Fenghou

Chen Qing met Xu Ning, the owner of the museum, a middle-aged man about 50 years old. He spoke slowly and had a gentle tone. I know that his life has already been filled with vicissitudes.

"I know you!"

Xu Ning's gaze was extremely penetrating, as if he had seen through all of Chen Qing's secrets.

"Your head is worth one hundred thousand guan, and you can be called the number one head in the world."

Chen Qing sneered, "Do you think the golden man will honor it?"

"Then you are wrong. The Jurchens have always kept their promises. This is better than the Han people. They will honor them. At least they will reward you with a piece of land worth [-] guan."

"So Your Excellency has seen a way to get rich?"

Xu Ning shook his head, "I don't need so much money. I'm satisfied with two bowls of rice and a pot of tea every day to feed my crippled body."

Xu Ning slowly rolled up his sleeves, and his left hand was broken at the wrist.

Chen Qing's eyes froze, "This is..."

"Thanks to the Jurchens!"

Xu Ning let out a long sigh, "In the Jingkang incident, I escorted the crown prince and the queen to the north. As soon as I left the city, the golden men came to snatch them. I held on to the shaft of the chariot and was cut off by the Jurchens. When I woke up, I found that I was killed Throwing it among the dead, the prince has long since disappeared...Later, I fled back to my hometown and opened this martial arts gym to make ends meet!"

Speaking of this, Xu Ning's eyes were filled with tears, he wiped away the tears and continued: "I only hate myself for being too weak at the time, why didn't I snatch a horse and run away with the prince, I only hate myself for being bloodless and not daring to resist, The dignified chief instructor of the golden gun class was cut to crippled by a Jurchen soldier..."

At the end, Xu Ning's chest rose and fell violently, and he was speechless.

Chen Qing looked at him silently. He understood Xu Ning's pain. He spent the past few years in self-blame. He was only in his forties and his hair was already gray.

"Actually, you still have a chance!"

"Chance?"

Xu Ning looked back at Chen Qing, "I am a disabled person, what chance do I have?"

Chen Qing said lightly: "Since you can open a martial arts gym, you can be the instructor of my army, teach my soldiers martial arts, help us drive out the Tartars, restore the rivers and mountains of the Song Dynasty, use your afterglow to burn it, you Will die without regret."

Xu Ning's cloudy eyes gradually became brighter, he laughed, pulled out a short spear from the weapon rack and threw it to Chen Qing, and pulled out one himself.

"I know you killed Wanyan Loushi, let me see your marksmanship, you can use all your martial arts, don't worry! You can't hurt me."

"Then I will be disrespectful!"

Chen Qing let out a low growl, swung his short spear, and stabbed at Xu Ning like a storm. Xu Ning stepped back and swung the short spear with one arm like flowing water, breaking Chen Qing's tricks one by one.

Xu Ning smiled and said, "Since you are unwilling to use your full strength, then don't blame me for being rude."

He drew a circular arc with his short spear, stabbing towards the outside of Chen Qing's right leg as fast as lightning, and the stabbing place was exactly where Chen Qing was injured by the arrow before.

Chen Qing yelled secretly, his eyes were vicious, and he had to use all his strength, "Dang! With a loud noise, Xu Ning couldn't hold his short spear firmly and was sent flying.

"Sorry, too much force!"

Xu Ning smiled slightly, threw the short spear to his apprentice, waved his hand and said, "Please sit down!"

The two sat down as guest and host, and a little maid served hot tea for them.

Xu Ning smiled and said, "I found out that you don't know marksmanship, you're right!"

Chen Qing couldn't help but admire Xu Ning's gaze. He really didn't know how to use marksmanship. He used the epee technique, which was mixed into marksmanship, so it was a bit nondescript.

"I have never practiced marksmanship, only swordsmanship!"

Xu Ning stared at Chen Qing and said, "Your swordsmanship is actually very simple, as fast as a gust of wind, and fatal with one strike, but in order to cover up, you added a lot of fancy moves. Think about it, you killed Wanyan Loushi. Rely on these tricks?"

Chen Qing nodded, "You're right, against Wanyan Lou Shi, there is no chance to use these moves, life and death are within one move, of course there are tricks, I asked him to kill the horse, but a spear Pierce him through the throat and win quickly."

"So you throw away those fancy moves, there is no need at all, swords and guns are killing weapons, as long as they are fast, it is enough, the way is simple, any martial arts, strength and speed are king."

