Zhao Bufan stayed in the apricot orchard of Juxianzhuang for one night, and set off early the next morning to rush back to Sikou Pass.

When he returned to the General's Palace, after careful consideration, he personally wrote two memoranda, the first of which stated that the existence of the two small prefectures of Xin'an Prefecture and Qingzhou was not conducive to the coordinated operation of the border defense in northern Xinjiang, and even more so was not conducive to economic development.

Although the ultimate purpose of this letter is to facilitate the sale of illicit salt in the future, so that he can really secretly control the various transportation arteries, but the problem he pointed out is indeed real, the two states are sandwiched between Cangzhou and Bazhou, the jurisdiction of the management is very small, not to mention, but also so that Cangzhou and Bazhou military and trade exchanges have two more checkpoints, and even from the prosperous south of Cangzhou to the sparsely populated north must also pass through the territory of Qingzhou, although Cangnan also has a small road to Cangbei, but the official road has to pass through the territory of Qingzhou after all.

At the same time, the governors of these two states are also in vain, basically all government decrees must be negotiated with Cangzhou and Bazhou first, otherwise it will seriously affect the two large states, and when it is really time to fight with the Liao State, the two places will not play a role in that little box soldiers, and can only urgently assemble to Bazhou or Cangzhou, which is not only inefficient, but also seriously affects the unified command and training of the box soldiers.

Zhao Bufan has been in northern Xinjiang for several years, but so far he has only met with the governors of the two states a few times, and he has not seen them play a role at all.

Especially Xin'an Prefecture is the most serious, many officials had occupied here in the Liao State earlier, with Zhao Bufan recapturing Sikou Pass and Xin'an Prefecture, the main force was also stationed here, of course, he took over the security and defense, plus the decrees here all followed the example of Bazhou, so that the officials of the entire Xin'an Prefecture except for routine taxation, they simply didn't care about anything, and they didn't dare to care!

Originally, according to He Daye's meaning, Xin'an Prefecture would also be better divided into Cangzhou, so that two routes to the Liao State could be opened up for the sale of illicit salt, but Zhao Bufan came back and carefully studied and found that if the road from Xin'an Prefecture was out of the customs, then it would inevitably have to pass through the Sikou Pass, and if the two sides maintained long-term trade, it would be difficult to ensure that the Sikou Pass would become a mixture of dragons and snakes, and the strategic location here was very important, and there was no room for mistakes, so he decided to give up this road, but he thought that since he was already going to merge the state, it was better to solve this hidden danger together, so he also asked the emperor to merge Xin'an Prefecture into Bazhou, so that Li Miao could govern here, which will also save him a lot of worry.

After Zhao Bufan finished writing the fold, he read it carefully, knowing that this fold would inevitably be approved, so he didn't worry too much, and sealed the fold at the moment, and then slowly picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, leaning on the back of the chair unhurriedly and closing his eyes and pondering, thinking about how to replace Liu Xi, the governor of Cangzhou.

"The matter of merging the state is inseparable, the pros and cons are clear at a glance, Zhao Ji and the ministers of the DPRK and China should not have any objections, but how can I replace Liu Xi? This person is the eldest son of Liu Zhongwu, the commander of the infantry division of the guard, Liu Qi's eldest brother, and the network behind him is also very wide, if I pick some faults to impeach him, it will inevitably offend the Liu family, when I first entered Beijing to face the saint, all officials did not come to my banquet, only Liu Zhongwu and Liu Qi father and son and Liu Yanqing and Liu Guangshi father and son came spontaneously, it can be said that they clearly expressed their support for me, this love has not been returned, how can Liu Xi be framed?

What's more, Liu Xi's younger brother Liu Qi is both civil and military, loyal and good at fighting, and it will not be long before he will be a famous general of the Great Song Dynasty, and he is a friendly army that I can trust in the future, if I harm his brother for my own goals, then am I not the same as Cai Jing? Although this Liu Xi is not as good as his brother Liu Qi, he doesn't take care of things, and he is a wise person who protects himself, but he is not a bad person after all, if I hurt him, how can I get by with my conscience?"

Thinking of this, Zhao Bufan was a little irritable, got up and walked to the window, gently pushed the window open, and let the sunlight outside shine on him.

The flying leaves imprinted into his eyes, and he stood for a long time in the cold wind of early winter.

"If you can't depreciate, then you can only rise, although you have to pay a lot of price, but it can be regarded as repaying Liu Zhongwu's love!"

Talking to himself, he turned back to the Taishi chair and sat down, buried his head in the table and wrote.

