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Chapter 135 Mopping up (for subscription)

The first of October.

By the Yellow River, Lotus Fort.

Two cavalry regiments are ready to go.

The crimson cloth visors made the two cavalry regiments look like two fires, constantly burning the steppe.

In the Legislative Army, not only Zhang Zongxian's disciples were fanatical believers in the Huayi debate, but the entire army was influenced by the officers, and they were all eager to seize the land under the sun.

Now they are ready to go and their morale is high, and they are fighting for their own land.

With the sound of the marching horn, under the leadership of Boren, the cavalry of the two regiments quickly rushed towards the first target tribe.

The grassland after autumn is when the water and grass are the most abundant. The children of the tribe are learning to ride horses, and the men are grazing in the distance. The cattle and sheep keep eating the tender water and grass, vowing to make themselves fat strong.

A black line suddenly appeared on the grassland in the distance, and soon the black line turned into a red wall. It was the cavalry brigade led by Boren.

The men of the tribe had sensed that something was wrong, and quickly drove the flock back to the tribe. The leader of the tribe hurriedly called the women to take the children back to the bag.

This is a small tribe of less than 500 people. They are nomadic near the side wall. They are a mixed tribe of Han and Mongolia.
The tight military formation made the leader understand that this was not a horse bandit. Facing so many cavalry, the leader of the tribe knew that he could not run away, and he did not dare to run away.He could only gather the clansmen, hoping that these cavalry would leave after receiving the tribute.

After the cavalry completely surrounded the entire tribe, the headman gritted his teeth and took out the spirits he had exchanged, and took the broken silver accumulated by the tribe, and ran to a hundred meters in front of the red flag, wanting to meet the leader of the cavalry.

Soon, a rider under the banner stepped out and rode his horse to the side of the tribal leader.

The leader did not dare to look at the cavalrymen who were approaching. He lowered his head and raised the spirits and silver high to show his submission.

The cavalrymen who came over did not go to pick up the strong drink, but pointed their sabers at the leader and said:

"We belong to the Taiping. From today on, we will have the final say on this grassland. Now let the men of your tribe gather and go with us, and the rest of them immediately pack up and go to Lotus Fort for the winter.

If the men of the tribe haven't assembled within a stick of incense, your tribe will be wiped out. "

After finishing speaking, he left the dull leader and returned to the army formation under the red flag.

The leader looked up at the murderous cavalry, unwilling to be annexed. However, there were only about a hundred men in the tribe, and they didn't even have weapons.

Thinking that there was only one stick of incense left, he hurried back to the tribe to gather the men, and brought them to the front of the battle to listen and then complain.

After all the men were gathered, Boren sent officers to screen all the men, and then selected the best horses in the tribe for the selected men to ride.

Then leave a company to escort the rest of the tribe to Lotus Fort.When they arrive at Lianhuabao, they will be registered as unified households, and all the tribe's property, whether cattle, sheep or horses and carts, will be spoils of war.

Then the rest of the people except the head were scattered and resettled to various newly-built immigrant villages, and the treatment was the same as that of the immigrants inside the side wall.At this point, it was too late for the leader to resist, and he could only let others slaughter him.

After solving the first tribe, Boren started to march towards the second tribe, which was the tribe that had already defected to Qingshuiying.In fact, it's not called refuge, it's just that they respect the cavalry of Qingshui camp and make offerings to Qingshui camp.

After the cavalry arrived at the tribe, the tribal leader walked out of the tribe to welcome the cavalry enthusiastically.

Boren ignored the leader's enthusiasm, and directly announced that the Taiping had officially taken over the grassland, and that all the men would be conscripted to join them in mopping up other tribes, and the remaining people would also move to Lotus Fort for the winter.

The man expressed that he was willing to bring people to help the Taiping in the battle, but he was unwilling to move to the Lotus Fort on the pretext that the waterwheels near the Lotus Fort were not beautiful enough to support so many animals.

Boren didn't talk nonsense with them, and directly told the headman that he only had a stick of incense time.After a stick of incense, the men of the tribe who have not seen him kneeling in front of his horse will destroy their tribe according to the rules of the grassland.

Zhang Zongxian has always taught his disciples that the Tartars are always afraid of power and not virtuous, and to make them obedient, they must be killed first.

The leader of this tribe was not reconciled to being annexed, and pretended to gather the tribe's young men.In fact, they organized manpower resistance and sent help to other tribes.

However, Boren saw all this, and it happened that he had seen too little blood in the cavalry brigade, so these small tribes were doing well in training.

