Chapter 36: Feud
"Since you want to know so much, I'll tell you......" Tang Gong'e, a dry bone man who opened her heart, was finally willing to tell her past story.
Her voice was neither fast nor slow, low and powerful. Everyone pricked up their ears and listened attentively to what she had to say.
"The Nine Banners Battalion is one of the three forbidden armies directly commanded by the former pilgrim. The reason why it is called the Nine Banners Battalion is because this battalion has nine thousand leaders in charge of 3,000 elite soldiers each, and they give orders with nine-color flags. ”
"My ancestor is one of the leaders of the Nine Banners, known as Tang Shuyi, the star killer, and he is also the general of the flag camp who is respected as the head of the Nine Banners. ”
"It stands to reason that the Nine Banners Battalion is one of the three forbidden armies, and the status of the Banner Battalion General in China is extraordinary. However, when my ancestor was in charge of the Nine Banners Battalion, it coincided with the crisis of the previous dynasty. There are not only internal and external troubles, but also years of famine, the people are in dire straits, they are not clothed, they are not hungry, and they naturally have no good face for the officers and soldiers of the imperial court. ”
"Among the officials and eunuchs of the imperial court, all of them are corrupt and unreasonable, and the money for disaster relief reaches them, and they are all filled with traitors. And the tax is still unabated, but it just makes the people miserable. Later, many hungry people gathered together, either as bandits or as rebels. At the time of this death, the saint of the pilgrimage still had no intention of ruling the government, and only thought about having fun in the harem all day long. ”
"Those people of insight are also powerless, and they are overwhelmed by these many things. Since then, the famine has affected most of the Central Plains, not to mention ordinary soldiers, and even the food and salary of the forbidden army have become a problem. ”
"I don't have anything to eat, but what can I do? My ancestors came up with an idea to solve this problem. At that time, among the small rebel armies that were the most violent, there was a scholar named Lianhua Jianning Jingshan who knew a little kung fu, and with tens of thousands of people, he occupied a mountain and a large area of pastoral land and land around it. ”
It is said that the gang had a fertile land, even in a year of famine, and had enough harvest to enable them to live a self-sufficient life. It stands to reason that if it were ordinary people, we would never bother. But these people are simply bandits who occupy mountains and land, and they do not pay surplus grain or tribute, and they are national thieves. ”
The ancestor wrote the situation to the court and volunteered to go to exterminate the bandits. But the ancestor wrote the song too ruthlessly, and only wrote the gang of Ning Jingshan of the Lianhua Sword as heinous thugs, listing more than 100 crimes, and there were indeed many exaggerations in it. After reading this recital, Long Yan was furious, not only approved a quasi-word, but also ordered that the entire cottage, except for women and children, be killed. ”
Although the song is written to make people's hearts weak, when they think of the rations related to more than 20,000 children of the Nine Banners Battalion, the ancestors are no longer merciful, and lead the elite soldiers and strong generals to kill all the way to the cottage. ”
"I thought that Ning Jingshan was just an embroidered pillow, but I didn't expect that he did have some skills, and the sword technique of the Lianhua Sword made it seamless, even if the nine flags joined forces, they couldn't help him. But in the whole cottage, except for Ning Jingshan, most of the rest are straw bales, and at most they are farmers who know how to wield a hoe and a sickle. ”
"Where are these ordinary people the battle-hardened elite opponents of the Nine Banners Battalion, no matter how powerful Ning Jingshan is, he is also a pair of hands and feet, and he can't save tens of thousands of bandits, in the end, he has to watch the Nine Banners Battalion kill his remnants cleanly, and he himself is also exhausted by the tactics of the sea of people, and he is killed by a knife. ”
"The cottage of Ningjingshan was destroyed like this, the adult men in the cottage, the ancestors acted according to the order, did not leave a single living mouth, and the women and children were all tattooed and distributed to slaves and maids in various places. I never thought that it was because of this incident that the descendants of the Tongning family had a generational grudge. ”
"The Nine Banners Battalion later occupied the Baoshan Baotian in Ningjingshan, and also relied on the fields to live a worry-free life. But since then, the rebel armies in various places have become more and more powerful, and those large groups of rebels have ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. The officers and soldiers of the imperial court did not get enough food and salary, and the bandits were not willing to contribute sincerely, even fighting and running, and some regiments with a little strength also learned from the Nine Banners Battalion and occupied the mountain as the king, and only obeyed the orders of the imperial court when they were affected by actual interests. ”
"The imperial court, which has lost the right to command, no longer has the prestige it once had. After that, the king of Wei stationed in the frontier led the border army to break into the capital on the grounds of suppressing bandits and protecting the capital, and killed the emperor of the previous dynasty on the grounds that the holy monarch had no way, the heavens were angry and resentful, and he acted for the heavens, changed the dynasty, and established a new dynasty. ”
At that time, the incident happened suddenly, and the three forbidden armies were unable to react when they encountered this kind of thing. When the new monarch ascended the throne, the ancestors knew the truth of a son of heaven and a courtier. The flag was destroyed, the officers and soldiers were dismissed, and the remaining henchmen stood by the mountain, and the Nine Banners Battalion was changed to the Nine Banners Villa. ”
"When the new monarch saw that we were relieved and returned to the field, he paid grain and tribute on schedule, and did not pursue the past. My father, is the descendant of Tang Shuyi, the owner of the villa, I am his only daughter, he also cherishes me very much, since I was a child, I have passed on my martial arts, and the uncles and uncles of the Nine Banners have taught me various skills. Although the kung fu of our Nine Banners Battalion is more suitable for battlefield killing, but with the essence of the Nine Banners martial arts, I can be regarded as a true inheritance. ”
