A team of armored vehicles, trucks and cavalry moved slowly across the green grassland.
The armored cavalry company led by Lu Ming was the vanguard and walked in the front. It was August now, and the grasslands in the Northern Territory were in the season of lush grass and singing birds. There was abundant rainfall this year, and the wormwood on the rolling hills of the vast grasslands was more than a meter tall. From a military perspective, even if a large force set up an ambush, it would not be easy to detect.
On the grass slope ahead, there were several herdsmen herding their sheep. When they saw the convoy and horse team here, they didn't react much.
Ma Chinar whistled and galloped away with a few riders.
Soon he brought those pale-faced herdsmen to Lu Ming.
Most of the time, Lu Ming rode a horse. In addition, there was a seat for Lu Ming in the No. 10 armored vehicle in case of encountering the enemy.
According to the confessions of the herdsmen, what Ma Hairen said was correct. A dozen miles ahead was the small grassland tribe closest to Li Han.
The captured herdsmen stuttered and asked in a low voice to Machinar's men, "Are the people from Zhongzhou going to go to war with us?"
Lord Chi Nuer, why are you working with the people of Zhongzhou
Obviously, even the tribes close to Han don't know much about the outside world.
Everyone knows that a troop called the Japanese has recently arrived in Li Han and wants to be affiliated with Khan Ma Quanyou. We can sell them food at a high price, and maybe even exchange a few slaves for barley wine.
After the armored cavalry approached and quickly took control of this small tribe of a few hundred people, the situation became even more chaotic.
After all, although they were on the edge of the grassland, they had not robbed the people of Central China for a long time, and had no idea what was going on. Some of them went back to their tents and took out their earthen guns and muskets to resist, but they were all shot to death by Ma Chi Nur and others.
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Next to the armored vehicle, Lu Ming sat on the ground and was about to ask Ma Hairen to record on the loudspeaker.
The main content is to enumerate the crimes of Ma Quanyou. He has been found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Northern Frontier Court. The Montenegrin Corps only wants to eradicate Ma Quanyou's ruling group. The tribal civilians are not guilty, but they must now submit to the Principality of Montenegro.
In fact, broadcasting these things to the herders will not make them repent, it will only give their side a legitimate reason to act.
How to manage these herdsmen is already a headache.
Two thousand years ago, the Zhongzhou Dynasty conquered the Sanyuan grassland. From grassland owners to common people, everyone was forced to abandon their own language and writing and switch to Zhongzhou writing. Even their names were all Zhongzhou names, and the most common surnames were Ma, Niu, and Yang.
The three major tribes of horses, cattle and sheep are the Hongyuan, Huangyuan and Lanyuan tribes of the Sanyuan tribe.
The Hongyuan tribe produced a man named Ma Quanyou, who is now the leader of the three alliances. He has also established his own country and become the Khan of the grassland.
So, even if their names, languages, and writing systems have been "assimilated", they are still nomadic tribes at heart, and their behavioral habits and thinking patterns are completely incompatible with those of the people of Central Plains.
In fact, the Sanyuan Grassland does not have any mineral resources, and its territory cannot provide any buffer for the Principality. If the Northern Territory develops well after entering the industrial society, there is no need to absorb its land and population, which will become a burden. If the Sanyuan Grassland belongs to the outside world, we can freely exchange industrial products for their livestock products and use the scissors gap to harvest the resources they create.
On the contrary, if they must belong to the same country, they will be given various financial support and preferential treatment, and they may feel dissatisfied and resentful in their hearts.
If it is defined as outside the region, our people have a high standard of living and developed humanities, then most of them will cry out to join our country because of historical origins. my country can either absorb them or ignore them, which is the way of the king.
However, these are things to come later. Let’s first defeat Ma Quanyou’s group.
Looking at Ma Hairen recording into the loudspeaker with a little nervousness, Lu Ming shook his head. In his previous life, many people would be nervous when they first appeared on camera. In this world, he would also be nervous when recording for the first time.
