"In a life-and-death fight, do you still have time to think about the difference between men and women? Don't have any self-reliance on your status. Even swords and arrows will not recognize whether you are a princess or a bird owner! I am holding the power of the python spear at this time.
Go up and touch the muscles and bones on my body, and see the subtle differences when you use your energy..."
From Xu Huai's point of view, it was a foregone conclusion that the Chihu cavalry would go south. What they were waiting for now was to see when this murderous intention would be unleashed. They had not been able to do anything more than making preparations in secret before.
After Xishan became peaceful, Xu Huai did not have many things to take personal responsibility for.
Liu Qiong'er, Su Laochang, Xu Wuqi, Xu Wukun, Pan Chenghu, and Guo Junpan were responsible for handling many affairs; Xu Xin'an and Guo Junpan were also responsible for the arduous training of the generals in each camp, daily garrison rotation, and defense changes.
During this time, Xu Huai once again indulged in martial arts.
Xiao Yanhan came over to ask for martial arts lessons, and Xu Huai was willing to teach her.
Xiao Yanhan's talent is very strong, and she has laid a solid foundation by practicing hard since she was a child.
However, she was born in the Khitan royal family and had an elder brother like Xiao Linshi to take care of her. She had developed a coquettish and arrogant temperament since she was a child. She was fundamentally troubled by strong men like Chen Zixiao who taught her sword and bow skills since she was a child.
The lack of respect also made her mastery of martial arts specious in many places, with some minor deviations.
She is unwilling to accept the guidance of famous teachers and lacks the training of life and death fighting. There is no way to correct these deviations. How can she become a truly top warrior?
Of course, the Khitan is on the verge of extinction at this time, and it is still unknown whether the remaining forces can survive under the leadership of Xiao Linshi. Such a cruel current situation and suffocating future also make Xiao Yanhan's temperament change day by day.
Metamorphosis.
Xiao Yanhan, who was once arrogant, has now become more calm, determined, and strong, and actually has the foundation to become a top warrior.
After asking Xu Huai for guidance for a few days, Xiao Yanhan really felt many subtleties that had been ignored or could not be felt in the past. He improved quickly, but it would still take time to reach Xu Huai's current state.
Xu Huai now directly asked Xiao Yanhan to start, feeling the different levels and the subtle differences in the muscles and bones, which is much more convenient and direct than describing it in words.
Xiao Yanhan also knew in her heart that Xu Huai might suddenly lead his troops south at some point and never see each other again. Maybe she would never find anyone who could shamelessly ask for martial arts advice in her life.
Based on her twenty years of hard training, if she wants to make a significant improvement in a short period of time, she can touch the subtle changes in the muscles and bones of a strong man when he exerts his strength. It is better to understand it secretly and experience it directly.
Much, much faster.
Seeing Xu Huai stretching out his hands as if grasping a spear, his body seemed to have no other movements. However, Xiao Yanhan stretched out her hand and put her hand on his back, only to find that his back, muscles and bones were spinning like slightly boiling spring water.
Turning around, twisting around, moving with a subtle rhythm.
Xiao Yanhan's hands moved with the rhythm, and she found that the joints and muscles of Xu Huai's whole body seemed to be twisted together whenever he exerted force...
"Have you mastered all your strength? Han Lun said that he went to the Southern Dynasties and suffered a lot of hardships. He practiced hard in Tongbai Mountain for two years before he entered this state. I thought this was something we couldn't do at our age.
What state has it reached..." Xiao Yanhan asked in surprise.
"In the final analysis, the art of martial arts is still based on our own muscles and bones. How can we say that we can only achieve a state at the age of forty, but we can't achieve it at the age of twenty when we have tougher and stronger muscles and bones?" Xu Huai said, "Second,
If you are not able to reach this level at the age of ten, it is because there is a problem with the training method, or the boxing scriptures written by the predecessors themselves have not fully understood the principles, and can only pull some boxing principles into mysterious places, making it difficult for future generations to practice
It’s hard to understand it even after practicing over and over again. Sometimes your muscles and bones have been trained to a certain level, but you stick to specious boxing principles, which actually becomes an obstacle. Talking about the vertebrae of the body like a dragon, talking too much will only confuse people.
Wow, even practicing pile drills is just the basics, but practicing corner drills is the easiest to understand. I can help you..."
"Marquis, I'm here to fight with you - I'm the best at this." Niu Er, who had been playing with sticks for several days, heard that there were new tricks that could help him understand the principles of boxing, and he immediately cheered up and started playing with them.
Come forward.
Xu Huaiqiang resisted the urge to kick Niu Er off the ground, put his hand on Niu Er's shoulder, and said, "You can come and give it a try. Let me see how much progress you have made these days..."
Xu Huai has fully practiced the strength in his whole body, and the muscles and bones of his whole body are as if they are alive. He does not need any large-scale feints to make the strength move up and down in the body very flexibly.
He deflected Niu Er's full strength to the side and threw him to the ground.
Niu Er's muscles and bones were strong and he could not be hurt by falling on the muddy ground, but his face was covered in ashes. He touched his head and muttered to himself in confusion: "I obviously feel that I have made great progress in the past few days, and I beat Yan Xiaoyi to death last night."
Wow, wow, that grandson of Wei Daya is no match for me at all, why is he so incompetent in front of the military lord?"
