The battle at Tru took place on January 1st, when the people of Middle-earth were supposed to be celebrating the New Year.
For the grassland herdsmen, there has always been a traditional New Year, also called the Lord's Day, which is the eve of the rainy season every year. The herdsmen want to thank the Lord's family for the work and the grace that the family can survive, and they also have to give the most precious gift.
Gifts to express your gratitude.
On January 1, 956, the herdsmen of the Tru tribe decided to hold Thanksgiving Day on this day.
In front of Mayor Wang's felt bag, there were flocks of cattle and sheep, which the herdsmen wanted to present to His Highness the Prince.
Mayor Wang went through many reports, and finally the prince responded via wireless radio, using a loudspeaker to broadcast to all the herdsmen. The general meaning was that the cattle and sheep would no longer be harvested. You should live a good life. When life gets better and better in the future, welcome to Black Mountain Fort.
If you want to play, bring me some souvenir gifts when the time comes, I will be very happy.
His Highness the Prince's magnetic and rich voice, full of love, made the herdsmen feel like listening to the holy voice. Many herdsmen cried with joy. They felt that the world was not as big as the prince's kindness.
Just when the herdsmen listened to the prince's words and took their cattle and sheep home, the distant sentry fired a warning shot, and the battle in the Tru Valley began.
There is almost no suspense. Ma Quanyou's prairie cavalry brigade also has five reorganized battalions, with more than 2,700 people, all coming out.
I thought that during the New Year, people in Central China would be generally happy, so they would be lax and lack the will to fight.
He also slaughtered the Tru tribe who had completely forgotten their sect and used their blood to atone for their sins.
But unexpectedly, the cavalry brigade got into the encirclement, and ambushes were everywhere in the Tru Valley.
What brigade commander Ma Biao didn't expect was that his adjutant Ma Shengyi shot him in the head.
As a result, the raid turned into a one-sided massacre.
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On January 12, Prince Heishanbao arrived at Wuhanlao Army.
This is already the extreme northwest, and further west is the Baihai. The remnants of Ma Quanyou and Chen Xingchang retreated into that area.
Wuhan is already a desert, hilly and mountainous land where border people live together. Further west, Baihai, is a large barren land with swamps and grasslands on the edge. It is difficult for large troops to move, let alone mechanized troops. It has passed.
The swamps and grasslands that swallow people are the huge inland sea - the White Sea. Further to the west, there is a plateau area thousands of meters above the ground, with towering mountains and endless desert.
The strange terrain was something Lu Ming had never seen before in his previous life, and it was also unique in this world.
Those stationed in Wuhan are mainly the Black Mountain Fort Mountain Division and the Air Service Regiment.
The B Air Service Regiment, also known as the Black Bird Unit, has been fighting continuously and has made remarkable achievements. It has returned to Montenegro for repairs.
When Prince Heishanbao arrived at Wuhanlao Army, the tribes of Huangyuan in the Sanyuan area and the western prairie surrendered. As a result, the western prairie was peacefully restored, and the Sanyuan grassland was officially incorporated into the territory of the principality.
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"Company Commander Wang" is currently the head of the special work department of the Wuhan side of Montenegro's General Administration of Secrecy.
In the Wuhan area, if we must divide the ethnic groups, the border residents can have more than a dozen ethnic groups, mainly yellow-skinned farmers, dark-red-skinned mountain people, white-skinned herdsmen, desert people, etc.
But they cannot be said to be Central Asians or Westerners.
There are many local languages, and they are not as civilized as the prairie to accept the languages of Central China.
The area is vast and sparsely populated, and Wuhan is designated as a special border county directly under the principality. The county chief is directly appointed by the cabinet.
But this county is surprisingly large, covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, which is comparable to many autonomous prefectures and provinces in the south.
Wuhan County has been an important border trade town since ancient times. The trade routes from Northern Xinjiang and Haixi came from the east and north and converged here.
When Chen Xingchang nominally ruled here, he created the Wuhan Road and only appointed one Wuhan Daoyin. He could not really rule here at all. Daoyin was beaten to death by angry border residents because he provoked public anger when collecting taxes. At that time, Chen Xingchang
They were so defeated on the battlefield in Northern Xinjiang that they had no time to pay attention to this place.
Later, Chen Xingchang's tribe and Ma Quanyou's tribe retreated into the White Sea and passed by in a hurry.
Some of the baggage was even moved too slowly and the guards were not strong enough, so they were robbed by border residents.
The strong folk customs here can be seen clearly.