After he finished writing, he picked it up and looked at it, and then said to himself with satisfaction: "Liu Xi, you don't care about anything, but let me blow you higher than the sky today, and even give you a lot of credit for my rectification of Cangzhou's border defense, which is considered to have made you pick up a bargain for nothing, and your Liu family's original love will be repaid!"

After saying this, he shook his head self-deprecatingly, and then went out of the door to summon Lu Fang in, and asked him to immediately send someone to send the song to Kaifeng, Tokyo on a fast horse, and then wrote two letters to Zhu Bocai, one was to ask Zhu Bocai to move around in the court, and he must try to transfer Zhu Xiaozhang to the governor of Cangzhou. The other letter is to ask Zhu Bocai to hand it over to Liang Shicheng, of course, according to the usual practice, nothing was written, anyway, after Liang Shicheng received the blank paper, he would soon hear about his performance, and then he knew what it was for with his toes, and then the other party would naturally fill in the amount requested, and it was pointless to write too much nonsense.

In the days that followed, Zhao Bufan also settled down, he understood very well the truth that planning things is in people, and success is in heaven, since everything that can be done has been done, then it is useless to worry, when the huge assets of Dongxiangang and Juxianzhuang have been transported to the army, solving the urgent need for military salaries, he will devote a lot of energy to studying the nameless marksmanship created by himself, and gradually open up the meridians every day, and consolidate the internal force cultivation of the Nine Turns Jinyang Divine Skill.

Taking advantage of this time, he also began to seriously teach Shang Kunyang to practice the dog stick method, but unfortunately Shang Kunyang although his understanding and talent are excellent, but what he practiced was the ordinary internal strength of the beggar gang, although the world's internal strength heart method as long as he is willing to work hard will inevitably be able to achieve, but the growth rate is really too slow, so his internal strength cultivation is also low, and he always has insufficient strength to practice the dog stick method, and his body can't keep up with his understanding, and he can't learn all the luck methods, so he can only draw a scoop according to the gourd for the time being, and practice the moves purely.

It's useless to be anxious about this kind of thing, and Zhao Bufan can only let him take his time.

What was very surprising was that because he wanted to guide Shang Kunyang to practice pure moves, he had to find ways to disassemble the dog-beating stick method, and at the same time, he also had to omit the true qi operation methods that Shang Kunyang couldn't complete, and so on, and after repeating it over and over again, he had made a major discovery unconsciously.

That is, the moves or wonderful changes of the dog stick method can be moderately changed, and it can be used in marksmanship, especially a few relatively domineering tricks that he likes very much after rectification, which also makes him more interested, repeatedly tried and tested, and spent all day thinking about how to absorb the essence of it to integrate into his own nameless marksmanship.

Sometimes Shang Kunyang is very speechless for him, because he often stops suddenly when demonstrating moves, and falls into contemplation inexplicably, Shang Kunyang called him at first, but then he simply didn't care, once he saw him fall into contemplation, he went directly to the side to practice his own!

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In the blink of an eye, Zhao Bufan hid in the general's mansion for a whole month, and the assessment day he agreed with Hu Sanniang gradually came.

The impact of this contest was very great, and it was spread throughout the whole army, and all kinds of rumors and rumors were constantly circulating.

The generals in the army were instructed by Zhao Bufan earlier, so they were also very concerned, and deliberately set up a competition field in the wilderness outside the north gate of Sikou Pass, and on the agreed day of the competition, the five tiger cavalry, the infantry of the five armies and the battalions of the Chinese army were ordered to come here to watch, the neat queue and the cold armor all showed the iron-blooded demeanor of the Liangshan army, although the number was tens of thousands, but the whole audience was silent, and some were just bleak and cold.

Zhao Bufan also came to the high platform early to sit upright, quietly waiting for the competition to begin, this time he chose the five hundred guards battalion with the highest average martial arts to fight, although he knew that the women led by Hu Sanniang could not beat, but he was still looking forward to seeing their performance.

At three o'clock, Hu Sanniang's five hundred female soldiers and five hundred guards led by Hao Siwen slowly walked out of the silt pass, and Zhao Bufan was very satisfied with the neat steps, and immediately asked Guan Sheng on the right: "This month, I asked you to help Hu Sanniang train the military formation, and I didn't see you leak some news, how about it?"

"The last general has done his best, the general should see how they behave!" Guan Shengqi held the long hair on his chin, his eyes were half-squinted, and he seemed to be smiling.

When he spoke, the surrounding generals were all listening with their ears pricked up, but they didn't know that it was an ambiguous answer, and Qin Ming, who was anxious, immediately complained: "What are you selling at this time, can you beat you in your heart? Then didn't you work for nothing this month?"

