Although "Ming Yinglie" is a commentary with the main theme of depicting war, perhaps out of his love for martial arts, Shan Lao added some swordsmen and chivalrous warriors who are different from battlefield generals in the book.
According to incomplete statistics, there are a total of fifteen swordsmen in this kind of swordsmanship, which can be roughly divided into four grades according to the level of martial arts, and the specific rankings are as follows.
Yellow-level young hero
Fifteenth place: Xiao Zhenzi Xu Fang
Xu Fang's character design is similar to Jiang Ping in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", and even his appearance is similar. In terms of kung fu, he is the worst one in the swordsman category, but when it comes to the mind, there are few people in the whole book who can match Xu Fang, and it is not an exaggeration to call him the first martial artist.
It is precisely because of his extraordinary mind that Xu Fang has made up for the lack of martial arts to a certain extent, and he never conforms to the rules when fighting against others, and even a little "does not talk about martial arts" in today's words. Tiger Yin, the deputy vanguard of the Yuan army and the general who can almost be compared to Chang Mao, was killed by Xu Fang's dart in the eye at the Double Dragon Meeting.
With the gradual change of the direction of the plot, Xu Fang has become a book gut in "Yanwang Swordsman", and has performed one wonderful story after another for everyone, but it has little to do with the "Ming Yinglie" we are talking about today.
Fourteenth place: Zhu Shen Zhu Yongjie
Zhu Yongjie is Zhu Yuanzhang's younger brother of the same clan, but he is much younger than Zhu Yuanzhang and belongs to the "younger generation". His childhood was not very happy, and his experience was exactly the same as that of Bai Lao Bai Yizi in "Dragon and Tiger Storm", and Ma Tengfei, the living retribution in "Iron Umbrella Monster".
In fact, it is unreasonable to include Zhu Yongjie and Xu Fang in the same grade, Zhu Shen is at least one grade higher than Xu Fang in terms of martial arts, but compared with the predecessors of the swordsman, both of them are rising stars, so they are a bit far-fetched together. It is worth mentioning that the tiger seal in this book died twice, the first time he mentioned that he was killed by Xu Fang, and the second time was when Zhu Yongjie jumped on his war horse in front of the two armies and wiped his neck with a sword from behind.
Xuan-level heroes
Thirteenth: Golden-eyed Eagle Yue Lun
Yue Lun is the only character in the book who enters the realm of swordsmen with battlefield numbers, and he and the spear general Zhang Xingzu are old friends and sworn brothers, and at the same time, he also passed on the ancestral Yue family's marksmanship to his younger brother.
Originally, Yue Lun planned to go out of the mountain to serve Zhu Yuanzhang, but the top martial artists have their own pride, and he deliberately wore tattered clothes, in order to teach Zhu Yuanzhang, and did not want Zhu Yuanzhang to judge people by his appearance. In the end, Yue Lun drifted away after stabbing the Four Treasure Generals, taking off the golden dragon, and since then he has been at ease between heaven and earth.
In "Yanwang Swordsman", Yue Lun and Zhuxia appeared together and joined forces to teach Zhang Tianjie a lesson, and there was no trace of him on the rivers and lakes since.
Twelfth place: Shanxi Wanbaoshan Lao Sihai Jin Youde
Jin Youde is a halal nobleman, known as "Lao Siehai" because of his high morality, and his son-in-law is the famous Hu Bin Hu Dahai, the second of the seven heroes of the Troubled Stone Mountain. Because Hu Dahai has been fighting abroad all the year round, he entrusted his wife and children to his father-in-law, so his grandson Hu Deji's martial arts were all taught by Jin Youde, and his strength was far better than that of his father Hu Dahai.
When Tian Zaidang broke into the Yuan camp to deliver a letter to Chang Yuchun, Jin Youde once sighed at this son's talent and martial arts to help him break through. In terms of the level of martial arts, Lao Sihai is roughly equivalent to the Four Heroes, and the order of high and low is limited to theory.
Eleventh place: Zhang Tianshi Zhang Jinghe
Zhang Tianshi's name is Jinghe, a real historical figure, and also appears in Mr. Jin Yong's "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and is one of the five scattered people of Mingjiao.
In "Ming Yinglie", Zhang Tianshi is a highly respected hermit master, although he ignores mundane things on weekdays, he is also compassionate and compassionate. He complained a lot about the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, so he accepted two anti-Yuan righteous men as apprentices, one was Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son, His Royal Highness Golden Hammer, and the other was Hu Dahai's righteous son, Xiong Hu Qiang. After the second little art was completed, he went down the mountain to help his father-in-law, and he repeatedly performed miraculous feats in the Ming camp, and he was a rare general.
And Zhang Tianshi himself also went down the mountain to help Zhu Yuanzhang, although the overall performance is not much, but the image of a master outside the world jumps on the paper, which is quite impressive.
