Martial Arts in Notes: The Great Iron Vertebra
Kangxi 9 years.
On the Yangtze River, a light boat drifted towards Jianghuai, and in the middle of the boat, two people were sitting facing each other, with wine, bowls, melon plates and other things in front of them. These two people, one is Peiping Chen Zican, although a literati dress, but is a down-to-earth jianghu high-roller; a surnamed Wei name Xizi Bingshu, is one of the world's "Three Wei", a famous hermit.
When the wine was drunk, Wei Xi struck the festival and said, "Chu Tian is thousands of miles in autumn, and the water goes with the sky to autumn." Yao Cen is far away, offering sorrow and offering hatred..." This is a poem by Jia Xuangong's "Water Dragon Yin", which reveals the thoughts of the homeland and the feelings of grief and indignation overflowing into words, just like Wei Xi's mood at this time. Where the chant was passionate, Chen Zican's voice also joined in, "Look at the Wu hook, shoot the railing all over, no one will, denglinyi!" ”
After a long chant, Wei Xi said, "Zi Canjiu has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, traveling north and south, have you ever seen a stranger?" ”
So Chen Zican talked about a martial artist and unveiled the mystery of wulin in the early Qing Dynasty.
Nine years ago, the year when shengshang had just ascended the throne, the family of General Song in Qinghua Town, Huaiqing, Henan, suddenly came to an uninvited guest.
General Song was not a true general, he was highly skilled in martial arts, and he ran rampant among heshuo, and there were many disciples, and erlang, who was good at martial arts in the seven provinces of Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Anhui, and Hubei, all studied under him. Such a Haojie, at that time, like the Chai Official in "Water Margin", was also a person who was willing to be charitable and generous, and the good men who came and went from all over the world went to his home and would eat and drink well. According to these two characteristics, people gave him a nickname "General Song", which was passed around, and for a time the name of General Song was known to all seven provinces, but his real name was unknown.
On the day the guests arrived, General Song was teaching his disciple Gao Xinzhi in Zhuangzi to practice martial arts. Looking up, I saw that the person who came was very ugly, with a large body, no hat or socks, only a blue hand towel wrapped around his head, his feet wrapped in white cloth, and he had nothing but a large iron vertebrae. General Song was a solid master, and after just one glance, he knew that the iron vertebrae were made of pig iron, weighing at least fifty pounds. If you are hit by this thing, you really don't dare to think about the consequences.
General Song couldn't help but secretly praise: Good man! At that time, "Speaking of Tang" had not yet been born, and the common people had not yet heard of Li Yuanba's name, so it was speculated that this man was probably just like Li Yuanba.
The guest arched his hand and said, "A certain General Song has the name of 'Little Meng Taste', and he has come to harass him for a while." A small greeting gift, not a tribute. After saying that, the probe felt a pile of silver in the bulging belt around his waist and offered it, and the palm of his hand probed open, like a fan--not such a big hand, nor did it move like such an iron vertebra!
General Song was willing to ask for it, and hurriedly invited him into the village in a polite manner. However, he thought that this man's martial arts were not trivial, and he might not be able to win well, and he neither dared nor did he dare to ask him who had been offended. Moreover, he crossed the river and had countless black and white friends, even if this person's enemy family came to the door, he was afraid that those people would not succeed? In a word, his little Meng taste will never fall into the righteousness of the jianghu!
That year, Chen Zican happened to go to Henan to visit his brother. He was originally from the capital city, and had never been to Henan before, but he had an old relationship with Gao Xinzhi, so he also visited the Song general Zhuang for a while. Coincidentally, General Song arranged him and the guest with the iron vertebrae into a room.
On the first night of staying in, out of courtesy, Li Zican nodded to the guests in greeting, who knew that the man ignored him. Li Zican did not think so, and bowed his hand to the man: "I don't know where Brother Tai Xianxiang is?" High surname and big name? The man suddenly became eagle-like in his eyes, slashed and slashed at Li Zican, and looked at Gao Xinzhi, which became softer. But he ignored it, but arched his hand, obviously unwilling to answer.
The three of them slept in the same room, not in the table. Sleeping until the middle of the night, I overheard the sound of chains, and Li and Gao were also people from the rivers and lakes, and they had been awakened by a shock. I saw that the man had already sat up and covered his lips with his hand and "booed", which was a sign that the two of them were silenced. It turned out that his large iron vertebrae did not have a handle, but only extended a very long chain, although the man rose silently, but when he lifted the vertebrae, the iron chain inevitably sounded, which woke up the two people. The man sat quietly in the darkness, and in the distance he heard the barking of dogs in the distance, and he suddenly whispered, "I'm going!" After saying that, even people came out of the window with vertebrae, and their momentum was like a swallow copying water, and there was no sound at all.
Li Zican looked at Gao Xinzhi with doubts on his face, but listened to Gao Xinzhi's way: "Don't ask me, I don't know anything." When he came from the beginning of the fight, he was like this, out of nowhere, silent, and no one dared to provoke him. Everyone saw that he could eat, and behind his back they called him a big iron vertebra. ”
Li Zican said, "I see that this person's martial arts are unfathomable, and no one in my generation can beat him." ”
The two sighed for a while before falling asleep. By dawn, the two woke up to find that the big iron vertebrae had snored on the kang, and no one knew when he came back and where he went.
