"What I'm worried about is that in the future we will have a lot less foreign trade, for example, here." Jia Xu took out a report and handed it to Shang Wu.

Shang Wu took it and looked at it.

"Bringing in the demilitarized zone. Are you worried that trade in the North is stalling? Shang Wu asked.

"Yes, our finances and taxes are mainly focused on trade, and if our production stagnates, or if trade cannot open the way, we will be squeezed to death by the goods produced internally. This is very bad for us. "Jia Xu is the kind of person who plans first.

At a time when the situation in the north was in an unfavorable state, especially when the conflicts with the Xiongnu were becoming more and more numerous, Jia Xu felt that something was not good. After all, the Republican Army relies on trade to boost its economy, but military conflicts will restrict trade, which is extremely detrimental to the Republican Army. The Republican Army maintained a certain degree of peace as much as possible in order to better resolve such a contradiction.

"The reason for the demilitarized zone, we still need to investigate. We should not make decisions at will, especially at this critical time, we should pay attention to the situation in the annexation and try to stabilize the annexation as much as possible. Only in this way can we put the state in a very favorable development situation, and we will avoid war as much as possible for the demilitarized zone. We are not ready for war. Shang Wu said.

"I am very much in favor of this." Jia Xu agreed with Shangwu to do so. It will take some time to remobilize troops to Hexi Prefecture, and at the same time, it will be necessary to adjust funds, materials, troops, etc., and the war will not be mobilized all at once.

"On the one hand, we will stabilize the Huns, and on the other hand, let's see if we can readjust with the Wuhuan people and let the Wuhuan people do business with us, if the two sides can start trade, the post-war economy of the annexed state will develop rapidly. There is also a momentum for development. In this way, it is very conducive to the development of the state. Shang Wu imagined. War is not eternal, only interests are eternal. As long as enough benefits are given to the Wuhuan people, they will definitely forget the previous unpleasantness, and in their opinion, ensuring their interests is the most important thing, for a simple reason.

The situation of the Wuhuan people is not much better than that of the Republican Army, and this time they went south and should have had a bumper harvest, but the result was such a result, which was indeed unbearable for them. In such a situation, their situation is really not very good.

"Well, that's true, and it looks like we're going to have to come up with another weapon we need. Trade. Jia Xu said. The IRA has two weapons of mass destruction, one is war, and when war doesn't work, they try the other way, trade. When the latter doesn't work, it goes back to war again. Overall, both approaches are very effective.

As for the issue of merging states, the most important issue is to restore the economy and get the economy back on the right track quickly. However, this idea still needs to be discussed with the Wuhuan people. Otherwise, they won't be able to do anything.

And the state, the eastern mountainous area. As for where it went? The little monkey himself is not clear.

He only knew that behind him, about fifty miles, a supply depot would be built, and they would be replenished there, and they were transported here by wagon. Everyone had more than seven days of supplies, and there were a lot of things, so most of them were buried separately. Keep it for yourself.

The little monkey found a place on his own, and another of his companions went out to "hunt". The little monkey himself found a place to take a good rest, and along the way, the bumps were very bad, and it was better to walk in a car.

At the beginning, when the road was good, it was easy to walk, especially in the Jinyang section, where the road was new.

But after Jinyang, the road becomes potholed. The bumps are very bad, people's stomachs are about to turn upside down, anyway, it is very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable, in that case, there is no good way to avoid such a situation. So, along the way, the little monkey didn't eat much, and after coming here, he was tired and sleepy. It's hard for him to fight in such a state.

Their task is very simple, that is, to harass and constantly attack the state soldiers, so that the state soldiers are in a state of eternal peace.

The Republican Army will also send relevant personnel to fight with them.

Little monkeys they are not snipers at all, at most, receive simple training in sniping, camouflage, shooting, moving, choosing firing points, these are just simple, early lessons. The IRA doesn't seem to have done a good job of summarizing it. But the little monkeys became the test subjects, and they were thrown into the battle from the beginning.

