Beginning in May of the eighth year of Chengshun, the Army of the Dachu Empire, with the Third Army as the main force and the Second Army cooperating, launched a massive attack on the remnants of the Eastern captives in the northeast and the Monan Mongolian tribes who were still loyal to the Eastern captives. .
The battlefield extends from the Yalu River in the east to the western area of Monan Mongolia.
The Chu army dispatched more than 400,000 troops, attacking everywhere within a huge range of thousands of kilometers!
The core battlefield is naturally the Northeast region, especially the home base of the Dongji people, that is, the Jianzhou region and the Haixi region.
This is where the Dongji people made their fortune. When the Dongji people retreated on a large scale from the Liaodong region, their soldiers and civilians mainly retreated to this area.
In this way, this place became the key offensive area for the Chu army.
Numerous Chu armies either gathered or dispersed, and more than 200,000 troops gathered here. Among them, there were three cavalry corps alone. Two of the main cavalry corps, the first cavalry corps and the third cavalry corps, were at the beginning of the battle. When the outbreak broke out, they crossed the Great Wall from Liaohai City in Anlefu, crossed all the way north at high speed, and powerfully and quickly captured the Yidong Hewei area, which later became the Changchun area. Then the First Cavalry Army crossed eastward and captured Wu Yewu. Wei area, which is the Jilin area in later generations.
And these two cavalry corps, with a total of more than 40,000 cavalry, continue to cross eastward!
Behind them were more than 40,000 people from the Ninth Infantry Corps who came up to maintain the logistics line and garrison towns along the way.
These more than 80,000 troops formed a huge left hook, swinging suddenly from west to east to kidnap people!
Along the way, whether they were captives or some random tribes, they all turned into powder under the attack of such a huge Chu army, leaving them without the slightest resistance.
On the frontal battlefield, more than 40,000 people of the Eighth Army launched a fierce attack eastward from the Tieling line, crushing all resistance frontally. Although its progress was not fast, it also successively captured many towns of the Dongji people and destroyed them. There are almost all Dongjiu settlements along the way.
On the southern battlefield, about 40,000 soldiers of the Seventh Army attacked the Jianzhouwei area from the south. The goal was very obvious, which was to cut off the Dongji people's hometown.
In addition to the above-mentioned forces, in Liaobei Province in the direction of the Koryo Peninsula, an A-class division and two B-class divisions were also dispatched across the Yalu River and launched an attack towards the hinterland of the Dongjiu people.
The Third Army of the Chu Army, together with two provincial garrison headquarters, invested more than 200,000 troops in this battle, including nine A-class divisions, six B-class divisions, and nine cavalry divisions.
In terms of military strength, the Chu army already had a greater advantage. The Donglu people on the opposite side now only had a total population of one or two million, and the Dongni people were exhausted and there were only two or three hundred thousand people left.
Even if they pull out all the men of their own clan, they won't be able to gather many troops.
Even if they use the Haixi Jurchens, Han Eight Banners, some Koreans, etc. under their control, they probably won't be able to recruit 200,000 troops.
Even with so many troops, they can't afford it!
After the Battle of Liaodong, the Dongji people could be said to have been directly crippled by the Chu Empire. Now they were short of soldiers and food, and they were unable to resist the crushing fortifications of the Chu army.
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Frontal resistance is impossible... but dispersed attacks seem to be able to achieve certain results. Many Chu soldiers were killed and injured in many ambushes, but they have no effect on the overall situation.
When the Chu Army's Third Army moved toward the hinterland of the Eastern Captives, they did not forget to attack the Monan Mongolian Horqin Tribe, their staunchest ally.
This tribe is deeply involved with the Dongji people, and they are even married to each other. During the previous battle in Liaodong, a considerable part of the Mongolian cavalry obtained by the Dongji people were the cavalry of this tribe.
In addition, the relationship between this tribe and the Tumut tribe and other tribes was not good. Therefore, after the Chu army recovered the Tumut tribe, in a series of battles in Monan Mongolia, when a large number of tribes actively or passively surrendered, the Horqin tribe But he still resisted.
For such a stubborn tribe, the Chu army will naturally not let it go!
The Third Group Army left behind a Sixth Army and advanced towards the Horqin station in the north, while the Fourth Cavalry Army coordinated the actions.
This Fourth Cavalry Corps was formed by the cavalry recruited by the Chu Army from the 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 eliminated, its pastures will be distributed to the various tribes participating in the battle. As for the specific distribution, they will all be based on military merit.
The more credit you get, the more enemies you kill, the more points you get.
In this way, the morale of these temporarily recruited tribes is extremely high, because they are fighting for their future living space.
For these nomads, ranching is everything!
Only by having pasture can we graze and survive.
The Great Chu Empire adopted a policy of naturalizing the surrendered tribes, giving them fixed pastures, and allowing them to survive as fixed herders as much as possible.