Seeing that Chen Qing was still a little hesitant, Xu Ning understood his thoughts and smiled again: "I know more than 100 sets of marksmanship, but in fact it's just to make a living. Tell me, but on the battlefield, either you die or I live, the Jurchens will not play tricks with you, any invincible guns are shit, the Jurchens are enough to kill you, do you understand?"

Chen Qing nodded, he fully understood, before he was a little worried that others would ridicule him for not being able to shoot, Xu Ning's words completely dispelled his worries.

Seeing that he understood very quickly, Xu Ning secretly praised the child for teaching.

"Tomorrow morning I will go to your barracks to report. As for the remuneration, it is enough for me to take care of two meals a day. I will eat whatever the soldiers eat, and there is no need to add extra meals for me!"

"Thank you for your generosity, sir. In addition, I personally have an unfeeling request!"

"You don't need me to teach you martial arts."

Chen Qing shook his head, "I don't mean marksmanship, but riding and shooting. I have never practiced riding and shooting. I only know how to shoot crossbows."

Xu Ning laughed, "You are the commander, it is enough to practice the crossbow to the extreme, you don't have to be able to ride and shoot."

Chen Qing smiled wryly and said: "Wanyan Huonu and I have a sworn feud, we will meet on the battlefield sooner or later, if I don't know how to ride and shoot, I will die under his arrow."

"It's true. It's really dangerous to fight Jurchens without knowing how to ride and shoot. Get your bows and horses ready. I'll come over and teach you tomorrow. To practice riding and shooting, you must start with step bows."

Chen Qing thought of one thing, and asked with a smile: "Is the owner of the pavilion Xu related to Shuibo Liangshan?"

"You are talking about Song Jiang and other 36 people who rebelled in Liangshan during the Xuanhe period!"

"It's them. Does Master Xu have friendship with them?"

Xu Ning smiled slightly, "I can't talk about friendship, but I did deal with them. In the third year of Xuanhe, I followed the governor Zhang Shuye to train troops in Haizhou. In Haizhou, Governor Zhang and I wiped out Song Jiang and others. .”

……

Chen Qing returned to the barracks. Their barracks were still in the Temple of the God of God, and they were still the forty tents of the Jin Bing. The tent of the chief general of Chen Qing was not big, it was the smallest tent, and it was also the command center of the whole army.

Zheng Ping, the head of the capital, and Wei Qing, the county magistrate, were waiting for him in the tent.

"The raid is over?"

When Chen Qing saw these two, he knew that there must be a result of ransacking the house.

"Report to the commander, we caught a huge rat!" Zheng Ping couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.

“Not only was it good, it was amazing!”

Zheng Ping put a search list on the table and explained: "Li Huailiang's house is quite normal. Seven hundred shi of grain, 200 taels of money, 300 taels of silver, [-] taels of gold, and [-] taels of cloth and satin were found in the confiscation. Thousands of horses, and several boxes of gold and jade jewelry. The key is the manor. We dug up three cellar warehouses, [-] shi of grain, including the grain he embezzled a few days ago, and copper coins. We dug out [-] Wow, it's just astounding."

Twenty-eight thousand guan!Chen Qing was also really shocked. He looked at the list and turned to Wei Qing, "Magistrate Wei should know the reason!"

Wei Qing nodded, "I have checked the county government records for the past two years. From the second year of Jingkang to the third year of Jianyan, the county government collected taxes normally for four years, but they did not pay them. Whether it is Song Dynasty or Jin Dynasty I didn’t even see the handover records, so I asked the county magistrate again, and the county magistrate said that at the beginning of the year, a gold soldier robbed them, transported a full [-] carts of money, and burned the money bank. many."

"Be specific!"

"General taxation has money, but more of it is cloth and grain. What the Jin soldiers robbed was only money, and almost all of it was iron money, because the people in Shaanxi didn't have much copper money, but the [-] guan dug out this time All the money is copper coins, which means that the cloth and grain part of the tax was sold privately by Li Boliang. He only needs copper coins, and the money he sells is hidden in the farm. If the commander needs it, the humble officer can thoroughly investigate the matter! "

Chen Qing nodded, "We really need to find out, but not necessarily now. The most urgent thing now is to rent a house and resettle all the refugees sleeping on the streets before dark. I don't want another tragedy where nearly a hundred people freeze to death."

Chapter 28 Realm

Money is a good thing, it can make people good.

The government took out the yellow Xuanhe copper coins, which attracted the active participation of many residents in the city. In less than half a day, hundreds of vacant houses were rented, and thousands of people sleeping on the streets were resettled into the vacant houses.

