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Chapter 232 Qingzhou (Subscribe!)
"Master Bai, you are so powerful!"

Yin Cai, deputy commander of Lingzhou's Demon-Slaying Guards, looked at the sheep demon whose head was chopped off by Bai Yuan with a single blow, and praised him with a fawning look on his face.

The methods of the new Lingzhou Demon-Slaying Guards commander were far beyond his imagination.

The musket team. It's simply unheard of.

He has been following Bai Yuan in sweeping out the monsters in Qingyang Mansion these past few days, and he feels more refreshed than ever before.

Those monsters that had given them so much trouble in the past were now easily killed.

Bai Yuan led the Shenfu Army's musket team and was invincible in Lingzhou. Ordinary demons and monsters could not withstand a few rounds of fire from the musket team.

If he encounters a tough opponent, Bai Yuan will take action himself and cooperate with the firepower cover of the musket team, with excellent results.

He had personally tested it and found that a 200-man musket team could trap a powerful being of the level of the Soul-Chasing Tower's owner.

It is naturally easy to trap those Beiyuan monsters that cross the border.

Unlike the demon cavalry of Lingzhou Prefecture, the fire gun team does not have such high requirements on individual combat power, but more on the understanding of fire guns and the deployment of formations.

More importantly, the investment in the musket team is much less than that of the demon cavalry.

After Yu Hui's training, this musket team has begun to show results.

As the deputy commander of Lingzhou Demon-Slaying Guard, Yin Cai was naturally no mediocre person. He quickly realized the value of the Fire Gun Team.

If you had a musketeer team of 10,000 people, the scene would be unimaginable.

Bai Yuan is of course well aware of the value of the Fire Gun Team.

If he could make firearms from his previous life, the effect would be even more terrifying.

A wise man once said, if you are poor, you should just take care of yourself; if you are rich, you should cover yourself with all your might.

It’s a pity that only Bai Yuan knows the skill of making guns. Even if he wanted to teach it to the craftsmen of Shenfu Gate, those craftsmen would not be able to learn it. Just hand-carving the rifling is enough to stump everyone.

The guns in the hands of the musket team can no longer be called muskets, they basically possess the qualities of modern rifles.

At best, those craftsmen could make old-fashioned firearms, which had little lethality, slow reloading speed, and were easy to break.

Helpless, Bai Yuan could only do it himself.

Since it cannot be produced through large-scale assembly lines, the progress of manual production is naturally very slow.

Bai Yuan had spent a lot of effort on building this 200-man musketeer team.

Now it seems that all the hard work has paid off.

Yin Cai looked at the musket team beside him and almost drooled. Which commander would not be envious of this thing?
It’s a pity that it is not replicable.

However, Bai Yuan relied on this fire gun team to complete the previous deployment. For the first time, Lingzhou Demon-Slaying Guards took the initiative to encircle and suppress monsters and demons.

This is absolutely the first time in history.

Although Xuanyang's Demon-Slaying Guards are responsible for guarding against demons in the jurisdiction, most of the time they are no different from the police station and they only handle cases when they receive them.

It's not that they don't know the importance of taking precautions, but the monsters are too strong, and even the Demon-Slaying Guards are unable to organize a large-scale raid.

After all, the worst monsters are equivalent to Yi Jin Guan martial artists, so the Demon Slayer Guards don’t have so many strong ones to deploy.

But the Fire Gun Team made up for this shortcoming very well.

Three fire gun soldiers plus a bone-tempering warrior are enough to deal with a third-level monster, and the demon-slaying guards instantly have sufficient manpower.

Yin Cai was so excited that he trembled when he thought of the scene of searching the mountains and killing monsters.

He felt that he had followed the right person.

"The Fire Gun Team is quite interesting."

Du Qinghui looked at the battle report with a slight smile on his face.

Bai Yuan, the Lingzhou Demon-Slaying Guard General whom he casually promoted, brought him a big surprise.

More and more monsters, demons, and barbarians have fled from the Great Wall to Lingzhou. The Lingzhou government has been exhausted, but even with all its manpower, the results are still not ideal.

Compared to the Lingzhou Police Station's lack of manpower, the Demon-Slaying Guards' record is much more impressive.

The number of demons and monsters killed was more than three times that of the police station.

All this is thanks to the musket team created by the young general.

"Master Dong, your disciple really surprised me."

Du Qinghui looked at Dong Wanjun standing aside.

Of course, Dong Wanjun had also heard about Bai Yuan's deeds.

He seldom returned to the Shenfu Gate, so he had no idea what the Fire Gun Team was.

Bai Yuan's actions also surprised him.

"I would also like to thank Lord Du for his support."

Dong Wanjun cupped his hands.

The reason why Bai Yuan was able to become the fifth-rank commander of the Demon-Slaying Guard was indeed all thanks to this Jiedushi Du.

After spending some time together, he found that although this former Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate was old-fashioned, he was also upright.

Otherwise, given the relationship between Du Qinghui and Xu Dingchun in the court, he would definitely be targeted everywhere.

It is said that Lord Du made great efforts to have His Majesty the Emperor issue thirteen imperial edicts to summon Xu Dingchun back to Beijing.

Xu Dingchun even called Du Qinghui an old bastard.

Du Qinghui: "It's a pity that you are still too young."

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Dong Wanjun did not speak.

Du Qinghui obviously wanted to train Bai Yuan, but Bai Yuan had just become an official and did not have enough qualifications.

Even if Du Qinghui intends to promote him, he cannot act too hastily.

The officialdom has its own rules. If all the senior officials are young people, how can the later officials get promoted?
So qualifications are also very important.

Moreover, he is less than 30 years old and is a fifth-grade master. He is considered outstanding in the whole Xuanyang. "Brother Bai, you have to help me."

