Chapter 253 passed two levels in a row

The Great Song Dynasty Imperial Guard Battalion has one commander, two deputy commanders, and five commanders, a total of 1,000 guards, responsible for the defense of the imperial city and the palace, Lan Yu is one of the deputy commanders and commanders, and the other deputy commander is named Li Yi, who is mainly in charge of the administrative affairs of the guard battalion, not known for martial arts,

In the morning, Yuan Jian and Xie Daolin sat on my left and right respectively, with Li Yi and Lan Yu, the deputy commanders, and the other four commanders and the ten captains of the hundred-man team who came to watch the battle, including Yun Zhongfei, who I was familiar with.

"Your Majesty, can you begin?"

"Well, Xie Aiqing, let's start."

Xie Daolin got up and said: "Everyone, because Xie is about to be transferred to the Imperial Forest Army, therefore, today I am here to select a new Imperial Guard Commander through a contest of martial arts, and the five candidates for the martial arts competition, that is, the five colleagues who are currently the commander of the Imperial Guard, please stand in front." ”

Lan Yu, who was the first to stand in front, saluted and said, "Minister Lan Yu see Your Majesty." ”

"Your Majesty."

"Minister Shen Mo see Your Majesty."

"Minister Du Chunhui see Your Majesty."

"Minister Zhang Zijian, see Your Majesty."

"No courtesy."

Xie Daolin saw that the five people finished saluting, and then said: "Although this competition is for the selection of the system, but you also need to point to the end, remember not to hurt people, so as not to hurt the harmony between the brothers, according to the results of the draw in advance, the first round by Lan Yu against Shen Mo, Fang Kang against Du Chunhui, Zhang Zijian bye, the following competition officially began, Lan Yu, Shen Mo." ”

"The subordinates are here."

"Let's go."

With Xie Daolin's order, Lan Yu and Shen Mo stayed on it, and the other three returned to their respective positions.

There is almost no suspense in this game, the two sides are both brothers under the Yuan Thorn Sect of the Emperor Valley, and they are extremely familiar with each other, as the senior brother, the blue feather is a step ahead, and he easily won the victory and advanced to the next round.

"Your Majesty, don't look at Lan Yu's ability to defeat Shen Mo easily, it's not so easy for others." Yuan Jian whispered on the side,

"Yes, Mr. is right, that's because Lan Yu knows Shen Mo very well, knows his advantages and disadvantages, if he changes to someone else, even if it is Wei Chen against him, he will not dare to win easily." Xie Daolin further explained,

Yuan Jian smiled: "Lord Xie is also modest. ”

I agreed: "Well, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is the only way to survive a hundred battles." ”

"Your Majesty." Xie Daolin got up and said, "In the first game, Lan Yu wins, and in the next game, Fang Kang, Du Chunhui." ”

Fang and Du walked into the room, hugged each other's fists, saluted according to the surname of the people in the martial arts, and then took out their weapons from the table on the side, and then fought together.

Du Chunhui's weapon is a long sword, and Fang Kang's weapon is a pair of curved scimitars.

Xie Dao introduced to me when he looked at it: "Your Majesty, this Du Chunhui is the descendant of the Nanyue Hengshan Sword School, the sword body of the Hengshan faction is longer than the general sword weapon, its swordsmanship is decent, there is no outstanding, but there is no obvious weakness, it belongs to the typical swordsmanship of the balance of attack and defense, Du Chunhui's martial arts are second to none among the young generation in Hengshan, so it is called 'Nanyue Duxiu'. ”

"Nanyue Duxiu Du Chunhui, well, this name is good."

"Yes, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, look at it again, the weapon in Fang Kang's hand is called Wu Hook."

"Wu Hook." I was amazed, in my memory, it seemed that the Wu hook should be a hook-like weapon,

"Your Majesty, it is Wu Hook, the reason why it is called 'Wu Hook' is because this kind of blade is actually improved from the Wu State knife with a curved blade, Wu Hook first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, was ordered by King Wu to manufacture, and reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty, because it was made by King Wu that year, the literati of the Tang Dynasty gave it the title of Wu Hook, and it has been handed down."

"Oh, it turns out that Wu Hook is a kind of scimitar." It dawned on me,

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yuan Jian also said, "The Wu hook that I said in the dynasty is a scimitar, an alias for a curved knife, the curved knife is composed of a knife head, a knife body, a handguard and a handle, with a blade on one side, in a curved shape, just like the lancet that Your Majesty is familiar with is one of the standard knife types of curved knives, and its tricks are mostly based on splitting and chopping, even in my dynasty, it is also a very common weapon in the army. ”

I shook my head, "I don't know much about weapons. ”

In my thoughts, the era of cold weapons is about to pass, so I just roughly flipped through the cold weapons part of "The General Essentials of the Martial Arts", and I couldn't remember much.

"Your Majesty, in the early days of my dynasty, in the "Wujing General Essentials", basically you can't see the pattern of the straight knife, but it still completely retains the hand knife, the genre of the curved knife, although the army at that time was also equipped with a straight knife, but, from the description of the "Wujing General Essentials", in the army in the early years of my dynasty, the equipment rate of the curved knife still has an obvious advantage, and in the people, the curved knife is also very popular."

The knife we said in later generations mostly refers to the curved knife or derived from it, and this scimitar in the Tang and Song dynasties spread to the Wa Kingdom, and became the original form of the katana in later generations.

Of course, there is still a certain difference between the Wu hook in the Tang and Song dynasties and the earliest Wu national knife, the early Wu hook is shaped like a crescent moon, there is no edge at the head, there are blades on both sides, it is a kind of push, hook dual-purpose weapon, most of them are used for the surname of the guard, the actual combat surname is not strong, and the later Wu hook is a unilateral blade, so the early Wu hook can be called a deformation of the sword, and the Wu hook in the Tang and Song dynasties completely belongs to the category of knives.