With the wall that sheltered from wind and rain, no refugee froze to death in the cold night that night. With the porridge provided by the army, the hungry and cold old people and children also had a mouthful of hot porridge to satisfy their hunger and no longer starved to death.

At night, the snow stopped completely, and a round of bright moonlight hung in the sky. The black and blue night sky was extraordinarily clean, but also colder.

Standing a hundred paces away with a bow in hand, Chen Qing stared at a straw man target in the distance, drew out an arrow and put it on the bowstring, Chen Qing took a deep breath of cold air, and pulled the bow like a full moon, almost without thinking. An arrow was shot, and the arrow grazed the side of the straw man target.

If he used a crossbow, he could easily hit the target between the eyebrows of the straw man, but now he is using the riding and shooting method, and there is no time for you to aim. When you draw the bow, you have to release the arrow. There is no time to aim. Find a feeling, and this feeling must be tempered to find it slowly.

Chen Qing had found this wonderful feeling when he was practicing horse shooting, but it was very difficult to transform it into riding shooting, and even the previous feeling would become an obstacle, and he needed to overcome this state.

This is why he shot more than a dozen arrows in a row, his arms were sore and numb, and he still didn't hit the target with a single arrow.

Chen Qing sighed, drew out another arrow, put it on the bowstring, rested for a while, and drew the bowstring again...

The next morning, eight hundred newly recruited recruits stood neatly in front of the barracks. Their uniforms were quite mixed, including iron armor from the Song army, black lacquered leather armor from the original Liao army, and yellow leather armor from the Jin soldiers, but all soldiers wore Wearing the hat of the Song Army, holding a shield and a spear in hand, they are neat and unified.

"What should be said, I said it last night!"

The young general Chen Qing stood on a big rock and gave a lecture to everyone, "Today I want to talk about training. I know that everyone came out of the army, and now they are back in the army. Everyone has a foundation, but you can guarantee yourself. Can you easily defeat the Jurchen cavalry? If you can’t, then you will die on the battlefield. This winter, I want to strengthen everyone’s fighting foundation and physical training. My purpose is only one, to let everyone survive on the battlefield!”

Chen Qing turned his head and waved, Xu Ning walked forward, Chen Qing introduced to everyone: "I specially invited this Master Xu to teach you some basic martial arts. It is a famous master of martial arts in Fengxiang Mansion, I hope everyone can study and train hard, and learn some real skills to be able to go to the battlefield..."

Xu Ning was wearing a black samurai uniform and did not hold any weapons. He still spoke calmly and said loudly to everyone: "I know that everyone is a soldier. Since the commander has given the order, everyone must obey it, because I The training method is very boring.

From now on, everyone will squat for me for two months. I must squat for four hours a day, light squats, squats, squats with weights, and gradually increase the weight, and then run at night to exercise my physical strength.

As for the spear technique, that's the icing on the cake. If the base is not solid, no matter how fancy the spear technique is, it won't be able to withstand the impact of the Jurchen cavalry. "

Xu Ning turned around and recruited his big apprentice, and told him: "You set an example for everyone. If anyone is lazy, you can directly tell Supervisor Yang!"

The supervisor is Yang Hua. He purses his lips and looks stern. He is also a military judge.

None of the eight hundred recruits raised any objections, and they all followed Xu Ning's apprentice to practice squatting honestly.

Chen Qing was not surprised at all. He had squatted for several years and knew the effect of squatting. Fu Moshan had no strength because of his unstable foot, but he was easily defeated by himself.

"The commander wants to practice riding and archery, should I start now?" Xu Ning walked over with a smile.

"anytime!"

Chen Qing took out the riding bow from the bow bag, and Xu Ning took the bow. He recognized it yesterday, so he could guess that it was Chen Qing who killed Wanyan Loushi.

"This is what you captured from Wanyan Loushi!"

"How does the owner know?"

"This is one of the three imperial bows held by the Supreme Emperor. It is called Dingyuan. It was taken away by Wanyan Zongbi, and you can only get it from Wanyan Loushi."

It seems that the Emperor of the Kingdom of Jin gave Wanyan Loushi a set of Song Huizong's treasures, not only the sword, but also the bow, and it is very likely that the white dragon horse was also.

Xu Ning took the bow with one hand, and praised, "It really is a good bow. Such a good bow has been placed in the palace for 20 years and has never been used. The barbarians will only tarnish it. It seems that the commander is the real one." Owner!"

