Chapter 437: Grassland Tribal Strategy (1)
What Hu Zhen wanted to do personally was to meet a group of Mongolian nobles.
After the establishment of the Chinese Empire, it had to fight against a powerful enemy, facing a great crisis, and it was too late to manage the tribes of the county on the border of the empire, and there was no Huaxia army stationed in the Mongolian steppe, and the major tribes on the Mongolian steppe were basically the same as the Qing court era, and everything of the nobles was not moved, and even many tribes maintained certain contact with the Empress Dowager Cixi who fled to Oros, which also led to the fact that when the Oros Baikal Front launched a surprise attack on the capital, the Huaxia army did not receive the warning in time, This makes the initial phase of the campaign very passive.
After the defeat of the powerful Hubei army, the problem of solving the problem of a few tribes in the north was put on the agenda.
In fact, after the Huaxia army showed its might, the nobles of the grassland tribes in the north panicked, and when the situation was already clear, they had to choose a side, otherwise it would be too late.
The imperial government only let out a little rumor, and did not even issue a formal invitation, and more than 300 nobles such as princes, commanders, assistant leaders, and lords of various grassland tribes from the Great Khing'an Mountains in the east to the Great Desert in the west came to the capital in person to meet His Majesty the Emperor.
But they found that it was not an easy task to meet the emperor.
Along the way, the Huaxia Army held various military exercises, intentionally or unintentionally, to let the tribal nobles and adults gain a lot of knowledge.
The first thing I saw was the cavalry submachine gun charge, a cavalry with a submachine gun can knock down a large number of straw men, there is no need to draw a saber to slash, the enemy is all down.
This is a weapon beyond the cognition of the grassland people, and the nobles were so frightened that they couldn't even speak, and after a long time, a nobleman who couldn't help but be curious asked the accompanying soldiers of the Huaxia Army: "How many people in your army are equipped with such weapons?" β
The Huaxia soldier glanced at the aristocrat with an indifferent look before replying, "Didn't you see it?" All the cavalry of the Huaxia Army are all such individual equipment! β
The aristocrat who asked looked around and found that all the soldiers of the Huaxia Army on horseback were carrying submachine guns on their backs, but he still couldn't help but ask curiously: "How many such cavalry are there in the Huaxia Army?" β
"Do you know how many Oros Cossack cavalry attacked the capital, plus the Cossacks in Vladivostok?"
"It is said that ...... It's said to be 700,000 or 800,000, maybe millions......"
"Whether it is 700,000 or 800,000, they have all been wiped out by our Huaxia army, how many men and horses do you think the Huaxia army should have to defeat this Oros Cossack cavalry?"
"This, this ......" The nobleman could no longer speak, but he was shrewd and carefully calculated in his heart: such a sharp cavalry weapon can kill the enemy in a series of shots outside the range of the bow and arrow, and a steppe cavalry that can fight at least a dozen steppe cavalry using the bow and arrow sabre of the fire gun, according to this calculation, even Genghis Khan's reincarnation is not the opponent of the Huaxia army!
The following light and heavy machine gun firing training, artillery cluster salvo drills, and tank armored vehicle battle drills shocked these self-confident and well-informed steppe aristocrats, and those who originally had a wait-and-see mentality no longer had any ideas.
After the news spread like the wind blowing, there were originally only more than 300 nobles in the capital, but when they arrived in the capital, the number of nobles in the pilgrimage group swelled more than three times, becoming more than 1,000 people, which means that almost all the nobles of the grassland controlled by the former Qing Dynasty came.
After arriving in the capital, not everyone could see the emperor, and after some screening by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, only more than 200 people were qualified to meet the emperor.
Seeing that His Royal Highness knelt down and pressed more than 200 people without even raising his head, Hu Zhen sat on the emperor's throne, did not let them stand up, and was not even in a hurry to speak, but picked up a cup of hot tea and took a sip gently, before slowly opening the emperor's golden mouth and saying: "Brothers from the grassland, are you interested in my Huaxia Army weapons?" β
Listening to the emperor ask what he thought of the Huaxia Army, some naΓ―ve tribal nobles thought that the emperor wanted to reward the Huaxia Army with weapons, after all, the Central Plains Dynasty's restraint policy was like this. For more than 2,000 years, the poor Han people were willing to go there to survive, but in the end, because the imperial court lacked financial resources to guarantee that they could not provide military protection, and in the end they were all gone, and those Han people who went to the grassland either returned or became slaves of the grassland tribes.
