Golden Greenery

Fang La rebelled. Yang Yi had not yet completed the compilation of "Wanshou Dao Zang" in Zhaowen Hall, but Fang La rebelled in Jiangnan.

There is a difference between rebellion and insurrection. Some armed rebel groups can be recruited, but others can only be exterminated. The difference lies in whether you are the king or not.

For example, Song Jiang's Liangshan has a very powerful group of martial artists, but Song Jiang has never been the king. He is only called "Liangshan" and his banner is "Practice for Heaven."

Liangshan's rebellion was full of romantic idealism of "anti-corrupt officials but not the imperial court". From the beginning, it showed an ambiguous attitude of looking forward to recruiting peace. Therefore, no matter how big the trouble in Liangshan is, even if the county is destroyed and the state is destroyed, the official Zhao Ji doesn't care. At the last sign of recruitment, he will be accepted as an eagle dog. It is just a matter of the price.

But if you raise the royal flag, it means that you are rebelling against the imperial court, and you are rebelling against the current Zhao and Song officials. This will be unsettling, because your rebellion has broken the rules.

Therefore, the two armed rebel groups of Hebei Tian Hu and Huaixi Wang Qing, which were not as strong as Liangshan, were not recruited because Tian Hu established himself as the king of Jin and Wang Qing was the king of Chu. The officials and the court would not be tempted to recruit them, and they also knew that they would not accept the recruitment. The nature of the rebellion changed from the day he became king.

Their two armed rebel groups were wiped out by the Liangshan Army after they were recruited. The heads of Tian Hu and Wang Qing were presented to Zhao Ji by Song Jiang.

Fang La proclaimed himself the 'Holy King' on the first day he raised the rebel flag, which showed that there was no room for negotiation. Not only that, Fang La also established the reign name "Yongle", which further showed his attitude of competing with Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Fang La launched an attack in Muzhou. In just three days, he gathered 40,000 people under his command, and then defeated Shezhou. A month later, there were 150,000 armed men.

At this time, it was no longer possible to suppress the army. Fang La's momentum was so strong that it obviously went beyond the ordinary concept of rebels gathering in the mountains and forests, and instead directly attacked the city and captured the territory. In addition, Muzhou and Shezhou were only three hundred miles away from Hangzhou, so Zhao Ji had to take it seriously.

Hangzhou was the Song Dynasty's largest city in the south, and it was also the Song Dynasty's most important tax source in the south of the Yangtze River. Zhao Ji and Cai Jing were not worried about Hangzhou being captured by Fang La, because the city defense of Hangzhou was very strong, and the soldiers in the city were well-prepared, and even the Song Dynasty could not capture it by itself.

But after all, the distance is too close, and Fang La's appearance is a hidden danger in Hangzhou, so it is better to suppress the bandits sooner rather than later.

Needless to say, the Xiang army was sent there just to give Fang La soldiers. The Forbidden Army is also unreliable, and they have no fighting power.

Last year in the North, the Liao Kingdom was beaten by the Jurchens until they were running around. The Forbidden Army happily wanted to fight the lost dog. As a result, the extremely elite Song Forbidden Army was chased for a hundred miles by the defeated Liao Army. The roads were covered with back cloth. The corpse of the Imperial Guard was full of wounds.

The only option is for the Yanzhou Western Army to take action.

They are the only army in the Song Dynasty that can still fight. So Tong Guan led the Western Army southward.

The Song Dynasty despised military generals very much, so the commander of the army must be a civil servant. Civil servants controlled the army's money, food, supplies, personnel, and even the power of life and death of the generals. Military generals only had the power to command in battle and lead troops to kill.

Even so, the officials of the Song Dynasty were still worried about military generals, and they also arranged supervisory troops in the army who were above military command. Those who serve as supervisors of the army are all eunuchs, who are directly appointed by the officials.

It can also be seen from this point that the power structure of the Song Dynasty's army was actually a combination of the civil service group and the imperial power to suppress military generals. They only allowed you to retain the ability to fight under orders, but did not give you the right to speak. At the same time, the civilian clique and the imperial power were also fighting openly and secretly in the military.

Because they are rootless people, eunuchs have always been trusted by the emperor. Tong Guan is a eunuch who is very trusted by Zhao Ji. He is also the supervisor of the Western Army in Yanzhou and is now the actual commander-in-chief of the Western Army in the Song Dynasty.

But Tong Guan is not the eunuch who rose to power by flattery as I thought. He is a man of real ability, both civil and military. Tong Guan is a great martial artist, and he is the official number one master in the Song Dynasty.

Two hundred and thirty years ago, Li Cunxiao, the most powerful general in the world, led eighteen cavalry to defeat Chang'an. These eighteen men were not only his personal generals, but also his sworn brothers, and also his martial arts disciples.

Among the eighteen people, apart from Xue Atan, An Xiuxiu, He Heihu, Xue Tieshan and other famous generals of the late Tang Dynasty, there was also a fierce general named Tong Quanzhong, who was Tong Guan's ancestor.

