Chapter 24: Practice Boxing
Not long after the first attack on Liao, the new emperor of Liao, Yelu Chun, could not afford to get sick and died soon after. Huizong learned the news and believed that there was an opportunity. In July, Tong Guan sent troops and replaced Zhong Shidao with Liu Yanqing, the governor of the Three Cities of Heyang, who was known as a famous general, as the commander-in-chief, and replaced Zhong Shidao.
When the Jin Dynasty heard that Tong Guan sent troops, he was afraid that once the Song army occupied Yanjing, the 500,000-year-old monies that the Song Dynasty had promised would not be settled. So while contacting the Song Dynasty, he also quickly sent troops. At this time, the Liao Dynasty had no leader, and the internal struggle for power and profit became more and more serious, and it was on the verge of destruction.
After Lu Yi came to Tong Guan's army, Tong Guan ordered Li Er to lead the army alone and continue to command his 1,000 soldiers, and Li Er was allocated 9,000 soldiers, which just made up 10,000 people.
Although Tong Guan returned from a defeat in the attack on Liao last time, his power remained unabated in the court. It can be seen from the fact that Huizong still sent Tong Guan to the expedition this time. Naturally, no one in the Song army dared to say anything about Tong Guan's arrangements.
The soldiers allocated by Tong Guan naturally had no combat power, but Lu Yi is not short of money and food now. Li Ruowei has already joined Tong Guan, and now sells private salt to make a lot of profit every day. If a large amount of money and food is allocated, the morale will naturally be greatly boosted. Li Er trains for a while, and these soldiers will also have great combat power.
After joining Tong Guan, Tong Guan's army rushed towards Yizhou and Zhuozhou. This time the situation was very different from the last attack on Liao. The Liao Kingdom was already in danger. At Lu Yi's suggestion, Tong Guan wrote to the Zhuozhou garrison Guo Yaoshi to persuade him to surrender. Unexpectedly, Guo Yaoshi surrendered without saying a word.
When Guo Yaoshi saw that the Liao Dynasty was in danger, he thought of a way out: surrender to the Song Dynasty. The ever-victorious army led by Guo Yaoshi was a powerful army in the Liao Dynasty, and the Gancheng City was incomparable to the Song Dynasty's army. Under Lu Yi's arrangement, Guo Yaoshi's troops were still stationed in Zhuozhou.
Due to Guo Yaoshi's surrender, the Liao Kingdom was suddenly in panic. When the Yizhou garrison saw that it was impossible, he hurriedly surrendered to the Song Dynasty, which made the Song Dynasty obtain two cities without any effort. For a moment, the Song army's morale rose sharply.
The attack on Liao was so smooth that the Song army naturally had to take advantage of the victory to pursue it. Liu Yanqing immediately led a large army to Yanjing, preparing to take down the Nanjing Road of Liao Kingdom in one fell swoop. In this way, the Northern Song Dynasty's goal of recapturing the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was achieved.
Lu Yi naturally knew exactly how powerful the Song army was. This Northern Expedition seemed to be smooth, but the Song army then failed to attack Yanjing for a long time and was counterattacked by the Liao Jedi. In the end, it ended up in a big loss and losing.
If he had known this situation, Lu Yi would not have gone to Yanjing to join in the fun and stayed in Zhuozhou City with Tong Guan. Under Tong Guan's arrangement, Li Er's 10,000 people were also stationed in Zhuozhou City. This is the foundation that Lu Yi had planned long ago, and many things can be arranged now.
In the following months, the Northern Song army did not attack Yanjing City, and the two sides were still in a stalemate. In the past few months, Lu Yi had already replaced the iron barrels built by Zhuozhou City, not only replaced all the officials from above and below with his own people, but also secretly subdued Guo Yaoshi.
This pharmacist Guo is also a good general. Not only can he fight well, but he is also wise, but he is not valued after surrendering to the Song Dynasty. Of course, there is also Lu Yi's instruction to deliberately let pharmacist Guo be excluded, so Lu Yi can come forward and use some means to subdue pharmacist Guo. (This article is not a historical article, so military wars will be omitted as much as possible, and the focus will be on the rivers and lakes!)
Tong Guan was in power, so there was naturally no shortage of these methods. It was with Tong Guan's help that Lu Yi was able to conquer Guo Yaoshi. After conquering Guo Yaoshi and integrating Guo Yaoshi's army, Lu Yi's strength was also enhanced. Guo Yaoshi's army was a powerful brigade in the Liao Kingdom, and was not comparable to the Northern Song army.
Cuibeishan has accumulated a lot of money and grain in recent years. In the past few months, Lu Yi has sprinkled a lot of money and grain, and the morale of his soldiers has increased sharply. Under Li Er's training, these soldiers have already gained combat power compared to the past.
In secret, Lu Yi also organized a bomb unit of 3,000 people, and was trained according to special methods, led by Li Er directly. This army, Lu Yi selected all young and strong elites. Once he was successful in training, he would become the biggest trump card in Lu Yi's hand.
In addition to these trivial matters, Lu Yi has been practicing for a long time. After entering the innate realm, he has to constantly polish the innate true qi to gradually become stronger. This is the time to grind water, which requires time to accumulate slowly, and it is difficult to make too big breakthroughs for a while.
However, Lu Yi made great progress in his moves. After breaking into the innate realm, Lu Yi's vision was completely different. Tai Chi was gradually improved in Lu Yi's hands, and Lu Yi's Nine Swords of Dugu has even cultivated to an extremely advanced realm. It is difficult to break through again.