Due to the lack of the ability of the Han army to act in the grassland, the nomads of the surrounding tribes could get a steady stream of rewards and benefits as long as they made a slight gesture to the imperial court, and the nobles present, whether naΓ―ve or cunning, thought that the time had come to strive for benefits, so they praised in the not very proficient Chinese language:
"When the Huaxia Army's weapons are launched, they are like thunder and lightning, they are so powerful that we admire them so much that we are ...... to the ground."
"Oh, that's amazing, it's so scared that our ears are deaf......"
"That's like an immortal sent down by the Immortal Heaven, mighty and majestic, and it makes the Oros army fart......
"This weapon is good, if only the emperor rewarded us with some!"
"That's right, such a good weapon, please give us a little reward from the emperor, let us guard the steppe for the emperor, so that the Oros Cossack cavalry will never dare to invade!"
Hu Zhen listened to the energetic performance of these people, and waited until they were all tired, and finally lost a little voice, before he said: "You have all seen the strength of the Huaxia army, you can estimate for yourself, if you want to destroy your tribe, kill all your men, women, and children, and take away all your livestock and property, how many Huaxia troops will be needed?" β
"Kill the ...... Take away all ......" After listening to Hu Zhen's words, more than two hundred nobles couldn't help but gasp, and a chill poured from their heads to the soles of their feet, and suddenly the audience was silent.
These nobles all knew that with the cavalry of each tribe, which was as little as three or five hundred or at most, and the firearms, bows, arrows, and sabers in their hands, as long as the Huaxia army dispatched tens of thousands of cavalry, it would be enough to sweep the entire grassland, and as long as it took three or five years to kill, it was not impossible to kill all the tribal population of the entire grassland.
Thinking of this section, everyone lay on the ground with their hands and didn't even dare to breathe, lest the emperor be the first to open the knife on themselves.
There were even timid and fearful people crying on the spot: "The emperor spares his life!" β
"Spare your life? Why are you crying for mercy? I'm going to destroy you all, so do I need to waste my time talking nonsense with you here? β
Hu Zhen sneered and continued: "However, some people have to die! β
"You tell me that you have secretly communicated with the remnants of the Qing court, the Empress Dowager Cixi and others, and the Qing court is still your old master, as long as you don't follow the remnants of the Qing court in the future, it will be counted, but some of you actually colluded with the Oros to conquer my empire, that is colluding with outsiders to fight their own people, shouldn't such people die?"
In fighting for these fetter tribes, Hu Zhen still paid attention to his strategy, and planned to kill some people to kill chickens and monkeys to show them, and win over most of them.
"The emperor spares his life, I am also forced to do it!" Someone in the crowd was crying and shouting.
Hu Zhen ignored the man's plea, waved his hand, and ordered Zhang Dajiang, the attendant officer next to him, to take out a long piece of paper and read it out loud: "According to the intelligence and captured records of the Hubei army: Mangdadil, the leader of the Gurle Tribe, sent 300 cavalry to the Baikal Front of the Hubei army to lead the way and enter the Zhangjiakou area; The leader of the Arielhong tribe, Qinger Dili, provided 300,000 catties of horse feed and 500,000 catties of grain to the Baikal Front of the Hubei army; The leader of the Hangwu Diwu tribe, Qin Qiqing, presented two hundred women to the Hubei army for their sexual pleasure; Gu Tianlu, the leader of the Teda Bimao tribe, surrendered to the Hubei army and sent his son and a hundred strong men to serve as soldiers in the Hubei army......"
It took Zhang Dajiang more than ten minutes to finish reading the piece of paper and read out the crimes of 97 people, and in front of the black hole muzzles of the soldiers of the Huaxia Army, there were already seven or eight people below who were so frightened that they peed their pants.
Hu Zhen leaned forward and asked softly: "You say, have you ever done such a thing?" According to the laws of the Empire, this is treason! β
Immediately a ghost howled and howled.
"Your Majesty, you have been wronged, ......"
"Your Majesty, we are forced to ......" (To be continued.) )