After a stick of incense, the people in the tribe had already surrounded the cart, thinking that they would stick to it and wait for help, but the people they sent had already been intercepted and killed by Ye Bushou.

Boren first ordered the rocket launcher company to directly attack the opponent's cart, and after the cart was driven away, the cavalry rushed in.

After the rocket launcher was connected to the order, it quickly set up five rockets with a range of 300 meters and a charge of [-] kilograms.The company commander personally adjusted the angle of the launcher, following the sound of rockets flying through the air.

The people in the tribe saw the rockets fly in front of them. After five violent explosions, half of the able-bodied men in the tribe fell down.

At this time, Boren drew out his saber and ordered to fall:
"Rush in and kill any man taller than the wheel."

Following the gap opened by the rocket bomb, the cavalry brandished their sabers and rushed into the tribe.

In less than half an hour, the battle was over, and the entire tribe was killed, leaving only women and children, and then the cavalry brigade escorted the spoils back to Lotus Fort.

Boren didn't understand such an order at first. What he wanted was to recover these tribes and let them help them fight.

Zhang Zongxian told him that they came to seize the land, and that in the future there will only be cultivated fields in Hetao, not grasslands.There is no need for so many herders. The most important thing is to let the immigrants take root, which is the real recovery of the Loop.

Every time the Tartars on the grassland went south, they would massacre the city to shock the resistance of the Han people, and now they are repaying them in their own way.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once said, "Kou can go to me or go to me."

He also told Boren how many cities were slaughtered when Mongolia went south.This untied Boren's heart knot and strengthened Boren's belief.

On the day when the cavalry brigade began to mop up the grassland tribes, the infantry regiment also set off from Huangpu Chuanbao to Shijia Obo.

Not only infantry regiments but also organized emigrants followed.The immigrants will build settlements one by one along the road to Shijia Obo, and such settlements can also be used as military stations.

After arriving at the demarcated settlements, canvas and iron wire were used as blast-proof walls first, and the outer walls of the settlements were built, and then the construction of houses began.

The twenty settlements in the plan are exactly one in five miles, and the guardians are out of the supply line of the infantry regiment.

By the beginning of spring next year, settlements will continue to be built on the left and right along this road.until settlements fill the entire area.

The second day of October.

After mopping up two tribes yesterday, Boren will continue to mop up the remaining tribes today.The cavalry brigade should complete the cleaning of this area before the fifth day of the new year, and then go to support the infantry regiment in building a forward base.

The following tribes have a large population and strong vigilance, so direct outflanking is not realistic.

Boren wanted to lure the snake out of the hole, so that the tribal rider who surrendered yesterday would pretend to be a horse bandit to snatch their cattle and sheep.

Lead their tribal warriors into the ambush circle of the cavalry brigade, first destroy those who can fight in the tribe, and then destroy their tribe.

In this way, the cavalry brigade fought continuously, using this method to wipe out the two largest tribes here, and then forced the last remaining small tribe to surrender.

In this operation, 500 sheep, [-] cattle, and [-] horses were seized.Recruit [-] herdsmen.

fourth day of october
The infantry regiment arrived, Shijia Obo, and immediately began to build the forward base.

Open the canvas bag of the explosion-proof wall first, fill it with soil, then tie the filled canvas bag with wire, and wear the filled canvas bag to form an explosion-proof wall.

This is what Eagle Sauce did in the Middle East in the previous life.A two-meter-high fortress can be built in a day, and the Tartar cavalry will attack. This will be an insurmountable line of defense for them.

The entire advance base will be built in a rhombus shape, with a fort in the middle, and trenches dug outside the blast-proof wall.
The entire base will be built into a fortress that can accommodate [-] people and will also store food and grass for three months.

fifth day of october
The cavalry brigade rushed to the forward base and began to drive and wipe out the small tribes nearby.

On the way from Huangpu Chuanbao to the advance base, the first ten settlements have also built walls and are stepping up the construction of houses to cope with the coming winter.

In each settlement, inner disciples are arranged to direct the immigrants to carry out the construction. After the houses are built, the land will be reclaimed, and a crop of oats will be replanted before the snow falls.

eighth day of october
Zhang Zongxian, who sits in Qingshuiying, received the news that the advance base had been built, and finally felt relieved. So far, the first step of conquering Hetao has been completed.

Next, let's see what Erdos Wanhu's reaction is?

If Ordos Wanhu is now attacking with all his troops, he has no time to call other tribesmen to support him, so he can only send people from his own tribe. The first thing he will face is the advanced base heavily guarded.

