Since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, it has always focused on maintaining the Jurchens' military superiority over the Han people. However, with the collapse of the Jurchens' fierce Anmoke system, the decline of the Jurchens' martial arts was inevitable.
So starting from the Mingchang period, the imperial court adopted a strong suppression attitude towards the Han's custom of forming associations and practicing martial arts, and even set up a special crime, which was called the crime of practicing horning and gun sticks among the people.
What is ridiculous is that at the same time as this crime was established, the court was busy fighting against powerful enemies in the north and south, and more and more Han'er were signed into the army.
As a result, the practice of gun and stick among the people has not been curbed, and the training methods originally mastered by Jurchen warriors in the army have been spread to the people on a large scale.
As the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties said, "Arms are six out of thirty, and martial arts are eight out of ten." Military fighting techniques and folk martial arts have developed separately and continuously integrated over the past few decades.
Li Quan is a master at integrating the two and taking it to the next level. When he established himself in Weizhou, he practiced martial arts in front of thousands of troops.
Many people witnessed with their own eyes that while riding a horse at full speed, he continuously stabbed four wooden figures placed every thirty steps and hit the five-inch square wooden board on the wooden figure's head.
This galloping method was a common training method used by the elite knights of the Jin Army, and it was also a required test item in the martial arts competitions of the Jin Dynasty.
At this time, there are only a handful of Jurchens who can do this. When Li Quan stabbed so quickly, he didn't even use an ordinary wooden spear, but the iron spear he was accustomed to. This gun is said to weigh forty-five pounds!
Such skills, when used in the army to fight, are really a lot of tricks. Li Quan relied on his own skills to build up his prestige bit by bit and unite his tribe. Whenever he encountered a strong enemy, he rode and charged with an iron spear and was always unstoppable.
When a warrior rises up recklessly, such a routine is inevitable.
From a certain perspective, Li Quan, Yang An'er and Guo Ning have very similar acting styles. They also rely on personal force to establish a basic team, and then deal with political forces, and continue to gain political gains through victory on the battlefield.
However, Yang Aner paid more attention to his anti-gold banner, while Guo Ning had his eyes fixed on Mongolia. Compared with these two people, Li Quan is much more realistic and has a much softer body.
Even their fighting style is average. The three of them are accustomed to relying on their own force to lead the elite to strike a decisive blow.
Before today, Li Quan had never failed. Therefore, he felt that his military strength was not inferior to Guo Ning's, and he could compete with Guo Ning on the battlefield. Even if there is a gap in troops and equipment, it can be made up by timing and commanding before the battle. Whoever can seize the opportunity will win.
But Li Quan never dreamed that he would suffer such humiliation on the day of face-to-face competition.
His camp has been broken. The elites he gathered around him were already heartbroken before they even got into battle.
Li Quan turned sideways and saw only thousands of people scattered about two or three miles from the reed swamp to the Tieling platform. Several officers shouted, trying to urge their men to move forward, but no one responded, so the officers could only stand in despair.
These soldiers are all carefully selected masters. Li Quan's military orders and Li Quan's prestige could originally drive them to use their arms and fingers. No one dared to hesitate or neglect, even if they were to follow Li Quan through mountains of swords and seas of fire.
But when they lose their fighting spirit and motivation, they feel no different from clumps of withered yellow reeds.
The reason is very simple. They never expected to see such a tragic scene with their own eyes.
The camp is lost! Everyone’s relatives and family members have all fallen into the hands of the enemy! How can the soldiers continue to fight?
Not to mention that the soldiers had not thought of it, Li Quan himself had not thought of it either.
Since Li Quan raised his army, he has always been under the banner of protecting the country and the people. Whether he was in Yidu or Weizhou, he always took good care of the families of the soldiers first to ensure the safety of his own basic territory.
The reason why he did not hesitate to reach a tacit agreement with the Mongolian army that day was, to a certain extent, because wherever the Mongolian army went, the cities were all ruins. He and his subordinates did not allow their hometown to suffer such a disaster.