"I practice the most top-level martial arts, but these martial arts are not my own way!" While practicing, Lu Yi was also constantly thinking about his martial arts.
Whether it is Dugu Nine Swords, Nine Yang Divine Arts, or Tai Chi, they are all the top-level martial arts. However, these martial arts are not the martial arts created by Lu Yi. If you follow the path of your predecessors, Lu Yi believes that he will definitely gradually reach the peak of martial arts in this world.
Lu Yi had seen the peak of this world in Dugu Qiubai. But this was not Lu Yi's final pursuit. With a divine object like the Creation Tower of the Heavens, Lu Yi naturally had to go further. Breaking through the peak of this world was Lu Yi's ultimate goal.
"I originally thought Tai Chi was my martial arts. This boxing technique can be said to be created by me. It is very different from Tai Chi on Blue Star, but now it seems that it still contains traces of predecessors!" Lu Yi thought about his own martial arts secretly and gradually discovered the problem.
It is unquestionable that Tai Chi directly points to the peak of martial arts. Even Dugu Qiubai once admired it. However, the theoretical basis of Tai Chi was not created by Lu Yi. With his extraordinary understanding, Lu Yi deduced Tai Chi to a state of no thoughts and no self-defeating. It is actually very rare, but it is almost impossible to make a breakthrough again.
"It's not my own, it's not my own after all!" Almost every innate strong man will create his own martial arts. Originally, Lu Yi thought his martial arts was Tai Chi, but now it seems that he is somewhat limited.
Tai Chi is a master of Taoism, but Lu Yi created this technique with the help of Wang Chongyang. Later, Wang Chongyang improved this technique and taught it again to Lu Yi.
Tai Chi is not so much a boxing technique created by Lu Yi, but it is better to say that it was created by Wang Chongyang. It contains Wang Chongyang's martial arts ideas, but these are not Lu Yi's. What Lu Yi wants is to truly create his own Tai Chi and completely escape from Wang Chongyang's influence.
In fact, Dugu Qiubai's statement at that time was correct. If he only reached the peak of martial arts in this world, Tai Chi is naturally enough now. But Lu Yi was thinking of a higher and stronger state, then he had to innovate and find his own path.
"Why can't I integrate my thoughts and will into Tai Chi and create Tai Chi that belongs only to me!" Once this idea arises, it will be difficult to erase.
"Fisting is an extension of one's will. Different people use the same boxing technique, and the boxing artistic conception will not be the same. Practicing boxing is like being a human being, and the boxing intention is like a human heart. If you want to practice boxing, you must understand yourself!" Lu Yi kept thinking and gradually gained a new understanding of boxing.
"My greatest opportunity is the Creation Tower of the Heavens. After owning the Creation Tower of the Heavens, I am destined to travel through thousands of worlds and seize all kinds of creation to achieve myself!" Lu Yi understood that his greatest opportunity was the Creation Tower of the Heavens. After owning the Creation Tower of the Heavens, Lu Yi inevitably had to travel to various worlds and seize all kinds of creation.
"So I can take Tai Chi as the core, absorb countless boxing techniques from the heavens and all worlds, cultivate hundreds of classics in one furnace, and create truly invincible Tai Chi!" Thinking of this, Lu Yi has gradually understood how to take his future path.
In fact, Lu Yi had long known this road that the many arrangements in this world were also aimed at this goal. It was just that the authorities were fascinated by the authorities, and Lu Yi had truly understood his future path until this time.
As the saying goes, when the thoughts are clear, the boxing will arise. After Lu Yi understands his own path, he constantly practices boxing. Combining the exquisiteness of many boxing techniques, integrating his own mind into boxing, Lu Yi's boxing has gradually taken shape.
"Tai Chi Yin and Yang Pisces Rotation, including the Great Way of Heaven and Earth, is the supreme essence. If this Tai Chi wants to be perfected, it must actually fall on the word Yin and Yang!" At this time, the Tai Chi in Lu Yi's hand became extremely immature, just like a baby learning to walk. However, the prototype of boxing has appeared. Lu Yi only needs to constantly improve this set of boxing and will eventually walk his own path.
"Use yourself as a furnace and constantly integrate different boxing techniques and different martial arts, and you can naturally achieve the strongest boxing and suppress all kinds of opponents with one force!" The more Lu Yi thought about it, the clearer he became. The boxing techniques he had seen in the past began to appear in front of him and began to gradually integrate into his own boxing techniques.
Just as Lu Yi was practicing hard, a figure was gradually approaching Zhuozhou City. It was midnight at night, and there was no starlight in the dark night sky. The figure flashed and moved a few times and had already passed the tall wall of Zhuozhou City and disappeared into Zhuozhou City in a blink of an eye.
The black figure moved rapidly in Zhuozhou City. The black figure seemed to be extremely familiar with Zhuozhou City, and there was almost no stop when it moved quickly. Soon, the black figure came to the guards of Zhuozhou City, which was Tong Guan's mansion.
The black figure's martial arts are also extremely high. It keeps moving rapidly in the garrison, without disturbing the guards in the garrison, soon the black figure arrived outside Tong Guan's courtyard.
The black figure leaped several times in the air and had already landed in Tong Guan's courtyard. However, at this time, the black figure discovered that there was already a person standing in front of Tong Guan's door.
Chapter completed!