Zhao Ta sat behind the case and read the military report, Lanzhou was lost, and Xixia placed heavy troops in the area east of Xihe Road.

His brows furrowed, and sure enough, Li Qianshun sent the main force to attack Xihe, and the location of Zhuo Luocheng was remote and barren, and the other party put it on hold for the time being.

I have to say that Li Qianshun played a good calculation, although the Western Xia was divided into five major military regions, the actual geographical division was enough to divide into two parts.

With Lanzhou vertically upward, Western Xia was divided into two, the east was strong and the west was weak, the east was rich and the west was poor.

There are only four military divisions to the west, and they are far apart, with two huge deserts in between.

At the end of the intersection of the Uighurs, the southwest obliquely down and the right side of Long, this area is very bitter cold, Yumen Pass, Guazhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou, these ancient famous battlefields, are located in this west, compared to Liangzhou is a good place.

Persuade you to have a glass of wine, and there is no reason to go out of Yangguan in the west.

Eight voices of Ganzhou twilight rainy day, the general drank and moved forward, where is the iron horse and Hanjia now, and the snow hugs the Yumen people and does not return.

However, there are eight military divisions in the east, Xingqing Mansion is in the east, and this territory is the fertile grassland with beautiful water and grass, and the rich Hetao Plain.

Therefore, the strategic center of Western Xia has always been placed in the east and southeast, and as for the adjacent Uighurs in the west, there is not much threat to Western Xia. Running the Barrens and those two deserts? Moreover, the Uighurs were overwhelmed by the eastern Qarakhanids, even the eastern branches of the Black Khan, further west, and had no ambition to expand in this direction.

Li Qianshun should have been eyeing the land of the Xihe River for a long time, and he didn't know how long he was planning, even if he forcibly crossed the Yellow River, he would have to attack Lanzhou and enter the Xihe River.

Even if he loses such an important position as Zhuo Luo's military division, he must re-army Chen Hedong and win Xizhou.

Zhao Ta frowned, the current situation is obvious, the Western Xia is mainly advancing eastward, and he wants to take advantage of the golden opportunity of the Great Song Dynasty to attack the Liao State, desperately take Xihe Luzhou County, gain a firm foothold, and lose Zhuo Luo and other places.

This is really a good idea, the center of gravity shifts eastward, ignoring the cold and barren land in the west, if it stands still, then it will be like a sharp knife inserted into the body of the Great Song Dynasty, becoming the real henchman of the Great Song Dynasty.

But will they be stupid and stupid and stay put, or go to the west to fight? Zhao Ta shook his head, he estimated that Li Qianshun had not yet figured out the situation, and he didn't know where he came from.

This is not to blame Li Qianshun, even Emperor Daojun did not announce the fact that he was out of Tokyo to the world, but only said that he was guilty of arrest, so Li Qianshun may not know that he is in Longyou.

Zhao Ta suddenly squinted his eyes, it seemed that something was wrong, Li Qianshun should not give up the western region and let his own family fight, the Western Xia army was so eager to capture Lanzhou, I am afraid there is another layer of deep meaning, encircling Wei to save Zhao!

Li Qianshun thought that his soldiers would rush back to help after seeing the loss of Lanzhou, evacuate Zhuo Luo, and would rush to Baoxi Prefecture to recover Lanzhou!

In this way, it can really be explained, why there is no Western Xia army to besiege at the moment!

The other party wants him to take the initiative to withdraw his troops!

However, will they take the initiative to withdraw their troops? Zhao Ta shook his head, the other party was afraid that he was about to miscalculate!

It's a big deal to change homes, just fight who is ruthless!

He got up and came to the front, pushed open the door, and saw Bai Ba and Bai Zhan practicing martial arts, one holding a Yanling steel knife and the other holding a red tasseled spear, fighting lively.

There is a way that one inch is long and one inch is strong, one inch short and one inch is dangerous, but the situation in front of him is that Bai Zhan is somewhat inferior to Bai Ba, and the gun is invincible to the sword.

Zhao Ta looked at it for a while, Bai Ba used a golden wire entanglement knife, and he had never seen Bai Zhan's marksmanship, but it was at the level of a golden wire knife, which was not a mastery.

There is not much to say about the blade of the Yanling knife, and the red tassel gun is even more common, with an ash rod and an iron spear head, and a touch of red tassel blade is hidden.

