Zhao Tong was so happy that he opened his mouth from ear to ear and said with everyone: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"
Wang Qingdao: "Although Zhong Lingxi didn't use all his strength, Li Aiqing's martial arts skills are still remarkable. I don't think he is inferior to that kid Zhao Tan!"
Zhao Tong said: "Your Majesty, even if that child is a disciple of Master Zhou, I am not afraid. I am willing to stab the king in both sides, go up the mountain of swords and go down into the sea of fire, and die!"
Wang Qing smiled and said: "Okay, okay, the Gu family thinks that Zhao Tong's son cannot be Zhou Tong's disciple. Li Aiqing said there is no danger of defeating him. By the way, Prime Minister, does he know about Zhou Tong's disciple?"
Li Zhu said: "Although I don't know if Zhou Tong has any disciples of the mantle, the King of Qi, Zhao Yu, certainly does not. Zhou Tong will not choose a prince to pass on the mantle."
Wang Qing nodded and said: "I remember that the Prime Minister told Gu that he had a battle with Zhou Tong. Now I might as well tell the generals about it, so as to be wary of Zhao Tong's son."
Zhao Tong was stunned when he heard this. He had never heard of this before. Why did his master actually fight against Li Assistant?
Li Zhu smiled and said: "Very few people know about this matter, but it has been about ten years."
ten years? Zhao Tong secretly thought that it should be when Zhou Tong was the teacher of Tianzi in the Yuquan Hall, and it was also when he first became Zhou Tong's teacher.
"I went to Tokyo that year. I wanted to see the prosperity of Kaifeng Mansion and meet the martial arts masters of Tokyo City."
Zhao Tong listened intently and thought to himself, is it more than that? It is estimated that Li Zhu had turned against him at that time, and he probably went to Tokyo to inquire about the situation in the imperial court.
"As a result, no one in the Tokyo arena was my opponent. I also heard that Zhou Tong was known as the Tianzi teacher in the imperial boxing gym, so I went there for half a month to compete, but I only saw Zhou Tong once..." Li Zhu said Wei Wei thought here.
Zhao Tong knew that Zhou Tong's Tianzihao teacher was indeed on his name, he could go and leave at any time, and he was not always in the boxing gym.
"Zhou Tong's fame is naturally much greater than that of his ministers. Even now, he is the same. It's just that his elder minister is thirty years old, so this fame is nothing more than that." Li Zhu laughed at himself when he said this.
Wang Qing said from above: "Why should the Prime Minister be so humble? In thirty years, who will be as famous as the Prime Minister? In Yi Gu's opinion, it won't take thirty years, I'm afraid it won't be long before the Prime Minister's reputation will surpass that of all the masters. No one can compare.”
Li Zhu said: "What the king said is true. Even at that time, I was still dissatisfied. I finally saw him in the imperial boxing hall. Naturally, I couldn't give up the opportunity easily, so I invited Zhou Tong to fight. But no matter what I said, Zhou Dong Dong just shouldn’t.”
"Later, I followed Zhou Dong's home, and stayed there for three days. He ate and drank freely, and danced swords in the courtyard every day. Zhou Dong watched Chen's sword skills. After a long time, he felt itchy, so he played with guns. .”
"This continued for several days. They began to accuse each other of flaws in each other's martial arts. They were not convinced by each other, so they arranged to compete on the bank of the Yellow River."
At this point, Li Zhu paused, thought for a moment and then said: "I have only studied swordsmanship in my life, but Grandmaster Zhou is a spearman, and he also has amazing attainments in bows and arrows."
"In the battle on the bank of the Yellow River, Zhou Tong used a total of seven spear techniques, and I used nine sword techniques. During this period, he earned a three-star glaring moon arrow!"
"Those seven spear techniques include open and close, fast and slow, complex and simple, hard and soft. The seven spear techniques use almost all the characteristics of the gun stick's killing moves. It is the ultimate in close range shooting!"
"Even though ten years have passed, those spear skills are still remembered in my heart. They are the Seven-Star Yaoyue Spear, the Silver Dragon Sea-Breaking Spear, and the Lightning Spear..."
Zhao Tong listened to Li Zhu read out the names of these marksmanships. He knew all these marksmanships, but basically he only knew them and had never used them.
Two of these seven spear techniques can be used both on and off the horse. They are very fast and fierce. Zhao Tong thought in his heart. If these spear techniques are used continuously, the monarch and his ministers complement each other and complement each other. There will be almost no flaws. He can take them all in the world. There are very few of them.
