I want to be emperor

Chapter 569 Northeast Offensive
Beginning in May of the eighth year of Chengshun, the Army of the Great Chu Empire, with the third army as the main force and the second army cooperating, launched a large-scale attack on the remnants of the Dongyao people in the Northeast and the Monan Mongolian tribes who are still loyal to the Dongyao people .

The battlefield stretches from the Yalu River in the east to the western region of Monan Mongolia.

The Chu army dispatched more than 40 troops, attacking everywhere within a super-large range of thousands of kilometers!

The core battlefield is naturally the Northeast region, especially the old lair of the Dongyao people, that is, the Jianzhou area and the Haixi area.

This is the place where the Dongyao people made their fortunes. When the Dongyao people retreated from the Liaodong area on a large scale, their soldiers and civilians also mainly retreated to this area.

In this way, this place has become a key offensive area for the Chu army.

Numerous Chu armies gathered or scattered, bringing together more than 20 troops here, among which there were three cavalry armies alone, and two of the main cavalry armies, namely the first cavalry army and the third cavalry army, even broke out at the beginning of the battle. At that time, they crossed the Great Wall from Liaohai City in Anlefu, crossed all the way to the north at high speed, and quickly captured the Yidonghewei area, which is the later Changchun area, and then the First Cavalry Army moved eastward and captured Wuyewuwei. area, that is, the Jilin area in later generations.

And these two cavalry armies have a total of more than [-] cavalry and continue to intersperse eastward!
Followed up to maintain the logistics line, and at the same time stationed in various cities and towns along the way, the Ninth Infantry Army has more than [-] people.

These more than 8 troops formed a huge left uppercut, and swung it suddenly from west to east to the Dongcaptives!

Be it the captives along the way, or some messy tribes, they all turned into dust under the attack of such a huge Chu army, and there was no resistance at all.

On the frontal battlefield, more than [-] men of the Eighth Army launched a fierce attack from the Tieling line to the east, crushing all the resistance head-on. Although the progress was not fast, they also captured many towns of the Dongyao people one after another, destroying the land along the way. There are almost no Dominican settlements though.

On the southern battlefield, about [-] men from the Seventh Army headed straight for the Jianzhou Wei area from the south.

In addition to the above-mentioned troops, in Liaobei Province in the direction of the Koryo Peninsula, one first-class division and two second-class divisions were dispatched across the Yalu River to attack the hinterland of the Dongyao people.

The Third Army of the Chu Army, together with two provincial garrison headquarters, invested more than 20 troops for this battle, including nine first-class divisions, six second-class divisions, and nine cavalry divisions.

In terms of military strength, the Chu army already has a relatively large advantage. The total population of the Dongyao people on the opposite side is only 200 million.

Even if they pulled out all the men of their own clan, they would not be able to gather much force.

Even if they use the Haixi Jurchen under their control, the Han Eight Banners, some Koreans, etc., it is estimated that they will not be able to pull out 20 troops.

Even with so many troops, they can't afford it!
After the Battle of Liaodong, it can be said that the Dongcap people were directly disabled by the Great Chu Empire. Now they are short of soldiers and food, and they cannot resist the crushing fortifications of the Chu army.

Frontal resistance is impossible... and scattered attacks seem to be able to achieve certain results, and many soldiers of the Chu army have been killed and wounded after repeated ambushes, but they have no effect on the overall situation.

When the Chu army's third army went to the hinterland of the Dongyao people, they did not forget to attack the most staunch ally of the Dongyao people, the Horqin tribe of Monan Mongolia.

This tribe is too deeply involved with the Dongyao people, and they are also married to each other. During the Liaodong campaign, a considerable part of the Mongolian cavalry obtained by the Dongyao people was the cavalry of this tribe.

In addition, the relationship between this tribe and the Tumed tribe is not good. Therefore, after the Chu army regained the Tumed tribe, in a series of campaigns in Monan Mongolia, when a large number of tribes surrendered actively or passively, the Horqin tribe It is still stubborn.

For such a recalcitrant tribe, the Chu army will naturally not let it go!

The Third Army left behind a Sixth Army, advancing towards the Horqin garrison in the north, and the Fourth Cavalry Army cooperated.

The Fourth Cavalry Army was composed of cavalry recruited by the Chu Army from Duoyan Sanwei and other surrounding tribes. It was a serious Mongolian cavalry.

And these Mongolian cavalry beat the Horqin people harder than other troops of the Chu army. As for the reason?

It's very simple. The empire has promised that after the Horqin tribe is killed, its pastures will be distributed to the tribes participating in the battle. As for how to divide them, they will all be based on military merit.

The greater the credit, the more enemies you kill, the more points you will get.

In this way, the morale of these temporarily recruited tribes is extremely high, because they are fighting for the future living space.

For these nomads, ranching is everything!
Only with a pasture can we graze and survive.

The policy adopted by the Great Chu Empire for the surrendered tribes is to naturalize them, give them fixed pastures, and let them survive as fixed pastures as much as possible.

Even if they can't be in a certain town, their nomadic routes and playgrounds must be fixed.

Anyway, don't run around.

