The three cavalry battalions that pursued the horse thieves all returned one after another, and the four airships were still searching for the remnants of the enemy, and it was estimated that the number of Mongolian horse thieves who could escape from their pursuit in the end was no more than 500.

The attack of the horse thieves was very sudden, and it also reflected the elusive characteristics of the horse thieves. If it weren't for the Far East Company, even if it was such a powerful force as the Horqin Ministry, there would be nothing they could do.

The Military Committee of the Far East Company also learned the news of the attack on the caravan, which made Gao Jianguo furious, and someone dared to attack the idea of the Far East Company, and he really didn't want to live.

He and Li Ming rushed to the battlefield in person by helicopter, and after listening to Zhao Guan's report, Gao Jianguo had a gloomy face and said angrily: "What is the airboat detachment doing, thousands of horse thieves rushed over, they didn't react at all, if it wasn't for the cavalry squad that discovered the traces of the horse thieves, we would have suffered a big loss." ”

Li Ming said with a smile: "I just used the radio to chat with the airship detachment, and there is indeed a reason why they didn't find the horse thief for the first time today." First of all, the distance between the front and back of the herd of cattle, sheep and horses was too long, and then there was a fog this morning, and the visibility was not good, when the horse thief rushed over, an airship happened to fly over, and the horse thief's luck was indeed very good, and he got in directly from this gap. ”

Gao Jianguo nodded and said: "It seems that we can't always be superstitious about aerial reconnaissance, and we must also strengthen the construction of the ground reconnaissance team. ”

When he said this, he suddenly laughed, and then said to Li Ming: "Judging from today's battle situation, the Mongolian cavalry battalion has indeed played a very high level. Although Zhao Guan's tactics today are problematic, his approach is understandable, at least his spirit of sacrifice is worth carrying forward.

Our cavalry unit has also been training for more than a year, and it's time to let it out and bite people. We simply let out all the cavalry units. How about a large-scale crackdown on bandits in the steppe? Ha ha...... By the way, help us in the Far East to search for broken settlements on the steppe. ”

In the next few days, the wind was calm, and a large herd of cattle, sheep and horses also rushed to the Far East pasture on the south bank of the Liao River. The Military Commission also reported the news of the attack on the Far Eastern Merchants Group by horse thieves to the board of directors of the company.

He also strongly demanded that a large-scale campaign to suppress bandits and horses be carried out to thoroughly sweep away the bandits and horse thieves on the grasslands and to restore a quiet and peaceful environment to the people of the grasslands. The Military Council's anti-bandit program was approved in the board committee.

The Military Council immediately took strong action and mobilized all six Mongolian cavalry brigades and six cavalry brigades in the Outer Northeast. Each cavalryman, with four horses, carrying a month's worth of supplies and ammunition, roared out of the northern steppes in brigade units.

In order to cooperate with the Military Commission's large-scale anti-bandit plan. The Air Force Department dispatched all six airships in Liaodong to provide all-round support to the troops involved in the suppression of bandits.

This time the horse thieves attacked, and the air boat detachment of the Air Force Department did not find the enemy's trace in time, and the military commissariat was lost. made Li Yuancong and Ding Weiguo very angry, and summoned the airboat detachment to scold.

Therefore, in this anti-bandit operation, the Air Force Department took the initiative to ask to participate in the war. And all the airship detachments were sent over, ready to wash away the shame of the Air Force. The six airships deployed by the Air Force Department in Liaodong all took off and headed north, and Ding Weiguo had already put down his cruel words, if the airship detachment dropped the chain again, then don't go back to Liaodong, you will be floating in the air in the future.

Twelve cavalry brigades crossed the Liao River one after another. Killed to the northern steppes, in addition to a brigade of field divisions and a large number of combat logistics support detachments. Escorting logistical supplies, following behind the Far Eastern cavalry, slowly advancing to the north.

The news of the elimination of thousands of elite horse thieves in the Far East spread throughout the steppe in a very short time. Then came the news that surprised them even more that tens of thousands of troops from the Far East had headed north.

When the Horqin Ministry learned the news, they all became nervous. They still can't figure out the intentions of the Far East. Specially sent an envoy to Liaodong on a fast horse, wondering what the ultimate purpose of the Far East was?

But the Far East's reply was simple, that is, to suppress bandits. For many years, Mongolian bandits and horse thieves have been extremely rampant on the grasslands, and wantonly killing people of all ethnic groups on the grasslands is simply a heinous crime. The people are extremely angry, and the people of the grassland are full of complaints.

The Far Eastern Company decided to carry out a large-scale extermination of horse thieves on the grasslands, and would not tolerate the cruel Mongolian horse thieves, vowing to exterminate them.

Don't look at what the Far East Company said nicely, the Horqin Department doesn't think so, you are advancing northward with tens of thousands of iron horsemen, who knows what your idea is. Although they did not dare to offend the Far East, they could not take it lightly, and they also gathered tens of thousands of elite iron cavalry, and also played the banner of suppressing bandits, and waited for them in the sphere of influence of the Horqin Department.

Fortunately, the Far East's northward march was only an armed parade in the nature of an exercise, and it was also an assessment conducted by the Central Military Commission on the training of the Far Eastern Cavalry Corps for more than a year. It will focus on testing the troops' ability to assemble quickly, deploy quickly, conduct ultra-long-range raids, penetrate operations in large depths, and survive in the field for a long time.

In the future, these minority cavalry will be the backbone of the Mongolian cavalry corps and the indigenous cavalry of the Outer Northeast, as the main cavalry assault force in the Far East.

The CMC's idea is to use tens of thousands of elite Mongolian cavalry and the indigenous cavalry of the Outer Northeast, supplemented by hundreds of thousands of Mongolian herdsmen's cavalry and the indigenous militia of the Outer Northeast, like locusts, to feed the war all the way and to advance in the northwest direction overwhelmingly.

In the air, dense airships are cruising around, providing all-round support for the Far Eastern cavalry units on the ground, such as reconnaissance and early warning, communication relay, logistics supply, operational command, and decapitation bombing.

Tens of thousands of cavalry troops in the Far East roared into the grasslands, and with the support of the airboat detachment, many Mongolian bandits and horse thieves were annihilated by the fierce Far Eastern cavalry. A large number of small tribes were driven to the southern Far East.

In order not to startle the snakes, the Far East did not enter the actual control area of the Horqin Division, but the rest of the Horqin Grassland was swept by more than a dozen cavalry brigades in the Far East. This also made the princes of the Horqin Department breathe a sigh of relief, and simply let the Far East toss.

The entire anti-bandit operation continued unanimously until the onset of winter. In the past few months, the real Mongolian bandits and horse thieves have not been eliminated much, but the poor small tribes on the grassland, as well as the hard people who wander on the grassland, have brought back more than 100,000 people.

These Mongols were all placed in the grasslands of the Liaohetao in the north of Shenyang, and the young and strong men between the ages of 15 and 55 were divided into squadrons for every 100 people, a brigade for 1,000 people, and a detachment of 5,000 people. The main ones were herding cattle for the Far East, domesticating horses, tanning leather, etc. (To be continued......)

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