Chapter 238 Muldan Merlin (the beginning of the month)
After all, Dong Shuheng will never learn to be the master with peace of mind like others.
He wants the people around him to act according to his own ideas and accept his leadership, but he doesn't want to be the master of these people.
According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, except for the emperor's family, everyone else is the emperor's slaves.
In this world, you are the only one who is the master, and everyone else is your slave.
The sad thing at this time is not these slaves, but the master! Because he is the only one, this means that he is isolated.
Only then did Dong Shuheng understand why so many emperors ended up becoming old perverts.
That's because they end up mentally ill.
Humans are social animals. If a person breaks away from the group and becomes the loneliest one, it means that he has been abandoned by the group.
In nature, such isolated social animals are either killed by natural enemies or develop mental illness due to loneliness.
Dong Shuheng didn't want to be such a poor guy. So after taking Gao Xing with him for a few days, Dong Shuheng couldn't help but find a good way out for him.
He is a lively and cheerful boy, except that he is missing one part that a boy should have, nothing is different in other places.
Including his psychology, he still maintains the psychology of a normal boy.
He will even blush when he meets a pretty girl. Boys don't need that kind of sex to blush, as long as they have a normal mentality.
Dong Shuheng knew that that thing was not necessary for a man. How many families relied on sex to survive?
The pursuit of that kind of pleasure between many couples only lasts for a few years. After a few years, some men are even more willing to spend five minutes in the toilet to solve the problem, rather than bothering their significant other.
Therefore, Dong Shuheng felt happy that he could find his normal life.
It doesn't mean that he has to wait for others if he has one missing person.
Dong Shuheng took a fast steamer and returned to Jiangning that same day. The military reform plan had been released, involving the appointment and replacement of some senior officers.
Dong Shuheng felt that this matter must be handled by him personally.
This military reform did not make any changes to the Taihang Column.
According to the information gathered from the Taihang Column, the Taihang Column has now grown to nearly 20,000 troops.
If not for the lack of logistical supplies, Lu Feiyan's men could have expanded more troops.
The designation of the Taihang Column is completely independent from the designation of the Huaihai Navy Regular Army.
Not only for the development needs of the Taihang Column, but also for the need of confidentiality.
Lu Feiyan now has four main regiments in his hands, namely the 1st to 4th regiments of the Taihang Column. These four regiments are the main forces in the field.
The second regiment is the cavalry regiment, which is mainly located in the northernmost part of the Taihang Mountains.
At the farthest point, the cavalry regiment broke through Yanggao County, but it was too close to Datong. Lu Feiyan and her staff team finally decided to plunder the big households and then retreated to the mountains.
However, the cavalry still crossed the Great Wall through Yanggao and reached the front flag of Chahar's right wing.
Dong Shuheng has always claimed to be the savior of the Chinese nation, so he felt that he should treat everyone equally.
The Mongolian compatriots who were oppressed by the princes and nobles were also the objects of his solidarity.
Dong Shuheng supported Lu Feiyan's efforts to infiltrate power into Mongolia.
When Dong Shuheng feels that he can control Mongolia and the vast land to the west, he will definitely lead troops into the capital without hesitation.
If we find out the Aixinjueluo family who are hiding in the magnificent Bauhinia City, these people should be ordinary members of the Chinese family.
If you do not have the ability to lead the Chinese family to become stronger and rise, then you are not qualified to accept support from the people.
In July, the Taihang Column captured Huai'an County again, and the Chahar Capital Ruler quickly mobilized troops to concentrate on Zhangjiakou to protect the commercial town of Zhangjiakou and his own capital.
However, the Taihang column did not attack Zhangjiakou to the northeast, but entered the Chahar Pastoral Area to the northwest.
The Chahar Du ruler urgently mobilized troops to encircle and suppress the Black Flag Army. Since the Taihang Column all wore black military uniforms and used black battle flags, the outside world generally called them the Black Flag Army. The Qing court generally called them Taihang Nian Bandits or Taihang Bandits.
The Chahar Duchy ruled the Eight Banners of Chahar and had nearly 20,000 cavalry in its hands, but they were all divided into various garrison areas.
Unable to gather all of them for a while, Chahar Dutong judged that the cavalry entering the pastoral area were no more than those horse bandits.
So after gathering about 5,000 soldiers and horses, they hurriedly attacked the second regiment of the Taihang column.
The second regiment's slogan on the grassland was to eliminate Zasak, divide the pastures, and liberate the herdsmen.
Every time they conquered a pastureland, they killed the local nobles, collected war horses, and distributed all the remaining cattle and sheep to the herdsmen after keeping enough for their own military rations.
In this way, some herdsmen were willing to follow them. These herdsmen were assigned war horses and drove their cattle and sheep to follow the second regiment and played the role of auxiliary soldiers.
This attack was led by Lu Guoyi, the leader of the Second Regiment.
This is a cavalry general trained by a military academy. He is not tall, has a Chinese character face, and a wide, flat nose. He really looks a bit like a Mongolian!
Lu Guoyi knew that his advantage lay in the lance in his hand.
This type 53 lance is modified based on the type 53 rifle with a shortened barrel.
Lu Guoyi believes that the biggest advantage of this kind of gun is that it allows them to complete a series of actions such as reloading, loading, and shooting on horseback.
Imagine the difficulty of loading a muzzleloader, and you can easily understand why cavalry in most countries are not equipped with muskets.
