In the Qing Dynasty novel "The Complete Biography of The Tang Dynasty", many famous generals and their weapons and mounts are mentioned. For example, Li Yuanba's Wanliyun, Zuo Xiong's tailless colt, Shang Shi's Hulei Leopard, Qin Qiong's Yellow Horse, and so on.
Among these mounts, the tailless colt and the Hulei leopard are the most powerful, each with divine skills, much like the divine beasts in the list of gods. For example, the goryeo general Zuo Xiong's tailless colt once killed the fifth-ranked Wu Yunzhao with one tail when the hero snatched Wu Zhuangyuan.
As for the Hulei leopard of The Master and Apprentice is even more powerful, it has a large sarcoma under its neck, and there are several itchy hairs on the sarcoma, as long as it is scratched, the Hulei leopard will emit a roar, and at the same time spit out black smoke, other war horses will be frightened to lie down, and it has also been swept by Zuo Xiong's tailless colt, but it is safe and sound, and it is not scared to lie down.
Later, when Shang Shi and his apprentice fought with Qin Qiong, Qin Qiong snatched the Hulei Leopard and became Qin Qiong's mount. Later, the author did not tell the story of the Hulei Leopard.
However, in the Tang Dynasty Duan Cheng-style "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", it is said that the end of the Hulei leopard: Tang Qin Shubao's horse trumpet was suddenly thundered, and he often drank wine. Monthly in the middle test, can erect three territories of black felt. and Hu Guogong's pawn, who died without eating.
Hulei refutation, that is, Hulei leopard.
It seems that the Hulei leopard, like the red rabbit horse in the Three Kingdoms, was very loyal to its master, and after Guan Yu's death, the red rabbit horse went on a hunger strike and died; likewise, after Qin Qiong's death, he also went on a hunger strike and died.
So, why is the Hulei Leopard so magical? Because it is a divine beast in itself.
In the middle of the qu mountain, there are beasts, its shape is like a horse and a white body and black tail, a horn, tiger teeth and claws, sound like a drum sound, its name is called barge (駮), is a tiger and leopard, can be a soldier. —— The Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Classic of the Western Mountains
It can be seen that "refutation" is a kind of sacred beast, like a horse but with a white tail and a black tail, with a horn, its roar is like a drum, and it can avoid war by using tigers and leopards as food. Since the ancient god of thunder was to beat the drum to produce thunder, the meaning of hulei refutation is a divine beast that roars like thunder.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi Huangong's horses also scared away tigers because they resembled them.
Huan Gong rode on a horse, and the tiger looked at it and fell. Huan Gong asked Guan Zhongyue: Why is it that the widow rides on a horse today, and the tiger sees the widow and does not dare to do it? Guan Zhongyue: Yi Jun rides on a barge horse and pans heng, and gallops towards the sun? GONG: Yes. Pipe pair: This barge elephant also, refutes the tiger and leopard, so the tiger is suspicious. - "The Pipe"
Qi Huangong was facing the sun, and the horse looked like a barge, so the tiger hesitated when he saw it.
Why is it that facing the sun, the horse is like a barge?
Because the original meaning of the rebuttal is that the coat color is impure, "Jade Chapter": refutation, horse color is not pure. So when the sun sprinkled on Qi Huangong's horse, it looked like a refutation.