It's June, the hottest time of the year.

In the capital, ice basins have already been placed in the palaces of the imperial palace, and the 6,000 Great Zhou troops who went out to the grassland have reached the northwest of Warat, which is less than a hundred miles away from the Rus' people.

A hundred miles is not short, but it takes three days to walk.

It can be said to be long, but in fact it is not very long, and the cavalry only needs to rush for three or four hours to arrive.

But in the vast prairie, because there is no reference, people are very easy to lose their way.

But fortunately, the Great Zhou army has a guide arranged by Warat, and he is very familiar with the terrain here.

Therefore, it is not easy for the Great Zhou army to lose its way.

Although half of the 6,000 Great Zhou troops on this expedition were infantry, in the final analysis, these infantry were all selected elites, and no one could ride horses.

In addition, the horseback riding skills are also very exquisite.

This is due to the fact that Da Zhou is not short of war horses.

Because of the strength of the Great Zhou, the Warat on the grassland has never posed a threat to the Great Zhou. And, in order to curry favor with the Great Zhou, Warat has to pay tribute to the Great Zhou every year a batch of high-quality war horses.

Therefore, since the founding of the Great Zhou, there has been no shortage of war horses. In particular, these elite men selected from all over the country were extremely skilled in horseback riding skills from the beginning.

Even in technology, it is not inferior to the Warats in the slightest.

Therefore, the 6,000 Great Zhou army, whether it is cavalry or not, still has the most basic horseback riding skills.

Because of this, these 6,000 soldiers rushed to the northwest region of Warat in such a quick time.

In fact, compared with the Rus, the advantages of the Great Zhou soldiers are obviously greater.

This is not only due to the numerical advantage, but also to the logistical pressure, compared to the Rus', the Great Zhou is much smaller.

The material supplies of the Rus' were to be transported from the mainland, thousands of miles away. The materials of the Great Zhou army were directly provided by the Warat people.

This is what Zhang Lingyang asked Warat to prepare at the beginning.

In addition, the barbaric colonial policy of the Rus' people was already unpopular, and in the uninhabited steppe, it can be said that there are no villages in front of them, and there are no shops in the back, and there are no locals willing to help at all.

Without the help of local nomadic tribes, the Rus' could not move an inch.

So in this regard, Da Zhou also has an advantage.

Overall, compared to the Ross, Da Zhou's overall win rate is great.

It was for this reason that, having occupied the northwestern part of Warat, the Rus' began to stop their offensive in the southeast.

Otherwise, the battle line of the Rus' people would have to be extended hundreds of miles to the southeast now.

After ordering the soldiers to rest for an hour, following the direction of the guide, Ma Jinzhong, the general of Zhengxi, led his troops to continue to the northwest.

Two hours later, it was already evening.

Against the backdrop of the sunset, Ma Jinzhong vaguely saw a figure flickering in front of him.

"Stop!" Ma Jinzhong hurriedly gave the order to stop the march.

The figure that appeared in front of him was most likely a Rus.

After all, the Warat tribe within a radius of hundreds of miles had either been slaughtered by the Rus' or had already migrated farther south.

After stopping the pace of marching, Ma Jinzhong, who was riding on a horse, took the monocular from the guards and looked ahead.

I saw that there were some blonde and blue-eyed white people in front of me.

Although he hadn't seen what the Rus looked like, Ma Jinzhong still felt at first glance that the group of people in front of him was the army of the Rus.

As soon as Ma Jinzhong discovered the Rus army, the Rus also discovered the arrival of the Great Zhou army.

In the open grassland, the sound of horses' hooves could not be hidden at all, and it was not difficult for the Rus to discover the Great Zhou army.

It's just that the two sides seem to have a tacit understanding, although no one on the opposite side of the enemy found is ready to fight in the first place.

On Ma Jinzhong's side, the soldiers were already exhausted after a day of traveling, so how could they have the energy to face the Rus' people again?

On the Rus' side, as soon as they discovered Ma Jinzhong, they sent scouts to the Great Zhou army not far to investigate the situation.

After concluding that the army in front of him was unfamiliar and did not seem to be the Warat army at all, the commander of the Rus, Pikovsky, began to ponder.

Because according to the analysis of the situation of the scouts, the army in front is very likely to be the army of the Great Zhou, the first power in the Far East.

For the same reason as Ma Jinzhong, Pikovsky had not seen the Zhou people, nor did he know what the Zhou people looked like, but only analyzed them by their clothes and appearances.

Last year, Pykovsky, a minor aristocrat, had heard about the wealth of the Great Zhou in Moscow.

Of course, I learned about it from the mouths of merchants from England, France, and other countries who traveled to and from the Rus' country.

According to the statements of those merchants, the Great Zhou was extremely wealthy, and its national strength even surpassed that of France, the European hegemon at this time.

It is possible to say that the hegemon of Europe at this time should not be England?

In fact, although England has colonies all over the world, and its navy spans the four oceans.

But on the European continent, France is the real hegemon.

This was mainly due to the strength of the French Army.

Just as there was a Napoleon in France in the previous life, in this life, France also appeared a war genius, and successively defeated Britain, Italy, Germany, Russia and other European powers, and established France's hegemony in one fell swoop.

Moreover, this military genius did not attack the vast Rus' country like Napoleon in his previous life, so the strength of the French army is still extremely strong, and it can be said that there is a sense of seeking defeat alone.

can be respected by France and England, the two strongest countries in Europe, and in Pikovsky's view, the strength of Da Zhou should not be underestimated.

And according to the scouts' reconnaissance, the Great Zhou army was also equipped with firearms, with a number of at least 5,000 people, which attracted Pykovsky's attention even more.

The Rus' army was invincible against the Warats thanks to the power of firearms.

Now, with the arrival of the Great Zhou army, which also has firearms, how to defeat the Great Zhou, the overlord of the Far East, has become an adoption issue for Pikovsky to consider.

According to conventional tactics, it is extremely difficult for the Ross side to win.

After all, with the same armament, the Great Zhou army was five or six times larger than the Rus'.

With such a huge difference, Pikovsky had to take a risky approach in order to win the war for the Rus' state.

"The Zhou people must be exhausted when they first arrive, we can take advantage of their unpreparedness and sneak attack the Zhou people's military camp tonight!" At the military conference, an adjutant suggested to Pykovsky.