Chapter 1: The Rise of the Dragon and the Snake
November 27, 1899, Hebei.
In the whistling north wind, Li Dayan, who was wearing a cotton jacket and a melon skin hat on his head, held a ghost-headed big knife in his hand, shook his head and read as if he was crazy: "The true monarch is saintly, and he is invulnerable." The true monarch is saintly and invulnerable. The Manifestation of the True Monarch"
The padded jacket on Li Dayan's body was originally blue-gray, but because he hadn't washed it for a long time, it looked like it was already a piece of black and black, and he could still see the greasy reflection on his chest, which was when he ate it three days ago when his mouth was full of oil, and he accidentally said that he didn't take this oil stain seriously. Because he was wearing a padded jacket, he was not very tall, he was round like a ball, and his greasy braids were thrown behind him, which was very funny, and he looked like a clown. But now that this clown is holding a ghost-headed knife, it's not ridiculous at all.
After reciting the incantation a few times, he raised the big sword in his hand high, and shouted with red eyes: "Kill the foreign demon! ”
Behind him, all kinds of people held knives, guns, and sticks, and followed the senior brother Li Dayan and roared hoarsely: "Kill the foreign demon!" ”
The cold north wind blew, and the banner embroidered with the six big characters of "Xuanwu Yousheng Zhenjun" was hunting. Li Dayan took the lead, leading the disciples and apprentices of the altar to shout the slogan of "invulnerability", and rushed towards the church opposite.
In the church 200 meters away, there were 12 soldiers led by German Corporal Schneider, five priests and priests, and more than 30 Chinese parishioners. Schneider commanded twelve soldiers to line up in two rows at the gate of the church money, and asked the priests and parishioners to prepare in the courtyard with hammers and sticks.
Looking at the swarming boxers, Schneider counted the distance between the two sides while cheering up his men. For this kind of natives who only know the courage of the puppet, Schneider, who once fought the natives in Africa, did not pay much attention to it. Wait a minute, just put two rows of guns, and the natives will turn around and run away in fear.
After the boxers crossed the cedar tree marked a distance of 100 meters on the side of the road, Schneider chopped off the saber in his hand and shouted, "Shoot!" ”
When the six soldiers of the first platoon heard the order, they pulled the trigger hard, and the firing pin fired the primer, igniting the gunpowder. The projectile burst out of the chamber of the gun under the action of the expanding gas, and flew towards the opposite crowd. These soldiers are elite soldiers who have served in the army for many years, and the accuracy of their shooting is quite good. Li Dayan, who was in the lead, was regarded as the target of the fire, and was shot four times in his body.
The bullet hit Li Dayan in the chest, thigh, and arm, and the huge stopping effect knocked him to a stumble, but that was it.
He felt like someone had hammered him in the chest, thighs, and arms, and then he continued to rush forward with a look of hell on Schneider and the others.
Although there were only fifty or sixty rabbles on Li Dayan's side, the invulnerable monsters were really beyond imagination. If you can convert it, it is estimated that the soldiers on this side of the church will have a "morale-5" debuff on their heads.
After the German soldiers in the back row finished their guns, the two sides inevitably entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat. Two rounds of guns were put into the three people, and Li Dayan, who rushed to the front, was shot several times, and the padded jacket was punched out of several holes, but it still rushed through the distance of more than 100 meters like a whirlwind, and slashed at the foreign devil with the wig with a big knife. The broadsword and the saber in Schneider's hand collided violently. With the crisp sound of cutting gold and jade, the broadsword slashed the saber in half, and then slashed off Schneider's left shoulder. The blade sliced through the muscles, sliced the bones, and leaped out of Schneider's right waist with a large canopy of blood. This knife, first cutting off the blade of the enemy chieftain, and then splitting a large living person into two pieces, is really fierce.
The people in the courtyard behind couldn't help but be stunned when they saw this trick of splitting the living. The dozens of parishioners held their breath and looked at each other, and suddenly shouted in unison, and several clergymen said "Oh God! The exclamation dispersed in all directions.
Flames then ignited in the church, engulfing the entire building in a short time. It was the end of 1899 A.D., and China, already in chaos, was sliding in an even more chaotic direction. Zhao Sanduo, Zhu Honglan, Jing Tingbin and other big-ticket boxer leaders began to embark on the road of rebellion or rebellion, and Yuan Shikai also shined on the stage of history with the face of severely suppressing boxers.
In the endless time and space, the same scene plays out again, only this time it will be a little different
Dividing line
"Speaking of the general trend of the world, it will be together for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time", Chen Cheng was shaking his head and giving a speech to the general audience in the audience. Everyone in the audience held their breath and stared, stretched their necks to listen with relish, and suddenly an exclamation sounded: "The senior brothers of the Black Tiger Altar are here!" ”
Chen Chengzheng was talking about the rise, and when he heard someone interrupting, he was not angry, picked up the black and heavy waking wood and slapped it on the table of the eight immortals, and then said: "Let's talk about it here today, everyone is scattered." ”
There was a person in the crowd: "What are you doing, the senior brothers of this Black Tiger Altar are also." The next few words became quieter, but they were covered by others.
The leader of the Black Tiger Altar who came over was a big black man with a big knife in his waist and hips, and when he heard the words in the crowd, he stopped, and pointed angrily at the halberd in the direction of Laiyuan, who was the voice: "Which thief bird is noisy over there?" ”
No one in the crowd accosted them, and they dispersed in twos and threes. Seeing this, the fat black man rushed to Chen Cheng, lowered his eyebrows and said, "Senior brother!" ”
It turns out that this storyteller is the senior brother of the recently rising Black Tiger Altar, and his status is still above this black fat man. Hearing this, while packing up the things on the dojo, he asked lazily: "Big eyes, you drove all the villagers away when you came, and you will invite you to eat later?" ”
Big eyes jumped to his feet anxiously and said, "Senior brother, why are you still thinking about eating!" The altar owners of all the altars within a radius of 100 miles have arrived at the Laojun Temple, and they are about to discuss the selection of the big leader. The altar is for me."
