Chong Pu's thoughts are the same as Zong Ze's, but he can't say that Zhao Ji is stupid. He didn't dare to disobey the holy decree like Tang Ning, because he didn't have as much credit as Tang Ning, and he didn't have Tang Ning's ability to judge the situation.

Therefore, he could only obey Zhao Ji's order, and joined the other five-way army, with a total of 300,000 troops, with 50,000 people as the way, and divided into six route armies to start suppressing bandits and quelling the rebellion.

At first, it went very smoothly, just like a biological chain where big fish eat small fish and small fish eat dried shrimp.

Bandits and bandits were able to crush the defenders of the state, while the Western Army was able to crush the bandits and bandits.

It wasn't until they had reached the rapidly expanding territory of the Great Righteous Gang that the situation changed.

The veterans of the Zhenguo army more or less knew how to mix some gunpowder. And now the sphere of influence of the Great Righteous Gang has expanded to the entire western part of Beijing and the entire Huainan region.

They have been able to make their own gunpowder, which is not as powerful as the one distributed in the army, but still has incredible lethality.

There are many skilled craftsmen in western Beijing and Huainan, and Fang La also asked them to imitate grenades and assault muskets, all of which were successful.

At this point, in a sense, the Great Righteous Gang is no longer any different from the Zhenguo Army, and what the Zhenguo Army is using, they are also using. Even if the Zhenguo Army that has been exploited can no longer use it, they will use it the same.

On the Jingnan Road, the Dayi Gang and the Western Army led by Zong Ze had their first confrontation. The two sides fought in a hilly terrain, and because of the terrain, the Western Army could not use cavalry effectively.

And the Great Righteous Gang engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Zong Ze at the first time.

Knowing that the Western Army was also equipped with gunpowder, the charging formation of the Great Righteous Gang was particularly scattered. Groups of three are kept at least three people apart.

This is the way the Tangut people dealt with gunpowder, and I have to say that this trick really worked.

Although the three-player pitch cannot be effectively enforced, the elongated formation is enough to avoid most of the damage from gunpowder.

At the same time, this formation is also very effective against dense bows and arrows volleys, but it is just a little stabbing when running through the area full of arrows.

Seeing that long-range strikes could not cause effective damage to the Great Righteous Gang, Zong Ze ordered the entire army to start preparing for hand-to-hand combat.

However, before the battle, the Great Righteous Gang, who had rushed to the front, suddenly began to throw things towards Zong Ze's department.

As I said before, grenades should be a rarity in the Zhenguo Army, and only the soldiers of the Pingxia Battalion and the logistics battalion can access them.

Among the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army who followed Fang La's rebellion, at least 600 people were the backbone of the Pingxia battalion.

They survived the Battle of Xiaoguan, and they were also the main force in the surprise attack on Shenglong City.

These people are the elite of the elite, not only are they proficient in all eighteen kinds of weapons, but even in the Pingxia camp, the disassembly of weapons and equipment is a compulsory course.

Although the structure of the grenade is exquisite, for those of them who have to disassemble dozens of cases every day to check the situation, drawing a design is simply pediatric.

At first, Zong Ze thought they were throwing a gunpowder bag, but it didn't look like it. He thought it was an incendiary canister, but there was no sign of flame in the air.

It wasn't until one clay pot after another exploded on the heads of the Western Army that Zong Ze realized that this was a weapon that he had never touched.

The power was huge, and the killing range was very wide, and the unsuspecting Western army suddenly fell into a state of panic under the attack of grenades.

The rebels had already killed in front of them, and in a hurry, the Western army waved the weapons in their hands and began to resist.

Although the rebels initially terrified the Western Army, as the war progressed, the Western Army began to gain a foothold.

No matter how many people there are and how advanced their weapons are, the members are still from the green forest, or farmers who were still cultivating the land not long ago.

They have no actual combat experience, and they can still charge in groups of three as they do in training. And once they are close to each other, they fight on their own.

The Western Army trained day and night, and most of them were veterans who had fought against the Western Xia several times. As they fought, they regained their advantage, and the rebels gradually showed that they could not resist.

The commander of the rebel army on Jingnan Road was Chu Zunyi, who was one of the leaders of the Green Forest who defected to the Great Righteous Gang.