Night is the best time to attack, however, they mostly choose to fight in the early morning after the sun has risen, and at dusk, as it provides some camouflage and the best vantage point for the fighters to catch them.

Most of them chose to be on the commanding heights, some on the top of the hill, or on the mountainside, and some were hidden in the trees, and they kept shooting at the soldiers.

The soldiers, who were unclear about the situation at first, suffered heavy losses, and some of them were shot and killed under inexplicable circumstances. This caused a lot of panic among the state soldiers.

Sniper tactics inflicted a certain amount of damage at the beginning. It also caused the soldiers to fall into a huge panic for a while, and there was a great confusion in their marching ranks, and the panic spread like a plague.

But the state soldiers were quick to act. Because they knew that it was best to stop the plague quickly when it first broke out, and if it was delayed for too long, the result would be a great danger, and the danger would expand further to an unbearable level, which was the situation they had to deal with at the moment.

After the little monkey rested for a while, he also joined the "hunting" operation.

However, instead of hiding in a tree to shoot, as the Republican professor did, he hid at the foot of the hill in a very bad-looking firing position, and he was carefully camouflaged. It looks like an ordinary pile of dead grass.

"Bang." After the sound of a shot, a spot was revealed, and after the shooter had made a second shot, he began to prepare to come down from the big tree where he was shooting. Because the state soldiers have already launched an operation.

What the little monkey saw was a group of soldiers, I don't know where they appeared, they quickly rushed towards the location where the firearms were fired, and at the odds was a young general, who looked very fierce, and his horses were very good, very tall, and very brave. It's pretty fast.

Although the shooter fired again, it was unlikely, in a panic, it was unlikely that he would hit the target, the bullet did not hit any targets, and the general quickly approached the opponent, and then brandished his assassination weapon to kill the shooter. The infantry who came up in pursuit also took the corpse of the shooter one after another. That's a vent of anger. It is also a powerful deterrent.

The little monkey looked frightened. He didn't even dare to open fire. Because once discovered, they will be killed by the other party very quickly, after all, the effective range of a firearm is only seventy steps. This is not an unreachable speed for the cavalry, and the worst thing is that the soldiers of the state, led by the officers, rushed over regardless of casualties, and for them with a low rate of fire, this is the most disastrous problem, because they will be killed alive. There was nothing they could do about it. That's the worst-case scenario.

Sniper tactics are effective, but how effective they are and whether they are really what they say will be require various evaluations on the battlefield. However, this desperate method of rushing and killing by the state soldiers did bring a great threat to the snipers, because this threat is real, and it is this threat that caused great trouble to the sniper tactics at the beginning.

The situation on the battlefield needs further feedback. But the soldiers were still retreating eastward, and no one could stop them.

Hedong. Inside Ma Heng's headquarters.

"Is the matter clear?" Ma Heng asked a staff officer.

"Sir, based on the reaction of the defensive fortress, the investigation is clear. The Huns were very dissatisfied with their purchase of our products, mainly because of the quality problems, some of the iron tools were seriously unqualified, and there were more food, corruption, mold and rotten medicines, which were simply fake. According to a local ambulance worker, many of the medicines were fake. It may be that some of the published agents use grassroots. It has no effect at all, and some of the medicinal powders are grass root powder. There is no utility at all. The staff officer said.

As for the reasons for the outbreak of clashes in the Northern Demilitarized Zone, the IRA quickly conducted an investigation, first of all in Hexi Prefecture's own. The report they provided directly illustrated the problem, because they saw directly what the problem was, some unscrupulous businessmen, shoddy. Selling fakes. This led to a direct attack by the Huns.

"yes, I see." Ma Heng thought for a moment. Come to think of it, some unscrupulous businessmen can't do anything, and Ma Heng agrees with this, why sell them such good goods. It's best to poison them directly.

"Sir." The staff officer said.

"The reason doesn't matter now. Importantly, there is no trust on both sides. Fighting is inevitable. Ma Heng said.