Tenth place: Jing Xuan Zhenren Luo Daoye
Luo Daoye and Zhang Tianshi's personalities are similar, and they rarely go out of the mountain in person, but they also accept disciples who help the Ming army, which is Zhu Yongjie we just mentioned. Zhu Yongjie's ability is second to none among the younger generation, even Chang Mao and Yu Gao are three points inferior to him, of course, they are older, so they never compare them with Chang Mao.
As we just said, the martial arts of several old chivalrous men of this grade are generally at the same level, and if they fight, there is a high probability that they will be indistinguishable within the lily, and the reason why Luo Daoye is ranked before Lao Sihai and Zhang Tianshi is mainly because of the light of the apprentice, after all, Zhu Yongjie's martial arts are almost invincible in the world.
Ninth place: Zhongxia Yan Rong
Yan Rong and Wang Aiyun, Tang Yun, Wu Zhen, and Di Heng are a system and have decades of friendship. At the same time, these people are not as deep as the three just mentioned, they like to wander around when they have nothing to do, and they will help Zhu Yuanzhang from time to time, and they can be regarded as the big backers of the Ming army in the rivers and lakes.
Although the elders are only at the level of chivalry, if they join forces, I am afraid that no one in the world can stop them. The reason why Yan Rong is placed in the last place is because compared to the other four, his pen and ink is the least, and there is almost no solo performance.
Eighth place: Gibbon swordsman Wu Zhen
Wu Zhen is the only one of the older generation of swordsmen who has officially served Zhu Yuanzhang, in the early stage of Zhu Yuanzhang's army, Wu Zhen contributed a lot, and for a long time in the town to defend the army, is the backbone of the generals of the Ming army, it can be said that with him, the generals have to rely on, and Zhu Yuanzhang himself has been rescued by Wu Zhen several times.
I think the reason why there is such a plot setting is because Wu Zhen in history was a member of the Ming army, and the Ming Dynasty was the founder of the Ming Dynasty to worship the Marquis of Jinghai, and after his death, he was posthumously crowned the Duke of Haiguo.
Sixth place: Di Heng, the wind chaser for thousands of miles
Di Heng was a famous chivalrous man on the rivers and lakes at that time, a red-haired treasure knife covered the martial arts, and in terms of the characters who made the knife in the book, he could be called the first master.
Like Tang Yun, Wu Zhen, and Yan Rong, Di Heng also has his heart set on Zhu Yuanzhang. When Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Zhang Shicheng, Di Heng was extremely entangled, afraid that his old brother Wang Aiyun and the Ming army would become a fire and water, so he rushed to Suzhou thousands of miles away, and the result was just in time for Wang Aiyun to fight the Ming general Chang Mao, Di Heng wanted to dissuade him, but he didn't want Wang Aiyun to be angry with Chang Mao at this time, and he didn't eat oil and salt, soft and hard, so that Di Heng and Wang Aiyun, who were originally persuaded to reconcile, fought.
The two elders have been friends for decades, and they know each other well, strictly speaking, Wang Aiyun's kung fu is slightly higher than Di Heng's. However, Wang Aiyun was calculated when he and Chang Mao just started, and they were scratched by the five-clawed golden dragon on the back of the turtle, and their physical strength was also slightly lost, so the brothers fought for more than 100 times without winning or losing.
In addition, Di Heng also helped the Ming army with several old brothers many times, especially in dealing with Zhang Tianjie.
Fifth place: Beixia Tang Yun
Tang Yun is Wang Aiyun's own junior brother, with a unique appearance, small and big head, once several old brothers joked together, Wang Aiyun made fun of Tang Yun's size, saying that he was short and would definitely not be able to accept a good apprentice, which made Tang Yun furious, and since then he has searched all over the world, and finally found Xu Fang, who is shorter than himself, and accepted him as a disciple, in order to compete with his senior brother.
Then, every time Xu Fang was in danger, Tang Yun would definitely appear in time, it can be said that there was Tang Yun's shadow behind many of Xu Fang's achievements in the early stage, and Beixia was really heartbroken for his apprentice
When it comes to martial arts, Tang Yun and his senior brother imitate the upper and lower ones, perhaps because they have a little more pen and ink, so they feel slightly stronger than the Seven Heroes just mentioned.
Fourth place: Nanxia Wang Aiyun
Although the strength of the heroes is roughly the same level, Wang Aiyun is almost recognized as the head of the heroes, and he is also the only chivalrous man who is interested in forces other than Zhu Yuanzhang - Zhang Shicheng, the king of Wu, is the prime minister!
