Chapter 394: The Counteroffensive Begins
As long as the People's Army slowly spreads some knowledge to the people, there should be many men who will be able to accept marrying an interracial woman.
There is also a advance, this alien woman must conform to the aesthetic concept of the Chinese people, and the Tatars, Koreans, and Japanese people are all in line.
When the territory of the People's Army is greatly increased, more land can be allocated to the common people, for example, an adult male is allocated a hundred acres of land, before the advent of the mechanical age, even if there are ploughing cattle, it is difficult to plant a hundred acres of land in a hurry, and there are too few people.
At this time, it is a very good choice to accept an alien woman as a concubine, add a labor force to the family, and the alien woman is not Chinese, as long as you don't kill or become disabled, you can beat and scold at will.
The suggestion is not to beat and scold, and to live together, if there is too much hatred, maybe look for an opportunity to end up together by poisoning, arson, etc.
Adult men, adult women, and even older boys and girls have a place to go among the aliens, while the older and younger people are of little use, and the People's Army cannot keep them all the time, so they need to find a good place to go.
Well, overseas islands are a very good choice, give them some food to send to the islands, and let them fend for themselves, and the aliens they meet in the future can be treated like this, no matter what, the People's Army will definitely not kill innocents indiscriminately.
Three days passed in a flash, the Lancer Division rested in the barracks outside Beiping City, and after replenishing supplies, under the leadership of the division commander Tian Zhe, went to the Bohai Division, the Lancer Division would go north from the Bohai Pass into the prairie, and at the same time, the 83rd Division stationed in the Bohai Institute would send more than 10 cavalry to temporarily join the Lancer Division.
The 83rd Division has been stationed in the Bohai Sea for a period of time, and often sends scouts into the grassland to reconnoitre, and is more familiar with the surrounding environment, at least than the Lancer Division, and can barely be regarded as a leader, but it is not possible to be far away from the Bohai Sea, and can only rely on the Lancer Division itself.
In addition, there are people who know the Tatar language and can herd to join the Lancer Division, the Lancer Division captures the Tatars, and the language of the Tatars is a problem, and it is also a problem to capture a large number of cattle, horses and sheep and not be able to drive them alive to the border passes, since they are all problems, then look for people who can solve the problem to join.
Wang Shengrong also went to the Bohai Institute with the Lancer Division, personally sent the Lancer Division into the prairie, and Wang Shengrong would stay in the Bohai Institute for a while, waiting for the Lancer Division to return.
The Lancer Division had 5,000 cavalry, each equipped with a war horse, and carried limited supplies, so they would not stay on the steppe for too long, and would even return quickly after having enough results.
The Bohai Institute took a short rest, and under the eyes of Wang Shengrong, Zhang Xinquan and a group of People's Army soldiers from the Bohai Institute, Tian Zhe led the 5,000 cavalry divisions of the Lancer Division to gallop out of the Bohai Institute and rush towards the north!
"Wan Sheng!"
The army is open, the scouts go first, five cavalry are a reconnaissance group, and many reconnaissance groups have been one step ahead of the lancer division, exploring north, to find the target of the lancer division, these reconnaissance groups are carrying a telescope, which can detect the enemy in advance, retreat in time, and take the army to encircle and suppress the past.
This time, the Lancer Division conquered the steppe for two purposes, first, revenge, and second, to encircle and suppress nomadic tribes and obtain cattle, horses and sheep.
In the eyes of some people who don't know much about nomads, nomads usually live in the form of tribes, hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of people in a tribe, but it is very rare for tens of thousands of people in a tribe to live in one place, and more often live in Aul as a unit for herding life.
The most basic unit of nomads is the tent, and a tent represents a yurt house, inhabited by a household.
Aul is similar to the villages in the land of China, is the most basic administrative division of the nomadic people, each Aul has at least seven tents, each of them are close relatives, it can be said that most of the people in an Aul have blood ties, and the men and women in the Aul can not marry.
A number of Aul form an Ata'ayimak, a number of Ata'ayimak form a tribe, a small tribe has nearly 100 tents, hundreds of tents, medium-sized tribes have thousands or even thousands of tents, and large tribes have more than 10,000 tents.
It can be said that the Tatars are mostly scattered on the steppes in Aul as a unit, living a nomadic life, grazing large herds of cattle, horses and sheep, because grazing cattle, horses and sheep requires a large area of pasture, even the neighboring Aul is separated by a relatively long distance, at least in units of twenty li.
Twenty miles is not a long distance on the steppe, and the Tatars travel on horseback, galloping on horseback, and can be reached in a quarter of an hour or two.
It's not absolute, once you encounter a place with abundant water and grass, then more people can live in this place, often the core of the tribe is in a place with abundant water and grass, and then with this as the center, the tribe's subordinate Ata Ayimak and Aul are scattered.
An Aul is at least seven tents, and the number of cattle, horses and sheep grazing will not exceed 1,000, such a goal is too small, Tian Zhe intends to destroy a small tribe of the Tatars or multiple Ataayimak, and the first conquest of the Lancer Division on the steppe is considered complete.
It's just that on the first day when the Lancer Division entered the steppe, the scouts did not find any trace of the Tatars, and Tian Zhe did not feel strange about this, more than 200,000 Tatars invaded the border pass only a few days ago, and the Tatars lost more than 50,000 horses and horses, and suffered heavy casualties.
Under these circumstances, the Tatars, who had been grazing their cattle in the area closer to the border passes, moved north, fearing an enemy attack.
However, Tian Zhe believes that the Tatars will not leave too far, the Tatars are good at cavalry archery, unable to conquer the border passes, but they are not very worried about the enemy's attack, in the eyes of the Tatars, the enemy in the southern land of China is not very good at cavalry archery, if they dare to come, the Tatars will gather again and drive them out of the steppe.
After the withdrawal of the Tatars, they did not even send people to monitor the border passes, and this is the contempt of the Tatars for the People's Army.
In fact, the Lancer Division was not very good at mounted archery, and after a long period of training, the Lancers were good at muskets and horseback riding, but the two together were not good.
The People's Army is still equipped with front-loading rifled guns, which are relatively troublesome to reload, and generally there are only two ways to attack, the war horse stops, sits on horseback or dismounts to shoot at the enemy.
The musket had a much longer range than the bow and arrow, and this was where the advantage of the Lancer Division over the Tatar cavalry lay out.
It was dark, the Lancer Division stopped, ready to spend the first night on the prairie, the night is the time when the Lancer Division needs to be most vigilant, especially when there is no moon at night, the savannah is pitch black, if there is an enemy attack at this time, the musket will not be able to exert its full power.
As soon as the enemy rushes over for close combat, the Lancer Division will suffer heavy casualties, and of course, the number of enemy casualties will not be small.