If you don't come, then it will be the beginning of spring, when the grassland is green and yellow, and you can't send troops at will.Because whether it is cattle, sheep or horses that have just experienced the loss of fat in winter, they are waiting for the green grass to grow out and grow fat.

After a winter on the side of Lianhuabao, the cavalry can reach the strength of two brigades, and they are not afraid of a decisive battle with the Tartars.

If the Tartars do not come to attack, they will continue to build forward bases and settlements until they occupy the entire Hetao.

October [-]
As the disciples of the school continued to encourage immigrants to come in order to complete the task, all the [-] households in the previously planned [-] settlements were in place, and Zhang Zongxian also ordered the tribes that surrendered to be placed in each settlement.

For the women captured by the exterminated tribes, it was allocated directly to the bachelors among the immigrants.All the herdsmen who join the settlement are required to wear their hair and clothes, and those who do not comply will be beheaded.

On October 47, 21th year of Wanli, the whole of northern Shaanxi ushered in the first snow in winter.

The Tartars didn't send troops until it snowed, so everyone who had made so many preparations felt like they were hitting cotton.

However, the Tartars did not come, but the refugees did. They thought that with the income from the briquette monopoly, the imperial court would waive the extra Liao pay.

In fact, Zhang Zongxian also wrote letters to the governor of Yanshou and the prefect of Yan'an respectively, wanting to jointly propose to the imperial court to waive the additional Liao pay.

He was reprimanded by governor Yanshou for making false comments on the imperial court.Then he sent a message through Mr. Ma, saying that he should not mention this kind of thing that offended his colleagues in the world.

The common people, whose production had already been reduced due to the drought, were forced to go bankrupt in large numbers under the pressure of the government and the gentry in the face of the Liao pay being levied dozens of times.

The people around Jiazhou, who did not want to be oppressed by the tyrants, came to Jiazhou with expectations to beg for food.

The flow of people continued to gather along the way, and a refugee team of 10 people had formed in Jiazhou, and the farthest people in the team even came from Henan.

Zhang Zongxian was under unprecedented pressure. In order to deal with the influx of refugees, Zhang Zongxian launched an emergency plan.

In the name of the magistrate of Jiazhou, he ordered to immediately mobilize the young and strong trained in Qingjian County to form an infantry brigade to maintain the stability of the entire Xiazhou and prevent people from instigating refugees to rebel.

Then, in the name of the leader of the Legislative Faction, he summoned the remaining disciples in the academy to deal with the arrival of the refugees together with the mobilization brigade.

At present, the main destination of the refugees is still Qingjian County. Now Qingjian County has been blown away by people from other counties. Every family can eat meat. In winter, they wear sweaters, burn briquettes, and use transparent windows. Made of crystal, the people in the capital are not as comfortable as the people in Qingjian County.

This also led to all the refugees going to Qingjian County.

After the mobilization is completed, the mobilization brigade will be divided into three groups to deal with the refugees coming from three directions. All the refugees who entered Qingjian County will be guarded and registered by the students of the academy.Establish household registration for them, and then let them rest for a few days in the refugee camp.

After the establishment of household registration, there will be medical women to check their bodies, and after confirming that they are healthy, they will be divided. Among them, those with complete families will be directly arranged to build new villages in the newly conquered land.

Orphaned males are sent directly to juvenile camps, and females are sent to hospitals and colleges where families incompletely encourage them to re-establish families, and then to settlements outside the border wall.

In the end, the remaining young adults were organized and sent to the mines for mining.

Fortunately, the roads in California are all newly built slag roads, which can be used after snowing and cleaning, and the reduction of commercial activities in winter also freed up a lot of carriages. Zhang Zongxian issued a collection order to the horse carriage associations of various counties in the name of the government office. .

The yamen paid for the cooperation with the disciples of the college to send the refugees outside the side wall. Before sending the refugees outside the side wall, they did not tell them their real destination, but first tricked them into reclaiming wasteland in Fugu County.

When they arrived at the destination and faced the white snow on the grassland, they had no choice but to accept their fate. After all, although the living conditions were not good, after the blast-proof wall was repaired in an emergency, they dug a nest on the ground for the refugees to live in, but the food was okay.

There is miscellaneous grains and mushroom soup to drink every day, and occasionally there is some lunch meat to eat, which is better than starving to death at home, and the Taiping also gave them iron tools and allocated [-] acres of land to each household.

Although it is winter, the land here is still very fertile.There is still hope for the future life.

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