Tong Guan's martial arts attainments have undoubtedly surpassed those of his ancestors, and he also has quite good literary talents. It is said that he compiled his martial arts knowledge into a book and prepared to pass it on to his disciples or destined people in the future.

This volume of martial arts secrets that combines and fits the physiological characteristics of his body is called "Sunflower Collection". Maybe many years later, it will cause a bloody storm in the world, who knows.

But Tong Guan was the official number one martial artist of the Song Dynasty, but he was not the number one master of the Yanzhou Western Army. The most powerful martial artist in the Western Army today is the infantryman named Ruda.

Yang Yi and his four apprentices were speechless.

Professor Wu Daniu was raised to enable him to protect himself in troubled times. Unexpectedly, he became the most powerful general in the world, and the troubled times became even more chaotic because of his appearance.

Taking Li Xiaoyao as his disciple was to pass the leisurely time in the Valley of Eternal Life and to create a warm family atmosphere in the Bamboo House. Who knew he would become the number one swordsman in ancient and modern times.

I feel sorry for the miserable Xu Zhu, and don't want to see his ugly appearance being bullied in this cold world. Unexpectedly, he not only married the beautiful Xixia princess, but also bullied those who wanted to bully him.

He accepted Luda as his disciple because he was ashamed of Zhou Tong, so he only taught Luda the martial arts that could kill enemies on the battlefield. Because of its weapon characteristics, swordsmanship has basically withdrawn from the battlefield and is only a weapon used in private fights in the world, so Yang Yi did not teach Luda how to practice swordsmanship.

Unexpectedly, Luda, who had no swordsmanship at all, was now a famous swordsman, and his swordsmanship violated all known swordsmanship theories.

Eighteen years ago, Ruda became a celebrity on the first day he went to the Western Army in Yanzhou. Because the prime minister of the Jinglue Mansion, Zhongshi Dao, disliked the croaking crows in the yard, Ruda rolled up his sleeves and put the bird with the mouth of the bowl in it. The willow tree was uprooted.

Putting down his sleeves, he was appointed captain of the Western Military Academy.

Two years later, Ruda was promoted to Tiha. In the thirteenth year, the supervisor Tong Guan invited him to spar. After one hundred and ten moves, Luda hit Tong Guan with three punches in a row, almost killing the supervisor. From then on, he became the first martial artist in the Western Army. head.

However, although the extremely powerful Ruda was not defeated on the battlefield, he still had his troubles because he could never find a satisfactory weapon.

Ruda is proficient in eighteen kinds of weapons, and he has used all eighteen kinds of weapons. But after ten years of fighting on the battlefield, after sublimating the martial arts taught by his master through actual combat of blood and fire, to the point where he himself had begun to realize the Tao, he always felt that no weapon could fully unleash his martial arts ideas.

Tisha Ruda was not a martial artist who only knew how to kill people, he was a martial arts wizard and good at thinking. After careful analysis, Ruda asked military craftsmen to use fine steel to create a super broad sword weighing a hundred kilograms.

Ruda, who had never practiced swordsmanship well, raised his sword, and he was not good at any sword moves either.

It took Ruda three years to integrate all the eighteen types of martial arts such as spears, spears, halberds, knives, sticks, maces, axes, whips, hammers, and hooks into the super epee. Only there are no sword moves.

From then on, Ruda not only mastered weapons like a fish in water, but also created a new type of swordsmanship - heavy swordsmanship, which can also be called anti-swordsmanship, which was groundbreaking.

It was because Li Xiaoyao was extremely proficient in swordsmanship and his use of swords reached the limits of human beings that he made a breakthrough, understood the great ways of swords, and became a swordsman.

However, because Luda basically knew nothing about swords, he was no longer restricted by the sword and could play freely, thus starting to prove the way of swordsmanship on another path.

Different paths lead to the same destination.

Ruda was satisfied, but there was still a flaw - the sword was too big. The weight of a sword weighing one hundred kilograms is ideal, but it is as big as a door panel and can be used as a shield when it is put upright.

It is so huge that it also causes minor inconveniences in use, but as it becomes smaller, it becomes lighter, and if it becomes lighter, it will not be enough. So Ruda fell into a little trouble again.

It wasn't until the sixteenth year after joining the Western Army that this problem was solved. A merchant from the Liao Kingdom sold Ruda a piece of meteorite iron that was said to have fallen from the sky and was driven by an ox cart.

It was very expensive, so Luda borrowed all the money and borrowed it from Tong Guan before buying the meteorite.

More than 400 kilograms of meteoric iron ore were used to create a black fine iron that was only slightly larger than a Western broadsword, and its strength, toughness, and hardness were much higher than those of hundred-refined fine steel.

Perfect.

Luda and Tong Guan, carrying Xuantie heavy swords, led the Yanzhou Western Army southward to suppress the rebellion of the demon sect Fang La. The one who spearheaded the Western Army was the already fragmented Liangshan Army.