Before Zhao Tong came to Luzhou, he had already made up his mind that he would never use any of Zhou Tong's martial arts, not even the martial arts of famous masters who were related to the imperial court.
There was no shortage of fists, feet, guns, and sticks in his hands. Emperor Taizong's arsenal contained not only the remaining weapons and armor of some famous generals during the turbulent times of the late Tang Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, but also incomplete copies of the martial arts moves of these famous generals.
Although these martial arts moves are not complete, they are all real killing moves, and when these moves are used, not many people in today's world can see the basics.
Emperor Taizong was fond of martial arts and poison all his life, and he was very dedicated to these two things, so he built an arsenal and a poison depot. His personal martial arts skills were also superb, and his poisoning methods were cunning. He was the best in the court with his spear and stick.
However, although Emperor Taizong was outstanding in personal martial arts, he had little ability to lead troops in battles, and he was even less talented in military affairs. He had an impatient and ruthless temper and worried about gains and losses. He made two Northern Expeditions, both of which resulted in major defeats.
It turned out that after he ascended to the throne, he wanted to imitate Li Shimin and demonstrate his martial arts skills in order to correct the world's criticism of his throne.
When Taizu wanted to move the capital to Luoyang, Xijing, Taizong refused to move. Taizu said that he would rule the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats, so Taizong said that he would not kill officials. Taizu said that he would save money to buy back the sixteen states of Yanyun, so Taizong vowed to Fight back to the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun!
As a result, the first Northern Expedition, the Battle of Gaoliang River, was a small victory in the first two games, but they fell into the Khitan trap. Brother Yelvxiu and Yelv Xiezhen split their forces to attack, and Taizong lost his armor. Not only the army was scattered, but also his own family. He was also hit by two wrong-tailed wolf fang barb arrows and almost lost his life.
There was no carriage found during the escape. If Hu Yanqing's ancestor Hu Yanzan hadn't gotten a donkey cart from nowhere and carried Taizong, who was seriously injured, and ran for more than 160 miles, he might not have been able to escape.
This battle took place on the Gaoliang River. Emperor Taizong fled again overnight in a donkey cart, without even paying attention to the army. Therefore, he was nicknamed the "Gaoliang River Chariot God" in later generations.
Two years after returning to Tokyo to recuperate, Taizong's martial arts heart was ready to move again, and he still wanted to use force to regain the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture.
So they gathered an army of 200,000, divided into three groups, and took with them many fierce generals, mostly Pan Mei, Yang Ye, Tian Chongjin, Cao Bin, Cui Yanjin and others, and set off northward.
In order to regain his face, Taizong spent a lot of money this time. The Northern Expedition went very smoothly at the beginning. Cao Bin, Tian Chongjin, Pan Mei and other generals successively conquered Gu'an Nancheng, Huanzhou, Zhuozhou, Yingzhou, Yunzhou and other places.
He should have been happy after winning the battle, but after learning the lesson from the last time, Emperor Taizong became worried. He always felt that something was wrong. How could this be exactly the same as the time two years ago? It started very smoothly, but what happened next? Later, Taizong didn't dare to think about it.
But the result was just as he expected. Empress Dowager Xiao of Khitan adjusted her strategy and directed her main force at the Eastern Route Army of the Song Army. This was also the main force of the Song Army. As long as this army was defeated, the other two Song armies would not be a concern.
Before Taizong could react, Brother Yelvxiu led his men to cut off Cao Bin's food route. Cao Bin's 100,000 troops had been in Zhuozhou for more than ten days. They really had no food to eat and had to withdraw.
As soon as the East Route Army withdrew, the overall layout of the Song Army was in chaos. Brother Yelvxiu took this opportunity to launch a fierce attack. Cao Bin could not stop it at all and ran away wildly. Tens of thousands of Song Army were destroyed in one blow.
At this moment, before Taizong could scold his mother, Yelv Xiezhen came again with an army of 100,000, killed more than 10,000 Song troops, and recaptured the cities captured by the Song troops. The Northern Expedition once again ended in failure.
After the two disastrous defeats in the Northern Expedition, Emperor Taizong began to doubt his own military ability. Although he was not good at leading troops, he had to do without the throne. If he wanted to keep the throne and face, he had to do something more.
