After several months of hard work, the Northwest Field Army's garrisons, militias, and nomadic detachments in the area around Lake Balkhash finally ended their disaster relief operations.

Although the "White Plague" was very serious and large-scale, it brought considerable losses to the Far East. However, the Northwest Field Army Command organized a vigorous disaster relief operation by the main forces, militia brigades, and nomadic detachments, and the results were very good.

It not only minimizes the losses after the disaster, but more importantly, allows the Mongolian herdsmen in the northern steppes to have a stronger sense of belonging to the Far East Company. Even the captives of the Moxi tribes who participated in the winter training were greatly touched.

If the grassland had been hit by snowstorms of this magnitude in the past, the herders at the bottom would not know how to survive this winter. A large number of cattle and sheep will starve to death and freeze to death, and many old and weak women and children will not survive this long winter.

And in the spring of the following year, there will be another brutal killing on the grassland. Those tribes who could not survive because they had no food had to gather young and strong herdsmen, ride war horses, and pick up bows, arrows, and scimitars to plunder other tribes.

This is also the inherent rule of the steppe in this era, and everyone will follow the law of the jungle of survival of the fittest. If you don't rob, you can only starve to death, so in this era, nomads are very cruel, and killing men who are taller than the wheels is not for fun.

But now everything has changed, and in the face of such a serious snow disaster, the Northwest Field Army has invested a lot of materials and manpower. Relief armies composed of local garrisons, militia reserves, and nomadic detachments rushed to the disaster areas from all directions to participate in the disaster relief.

Disaster relief teams in various localities braved the severe cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius and trekked hard for several days, or even more than 10 days, on the knee-heavy grasslands before they arrived at the disaster area, and their physical strength and spirit had reached their limits. And despite his fatigue, he immediately threw himself into the disaster relief operation.

In the process of disaster relief, from Song Tao, commander of the Northwest Field Army, to ordinary soldiers of the Far Eastern Army, they climbed ice and snow in the disaster area every day, ate a bite of compressed biscuits or fried noodles when they were hungry, and found a tent to squint for a while when they were sleepy. For more than ten days in a row, I survived under extremely hard circumstances.

In such an atmosphere, whether it was the herdsmen in the disaster-stricken areas, or the officers and soldiers in various localities and the ordinary herdsmen of the nomadic detachments who participated in the disaster relief, a wave of heartfelt emotion arose in their hearts, and all of them germinated in their hearts an urge to die for the Far East.

After the disaster relief ended, the entire disaster area, which had been in full swing, became quiet. Except for the sentry posts, who took turns to stand guard, everyone else was lying on the thick felt in the tent, and a group of people huddled together. Wrapped in sheepskin, he fell asleep. During this time, everyone was exhausted, and they had already exhausted a lot of physical strength, and they were on the verge of mental collapse.

In addition to the area around Lake Balkhash controlled by the Northwest Field Army, which was hit by a severe snow disaster, the vast area in the western part of Lake Balkhash was also hit by a serious snow disaster.

Compared with the disaster relief scene in the Far East-controlled areas, the situation of the tribes of the Kazakh Khanate in the west is very miserable. A large number of cattle and sheep were frozen to death and starved to death, and a large number of low-level herdsmen had no food for wintering. And struggling on the line of death.

There will be a large number of elderly people and children in the coming spring because there is no food. and will starve to death. The Kazakh Khanate is still following the customs of the steppe, and no one will brave the bitter cold and trek hard for more than ten days on the snow-covered steppes to go to the disaster area to rescue, who cares about the life and death of the low-level herdsmen.

The Kazakh Khanate was a state created by the Kazakhs in the period 1456-1847. It was founded by the Jochi Sultans Kereh Khan and Janibek Khan. In 1456, it officially broke away from the Golden Horde and surrendered to the Mughulstan and the Chu River. When Taras migrated, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate did not spend II and Yunus setting aside Kuzibashi, a place in Mughulstan, for them to live in.

In 1465-1466 a large number of nomads broke away from Abu Khair, in which he died in battle, and his land was taken over by the Kazakh Khanate. A purely nomadic state was formed. They were officially established in 1470.

The Kazakh Khanate and the Erut Mongols in Moxi. The war lasted for two hundred years. The Kazakh Khanate was founded by the descendants of Genghis Khan's eldest son, Jochi, and the descendants of the tribes of the Western Expeditionary Army, and can be said to be the last khanate of Genghis Khan's Great Mongol Empire.

At that time, the powerful Kazakh Khanate drove the Warats as far as the Khobdo region in the northwest of Mobei Mongolia, so that the Warats basically withdrew from the Mongolian Plateau. Under the blows of the Tatars, the Warat people were divided into four tribes, namely the Dzungar tribe, the Heshute tribe, the Turghut tribe and the Dulbot tribe, which later became known as Moxi Mongolia, or Erut Mongolia, or Oirat Mongolia as the Qing people.

As a result, the Mongol tribes of Erut were also fragmented, and the tribes of Heshute Gushi Khan moved to the area of Qinghai, and the chieftains of Turghut and Orlek led their tribes, united with a part of Heshut and Dulbert, to migrate to the Ezil River, that is, the lower Volga region of Russia.

The most powerful Dzungar tribe in the Moxi steppe, the Dulbert tribe and the Huite tribe of Erut, as well as some of the Heshute and Turghut tribes, still remained in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and gradually formed a powerful power with the Dzungar tribe as the core, uniting the Erut tribes and some other Mongol Turkic tribes, that is, the Dzungar Khanate.

In 1634, ****** Hongtaiji ascended the throne of Dzungar Khanate, and he led the Dzungar Khanate to begin a counterattack, and after years of conquest, he finally defeated the Kazakhs and dominated the eastern part of Central Asia.

It also gradually recovered the vast grasslands around Lake Balkhash in the Moxi grassland. The Far Eastern Army's westward marching corps defeated the Dzungar Khan's tent with lightning speed, quickly annihilated the elite main forces of the Dzungar Division, the Dulbert Division, the Huite Division, the Heshute Division, and the Turghut Division, and swept through the Mongolian steppe in the western part of the country.

The forward units of the Western Advance Corps and the front-line nomadic detachment were in the western part of Lake Balkhash, the Irtysh River. This is because the officers and men of the unit have been fighting fiercely for two or three months, and they are all very tired. Moreover, there was still more than a month of winter at that time, so the Western Advance Corps did not want to go to war with the Kazakh Khanate at this time.

The Kazakh Khanate also gathered a large number of iron cavalry to confront the Western Advance Corps of the Far Eastern Army in the western part of Lake Balkhash and the Irtysh River. The Kazakh Khanate also hastily assembled troops and was not ready for war, so now the two sides are basically at peace. Waiting for the arrival of winter tacitly, next spring is the time for war. (To be continued.) )