The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 243 Nine Swords for Seven Guns

Zhao Tun was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, and he said together with everyone: "The king is holy!"

Wang Qingdao: "Although Zhong Lingxi didn't use all his strength, Li Aiqing's martial arts are still remarkable, and I can't imagine that he will be inferior to that little Zhao Tuo!"

Zhao Tong said: "Your Majesty, even if that child is a disciple of Grandmaster Zhou, I am not afraid. I am willing to put a sword in the king's ribs, go up the mountain of swords and descend into the sea of ​​fire, and die!"

Wang Qing said with a smile: "Okay, okay, the lonely family thinks that Zhao Tun's boy can't be Zhou Tong's disciple. Li Aiqing said that he has no chance of defeating him. By the way, Prime Minister, do you know about Zhou Tong's disciple?"

Li Zhudao: "Although I don't know whether Zhou Tong has a mantle disciple, the king of Qi, Zhao Tuo, certainly does not, and Zhou Tong will not choose a prince to pass on the mantle."

Wang Qing nodded and said: "I remember the Prime Minister told Gu that he once fought Zhou Tong, and now he might as well tell the generals, so that he can be wary of Zhao Tong."

Zhao Tun was stunned when he heard the words, he had never heard of this matter, why did his master fight against Li Zhu?
Li Zhu said with a smile: "Very few people know about this, but it has been about ten years."

ten years?Zhao Tong thought in his heart that it should be when Zhou Tong was the teacher of Tianzi in the Yuquan Gym, and it was also when he first worshiped Zhou Tong as his teacher.

"That year I went to Tokyo, I wanted to see the prosperity of Kaifeng Mansion, and meet the masters of martial arts in Tokyo City."

Zhao Tuo listened intently, thinking to himself, I'm afraid it's more than that?It is estimated that Li Zhu was rebellious at that time, and he went to Tokyo to inquire about the situation of the court.

"As a result, there is no one in the world of Tokyo who is my opponent, and I heard that Zhou Tong was the teacher of Tianzi in the Yuquan Gym, so I went there for half a month to compete, but I only saw Zhou Tong once..." Li Zhu said A little thought here.

Zhao Tong knew that Zhou Tong's Tianzihao teacher back then was indeed registered, and he could go and leave at any time, and he was not always in the Yuquan Gym.

"Zhou Tong's reputation is naturally far greater than that of his ministers, even now, it's just that his senior minister is 30 years old, so it's nothing more than a matter of fame." Li Zhu laughed at himself when he said this.

Wang Qing said above: "Why should the prime minister be humble? In another 30 years, who can compare with the prime minister's reputation? According to Gu, it doesn't take 30 years, and I'm afraid it won't take long. The prime minister's reputation will overwhelm all the masters. can be compared.”

Li Zhudao: "What the king said is very true. Even at that time, I was not convinced. I finally saw it in the Yuquan Gym. Naturally, I couldn't give up the opportunity easily, so I invited Zhou Tong to fight. Dong just shouldn't."

"Later, I followed Zhou Tong to Zhou Tong's house, and stayed there for three days. I ate and drank for free, and danced swords in the courtyard every day. Zhou Tong watched the courtier's swordsmanship. After a long time, I felt a little itchy, so I played guns by the side. .”

"After a few more days like this, they began to accuse each other of flaws in their martial arts and refused to accept each other, so they made an appointment to compete on the bank of the Yellow River."

At this point, Li Zhu paused, and then thought for a moment before saying: "I have only studied the way of swords all my life, but Grandmaster Zhou has used spears, and has amazing accomplishments in bows and arrows."

"In the battle on the bank of the Yellow River, Zhou Tong used a total of seven spear techniques, and the minister used nine sword techniques, and earned him a three-star moon arrow during the battle!"

"Those seven spear techniques are open and closed, fast and slow, complicated and simple, rigid and soft. The seven spear techniques almost use all the characteristics of the ultimate move of the gun stick, which is the ultimate in close spear skills!"

"Even though ten years have passed, those marksmanship techniques are still remembered in my mind, namely the Seven Star Moon Spear, the Silver Dragon Pounding the Sea Spear, and the Lightning Spear..."

Zhao Tong listened to Li Zhu read the names of these marksmanship. He knew all these marksmanship, but basically he knew them and never used them.

