Chapter 244 The wine is in harmony, not just by hooking the sickle
Although Xu Ning's hook-and-scythe spear technique was quite unique, Xiao Tang had also thought that given Xu Ning's current job and his personality, it would be difficult to win him over either from the officialdom or from the outside world.
For example, the golden armor made of wild goose feathers passed down from Xu Ning's family, which everyone calls Sai Tang Yi, was bought by someone with a lot of money. Even if many princes and grandsons wanted to see Xu Ning, they were determined not to do so. He would
This armor was regarded as life, but it was contained in a leather box and hung on the middle beam of the bedroom, for fear of being remembered.
If it weren't for Tang Long's suggestion and Wu Yong's arrangement, Shi Qian stole the armor and brought Xu Ning to Liangshan. I'm afraid that this armor would never play its original role on the battlefield. It can be seen that this armor is only regarded as
Xu Ning carefully guarded the collection. Not only was he extremely indifferent to making a name for himself on the battlefield, but his temperament was indeed too cautious and not generous enough.
Moreover, Lin Chong, who was modest and easy-going in the original work, said frankly in Liangshan that when he and Xu Ning were in the capital, they often met him to compete in martial arts, and they respected and loved each other. However, before Lin Chong was captured in Gaoqiu and transferred to Cangzhou, his father-in-law, Coach Zhang, came
To see him off, his wife and maid Jin'er also came to see him off, and even the neighbors came to see Lin Chong off... But only Xu Ning, who Lin Chong said "respected and loved each other" with him, did not come.
Xu Ning also knew that Lin Chong was harmed by Shangguan Gao Qiu, so he kept silent due to scruples.
Although Xu Ning is a good husband, a good father, and a dedicated guard officer, everyone has his own ambitions. Xu Ning only wants to live a peaceful life, but naturally he lacks a bit of pride and passion. When he interacts with him,
Although this Xu Ning is definitely not a villain who secretly harms his friends, he is not a courageous hero who is willing to risk his own life for the sake of loyalty and justice.
Xu Ning just wants to live a peaceful life and make his family happy and healthy, nothing more.
Even though Xu Ning's hook, sickle and spear skills were very exquisite, Xiao Tang now knew many heroes who were better than Xu Ning, an eighth-level general. Xiao Tang was not like Song Jiang and Wu Yong who used deceit and deceit.
He was able to win him over through various means. Since Xu Ning wanted to keep a certain distance from Xiao Tang while making friends with him, Xiao Tang understood this but did not force it.
After all, Xiao Tang is in the position of Yuhou, the capital of the Palace Commander's Mansion. He also belongs to the Palace Division, but he is much higher than Xu Ning, the most popular instructor in the Golden Spear Squad. Xu Ning did not dare to make excuses, and looked straight at Moukou and said: "Sir
Polite words such as "Excessive praise" and "I feel ashamed of my humble position".
Not long after Xu Ning was invited by Tang Long to take a rest in the hall, Zhong Shizhong, Qu Duan, the Zhe brothers and others were invited to the Xiao Mansion. This time it was Wang Huan, Han Cunbao's turn, Zhang Kai and Mei Zhan
The four Jiedu envoys all stood up and bowed respectfully to the master. The master smiled and said happily: "Wang Jiedu, Han Jiedu made many military exploits under my uncle's account in the past. I haven't seen him for several years.
His style remains the same, which makes me very happy."
The current Xiaotang Mansion can be said to be a gathering of heroes, including Hua Rong, Guan Sheng, Qu Duan, Yang Zhi, Lin Chong and other generals who can fight on the battlefield; there are soldiers such as Wang Huan, Han Cunbao, Kai Kai and Mei Zhan in Zhongshi.
Among them, there are veteran figures with high prestige; there are also tycoons and talented people such as Shi Xiu, Yan Qing, Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong, etc. Yang Xu, Tang Long, Hou Jian, Zheng Tianshou and others also have their own strengths and are shrewd and capable.
of talented people.