"Whenever you can penetrate this wooden stick, you will almost be able to fight with me. Don't hinder us at this time!" Xu Huai pointed to the wooden stick in the corner and said to Niu Er angrily.
Niu Erji's strength is not much worse than that of Xu Huai, and he has also practiced boxing and kicking skills since he was a child. He is naive by nature, but his control of muscles and bones and his intuitive reactions are not much better than ordinary people.
Xu Huai kept Niu Er by his side as a guard, and had always intended to help him strengthen his training in this area. He taught him to practice cornering and small kung fu with the guards. The effect was obvious, but this guy fell into boxing during this time.
He was unable to extricate himself from the psychological problems, and instead of improving his martial arts skills, he actually regressed a lot.
Xu Huai could only use other methods to help him break through this barrier.
Niu Er picked up the stick and took two steps. He remembered something and turned to Xu Huai and said: "That bitch Wei Daya laughed at my rough name last night. It sounds like a country bumpkin. Junhou, please help me change my name."
Pick a name!”
"With so many things going on, Wei Daya has a nice name? Don't listen to his nonsense. You have a nice name. Wei Daya doesn't know anything!" Xu Huai said angrily.
"What's the good of coming and going?" Niu Er muttered, unwilling to go away.
"..." Xu Huai took the wooden stick over, drew the word "风月" on the ground, and asked, "You should recognize these two words by now, right? I erased the edges of these two words and turned them into
Does the word "Chong Er" mean "wind and moon are boundless"? Doesn't the "er" in your name mean "moon is boundless", "moon is boundless", why is it not better than Wei Daya's name?
Times? If Wei Daya laughs at you again, you will laugh at his lack of knowledge."
"It seems so..." Niu Er touched the back of his head and felt that Xu Huai's words made sense. Just as he was about to leave, Xu Huai continued to point his finger at Xiao Yanhan without disturbing her. Then he asked again, "Junhou, what if my name is changed to Niu Chong Er?"
, or Niuerchong, will it be more majestic?"
"..." Xiao Yanhan suppressed her laughter and almost lost her breath. She couldn't help but said, "Don't listen to your army's trick on you. I'll give you a new name. If you can be as powerful as your army,
If you have practiced to the point where your whole body's muscles and bones are transparent, you will definitely be like a cliff that no one can defeat in a battle formation. I think you can use the name of the cliff to make great aspirations."
"Niu Yashan?" Niu Er thought about the new name Xiao Yanhan gave him.
"I don't think Niu Er Chong is as majestic as Niu Er Chong," Xu Huai said. "Think about it. In the future, on the battlefield, when you go into battle to challenge an enemy general, you first shout, 'Niu Er Chong is here, who is a coward?
If you dare to come and fight with your Grandpa Erchong, and make the enemy generals laugh out loud, won't you be invincible in front of the battle array?"
"Damn it, Junhou, you are really kidding me!" Niu Er said angrily, picked up the wooden stick and walked aside. The guards next to him called him "Grandpa Erchong". Niu Er stood facing the corner of the courtyard wall. Who didn't?
Go deal with it.
Xu Huai laughed for a while, and two Tianxiong soldiers, led by two soldiers from Tongbai Mountain, climbed onto the plain, walked to Xu Huai and reported: "Junhou Xu, Cao Tongzhi has a letter of order here, please return it."
Please read it!”
Cao Shixiong usually ignored Shuozhou and suddenly came over with an order. Xiao Yanhan was confused, but she avoided looking over directly.
Xu Huai opened the lacquered letter, read it for a while and said to the sergeant who came with the order: "I have read Cao Tongzhi's order. Shuozhou will comply with the order as scheduled - you go to Yuanxiazhai to find Xu Lang
Please go ask for a receipt."
Asking the sergeant to be brought down to Yuanzi, Xu Huai then directly handed Cao Shixiong's order letter to Xiao Yanhan and said, "Liu Shizhong is sending troops from Yanmen!"
In this letter, Cao Shixiong asked Shuozhou to send troops to contain the enemies of Jincheng in two days. Although he did not mention more, it undoubtedly meant that Liu Shizhong would lead the Xiaosheng Army assembled in Yanmen two days later, and the main force of Xuanwu Army entered the response.
State battle.
"It's time for me to go back!" Xiao Yanhan said melancholy.
The day Liu Shizhong led his troops out of Yanmen and headed north was the day they abandoned Yingzhou and retreated to the west.
Their troops and horses in Yingzhou plus the tribesmen still have 40,000 to 50,000. Next, they have to try their best to persuade the tribesmen in Datong to move westward to prevent the red cavalry from crossing directly to the north bank of the Huihe River. They even have to consider
The Chihu people may divide their forces to attack Shenhekou in the north of Shuozhou - then Xu Huai may just need to stand still in Shuozhou and wait and see how the situation changes, but they will never be able to relax at all in the future.
I can only say goodbye.
Or maybe we can never see each other again from now on.
Xiao Yanhan took two guards with her, walked down the plain, led the horse away from the fence, got on the saddle and galloped north along the mountain road. Suddenly, she thought of what Xu Huai said when he taught her martial arts a few days ago: galloping the horse and using the spear, want to
To make the thorns the strongest, the body and the saddle must be at a distance, so that the horse and man can feel as one.
At this moment, Xiao Yanhan felt that the saddle she was stepping on was like a thick palm, holding her upright and distant, making her couldn't help but look back...
