Chapter 435: On the Expedition

When the Lin family was on fire, the expeditionary pioneer team outside the gate had already embarked on the expedition, although Huazhou also emphasized that it was a Han regime and the army was a Han army.

However, the method of conducting expeditions on the steppe was no different from that of the Mongols, and in the pastures outside the Xibao of the Taer River, many cattle and sheep were purchased by the Jiang army, and then the young and strong men of the Mongolian herdsmen who had just been resettled in Chengcheng were hired to graze.

This time the team was led by Liu Shisan, which made many people more confident, and Liu Shisan's Zhenhe Manor was still reciting in the mouths of immigrants outside the customs with a hundred martial arts.

Seven hundred guards, five hundred Jiang family army and two thousand three hundred young and strong regiments, is the main force of this team, Liu Shisan also specially asked the Governor of Huazhou to specially open a knighthood reward, that is, the people who participate in this expeditionary force will have the title of escort after the expedition.

So these people now are called alternate guards, but to Liu Shisan's surprise, what he had vaguely heard of the Holy Dao Sect actually sent a dozen people to this expedition and pioneer team, although he could see the reluctance in the eyes of these people who were sent.

But these people did not come to the army for the purpose of preaching, but as military doctors, which is too popular for an army.

In the vast and boundless grassland, a force spanning thousands of miles must take into account the problem of provisions, logistics is not to be counted on, if at this time, can only be used by chariots, horses and ships for the transportation of grain and grass logistics supply mode, the distance of several thousand miles is equivalent to disaster.

The large convoys that followed the team were not used to transport grain and grass, but only to carry equipment and weapons, as well as salt.

The supply of the expeditionary force came from the herd of cattle grazing behind the team, and the meat and milk of these animals were the rations of the expeditionary force, as well as the rivers that passed along the way, and the army also needed to fish in them for water, or use rafts for transportation, so don't think that such logistics are troublesome.

Because this was the real situation when the Mongol army marched west to the European continent, sometimes even farming halfway to get supplies.

After the team set off, except for Liu Shisan and some of the Sinicized Mongols attached to the escort, the rest of the regimental training and regular army did not expect that the march would be such a boring process. In the dense area of the reclamation manors outside the Guanwai, the army's march and supply were supported by sufficient animal power and river and water transportation networks, which was very convenient, but it was very convenient to come to the grassland.

Half a month later, there was not even anyone to see on the grassland, Liu Shisan was not polite, except for the necessary vigilance, all the people were mobilized to production, grazing, chiseling through the ice shell that had gradually melted fishing, dealing with slaughtered cattle and sheep, and so on.

Seeing such an empty grassland, Liu 13 was faintly proud in his heart, when he was imprisoned in the 33rd guard, Liu 12 never communicated or passed on oral messages to his younger brother, but just took a lot of books for his younger brother to read.

There are very few people who know words in the recklessness, but Liu Shisan is the grandson of the Liu family after all, although he was hunted down and hunted down in the past, but there are also people who teach martial arts and culture, if you look at the actual level, Liu Shisan's level of poetry and books at this time is much higher than Jiang Feng.

Liu Shisan had also read a lot of history books back then, and he had already taken notes from various literati, knowing that the tribes on the grassland were the great enemies of the Central Plains, and the disasters of all dynasties and dynasties were almost all related to the barbarians on the grassland.

When each dynasty was established and the country was strong, it always launched the Northern Expedition and purge the outside of the country again and again, but each time it was only to break up or defeat these barbarians, and it was impossible to eradicate it at all.

It has almost become an unsolvable problem, but now that the grassland is so empty, it is almost impossible to see the existence of any tribe, which is clearly the credit of the Jiang family's army.

It is precisely because of Jiang Feng's repeated battles and clean-up operations around the edge of the Great Wall in the Taer River Valley, as well as the fixed division of grasslands, the continuous captivation of Mongols as slaves, and the practice of Sinicizing barbarians, but they have achieved decisive results.

And according to Liu Shisan's judgment, this kind of destruction and invasion may also be extinct in the future, he vaguely felt that since the arquebus and spear formed of the phalanx, and also equipped with field artillery, in the past in the field and various battles, the advantage of cavalry over infantry is disappearing, from ancient times to the present, if the infantry can withstand the impact of cavalry in the field wave battle.

