In the romance novels of the Sui and Tang dynasties, there is a wonderful story called "Breaking the Bronze Flag Array!"
It is said that when the Wagang army went south to attack the five passes, they broke through the Tiger Prison Pass, the Red Ni Pass, the Bishui Pass, and the Loess Pass, and the fifth pass came to the Dongling Pass.
The guard of Dongling Pass is not an ordinary person, but one of the founding fathers of the Great Sui Dynasty, the sworn brother of Yang Lin, the king of the mountain, and Yang Fang Yang Yichen, who is known as the "red-robed marshal".
Among all the guards in the nine provinces and eighteen passes of the Great Sui Dynasty, Yang Fang and Yang Yichen were the ones with the highest status and the most powerful.
Other cities are basically more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and some small passes even have only 20,000 or 30,000, while Yang Yichen's Dongling Pass has more than 200,000 soldiers.
The most important thing is that this Yang Yichen has a gold-topped flame horse in his crotch, and a gold-backed chopping knife in his palm, which is not only brave and good at fighting, but also very good at using soldiers, especially proficient in arranging troops.
This time, in order to block the Wagang army from moving south, he mobilized more than 200,000 troops and set up a large array in front of Dongling Pass, called the Simen Bronze Banner Array.
This array has four large array gates, sixteen small array gates, there are heaven gates and earth gates, life gates and death gates, there are organs everywhere, and there are ambushes in the gates, which is very powerful!
If you don't understand the mystery, even if thousands of troops rush in, it is tantamount to a sheep entering the mouth of a tiger, and there is no life or death.
The Wagang army was dumbfounded as soon as they arrived at Dongling Pass, because among them with the generals, none of them would break the formation.
Qin Qiong, the generalissimo of the Wagang Army, pondered for a while, there was no other way, and he had to send someone to Beiping Mansion to invite his cousin Luo Cheng.
Why did Qin Qiong invite Luo Cheng?
It's very simple, because Luo Cheng has been reading military books and war books since he was a child, and he is familiar with various formations!
I think that when the Wagang army broke the backer king Yang Lin's one-word long snake formation, it was commanded by Luo Cheng.
Just when Qin Qiong was about to write a letter to his cousin, the good news came: Luo Cheng, the young guard of Beiping Mansion, had arrived at Dongling Pass, and he was going to serve as the leader of the Bronze Banner Array.
This can make Qin Qiong and the others very happy, Luo Cheng is uninvited.
This is strange, how did Luo Cheng come to Dongling Pass?
It turned out that Yang Fang, the marshal of Dongling Pass, and Luo Yi, the king of Beiping, and Luo Yanchao, the king of Beiping, had been friends for many years.
After Luo Yi received Yang Yichen's letter, he didn't come himself, but sent his son Luo Cheng.
Yang Yichen didn't know the relationship between Luo Cheng and the people in Wagangzhai, so he was very relieved to treat Luo Cheng as his own.
Luo Cheng became Yang Yichen's "own person", so it was much more convenient to act.
He secretly drew a diagram of the Bronze Flag Array, secretly sent someone to his cousin Qin Qiong, and told his cousin: The reason why this big array is called the Copper Flag Array is because there are eight copper flags in the array, which are the signal indicators of the big array, and the 200,000 troops use the copper flag as their number, like an arm and a finger, which is very powerful! If you want to break the copper flag array, you must first pour the copper flag. As long as the eight-pole bronze flag is knocked down, like a group of dragons without a leader, the big array can be self-defeating.
With Luo Cheng's guidance, Qin Qiong's confidence doubled.
In the end, under Luo Cheng's internal and external cooperation, the "double hammer and ten hammers" poured the copper flag, and the Wagang army broke the copper flag array!
So the question is, who does the double mace refer to and who does the ten hammers refer to?
Let's start with the double win
The double mace refers to a pair of tile-faced gold-coated cooked copper maces in Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao's palms.
We know that Qin Qiong relied on a yellow horse through the bone dragon in his crotch, and a pair of tiled gold cooked copper gongs in his palm, known as: horses on both sides of the Yellow River, three states and six prefectures, art pressure one hundred single eight counties, and the east half of the sky!
In the story of the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Qin Qiong's martial arts are not too high, and among the eighteen heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, he can only rank sixteenth. However, in terms of the method alone, Qin Qiong can be regarded as the first person.
When the bronze flag array was broken, Qin Qiong waved his double gong and took the lead.
Of course, although Qin Qiong took the lead, his double skills only played a guiding role, because with his strength, he couldn't knock down the copper flag. If you want to smash the bronze flag, you have to rely on those fierce generals who make hammers.
Let's talk about ten hammers
Ten hammers refer to the five fierce generals who make double hammers.
Who are they?
The first is Li Yuanba, the king of Zhao in Xifu, with a horse in his crotch and a pair of drums and urns in his hands.
The second place is Pei Yuanqing, the silver hammer Taibao, with a flying tiger horse in his crotch, and a pair of plum blossom bright silver hammers in his palm.
The third place is the silver-faced Wei Tuo Qinyong, with a tiger-headed brocade beast in his crotch and a pair of human-faced red copper hammers in his palm.
The fourth place is the hammer general Liang Shitai, with an iron hoof black whirlwind in his crotch and a pair of iron oil hammers in his palm.
The fifth place is Qi Guoyuan, the general of the air hammer, with a horse with two green manes in his crotch and a pair of hollow wooden hammers in his palm.
Among the gold, silver, copper, iron and wood, five fierce and ten hammers, the most fierce and brave is Li Yuanba, the king of Zhao in Xifu.
A total of eight copper flags, Li Yuanba urged the horse to shake the hammer, and easily knocked down the three copper flags, almost without much effort.
The second is the silver hammer Taibao Pei Yuanqing.
Although Pei Yuanqing couldn't compare to Li Yuanba, this young man was arrogant and refused to admit defeat, and tried his best to knock down the three-pole bronze flag.
The second is the silver-faced Vetuoqin.
Compared with Li Yuanba and Pei Yuanqing, Qin's strength was obviously much weaker, and he smashed two hammers in a row and knocked down a copper flag.
Finally, there is the hammer general Liang Shitai, Liang Shitai is much worse, he used all his strength to smash the flagpole "dangdang" directly, but he failed to knock down a copper flag.
Li Yuanba saw that this was too difficult, and flew a hammer to knock down the last bronze flag for Liang Shitai.
A total of eight bronze flags, Li Yuanba smashed four shots, Pei Yuanqing smashed three shots, and Qin Yong smashed one shot.
Seeing this, some friends may have to ask: There is nothing to do with the empty hammer general Qi Guoyuan, how can he be regarded as one of the five fierce and ten hammers?
I have to explain here, although Qi Guoyuan did not participate in the smashing of the bronze flag, he has other credits.
Because at the beginning, it was Qin Qiong who took Li Yuanba, Pei Yuanqing, Qin Yong, and Liang Shitai, and a group of five of them broke into the bronze flag formation, and as a result, they met the archers ambushed by Yang Yichen at the gate of the formation.
Ten thousand arrows were fired, and Qin Qiong and the others couldn't get in.
At the critical moment, Qi Guoyuan, the general of the air hammer, urged the horse to come, holding a hollow wooden hammer larger than the table to cover in front, and Qin Qiong and the others entered the battle smoothly.
In many versions, this story is often referred to as "the bronze flag of the two hammers and eight hammers", but I don't think it's appropriate.
Since people Qi Guoyuan has made meritorious contributions, we can't ignore the merits of others, and we should also count others.