September 9, 954.
The Black Mountain Corps defeated Ma Quanyou's most elite First Cavalry Brigade and won a great victory in Heihuo County.
Most of the cavalry brigade was wiped out, more than a thousand people were captured, and a small number escaped.
Ma Lieri and more than a dozen senior officers died in the battle.
When the news reached Songshan City, it was said that Ma Quanyou was extremely sad. He was so angry that he shot and killed the guard next to him. There were rumors that Ma Lieri was actually his illegitimate son.
The Montenegrin side was jubilant. The Montenegrin Corps that participated in the operation, including the 2nd and 3rd Rapid Battalions of the Palace Air Service Regiment, the 1st Sequence Combat Group of the Black Sparrow Force, the Tangyang Guard Brigade and the 104th Brigade, all of which were commended.
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The two-story building behind the Lijiaying guardhouse can now be seen as the headquarters of the Anshan Front of the Black Mountain Corps.
At this time, Lu Ming was in the military intelligence conference room on the first floor, looking at the map of Songshan Road on the table.
There is not an inch of railway on Songshan Road.
In fact, the entire Anshan Province only has one railway trunk line, which runs from Shengjing to the provincial capital of Anshan, and then goes south to the southwestern region of the empire.
In the past few days, there has been continuous good news. An Benhe led the 105th Brigade out of the mountains and successfully recovered the Xiyun area because Ma Quanyou's troops had already retreated completely.
But the best news is that the exploration team has finally confirmed that there are large amounts of oil and gas underground in Heihuo County. However, whether it is possible to exploit it under current technical conditions and whether it is worth exploiting requires further investigation.
But no matter what, it is time to put on the agenda the construction of a branch line from Shengjing to Anshan to Heihuo County.
There was a knock on the door of the conference room, and Chang Lei hurried in, "Your Highness, this is an urgent message from Songshan City."
Lu Ming picked it up and frowned immediately. The telegram said that Ma Quanyou's troops were evacuating Songshan City, but they almost destroyed all the important facilities in Songshan City, including the only few factories in Songshan. They also started a raging fire, and many houses were affected.
People from the Military Intelligence Department are already organizing personnel for disaster relief.
"Send a telegram to Qi Huaide. All the losses in Songshan City and even Songshan Road, including loss of life and economic losses, must be compensated by the Ma Quanyou gang in Sanyuan Road. Qi Huaide is the governor of the Northern Frontier. Sanyuan Road is under his jurisdiction, so he has an obligation to pay compensation!"
While Lu Ming was speaking, the confidential secretary beside him took urgent notes with a pen.
Just when he declared war on Ma Quanyou, he received a telegram of condemnation from the Northern Frontier Province in the name of Qi Huaide.
But it has been much quieter in the past few days. After all, Ma Quanyou lost an arm in just over ten days, and now that Ma Quanyou's troops have completely evacuated Songshan Road, the risk of a full-scale war with the northern border has been greatly reduced.
But the crimes committed by Ma Quanyou cannot be let go.
After pondering for a while, Lu Ming waved his hand and said, "No need to polish it, just send it out according to my original words!"
The confidential secretary left as ordered.
The phone on the table suddenly rang urgently. Lu Ming picked it up. Since it was a call to this room, he had his reasons for answering the call in person.
After hearing a few words from the person inside, Lu Ming's face darkened.
However, it was Kawamoto Masayoshi, the Japanese ambassador to Shengjing and also the chief director of the Shengjing Municipal Council, who was holding a press conference.
It was announced that the five prefectures originally belonging to Anshan, namely "Jindong", "Jinxi", "Bangzhou", "Wangcheng" and "Dongri", were purchased by the Kingdom of Dongying from An Mingyuan, the successor of Anxi Governor An Laoxi. At the same time, an agreement was reached with several brigade commanders in the northern border who were currently maintaining peace in these five prefectures. From the 1st of next month, Dongying would officially take over these five prefectures and unify them into the overseas territory of the Kingdom of Dongying, named "Xinri" territory.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Ming paced back and forth.
An Mingyuan is the eldest son of An Laoxi. He is hostile to An Laoxi's descendant Shuangmiao Baifeng, whom he supports, and has fled to the northwest.
Selling these five paths was a favor to An Mingyuan, as he was afraid that the Japanese would just give them away for free after promising some benefits.
The price in Alaska is very cheap, it’s not even very cheap.
On the contrary, the brigade commander who originally sent troops from the northern border to occupy these five routes will definitely gain a lot of benefits.
Moreover, the "Wangcheng" and "Dongri" roads were captured by Ma Quanyou's troops. It seems that they were approaching the Japanese very quickly.
Qi Huaide would probably agree that introducing Japanese people into Anshan would also help to counter the Heishan and Longbei coalition forces.
Lu Ming turned his head and looked at the map of Anshan hanging on the wall, if he accepted the current situation.
Then it will become that of the fourteen circuits southeast of Anshan, half will be occupied by ourselves and the other half by Longbei, with seven circuits each.
If you add Songshan Road, there will be eight roads in total.
In the northeast direction, the Japanese occupied five roads and the northern border occupied six roads.
Anshan Province is extremely vast, with a total of thirty-nine districts.
There are now twenty-six roads divided among the four directions, with only thirteen left. There are four roads sandwiched between the divided roads, all of which are extremely barren, as well as three roads around Anshan City and six roads in the northwest.