On this basis, the Great Chu Empire will set up prefectural and county administrative agencies in the Monan Mongolia region controlled by its own side, so as to thoroughly penetrate the administrative tentacles into the grasslands.

In this case, the quality and size of the fixed pasture obtained is very important.

Although the grassland is quite large, not all places are rich in water and grass. There will always be good places and poor places. How to allocate these places depends on military merit and loyalty.

Needless to say, military merit, but how does loyalty come from?
Everything else is nonsense. If you want to show your loyalty, it is best to send the young and strong cavalry directly to the Chu Army cavalry unit, like Tumote, and organize them into the Chu Army cavalry unit, and then fight for the empire.

The Tumed tribe who did this got great benefits and were directly allowed to integrate into the empire. The tribal leaders either joined the army or went to Jinling City to enjoy the blessings.

This can be an official of the Great Chu Empire, enjoy the glory and wealth, and be a master in a civilized society. Who the hell is willing to be the head of a barbarian herdsman in the wind and rain on the Gobi Desert in the grassland...

Therefore, many surrendered tribes finally chose the same policy as Tumed, actively integrated into the society of the Great Chu Empire, encouraged the young and strong warriors in the tribe to join the army, and then ordinary herdsmen accepted the arrangement of the empire to go to fixed places to set up herds .

And those tribal leaders, either served as officers or even generals in the cavalry of the Chu army, or served as deputy civil servants in Dingmufu County, and some went to the prosperous places in the Central Plains to enjoy their blessings. It's chic.

In the future, if anyone tells them that he is a Mongolian, they will give you a hurry...

And those Mongolian cavalry who were incorporated into the cavalry of the regular army of the Chu army may still have a tribe in their hearts now, and feel that they are directly from a certain tribe, but the army is a big melting pot, and no one will remember it after a few years What tribes in the past, only remember the Great Chu Empire.

There is a literacy class in the Chu army, which not only teaches the soldiers to read and write, but also instills in the soldiers the concept of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.

In terms of ideology, the Chu army has always been very strict. There are even military and political officers in the army who are responsible for ideological work.

At the same time, the treatment in the army is also very good. The full food has always been the big weapon of the Chu army. These Mongolian cavalrymen were not very superior in their tribe before, and many of them were even considered by the leaders. As for the servants, there are not many who can eat enough...

After joining the Chu army, they can have enough food every day. This alone is enough to change the attitude of most of them.

Not to mention that the Chu army still has a generous military reward system, and there are perfect retirement arrangements after retiring from the army.

In fact, these Mongolian cavalry were able to ride horses and shoot arrows since they were young, and they also brought their own horses... Only then can it be easier to join the Chu army. too easy.

In the Great Chu Empire, for the poor children at the bottom, joining the army is a very good way out, and since it is a good way out, competition is naturally indispensable.

The series of policies of the Great Chu Empire on the grasslands also attracted many tribes to voluntarily surrender...

Of course, there are still many tribes who are unwilling to submit. They either want to remain neutral, or continue to support the Dongren.

For some tribes that maintained a neutral attitude, the Great Chu Empire temporarily ignored them, as long as they were honest and honest.

And some tribes with a hostile attitude, such as the Horqin tribe, naturally fought to the death.

Beginning in May, the Chu army marched towards the Horqin Department from various directions. The Horqin Department still wanted to resist at first, and wanted to block the first attack of the Chu Army, but on May 26, the Fourth Cavalry Army of the Chu Army simply After swiftly killing tens of thousands of Horqin's main forces, some of the remnants of Horqin's troops fled northward in panic.

Judging from the direction in which they fled, it is estimated that they went to Mobei Mongolia.

Some Horqin tribesmen were finally forced to surrender!
In June of the eighth year of Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire destroyed the Horqin Tribe. A small number of Horqin Tribes fled to Mobei, and some surrendered. The governor of Liaodong Province Yamen Gen Jinling ordered that nearly [-] Horqin Tribes surrendered and moved to Liaodong. Another group of Han people and herdsmen were organized to go to the Horqin pasture for grazing.

Some remnants of Horqin can still run away, but the Dongyao people can't escape.

With the gradual attack of the main force of the Third Army, especially the surprise left uppercut formed by the First Cavalry Army and the Third Cavalry Army, it directly cut off the possibility of the large-scale retreat of the Dongbang people to the north.

On June 28, the assault force's forward successfully joined forces with the cavalry regiment of the Army's No.18 Division dispatched in the direction of Northern Liaoning Province in Huhanshui, that is, the upper reaches of the Mudanjiang River.

As a result, the Chu army made a super big dumpling for the Dongbao people!
Although in this strategic encirclement, the outer encirclement is actually very fragile, and there are actually no Chu army troops stationed in many places. After all, the place is so large, and the Chu army cannot really completely block it. It can be passed on.

Especially the cavalry, as long as they don't foolishly bump into the place where the Chu army is stationed, the Chu army can't stop them.

But with only these tens of thousands of cavalry from the Chu army here, the Dongyao people don't expect to be able to gather tens of thousands of troops and rush out swaggeringly.

The Chu army didn't care at all about the sporadic escapes and breakthroughs, and they couldn't care less. They just needed to catch the big fish, the main force of the Eastern captivity!
(End of this chapter)