Sweep away all the Mongol tribes south of the Great Khing'an Mountains and west of Yanshan, and use two years to digest the area, transform the vast number of poor herdsmen, and prepare for the second phase of the northward plan.

This is the main work of the Far Eastern Company in the next two years. In order to implement the plan to go north, the Far East has trained a large number of political workers and grassroots management cadres in recent years. After the winter training of Mongolian herdsmen last year, the company's propaganda and education department and the political department of the military commission organized forces to select a group of seedlings from them and trained them intensively for several months.

This time, they were all sent to the camp to serve as the grassroots squad leaders of each squadron, and the qualified ones served as deputy squadron leaders and deputy instructors to assist in the management of these poor Mongolian herdsmen. The establishment of each camp is the same as that of the immigration camp, and the most basic unit is the squadron, which has a strength of 100 people and is divided into five squads.

Then there was a brigade of 1,000 people, a detachment of 5,000 people, divided into a men's battalion and a women's battalion, and a children's battalion. While they were trained in the Far East, they were responsible for taking care of the cattle and sheep in the pastures near the camp.

After a large number of Mongolian herders entered the camp, it was an extremely difficult task to clean up and change clothes. Moreover, the following work such as basic training, learning Chinese, literacy, and ideological education is simply a myriad of things, and the workload can be imagined.

Fortunately, the Far East has been preparing for two years, and a lot of work has been done on the training of personnel and the storage of materials.

Although the Far East has received a large number of immigrants in recent years, it has accumulated a wealth of experience. But in the face of so many Mongol young captives, old and weak women and children, the initial work was chaotic. Various situations are also endless, and it took more than a month of stumbling to slowly calm down.

The Mongols who came here had always been nervous, and since the tribe was conquered by the Far East, they had been worried about whether the Far East would kill men above the wheels according to the rules of the steppe. What they didn't expect was. After coming here, I was able to get two tortillas for three meals a day, and everyone was given new clothes and bedding.

Therefore, these Mongolian young captives and old and weak women and children also calmed down, and after a month of basic queue training, although they were still in a mess, they also learned the rules. It's not okay to be unruly. The officers and soldiers of the Mongolian cavalry brigade who were responsible for training them were each given a whip, and as long as someone did something wrong, a whip was indispensable, and it was called a cruel whip.

The old and weak women and children in the camp are responsible for laundry and cooking in the camp every day, and they are also responsible for taking care of the cattle and sheep, but they work hard. In addition to the noble Nayan on the grassland, there are no people who are idle every day. Including the elderly and half-grown children, every day is busy getting up early and greedy for darkness.

Even so, they still don't have enough to eat every day. The ordinary herdsmen on the steppe are too poor, and last winter they suffered a white plague, and many old people and children starved to death. When they saw the strength of the Far East, their hearts were much more steady, they just regarded the Far East as a tribe, and they were plundered by the Far East. After that, it will be the tribes of the Far East.

The airship that Li Ming was riding slowly landed at the Shenyang Airport, and Gao Jianguo, Wang He and others had been waiting for a long time. Li Ming stepped off the airship and shook hands and hugged Gao Jianguo and others. The atmosphere was very warm. They came to the Military Commission, where several managing directors sat together to summarize the campaign.

Gao Jianguo said with a smile: "This battle was fought very well, not only achieved our strategic purpose, but also took me to clean up the Chahar Department." It is said that even their Great Khan was captured alive. ”

Li Ming nodded and said, "Erke Kongguo Erzhe escaped from our encirclement and was stopped by the 1st Brigade of the Field Division. Now on the way to escort. In the final stage of this campaign, it was attacked by the Chahar Division, and more than half of the two Mongolian militia brigades were lost, and other units were also damaged. Bear the main responsibility. ”

Gao Jianguo glared and said in a deep voice: "The battle plan for the first phase of the northbound plan was jointly formulated by the Military Commission, can you bear it?" If you say so, I should be responsible. We didn't expect the Chahar Ministry to get involved, which shows that we are not vigilant enough, and we lack the overall picture when making plans. ”

Wang He said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry to take responsibility, everyone knows how this battle went, and the whole process of the battle is obvious to all." It is normal for accidents to occur on the battlefield, and it is a force majeure factor, so this responsibility should not be mentioned again. ”

Gao Jianguo also smiled and said, "That's right! We only need to draw a lesson from this, and in the future, we must have a view of the overall situation when drawing up operational plans, because the situation in the grasslands is very complicated, and we must sum up the lessons and lessons of this time in future battles. ”

Li Ming smiled bitterly: "There are still many lessons to be learned!" The ground reconnaissance detachments of various units are still too weak, and once the weather changes, the combat effectiveness of the ground forces will suddenly be weakened considerably. We must strengthen airships, but we must also strengthen the ground reconnaissance forces of various units. Chahar's scouts and rangers are very distinctive, they can make full use of the terrain of the steppe to infiltrate us.

Without the airship's aerial alert reconnaissance, we might not even be able to find the enemy's traces. After all, the steppe is the home of the Mongols, and they are familiar with the terrain, they can easily get rid of our army, play hide and seek with us on the steppe, and once they find an opportunity, they will pounce on them from all directions, come and go like the wind, and they will not be entangled with us at all, and it is very difficult to deal with. ”

Airships played a decisive role in this campaign, without the airship detachment, in the vast steppe, it would be impossible for three legions to annihilate the enemy, and I hope that in the second phase of the campaign, more airships will enter service.

When he said this, he took a sip of water, and then continued: "There is also the lack of troops, all the main cavalry brigades combined, there are only more than 30,000 people, and the grassland is too big, and throwing 35,000 into it is no different from sprinkling sand into the sea." That's why when we deploy for battle, we're often overstretched! Several of these battles were won relatively narrowly. ”

Li Ming put the problems exposed by this campaign on the table one by one, and had a heated discussion with the managing directors. He spoke for an hour before he finished speaking.

Gao Jianguo frowned and said: "After all, this battle is the largest battle since the establishment of the Military Commission, and it is normal for problems to occur." We should be glad that the problems came so early, and that they were solved one by one. If these problems appear in the second phase of the campaign, it will be hilarious. By the way, what did that kid Song Tao do, didn't he come back with you? (To be continued......)

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