Chapter 1265: Fifty-Fifty

Zhai Shiqing was taking inventory of the supplies supported from Liangzhou.

It was too expensive.

It was truly too expensive.

After all, this was Weaponry and Equipment for Special Forces!

But the Liangzhou side still sent over ten thousand sets without the slightest hesitation.

Zhai Shiqing took a deep breath.

She knew that the Chukchi link was something the Young Master cared about deeply, which was why he was so generous. She could also imagine that while issuing this equipment, Zheng Yueru, the Great General Zheng, must have been cursing while handing it out—no, cursing the Young Master... Thinking of this, Zhai Shiqing could not help but chuckle.

They really were a great pair...

She could not help but think again of Zou Sheng, who was far away in the Northwest theater of war.

Brother Zou...

How was he doing?

She heard he was facing off against the famous Tsarist Russia general, Rumyantsev. From being somewhat flustered at the beginning to now being able to stand on equal footing, his growth speed was truly fast.

He was worthy of being her Brother Zou...

She smiled.

Although her skin had become much darker recently, Zhai Shiqing was still a woman of peerless beauty. Although there was much more of a heroic spirit about her, she was still a woman who missed her beloved.

"Hahahaha, Lady General, Lady General, has the equipment arrived?"

Narisong came in, almost tumbling as he entered.

When he saw these ten thousand sets of equipment, his eyes went wide.

Zhai Shiqing said crossly, "What's the rush? It's all yours!"

"Ah? Only ten thousand sets?"

Narisong was clearly somewhat disappointed.

Zhai Shiqing was furious: "You think ten thousand sets is too few? Do you know how expensive one set is?"

It's easy to talk when you're not the one paying!

Narisong also scratched his head in embarrassment: "Hehehehe, it's just that the brothers we have now who possess combat power are already nearly twenty thousand! Twenty thousand!"

Zhai Shiqing said indifferently: "There is no Method for this... We can only equip them at our discretion. Longyan is already under great pressure for these ten thousand sets."

Narisong of course understood this logic.

Ten thousand sets!

Just kidding, how many Cossack Cavalry were there in the Siberia region at this time? In total, there were only five thousand!

In this way, he already completely crushed those animals in terms of troop strength.

Moreover, these ten thousand sets of equipment could equip ten thousand people. The remaining people were actually not bad either. They had recently seized quite a lot of Weaponry and Equipment from the Cossack Cavalry; if they equipped them with those, their combat power could still be guaranteed.

"Then we..."

As Narisong thought about it, he became excited.

Zhai Shiqing smiled faintly and nodded.

Yes.

It was time to advance.

It was time to properly end their "military exercise"!

They should formally declare war on the Cossacks!

The next day.

The Khan of the Chukchi, Narisong, formally issued a document declaring war on Tsarist Russia. This news quickly spread throughout the Siberia region. Although the Chukchi did not have much fame or presence in the world at large, they were still a very fierce existence in the Siberia region.

Consequently, once this news came out, many villages were in an uproar.

What did this mean?

The Chukchi were going to fight back?

Thus, these villages began to have their own ideas. Did this mean that those black-clad men who had been slaughtering the Cossack Cavalry before were the Chukchi?

If that was the case...

Then this matter would be interesting.

Should they continue to insist on their stance of belonging to Tsarist Russia?

Or should they wait and see?

After all, the mountains were high and the emperor was far away; the people in these villages

did not actually have any special loyalty to which country they belonged. In this world, in the northernmost place on this planet, in this place with the harshest environment, as long as people could eat their fill, that was good enough; how could there be so much patriotism or national sentiment?

They could switch sides at any time.

Moreover, on the other hand...

Ever since the Cossack Cavalry began ruling Siberia, every village had to accept the baptism and looting of these Cossack Cavalry every so often.

Their reputation was not good to begin with.

Now that someone was coming to fight them, wasn't that a good thing?

After hearing about this, the village chief from before quickly gathered the dozen or so Militia in the village.

"Everyone, tell me, what should we do!"

He asked.

A group of people began to chatter.

"Village Chief, we absolutely cannot help the Cossacks!"

"Right! My wife even said, let me go join the Black Knight! They are the good people!"

"That's right! Last time we were short on grain, they even left us quite a bit of food..."

"They really didn't commit the slightest offense!"

"I heard that when they went to the neighboring village, it was the same!"

Almost everyone held this position.

The village head listened and nodded.

He took a sip of strong liquor, took a deep breath, and said: "No matter what others say, we, Ano Village, will remain neutral!"

"Yes, at the very least, remain neutral!"

"That's it! Hahahaha, we can even secretly help the Black Knight!"

"That's right!"

Ruslan also became somewhat anxious after receiving the declaration of war.

So soon?

He couldn't help but smile bitterly, and leading his troops, he galloped toward Dukuba.

On the way, Ruslan did not have much confidence in this great battle.

Tsarist Russia still had not sent reinforcements, and they hadn't even satisfied his request for several cannons.

Ruslan had even begun to consider abandoning the village of Dukuba.

However... he couldn't.

The Tsarist Russians' obsession with land was famous.

It had been two hundred years.

Once this breach was opened, these Chukchi would absolutely not be stopped!

Therefore.

He had to hold it firmly!

"Are there any problems with the follow-up grain and fodder?"

"Reinforcements, keep asking for reinforcements!"

"Tell the Emperor that if reinforcements don't come again... Siberia will truly slip out of our control!"

"Precarious, it's precarious, do you understand? The wording must be pessimistic!"

"Pessimistic!"

This time, Ruslan brought quite a few more Cossack Cavalry over.

This immediately filled the small village of Dukuba with four thousand Cossack Cavalry!

Four thousand!

This was almost the entire Cossack Cavalry of Siberia!

Ruslan also knew that this would be a great battle, a decisive battle! Therefore, he could not lose! He would rather empty his entire nest to shatter the dreams of these Chukchi.

Let them know that the Cossack Cavalry is invincible under heaven!

This time.

Zhai Shiqing and Narisong also planned to send out five thousand Black Knight.

Because this would be a siege battle.

In a siege battle or a battle to storm fortified positions, to be honest, the advantage of Special Forces is not particularly obvious.

On the contrary, the Cossack would occupy more advantages.

They could use defensive fortifications to launch counterattacks, and they could also, at the appropriate time, use Scorched Earth to engage in a charge battle here.

This is also why the Chukchi, despite already possessing an army of nearly twenty thousand men.

Are still so cautious about this great battle.

Zhai Shiqing even believed that this great battle would be a fifty-fifty split.