Chapter 391: Recovering Liaonan 6
The Yuan and Mongolian nobles, who had ruled in the Central Plains for less than a hundred years, may have a little simple national consciousness in their minds. [No pop-ups]
However, in ancient society, even the most advanced Han people in the stage of agricultural civilization did not have any national concept, so it is nonsense to think that ordinary Mongols who re-degenerated into nomadic tribes in the northern steppes have any national consciousness.
If you have milk, you are a mother, and whoever gives benefits will follow whom, this is the consciousness characteristic of nomads. The Russian Cossacks, the Mongols in China, they all had such ideological characteristics.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, many Mongols served under Zhu Yuanzhang and participated in the Ming army. Just last year, the Ming general soldier Man Gui was said to be a Mongol. Houjin had the Eight Banners of Mongolia in his hands, and there was an army of Tatars on the side of Tsarist Russia. It can be seen from this that the Mongols do not care who they serve and who they work for, the key is whether they can benefit from serving this person's power or regime.
Let's take these Mongols who have just been captured by the soldiers of the First Regiment of Liaonan of the Revival Army. With the exception of a few tribal leaders who rebelled fiercely, the majority of ordinary Mongols were not in the slightest uncomfortable with being captives of the Baath Party and accepting the administration of the Ba'ath Party.
You know, within the Mongols themselves, there were also constant wars between various tribes. Defeating the other tribe and annexing the other tribe is a norm in the steppe.
In Ah Q's words, what the monk does, he naturally does. Transforming the Mongols into their own subordinate troops, after the Jin Jurchen did it, there was no reason why the revival army could not do it.
Just as most tenant farmers thought that accepting the leadership and management of the Baath Party was just a change of owner. These Mongols were very obedient in accepting the Baath Party as their new leader when their tribal leader died or failed.
Although the language was not very fluent, the management of the prisoner of war camp of the First Army in Liaonan did not know much about what these Mongol prisoners thought. However, judging from their very obedient labor performance in the past few days, these people at least do not have a strong sense of resistance to their current situation.
How can there be any sense of resistance?
Most of the Mongol captives thought that these few days of prisoner life were like those of the Western Heavens.
Take a hot bath, put on warm thick new clothes, and let go of your appetite for those grains and meat. Sleep in a warm, sturdy house with thick cotton mattresses and quilts. In such a day, not to mention these Mongolians, who are mostly ordinary people, even the leaders of those small and medium-sized tribes, they will not enjoy such living treatment.
Backward productive forces, cruel living environment, if they were not forced to do nothing, why would the Mongols fight all day and night. For them, even the grass that cattle and sheep eat is not unlimited. For the sake of the pastureland with abundant water and grass, the Mongols have to die countless people in the competition every year.
Let's take the simplest example. In the extreme living environment of the Mongols, it is extremely difficult to reproduce the next generation. Otherwise, how could there be such an extreme marriage system as the death of a brother and a younger brother becoming popular among the Mongols.
Just like the scholar in modern society said, poor ghosts have no reproductive rights at any time, and if several bachelors can marry a wife together, the poor ghosts will have fun.
Why do cannibal tribes exist? Why do the Japanese send the old man into the mountains to starve to death? Why would ordinary people be indifferent to bury their dead children in pigsty and toilets and turn them into fertilizer? The backwardness of the productive forces will lead to the cruelty of human beings. There's no way around it.
Therefore, for the six or seven hundred Mongols who were captured by the Baath Party, the fact that the Baath gods raised their hands to thunder and throw grenades, and raised their hands to shoot with their rifles really made them pee their pants in horror and made them regard the Baath Party as a devil-like existence. However, when the Baath Party gave them food, clothing, and a good house to live in, they quickly suppressed the fear of the Baath Party in their hearts, and regarded the Baath Party as an immortal messenger to save the suffering and save the suffering.
Roads are built at temperatures of minus ten degrees. Of course, this kind of work is very hard. But for Nusannaha, the hardship was far from unbearable. Thinking about the beautiful food that you can eat at the next meal, thinking about the soup and vegetables that are rich in flavor and salty and full of salt in Mongolia, the work of opening mountains and quarrying is not so hard.
Of course, Nusan Ha and other children under the age of eighteen and the elderly over forty did much easier work than the Mongol captives, who had already reached adulthood. And their children, who are less than 18 years old, only need to work half a day a day. The rest of the time, they would learn about culture with Baath Party teachers from Bakshi.
In more than ten days of study, the smart and clever Nusanha has learned a lot of Mandarin daily language, and he has learned almost all 26 pinyin letters. "Baksi", who was very good to him, also gave him a new name for Zhao Changsheng, the instructor of the Renaissance Army, who would give all the Mongolian children names in the order of "Hundred Family Names".
In Zhao Changsheng's opinion, the leaders of the Revival Army were definitely the people with the greatest ability he knew. He saw with his own eyes on the construction site how the big iron oxen rumbling and emitting black smoke swallowed the stones into their stomachs and then expelled countless small stones. Such a big iron bull only listens to the leaders of the revival army. These big iron oxen that made the Mongols kneel and kowtow, as long as the leaders of the revival army gently pulled it, it would honestly not move.
Zhao Changsheng felt that the leaders of the Ba'ath Party must be great heroes, otherwise how could they subdue the devil-like iron bull and let them serve the leaders of the Ba'ath Party.
Not only did something like the big iron bull that he had never seen before, but Zhao Changsheng felt that the Baath Party was amazing. As far as Zhao Changsheng's most common things are concerned, such as horses, the horses raised by the Baath Party are several times larger than all the horses that Zhao Changsheng has ever seen.
The Renaissance Party's Fuxing horses, which have an average height of 155 cm or more, use a modern Tohoku horse as their mother. Naturally, compared to the Mongolian horses of this era, which had an average height of about 120 centimeters, the tall and stout Revival horses were of course behemoths.
Zhao Changsheng has seen the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens. But it is precisely because like Zhao Changsheng that the captured Mongols have seen the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens, they will more honestly accept the management of the Fuxing Army.
The Mongols, who had also seen the fighting power of the Baxing Army, knew that the Jurchens might be fierce, but that ferocity was not irresistible. On the contrary, the combat effectiveness of the Renaissance Army that they have seen has no possibility for them to resist at all.
Obedience to the strong is the iron law of the steppe people