Xiao Tang asked the cultivator to sit in the middle. After waiting for an hour and three quarters, Xiao Mansion's Zhuang Ding prepared the delicacies such as bream and roasted lamb, shrimps and crabs, mushrooms, golden tripe soup, roast duck with honey sauce, deer breast and other delicacies. In the capital, there are Meishou wine from Fengle Tower, fairy mash wine from Xinle Tower, fine wine from Hele Tower, Yuye wine from Yuxian Tower, jade wine from Huixian Tower and other fine wines. Arrive at the table.
As the saying goes, if you have fun cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle, you will have to drink three hundred cups at a time. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the rich people will eat and drink in the alley. Since most of them are imperial officers and generals, so In twos and threes, they talked about the military trends of the Song Dynasty and its neighboring countries in recent years, or discussed the skills of spears and sticks on the battlefield.
Among the teachers, Wang Huan, Han Cunbao and others were naturally talking about the prosperous years of fighting with the Xia army, and also talked about the current military situation of Xixia, Daliao and other countries, while Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, Xu Ning and Zhe The brothers and others were talking about the unique martial arts inherited from their respective families.
Several good generals with outstanding martial arts skills have very different weapons skills. The two brothers Zhe Yanye and Zhe Yanzhi are descendants of the Zhe family, and they are also closely related to the generals of the Yang family (Zhe Taijun, the wife of Yang Laolinggong Yang Ye, is also known in the novel. The Taijun She mentioned in the commentary is also the ancestor of the current Zhe family generals.) During the Five Dynasties period, the Linzhou Yang family and the Yunzhong Zhe family not only experienced the Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, and Zhou generations in the turbulent and troubled times, , in addition, they have experienced their own unique martial arts in the battles between Dangxiang, Khitan, Shatuo and other clan forces. The marksmanship and swordsmanship that the Yang family and Zhe family are good at can be said to be the most suitable for battlefield fighting. .
Lin Chong's father, Lin Yong, was also an extremely capable soldier, and his marksmanship was handed down from generation to generation with a steady and measured style. From the fact that Lin Chong never lost a hundred battles in Water Margin, and frequently killed the enemy in critical moments, it can be seen that the Lin family's marksmanship Regardless of the technique of stabbing, attacking, entangling, circling, blocking, pounce, point, or poking, there are very few flaws, and they are more suitable for controlling people from behind.
Xiao Tang's spear skills can be regarded as the best of all Botong schools. He first studied under the martial arts masters Jin Tai and Tan Zhengfang in the martial arts world, and later he was taught by Wang Huan, a veteran in the battlefield. In martial arts, Zhou Tong, who was already famous as a boxing officer in the capital, taught him the techniques that can be most effective when fighting enemies. With the experience of several battlefield killings, Xiao Tang's current martial arts skills have long been beyond compare. Lost to these fierce generals who are widely known to future generations.
The hook-and-scythe spear technique that Xu Ning is good at, although it evolved from a halberd, is just a spear with a barb on the tip of the spear, but it is also one of the famous weapons recorded in the "Martial Arts General Essentials". This is also because the ancestor Xu Ning also served in the Western Army. Because of the fierceness of the Xia people's cavalry, he developed a unique spear technique in the fight with real swords and spears, which can hook the legs of the enemy chief's war horse. As for the reason why Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty Zhao Ji once saw a small branch on the hook and sickle spear, which stimulated him to write a poem but failed, so he ordered the golden spear squad in front of the palace to use gold-plated hook and sickle spear... This is also the reason why Xu Ning, a master who is good at hook and sickle marksmanship, is called the "Golden Spear General".
After a detailed chat, Qu Duan, who had been discussing martial arts for a long time, was after all a descendant of a general. When he heard Xu Ning talk about spear skills, he suddenly thought of the records of the Song and Xia campaigns in the past, and said to Xu Ning: "Coach Xu, Because the horses of the Xia Dynasty were so brave that they used hooks and ropes to connect the horses. Even if they died, the horses would not fall. The horses would come and go quickly, as if they were struck by lightning and the clouds would fly away! Every time they fought with our Western Army in places where they were galloping on the plains, they also suffered It's been a lot of pain.