Such infantry are all powerful armies that are famous all over the world, and they can only exist as individual examples, but now the arquebuses and cavalry of the Jiang family army only need to be lined up, the flat-end spears can stop the cavalry's attack, and the arquebuses can cause effective damage, no matter how much cavalry comes and goes, they can't compete with such an infantry team.

Thousands of years of disasters have been stopped in his own hands, as a soldier, Liu Shisan is of course extremely proud in his heart, and he also feels that the Jiang family army is such a strong army, and the current achievements are far from enough, and there should be greater brilliance comparable to him.

However, Liu Shisan also knows that a large-scale war is not too possible at present, so it is better to rely on this platform to fight as much as possible and fight freely, which is what Liu Shisan likes to do the most.

After leaving the fixed grassland area controlled by the Guanwai for a month, he finally met a tribe of the Obir Khanate, whether it was the guide who led the way or the officers of the expedition pioneer team, they were quite surprised, thinking to themselves, how could the place that was originally expected to be there in a few months now have contact.

This is also the situation of the country established by the nomads at this time, in the Tatar and Washorn north of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, the location of the royal court is still fixed, and even the location of the king of the Obil Khan is swimming, and tens of thousands of people are divided into large and small tribes in the vast land to wander around.

It is only in the last decade that the Cossack army attached to the family of Count Roganov in Russia has put more and more pressure on the Obir Khanate, and the Obir Khan has continuously concentrated the men of the tribe to fight, which has gradually become fixed, but each tribe still has to busy its own livelihood.

Although the men were transferred, the cattle and sheep still had to graze, and their lives had to go on. In the winter, when the bitter cold of the Northland was impossible to fight, the men returned to their tribes to produce in both Russia and the Obir Khanate, gathering gradually in the summer and fighting the Cossacks in the autumn.

The expedition and pioneer team in Huazhou encountered more than 4,000 tribes, including more than 1,000 men who could fight, which was a very strong force, and now it was about to be the time of spring civilization, so this tribe migrated to the south, first, to find a good pasture, and secondly, to avoid the conscription of the Obir Khan as much as possible.

The current expeditionary force led by Liu 13 looks no different from a tribe, except for more than 200 vigilant cavalry who are hunting around, the rest of the equipment is placed on the cart, dressed as a herdsman, even if it is a guard and an officer.

The tribe he met naturally had his scout light cavalry outside, and saw the expeditionary pioneer team stationed on the leeward side to rest.

Of course, Liu Thirteen's cavalry found out earlier and reported back, and Liu Thirteen didn't have any interest in fighting, but just asked his officers to distribute their weapons and be on guard, and then start to advance from the camp, so that the nomadic tribes on the grassland, Liu Thirteen didn't even have the interest to pay attention to it.

However, the opponent obviously didn't think so, and after half an hour, Liu Shisan's cavalry hurriedly ran back, and reported to him:

"The opposing cavalry is rapidly marching towards this side, not with good intentions."

Of course, it is ill-intentioned, otherwise the other party will send a messenger to communicate in advance, and after the officers below asked Liu Shisan, they began to arrange the team to prepare, Liu Shisan lay lazily on the carriage, unable to lift up a little spirit, and a Sinicized Mongolian escort on the side said with a smile:

"Adults don't know, this is also the rule on the grassland, the two tribes meet each other to send messengers to greet each other, signaling that each other knows each other's existence, our rangers are smart, they can't find it, they think we haven't found them, so they are ready to come to a raid, eat us, these cattle and sheep, these carts, but they are all oily fat!"

Liu Shisan took out a tin wine jug from his arms and drank a few sips, and said slowly:

"I can't lift my spirits, after defeating, I will distribute the cattle and sheep in their tribe to the large convoy behind, and the horses and other things will be supplemented to the soldiers."

The guard was also full of confidence, and after hearing this, he walked down with a smile and was about to arrange, Liu Shisan remembered something, and called the person in front of him again, and said loudly:

"Firearms are not allowed, gunpowder or something must be kept for use during the war, this kind of training will be given to me with knives and guns!"