If these tens of thousands of Mongolian troops were surrounded and annihilated Hetao, the Mongolian tribes would have no more combat power, and the Ming Dynasty would have captured Mongolia and advanced to the Western Regions.

If Mongolia is peaceful, the north of the Ming Dynasty will be attained for a hundred years.

However, if the Ming Dynasty does not intend to make progress, there will be external troubles in a hundred years. Tsarist Russia in Western Europe has begun to advance to Asia, and it doesn’t even take another hundred years. Maybe it won’t take long before the two sides will have a border conflict.

Zhao Yan received a report from the combat command and only replied to one word - typing!

What kind of Tian Khan is just a false reputation.

Even if it deserves its reputation, Zhao Yan cannot tolerate the existence of Mongolia.

National blood feud cannot be erased by time. Tens of millions of Han people in the Southern Song Dynasty were slaughtered by Mongolia. How to calculate the accounts? In the future, no settlement of foreign races can be said that those in power have lost the bottom line of the nation.

Has this nation really stood up?

No!

Never stand up.

It just creates a boastful atmosphere of public opinion.

Regarding Mongolia, Zhao Yan must resolutely wipe out, and there is no room for choice.

The fact that the Mongolian people surrounded Hetao made Zhao Yan feel very happy. As long as he annihilated these tens of thousands of people, Mongolia would never be able to make big waves again.

The Qing Dynasty could no longer make a big wave. After the siege of cities and territories was clear, it was the stage of chasing them. Even if they were chased to the ends of the world, they would be completely destroyed.

The continuous victory of the Shandong army in Mongolia also made the radicals in the Ming Dynasty very excited, resulting in more scholars from Shandong in recent months.

Many of these scholars have radical ideas and are very easy to transform. This is a kind of right person and will do the right thing.

They received great attention in Shandong, and many of them were not worthy of studying at Denglai Military Academy after training.

Denglai Military Academy is divided into three armies, navy and air force. In addition to the air force, it is also in the fantasy stage. There are many cadets from both the navy and the army, and a large number of officers are studying in the academy.

Entering the Denglai Military Academy to study has become the dream of soldiers from Shandong Army. Once you enter the Denglai Military Academy, you will be an officer.

If you want to study and further study at Denglai Military Academy, you must perform well in the army. In addition to performing well, you must also have certain military achievements.

Every month, many soldiers are selected to study at the Dunlai Military Academy, and many officers are sent back to further study.

The principal of Denglai Military Academy is personally served by Zhao Yan. He will give students a lesson every week. The course Zhao Yan taught is not how to fight, but tells the students what kind of model the future war will evolve into.

Zhao Yan taught these officers only one core idea, that is, with the continuous development of science and technology and economy, the future war will be a material war.

A military power not only needs a large army, but also a large factory and a large laboratory. War will no longer be a collision between the flesh, but a collision between machines. The potential of the flesh is limited, but the potential of the machine is unlimited.

At the same time, Zhao Yan also proposed the concept of "comprehensive national strength". The strength of comprehensive national strength determines the potential of a country in war.

Population, industry, economy, finance, industrial mobilization, military force mobilization, military quality, etc. are all factors that affect the victory or defeat of the war.

The meaning of a country's existence is to defend the nation and safeguard the interests of the nation, and the most effective way is to defeat all countries that may pose a threat.

To put it another way, the meaning of a country's existence is to continue to develop and start wars, otherwise you will have to endure wars.

Zhao Yan's thoughts have turned the academies and officers in the military academies into radicals.

In terms of future wars, Zhao Yan usually sets up a certain weapon and appears, what will the war become, such as what will the war become after the machine gun appears?

Machine guns are not an imagined thing, because smokeless gunpowder is already being developed, and gas-conducting ammunition replacement is also theoretically feasible.

What will war become when the power and range of artillery are greatly improved?

What will war become after tanks and planes appear?

Tanks and planes are just things that are imagined. However, the success of the steam engine means that these things are not empty talk, but are very likely to appear.

The answer is that after the power of the artillery is greatly improved, the soldiers will hide in the trenches in order to protect themselves, and are equipped with a large number of machine guns and barbed wire. Both sides will be trapped in a kind of encirclement and counter-encirclement, and both sides will be surrounded by the enemy layer by layer, and they will be surrounded by the enemy. Both sides lack the ability to break through the encirclement and will fall into a long-term stalemate. Anyone who tries to break through the encirclement by intensive charge will be hit hard.