It can be said that this approach is the source of the cohesion of Li Quan's army and the reason why Li Quan's army is different from other red coat armies.
Although he was a powerful member of the Red Coat Army, his status was always closer to that of a local tyrant rather than a bandit. Therefore, the Shandong Army Commander-in-Chief at that time and the Hebei Xuanfu Ambassador today accepted cooperation with Li Quan. .
But now, the camp is lost?
Even though Li Quan pinned all his hopes of victory on the surprise attack on Tieling, he only took Tian Si's troops with him and left two generals with elite troops, Chen Zhi and Zheng Yande, to garrison the camp.
But the navy suddenly appeared. Facing the Dinghai navy's attack, Chen Zhi and Zheng Yande, with more than 10,000 troops, only lasted for a little more than a moment?
Unfortunately, in a little more than a quarter, I, Li Quan, led my men and ran all the way from the swamp. Before we could fight against the defenders on the iron ridge, the camp collapsed.
How could this be?
Li Quan closed his eyes and breathed in the cold air, as if this could suppress the surging panic. He tried his best to cheer up and asked himself, what should I do next?
He suddenly heard someone crying next to him.
His thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and intense anger suddenly replaced panic. Li Quan suddenly opened his eyes, wanting to kill the crying weak man in one fell swoop.
But when he raised the iron gun, he realized that the crying person was Yu Maner, a young man who had followed Li Quan in martial arts for several years.
Yu Maanger is the son of Yu Yang. Brothers Yu Yang and Yu Tan are Li Quan's most trusted subordinates. That day, Wanyan Salara suddenly turned against him and tried to hunt down Li Quan. The Yu brothers resisted with all their might, and exchanged their lives for Li Quan's life.
From then on, Li Quan regarded Yu Maanger as his nephew, and even regarded him as one of his heirs. Yu Man'er lived up to Li Quan's expectations and made rapid progress in both martial arts and military training.
But at this moment, Yu's emotions got out of control.
It was precisely because of Yu Man'er's progress in martial arts and tactics that he understood what kind of strength Ding Haijun had shown. This is a crushing and unstoppable force. Even the Mongolian army can't do more than that, right?
Like Yu Man'er, those who followed Li Quan were all veterans or good players. And precisely because of their rich experience and accurate judgment, they also saw that the gap between the two sides could not be bridged at all, which made people completely desperate.
The moment they stopped for a moment, the soldiers in the camp had retreated all the way to the Beiqing River. Yu Manger saw hundreds of his companions throwing away their armor and fleeing to the river with nowhere to go. Some people jumped into the water and floated downstream; some were trapped by the mud on the riverside and could not move; others, including many women and children, stood by the water and cried loudly.
This kind of crying was a heavy blow to the busy man. In the past two years, he has gone into battle several times, and he has also fought against the local tycoons around Yidu who were dissatisfied with Li Quan, destroying their military power and making their women and children cry like this.
Yu Maanger was taught that a warrior should have a heart as solid as stone and should never feel pity or waver when seeing such a situation. But at this moment, seeing his women and children screaming and crying by the river, he couldn't bear it at all.
"My mother and my eldest sister are all in the camp." Yu Manger cried out.
He saw the armored Dinghai navy pursuers coming from behind like a surge of metal. Will they kill everyone, or force everyone to surrender? Maybe they would drive so many people into the water and let them drown?
Yu Maner speculated wildly, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.
When he finally heard Ding Haijun shouting "Kneel down and not kill, those who surrender will not be killed", he couldn't help but murmured: "Surrender..."
He turned to Li Quan and said with a bitter look on his face: "Marshal, let's surrender, just like we surrendered to Wanyan Sala and our servant San Anzhen before. Surrender first, and then think of other ways."
Teacher Lu Shuming passed away from illness! woo woo woo woo……
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