Volume 1 At the End of the South Mountain Chapter 16 The Lance and the Horse
Li Mingyu took Xiao Hei down the mountain, returned home, and had dinner. Seeing that Master Li Xuanba was about to go for a walk in the village, Mingyu hurriedly called out to Master and said, "Master, I have reached the sword technique today!" ”
Li Xuanba was very surprised when he heard this, and said in his heart, it has only been more than half a year, and this kid has reached it? I thought it would take at least a year, so I immediately asked, "Can a bamboo with a thick arm be broken with a single knife?" ”
Li Mingyu said proudly: "Naturally! Master, you will wait for me to practice for you. After that, he happily took the knife and pulled Li Xuanba to the courtyard.
There is no bamboo in the courtyard, only the wooden stick he uses to practice martial arts on weekdays, which is about as thick as his wrist, Li Mingyu inserted the wooden stick in the courtyard and said to the master, "Master, please see!" After that, he drew the knife in his hand, still calmed down, took a deep breath of dantian qi, and instantly swung five knives, five cold rays flashed, and the wooden stick fell to the ground. Mingyu was proud in his heart and asked, "Master, can I return my sword technique?" ”
Li Xuanba was also shocked after seeing it, this kid not only made rapid progress, but also had a certain degree of fire in his knife technique, and he controlled the power of the knife very accurately, and he didn't waste anything, but he had already touched the threshold of the Dacheng realm. I can't help but sigh in my heart, this kid is really evil! It's beyond expectations! It's rare, Xuanba didn't hit Li Mingyu, but said, "Well, it's not bad, you kid has really worked hard recently." ”
Li Mingyu rarely heard Master praise him, and he was also happy after hearing this, and Master Xindao praised me rarely today, and it was not in vain that I practiced hard for many days. Immediately struck while the iron was hot, and flattered, "Master, you said before that when I have achieved a small success in practicing the knife, you will start teaching me to practice the lance, but don't break your promise!" ”
Li Xuanba laughed after hearing this, and said, "Practice the lance? Haven't you already started?"
Mingyu felt strange when he heard this, and called Qu Dao, "When did I start practicing?" Every day, you either stand on a stake with a wooden stick, or you throw a sandbag, or you hold a wooden stick and step on an iron pot full of sand, what does this have to do with practicing the lance? Master, don't you want to scold me? ”
Li Xuanba listened to his grievances, and said with a black line, "You should be the one who scorned you?" Riding a horse and dancing the lance, because the person is on the horse, the legs are not strong, so wielding the horse lance to stab the heaviest waist force! You stand every day just to exercise your waist strength! Then Xuanba walked into the room and sat down, glanced at Li Mingyu, shook his head and shoulders to make a tired look.
Mingyu listened to the master's rare mood to explain, and saw the master's hint to himself, how could he not understand the intention, so he hurriedly followed up, stood behind the master and pinched his shoulders for him, with an earnest attitude, and asked, "Master, do you think the strength is okay?" Moving on to the rest? ”
Li Xuanba felt that Mingyu's small hand was just right, nodded, and said, "Well, the strength is acceptable." Then he closed his eyes in enjoyment and said, "You need to know that where there is a battlefield duel, the open gun is easy to dodge and the dark arrow is difficult to defend, and the general is not afraid of thousands of troops, but he is afraid of an inch." Therefore, as a general, you must watch and listen to all directions, and always pay attention to the hidden arrows, I will throw you with a sandbag to let you dodge, which is also for this purpose. In a few moments, when you can completely avoid the sandbags thrown by my hands, you will have to cover yourself blindfolded, and exercise your ability to listen to the wind. ”
After listening to Master's explanation, Li Mingyu understood Master's intentions, pounded more carefully, and asked, "Then what did Master mean by letting me stand on the iron pot with a wooden stick?" ”
"Well, change this way!" Li Xuanba's shoulder on the other side moved, Mingyu understood, turned around and massaged the other side, and listened to Xuanba say, "Fighting immediately is different from stepping down, horses are not as flexible as their feet, and they are bumpy in running and jumping, you can hit the target on the ground, but not immediately." Having you stand on an iron pot is also to exercise your balance. No matter how the body shakes, the lance in the hand is firmly pointed at the target. ”
After listening to this, Mingyu couldn't help but say, "It turns out that there are so many things to say about Xueqi, what I thought before was too simple. ”
"Yes, are you so studious as a lance? The lance of a lifetime of knives and moon sticks! For thousands of years, why can only the children of the Jiangmen family learn? Without him, the cost is high. Only the Maison can afford it. Li Xuanba snorted and replied.
Li Mingyu heard the master say this and asked, "Listening to what the master said, is the horse lance very expensive?" ”
"A good horse lance, the cost is about a few hundred, but this is still not the most important thing, the horse lance and horse lance, naturally to be practiced on the horse." After that, Li Xuanba sighed, "Let you step on the iron pot to practice body balance, this is also a method that you came up with out of desperation, the mountain village is simple, and there is not even a horse." I still remember that my brothers learned to use a spear when we were six or seven years old, and we prepared a half-year-old pony for each of us at home, and we washed and drank it every day, and lived in the same room. When the horse is one year old, he is supported by his family and rides on the horse every day. After a few months, the pony gradually got used to being ridden before he could practice on the horse with a spear. It seems that you will grow up with the horse in this way, cultivate your feelings, and ride it to fight in the future to be able to charge and kill with you. You must know that a war horse is equal to the general's feet, and it is your closest comrade-in-arms. When there was no food, some generals preferred to starve themselves rather than feed their horses. The cavalry in the army would rather starve to death than kill horses to satisfy hunger! ”
After Mingyu heard this, he nodded and said, "I understand what the master said, I heard the master talk about it a while ago, and I read it in the "Historical Records-Xiang Yu Benji". Thinking of the overlord of Western Chu, he can carry the tripod and be invincible in the world. He was besieged, embattled, and wanted to cross the Wujiang River, but the boat got one, and the people and horses could not cross, and the overlord of Chu would rather kill himself than send the war horse across the river, and he couldn't bear to follow him to fight for a lifetime and lose his life! What a hero! ”
Li Xuanba heard his apprentice worship Xiang Yu like this, and coughed dryly and said, "Xiang Yu, he is naturally a hero who pulls out the mountain and covers the world, but he is also a man with a violent temperament, indecisiveness, and only knows how to use force and does not know how to scheming." You must not learn from him! ”
Mingyu responded, "What Master said is that I only learn from his heroism. ”
Seeing that the apprentice was so obedient today, Li Xuanba was also happy in his heart, thought about it, and said, "This is just an expedient measure after all, I have already thought about it, after a while, when you are a little older, I will write to ask your second uncle how many horses you want, you will go out in the future, and you must always have the strength of the legs." ”
Li Mingyu was overjoyed when he heard that Master had already made plans, and said, "That's very good!" At that time, I have to ask the second uncle to help me pick a good horse! "I thought to myself, I remember when I went to Xi'an to travel, I visited the Xi'an Stele Forest, and the treasure of the town hall is Li Shimin's "Zhaoling Six Horses" stone carving, which is the six war horses he rode in the world, because the name is really strange and special, and left a deep impression at the beginning. I seem to remember that Li Shimin had a horse called "Tellebiu", and when he wanted to give me a horse, I named it "Telunsu". Ha, if he asked, I would respond, "Not all BMWs are called Trensu!" "It must be fun!