Only constant shelling!

Both sides will be dragged into the quagmire and cannot extricate themselves.

After the appearance of tanks and aircraft, both sides have the ability to quickly tear open the enemy's defense line, thus entering the era of mobile warfare... Zhao Yan taught these officers such courses mainly to guide the future military building methods and avoid the future military development paths.

At the same time, it can be regarded as broadening their horizons so that they will not think that they are invincible in the world and will not want to enter.

The continuous victory of the Shandong army in Mongolia has also aggravated the panic among many people.

The landlords watched Zhao Yan grow stronger day by day and began to feel worried. One day, Zhao Yan expanded to their province and came up with a "Shandong Agricultural Tax Collection Act", so their land would be over.

Whenever Chongzhen saw good news, he felt restless.

What made him very upset when Zhao Yan conquered Mongolia this time was that Lu Xiangsheng actually followed him, which made Chongzhen very angry. He even issued several imperial edicts to Lu Xiangsheng, but it turned out to be like a muddy bull that entered the sea without any movement.

However, what made Chongzhen more happy was that Zhao Yan had sent troops to the provinces of the Ming Dynasty for months, and the troops in Shandong had become extremely scattered.

Moreover, according to the spy by the Jinyiwei's informant, Shandong began to expand its army again.

Although the number of troops expanding is unclear, it must be because of insufficient troops. With Shandong's current expansion attitude, it is almost impossible to concentrate its troops in Shandong.

As Yang Sichang said, sooner or later, Shandong will perish itself like a violent Qin!

If Zhao Yan knew this remark, he would definitely make a laugh. It would be good for the Qin Dynasty to perish, but it was definitely not destroyed because of war.

The Qin Dynasty had strong war capabilities, and many of their things were advanced, but after destroying the Six Kingdoms, those weapons were destroyed. As a result, by the time of Qin II, Qin was defeated by Xiang Yu. It can be said that the Qin State before destroying the Six Kingdoms was extremely different from the situation after destroying the Six Kingdoms. The reason for the rapid deterioration of combat power was because of the self-destruction of the Great Wall and self-destruction of many things.

It is really not easy for the Shandong Army to treat war as a profitable business like this.

...Hetao!

Five infantry brigades broke into Hetao, and the two sides entered a stalemate stage under the call of the envoy. However, the Shandong Army was able to afford the stalemate. Since entering the Hetao area for combat, the logistics have been transported by the Yellow River.

The materials are transported to Shaanxi first, and then out of northern Shaanxi.

Logistical supplies have never been interrupted since the war started. Although a large number of cattle and sheep were captured, the food was still supplied as usual, but no meat was sent, but a lot of fruit was sent.

The food in Shandong Army was very rich. In addition to many grains that had been made into semi-finished products, as well as seasonings for meat and dried fish, this time we also sent many apples and some peaches.

The apples were placed in the cellar last year, and the peaches were just ripe and a little green. Being able to eat fruits during the battle made the whole Shandong army feel joyful. At this time, in addition to loyalty, they are loyalty in their hearts!

Every day, cattle and sheep are eaten casually, and the logistics troops often send fruits and pastries. When it comes to dinner in the military camp, the meat smells full of wine, but there is no wine.

The Mongols were in trouble. Time was dragging down day by day, their food was getting less and less, and the capital for negotiation was slowly losing.

Lu Xiangsheng's Xuan Da Bingma also treated the same treatment, which made him sigh that Zhao Chijian, a guy who was reluctant to make a palace, treated the soldiers very generously. It turned out that all the money was spent on this place. No wonder the veterans were so strong.

An army smashed out of silver.

However, Zhao Yan's silver was very good. He did not use silver to win over the officers, but to win over the soldiers. As long as the soldiers' hearts are always held, the troops will always be his.

The officers of the Shandong Army did not have the higher rank, the higher their status, but the higher their rank, the higher their responsibilities. There is no traditional bureaucracy here, there is no distinction between status, and it is not that the higher rank is naturally more noble than ordinary soldiers. There is only a difference in the responsibilities. When rewarding, officers will not exceed five times more than ordinary soldiers at most.

Once these officers leave the army, they are nothing, and they have no room for bargaining.