Not long after, Da TieShi bid farewell to General Song and said, "Your Excellency is a great hero haojie in the Central Plains WulinDu, and when I first heard about your prestige, I did have the intention of asking you to help you." Recently, I have seen your martial arts, and I am also very impressed under the circumstances, but my opponent is very strong, and you may not be able to help much. ”
General Song tried his best to retain himself, and Da Tieshi had no choice but to tell him bluntly: "What I have offended is a group of xiangma thieves who have crossed the six northern provinces, and their accomplices have been killed by me several times, and their belongings have been taken by me. How can a man who stands tall in heaven be a thief? They resented me for killing people and hated me for being unreasonable, so they swore to avenge me. I can't live with you anymore, and I'm afraid bad things will happen to you. In the middle of the night, they will duel with me somewhere. ”
Although General Song knew that his martial skills were strong, he did not think that he was inferior to him, so he also said passionately: "Since this is the case, I have no reason to stand idly by, and tonight I will join your excellency in riding a horse and leading a bow to help you in the battle." ”
The big iron vertebrae appeared embarrassed: "There are many thieves, and everyone's martial arts are not under you, if I want to protect you, I am afraid I can't kill the enemy." ”
In fact, this is already very blunt, your martial arts are not good, don't add to the chaos. But I don't know if General Song is not convinced, or if he really doesn't understand, in short, he is a solid invitation, and the big iron spine is difficult to be gracious, so he had to agree.
That night the two men came to the place of duel. The Great Iron Vertebrae made General Song stand on top of an abandoned fortress and told him to act quietly so that the thieves would not notice. General Song secretly clasped his bow and arrow, intending to kill at the right time. Then he saw a master duel that he had never seen in his life:
At that time, the chicken was already singing and the moon was setting, the starlight shone on the wilderness, and the sound of hooves was like thunder, and more than twenty horses flew through the pine forest like a furious wave, and suddenly appeared above the wilderness. After the knights, there were many people, each carrying a longbow and reflecting the moon, and it was a group of archers, as many as a hundred people.
Speaking late and fast, only to hear the long whistle of the big iron vertebrae, the lifting of the air flew down, straight into the horse bush. One of them came with a knife and said, "Today I want you to pay for my brother's life!" The big iron vertebra shouted, "Vertebrae! "Only to see a violent storm flashing in the moonlight, the sound of chains rattling, the sound of the wind breaking the large vertebrae at the same time, one man and one horse almost cut this vertebrae in half, and the people and horses died.
The group of thieves made a loud noise, and they marched in, and the large iron vertebrae were in their hands, floating lightly and nothing, but once they were waved, they rolled through like thunder. Black shadows swept across the sky, and every vertebrae waved out of the thief fell off his horse, turning into meat paste, and more than thirty people had been killed in an instant.
General Song looked at the big iron vertebrae, and only then did he know that he was a little bit of a little bit of the way, not to mention competing with the big iron vertebrae, even those horse thieves were afraid of being inferior. He crouched down on the empty fort, afraid of being discovered, and did not dare to make any changes. As for the bow and arrow, it had long been thrown aside.
But above the wilderness, arrows came like locusts, and the large iron vertebrae danced the iron vertebrae like flowers, and even the water could not be splashed in. As soon as an enemy approached him, he flew to kill him, and for a moment the people and horses were easy to get close to within three feet of him. Overhearing the big iron cone looking up at the sky with a long smile, he shouted, "I'm going too!" But I saw dust and sand flying, black smoke billowing, all the way to the east.
Since then, he has never appeared again, only General Song is still active in the Central Plains Wulin.
This story was written by Wei Xi as the "Legend of the Great Iron Vertebra", which has been passed down to this day. In the treatise, Wei Xi regarded the Great Iron Vertebra as a warrior on a par with the warriors of the Bolang Sha Vertebra Qin Shi Huang, but unfortunately such a figure was not recognized in the world.
Why is he so sorry?
It turned out that Wei Xi was born in the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624), and was already 46 years old when he was in the ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1670). More than 20 years ago, the Northern Jiangshan had fallen into the hands of foreign tribes, and the successor Nanming had not given hope to the men in the world who were not willing to rule by foreign races, but in the end, they were too uncontentious, and the Hongguang regime was eliminated after only eight months. Then the Qing army and the former Ming army led troops into Jiangnan, and all the southern rivers and mountains changed owners. Zhu Ming, an emperor of the Yongli Dynasty, Zhu Youluo, was killed in Kunming as early as the sixteenth year of the Yongli Calendar (1662) - strangled to death by Wu Sangui himself, and Daming finally died completely and completely.
Throughout his life, Wei Xi never forgot the great cause of restoring the Ming Dynasty, and he ran everywhere, footprints all over the land of Jianghuai and Wuyue, and gathered four haojie. In the seventeenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1677), the Qing Dynasty recruited him to go out of the mountains to become an official, but he insisted on resigning and would never refuse to be clean. Four years later, he watched his hard work finally turn into water, and he ended up depressed at the age of 57.
Wei Xi, who was in the ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, on the one hand, saw the mountains and rivers shattered and was full of sorrow and indignation, on the other hand, he faced difficulties and went up to oppose the Qing Dynasty, no matter which aspect, he longed for a heroic hero like a big iron vertebra, and turned into a sharp knife and gun to take revenge on the Manchu Qing, as the text said."
Born alien, it will be useful
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Unfortunately, the large iron vertebrae finally never appeared again, and its flying vertebrae killing skills could not be passed on to the world. Just like more than two hundred years later, the sharpshooter Sand Dragon and its stunt Five Tiger Soul Breaking Gun.