Taking advantage of the psychological shock caused by another horse thief attack, Yuan Feng lobbied the parents of those young people and asked them to allow their sons to practice martial arts with him.
This move played into the adults' ambitions. There were only so many men in the town. The older ones had useless arms and legs. Most of the young men in their twenties and thirties had married wives and had children.
The spirit is noisy, but these sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys are not worried about anything, they are full of energy, and they are the troublemakers when they stay at home. They might as well leave it to Yuan Feng to take care of it. Besides, these days are chaotic.
Well, there is no harm in learning some martial arts.
There is a family in the west of the town. The grandparents and grandchildren depend on each other. The grandmother is called the Widow King. She is over sixty years old this year. She has a waist injury and cannot do heavy work. She only earns a small amount of money by renting out a few mud houses in the house to passing merchants.
Income, grandson Wang Xiaoga has no parents since he was a child. Due to lack of discipline, he developed some sneaky habits. He was often scolded by his neighbors. Widow Wang was really worried about this unmotivated grandson.
At dusk, Yuan Feng finally came back and came to the west end of the town with Wang Xiaoga. Wang Xiaoga went in first, and Yuan Feng waited outside. He only heard a loud noise inside, and Widow Wang beat her grandson with a rolling pin.
He came out, and while beating me, he asked: "My hands and feet are not clean, where did this money come from? How many times have I told you that we are poor and our ambitions cannot be short-lived, but you just don't listen."
When she arrived at the door, Widow Wang was a little surprised when she saw Yuan Feng: "Isn't this brother Feng?"
Yuan Feng said: "Grandma Wang, I gave these silvers to Xiaoga, he didn't steal them. Xiaoga heroically killed the enemy last night, and he deserves these."
Widow Wang was stunned for a moment, and then she looked at her grandson. Wang Xiaoga's eyes were full of grievances, and she was still holding the ten taels of silver in her hand. This was the money that her grandson had given his life in exchange for honoring her. The old man's eyes immediately changed.
She turned red, threw away the rolling pin, hugged Xiaoga and cried: "My dear grandson, grandma wrongly blamed you. You finally have something to offer."
The grandfather and grandson held their heads and cried for a while before they stopped. Widow Wang understood that her grandson's progress was all due to Yuan Feng's teachings, so she said enthusiastically: "Brother Feng, come in and have a bowl of water."
Yuan Feng said: "Grandma Wang, Yuan Feng is about to bother you. It's the New Year now, and the caravan will not pass through the area for a while. Instead of leaving our house empty, we might as well rent it to a few of our buddies for practice."
Widow Wang hurriedly said: "No matter what you say, my family members are still being polite, just use it."
It doesn't look good if the folks in the village insist on giving money, but the Wang family is poor and it's not easy to take advantage of others. Yuan Feng said: "Well, we little brothers can just join together here. I have some money here, please bother Grandma Wang."
Would you like to help us cook?"
This proposal was immediately accepted by Widow Wang. Anyway, she was idle, and it was her honor to be able to take care of the children, so the matter was settled.
One day later, Yuan Feng gathered twelve brothers in the Wang family courtyard in the west of Zhenxi and started the first formal training. The training was actually just like playing, just riding a horse for a walk. Horses are valuable property these days.
Anyone who has a horse will treat it as a treasure and let their children ride it for fun. So when the teenagers heard that the training was just for riding horses, they were instantly happy.
The thirteen horses roared out and galloped across the vast land. The teenagers felt that the sky was so blue and the land was so vast. Even their moods became happy. Some of them couldn't help but roared folk songs.
After running for about ten miles, Yuan Feng stopped his horse and ordered everyone to dismount. The young men all turned over and dismounted, expecting their master to teach them martial arts, but Yuan Feng said with a cold face: "Now you run back, after a while
After burning incense, I will lead these horses to chase you. If you let me catch up, you won't be allowed to eat any dinner."
Everyone laughed and ignored them, Yuan Feng ignored them, took out a stick of incense from his arms, lit it and held it in his hands. Only then did the teenagers feel that something was wrong. Zhao Dingan shouted: "It's started, run away."