Two of these seven types of marksmanship can be used both immediately and immediately, and they are extremely fast. Zhao Tang thought in his heart, these marksmanship has been used in a coherent manner, the monarch and his ministers complement each other, complement each other's strengths, and there are almost no flaws. The world can catch them all. There are very few, very few.

Before Zhao Tun came to Luzhou, he had made a plan in his mind that he would never use Zhou Tong's martial arts, not even the martial arts of those famous masters who had connections with the imperial court.

He did not lack fists, feet, guns and clubs. In Emperor Taizong's arsenal, there were not only the remaining weapons and armor of some famous generals in the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period, but also copies of incomplete martial arts moves of these famous generals.

Although these martial arts moves are not complete, all of them are real killer moves, and when these moves are used, few people in today's world can see their roots.

Emperor Taizong was fond of martial arts and poison all his life, and he devoted himself to these two ways, so he built the arsenal and poison warehouse. His personal martial arts skills are also superb, and his poison methods are also deceitful. Above the spear and stick, he claims to be the No. 1 court.

However, although Emperor Taizong was excellent in martial arts, he had no ability to lead troops in battle, let alone military talent. He was impatient and ruthless, and worried about gains and losses.

It turned out that after ascending to the throne, he wanted to learn from Li Shimin and demonstrate his literary and martial arts skills, so as to correct the world's criticism of his throne.

When Taizu wanted to move the capital to Luoyang, Xijing, Taizong did not move. Taizu said that he would rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, but Taizong said he would not kill officials. Call back to Yanyun Sixteen States!
As a result, the first Northern Expedition, the Battle of Gaoliang River, was a small victory in the first two games, but they fell into Khitan's trap. Brother Yeluxiu and Yelu Xiezhen divided their troops and attacked Taizong. He was also hit by two spiked barbed arrows with wrong tails, and almost lost his life.

On the way to escape, they couldn't find a carriage. If Huyanqing's ancestor Huyanzan hadn't got a donkey cart from somewhere, and carried the seriously injured Taizong all the way for more than 160 miles, he might not have escaped.

This battle took place on the Gaoliang River, and Emperor Taizong fled for another night in a donkey cart. He didn't even care about the army, so he was nicknamed the "God of Gaoliang River Carriage" in later generations.

Two years after returning to Tokyo to recuperate, Taizong's martial arts heart was ready to move again, and he still wanted to use force to regain the Sixteen States of Yanyun.

As a result, an army of 20 was assembled, divided into three groups, and brought along many fierce generals, most of them Pan Mei, Yang Ye, Tian Zhongjin, Cao Bin, Cui Yanjin and others, and set off northward.

In order to save face, Emperor Taizong spent a lot of money this time. The Northern Expedition went smoothly at the beginning. Cao Bin, Tian Zhongjin, Pan Mei and others successively conquered Gu'an South City, Huanzhou, Zhuozhou, Yingzhou, Yunzhou and other places.

He should be happy after winning the battle, but after learning the lesson from last time, Emperor Taizong became worried, and always felt that something was wrong. Why is this exactly the same as the one two years ago?It started off very well, but what happened after that?Later Taizong didn't dare to think about it.

But the result was just as he expected, Khitan's Empress Dowager Xiao adjusted her strategy and aimed her main force at the Song Army's Eastern Route Army, which was also the main force of the Song Army. As long as this army was defeated, the other two Song armies would not be a problem.

Before Taizong could react, Brother Yeluxiu led people to cut off Cao Bin's food supply. Cao Bin's [-] troops stayed in Zhuozhou for more than ten days, and they had no food to eat, so they had to withdraw.

As soon as the East Route Army withdrew, the overall layout of the Song Army was in chaos. Brother Yeluxiu took this opportunity to launch a fierce attack. Cao Bin couldn't stop it at all, and ran all the way, destroying tens of thousands of Song Army.

At this moment, without waiting for Taizong to scold his mother, Yelu Xiezhen came with another 1 troops, beheaded more than [-] Song troops, and recaptured the cities captured by the Song army. This Northern Expedition ended in failure again.

After two disastrous defeats in the Northern Expedition, Emperor Taizong began to doubt his family's military skills, but although he was not good at leading troops, he had to do something about the throne. If he wanted to keep his throne and face, he had to do something more.

