The airship that Song Tao was riding slowly landed at the headquarters of the Beishang Corps on the south bank of Lake Baikal. Wang Yaowu and Qiang Quansheng and other main leaders of the two corps were all waiting here to welcome the arrival of Song Tao and his party.

Everyone came to the headquarters of the Beishang Corps, and Wang Yaowu and Qiang Quansheng respectively reported to Song Tao the progress of the troops during this time.

"At present, the offensive of the Northwest Field Army in all directions is relatively smooth, and basically every battle is sure to be won. Moreover, the morale of the troops was also very strong, and many Mongolian militia brigades even rushed to the front of the main cavalry division, almost letting the situation on the battlefield get out of control. Hehe...... These guys have gone crazy, it's just ...... It's just that in the course of the battle, the strength of the troops is somewhat greater. ”

After listening to Wang Yaowu's words, everyone laughed silently.

Song Tao nodded and said, "Let them go crazy, and then we will continue to develop westward, and let these things scourge the white skins of Europe." ”

When he said this, he turned his head and said with a smile: "The Eastern Corps has traveled nearly a thousand kilometers this time, and I have worked hard for you. In the next few days, the troops will have a good rest, and in a few days the troops will continue to the north and control the entire Baikal region. It is estimated that in a few years, Maozi's Cossacks should also come to Irkutsk. ”

Qiang Quansheng said with a smile: "Please rest assured, commander, all the commanders and fighters of the Eastern Corps have a very strong desire to fight. Since the start of the war, there has been no major battle, and everyone is holding back their energy. We came quickly enough, but the Northbound Corps had finished the battle, and we had nothing to do.

I think Maozi must have come, although Irkutsk was founded in 1652, but the Angarsk stronghold not far from Irkutsk was established in 1647, but now in the northwestern part of Lake Baikal, there will definitely be Cossacks. Commander, I propose to let our Eastern Corps go to the north-western part of Lake Baikal. Search along the banks of the Angara River and you will definitely find the Cossacks of Maozi. ”

Shang Ming next to him shook his head and said: "I'm afraid not now, the troops have basically annihilated the Buryat departments now, and they are about to carry out a large-scale sweep in the Baikal region." Most of the environment here is densely forested, and the theater command is still counting on the indigenous troops of the Outer Northeast of the Eastern Corps. Can the Mongols still be asked to go into the mountains and sweep away? Don't worry, Maozi can't run. There will be you fighting in the future. ”

Song Tao also smiled and said: "At present, the task of the theater command is relatively heavy, and we must completely solve the area around Lake Baikal before winter." The main purpose of allowing your Eastern Corps to participate in this campaign is to use the mountain combat capabilities of the natives of the Outer Northeast. Now even if there are Maozi Cossacks near Irkutsk, at most they are small expeditions of a few hundred people, and there is no need for large troops at all. ”

Next, Song Tao, Wang Yaowu, Qiang Quansheng and others continued to study and deploy the next battle plan. While they were studying, they saw a communications staff officer come over and hand a telegram to Song Tao.

Song Tao took the telegram with a frown and just glanced at it a few times. He laughed.

"We were thinking about them just now, but we didn't expect these old hairy people to really send them to the door."

After he finished speaking, he handed the telegram to Wang Yaowu, Qiang Quansheng and others, and everyone laughed when they saw it.

It turned out that the airboat units, which were patrolling the area near Lake Baikal, found several Cossack strongholds near the Angara River. There are quite a few people, more than 500 people. The Cossacks established several strongholds on the banks of the river were also not small in size and possessed a certain defensive capability.

Qiang Quansheng smiled and said, "These guys can't stay, just I'll send a mountain battalion over." They can be destroyed in minutes. ”

Wang Yaowu said with a smile: "Just a few hundred Cossacks, it's not worth sending people." Wouldn't it be more enjoyable to let the airship troops come over and give them a barbecue dinner. ”

Everyone is very excited, anyway, only the dead hair is a good hair, and several people's suggestions are to destroy it at one time. When everyone mentions Cossacks, the first thing that comes to mind is. Thousands of compatriots who died in Hailanpao and Jiangdong 64 Tun that year.

The Cossacks were a nomadic group living in the steppes of Eastern Europe. Beginning in the 13th century, some Slavs fled the rule of the Kipchak Khanate in the Mongol Empire to southern Russia, including the Don Valley, the lower Dnieper River, and the Volga River basin.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, some Russian and Ukrainian peasants who did not want to become serfs migrated to southern Russia after the overthrow of the Kipchak Khanate. These people were called "Cossacks", that is, "free people" in Turkic.

The Cossacks were not an independent people. However, it has distinct national characteristics and national personality. The Cossacks were not a formal army, but they had a much stronger fighting capacity than the regular army. The Cossacks were not a country, but they were engaged in a frenzied territorial expansion to expand the territory of the country.

A history of the Cossacks is a history of war. In its five or six hundred years of history, there has been almost no interruption in warfare. In the 368 years from 1552, when he took part in the capture of Kazan by Ivan IV, to 1920, when he was disbanded as a military organization, he participated in twenty-four large-scale war campaigns alone.

For example, the Russian-Swedish Northern War, the Azov Expedition, the Crimean Expedition, the Persian Expedition launched by Peter the Great, two Russo-Polish wars, six Russo-Turkish wars, and in the first 20 years of the 20th century alone, it participated in three wars, namely the Russo-Japanese War, the First World War and the Civil War.

In the 30s and 40s of the 17th century, Russia invaded the Baikal region from the west and the north, centered on Yeniseisk and Yakutsk, respectively. And the Cossacks became the vanguard of their development of Siberia.

Song Tao shook his head, and then said with a smile: "Just destroy them like this, that's really cheap for these old hairies." My idea is this, Lao Qiang, you send mountain troops disguised as Orions, and touch their strongholds in the middle of the night, it is better not to kill them all, let some Cossacks go back, and never use firearms. ”

Wang Yaowu next to him smiled when he heard this: "Commander, your trick is ruthless enough." With the personality of the Cossacks, those guys will definitely come back for revenge, and then there will be more Cossacks who will come here. ”

Qiang Quan Sheng also added: "That's really the case, we wiped out these hundreds of people at once, and then scared those old Maozi away, then where will we fight Maozi in the future." At least we can't let them know what we're really capable of, and let these guys keep coming here. Historically, in order to occupy the Baikal region, Maozi fought with the Buryats for more than 20 years before he could be regarded as gaining a foothold here. (To be continued.) )