Chapter Ninety-Nine: Cultivation III

After two months of practice, what made Zhang Xiu most pleased was not that his strength had improved a lot, but that he had made new breakthroughs in Taijiquan and Taiji marksmanship. After several years of growth and two months of special training, although Zhang Xiu's strength is not comparable to that of talented non-human generals such as Lu Bu, Xu Zhu, Dian Wei, and Hu Che'er, it can also be compared with Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, and Zhang Jaw, who are known for their martial arts skills.

Looking at the commentaries of later generations, why Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ren, who are senior brothers, can only be at the top of the second-rate generals, unable to step into the first-class generals, and not focusing on martial arts is one of them. Zhang Xiunai is a prince, Zhang Ren is the governor of Xichuan, and the two of them have to govern the government, the army and so on in addition to practicing martial arts. But it is not like Zhao Yun, Liu Bei has not been reused before Jingzhou, and he has experienced countless battles of all sizes, among which there are not a few very dangerous ones, in addition to the famous Battle of Changbanpo, the battle of Yijing between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan is not inferior to Changbanpo in terms of tragedy, but it was not able to give Zhao Yun a chance to perform at that time.

The focus on martial arts training determined that Zhao Yun's achievements were definitely higher than his two senior brothers, and Zhao Yun also used his own experience to create a set of marksmanship that was more powerful than the Hundred Bird Chaohuang Spear - the Seven Probe Dragon Spear. Zhang Xiu didn't know if there was a connection between the Seven Probes Dragon Spear and the Hundred Bird Chaohuang Spear, but the self-created marksmanship was definitely the most suitable for him, Zhao Yun had such talent, so experience, and so diligence, but it was not surprising that his achievements were above the two senior brothers.

Zhang Xiu, who crossed over, changed Zhang Xiu's original experience, first Zhang Xiu went through three Pingqiang battles, accumulated a lot of experience, and from time to time with first-class players. What's more, Zhang Xiu also has his own marksmanship, Zhang Xiu feels that as long as he perfects this Tai Chi marksmanship, his martial arts can be called a masterpiece, and I am afraid that he will not be so embarrassed when he faces Lu Bu.

Since the epiphany with Zhang Fei a few years ago, there has been no great progress in the comprehension of marksmanship, so now after a little understanding, Zhang Xiu is fighting dozens of battles with Hu Cheer every day, or hand-to-hand, or foot weapon battles, or horse battles, and so on.

Comprehension and a winter of sparring, so that Zhang Xiu's Tai Chi marksmanship in addition to unloading defense, but also created a use of force to fight back, this trick to borrow strength to fight back is to Hu Che'er this kind of huge power but lack of skills of the fierce general headache, forced to be beaten, Hu Che'er is combined with battlefield experience, created a three-move mace stick method, to Zhang Xiu's view Hu Che'er this mace method and Cheng bite the gold three-plate axe has the same magic. The first time he used these three sticks, he also forced Zhang Xiu to fight with all his might, but after the three sticks, there was no back-up, and later Zhang Xiu was familiar with Hu Che'er's three sticks, just beware of him using them coldly, then the sparring between the two basically ended with Zhang Xiu's complete victory.

Finally during the Chinese New Year, Zhang Xiu and the three of them returned to Luoyang City to celebrate the festival with Zhang Ji, Zou Shi, Xu Huang, Hu Zhen, and Jia Xu. In the past few months, Dong Zhuo has taken control of the government and called himself Xiangguo. And Cao Cao, whom Zhang Xiu cared about, also stabbed Dong Zhuo, naturally unsuccessfully, Dong Zhuo let the army chase and kill, but escaped back to Chenliu under the care of Xu Huang and Hu Zhen.

Since Dong Zhuoxing abolished the legislature, he took the position of prime minister again, and after leading all military and political affairs, it has become even more indispensable. When the ministers were in the court, Dong Zhuo didn't ask, he drew his sword and killed, and Dong Zhuo killed dozens of ministers in the past few months. And Dong Zhuo also stayed in the dragon bed late and night, at the beginning he was just a * palace maid, and then once he got drunk and went to one of the concubines of Emperor Ling, and then felt that no one could restrain him, so he became more presumptuous, and almost all the concubines and concubines who remained in the palace after the death of Emperor Ling were fortunate again, and the royal family could be said to have lost face.