Li Huan grabbed Bai Yuan's sleeve.

Yang Fangyu smiled and kicked Li Huan: "Li Huan, since Brother Bai is here, he will definitely help you."

Li Huan scratched his head and chuckled, without any royal airs at all.

He heard about Bai Yuan's battle record in Lingzhou, and then found Bai Yuan through Yang Fangyu.

Although he and Bai Yuan had met once at Yang Fangyu's private banquet, the two of them did not actually have a very deep friendship.

If you want to get things done, you must find Yang Fangyu as a middleman.

Bai Yuan: "Brother Li, what's going on?"

The matter that can cause headaches to this Qingzhou royal family must be of great importance.

Li Huan smiled bitterly: "Brother Bai, you don't know that Qingzhou has also been invaded by those monsters and barbarians from the Northern Plains. I have a lot of troubles to deal with. Now the chaos is everywhere. If I can't suppress those monsters, I can only go to my father to accept the punishment."

The situation in Qingzhou is very different from that in Lingzhou.

Although there are many sects, most of them are not very powerful. The strongest one is undoubtedly the Qingzhou Palace.

The King of Qingzhou had thirteen sons, and each son was responsible for guarding a prefecture.

The entire Qingzhou is firmly controlled by the Qingzhou Royal Palace.

Perhaps this is also the reason why that prince was crowned king.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Emperor Taizu conferred titles on princes, some of whom were even kings of different surnames. However, as time passed, most of the titles were taken back by the Xuanyang royal family, and now there are only five left with fiefs.

As one of the five foreign kings, the King of Qingzhou is naturally very powerful.

However, the King of Qingzhou was extremely strict in managing his household. If any of his sons failed to manage his household well, he would definitely be punished.

As the ninth son of King Qingzhou, Li Huan was not particularly outstanding, so he was assigned to the northernmost Beihua Prefecture.

But precisely because it is located in the northernmost part, the most monsters and barbarians have fled to Beihua Prefecture.

It is naturally difficult to fight against so many powerful enemies with the strength of one prefecture.

It is not easy for Li Huan to hold on until now.

So as soon as he heard about Bai Yuan's amazing performance in Lingzhou, he rode his horse to Huanglong Mansion immediately.

Bai Yuan groaned: "Since we are all brothers, of course we have to help, but..."

He looked embarrassed.

Li Huan immediately said, "Brother Bai, I heard that you like to collect martial arts from all over the world. The Qingzhou Palace happens to have a lot of martial arts hidden in it. Why don't we go and appreciate them together?"

It really works.

The corners of Bai Yuan's mouth raised slightly.

He likes to hang out with people who are rich and smart.

Lingzhou is the center of Shuofang, and Lingzhou's Demon-Slaying Guard is special. Therefore, it is not inappropriate for Bai Yuan to come to Qingzhou's aid as the commander-in-chief of the Demon-Slaying Guard.

Even if Du Qinghui knew, he couldn't find any fault.

The war in Beihua Prefecture was urgent, and Bai Yuan also saw that Li Huan was impatient, so he immediately took the musket team and rushed to Qingzhou with Li Huan.

"Brother Bai, there are thirteen prefectures in Qingzhou, all of which are governed by the Qingzhou Palace."

"Qingzhou and Lingzhou are adjacent to each other and have similar climates. Brother Bai, are you used to living here?"

"It's another hundred miles to reach Beihua Prefecture."

Along the way, Li Huan enthusiastically introduced the customs and culture of Qingzhou to Bai Yuan.

He described everything from the situation in the Qingzhou Palace to Honghua Town, which has the most beauties.

Bai Yuan also got to know Qingzhou because of this.

Qingzhou was the fief of the King of Qingzhou. In addition to paying taxes to the imperial court every year, it could be said that the entire Qingzhou was the private property of the Qingzhou Palace.

As a prince with real power, King Qingzhou has an extremely high status, and even Du Qinghui dares not neglect him.

Therefore, it was somewhat unexpected that the administrative center was chosen to be in Lingzhou instead of Qingzhou this time.

After all, this would lose face for the King of Qingzhou.

However, what is puzzling is that the King of Qingzhou, who is always known for his hot temper, strangely did not take advantage of this to cause trouble, but took the initiative to show goodwill to Du Qinghui, the governor of Shuofang.

If not, it would not be easy for Du Qinghui to control Qingzhou.

Since a prince was willing to humble himself like this, Du Qinghui naturally reciprocated the gesture and hardly interfered in the affairs of Qingzhou since he became the governor.

Qingzhou has a strong military force and hardly needs reinforcements from other states. It is the first time that an official from Lingzhou like Bai Yuan has come to Qingzhou openly.

The two states are adjacent to each other, and Qingzhou has always been superior to Lingzhou, so when people from Qingzhou meet people from Lingzhou, they always treat them as superior and look down on them.

Li Huan was also desperate, so he turned to Bai Yuan.

Bai Yuan and his group were walking on the official road, and just as they were about to reach the border of Beihua Prefecture—

A gorgeous carriage was lying across the official road.

The official road is an important place in Xuanyang, and blocking the official road is a serious crime.

It was obvious that the owner of the carriage was inferior to his opponent. Since he dared to do so, he must have been fearless.

Then a middle-aged man with a square face and beautiful beard slowly walked out of the carriage.

He looked in the direction of Bai Yuan and Li Huan.

"It turns out to be my ninth brother!"

Li Huan's face turned cold when he saw the middle-aged man.

What he worried about finally happened.

The middle-aged man in front of him was none other than the fourth son of King Qingzhou, his fourth brother, Li Ming!

(End of this chapter)