"By the time I was ten years old, there was no one in the same class in the cottage who was my opponent. It stands to reason that the descendants of our Nine Flags Villa are all generals, and with their soft and hard power, they can make a name for themselves in the rivers and lakes. Who knows, among the descendants of Ning Jingshan back then, there was a wizard who practiced martial arts, and the self-proclaimed Lei Lian Jian Ning was dead. This person has been instilled by his family since he was a child with the hatred of our Nine Flags Villa, he has an excellent talent, and he is diligent in practicing martial arts just to avenge his hatred. ”
"He's specifically against us at Nine Flags Villa. If we talk about the number of people, he is naturally not our opponent, but if we talk about fighting alone, including those uncles and uncles, we are unmatched. Coupled with the fact that the enemy is dark and I am clear, many of his compatriots who left the villa have been poisoned by him. ”
"The grudge in the past, if you want to use a few lives to resolve it, it is naturally impossible, and it is unreasonable to be with this rather no life. The blood debt has to be paid in blood, and his father thought about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and gave Ning Wuming a life and death sticker, asking him to live and die in front of many people in the rivers and lakes. ”
"The martial arts practiced by my ancestors and my father were a mystical skill that I learned by chance from a master outside the world, called Star Picking Gong. This skill is different from ordinary martial arts, in order to drive the strength of the body, not only to seize people's weapons with strength, but also to forcibly control all tangible objects with strength. ”
"The ancestor and his father rarely show this kung fu to the outside world, so Ning Wusheng naturally didn't know how powerful his father was, thinking that he was already a rare opponent in the rivers and lakes, so he felt that he would definitely win, so he came to duel with his father. ”
In front of many heroes, the two launched a life-and-death struggle. At the time of that fight, I was 10 years old, and I was clearly watching from the sidelines. ”
"Lei Lian Jianning Wusheng used the family's Lianhua swordsmanship at the beginning, not only did the swordsmanship have no flaws, but he also changed the original agile and elegant sword moves in the swordsmanship into a fierce and arrogant attack. If the original trick was compared to mountains and flowing water, in the hands of Ning Wuming, this set of swordsmanship would become a storm and unstoppable. Compared with his hard-working father, he seized the opportunity everywhere. ”
"But I know the mystery of the star picking skill, this martial art, if you want to easily take people and weapons, and control the enemy's body, the internal force must be at least twice as good as the opponent. Although Ning Wuming is younger than his father, he is really a genius, with mellow internal strength, on par with his father, he wants to snatch his weapon and manipulate him to make mistakes, but he can only win by surprise and attack him unprepared. On the surface, his father was struggling to resist his offensive, but in fact, he wanted to find out the flaws of the other party. ”
"This Ning Wusheng is really powerful, and he has fought with my father for more than 30 rounds, and it is still difficult to distinguish between the top and the bottom. If he is still not impatient and holds the offensive, it will be extremely difficult for my father to defeat him. But all he had in his heart was hatred, and the more he attacked, the faster he attacked, the faster he recruited and fired, and the more he needed enough control. He was bent on attacking, and finally overtook his control. ”
"When my father saw him forcibly exercising swordsmanship, he knew that the opportunity had finally come, and suddenly he performed the skill of picking stars. Ning Wuming's long sword, under the guidance of his strength, was so fierce that he came out of his hand. Father turned around in the air with a long sword in one hand, stabbing Ning Wuming back, and holding Ning Wusheng's body with the other hand, so that he was forced to dodge. ”
"Ning Wuming is also a genius, and suddenly he encountered an accident. The body was uncontrollable, he suddenly got up, swung his palm to his shoulder, twisted his body, but dodged the flying sword. ”
Seeing that the weapon had been lost, Ning Wuming knew that he had been defeated, and he was unwilling in his heart, but in front of so many heroes in the rivers and lakes, he was not good again, so he had to lower his eyebrows and admit defeat. For Ning Wulife, his father not only cherished his talents, but also remembered the grudge between the Nine Banners Camp and the Ning family in the past, and couldn't bear to hurt his life again, so he made a poisonous oath and did not allow him to seek revenge against the people of Nine Flags Villa. ”
At that time, anyone thought that Ning Wuming was also a first-class master in the rivers and lakes, and in front of so many heroes in the rivers and lakes, after making a poisonous oath, he would never regret it. Who knows, this Ning Wuming was also brainwashed by the descendants of the Ning family since he was a child, and with us Nine Flags Villa, it is simply an endless life, he swore to agree on the surface, but behind the scenes, he planned a more vicious conspiracy. ”
"In all dynasties, as long as it is not involved in the government, the court will not interfere in the affairs of the rivers and lakes. At that time, the imperial court was also quite generous to us in Nine Flags Villa. But after all, the villas are all descendants of the forbidden army of the previous dynasty, and it is impossible for the saint to have no knots. ”
"This Ning Wusheng united some martial arts scum, just like the ancestor used to write to the imperial court, and also fabricated many of our crimes. In particular, there is one of them, which sues us for the crime of secretly communicating with the former dynasty and looking forward to the restoration of the country. ”
"This charge alone, if confirmed, is a capital offense. At that time, the entire mountain villa will be washed in blood. After receiving the report, the saint ordered the god Hou Zhuo Xinghua to lead troops to investigate the matter. At that time, we knew that Ning Wuming was really an absolute villain, and he knew that my father would never admit his guilt, so he relied on his martial arts to sneak into our villa and capture me from the village, just to disturb my father's mind, or to blackmail my father into obedience. ”