Since ancient times, the sky is high and the emperor is far away here, and the Chen family is the one who really has the final say in Wuhan City.
They are descendants of officials who were sent here during the Central Continent Dynasty, and they gradually spread out. However, it is difficult to say that they are Central Continent people. On the contrary, in terms of living customs, etc., they have become border people and integrated into the border people. Even their language is
Use local dialect.
Lu Ming had many such situations in his previous life. In the feudal dynasty era, before the south was developed, many barbarian chief families were former Central Plains people who entered the barbarian areas for various reasons, integrated into the barbarians, and relied on the knowledge brought by the Central Plains.
, led the family to gradually become stronger, but he himself became a member of the barbarian tribe, living a barbarian life and speaking the barbarian language.
Before Qi Huaide became the governor of Northern Xinjiang, almost all Wuhan Daoyin were surnamed Chen.
After Qi Huaide came to power, he appointed several official Daoyin Laiwuhan to take office, but the results were not very good. Those who just wanted to make money got along well with the three major Chen families, and they could get a lot of benefits.
Especially in today's era, a large number of low-priced industrially produced daily necessities are transported here and then sold to border tribes in exchange for local specialties or unique gold sand, which is extremely profitable.
Wuhan City has its own abnormal prosperity.
The new county magistrate was chosen by a son named Chen, but he was very young, just in his early thirties, and had attended university in the northern Xinjiang provincial capital.
But its own branches, outside of the three most powerful Chen families, have been traders for generations. In the generation of County Magistrate Chen Shunming, his father was a good family man and set up a business in Wuhan City, which gained some
With money, he sent his son to study in a big city.
After graduating from university, Chen Shunming went to Shengjing to develop. He developed well and was admitted to the Montenegro Concession Affairs Administration.
Now, he has been appointed as the magistrate of Wuhan County.
However, Chen Shunming knew very well that in fact, the affairs of this county were still led by Minister Wang for the time being, and all work was based on preparations for marching into Baihai and finally defeating the remnants of Chen Xingchang and Ma Quanyou.
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The office of the Wuhan Special Work Department of the General Administration of Secrecy is an octagonal house typical of the local wealthy families. It is integrated into the Zhongzhou-style building and is similar to the Hakka architectural style of the previous life.
It is a square castle-like building with various houses and small buildings inside, surrounded by two floors on all sides. There is a watchtower on each side, commonly known as a four-corner tower. On the outer wall, there is a tower several meters high in each of the four corners.
The watchtowers form an octagonal defense structure.
In the octagonal enclosure of the Special Work Department, hundreds of staff and armed personnel from various departments were stationed here.
This place is called "No. 1 Wuhan Street" in various correspondence from the Principality.
At this time, in the south office building of "No. 1 Wuhan Street", in the office on the second floor, Lu Ming felt a strange feeling in his heart as he looked out the window at the town whose architectural style was very different from that in the mainland, and the border residents in various strange costumes.
It really feels like we are at the end of the world.
Turning back and looking at the letter on the table, it mainly contained an analysis of the ethnic groups here and an investigation of the three major families of the Chen family.
In addition, there are sporadic information about Bai Haili.
The remnants of Ma Quanyou and Chen Xingchang who fled into the extreme northwest of the White Sea numbered 20,000 to 30,000 people. There were hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of barren land. The border residents probably numbered only 100,000, and their lives were difficult. Not only was it impossible to support two or three people.
With tens of thousands of soldiers and a small number of family records, only 20,000 to 30,000 people settled down to be self-reliant. In fact, they were competing with the border residents for limited survival resources.
However, no accurate information has been released yet.
In fact, the life of the border residents in the barren land northwest of the White Sea has always been a mystery. The population, etc., and the living conditions of the tribes are all estimated.
There are also legends that there are still descendants of barbarians there, but they have degraded. Although they are tall, they are no longer as giant as their ancestors, but are generally around 2.45 meters tall, and they are no longer as afraid of warmth as their ancestors.
However, we still have to wait for information on the specific situation.
There is a staff officer next to Chen Xingchang who has been bribed by the Military Intelligence Division for a long time, but he has lost contact recently and has not yet sent a telegram back.
The Military Intelligence Division has transferred his relationship to the Wuhan Special Work Department and has been waiting for his confidential message for several days.
The remaining bandits in the White Sea must be pacified as soon as possible, so that the Northern Territory can truly be stabilized.
For this, the price paid was to be at odds with the eldest prince, but in the long run, the price was worth it.