Chapter 1 Mobei Riding Camp
In the spring of the 1986th year of the Republic, outside the Great Wall, Chahar Special District, Xilingol, and Dingbian cavalry camps.
The journey is long,
China has borders.
Come out of the front guard,
There is my man's blood.
Drink luminous wine,
Go to the battlefield again.
There is a way back for a hundred battles,
Military merits have broken ten volumes.
Just ask you to treat me,
Sighing at the Great Wall.
Under the bonfire, the soldiers sang passionate battle songs on one side, but stared at the mutton in the fire. The young battalion commander skillfully operated the iron skewers, and the night wind was mixed with the aroma of meat, which made people drool.
Liu Jingxiao probably had the same temperature. She handed it back with her right hand. As expected, the crispy yellow color of the mutton made the taste wide open. She divided the skewers into two parts and shared this rare delicacy with her deputy.
Guo Junqing tasted the exquisite mutton skewers in big mouthfuls, and occasionally started to laugh and play with Liu Jingxiao.
Soon, the atmosphere of the soldiers became higher and higher, and the voice was almost the same. When Liu Jingxiao saw that it was almost done, she put down the iron spoon, stood up, waved her hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, come here! Come! Come! There are good things!"
"What good thing?"
"Yes, battalion commander!"
"Battleman Commander, don't fool us..."
In just one moment, Liu Jingxiao was surrounded by officers and soldiers with three layers inside and three layers outside, which could be said to be incomplete.
While talking, Liu Jingxiao had already made a magic trick to find a sheepskin bag. Look at the shape, the bag seemed to contain some kind of liquid.
"Wine?" The sharp-eyed people's eyes were already shining. In the Rehe area, wine is not a rare thing, but when you enter Xilingol, it is not easy to get wine. In addition, the coldness in this area is so cold, it is the best thing to drink a glass to warm your body.
"Everyone has a small cup!"
"Battery Commander, where did you get it?" The drunkards immediately smelled that the sheepskin bag was not the horse milk wine, but the pure spirit wine, and someone quickly took out their own wine glasses.
Since I entered Xilingol from the dam, I could only drink sour and astringent horse milk wine, but even this kind of poor wine that is difficult to eat is rare.
The young and handsome battalion commander just smiled but didn't answer, but his hands kept resting. He poured wine to the officers and soldiers from sheepskin wine. His movements were quite sophisticated that he never wasted no time.
"The battalion commander bought it from Beizi Temple himself..." The same young deputy battalion commander answered his subordinates' questions with a silver bell-like laugh.
In the minds of his subordinates, the deputy battalion commander has a higher prestige than the battalion commander who is good at fighting. Although he is a female officer, the upper and lower levels can unanimously determine that if the entire battalion does not have a deputy battalion commander, the combat power of the entire battalion will be reduced by at least half.
Not to mention that the deputy battalion commander has excellent abilities, just because she has been in this area for more than a year, it is indispensable to the battalion. Not only is the terrain familiar, but she is also familiar with people, and she is also much cheaper than her own when she goes out to purchase supplies.
Company Commander Wu Canglei had a conflict with the deputy battalion commander, but the battalion commander gave money to the third company commander to purchase it on his own. As a result, the officers and soldiers were surprised to find that if different people bought the same item, there would be a three-fold difference. As a result, the third company commander admitted his mistake to the superiors as soon as possible.
"How did the battalion commander do it?"
"Yes, let's talk!"
"Tell me!"
"Battery Commander, you can have a drink too!"
"Get a drink, battalion commander!"
The discussion below did not stop. The most exciting thing was Wu Canglei, the company commander of the first company. Liu Jingxiao finally spoke, "If I want to drink, is it your turn to... Is this wine? I exchanged it for a rifle..."
Although the sale of this kind of contraband was repeatedly prohibited by the Dingbian Army, this kind of business cannot be stopped for this army that was fighting with the Rouran people.
Fighting with the Rouran rebels who opposed the republic, seizing their baggage, weapons and everything, and then selling them to the relatively neutral Rouran tribe, became the greatest source of wealth for this army.
The extreme shortage of funds has plagued this army called the "Dingbian Army" since its establishment. This army specializing in the fight against the Rouran rebels sometimes cannot sell seized weapons to the Rouran tribe, and these weapons will often return to the hands of the Rouran rebels.
The Rouran people claimed to be descendants of the wolf on the grassland. Among them, several of the most outstanding leaders led the invincible powerful cavalry and established an unprecedentedly huge empire. The territory of the empire was so vast, from the coldest north to the hottest south, from the east where the sun rose to the distant west, across three continents, and countless once powerful kingdoms became pastures of the empire. It took a whole year to ride fast horses in the center of the empire to the frontiers of the empire.
The sun always goes down, and the empire always goes down. The warriors who once bravely fell into peace and dance, now they can no longer pull an ordinary hard bow with their hands, and the bloodlines of the same family are killing each other on the earth for power and territory. In less than a hundred years, a rapidly rising new dynasty drove the empire out of the Great Wall, and the remnants of the empire established several once powerful kingdoms in the north of the desert.
When Jin was miraculously rising outside the pass, the Rourans split the two factions for this. The former King of Jin defeated the faction that opposed him with powerful force. The remaining Rourans swear allegiance to the king of Jin in the name of their family.
In the decades afterwards, a considerable number of Rourans still carried out activities to resist the Former Jin. Former Jin frequently used troops to the northwest, and it was not until the end of the Jin emperor that the Rourans completely obeyed the rule of the Jin. However, the use of troops to the northwest and other frequent wars seriously consumed the strength of the Former Jin Dynasty. At that time, historical records recorded: "One level battle cost 50 million taels of silver, the second level battle cost 140 million taels of silver, and the White Lotus Sect's battle cost 200 million taels of silver..."
After the death of the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the huge dynasty suddenly collapsed. At this time, a peerless hero named Lin Siyuan joined a group of like-minded men on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and made a vow that would remain unchanged throughout his life.
After the tempering of blood and fire, the new republic finally appeared on the land of China. At this time, the princes of Rouran all removed their personal allegiance to the former Jin Dynasty and established an independent regime with the support of their strong neighbors in the north.
In order to quell the rebellion, in the eighth year of the Republic, a general named Xu Dingzheng led only one brigade to the border to achieve the most brilliant results. According to records, the princes of Rouran rushed to him, knelt down and kissed his feet, singing their loyalty to the Republic in order to obtain his forgiveness.
But just over ten years later, the changes in the current situation made the princes Rouran raise the flag of rebellion again, and the two brigade commanders stationed in Mobei were hostile to each other. For the superior enemy troops, one advocated retreat, and the other advocated perseverance to wait for assistance, which laid the cause of defeat.
When the entire army was wiped out the capital, thousands of white bones were added inside and outside Kulun City. The 12th Division, which had created countless glorious history in the history of the Republic, came to his end.
After the Zhifeng civil war and the defeat in the conquest of Silla, the Republic was greatly damaged and was unable to attack the rebels in Mobei. The rebels of the Rourans continued to move south and captured many flag alliances.
At this time, a temporary cavalry unit was sent to quell the rebellion. In several battles, the rebels' attacks were defeated and the Suiyuan Special Zone was defended. However, the huge casualties made them unable to attack north. After that, the cavalry had been escorting the gateway of Beijing for decades.
In the following decades, the two sides repeated the same story. Whenever the water and grass were abundant, the rebels from the north went south to carry out a new round of plunder. The cavalry of Suiyuan chased the enemy's traces on the grassland, and the infantry held in the town until the enemy retreated.
Chapter completed!