At this moment, the white battle of the gun was close to the white tyrant, and the big gun could not be used by various means such as collapse, bullets, picking, and stabbing, and could only rely on a piece of the gun to barely support the left and right, and it was about to be defeated.

Zhao Ta stretched out his hand and touched his chin, the gun is actually divided into two kinds of weapons, one is an iron gun, and the other is a wooden pole gun, wooden pole guns are common, and many people can't hold iron guns, let alone use them flexibly.

The real advantage of the wooden gun is not actually the thorn, because whether it is a halberd or a lance, or a fork, you can use a "thorn", and the blade is still big, even the stab with a stab, the power of the "thorn" alone is more than the gun.

The real advantage of the wooden gun is the collapse and bullet, because the gun barrel is very tough, so the gun body can play an arc, a big gun of Zhangwu, can play an arc angle of more than 30 degrees, and the big gun of Zhangba can even play an arc angle of 45 degrees.

This is powerful, this means that it is impossible to prevent, because of the flexibility of the gun body, the gun head will bend, in the process of fighting, the enemy can not determine the last attack part of the gun head, obviously running to the front door, you parry, it is very likely that the tip of the gun is thrown by force, and it will go to the throat.

So what are the plum blossoms in the gun move, and the golden rooster nods indiscriminately, which is all a means of changing the direction of the gun's attack by breaking the gun barrel.

This is also a unique skill of the wooden pole gun, which cannot be used by other weapons.

As for the iron gun, the pure iron gun is different from the wooden gun at the head.

The head of the wooden pole gun is basically a vertical diamond shape, while the iron gun has no such shape, and it is a special gun head.

For example, the Zhangba snake spear has always been made of iron, from no wooden pole, also known as "Zhangbadian steel spear", one zhang eight long, the whole body is made of iron, and it is composed of three parts: spear head, spear handle, and spear hammer.

Its spear head is extremely long, two or three times the length of the head of an ordinary wooden gun, as if the snake body is curved upward, and the blade is forked, and it can even be used as a horse lance.

There are also five hooks of the flying spear, the head of the spear is also extremely long, the blade is narrow, and there are five barbs cast under the blade, hooking the armor and grabbing the meat, which is very powerful.

The swallowtail gun, the gun surface is extremely wide, the shape is like a swallowtail, the gun is an attack, and when the gun is withdrawn, it is also an attack, and the swallowtail is used to hurt people.

These iron guns are another set of fighting methods, and they do not rely solely on the attack technique of "stabbing", many of them are one shot and one method, with exclusive tricks, which are completely different from wooden guns, however, iron guns are mostly used on horses, and foot combat is extremely rare.

Bai Ba approached Bai Zhan's body with the Yanling knife, the collapse of the big gun in Bai Zhan's hand was not used at all, and the tip of the gun could not reach Bai Ba, and the ten cost of the gun was directly abolished ninety percent, and it was only a matter of time before he was defeated.

At this time, Bai Ba laughed and said, "Third brother, watch me break the gun with a single sword!" ”

After finishing speaking, I saw that his body was lowered, and the sword dance was like a group of flowers, and he arrived at the side of Bai Zhan.

Bai Zhan hurriedly turned around, but the person turned around, the gun was too long and did not follow, and when he was slightly distracted, the back of Bai Ba's knife had already forced his neck.

"If you lose, you lose, this gun is really difficult to use under the step, if you don't charge into battle, fighting on the battlefield is not as good as a knife." Bai Zhan was discouraged.

"Hahaha, that's right, for my brother, this single knife and spear is used for foot combat, and it will be tried and tested, as for the horse, it will definitely not be able to beat the spear, because it is too short." Bai Ba laughed.

Zhao Ta also laughed, raised his legs and stepped out of the door, the two immediately ran over to salute, Zhao Ta looked at Bai Ba and said: "Single knife to break the gun? ”

Bai Ba lowered his head and said embarrassedly: "Lord Wang, if the kung fu is about the same, he will break the gun." ”

"Kung Fu is about the same?" Zhao Ta shook his head: "Are your brothers about the same in kung fu?" ”

Bai Zhan said: "Lord Wang, my brother is between the two brothers, but we can't beat the second brother together." ”

"Bai Ao, ......" Zhao Ta thought about it, the second child of the Bai family is by Yao Pingzhong's side in Xizhou now, but he hasn't seen him for a long time.

