"If it is deployed according to His Majesty's wishes, we are afraid that our current strength is only a little stretched!" Ma Jinzhong said worriedly, "If you want to annihilate the main force of the Rus' in the eastern region of Western Siberia, then you must ensure that all the military deployments and settlements of the Rus' within a radius of thousands of miles in the eastern part of Western Siberia are destroyed.

Otherwise, with the food and grass in those military settlements, they would probably have escaped. ”

"It's okay!" Zhang Lingyang waved his hand disappreciatively and said: "Our Da Zhou still sends 50,000 troops according to the original plan, and as for the insufficient troops, we can let Wara send troops."

The Warats are good at riding and shooting, and running on the steppe is their forte. Moreover, Western Siberia is a great plain, and the settlements there have actually carved out roads for the Rus'.

We only need to send some men to assist the Warats, and we will surely destroy all the settlements of the Rus' in Western Siberia before the Rus' retreat. ”

Zhang Lingyang said this because he took into account the advantages of the Warat cavalry.

If it is a vast jungle, the advantage of cavalry will naturally not be brought into play.

It is clear that Western Siberia, although it is also a jungle, has already carved out a lot of roads there by the Rus'.

As long as you follow the road, you don't have to worry too much.

In addition, the map sent by the Moses brothers was very detailed, and the settlements and roads in Western Siberia were clear and clear at a glance.

Zhang Lingyang also understands that on the battlefield, the situation is changing rapidly. What I'm talking about now is what might happen in an ideal situation.

Therefore, after a pause, Zhang Lingyang said again: "I just provided a general strategy to the two Aiqing, and as for the specific deployment, the two Aiqing have to discuss more." ”

"Your Ministers obey!"

Sun Dingzong and Ma Jinzhong replied and began to discuss again, until it was getting dark, and they did not leave the palace.

At this time, the capital had begun to transport war materials to the grasslands in the north one after another, and Ma Jinzhong and Sun Dingzong were also stepping up time to make the final war planning and deployment. ，

It wasn't until five days later that the final deployment of the war was decided.

Next, it is naturally a matter of choosing generals.

Undoubtedly, Ma Jinzhong and Sun Dingzong are excellent generals. Compared with Sun Dingzong, Ma Jinzhong's combat surprises in the cold region are undoubtedly richer.

So there was nothing to hesitate, Zhang Lingyang directly appointed Ma Jinzhong as the military commander this time, and set off for the Great Wall three days later, and rushed to the northwest region of Warat with the soldiers there.

On the side of the Great Zhou, the weather has warmed up, but on the side of the Russ country, it is still icy and snowy.

However, on the side of the Rus', logistics have also begun to prepare, weapons, ammunition, food and grass purchased from all over Europe have begun to be transported to the capital of the Rus' country one after another, and the conscripted army has also begun to rush to the capital, and the army will begin to march east after the snow has melted.

However, unlike the Great Zhou's war deployment against the Rus' country, the Rus' people can be said to have a half-understanding of the Great Zhou. The only bit of information I learned was from the merchants who went to the Great Zhou in Europe.

As for more information, there is no way to know.

Speaking of which, not to mention the Rus' country, even England, France and other countries that have already started trade relations with the Great Zhou are not very clear about the national conditions and military strength of the Great Zhou.

Although the Great Zhou Dynasty had already started trade relations with Europe, the vast majority of European merchants only knew about the situation in the southeastern coastal areas of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and did not understand the interior of the Great Zhou Dynasty at all.

As for those envoys who have been to the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they only know some of the conditions on both sides of the canal and the capital, and they are far from knowing the roots.

It is also for this reason that it is simply impossible for the Rus people to obtain specific information about the Great Zhou.

As for planting spies in the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is even more impossible.

Not to mention the difference in skin color, it is not easy for Europeans to go to the interior of the Great Zhou.

Now the place where Europeans go deepest into the Great Zhou, that is, Jiangning in the south of the Yangtze River, and further west, no one in Europe has ever been there.

As for the sale of the Great Zhou people to spy on the news, there is no way to talk about it.

The merchants of the Great Zhou who can trade with Europe are all well-off, and how many people can look down on those taels of silver?

Besides, the people of the Great Zhou have always looked down on the Europeans, otherwise they would not have despised them as 'Xiyi'.

The intelligence work of the Great Zhou was difficult, and the Rus simply stopped paying attention to the intelligence about the Great Zhou and began to prepare for war wholeheartedly.

In the eyes of the Rus' people, the Great Zhou is indeed a big country, but its national strength is only a little stronger than the former Tianzhu.

Isn't Tianzhu now also a colony of England?

Although the Rus' did not have a navy as strong as England, they did have a more formidable army than England.

The Rus' people have always thought that they are the eldest in the sky, the second in the earth, and the third in the earth, even if the French army, which is the strongest army in the European continent.

If it weren't for the alliances, the Rus' would have to go to the French Army to see who is the strongest army in Europe.

With such pride, the Rus naturally did not take the Great Zhou army in their eyes.

Besides, in the eyes of the Rus' people, the rich Da Zhou is the fat in their eyes, otherwise they would not have borrowed so much money from European bankers, don't they just want to take the opportunity to hit the capital of Da Zhou in one fell swoop, so as to cut off the fattest piece of fat from the bloated giant of Da Zhou?

As for whether it can be cut?

The Rus have always thought that their knives are very sharp, and there is no fat in the world that cannot be cut.

At the same time, the Rus' laughed at the cowardice of the other European powers.

It's like England, you said that you can even occupy a country as big as Tianzhu in England, so the big Zhou that is bigger than Tianzhu makes no sense not to occupy it?

At most, that is, a matter of having more troops, with the wealth of the Great Zhou, even if there are ten times more troops, isn't it worth it?

Whether it's worth it or not, everyone has their own opinions, England feels that the gains outweigh the losses, but the Rus' feel that the benefits are very huge.

Therefore, England and the Great Zhou began normal trade relations, and the Rus' were ready to make a big expedition to the Great Zhou.

After another month, the snow in Rus' finally melted, and with the order of the Emperor of Rus' to 'go', the 30,000 soldiers who had been assembled began to set out eastward for Western Siberia.

At this time, Ma Jinzhong had already led 50,000 Great Zhou troops to the grassland in the northwest of Warat.

Speaking of which, in the vast prairie, riding a horse is fast. If the infantry is in a hurry, it will take at least half a month to get here......