The Western Army advancing along the Jingnan Road did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and when they advanced to the Jingbei Road, they were finally engaged by the strongest of the rebels.

Needless to say, the result of the battle was the first time to encounter these veterans of the Zhenguo Army who used gunpowder like an arm command, and the Western Army was directly defeated.

Times have really changed, and in the past, operations still paid attention to the arrangement of troops. Pay attention to the coordination of individual arms, and pay attention to fighting according to the terrain.

Now, however, an army skilled in gunpowder could fight a well-trained army like the Western Army in any formation, in any terrain.

Not to mention whether this army is a rabble or not, as long as you can master the use of gunpowder, you can be equal to the army that is far from the original strength, which is really a headache.

The Western Army, which led the march to the North Road of Jingbei, returned with a crushing defeat, and the imperial court was shaken. Zhao Ji finally began to be afraid, and he began to realize that this fierce beast raised by his brother to bite the Liao people and bite the Jin people began to turn his head and bite himself.

But he didn't know why, and people who knew it wouldn't tell him the reason, so Zhao Ji held back the fire in his stomach.

He felt that Zhen Guojun just looked down on him, otherwise why did they not rebel during Zhao Xu's reign, but waited for him to succeed to the throne before rebelling?

Zhao Ji felt this grievance in his heart, and his good friend Cai Jing made a new suggestion to him.

In the northwest region, the Western Xia people were fierce and ready to move. After Cai Jing got the report, he had a new brain, he suggested that Zhao Ji use thieves to govern thieves, that is, he suggested that Zhao Ji recruit bandits from all over the country, or directly recruit the rebels, and then let them deal with other bandits, or rebels.

The Western Army returned to the northwest to fight against the Tanguts.

Zhao Ji listened to it and felt that it made sense. But at the same time, he had another question - if you want to arrange it this way, why didn't you say it in the first place?

You didn't come up with this solution until the Western Army came in now and was beaten on the head and bled out?

However, such an idea was also fleeting in Zhao Ji's mind, and Cai Jing immediately put forward a better suggestion.

He said that the bell must be tied to the bell, such as the strongest thief today is just a righteous thief born from the Zhenguo Army. Since they were born from the Zhenguo Army, why not let the Zhenguo Army clean them up by themselves?

has been getting along for decades day and night, and they must know a lot about each other. As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is the only way to survive a hundred battles.

Zhao Ji felt that it was very reasonable, so he waved his hand and asked the current Zhenguo Army to send troops to suppress the rebels, and at the same time recruit relatively large mountain bandits and bandits in various places, and use Cai Jing's method to control thieves with thieves.

Shen Qian is no longer in the Zhenguo Army now, when did he receive this bird qi from the dignified young master? It just so happened that his father had not been in good health lately

Okay, he simply resigned like Tang Ning, resigned from this bird official and returned to Guangdong with his wife and children.

And for Downing, he is now very prejudiced. Tang Ning's resignation made Shen Qian unable to figure it out, even if he didn't tell others, he would at least tell himself before leaving, right?

But he didn't.

After being taken away by the Criminal Department, he didn't show up, and when he showed up again, he went to the palace to apply for resignation with Zhao Ji. After Zhao Ji agreed, he started to move without saying a word, and when he got the news, he was already on his way back to Runzhou.

The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I was depressed all day after returning to Guangzhou, but this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Besides, the current Zhenguo Army is commanded by Zhao Li, and the military commanders on the left and right sides are Xiaoshi and Chongjianzhong.

In the past, the backbone officers in the Zhenguo Army, Wu Dazhuang, Chen Yong, Liu Qi, etc., these people either quit like Tang Ning and Shenqian, or rebelled with Fang La.

There are not many who remain in the Zhenguo Army. The main reason is that the current Zhenguo Army is too aggrieved.

The Zhenguo Army has never even fought a grievance battle, so why should it be aggrieved by a bullshit person like Cao De? The veterans walked and scattered, Fang La only took 5,000 people, but now there are only 30,000 people left.

The current Zhenguo army is at best a slightly stronger forbidden army, and because the imperial court does not give meat to eat, the training of the Pingxia camp has to end, although Gao Shu has been reinstated, but there is nothing he can do.