...The stalemate ended in late April. As Zhao Yan's order arrived, the combat command immediately ordered the removal of the Mongolian army in the Hetao area.

The current 130,000 Mongolian army is worthy of the word "clearance" rather than annihilation, in the view of the staff of the combat command.

The Mongols who were dragged to late April had eaten half of their horses. Although most of them fought with one horse, how much combat effectiveness would be after losing one horse?

Compared with the Shandong Army Infantry Brigade, which is also a horse, the speed is almost the same.

Five infantry brigades advanced side by side and began to approach the Mongolian army in the Hetao area. Seeing that the negotiations failed, the Ming army did not accept the conditions they proposed, and they didn't even know what they didn't accept, but the negotiations were undoubtedly a failure. At this time, the Mongolian tribes planned to fight to the death.

The Ming army had nakedly shattered all their luck and fantasies, just like most of the besieged cities surrounded only on three sides, but the Ming army surrounded them all. Is there any other way besides fighting to death?

Thirteen thousand Mongolian cavalry began to attack the Shandong army.

However, every time they approached the Shandong Army, they would be bombarded. It was a heavy artillery dragged by more than a dozen horses. When they approached two miles away, it was a real journey to hell. The dense bombardment hit them and made them realize that death was so close to them.

Each battalion has an artillery company, with 90 artillery soldiers in one company, and 30 light artillery pieces, including 10 cannons and 20 howitzers.

An infantry brigade has 450 light artillery, that is, 150 cannons and 300 howitzers.

Cannons are used in front of the array, and their range is longer than cannons. The effective range of 75 mm caliber also reaches 1,200 meters, and the maximum range can reach 1,700 meters.

Cannons are much more powerful than howitzers, because cannons are fired in parallel. When the enemy charges, each shell will definitely kill people, and the shells will also break out of a bloody path. It also has the characteristics of simple aiming, and there is almost no need to calculate any ballistics when firing the cannon.

The advantage of howitzers in the battle is that they can adapt to complex terrain and can continuously attack the enemy behind the formation. The disadvantage is that their lethality is not as large as that of cannons, and their range is not as far away as cannons, and their ballistics must be calculated.

At the same time, each brigade also has an artillery regiment, also known as the heavy artillery regiment. The artillery they equipped are all heavy artillery. The 125mm siege cannon has been eliminated and replaced with real materials and has an effective range of 3,000 meters.

The heavy artillery regiment was equipped with a total of 4,300 heavy artillery pieces, with an average of eight soldiers responsible for the operation of one artillery, of which 100 are cannons and 300 are howitzers, all with a caliber of 200 mm.

On April 26, when approaching the nest of the Ordos tribe, 130,000 Mongolian troops marched towards the Shandong army on the rumbling horse hooves.

Their speed is not fast, probably because they want to set up a formation in front of the Shandong army.

As a result, they were six miles away from the Shandong Army, and they were violently bombarded by the heavy artillery regiment, and the 400 heavy artillery of the artillery regiment opened fire with all their might.

A huge howitzer fell from the sky and exploded with one shot. All the Mongolians within a radius of ten meters were killed by the shock waves generated by the gunpowder explosion.

If the shells explode in mid-air ten meters away, the shrapnel will sprinkle like raindrops, which will not make people live. However, the heavy artillery regiment is bombing such fixed points of 3,000 meters away. The shell fuses are constantly tested, and there is also strict production check. 50% of grenades can explode in mid-air 3,000 meters away.

The cannon was even more violent, rushing all the way to three thousand meters away, but its momentum remained unabated. It rushed out of a bloody passage between the Mongolians and then exploded with a bang.

The five infantry brigades of the First Division were equipped with a total of 2,000 heavy artillery pieces, and a large amount of military expenditure was invested on artillery, while the artillery regiment of the Second Division did not have so many heavy artillery at all.

The large amount of investment also turned the infantry brigade of the First Division into a terrifying steel beast. In addition to being better than the infantry brigade in terms of mobility, the cavalry brigade would have to be defeated if it was against it.

The Cavalry Brigade is just used to bully enemies with low civility, but it is very cost-effective to use the Cavalry Brigade to deal with them. After all, it has strong mobility and much higher efficiency than the infantry Brigade.

But the Infantry Brigade is the ace force in Zhao Yan's hands.
To be continued...