

The original plan of this road was to build to Bayannur, but the Heihe River outside the naturalized city was very ideal in this era, and the inland steam deck barge could directly sail into the Yellow River and reach Baotou and Bayannur smoothly, which saved nearly half of the construction section, which greatly shortened the construction period of this simple road.

In the future, the company's supplies to support the Hetao base area will be transported by ship to the Keshiketeng Department, and then sent all the way to Guihua City through this simple road, and then transported along the Heihe River by inland steam deck barge to Baotou and Bayannur.

The construction requirements for this improvised road are also very simple, as the entire road is almost flat in all sections, with few major rivers and harsh areas. Therefore, the construction speed of this highway is much faster than that of Liaodong.

The strategic position of the Hetao area is extremely important, and in the future, the company will build a 764 mm narrow-gauge railway next to this road to connect Liaodong with the Hetao area. After all, the Hetao area is the most important forward base for the company's northward and westward expansion campaigns in the past few years. Even in the future, the company will move to the Central Plains, and the Hetao base will also play an extremely important role.

Now the construction of this road has also begun in the city of Naturalization, and the Far Eastern Army has driven out a large number of prisoners. The section of Guihua City and Ulanqab is densely packed with captives and young people from the Mongol tribes in southern China, working for more than ten hours a day, and busy at the construction sites of various sections of the road day and night.

After the various units of the northbound group army, with the assistance of a large number of airship troops, the sweep lasted nearly a month. Except for a very small number of Mongolian tribal cavalry that fled to the northwest, the elite of the Mongol tribes in the entire steppe have been basically annihilated.

At this point, the second phase of the northbound plan came to an end.

At present, the entire Monan steppe is full of nomadic detachments at the grassroots level in the Far East, and even some nomadic squadrons have advanced to the Khalkha Mongolian tribes in Mobei and the peripheral areas of Turpan in the west.

The grassroots nomadic detachments in the Far East are also planting all kinds of fine pasture grasses in the steppe in the form of dissemination. It is desirable to harvest enough overwintering forage in the fall. They will be nomadic in the summer in the land with abundant water and grass, raising the cattle, sheep and horses to be fat and strong. Survive their first winter in the Monan grassland. For the Han Chinese, it is called uprooting, but for the Mongolian herders of the steppe, it is their way of life for thousands of years.

In the future, the Hetao base area will focus on agriculture and animal husbandry, and while developing the agricultural resources of the Hetao Plain, it will also develop animal husbandry on a large scale in the Hetao Plain. Different from the way of nomadic pastoralism in the grassland, it adopts the method of resident grazing and develops large-scale livestock breeding.

Throughout Chinese history, there has been a confrontation between the nomadic peoples in the north and the Central Plains regimes in the south. It's throughout. The Xiongnu were crippled, and there were also Turks; The Turks were defeated. There is also Xianbei Wuhuan; Xianbei Wuhuan died, and came to Khitan again; The Khitan disappeared and was succeeded by its own Jurchens; The Jurchens haven't robbed enough, and the Mongols have killed again.

Just like a tower defense game, a dozen is a thousand years, and the price of loss for nomads is defeat and extinction. It is the new nation that replaces; The price of the loss of the agrarian peoples of the Central Plains was to be taken captive, destroyed, and enslaved.

The tenacious Chinese people have always refused to be integrated, and although they occasionally went south to chase the Central Plains several times, they have never been exterminated. For thousands of years, the main ethnic group on this land is still the descendants of the Chinese nation who are farming peoples.

The dynasties of the Central Plains also thought of many ways. Such as building walls and cities, connecting beacons, relocating people to the border, interacting with each other, controlling the Hetao, occupying the Hexi Corridor, making peace and proximity, dividing and moving inward, directly or indirectly occupying the Monan region, introducing religion, and guarding the gate of the country, etc., although many methods were effective, they all rose and fell with the rise and fall of the Central Plains Dynasty, and finally collapsed.

Now that the Far Eastern Company has come to this era, it is determined to completely solve the nomads of the north. And, of course, there is the greedy polar bear, which is about to implement the eastward expansion policy and stretch out the bear's claws to the east.

In 1638, Russia invaded the Baikal region from the west and from the north with Yeniseisk and Yakutsk as the center. In 1643, the Cossack Boyarko did not take the Aldan River-Uchul River-New York Mka River, crossed the Trans-Khingan Mountains, and entered the Jingqili River, where the Oroqen people lived. Khabarov started on the Oreokma River and followed its tributary, the Tugil River, to the Heilongjiang River.

In the next few years, as soon as the Far East settled the Khalkha Four, the Yarkand Khanate, the Dzungar Khanate, and the Khanate of the Hoshute Khanate in the north, it would launch an offensive against Tsarist Russia. The main force is the gradually growing Mongolian army and the Outer Northeast Indigenous Army, an expeditionary force composed of these two huge legions, sweeping through the Kazakh steppe, and countless Mongolian and Outer Northeast indigenous iron cavalry will fight all the way to Europe.

The second phase of the northward plan captured a large number of captives and old and weak women and children from various tribes in southern Mongolia. At present, they are carefully registering and screening, and some poor ordinary herdsmen in the steppe have been reorganized into nomadic squadrons, which are scattered and placed in various grassroots nomadic detachments in the Far East.

The elite cavalry of those tribes were driven to the various construction sections of the road from Guihua City to Ulanqab to do hard work to repair the road. But if they are unruly, they will suffer for several months.

Do more than ten hours of hard labor on the construction site every day, two meals of gruel without starvation, and if you can't complete the tasks set every day, you will be severely punished, and you will toss them for a while. After they gradually became honest, they were given winter training by the Mongol Legion, and then they were resettled.

In the future, the captured Mongols on the steppe will be trained by the Mongol legion. However, the Central Military Commission still dispatched political work cadres to carry out political and ideological education for them.

In the future, the Northwest Field Army, which will be formed by the Military Commission with Han Chinese soldiers, will be an all-staff cavalry force. Of course, it is not the Ranger unit of the Mongolian Legion Agriculture, let alone the assault cavalry of the Outer Northeast Indigenous Legion Agriculture.

Rather, it was a field force similar to the dragoons, mainly mounted infantry. The whole army practiced an all-mule-horse marching method, cooperated with the Mongol regiment, which took guerrilla warfare as its main combat mode, and provided them with strong fire support. (To be continued.) )

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