!" He took the lead and ran towards the direction of Baozi, and the others followed suit.
Young people are not pampered masters, but it is not easy to run down these ten miles, especially when there are people chasing behind them on horseback. If Master really catches up, it doesn't matter if they don't eat, but they will lose their own face.
So everyone ran as hard as they could, until their legs were sore, their throats were sweet, and their hearts were about to jump out of their chests. As you can imagine, except for Zhao Ding'an, who was older and had better physical strength, no one could win in Yuanfeng.
Arrive at Baozi before.
Yuan Feng came back with more than a dozen horses. When he saw Zhao Ding'an at the gate of the fort, he just said coldly: "You don't want to have dinner either."
Zhao Ding'an became anxious at that time: "Master, I've already gone to the place. Why aren't you allowed to eat when I meet the requirements?"
Yuan Feng pointed to the teenagers who were still stumbling toward this side in the distance and asked, "Let me ask you, who are they to you?"
Zhao Ding'an was startled: "They are my sworn brothers."
"If you were chased by the enemy, would you abandon them and run into the fort to hide? Is this what you do, big brother?" Yuan Feng continued to ask.
Zhao Ding'an was at a loss for words for a moment, but he said unconvinced: "It's not like anyone is really chasing you... As a master, you can't just keep your word. If you say it well, you can eat at the fort before you do."
Yuan Feng sneered and said, "This time you took my words seriously. What did you do the night before yesterday? If I asked you to stab a horse, you had to stab someone. If I hadn't made the arrow in time, I'm afraid you would have been killed by Fei Shangcao at that time."
Zhao Ding'an lowered his head in shame. After all, he was older and knew that he was in the wrong. In addition, Yuan Feng's prestige was really high. Facing this child who was three years younger than himself, Zhao Ding'an felt that he was the eldest brother.
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In fact, Yuan Feng was very satisfied. The physical fitness of these teenagers was much better than he thought. After the cross-country running, he took the teenagers to the countryside to look at some branches. When he came back, he threw them into the yard at will and started giving lectures to everyone.
: "What weapon do you think is the most powerful?"
The most common weapon in the minds of teenagers in the northwest border is naturally the knife. The long knife has an irreplaceable position in their minds, so several teenagers all said it was the knife, and some were unconvinced and said that the gun was more powerful than the knife.
, otherwise they would not be able to defeat the horse thieves that night. The two sides argued endlessly. Yuan Feng knocked on the table and said: "They are all wrong! The military book says that among the eighteen weapons, the bow is the first. With a bow and arrow in hand, it can be used within a hundred steps."
I have the final say, no matter what sword, gun, sword or halberd."
After all, the master is well-informed. He opened his mouth by reading the book on war. The young men were convinced and listened quietly to Yuan Feng's lecture. Yuan Feng said: "Of course, bows and arrows are not omnipotent. If the enemy has a shield, most of them can be neutralized."
Deterrence, so each weapon is mutually reinforcing, there is no absolute number one, only by using the right weapon at the right time can we be the strongest. We are not swordsmen, we cannot just practice sword skills, swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks and bows
You need to practice crossbows, let’s start with swords today, I will teach you a set of sword techniques.”
After saying that, Yuan Feng asked the young men to take out their long knives and learn a set of very simple sword techniques from him. There were very few moves, only a dozen moves, but the moves were deadly and nothing fancy. After they basically mastered them, Yuan Feng would do it on his own.
When I entered the house, I didn't know what was going on.
When it was dinner time, the teenagers who had practiced knife skills all day did not dare to use their chopsticks in front of the fragrant food. The master had said that no one dared to disobey after finishing the meal, but couldn't they just throw away the food?
Yuan Feng said: "You're all tired, let's have a rest." After saying that, he pulled the bed over and went to sleep by himself. The young people looked at each other and had no choice but to turn on the lamp and go to sleep. They brought all their furnishings and arranged them on the big kang.
They were all in a row, they were all strong young men, so it was not cold to sleep huddled together.
The teenagers, who had been tired all day, touched their pillows and fell asleep. After a while, snoring began to spread, but Yuan Feng got up again, quietly went outside, lit an oil lamp, and began to sharpen something seriously.
