After declaring war on the Kazakh Khanate, 18,000 Dzungar warriors led by Galdan entered the control of the Great Yuz as the first group of Western Expeditionary Forces.

In order to show his loyalty to the Xia Dynasty, the Great Yuz Khan personally went to meet Galdan, although Galdan had not seen the Great Yuz Khan, but the Dzungar warriors under his command had fought with the Kazakh Khanate before, so when the Quasi-Yuz army and the Great Yuz army met, both sides had some sabre-rattling in it.

The commanders of both sides deliberately ignored the hostility between their subordinates, and pretended to be friendly and friendly, and they hugged each other in front of the whole army to express their goodwill, and then under the leadership of the Great Yuz Khan, Galdan and others entered the sweat tent he had set up in advance to drink wine and enjoy meat.

In the Khan's tent, the Great Yuz Khan knocked on the side and asked the Galdan Xia Dynasty about his attitude, hoping to hear from the mouth of Galdan that the Xia Dynasty was ready to support him as the new Kazakh Khan, but Galdan didn't know what to ask, no matter what the other party said, it was vague, which suddenly made the Great Yuz Khan deeply disappointed.

The Great Yuz Khan did not think that this was because the Xia Dynasty neglected him, on the contrary, he suspected that Galdan wanted to deliberately target him because of the fact that he had been at war with the Zhun Bu, so he did not say anything, and once this idea was planted, it was ingrained in his heart, forming a thorn that could not be removed.

However, he did not directly turn his face with Galdan because of this, he still warmly beckoned Galdan to drink wine and eat meat, but Galdan was thinking about the war, and he looked careless, he interrupted the greeting of the Great Yuz Khan with some impatience, and directly asked him about the specific situation of the other two Yuz.

Galdan's interruption suddenly cooled the atmosphere in the sweat tent, and the hand of the Great Yuz Khan holding the wine glass froze in mid-air, and the generals and nobles on his side saw that the khan was humiliated, their faces changed in vain, and they pressed their hands on the scabbard on their waists, and the people on the Kaldan side also pressed on the weapons when they saw this, and the sweat tent also became tense.

Realizing this, Galdan took the lead in signaling his men to lift their vigilance, and took up the wine glass to apologize to the Khan, so as to ease the atmosphere in the sweat tent, and the Khan's face softened a lot with his movements, and he drank the wine glass without smiling.

The Khan then ordered the banquet to be dismissed, and ordered to explain the strength of the other two yuz to Galdan, who listened attentively and nodded from time to time, and when the man had finished speaking, he stood up and told the Khan that the enemy should not lose the opportunity to attack before the enemy gathered his army.

It should be explained here that the Kazakh Khanate was a country with a strong tribal commune color, and its army was composed of warriors recruited by the Khan, and the soldiers who responded to the Khan's call needed to prepare their own equipment and materials including mounts, weapons, armor, and food, and climb mountains and wade through mountains and rivers to the predetermined assembly point, where the Khan would personally or order someone to inspect their numbers and equipment, and then issue them flags, and finally go to the front from the march.

Therefore, under the principle of bringing their own equipment, the equipment of the Kazakh warriors was directly proportional to the property of the individual family, so it appeared to be somewhat varied, the nobles wore plate chain mail and wore a chichak helmet with Yingluo, the middle-class wore chain mail overalls and pot lid chain mail helmets, the small bourgeoisie wore copper nail cotton armor and fur half helmets, and the poor wore rotten leather clothes and torn felt hats. ….

With such a backward military system, the Kazakh army not only gathered slowly, but also the quality of the army was uneven, if it were not for the fact that there were no strong enemies around, and the center of gravity of Tsarist Russia was not here, the Kazakh Khanate would have been destroyed long ago.

In the late seventeenth century, although the Kazakh army also followed the example of the Western countries to form a musket army, they liked to use the kind of arquebus with a frame like the other Asian armies, which may be able to compete with the quasi-army army, but if it is compared with the regular army of the Xia Dynasty, well...... The end result is understandable.

To get back to the point, after Galdan finished speaking to the Great Yuz Khan, he turned around and left directly, leading the army to the west, the Great Yuz Khan slowly walked out of the sweat tent, he looked at the quasi-army heading west, his face was uncertain, and the nobles behind him were hateful, and said: "Khan, this Galdan is really flying and domineering, sure enough, all the Mongols are so damned."

"Huh." Khan sneered and said, "I respect him as a striker sent by the Great Xia Emperor, but he actually doesn't take me seriously

If so, don't blame me for being ruthless."

"What are you going to do?" Several nobles with malicious intentions towards Dzungar gathered around and asked.

"Send someone to secretly inform the other two Yuz, the whereabouts of the Dzungar army, and I will make this damned Galdan pay the price." Khan said viciously.

In his opinion, the Mongols were just a dog of the Han Emperor, and they dared to be arrogant in front of him, and if he killed this brute, as long as he could do a good job of secrecy measures, the Great Xia Emperor, who was thousands of miles away, would not know, and maybe he would appoint him as the vanguard of the Western Expeditionary Army and reuse him.

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The people of the Great Yuz Khan soon left the Khan and went to the location of the Khan of Zhongyuz, at this time the Middle Yuz and the Little Yuz were gathering troops, and a large number of Kazakh cavalry and infantry rushed from their settlements to the Khan's Tent, because the Dzungar army did not hide their whereabouts, so the Khan of Zhongyuz soon learned of the enemy's attack.

He hurriedly contacted Xiao Yuzi and urged Xiao Yuzi's army to come as soon as possible, while he took the initiative to retreat west with the army that had already been assembled, hoping to avoid the edge of the quasi-army.

And just as the Khan of Zhongyuz was leading his army to withdraw, his men captured a man who claimed to be the messenger of the Great Yuz Khan.

The envoy was then brought in, and under the fierce questioning of the Khan of Zhongyuz, the envoy quickly explained his intentions and revealed to the Khan the movement of the Dzungar army.

This is exactly the same as the information that Zhongyuzi Khan currently has, so the former was immediately confused, and he couldn't understand what Dayuz Khan was thinking, and the envoy did not tell the facts, but put on a righteous and stern look, and told Zhongyuzi Khan that it was their Khan who endured humiliation in order to eliminate the great enemy of Dzungaria, and deliberately surrendered to the Xia Dynasty in exchange for the trust of the Xia Dynasty, and then penetrated into the enemy, and spying on the enemy for the Kazakhs.

However, neither the Khan nor his nobles were fools, he rolled his eyes and ordered the messenger to be dragged down and tortured, and after a period of torture, the messenger cried wolf and told the truth, and after hearing this, the Khan and his nobles did not know what to say for a while.

However, after thinking about it, the Zhongyuz Khan decided to cooperate with the Great Yuz Khan and first exterminate the Dzungar Mongols in the territory of Kazakhstan.

Tears.