Just as he was thinking about it, the phone rang again. It was Wang Ding, the first deputy commissioner of the Southeast Pacification Office, calling, saying that Kawamoto Masayoshi called him and wanted to coordinate and communicate with Commissioner Zhang and the five parties of Northern Xinjiang, Longbei, and Anshan to sign a cooperation agreement to end the chaos in Anshan.
Lu Ming hesitated for a moment, "I won't show up. You can go and talk, but there is a prerequisite. If the problem of Ma Quanyou's gang is not resolved, we in Montenegro do not think there is a basis for the parties to reach an agreement. In addition, we do not recognize An Mingyuan's pseudo-regime, so An Mingyuan's sale of any land in Anshan is illegal and invalid. Therefore, we will not recognize the five eastern Jindao as Japanese territory. On the contrary, it belongs to Anshan Province and is an inseparable part of Anshan Province." He paused and said, "Contact Chairman Miao Baifeng and ask her to condemn An Mingyuan's despicable behavior of selling ancestral land."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Ming looked at Hong Ying and Chang Lei, "You guys should stay here. I'll go to Songshan to take a look."
The Guard Company and the Red Feather Guards can be said to be extremely advanced mobile forces, but if they are too far away from their homeland and the railway lines, it will be difficult to replenish their fuel, which will weaken these two forces that are armed to the teeth.
What's more, there is an exploration team here, so it's a good transit point.
Red Eagle whispered, "Yes!"
Chang Lei didn't know Lu Ming's biggest secret, and couldn't help looking embarrassed.
But he knew that Red Eagle was closer to His Highness. Seeing her respond, he thought that His Highness had made other arrangements for his safety. After hesitating for a moment, he stood at attention and said, "Yes!"
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Bring Ma Zhenbang here!"
Hongying turned and left. Not long after, he led a burly man in. The man had the appearance of a grassland tribesman, and his hair was oddly shaped and he had a rat-tail braid. After he came in, he knelt on one knee in front of Lu Ming, with a pious look on his face, "Chi Nuer greets the master!"
Lu Ming looked at him and smiled: "Get up! How is your injury?"
This burly man, Ma Zhenbang, is actually the commander of Ma Lieri's wolf cavalry, and his real name is Ma Chinar.
Lu Ming felt that the name was too discriminatory, so he changed his name to Ma Zhenbang.
The wolf cavalry actually all came from the same tribe and belonged to the grassland slave tribe, which means that all the people in the tribe were slaves of Ma Quanyou.
Ma Quanyou selected the children with strong foundation from the slave tribe, and subjected them to brutal training and brainwashing since childhood.
The Wolf Cavalry has always been maintained at 500 people and has always been under the command of the First Brigade. Every year, those over 35 are eliminated and new members are added.
On that day, the Wolf Cavalry were ordered to attack Lijiaying, but they fell into an ambush. The engineers dug various trenches, and the gap they came from was blocked by several armored vehicles, and they were all surrounded.
Another loudspeaker announced that Ma Lieri had been executed, but Ma Chinar led all his troops in a suicide attack. None of his troops fled, and they gathered together and charged again and again.
Of the five hundred wolf riders, more than three hundred were killed, and the rest were captured, and the captured were all injured to varying degrees.
Ma Chi Nur was lucky as he was knocked unconscious by the blast from the bomb.
Lu Ming originally wanted to shoot them all, after all, they were just a group of mindless killing machines.
But when Heishan talked about this with Liuli, Liuli knew the customs of this tribe and came up with an idea.
So, Machinuer met the envoy from the imperial capital. In addition, there was a contract written by His Royal Highness the Prince of Black Mountain Castle himself, which brought these prisoners of war into his own slave tribe.
As expected, Machinuer bit his thumb immediately, pressed his fingerprint on the contract, knelt down and swore the most solemn oath on the grassland to be loyal to His Royal Highness the Prince of Black Mountain Fort from then on.
Obviously, it was God's will that they were not killed in battle but were defeated and captured. At the same time, their original owners had no intention of redeeming them but abandoned them. So they no longer belonged to their original owners and became slaves of the victors.
They all felt it was a great honor to be taken as slaves by the princes whose status was much higher than their original masters.
This has been the ancient tradition of the Nu tribe, but since Ma Quanyou's grandfather unified the grassland more than 50 years ago, the Nu tribe has never changed its owner.
With the order of His Royal Highness the Prince, Ma Chinar and others followed and served Commissioner Zhang from then on. When Commissioner Zhang was outside, he was the incarnation of His Royal Highness the Prince.
Ma Chi Nur also carried out the order to the letter and recognized Commissioner Zhang as his second master.
Just like they were Ma Quanyou's slaves in the beginning, but the wolf cavalry served Ma Lieri.
Looking at Ma Chi Nuer kneeling in front of him and refusing to get up, Lu Ming sighed in his heart.
The death of more than 300 comrades in battle was not a matter of hatred at all for Ma Chi Nur and his men. They were willing to go through fire and water for their new master in a blink of an eye.
But this is their tribal tradition, and this is the value system they have formed since childhood, and there is nothing they can do about it.
However, in fact, among the captured wolf riders, excluding those who were seriously injured or possibly disabled, there were only about sixty or seventy people who could finally be organized into his own cavalry guards. They were small and sharp, which was just right for taking them with him this time when he went to the border area of Songshan Road to assess the enemy situation.