Even if they cannot 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 establish prefecture and county administrative agencies in the Monan Mongolia region under its control to thoroughly extend its administrative tentacles into the grasslands.
In this case, the quality and size of the fixed pasture obtained are very important.
Although the grassland is quite large, not all places are rich in water and grass. There will always be good places and bad places, and how to allocate these places depends on military merit and loyalty.
Needless to say military merit, but where does loyalty come from?
Everything else is nonsense. If you want to show your loyalty, the best thing is to send the young cavalry directly to the Chu cavalry unit, be incorporated into the Chu cavalry unit, and then fight for the empire like the Tumote tribe.
The Tumut tribe who did this received 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.
If you 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 would want to be the leader of barbarian herdsmen in the wind and rain on the grassland and Gobi Desert...
Therefore, many surrendered tribes eventually chose the same policy as Tumut, actively integrated into the society of the Chu Empire, encouraged young warriors in the tribes to join the army, and then ordinary herdsmen accepted the empire's arrangements to go to fixed places to establish their herds. .
And those tribal leaders either served as officers or even generals in the Chu army's cavalry, or served as deputy civil servants in Dingmufu County, and some went to enjoy the prosperity in the prosperous places of the Central Plains. Still looking cool.
From now on, if anyone tells them that he is a Mongolian, they will give you trouble...
And those Mongolian cavalry who were incorporated into the regular cavalry of the Chu army may still have tribes in their hearts and feel that they are still members of a certain tribe, but the army is a melting pot, and no one will remember it after a few years. What tribe was there in the past? I only remember the Chu Empire.
There was a literacy class in the Chu army, which not only taught the soldiers how to read and write, but also instilled in them 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, a group of officers who are specifically responsible for ideological work.
At the same time, the treatment within the army is also very good. Providing adequate food has always been a big killer of the Chu army. These Mongolian cavalry were not considered superiors in their tribe before, and many of them were even regarded by the leaders as As for the slaves, few have enough to eat...
After joining the Chu army, they can have enough to eat every day. This alone is enough to change the attitudes of most of them.
Not to mention that the Chu Army also has a generous military merit reward system and complete retirement arrangements after retirement.
In fact, these Mongolian cavalry have been able to ride and shoot arrows since they were young, and they also brought their own war horses... Only then can they join the Chu army more easily. If they were replaced by ordinary young men, it would be difficult for them to successfully join the army these days. Too easy.
In the Great Chu Empire, for the poor children at the bottom, joining the army was a very good way out, and since it was a good way out, competition was inevitable.
The Dachu Empire's series of policies on the grasslands also attracted many tribes to voluntarily submit...
Of course, there are actually many tribes who are unwilling to submit. They either want to remain neutral or continue to support the Eastern captives.
For some tribes that maintained a neutral attitude, the Dachu Empire ignored them for the time being, as long as they were honest and honest.
Some tribes with hostile attitudes, such as the Horqin tribe, naturally fought to death.
Beginning in May, the Chu army advanced from many directions to attack Horqin's tribe. Horqin's tribe wanted to resist at first and block the first wave of Chu army's attack. However, on May 26, the Chu army's fourth cavalry After the army quickly killed Horqin's tens of thousands of main troops, some of the remaining troops of Horqin's tribe fled northward in panic.
Judging from the direction of their escape, they were probably heading towards Mobei Mongolia.
Some people from the Horqin tribe 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 the Horqin tribe fled to Mobei, and some of them surrendered. In accordance with the instructions of Jinling, the Governor of Liaodong Province dispersed the remaining nearly 10,000 people who had surrendered from the Horqin tribe and moved them to Liaodong. A group of Han people and herdsmen were organized to go to Horqin Ranch for grazing.
Horqin can still have some remnants of his troops escape, but the Dongji people cannot escape.
As the main force of the Third Army gradually attacked, especially the assault left hook composed of the First Cavalry Army and the Third Cavalry Army, it directly cut off the possibility of the Dongjiao people retreating and escaping on a large scale to the north.
On June 28, the forwards of this assault force successfully joined forces with the cavalry regiment of the Army's 18th Division dispatched from the north of Liaoning Province at Hukhan, the upper reaches of the Mudanjiang River.
From this, the Chu army made a super big dumpling for the Dongji people!
Although this strategic encirclement, the outer encirclement is actually very fragile, and there are actually no Chu troops stationed in many places. After all, the place is so big, and the Chu army cannot really achieve a complete blockade. As long as a small number of Dongji people hide their whereabouts, they will always be able to It can be passed on.
Especially the cavalry, as long as they don't stupidly rush into the place where the Chu army is stationed, the Chu army can't actually stop them.
But with only these tens of thousands of Chu cavalry here, the Dongji people can't expect to gather tens of thousands of troops and rush out in a swagger.
The Chu army didn't care at all about the sporadic escapes and breakouts, and they couldn't care less. They just wanted to catch the big fish, the main force of the East Riding!