Emperor Taizong saw that there was no hope of recovering the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, so he wanted to work hard on defense. In the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo, the Liao army went south to invade, and Emperor Taizong suddenly felt that the opportunity had come. To come in handy.

He asked the army in front to stay still, drew a formation map himself, and sent it to the front for the soldiers to line up.

In fact, it is not necessary to form an formation on the battlefield, especially in a large-scale field battle. The formation is not very effective, but in order to show the commander's skills, this formation needs to be used. Taizong just wanted to test his own skills again. No, then try your defense skills.

There are many kinds of famous marshals in the world, such as Bai Qi and Xiang Yu, who belong to the offensive type, and Lian Po and Li Mu, who are defensive. Save some face.

After the formation map was delivered to the front, the generals looked at each other in blank dismay. According to the layout of Taizong's formation map, the gaps between the various formations of the Song Army were too large, which was definitely the key point for the Daliao army to break through. There is no doubt that he must die.

The generals discussed for a while, and they could neither refute Taizong's face nor lose the battle, so they had to make changes to the battle formation to fill up those gaps. In the end, the defensive battle was a complete victory, and Taizong was naturally overjoyed. Name this formation "Pingrong Wanquan Formation"!
In fact, people who really understand military affairs will know at a glance that apart from the nice name of this battle, it can be said to be full of loopholes, making it impossible to fight at all.

As for Taizong, did he know that this battle formation was useless?It is possible that they know it, but even if they know it, they have to continue to make it, and then they researched a few more and sent them all to the border.

In addition to testing his own defense skills with various battle formations, his purpose is to demonstrate martial arts and martial arts.

Generals who can play formations are not just ordinary handsome talents, they are both civil and military. Obviously Taizong wants to tell the world that I, Zhao Guangyi, have both civil and military skills, and I am the most suitable official candidate for the Song Dynasty.

There is also the need to control the border generals!
During the Yongxi Northern Expedition, that is, during the second Northern Expedition, Emperor Taizong lost contact with the army for a short time. As a result, the generals in front actually planned to return to Tokyo to promote Taizu's son Zhao Dezhao as emperor. This made Taizong very angry, so Not only did they send the formation map drawn by their own family on the front line, but they also sent a group of civilian supervisors to watch over the generals.

Since then, Emperor Taizong has never personally conquered, and his personal martial arts has also been slack. He just eats, drinks and has fun every day, visiting the harem, and forcing Xiao Zhouhou.

As for the two secret warehouses, Emperor Taizong also disappeared, but the arsenal has always existed, and the poison warehouse was later ordered to be destroyed during the Renzong Dynasty.

After Emperor Taizong, the sons of the royal family of the Song Dynasty were no longer interested in guns and sticks. After all, Taizong’s several major defeats also proved that personal martial arts are extremely difficult to affect the military on the battlefield. No matter how little the children of the royal family went to practice martial arts, the arsenal was sealed for more than a hundred years until Zhao Tong opened it.

The Tyrannical Fist that Zhao Tun practiced was obtained from the arsenal.

Most of the moves and martial arts in the arsenal can be used in horse combat, although there are few in foot combat, there is no such complete one as Baquan.

As for the origin of Zhao Tong's other invisible martial art, it comes from the Wanshou Dao Cang compiled by Huang Chang.

The Emperor Daojun collected Taoist classics from all over the world, many of them are single solitary books of Taoism, and there are many records of boxing and martial arts. The whole body of martial arts is also from Wanshou Daozang, but the two of them are drawing gourds according to the gourds, and no one teaches them, so many of the things they practice are different.

Therefore, no matter if Zhao Tun gets off immediately, it is difficult for anyone to see his roots. Even if Li Zhu does not mention that he has fought with Zhou Tong, he will not use the martial arts taught by Zhou Tong.

At this time, Li Zhu described all the characteristics of the seven spear techniques used by Zhou Tong, and the generals and heroes on the opposite side were all speechless, only thinking that the spear could be used like this in the first place.

After finishing speaking, everyone looked at Li Zhu, including Zhao Tun with enthusiasm.

Li Zhu smiled slightly, knowing that these people wanted to know the result of that battle.

(End of this chapter)