In fact, if it weren't for the time of life and death, Wang Aiyun would not have made a move, and except for Zhu Yuanzhang's troops in Suzhou, Zhang Shicheng's forces had basically not experienced too many hardships and twists and turns before, so Zhang Shicheng invited Wang Aiyun with a very high status and humble attitude, which somewhat means "a thousand dollars buy horse bones". Because everyone knows that there is a huge group of chivalrous people around Wang Aiyun, if they have their help, sweep the world and unify the world, it will be twice the result with half the effort. But Zhang Shicheng didn't expect that on the issue of position, not to mention Zhang Tianshi, Di Heng and others, who were just friends with Wang Aiyun, even his own junior brother Tang Yun did not give in at all, and firmly supported Zhu Yuanzhang, and did not hesitate to turn against Wang Aiyun for this reason.
In the end, Wang Aiyun's "autumn of critical survival" in Suzhou was forced by the pressure given by his brothers, and he left Zhang Shicheng, and since then he has lived in seclusion, and Zhang Shicheng's wishful thinking has come to naught.
Ground-level swordsman
Third place: Fire Dragon Ancestor Zhang Tianjie
Zhang Tianjie is the only villain in the swordsman, and he is also the nightmare of many generals in the Ming army, and the reason is that Zhang Tianjie has no bottom line. Generally speaking, the chivalrous and extra-world masters will not do it to the younger generations unless they have to, but Zhang Tianjie is the food of the king, the worry of the king, no matter who the opponent is, Zhang Tianjie will spare no effort to shoot, in front of him, the first person of the old generation of the Ming army often meets the spring, and the young characters Chang Mao and Tian Zaidao are not opponents at all, so Zhang Tianjie's existence once became a big trouble for the Ming army.
As far as martial arts are concerned, Zhang Tianjie in the radio version of "Ming Yinglie" is obviously one level higher than Zhuxia, which can be seen in Zhang Tianjie's despise on Beixia Tang Yun, but Xu Fang remains silent about it, that is to say, according to Shan Lao's consistent grading habits in martial arts commentary, Zhang Tianjie is already up to the level of a swordsman and is an existence that surpasses the chivalry.
But this old loach is too slippery, whenever he encounters danger, he can always predict in advance, so as to save the day, even if he is besieged by more than a dozen Ming army generals and suffers a big loss, he can still get out calmly. So until the storytelling entered "Yanwang Swordsman", Zhang Tianjie was still alive, and he was always faintly pressed on the heads of the soldiers of the Ming army, lingering.
Heaven-level master
Second place: Long arm fluttering left Mengxiong
Zuo Mengxiong has appeared in the three books of "Ming Yinglie", "Yanwang Sweeping the North" and "Yanwang Swordsman", but none of them have shown martial arts, even so, anyone who has heard of these books, even if he has only heard one of them, will never despise Zuo Mengxiong, because his apprentice is too strong, and the ensuing effect is to look down on Zuo Mengxiong is a master of blasphemy.
In "Ming Yinglie", Zuo Mengxiong has two apprentices, one is the second half of the book - the invincible general Chang Mao, and the other is the first martial champion of the Ming Dynasty known as the silver halberd Tai Sui - Gao Yanping.
If you don't count Yue Lun, Chang Mao is definitely the best of many generals in "Ming Yinglie", and he is a veritable first general. And Gao Yanping is one of the few people who can fight with Chang Mao and not fall behind. Originally, after Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma were blackened, Gao Yanping, who was grateful to the emperor and the queen for knowing the kindness, once became an accomplice of the two parties of South Korea and Malaysia, but later after the teacher personally went out of the mountain to ignite, Gao Yanping abandoned evil and followed good, and was subsumed under the command of Zhu Di, the king of Yan.
In "Yanwang Swordsman", Zuo Mengxiong's status has risen to a higher level, and he has become the teacher of Wang Aiyun, Tang Yun, Yan Rong, and Wu Zhen, referred to as "the teacher of all heroes", which is very terrifying, just imagine how strong such an ancestor-level master is?
Of course, compared with Ming Yinglie, the two books of Sweeping North and Swordsman have changed somewhat in the setting, since we are talking about "Ming Yinglie", then Zuo Mengxiong is at most slightly stronger than Zhang Tianjie, and he should be one of the three major swordsmen.
The first place: Zhang Jinbo, a dog skin Taoist
At first glance, this name will be a little unfamiliar, but if you call Zhang Jinbo's road name, everyone must know and know, even if you haven't heard the "Ming Yinglie" series of commentaries, you must have heard of his big name - Zhang Sanfeng.
Compared with the Wudang originator and Tai Chi master in many people's impressions, Zhang Sanfeng in "Ming Yinglie" is closer to history in terms of image - tattered, buried, and sloppy.
But this image does not affect Zhang Sanfeng's martial arts status at all, let's take an example, the invincible Zhang Tianjie has always been unexpected, but when he saw Zhang Sanfeng even heard him cough, he immediately trembled like chaff and fled. With this, it is enough to prove that Zhang Sanfeng's martial arts status in "Ming Yinglie" is well deserved to be the first in the world.
The above are the fifteen main swordsmen in "Ming Yinglie", if there is any omission, please forgive me, welcome to add.