In the middle of the night, the north wind howled and made the courtyard door snap. The teenagers huddled in the warm quilts and slept soundly. A few of them talked in their sleep and drooled. However, Yuan Feng suddenly rushed in and yelled:
: "The horse thief is coming, get up quickly!"
This time, the camp was blown up. Some smart guys jumped up with their naked bodies and reached for knives under their pillows. Some people were sleeping so deeply that they still fell asleep no matter how loud the noise was.
In the end, Yuan Feng whipped these people up with sticks and ordered them to put on their clothes and stand in a row in front of the kang. Yuan Feng pointed with the stick and scolded: "Everyone sleeps like a pig. If they are horse thieves,
What should we do if it really comes?" The teenagers did not dare to express their anger. They listened to the master's reprimand with trembling trembling. After finally finishing the lecture, Yuan Fengcai said: "Let's go eat."
The food was already cold. Someone suggested that the stove should be turned on to heat it up before eating. Yuan Feng did not agree. He said: "If we are on the march and fighting, there will be no time to eat hot food. Even in the ice and snow, we can only eat cold food. That's it."
eat!"
After eating, the teenagers went to sleep on the kang again. This time no one dared to sleep so deadly. A few of them even whispered: Master, what's wrong? This is not teaching martial arts, but training us as soldiers.
Early the next morning, Yuan Feng once again led everyone out of the city to walk their horses. It was better to say it was walking horses than walking people. He rode out for more than ten miles and then ran back in a hurry. He was just like a fool, but everyone could only
No one dares to complain in private, but no one dares to express opinions in person.
After the long-distance running, Yuan Feng gathered everyone together and asked everyone to lift as many stone locks as they could. After that, he took out twelve birch forks and slingshots made of beef tendons and put them in everyone's hands.
Said: "These are the slingshots I specially made, with different strengths. From now on, until the bows and arrows I asked people to buy arrive, these will be your main weapons."
The teenagers were dumbfounded when they held the slingshot. What is this, a toy for children to shoot birds? Yuan Feng saw the confusion in their eyes, so he took the slingshot from Zhao Ding'an, took out a marble and wrapped it in the slingshot skin.
, hit the stone mill in the word courtyard, and a stone chip fell out with a bang.
"Who's head is harder than a millstone? With iron marbles, even an iron helmet on the head can seriously injure him. Don't underestimate this slingshot. There are many equipment in the imperial army, which can be regarded as a personal hidden weapon. Yesterday we
I’ve learned how to use a sword, so today I’m going to learn how to shoot a slingshot.”
Everyone is familiar with the slingshot. We have played with it more or less when we were children, so we learned it very quickly. At first, we could only shoot targets within ten steps. After Yuan Feng gave us some advice, we gradually became able to shoot farther and more accurately.
, learning slingshots is far more interesting than practicing swordsmanship. Everyone shoots mud balls in a noisy manner, and the people in the town laugh when they see it, just thinking that Yuan Feng is leading everyone to play.
The daily training is like this, horse riding, long-distance running, stone lock lifting, sword practice, spear practice, slingshot practice, and sometimes emergency gathering practice in the middle of the night. This is the most troublesome thing for teenagers, and Yuan Feng is also involved in it.
He got great pleasure, and every time he thought to himself: Uncle, I have finally transferred the pain you inflicted on me to others.
Yuan Feng was very principled and never used corporal punishment. He even rarely used punishment methods such as starvation and food. The most common punishment was to lift a stone lock or lie on the ground with his hands on the ground and move up and down. This was somewhat different from how his uncle trained him back then.
, Yuan Feng has always believed that if his uncle hadn't often punished him not to eat, he might not be so short. When everyone is growing up, it is best not to lack nutrition and affect their physical fitness.
They trained like this for twelve days. During this period, Yuan Feng only left once and came back in one day and night. No one knew what he was doing. On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the atmosphere of the New Year in the town was already full. Yuan Feng took everyone
He gathered himself together and said, "I'm going to do something big. I wonder if you have the guts to go with me?"