"Saburo come in for a moment." Zhao Ta glanced at Bai Zhan, then called him into the room, and then closed the door with a "clang".

Bai Ba stood outside and was stunned, and said in his heart, what does the prince mean, why didn't he call himself? Isn't there something important that you plan to send the third child to do alone?

He was in a daze in the courtyard, and after about a quarter of an hour, he saw that the door suddenly opened, and Bai Zhan jumped out of the room.

"Third ......" As soon as Bai Ba opened his mouth to say hello, he saw Bai Zhan pick up the big gun thrown on the ground, and said with a smile that could not be concealed: "Big brother, let's compare again." ”

Bai Ba said: "You have already lost, what else can you compare?" ”

Bai Zhan snorted: "I just let you just let you go, do you really think that you can break the big gun with a single knife!" ”

Bai Ba was puzzled when he heard this: "It's not the first time you have lost with a gun, where did you get me?" ”

Bai Zhan said impatiently: "Big brother is not afraid!" ”

Bai Ba laughed angrily: "Come on, come on, I'll win again, and let you be convinced." ”

After that, he pulled out his knife and looked at Bai Zhan in the style of a northern goose flying probe knife, Bai Zhan's big gun shook and rushed forward, and there were words in his mouth: "Throat lock gun, king of guns, guns and guns lock throats are the most difficult to prevent!" ”

I saw the red tassel gun in his hand, pointing, shaking, trembling, flicking, and dialing, which was completely different from the previous way of playing, and Bai Ba couldn't get close for a while.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of moves passed, according to the past, Bai Zhan would have been defeated a long time ago, but at this moment, Bai Ba was still outside the tip of the gun, and he couldn't attack it.

Bai Ba was anxious, he didn't know why the third child changed his moves, only aimed at people with the tip of the gun, his golden wire entanglement knife needed to be wrapped around in order to break the big gun, but he couldn't be entangled at the moment, how could he break the gun?

Although Bai Zhan became more and more courageous, he was also a little anxious, although he did not lose at the moment, he did not defeat Bai Ba, and it seemed that he would continue to fight.

At this moment, Zhao Ta's coughing voice came from inside the house: "San Lang come in again." ”

Bai Zhan immediately jumped out of the circle, then entered the door and closed it with a "bang".

Bai Ba wondered, glanced at the wooden door, and wondered in his heart what the prince was asking the third child to do again? Is there anything else to explain?

He was puzzled, shook his head, and couldn't help but think about the competition just now, wondering what was wrong with his knife skills, and why he couldn't break the big gun.

After a while, he saw that the door opened again, and Bai Zhan jumped out again, shouting, "Big brother, come and compare again!" ”

Bai Ba was impatient, frowned and said: "Come on, come on, this time you will not be able to go thirty times!" ”

Bai Zhan straightened his chest and tightened his abdomen, and said, "Big brother, don't boast, look at the gun!" Saying that, holding the gun in one hand, the dragon stabbed it when it went out to sea.

Bai Ba greeted him with a knife, and as soon as he fought, his face changed, and the third child actually changed another set of marksmanship, which was very sharp and fast, and it was even more difficult to approach than the one just now.

Bai Ba couldn't help but secretly scream in his heart, and thought about it carefully, could it be that the prince was recruited to teach martial arts in the room just now? But it was only a quarter of an hour before, and it was less than a moment just now, what kind of martial arts can you learn in such a short time? I'm afraid I can't remember the tricks.

He didn't have time to think about it, "Ping Pong" and Bai Zhan fought together, but he didn't expect this time to be even more unbearable than last time, not to mention attacking the gun circle, only less than twenty moves, and actually fell into the disadvantage, and in a blink of an eye, thirty moves were approaching, not only did he defeat the other party as he just said, but he was going to lose.

At this time, Zhao Ta's voice came out of the house again: "San Lang come in!" ”

Bai Zhan said: "Big brother, you wait, I'll come when I go!" ”

Bai Ba gasped, glared at him and ran into the room again to "bang" and close the door, and couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart, this must be the prince teaching martial arts in private.

But he was a little unconvinced, the prince's martial arts are naturally superb, but their brothers have the same skills, even if the prince passes on some magical skills, but in such a short time, where can the third child learn them all? It's just to remember some frame styles to fight with your own home, your own knife method is originally a broken gun, how can you lose easily?

