Xilin Gol grassland is one of the birthplaces of the Mongolian people, and it is also the place where Genghis Khan and his descendants went to the Central Plains and conquered the world. Xilin Gol is a Mongolian word meaning river in the hilly area. It is located in the north of the Daming Jingshi, bordering the Mongolian departments of Mobei in the north, Chifeng, Tongliao and Xing'an League in the east, Ulanqab in the west, and Chengde and Zhangjiakou in the south, with a total area of more than 200,000 square kilometers.

In this era, the Xilin Gol prairie did not have the gradual desertification of the grassland in modern society, with abundant water and grass, rivers and lakes. Most of the rivers are inland, mainly including the Ulagai River, the Barragan River, the Xilin Gol River, and the Gogostai River. There are more than 1,000 large and small lakes, embedded in the vast grassland, with a total water storage of 3.5 billion cubic meters, including more than 600 freshwater lakes, and the water storage is also extremely rich.

At present, in addition to the two main cavalry divisions of the Mongolian Corps and several Mongolian militia divisions, the Western Military District Command also has a reinforced regiment of the field division and a number of combat and logistical support units. It is also equipped with an independent squadron of airships, equipped with eight Type 35 airships, and also has a small improvised airship take-off and landing site, as well as a ground maintenance base.

The grassroots herders in the Far East, scattered across the Xilingol steppe, have a tight organizational structure. Now the steppe is full of Far Eastern Mongolian militiamen wearing Penny hats, khaki denim clothing, and cowhide belts around their waists.

The weapons of the basic militia were steel plate bows, triangular steel arrowheads, imitation 65-style sabers, and thin iron wooden round shields, and were also equipped with standard harnesses, lassoes, wooden water bottles, canvas backpacks, and other equipment. Even ordinary herders wear Far Eastern khaki denim suits.

Each squadron is equipped with a number of modular yurts mass-produced with modern equipment, which are not only extremely easy to assemble and disassemble, but also durable and extremely warm to withstand the extreme cold of the steppe winter.

It is also equipped with two-wheeled and four-wheeled horse-drawn carriages mass-produced by modern equipment from the Far East. It adopts a wooden body, stamped steel plate fasteners, leaf springs, bearings, and wood-clad iron-clad wheels. Not only does it improve mobility, but it also allows you to change to a sled in the winter, and you can walk freely on snowy fields and frozen rivers in winter.

The body of the standard carriage was easy to disassemble, and it was within an hour for several herders. It can be disassembled or assembled. Two damaged carriages, if the damaged modular components are different, can be reassembled from the components of the two carriages.

Each herdsman brigade is also equipped with a large number of simple greenhouses with scientific modular design. The modular wooden structure is used as the skeleton of the greenhouse, and the key parts are reinforced with steel bars and stamped steel plates, which adopts scientific optimization design to resist winter blizzards to the greatest extent. The greenhouse is covered with plastic film, and a large number of felts can be enclosed in the extremely cold special disaster weather, and a fire can also be placed in the greenhouse.

Once the grasslands suffered a severe white plague. Each herdsman detachment will concentrate the cattle and sheep of each squadron into the detachment before the arrival of the White Plague, and concentrate on assembling a large number of simple greenhouses. In two days, dozens of herders were able to build a simple greenhouse 100 meters long and 15 meters wide. The losses caused by natural disasters can be minimized to the greatest extent.

One of the biggest advantages of these greenhouses is that they are all made of modular block standard components, which have been scientifically optimized and designed. After the greenhouse is dismantled, the area occupied by centralized storage is very small. Each outcasts detachment was equipped with a squadron of baggage. Only a few horse-drawn carriages are needed to load the necessary components for ten simple greenhouses.

After several years of efforts, the company's agriculture and forestry department has vigorously promoted the planting of forage grass in all parts of eastern Liaoning, and has achieved great success. The selection is good grass quality, high yield, can be harvested in multiple seasons, strong vitality, high nutritional value to livestock and improve the meat quality of livestock.

And the establishment of a large number of forage processing centers, the use of a variety of equipment, the use of modern production methods for forage processing. Large quantities of hay, silage or semi-dry hay are stored.

Today, the nomadic squadrons in the Far East are also choosing wide and flat areas with fertile soil and good drainage in their respective pastoral areas, and they are spreading grass on a large scale in the grasslands. The excellent forage of modern society has strong regenerative power. It can be harvested several times a year and is rich in various trace elements and vitamins.

Now each nomadic detachment in the Far East is equipped with a small forage processing point. Due to the lack of electricity supply, it is impossible to use all kinds of modern production equipment, so it can only use manual production methods to produce and process forage grass manually. Every year, a large amount of fine grass is mowed for simple processing and storage.

In the grasslands, the pastoral areas can only use primitive manual methods, although the efficiency is low, the labor intensity is high, and the quality of the forage produced is also poor. But compared to the traditional nomads of this era, it is definitely not the same.

Before the onset of winter, each nomadic detachment will mow alfalfa, red bean grass, red clover, arrowhead pea, oats, Sudan grass, rye grass, and mango wheat and other fine forage grasses, and then process them into hay, silage grass or semi-dry grass by hand.

Hay is dried in situ or on higher ground by the sun to reduce the moisture content to the standard moisture content, and then stacked or baled for storage. The nutritional value of fresh and tender forage grass after artificial drying can be higher than that of concentrate, and it is an excellent protein and vitamin supplementary feed for all kinds of livestock.

Silage grass is to crush the mowed grass, and then flatten, compact, seal it in the silage trench, and let it ferment naturally for about a month before feeding. Silage has less nutrient loss, higher digestibility, contains a lot of water, and has the function of juicy feed.

Semi-dry silage grass, also known as low-moisture silage grass, is made by silage when the silage raw materials are pre-dried and evaporated to reduce the moisture to 50%. The fermentation process of semi-dry silage is slow, generally in the cellar for two months before it can be used, the color is darker, the dry matter is more, the nutrient loss is less, the sugar residue is more, one kilogram of semi-dry silage contains 40 grams of digestible crude protein, 50~60 grams of sugar, 20-40 mg of carotene, these indicators are about twice as high as the silage of the same variety, the organic acid is reduced, the PH value is increased, and the palatability is good.

Due to the use of modern manual production methods, the forage grass is scientifically processed and stored. The cattle, sheep and horses in various pastoral areas of the Far East have basically put an end to the phenomenon of "summer fullness, autumn fat, winter thinness, and spring death", and even in the winter when the white plague is encountered, the cattle and sheep in each pastoral area can have enough overwintering pasture.

Since the cultivation of fine pasture grass has been popularized in various nomadic areas of the Far East, the survival rate of cattle and sheep in the pastoral areas of the grasslands controlled by the Far East has increased by more than ten times compared with the past, and the average weight of cattle and sheep slaughtered has increased greatly.

In the future, the Agriculture and Forestry Department of the Far East Company will not only gradually get rid of the traditional model of "living in pursuit of water and grass" in various pastoral areas, but will also promote various excellent cattle and sheep breeds, so that all pastoral areas in the Far East will present a spectacular scene of "wind blowing grass and seeing cattle and sheep". (To be continued.) )

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