Xie Daolin praised: "What Mr. said is extreme, to this day, there are still many people in my dynasty soldiers who use curved knives as weapons, Your Majesty, another commander is called Fang Kang, his surname is not common, it is said that he is a descendant of Fang Xuanling in the Tang Dynasty, and the skills of the double hook are also out of his family tradition, this Fang Kang is very good every time he encounters a battle, don't look at him now more than calm, when he was young, he was a hot Xi surname, and because he ranked third in the family, he got the title of a desperate San Lang. ”

"Desperate Saburo." I thought, "Isn't this Shi Xiu in "Water Margin", it seems that people in the rivers and lakes of this period have nicknames, but Shi Nai'an is not making it up." ”

Wu Hook to the long sword, for a while also fought equally, Fang Kang is the oldest of the five, about forty miles away, I saw Wu Hook in his hand flying like a man, the speed is not inferior to the young opponent, Du Chunhui also did not show weakness, the two fought faster and faster, both hoping to seize the opportunity, not long, my eyesight gradually could not keep up with the speed on the field, I was dazzled,

The competition between the two on the field is more fierce than the situation in the martial champion competition a few months ago, if you simply do the comparison, it is like the difference between the youth competition and the senior competition in the future.

Fighting to the end, Fang Kang relied on Wu Hook's own weight, even chopping and splitting, and forced Du Chunhui to retreat step by step.

"Lie down and taste the guts." Fang Kang shouted again, then stepped on the middle palace, took a step closer, hooked flat stabs with his left hand, and slashed vigorously with his right hook.

Yuan Jian lowered his voice and said, "It's over." ”

Du Chunhui blocked three moves in succession, and finally lost the fourth move, that is, Fang Kang's "lying salary and tasting courage".

"Fang Commander is good at martial arts, and Du is deeply admired." Seeing that he was invincible, Du Chunhui put away his sword and admitted defeat,

"Commander Du has won the award, Commander Du is young and promising, and he will surpass Fang in a few years."

The two looked at each other and smiled, clasped their fists and saluted me,

Xie Daolin got up and walked to the front and said: "This competition Fang Kang won and advanced to the second round, and then Lan Yu, Fang Kang and Zhang Zijian, who had a bye in the first round, will have the second round of the competition, and the three will be drawn first." ”

Zhang Zijian's luck is not ordinarily good, this time he got a bye again, even he himself smiled embarrassedly, and directly entered the finals without any effort, and it seems that he can only praise his "character".

Xie Daolin said with a smile: "Commander Zhang will continue to rest, and he will compete for the first place with the winner between the two commanders Lan and Fang for a while." ”

Zhang Zijian arched his hand and said, "Yes, Lord Commander." ”

Fang Kang drank some water in his seat, rested for about ten minutes, and stood in front with Lan Yu again,

Xie Daolin saw me nodding and said, "Let's start." ”

Although Fang Kang was older, his position was slightly lower, and he saluted first: "Lord Lan, please." ”

"Commander Fang, please."

The battle between Lan Yu and Shen Mo was a hand-to-hand fight, this time Lan Yu also took out the blade, Fang Kang knew that the martial arts of the Emperor Valley were powerful, and he didn't dare to slack off, and with one move, he put on a defensive posture of "Danfeng Chaoyang",

Yuan Jian whispered in my ear: "Your Majesty, just now it was a long sword against a double hook, this time, Your Majesty took a closer look at how Lan Yu broke the enemy." ”

I heard from Yuan Jian's words that he had a lot of love for Lan Yu, which was not only the trust in his martial arts, but also the love of the elders for the juniors.

Lan Yu's speed is extremely fast, and he has already made three moves in an instant, Fang Kang's double hook dances rapidly, blocking left and right covering, both of them are fast to fast, wanting to seize the opportunity, this is the first time I have seen Lan Yu shoot, and it is also the first time I have truly experienced the martial arts of the Valley of the Kings.

However, the actual combat and the usual practice are completely different,

The practice is the basic routine, every move and style are dead, but every move and style in actual combat is alive, and even the basic movements have changed, from the beginning, I can hardly see the situation on the field, only to see the sword and sword, people come and go, I can only tell who is from the color of the clothes of the two, if only Fang Ling was there, I can also have a commentator, Yuan Jian and Xie Daolin did not explain to me in detail, just looked at themselves, occasionally said a sentence or two, in fact, I also know, The speed of the two of them far exceeded the speed of words, and even if Fang Ling was here, he couldn't explain it.

Gradually, I saw that the density of the sword shadows reflected by the Blue Feather Long Sword exceeded the hook shadows reflected by the double hooks, although I couldn't be sure, but I felt that the Blue Feather attacked more and defended less, and seemed to have the upper hand,

The martial arts of the Valley of the Kings are varied, I have heard Yuan Jian explain, but it still looks plausible.

The sword walked lightly, the blue feather's sword shadow covered more and more widely, and after a while, the speed of the double hook obviously began to lag behind the long sword, the hook shadow seemed to appear with the appearance of the sword shadow, and the arc drawn was also getting narrower and narrower, obviously falling into a passive situation, the most important thing was that Fang Kang's momentum was completely suppressed by the speed of the blue feather, and when he used every move, Fang Kang couldn't care about cheering himself on,

From my point of view, this is a battle for Blue Feather to win with speed, compared to Blue Feather's dexterous swordsmanship, Fang Kang's Wu Hook power has not yet been fully exerted, and it is restricted by the lightness of the long sword.

Speed can restrain power, and power can also restrain speed, which is like fire and water, water can extinguish fire, and fire can also boil water dry.