I saw Bai Zhan suddenly open the door and run again, there was only a few dozen breaths of time, looking at Bai Ba and said excitedly: "Big brother, let's compare again, you won't be able to move ten moves!" ”

Where is Bai Ba willing to believe, swinging the knife forward, the two of them fought in one place, only around the eighth move, seeing that Bai Zhan used a drag gun style, stirring and flicking, he actually smashed Bai Ba directly to the ground, and then the big gun passed, which was already on the chest.

Bai Zhan laughed excitedly: "Big brother, how is it?" Usually you use a knife, and I use a knife, but now I can defeat you with a gun, and you can't accept it? ”

Bai Ba lay on the ground with a disgraced face and pretended to be dead, without speaking or moving, Zhao Ta walked out of the door and said: "Da Lang don't play a scoundrel, let San Lang teach you marksmanship later." ”

Bai Ba got up from the ground at this time, trotted in front of Zhao Ta and said: "Lord Wang, my subordinates can't figure it out, it is said that my brothers have similar martial arts, and I use the spear and knife method, how can I lose so quickly?" ”

Zhao Ta glanced at him: "The tricks are just restrained, where is there any single knife that can break the gun, the first time he taught him, he can only fight a draw with you, the second time about thirty moves can defeat you, the third time to defeat within ten moves, three sets of marksmanship, and the last set is still to restrain you this golden wire entanglement knife." ”

What he said at the moment is simple, but in fact, this is a skill that only a grandmaster can have, simplify, return to the basics, and see the corresponding restraint in various martial arts, without reaching the realm of the grandmaster, you can't do this.

Bai Ba saluted and said, "My subordinates have been taught." ”

Zhao Ta said: "Go and call Yuanguo and go to the military prison." ”

After a while, Yuan Guo came over, he didn't say much, and took a few people out of the house and went straight to the cell.

Zhao Ta is now a master of martial arts, and all kinds of blades are at his fingertips, but the most he will know is marksmanship, after all, Zhou Dong's gun is amazing, he has learned almost all of Zhou Dong's gun skills, and he has seen many gun martial arts in the rivers and lakes and green forests, and the gun skills in his heart have reached more than 100 kinds for a while.

He usually doesn't use these complicated marksmanship at all, after all, he is unlikely to fight the enemy immediately before the military formation, and he mainly uses swords to step down, and today he sees the Bai family brothers fighting with guns and knives, teaching Bai Zhan some gun moves, and can't help but have the idea of combining these marksmanship as one.

Zhao Ta thought about this matter in his heart while walking, and unknowingly entered the military prison.

At this moment, the four members of the Yuan family have been separated by him, and Yuan Chun is alone in a cell, far away from the other three, and he does not need to lock her, and she is more free in the prison.

When he got closer, Yuan Guo spoke: "Twenty-eighth sister, the son is still not polite!" ”

Yuan Chun was willing to hide in the corner with vigilance in his eyes.

Zhao Ta looked at her for a moment, and said lightly: "Do you want to live?" ”

Yuan Chun gritted his teeth and said: "If you die, you will die, for your family and country, you will never be afraid." ”

Zhao Ta smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and pointed to the cell of Yuan Xia and the others: "Do you want them to live?" ”

Yuan Chun was stunned for a moment, and suddenly didn't know how to answer, Zhao Ta continued: "I have a few marksmanship here, if you can learn it, I won't kill the three of them." ”

Yuan Chun didn't know what he meant, but when he heard that he didn't kill anyone, he said, "You, what you say counts?" ”

Zhao Ta said with a smile: "Naturally, it counts, but you have to really learn, but if you can't, you still have to kill!" ”

Yuan Chun nodded: "Then you bring me marksmanship to learn, I will definitely be able to learn it." ”

Zhao Ta stretched out his hand and took out a few booklets from his arms and threw them in: "I'll come to see you practice guns in a few days, and if you don't practice well, I'll kill those ones." ”

Yuan Chun's face turned pale when he heard this, and he hurriedly lowered his head and picked up the booklet on the ground.

Zhao Ta said to Bai: "I will find an ash rod for her in a while, no need to put on the gun head, just tie the red tassel." ”

Bai Ba said yes, Zhao Ta thought for a moment, turned around and walked out of the cell.

(End of chapter)