Therefore, Cao Cao assassinated Dong, and after escaping from Luoyang after failure, he prepared to organize the princes to fight against Dong. Although Zhang Xiu doesn't remember very clearly when the Dong coalition army came, according to the war habits of this era, the war always starts after the end of spring ploughing, and it naturally takes a while for Cao Cao to recruit troops and train the army, and it takes a lot of time for the princes to come to fight Dong on the road, so Zhang Xiu expects that the Dong coalition army should arrive in the summer.

During the Chinese New Year, Zhang Xiu also heard a good piece of good news, but Xu Huang and Zhang Liao, who fought against Zhang Liao at the foot of Luoyang City that day, became friends. In fact, Zhang Liao is not an ordinary warrior under Lu Bu, his ancestors have a prominent family background, and after Ben Nie Yi, he changed his surname to Zhang in order to avoid disasters. He is good at using four weapons: knives, guns, halberds, and swords, and it is rumored that there is a Xuantie giant sword weighing 172 catties hidden in the house, but it is not used in the battle array due to inconvenience. Although Zhang Liao is in the middle of his family, he is not comparable to people from a family like Lu Bu. A few years ago, Ding Yuan heard Zhang Liaoyong's name and called him to engage, so he worked under Ding Yuan and was friends with Lu Bu, and then surrendered to Dong Zhuo with Lu Bu after Lu Bu repeated Li Su's words, but now Zhang Liao is dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu.

In Zhang Xiu's opinion, Zhang Liao in history should have followed Lu Bu because of Lu Bu's assassination of Dong, but now Xu Huang and Zhang Liao have become friends, and Xu Huang is the only one in Dong Zhuojun's reputation who is not stinky Zhang Xiu's service, but Zhang Liao has a lot of good feelings for Zhang Xiu. Zhang Xiu felt that if the time was ripe in the future, there was hope of digging the corner of Lu Bu and digging Zhang Liao over, so he encouraged Xu Huang to have more dealings with Zhang Liao. During the Chinese New Year, he also went to Zhang Liao's mansion as a guest, both of them were martial artists, and they naturally learned from each other, but Zhang Xiu after four months of special training, his strength increased a lot, and in the end, he stopped fighting when Zhang Xiu had the upper hand, which was considered a tie, so Zhang Xiu left a lot of good impressions in Zhang Liao's mind.

After spending the New Year with everyone in Luoyang, Zhang Xiu devoted himself to cultivation again. Zhang Xiu, who re-devoted himself to cultivation, did not return to Beibi Mountain, but found a place to live by the Yellow River, and went to the Yellow River to practice every day. This time of cultivation, Zhang Xiu also pulled Hu Zhen over, but Zhang Xiu felt that Hu Zhen's strength was too weak, and if he didn't improve his strength, it would be of little use in the future. Zhang Xiu didn't want his first subordinate to be idle at home after that, so he brought Hu Zhen here. And Hu Zhen also knew that his strength was too weak, and he was willing to practice with Zhang Xiu, and when he had nothing to do on weekdays, Zhang Xiu would tell Hu Zhen about the training experience he knew before the crossing, but Zhang Xiu knew that Hu Zhen was interested in military training, so he specially told him.

The fishermen who have been haunted in the Yellow River for decades have seen four strange people come up on the side of the Yellow River after early spring, three big men often jump into the Yellow River with weapons and come up for two hours, and one is practicing martial arts on the ground, the people have always been afraid of these soldiers and thieves, and they did not dare to contact them at first, but later they saw that the beautiful woman among the four often gave some food to help the poor people nearby, and the three men were also bold men, so the people nearby were not afraid of them. And some people are busy with farming, but they ask this Chen Yao to help take care of the children, so Chen Yao is followed by dozens of little tails every day, which is naturally very happy for Chen Yao, a little girl who has not yet reached adulthood, and she is happy to help the nearby people take care of the children every day.

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I went out for a day today, hehe~~