"Nonsense! Do you still need to ask? These 500 people in the Guards Battalion are all masters in the army, you don't dare to rush in alone, how can a group of women be able to fight?" Dong Ping immediately rolled his eyes, his tone full of contempt.

Qin Ming was not happy, and stood up suddenly, and the battle armor on his body made a "pop" sound.

"Who told you I wouldn't dare?"

"Okay, you dare, you have the courage to do it, right? But you rushed in and didn't send you to death, what difference does it make if you dare or not?" Dong Ping clasped his hands to his chest, holding both guns in his arms, looking calm and relaxed, obviously intentionally teasing Qin Ming.

The older Hu Yanzhuo was also happy when he saw the two of them competing against each other, and couldn't help but say loudly: "I said Dong Yibu, you make trouble all day long, aren't you tired?"

"Don't call me Dong Yibang, my nickname is the Merry Twin Gun General, if you give me a nickname again, I'll fight you today!!" Dong Ping seemed to have been stepped on by someone's tail, and he jumped in anger in an instant, every time he fought, whether it was a drill or a fight, he always liked to fight for the lead, so the army secretly gave him a nickname called Dong Yibang, but he himself was bored with this nickname.

When the generals saw his angry appearance, they all burst into laughter.

Zhang Qing, who has no feather arrows in the back row, likes to laugh the most, and he has a good relationship with Dong Ping on weekdays, so he couldn't help but follow the exit immediately: "Hey! Dong Yibump, while everyone is interested today, why don't you and Hu Yanzhuo really fight and show us something new!"

"Don't make a fuss there, practice your lame marksmanship well!" Dong Ping scolded angrily.

"You say my marksmanship is lame?" Zhang Qing's eyes widened instantly, and he got up and said, "Come on, come on, let's go down and fight for three hundred rounds!"

Dong Ping pursed his lips disdainfully, and smiled proudly: "If you have the ability, you will throw those broken stones, and I will be able to take you within twenty rounds!"

"Throwing stones is also a skill, can you throw them to me?" Zhang Qing replied angrily, but his voice was lowered, obviously he really didn't have much confidence in using marksmanship alone to fight Dong Ping.

Zhao Bufan saw that the generals had a harmonious relationship, and they weren't really hurt and angry when they joked with each other, so he was very relieved, and interrupted at the moment: "Okay, don't make trouble, the competition over there is about to start, everyone take a good look, but then again, Zhang Qing's marksmanship should really try to improve, you obviously have that capital, why don't you give full play to it? Everyone knows that your flying stone skills are piercing through Yang in a hundred steps, but what if you don't have flying stones? What if you don't have time to use flying stones?" You should practice your marksmanship, and if you can't fight Guan Shengma for fifty rounds with your marksmanship alone in a year's time, you will send me to the frontline outpost to be the head of the capital!"

"Ahh

Zhao Bufan didn't care about those reasons, he sat on the Taishi chair in the middle of the front row, and waved his hand without looking back: "I will teach you the Luo family's marksmanship the next day, your martial arts are the pursuit of fast, accurate, and skillful, and the Luo family's marksmanship should be suitable for you, but after a year, if there is no result, you should be decided!"

Hearing that Zhao Bufan was willing to teach the Luo family gun, Zhang Qing instantly smiled.

"General Zhao, what you said today is in front of everyone, and what you say is spilled water, and you can't take it back!"

"When did I break my promise, when you are free, come to the house to find me!" Zhao Bufan threw a sentence back, and raised his hand without looking back: "Okay, everyone is quiet, take a good look at the battle between the two armies!"

At this time, the female soldiers led by Hu Sanniang had already set up a position with the guard battalion in the distance, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they were all holding wooden weapons wrapped in coarse cloth, although there was a little less cold killing intent, but it did not affect the burning fighting intent of the two sides at all.

The drums of war gradually sounded, deafening.

"Formation!!"

With a crisp shout, Hu Sanniang, who was dressed in dark red armor, quickly waved the order flag in her hand, and those female soldiers ran with it, gradually forming a concave shape.

"Forward!!"

With a neat queue and a powerful pace, these women in military uniforms did not look delicate at all.

On the other side, Hao Siwen, Lu Fang, and Guo Sheng also gradually put away their original smiles, their faces became more and more serious, and they solemnly commanded the soldiers of the Guards Battalion to change formations.

The two sides approached quickly in the change of formation, and when there were only twenty steps left for each other, Hu Sanniang waved the command flag in his hand and let out a piercing scream.

"The left army rushes and kills !!"

"Kill!!"

The deafening screams of hundreds of women were very sharp, perhaps not as strong and majestic as men, but they were tearing and piercing.

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