He returned the bow to Chen Qing, and said with a smile, "However, I want to see the commander shoot the crossbow first!"

"Master, please!"

Chen Qing brought Xu Ning to the archery range, and took the crossbow from the table. He stretched his arms and pulled the crossbow.

Chen Qing aimed at the archery target a hundred paces away, and shot an arrow, which hit the straw man's eyebrow.

Chen Qing shot three more arrows in a row, and the arrow hit the center of the eyebrow.

Xu Ning nodded happily and said: "Riding and shooting pay attention to stability, speed, and accuracy. When riding a horse, the body must be stable first, and the horse control skills must be passed. The second is speed and accuracy. The head is the most difficult. You must start training from the step bow. It takes at least three years of practice to achieve nine out of ten arrows before you can start training in riding and archery. I don’t think it’s a problem to command stability and accuracy. The commander's problem is also here."

Chen Qing smiled wryly and said: "To tell you the truth, I usually aim at the back when shooting arrows, but I aim first when shooting from horseback. I have locked my eyes on the opponent long before drawing the bow, so I can quickly draw the bow and release the arrow. My problem I just don’t know how to find this feeling that the target has been locked by both eyes?”

Xu Ning smiled slightly: "It's a pity that I only have one hand, so I can't demonstrate it to you personally, but I can tell you some tricks."

"Please teach me, the owner!"

"I once consulted Zhou Tong, the chief instructor of the bow and arrow class. He is known as the best arrow in the world. His two apprentices, Yue Fei and Liu Ziyu, are both famous riders and archers. They can be called arrows like lightning and bows like thunderbolts. But Zhou Tong told me , There are three realms of riding and archery, the first realm is that the arrow is in the eyes, draw the bow to find the enemy, the eyes lock on the opponent instantly, and the arrow hits;

The second state is that the arrow is in your heart. When you decide to shoot the opponent, you have already locked on the opponent from the corner of your eye. The opponent is always in your heart. When you shoot at the target, you hit the target with every shot. In fact, you are always feeling the opponent from the corner of your eye, so he can't run away;

The third realm is that the arrow is between the sky and the earth. This is not an empty statement. Let me tell you this, when you are planning a war, you will know how to shoot and kill the opponent. "

"The third realm is actually to know yourself and the enemy, so you won't be imperiled in a hundred battles?" Chen Qing said with a smile.

"It can be said like this, but you need to know the opponent's martial arts and habits, know his personal guards, know the weather conditions during the battle, know the surrounding terrain, and whether you can be condescending. When the opponent completely enters the environment you expected in advance, then When the time comes, he will surely die under your arrows. It is easy to say, but since ancient times, only Sun Bin has been able to do it. Think about how he shot and killed Pang Juan?"

Chen Qing laughed dumbly and said, "In this way, what I want to pursue should be the second realm, right?"

Xu Ning nodded, "If you can achieve the second level, you can stand shoulder to shoulder with Yue Fei and Liu Ziyu, but now you must first achieve the first level. With your crossbow shooting foundation, I think it should not be difficult." , your eyesight is fine, just need a kind of... adjustment, shorten the aiming time as much as possible, and then practice more, let yourself get used to riding and shooting, find the feeling of riding and shooting, I think, you will be able to reach the first one in a month The limit."

Chen Qing got on his horse, laughed and said, "Thank you for your enlightenment, I know how to practice riding and archery. If I succeed within a month, I will reward you with 50 taels of silver!"

Xu Ning also laughed and said: "If the commander can do it, I will give you two tiger tendons, the best bow strings in the world."

Chapter 29 Warning Signs

At noon, Yang Yuanqing found Chen Qing. Chen Qing was eating lunch. He had the same meal as the soldiers, soft pancakes, dried bacon, and a bowl of winter melon hot soup. However, Chen Qing had a large appetite, and he would eat two catties for a meal. Pasta can fill the stomach.

Seeing his sad face, Chen Qing smiled and said, "What are you doing with such a sad face? Is it because I don't have enough food for lunch and want to add another bitter gourd?"

"Alas! I have neglected my duty."

"What's going on?" Chen Qing put down the hot soup in his hand.

"Originally there was an eagle on the top of the city, which was housed in a wooden cage. I didn't notice it at the time. When I remembered later, the eagle had already been released by the soldiers."

"You mean, that eagle is Xinying?"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "It was only later that I realized that it must be the means of communication between Linyou County and Fengxiang County, but Xinying flew away..."

Speaking of this, Yang Yuanqing let out a long sigh.