"Captain Wang... Captain Wang!" the woman's voice was slightly angry. Two slender white figures turned around from the back of the armored vehicle. In front was a beautiful young woman in her twenties, and behind her was a pretty girl timidly following. Both of them were wearing Japanese military medical uniforms, snow-white medical skirts that were a bit like military windbreakers, with white pants, white socks and small white soft shoes visible under the skirt. They wore snow-white medical caps with a red cross pattern. They were a beautiful sight among the rough-headed soldiers.
"Captain Wang! Why are you shooting at random? We are here to liberate the herdsmen, not to hurt them, right?!" The beautiful female military doctor who was talking to Lu Ming angrily was the company's medical officer Ohyumiko, and next to her was the nurse Kana Odoka.
According to the organizational structure of the Montenegrin Corps, each company level will be equipped with one medical officer and two nurses.
However, the recent expansion of the army has been too rapid, and the newly formed divisions and brigades cannot yet reach this level. There is a serious shortage of medical officers at the company level.
In the Ouyue Brigade, medical officers and nurses are all from the Ouyue Division's family members and overseas Chinese, and there is also a shortage of medical officers at the first level.
Because the standard equipment of the Japanese division was not as good as that of the Montenegrin Corps, even the battalion-level unit of a thousand people was not equipped with a medical officer, and only the regiment-level unit had a military doctor.
However, the Armored Cavalry Company was the elite company of the Austrian-Vietnamese Brigade, so it was assigned military doctors and nurses.
Moreover, Ohyumiko is not only a doctor, but her husband is also the division chief of staff, Yamamoto Hiroshi. She also volunteered to join the armored cavalry company. It was she who asked to join the most dangerous front-line company.
Yamamoto Hiroshi is a typical young Japanese officer, a very stubborn one, and not from Oku-Koshi. He was the chief of staff appointed by the military before the Oku-Koshi Division came to the Northern Territory from Japan, and is generally considered to be sent by the military to monitor the Oku-Koshi Division.
It seemed that Yamamoto Hiroshi was extremely resistant to the Okuetsu Division's intention to help the Montenegrins fight.
Like her husband, Ohyumiko has a strong sense of national pride and mission.
The difference is that Ohyumiko may be more philanthropic, so she is also willing to participate in the action of liberating the slave-like herdsmen.
The female medical staff from Japan, especially those who came to Zhongzhou, were all like Ohyumiko. They were instilled with a strong sense of honor while attending medical school. They believed that they came to Zhongzhou to work with their own soldiers to liberate the poor people in the northern region, and that their ultimate goal in the future was to drive the Western forces back to the West.
Lu Ming knew this very well. Even if they were Japanese soldiers, the military would not advertise that you were going to invade, kill and burn.
Instead, it instills very lofty goals.
But there is no doubt that war can turn people into beasts.
Now Ohyumiko was obviously very angry because some tribesmen were beaten to death and she was unable to rescue them, so she came to argue with the captain in charge of Nakasu.
Hearing her tone, Ma Chi Nuer, who was standing next to Lu Ming, immediately widened his eyes.
Lu Ming waved at Ma Chinar, looked at Dayumiko and said, "It's just a misunderstanding. This is a recording. It's telling the herders not to be afraid. Although we have printed leaflets, most of the herders are illiterate. It won't have much effect if we distribute them. It's better to broadcast them through a loudspeaker." As he spoke, he pointed at Ma Hairen who was fiddling with the loudspeaker.
Ma Hairen gave Ohyumiko an awkward smile. No matter whether they were from Central China or Japan, as long as they were arguing with each other, he was an outsider and did not dare to say anything.
Lu Ming looked at Ohyumiko and his eyes suddenly lit up. "I think you should do the recording. Women's voices are softer and can better comfort the herdsmen. You are also fluent in Zhongzhou dialect."
"Okay!" Ohyumiko agreed immediately and happily. This would reduce conflicts with the herdsmen, which was exactly the purpose of her visit.