Chapter 1079: Preparation

Beidi Khan Court.

After Wulanba's orders were issued, the royal tent forces located near the Khan Court arrived one after another.

Seeing more and more troops gathering at the Khan Court, Wulanba's heart felt much more at ease.

Although he had expressed to Ivan that he would certainly obey Nikolai's orders.

Yet, facing the Great Song army, he was always filled with trepidation.

Because in Yongzhou, he had witnessed the terror of the Great Song army.

But with orders upon him, he could only bite the bullet and defend the Khan Court to the death.

"General Wulanba, I remember your father once said that the original name of this place, the Khan Court, is Ubatu, which means Red Warrior, is that correct?"

At this moment, Wulanba was inspecting the fortifications with Ivan.

Under the guidance of the Ross officers, the Beidi soldiers were positioning Field Artillery on the fortifications.

Cavalry and Infantry armed with Rifled Muskets were undergoing temporary drills from the Ross officers.

"That is correct, that is the meaning." Wulanba's tone was very proud, "Once, we Beidi were just a small tribe in the north of the Grassland, bullied by the Xianbei for years, but finally one day, we were unwilling to remain under others, so with only ten thousand cavalry, we launched an attack on the Xianbei, and after a hundred years, we finally annihilated the Xianbei and occupied the entire northern Grassland. To commemorate those fallen warriors, we named the location of the Khan Court after the Red Warriors."

"Hmm, your ancestors were truly a group of brave people; I never expected that with only over ten thousand cavalry, you would dare to challenge the Grassland overlords who were much stronger than you at the time." Ivan sighed with emotion.

He had intentionally brought up this topic to stir Wulanba's blood.

As the Beidi forces continued to gather toward the Khan Court, more and more news was brought in.

It was very clear that Great Song was aiming to occupy the entire Grassland this time, to completely eliminate the Beidi, and then expand toward the Extreme North.

This made him smell a very dangerous scent.

If the Beidi could not resist the Great Song's offensive.

Then the next step for the Great Song army would be to directly engage the Ross army guarding the Extreme North.

Although the current territory of the Beidi also belonged to the territory of Ross.

But after all, this territory had just been acquired, and they in Ross did not yet have any intimate feelings for it.

But the Extreme North was different; they had expanded step by step from west to east, building one fortress after another, and had managed it for a hundred years.

Most importantly, the Extreme North was incomparably vast.

The area east of the Ural Mountains even exceeded the combined territory of the Beidi and Great Song.

How could they tolerate the Great Song people reaching their hands toward that place?

Therefore, for the past few days, he had tried every means to encourage Wulanba, hoping that the Beidi could fight a beautiful battle here to delay the Great Song army's northward pace.

He knew that the Western Lands Allied Forces were currently gathering troops in the south.

Once they reached that time, Great Song would have no time to attend to the north.

At the same time, their tolerance of the Tusman Empire continuing its eastward invasion was also to attract Great Song's attention, hoping that Great Song would cast its gaze elsewhere.

In this way, they in Ross would have sufficient time to mobilize troops and exchange intelligence on imitating breech-loading firearms with other Xitu Guo.

If they could successfully equip Breech-loading Rifles, they would have the confidence that, relying on the invincible Army of Ross, they could absolutely stop Great Song's further expansion.

Although they could not master the strange rapid-fire muskets of Great Song, nor did they have the Artillery with the ultra-long range of Great Song.

But with this firearm, at least they could become as flexible as the Great Song army.

If it was a ten-to-one exchange before, at least in the future they could achieve five-to-one, or three-to-one.

Great Song was, after all, only one country.

With the population of their Western Lands countries, the Tusman Empire they had roped in, and the power of the Western Lands colonies.

They could exhaust Great Song to death.

As he was thinking, he heard Wulanba say firmly, "We Beidi people will never lose the backbone of our ancestors."

"Good." Ivan could not help but clap his hands.

Gazing toward the south, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.

Although they had suffered repeated setbacks in dealing with Great Song at present.

But it did not matter; their overall power was strong, and if they lost once, they still had the strength for a second or third counterattack.

But Great Song did not; as long as they made Great Song lose once.

Great Song would be wiped out.

Afterward, they would never let Great Song crawl back up, but would make Great Song and all the countries of Dongtu forever become their chamber pots.

While the Khan Court was busy preparing for war.

The pre-war mobilization of the Central Army had also ended.

Under the coordination of the Defense Department, some Steam Locomotives were requisitioned to transport the Baggage Train to Tongguan.

The Central Army would set out from Tongguan and head straight for the Beidi Khan Court, one thousand kilometers away.

In the past, their Army did not dare to penetrate deep into the Grassland, most worried about the problem of supply lines.

But clearly, with Chen Hu's Gun Cavalry, this problem no longer existed.

They could march safely on the Grassland and reach their destination.

Besides this, each army had its own Gun Cavalry units, sufficient to protect the grain and Baggage Train.

At the same time, to ensure the soldiers' combat effectiveness, this Northern Expedition included an extra item in the Central Army's Baggage Train: various types of canned food.

These cans would provide the soldiers with sufficient nutrition.

For the army, this was undoubtedly of great significance.

In the past, their conditions were difficult, and they relied on willpower to win battle after battle.

But such hardship was a necessity, not something to be advocated.

Since there were conditions now, there was no need to let the soldiers drink cold water and eat Roasted Flour.

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