However, in order to make the Zhenguo Army's thoughts pure, Zhao Ji also deliberately transferred Cao De and Shi Shiru away, which made Zhao Ji quite proud, and he felt that by doing so, the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army would definitely appreciate it.

All in all, in this case, the sad Zhao Yan led the Zhenguo army to march to the northwest of Jingxi, and encountered Fang La's troops.

In the past, when they meet on the battlefield now, the two sides must have a lot to say. Every word was contained in the crossbow arrows tied to gunpowder, and the rumbling sound of exploding overhead was what Fang La was going to say to them.

The rebel armies occupying western Beijing and Huainan did not lack raw materials for making gunpowder. But the power of gunpowder is much lower than that of the one that will be produced by the prison.

Even if it explodes overhead, it is not very effective at injuring people. To deal with the Zhenguo army, an army that has been in contact with gunpowder all year round and is accustomed to gunpowder explosions, the righteous army will not be so easy to attack while the other party is panicking after the gunpowder explodes.

But as the so-called surprise victory, Fang La is not an honest person himself, coupled with Tang Ning's words and deeds, and his rich experience in a hundred battles, his tactics are extremely imaginative.

Zhao Yan didn't expect that Fang La had only laid down five thousand crossbowmen to shoot at him, and he himself had already led eight thousand people around his buttocks.

Zhao Tong is still thinking about Fang La, a coward,

Only dare to fight a long-range war of attrition with yourself. As soon as he stepped forward, he stepped back, and he could kill the anger alive.

No matter how he sent someone to call the battle, the reply to him was only round after round of salvos of crossbow arrows.

Zhao Yan thought to himself that since you want to consume, then let's consume it together and see who can consume whom.

Just as he gritted his teeth and missed the past Zhenguo Army, the troops led by Fang La appeared from behind his buttocks.

He himself rushed into the unsuspecting camp of the Zhenguo army with five hundred cavalrymen, armed with assault rifles, and grenade canisters on his waist.

The Zhenguo army had already practiced the raid, so it was very calm. Form a formation, turn your head, and deal with the rushing rebels. But when the raiding cavalry began to throw gunpowder at them, they could not calm down.

The power of gunpowder, others do not know, they are not clear? They are the people in the world who know the power of gunpowder best.

One by one, they immediately scattered and lay on the ground, and Fang La's merciless horse stepped over them.

"Thirteen!!" Seeing this, Xiao Shi's eyes were split, so he grabbed the halberd in his hand, turned over his horse, and killed him.

Fang La turned his head to look at him, and without saying a word, he threw a grenade over.

Xiao Shi was not afraid at all, and with a roar, his horse galloped after Fang La.

Fang La snorted, took out the strong crossbow behind his back, lay on the horse's back, turned his head and shot three arrows at the small stone.

After swinging the halberd to knock off the three crossbow arrows in front of him, the small stone swung a halberd and knocked off the horse of a rebel cavalryman beside him. Immediately afterwards, he waved his halberd one after another, and knocked down the four rebel cavalry who were about to pull him off his horse.

Xiao Shi took a deep breath and shouted at Fang La, who had fled from the camp of the Zhenguo Army in front of him: "Thirteen! If you have a kind of turn back and fight me! ”

The little stone shouted, but he didn't think that Fang La could stop.

is very different from his own style, Fang La, this person is easy not to be in danger. Unless there is really nothing he can do and he needs to risk his life to boost his morale, he will appear in the place where the fighting is most intense.

But Xiao Shi never expected that when he shouted, Fang La immediately turned the horse's head, pulled out the saber and rushed at him.

On the one hand, Xiaoshi didn't want to hurt Fang La, on the other hand, his speed was too fast, and it was indeed difficult to stop, the two passed by, and Fang La's saber slashed on the iron rod of the halberd, making a muffled buzzing sound.

"Let's go, all of you!" Dozens of cavalrymen followed, and Fang La gave them an order.

"But ......" Liu Qi, the former Marquis of the Zhenguo Army and the Ma Army, has rebelled with Fang La. The person in front of him was a small stone, and he didn't dare to take it lightly......