After the initial battle in Shanyang City, Zhang Fan was not too modest and polite, and used this amazing battle exploit to quickly exchange for a lot of extremely valuable medicinal materials for cultivating internal strength and even spiritual power, and the scale was not small, enough to take it fully for at least two years.

In addition, the armor on his body was replaced with first-class slatted soft armor that has the effect of resisting certain internal threats. Zhang Fan seems to be very satisfied with the slatted soft armor, which seems to be more advanced than the ancient Chinese armor. Because it is obvious: in such a militaristic war, heavy and fine plate armor is much more useful, but I don't know why there is no such style.

The triangular steel whip of ordinary steel color used before was also replaced with a thirteen-section first-class scorpion-tail soft steel long whip with more than one zhang, so that if you are facing all kinds of dangers, you can kill a wider area and use the weapons in your hands more effectively to maneuver, and the combat effectiveness will obviously increase close to one grade.

Only the shield that is far from being comparable to these, and the short sword that has followed him since childhood, Zhang Fan has no intention of abandoning it. It seems that after this battle, his spiritual power has also broken through the bottleneck of about the tenth order and entered the level of the eleventh order.

If you make an analogy, when he was a great hero Zhang Ruzhen in his previous life, if he had spiritual power of about the eleventh order, he could almost immediately break through the bottleneck of the transformation realm and become a half immortal cultivator similar to a qi refining cultivator. And in this life, if you can cultivate your internal strength to the level of the top master of the Inner Gate Nine Grades, you also have a greater probability of becoming a master of the Transformation Realm.

Most of the barrel-mounted flying needle concealed weapons that had played a great role in the battle were collected, but Zhang Fan still changed the shotgun in this regard, and replaced the previous sewing needles with 100 five-inch long, almost half a cent thick one-dollar stainless steel needle-shaped concealed weapon. Of course, because this kind of thing is not as common as the common sewing needles in the store, it took almost the entire Shanyang City to find a total of about six hundred such needle-shaped hidden weapons, and fifty of them were assembled in a unique small tube.

Of course, at the moment, Zhang Fan felt that the restriction of his outer door five grades or so on his combat effectiveness was too obvious, because the possibility of encountering more than a dozen inner door junior masters in some big scenes in this world was still not small, if this time it was not under the special street fighting environment of Shanyang City, but in the Pingchuan wilderness, he encountered ten or even more first- and second-grade masters of the inner gate, I am afraid that even if he was fully armed with a flying needle secret weapon, it would still cost a big question mark whether he could escape the catastrophe, and it would not be enough to ensure his safety in this world。

Therefore, at this time, Zhang Fan has also made it clear: using the shield to improve his cultivation is fundamental.

Of course, there is another concern about this: if he continues to cultivate in the shield, will he arouse suspicion and bring some danger because of the slight change in his face and figure? Of course, Zhang Fan also weighed it in his heart for a long time, but in the end he still chose to gamble.

This time the battle of Shanyang City made Zhang Fan feel that if his cultivation and combat effectiveness were improved to a few more levels, then his status in the entire Xia Kingdom would inevitably be different from the original. According to his understanding of this world in his previous life, as long as it is valuable, and it is not the enemy of the entire martial arts like Zhang Ruzhen did before, it will inevitably be taken seriously by the Xia Imperial Court, and the benefits will still outweigh the risks to a large extent.

To be continued... After an hour, delete the following nonsense and update the addition.

The number of officers and soldiers in Jizhen was initially set at 85,006 in the Yongle period (including Jizhou, Yongping, Changping, and Miyun), and increased to more than 100,000 during the Wanli period.

The more famous commander of Jizhen is Qi Jiguang, Qi Jiguang is a famous general with the same name as Yu Dayou, and the training of Jizhen soldiers and horses has a high level of training and strong combat effectiveness, and the world calls it Qi's army.

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[2] In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang captured Dadu (present-day Beijing) and drove the Mongols who had ruled the Central Plains for nearly a hundred years out of the Great Wall. Emperor Shun of Yuan withdrew from the Great Wall and remained in the Jinsai area, Tunshangdu (near the current Zhenglan Banner), still called Emperor Yuan, known as the Northern Yuan Dynasty in history. At this time, its ruling institutions were still intact, and the remnants of the army claimed to be one million, and they tried to rely on these forces to regain the old capital. The newly established Ming regime was deeply troubled by the existence of the Northern Yuan, so from the second year of Hongwu to the twenty-ninth year, Zhu Yuanzhang sent generals to lead heavy troops to conquer Mobei eight times. After Zhu Di, the king of Yan, became the emperor, from the eighth year of Yongle to the twenty-second year, he personally led the army to the north five times, and died on the way back. Under the powerful armed attack of the Ming army, the Northern Yuan Dynasty was divided internally, and they fought each other for a long time, and several generations of Yuan lords and the princes who supported them were killed by their subordinates, and the people were scattered, and even the emperor was forgotten.

After a long period of tribal warfare, Mongolia formed two major tribes, the Waspur and the Tatar, the Waspur in the west, called Western Mongolia, and the Tatar in the east, called Eastern Mongolia. The Ming government also adopted the so-called policy of "fighting and destroying the Mongols" by attacking and pulling them in, taking advantage of their political weaknesses to promote internal division and suppress the weak and the strong. Suddenly suppress the Tartars and appease the Tartars, and suddenly suppress the Shingles and appease the Tartars. The Mongols used the capriciousness of the Ming government as an excuse to raise troops and use force, so the border troubles in the north have not been eliminated, and the focus of the Ming government's defense has always been in the north.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, he ordered the general Xu Da to train troops in Shanxi and Beiping, and fortified Beiping as the center. According to Huai'an Houhua Yunlong's suggestion, "more than 2,000 miles from Yongping, Jizhou, and Miyun to the west, nine out of 120 passes are placed and guarded", and set up capital divisions in Beiping, Liaodong, and Datong, and then set up the northern parallel capital division and Yingzhou Wutunwei (now western Liaoning and southeast Inner Mongolia) in Daning (now Inner Mongolia Ningcheng), led 25 guards in the northeast region, and set up 21 guards outside the southern part of Inner Mongolia and the northeast of Hebei.

After Zhu Di, the king of Yan, seized the throne in the "Battle of Jingyan", he paid more attention to the construction of border defense in the north, and repaired the low and simple border walls in several sections. Nine military towns were set up on the 10,000-mile defense line from the east of Yalu River to the west of Jiayuguan to defend the land. Jizhen has a special and important position among the nine towns along the border. Once, Emperor Jiajing expressed his worries to Yang Bo, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Yang Bo said: "Today, Jiubian Ji Town is the most important, please chase the border ministers to Datong Kou, so that you can't get close to thistle."