Emperor Taizong saw that there was no hope of regaining the sixteen states of Yanyun, so he wanted to work hard on defense. In the fourth year of Taiping and Xingguo, the Liao army went south to invade. Emperor Taizong suddenly felt that an opportunity had come. He carefully studied the defensive tactics for a whole year, and finally Come in handy.
He told the army in front not to take action yet. He drew a formation map and sent it to the front for the soldiers to arrange their troops.
In fact, it is not necessary to set up formations on the battlefield, especially in large-scale field battles, formations are of little use. However, in order to show the commander's skills, this formation is needed. Taizong just wanted to test his own skills and attack again. If it doesn’t work, then try your defensive skills.
There are many types of famous commanders in the world, such as Bai Qi and Xiang Yu, who are offensive-type, and Lian Po and Li Mu, who are defensive-type. Taizong suffered a big loss on offense, so he naturally wanted to use defense. Get some face back.
After the formation map was sent to the front, the generals looked at each other and were dumbfounded. According to the layout of Taizong's formation map, the gaps between the Song army's formations were too large, which was definitely the focus of the Liao army's breakthrough. This would definitely Death is certain.
The generals discussed for a while and found that they could neither refute Taizong's face nor lose the battle, so they had to make changes to the battle formation to fill in the gaps. In the end, the defensive battle was a complete victory. Taizong was naturally overjoyed. Name this formation "Pingrong Wanquan Formation"!
In fact, people who really understand military affairs will know at a glance that apart from the nice name of this battle, it is full of loopholes and cannot be fought at all.
As for whether Taizong knew that this battle formation was useless? Maybe he knew it, but even if he knew it, he still had to continue working on it, and then he researched several more and sent them all to the border.
In addition to testing his defensive skills, he used various battle formations to demonstrate his martial arts skills.
A general who can play formations is not just an ordinary handsome man, but a man who is both civil and military. Obviously Taizong wants to tell the world that I, Zhao Guangyi, am both civil and military, and I am the most suitable official candidate for the Song Dynasty.
There is also the need to control the border generals!
During Yongxi's Northern Expedition, that is, the Second Northern Expedition, Emperor Taizong lost contact with the army for a short time. As a result, the generals in front of him actually planned to return to Tokyo to promote Taizu's son Zhao Dezhao as emperor. This made Taizong so angry that he was so angry that Not only did he send the formation map he drew on the front line, but he also sent a group of civilian supervisors to keep an eye on the generals.
From then on, Emperor Taizong never went on a personal expedition, and his personal martial arts also slackened. He only spent time eating, drinking, having fun, visiting the harem, and forcing the queen.
As for the two secret warehouses, Emperor Taizong also disappeared, but the arsenal still existed. The poison warehouse was later ordered to be destroyed by the Renzong Dynasty.
Since Emperor Taizong, the children of the Song Dynasty royal family were no longer interested in guns and clubs. After all, Taizong's several major defeats also proved that it is extremely difficult for personal martial arts to affect battlefield military affairs. No matter how powerful personal martial arts is, it is difficult to influence victory or defeat on the battlefield. No matter how rare the royal family's children went to practice martial arts, the arsenal was sealed for more than a hundred years until Zhao Tao opened it.
The Ba Fist that Zhao Tong practiced came from his arsenal.
Most of the moves and martial arts in the arsenal can be used in horse fighting, but there are very few in foot fighting, and none as complete as Baquan.
As for the other unknown martial arts origin in Zhao Tong's hands, it originated from the Longevity Taoist Canon compiled by Huang Shang.
Emperor Daojun collected Taoist classics from all over the world, many of which were single Taoist books. There were many records of fists and martial arts in them. He had been going to Lijingjubian Academy since he was a child, and he would never forget it after reading it. Huang Gu's The martial arts skills also came from Wanshou Daozang, but they both copied the gourd, without any guidance, and many of the things they produced were different.
Therefore, no matter how Zhao Tong dismounted, it would be difficult for anyone to see his base. Even if Li Zhu did not mention that he had fought with Zhou Tong, he would not be able to use the martial arts taught by Zhou Tong.
At this time, Li Zhu described the characteristics of the seven spear techniques used by Zhou Tong. The generals and heroes on the opposite side were all speechless, thinking that the spear could still be used in this way.
After finishing speaking, everyone looked at Li Zhu, including Zhao Tong with warm eyes.
Li Zhu smiled slightly, knowing that these people wanted to know the outcome of that battle.
(End of chapter)