When Chen Cheng heard this, he immediately threw the guy in his hand and ran in the direction of Laojun Temple. The big eyes in the back stomped his feet, and yelled at a few stupid juniors next to him: "What else are you looking at, don't hurry up and keep up!" “
When a few people rushed to the Laojun Temple, they saw a large banner of instant noodles erected outside the originally deserted small temple, on which were written a bunch of "Monkey King", "Pure Altar Messenger", "Guangyuan Zhenjun", "Puhua Zhenjun" and the like. Where are hundreds of muscular Yan Zhao Dahan blowing nonsense, this one says that his senior brothers are profound, and the other says that his masters are superb in martial arts. After Chen Cheng and Li Dayan explained to everyone under their own Black Tiger flag, they quietly slipped out of the back door of Laojun Temple.
Laojun Temple is a temple at the end of Fantai Village, covering an area of only two or three acres, in addition to the outer courtyard and backyard, the construction area is not large, the front hall is about more than 40 square meters, now the front hall is crowded with twenty or thirty people, but also to leave a large position for the person in the middle, and the other people are not crowded. The two of them finally squeezed in front of their own altar owner, but they didn't have time to compensate. Then he saw a pair of big eyes glaring at him. Then I saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl angrily saying to the two: "What are you doing? ”
Although this voice is crisp and good, it is just like what the poet Bai Lotian said in the previous generation, "big beads and small beads fall on the jade plate". However, most of the people in this temple are five big and three rough fighting men, and they don't care about such a girl's delicate voice. The thin old man who was talking was even more angry: "Which one is interjecting? ”
Immediately saw Li Dayan next to the girl, and then said in a strange voice: "Yo, this is not our former Xuanwu Zhenjun, the current second senior brother of the Black Tiger Altar." ”
Everyone in the temple was originally surprised that this little girl had occupied a good position in the temple, and after hearing the old man say this, they couldn't help but turn their heads one after another.
"It turns out that this is the Holy Aunt Senior Sister of the Black Tiger Altar"
"What a brave man Li is now?"
"Maybe people like it"
The black fat man Li's big eyes turned red, and he was red and red by everyone, and he wanted to tell the difference, but where did he say so many mouths. In a fit of rage, he was about to pull out his knife and cut these guys who dared to talk nonsense into seven or eight pieces.
Seeing that he was about to use his sword, the crowd, knowing his bravery, retreated from the gate with a bang. The thin old man also retreated with everyone, and then scolded at the door: "Okay, you big eyes, you dare to use a knife in front of the big guy, do you want to deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors?" ”
Li Dayan jumped out with a knife and scolded: "You thieves and birds, you are just some cowards who spray feces in your mouths and have no eggs in your crotch." If you have a kind, come and fight your grandfather for 300 rounds! ”
"Is it a fight in bed", the crowd didn't know who said this.
Li Dayan heard that his face was even more angry, and he held the knife in both hands, and was about to invite God to come up, and the girl next to him said, "Stand down!" ”
The black fat man listened to the order of his altar master, like a deflated ball, withered, and honestly retreated to the back and stood with the senior brother. At this time, the disciples outside heard that something had happened inside, and they poured into the courtyard one after another, looking for their own senior brother and master in a mess. The thin old man looked at the mess on his side, and then looked at the black tiger on the opposite side, although there were only a dozen people under the banner of the black tiger, they were lined up in three rows in an orderly manner, and he was secretly frightened in his heart, but he made up his mind not to continue to wade in troubled waters.
The girl faced three or four hundred big men, standing there calmly, cooperating with more than ten disciples who formed a horizontal and vertical line behind her, free and majestic.
Gradually, everyone's voices became quieter, their eyes widened, and various thoughts were turning in their hearts, but they thought that it was better to let others come out first and see the direction of the wind for themselves.
Just as the eyes on both sides were staring at each other, one person jumped out. The rest of the crowd breathed a sigh of relief together, thinking: Finally, a fool has come out.
This jumped out of the west Xiaoyang Village Broadsword Society Baishui Altar Wang Er, made a hand of 7749 pounds of broadsword, and practiced the Broadsword Society's peerless golden bell jar, it is said that the ability to kill galloping horses, invulnerable. Seeing that Wang Er stood still in the field, he first pulled a knife flower, and then said loudly: "If you want to say that it is Li Dayan, everyone is convinced." But now he can't do it, and he gives up his place to you, a little doll. Seeing that you are so young, it doesn't look like you can keep the family business of the Black Tiger Altar, so it is better to let the senior brothers choose a person of high moral standing to help you and help you take care of the affairs of the Black Tiger Altar. ”
"Oh, isn't this a respected person?" The girl's eyes twinkled, and she asked calmly.
Wang Er curled his left arm upward, revealing strong and full muscles, and said with a grin: "Senior brother, of course I can help you reluctantly, as for you?"
Wang Er looked the girl's small body up and down, a cruel smile bloomed on his face, and continued: "As for you, you can stay and learn how to do things next to your senior brother." ”
The people behind Wang Er heard the words and turned their heads to each other, and the noise echoed in the courtyard for a while, so that Wang Er couldn't hear what the girl opposite said.
Wang Er said loudly: "What were you talking about just now? Do you think my proposal is very good, brother? ”
"What I say is," the girl held out the index finger of her right hand, pointing to the sky. The crisp voice sounded clearly in everyone's ears, "I have seen that your death omen is shining!" ”