He took 3,000 subordinates to Fang La, and provided a lot of help to Fang La in the early days of the establishment of the Dayi Gang. It was also he who secretly competed with Fang La for the position of the leader of the Dayi Gang before the First Battle of Puzhou.

After the First Battle of Puzhou, Fang La's reputation was greatly enhanced.

As for Chu Zunyi, Fang La was not too mean. He asked Chu Zunyi to be his deputy gang leader, and after the rapid expansion of the Dayi Gang, he handed over the entire Jingnan Road to him.

Fang La trusted him so much, and Chu Zunyi was deeply moved. However, just being moved is useless. Chu Zunyi is just a mountain king, and he is a good hand when it comes to roadblocks and robberies.

But when it comes to marching and fighting...... To be honest, this person's ability is not even qualified to be an officer in the Zhenguo Army.

The boss is a straw bag, and it is useless for the people under him to fight. What's more, it was a rabble itself, and after two hours of fierce fighting, the rebel army began to show signs of rout.

After Chu Zun gave the order to retreat, he immediately began to flee for his life. returned to Jingbei Road to report to Fang La, and Fang La didn't say much.

didn't blame him, didn't punish him, Chu Zunyi was even more grateful, feeling that he was following the right person.

In fact, none of this was much out of Fang La's expectations, if it doesn't work, it won't work, and it has nothing to do with weapons and equipment.

Chu Zunyi asked him to rob the house, and he would definitely complete the task beautifully. But large-scale operations still have to be built with him in the Zhenguo army

The generals of the opposition came to command.

The reason why Chu Zun was allowed to go was to make the Western Army take it lightly. Create an illusion that the Western Army is a paper tiger in the righteous gang, so as to catch them off guard.

At present, it seems that the first step is a success, and it is still debatable whether the Western Army will feel that the Great Righteous Gang is a rabble.

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Because of the uprising of the Great Righteous Gang, the entire Song Kingdom fell into a cycle of uprisings and banditry.

His good neighbors, of course, will not let go of this opportunity.

Over the years, whether it is the Western Xia, the Liao State, or the Jin people, they have all suffered a belly of anger from the Song State. Downing is no longer leading troops to fight, which is good news for them to celebrate.

And now, the Song people are suffering from the headache of the Great Righteous Gang, which is a good time for them to take advantage of the situation.

The first to act were the Tanguts.

Today's Western Xia is actually a puppet controlled by the Liao State, and in the face of the pressure from the Liao State, they can no longer choose what to do and how to do it.

Yelu Yanxi sent someone to tell Li Qianshun that he should send troops to the northwest region of the Song Kingdom.

Li Qianshun agreed, so the Tanguts gathered 60,000 troops and began to advance towards Pingxia City.

Immediately afterwards, the Jin people, who were unwilling to be lonely, began to drool over the sixteen states of Yanyun.

The eastern part of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was the top priority of the Song State's defense, and they didn't want to lose it anymore.

In the Zhao Xu era, 200,000 troops were already stuffed here, and in the Zhao Ji era, more troops and horses were added, and no less than 300,000 forbidden troops or box troops were stuffed here.

An army of 500,000 should be a rather terrifying number in the eyes of everyone, but the Jin people don't care.

They knew how strong the Song people were, and as long as there was no tiger and wolf army led by Tang Ning, they would not take any of the Song army in their eyes.

Therefore, Wanyan Aguda ordered Wanyan Lou to lead 80,000 Jin troops to march towards Yanyun Bazhou in the hands of the Song people.

Zhao Ji, who got the news, was frightened, but there was no Zhenguo Army to use for him.

Cao De took over the Zhenguo Army in December last year, and within three months, he teamed up with the same ticket to suck the blood of the Zhenguo Army cleanly.

The development of gunpowder that would be used as a prison was too expensive, which delayed the expansion of his Yanfu Palace, and he ordered it to stop. The new ordnance design of the Tiangong Academy was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it had no effect for a long time, so he directly revoked the establishment.

For various reasons, the Zhenguo army today has to save even gunpowder, not to mention the tactics they have followed from the beginning to 'destroy the enemy in the offensive path'.

Today's Song Kingdom is just a sick cat, even if it is powerful, it will not become a tiger.

Who wouldn't pinch such a soft persimmon?