I have also heard that there are descendants of Huyan generals in the east of Hedong who are practicing chain horses to deal with them. If we wait until we fight against Xixia again, Coach Xu’s hook and sickle spear skills can be used to deal with such a powerful force as the Xixia Iron Harrier! It’s a pity that Coach Xu is only here.
If this marksmanship is passed down to the spearmen of the Western Army, it will be of great use!"
Xu Ning was slightly startled after hearing this, and then his face became a little unnatural. Although Xu Ning was not a coward who avoided knives and arrows, the Xu family's hook and sickle spear skills were learned from their ancestors and were not taught to outsiders.
Ning Jing was used to it. He had just heard Yang Zhi once talk about his intention to return to the Western Army and make some achievements in the army. But as he was the instructor of the Imperial Golden Spear Squadron in the Imperial Guards' family, if he continued to talk, wouldn't he be tricked into joining the army?
Western Army? So for a while he just laughed, but didn't know how to respond to Qu Duan.
In fact, the hook-and-scythe spear technique that Xu Ning is good at can be used in horse battles with seven steps in the upper middle, three hooks and four strokes, and one claw and one point, making a total of nine changes. When used on foot, eight steps and four strokes are used to swing open the door; twelve steps and one
Change, sixteen steps to make a big turn. Divide the hook and sickle to pick it up, twenty-four steps, move up and down, hook east and move west; thirty-six steps, cover your body, seize the strong and fight against the strong. Follow the twenty-eight-character spear formula.
It is: four dials and three hooks lead to seven roads, which are divided into nine changes to combine with the magic machine. Twenty-four steps to move forward and backward, and sixteen steps to turn around. It is complicated but not complicated. If the infantry can use it, it will be nothing more.
It was still the hook and hoof that pulled the leg, and the three hidden methods below were used. It was only when Xu Ning was fighting with the enemy that he could show off the subtleties of his spear skills.
Seeing Xu Ning's expression of embarrassment, Xiao Tang also thought that the iron kite chain horses in Xixia were not uncommon. As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Murong Ke of the Yan State had used Xianbei spirits to ride iron chain horses, and had a similar relationship with the Great Wei Dynasty.
The record of the bloody battle between Heavenly King Ran Min.
Can chained horses be broken only by hooks and sickles? No, Yue Fei, Liu Qi and other famous generals once used their long-handled axes and Mazha knives to defeat the Jin army's more powerful heavy cavalry iron pagoda and light cavalry horse.
Covered by armor and linked by iron chains, they can greatly enhance the impact capability of the heavy cavalry, but the disadvantages are also prominent. Although the heavy cavalry rushes into the formation with overwhelming momentum, as long as the countermeasures are sound, once its momentum can be effectively stopped, the cavalry will fall.
It will also completely lose its impact power along with the entire row of cavalry.
The reason why Qu Duan mentioned this to Xu Ning was just because the reputation of Xixia's heavily armed elite cavalry unit was too loud. In fact, all records of Xixia's victory in confrontations with the Song army were based on geographical advantages and the concentration of superior troops.
In terms of mobility with the cavalry, the cavalry does not only rely on the iron kite chain horse, which has a limited role in the battle formation.
After all, Xu Ning has not been forced by Song Jiang to live in Liangshan, so he still has the idea of living in peace and cherishing himself. Thinking of these, Xiao Tang said to Qu Duan: "In the battle of Xia City with the Xia people, I, the Song Dynasty
They held the city with divine arms and bows to defend against the enemy, and used the strategy of attrition to cause the Xia people to collapse. They then sent several light cavalry to surprise the Tiandu Mountains, captured the enemy chieftains, and defeated the Xia army. However, the Xia people's heavy cavalry was not seen to be of much use.
Although the tiger is brave, it does not have the wisdom of Bian Zhuang. In my opinion, although the elite soldiers of Xixia Tieyaozi, Bubazi and Poxi Army are brave, as long as they have proper tactics, they are not difficult opponents to deal with."
Xiao Tang just said it casually, but the teacher over there was interested. He looked at Xiao Tang and said: "My good nephew is discussing military strategies, but he also has the idea of making achievements in the Western Frontier?"