Mongolian cavalry mostly used scimitars and their homemade bows.
The effective killing distance of these riding bows is only more than 100 meters. The riding bows that are said to be still lethal at a distance of 200 meters may only be possible during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, which was the peak period of the Mongolian cavalry.
The killing distance of the cavalry bow has a great relationship with the quality of the cavalry.
For so many years, the Manchus and the Qing Dynasty had ruled these Mongols like sheep, so naturally they could not cultivate very good cavalry.
Although Chahar is also divided into eight banners, most of the eight banners are ordinary herders.
They have long lost their former glory.
When Lu Guoyi conquered a pastoral area, he saw with his own eyes what kind of life those nobles lived.
They wore clothes made of cotton and silk, lived in the largest tents, ate fragrant meat, drank fragrant milk tea and clear spirits, and used fine salt produced in Huaihai...
Lu Guoyi saw many luxury goods produced by Huaihai Company, which were sold by Great Wall Company.
Today's Tianjin Binhai New City has become the distribution center for Huaihai Haijun products in the north. Tianjin businessmen headed by Liu Wenjin united with some North Zhili businessmen to monopolize the distribution rights of these products.
They can be found all over the north, from the Mongolian Plateau in the north to the Kazakh grasslands in the west. They have caravan activities.
The extravagant and lustful life of the nobles is based on the exploitation of ordinary herdsmen. The productivity on the grassland has remained the same for thousands of years. Without much progress, it is impossible for everyone to enjoy it together.
Those ordinary herdsmen herd sheep every day but cannot eat mutton, and milk cows every day but cannot drink milk.
They have been told by monks since childhood that they must use their own suffering to forgive their sins, so that in the next life, they can live like nobles.
So they look at the lives of nobles every day and daydream about their afterlife, but they don't care about the misery in front of them.
Whenever Lu Guoyi sees those herders who are resigned and submissive, he feels bad in his heart.
When the army came to kill them, they prostrated on the ground. When the nobles were killed, they still prostrated on the ground.
When the Yiming people of Lu State gave them cooked mutton, they did not dare to accept it. If they ate the mutton, they would not be able to repay the debts of their previous lives.
Even if you put a knife on their neck, they think it is a punishment sent down by Buddha.
Some older people even looked at the soldiers with longing eyes, hoping that these soldiers could send them to enjoy happiness in the afterlife as soon as possible.
But there are always aliens. Some young shepherds still want to find a better life, so they join Merlin's team. They stay in the tribe and wait for the new nobles to come, and their lives will continue as before.
Muldan Merlin is what they call Lu Guoyi. It sounds more like the name of a horse bandit.
More than 300 kilometers northwest of Zhangjiakou, here is the Musuntike Mountain with abundant pasture.
In front of us is an endless grassland, with summer grass nearly one meter high.
When a war horse walks on such a grassland, every step seems to sink in.
But the war horses seem to like this feeling very much. Mongolian horses are generally not tall.
The one-meter-high pasture is like a grass brush, constantly combing their horses' legs and driving away all the mosquitoes adsorbed on the horses' legs.
When some war horses are moving forward, they will occasionally lower their heads and rub their heads with the tops of grass to drive away the small bugs crawling under their eyes.
Before Lu Guoyi came out, the Taihang column had already made a plan.
This time Lu Guoyi wanted to transform into Monkey King and cause trouble in the back gardens of the Manchus.
Since the Qing Dynasty entered the country, the Mongols have been their loyal allies and an important contributor to the Qing Dynasty's entry into the Central Plains.
It is no exaggeration to say that they are the hunting dogs of the Manchu people.
Many of Senggelinqin's cavalry were drawn from Mongolia.
Although the Mongols are not as good as their ancestors, there are still those who can fight among them.
These people continued to add to Senggelinqin's hands, allowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty to still have a field force.
Therefore, Dong Shuheng has been thinking, what will happen if Mongolia is in chaos?
Now Xianfeng is facing pressure, in addition to Huai Haijun, there are also Huang Hao and Luo Outline in Henan, but they are still running around in Henan and have not formed a climate.
In addition, Lin Fengxiang in the Northeast seemed to be unable to withstand the encirclement and suppression by the three generals in the Northeast and Seng Gelinqin.
There is information coming that Lin Fengxiang is planning to cross the Liaodong Peninsula and retreat to North Korea. Everyone knows that the North Korean Kingdom is a soft persimmon.
So in the northeast, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties will soon take action.
In order to put enough pressure on the Manchus, Dong Shuheng asked Lu Feiyan and others to plan this Mongolian offensive.
The 2nd Cavalry Regiment released this time was a kite without strings. Different from the past, this time the Taihang Column took it back without even preparing a punch.
They all have one person and two horses, and all the supplies they need are on horseback. This is to ensure their rapid mobility.
It's late summer now, and Lu Guoyi and the others must find a place to stay in autumn.
Dong Shuheng has already decided for them, which is the Huaihai Navy stronghold in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang.
According to the plan, the Heilongjiang Military Region will be able to build a large stronghold in the upper reaches by then, and the newly built 1st Cavalry Brigade will also spend the winter there.
Logistics staff will stock a large amount of horse feed before winter.
In other words, this time Lu Guoyi and the others are going to penetrate the entire eastern part of the Mongolian Plateau. This is also where the essence of Mongolia under the rule of the Qing Dynasty lies.