Chapter 621 The source of soldiers in the Western Regions
Who are you busy for? Could it be fate? The west wind's stagecoach. The falling moon's book lantern. The road to Shu is difficult in the blue sky, and the red leaves in Wujiang are cold.
The two words of fame often look in the mirror, and they will not spare the white-haired stars. Diao Ziling, thinking of the eagle in the season of water shield, laughs at me drifting away.
——"Putian Le·Qiuhuai" Zhang Kejiu [Yuan Dynasty]
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Before the Sichuan Clan disciples and generals at all levels of the Anbeiting camp were mixed together, the Sichuan Clan elites thought of themselves very highly.
Under normal circumstances, when it comes to fighting alone, the veterans in the Tang army are no match for Jianghu sects.
In the final analysis, it is a question of the source of troops.
The most important feature of the Fubing system, which began in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, is the integration of soldiers and farmers. The Fubing are farmers who till the land in peacetime, train in their spare time, and fight in the army during wartime. They prepare their own weapons and horses.
The imperial court established Zhechong Prefectures across the country to be responsible for the selection and training of government soldiers.
These farmers were already young adults when they were selected for training in Zhe Chong Mansion.
Unless they have martial arts passed down from their families, or those with extraordinary talents, it will be difficult for most soldiers to practice superior martial arts throughout their lives.
In the eyes of Sichuan disciples, most of the soldiers in the Tang army practiced foreign martial arts.
In terms of the source of power, external Kung Fu is mainly based on muscle tremors, while Xuanmen Internal Kung Fu is mainly based on the turbulence of Qi meridians and fascia.
These differences are not big at the beginning of learning martial arts. It can even be said that at the beginning of learning, foreign martial arts has obvious advantages.
When they first started, the two disciples fought and fought, mainly dismantling moves and confronting each other with strength.
Foreign martial arts are easy to learn and practice, they are brave and powerful, and are good at fighting people. Once they fight, the weak Taoist disciples are often no match for the foreign disciples.
However, after Taoist disciples first develop their internal strength, they can slowly sense the conversion routes of the opponent's strength joints, allowing them to turn at will and strike accordingly.
Afterwards, as the internal strength is developed, the mind can turn at will, and the method will follow: if you sense the weakness or discontinuity of the opponent's strength, you can immediately attack and cut off;
If you sense the opponent's strength, you can instantly avoid its edge, skillfully resolve it, identify its center of gravity, figure out the path of force, and then rely on your body structure to move and dodge to guide and destroy.
Most of the disciples of the Sichuan Clan come from various sects in central Sichuan. They have practiced Xuanmen internal skills since childhood. Before practicing martial arts and boxing, they first learn alchemy and Qi skills.
After the Dantian is built up and the internal strength is initially developed, you can then learn martial arts moves. When the internal strength is activated, the limbs will follow, that is, "the internal force is Qi, and the external force is fist."
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Among the Taoist internal skills passed down by Taoist sects, they are divided into tendon-changing, bone-changing, marrow-changing, blood-changing, and hair-cutting. These are the stages of body refining used to distinguish the realm of kung fu.
There are twelve pairs of large tendons in the human body, which connect to the hands, feet, head and waist, connect the bones and joints, and transmit the body's kinetic energy.
For people who have never practiced martial arts, the Yin quality of the big tendons is stiff and turbid, and some of the big tendons are even stuck and stiff, unable to conduct conduction. Therefore, the movements of the hands and feet are weak and weak, and it is difficult to punch through Lu Gu.
The method of refining the shape of the tendons is like "building beams and tenons". When building a house, the beams are erected, fastened and tightened with mortise and tenon joints, and the frame of the house is erected stably by relying on the mortise and tenon joint, beam and tenon structure.
The human skeleton is erected by twelve pairs of large tendons. If the skeleton is aligned and the mortise and tenon joints are aligned, the bones will appear sharp, the big tendons will rise, and the tendon lines will appear.
Using this force, the muscles all over the body vibrate and vibrate in resonance, like the force of a whip, and the muscles and joints resonate and crackle. The power is rapid and shocking to everyone. This is the "muscles and bones ringing in unison".
Hitting with this force will cause the energy to vibrate violently, just like swinging a hammer and whip, which can break open bricks and gravel. The person who is hit is like being kicked by an ox or a horse.
By defending with this strength, I feel that I have endless strength, my endurance and resistance are doubled, and my whole body is not afraid of punches and kicks by ordinary people.
Most of the elite Zhe Chong soldiers have only reached this level. But for Xuanmen disciples, this is the first step.
After the first level of tendon-changing realm, martial arts practice enters the bone-changing and membrane-refining stage.
The second stage of refining the body focuses on cultivating the periosteum and fascia. At this time, the joints and bone fascia of the whole body are nourished by Qi and blood and begin to swell and charge.
At this state, Qi and blood are vigorous, and the bones are as strong as iron. You can hit hard objects without injury or pain. Even redness and swelling will be quickly filled with Qi and blood and the swelling will disappear. At this time, if you knock someone's arm hard, your opponent will feel pain.
It penetrates into the bone marrow and feels like being hit by an iron rod, with the hand shrinking and crying out in pain.
At this time, the joints of the whole body are connected jointly, the qi and blood are surging to form a tight force, the joints are restrained in bearing force, and the tendons are relaxed and elongated. This is "bones rising and meat falling", commonly known as "Yushu hanging treasure clothes". It is like a branch of the skeleton.
It was stretched out in all directions, but the fascial tendons were hanging on the rack like soft clothes.
Because the whole body is soft on the outside and hard on the inside, like cotton wrapped in iron, you can defend with strength. When the soft hands touch each other, the opponent will feel like being defeated and unable to exert any force. The soft and elongated fascia can be wrapped around like a rubber band to dissolve the opponent's strength.
Variety.
If the opponent's Gang Qi is strong and can invade the body's protective Qi, once it touches the "Yushu" skeleton, the skeleton can transmit the force to the ground, and then generate counterattack force, and even rebound and injure the opponent.
The internal refining of the alchemy path has entered the third level, the alchemy cauldron has just been formed, and the essence of the whole body has changed from turbid qi and blood in the early stage of foundation building to the accumulation of essence in the later stage.
The qi and blood throughout the body are vigorous, the light of the toad moon is obvious, the Dantian is hot, the two kidneys are like springs of boiling water, the mouth is filled with jade liquid, and the breath drives the fascia and breathes.
For Xuanmen disciples, this is the first time they have achieved Xuan Gong, and then they can go down the mountain and walk around the world.
There are thousands of sects in the world, but only those who can establish a sect and lead their own martial arts with authentic Xuanmen methods can be called a famous sect.
Among these famous sects, the seven major sects such as Shaolin, Kunlun, and Emei are the first.
These Xuanmen techniques are the foundation of each major sect and are not taught to outsiders. Very few soldiers in the army can obtain their inner secrets. Even if they are lucky enough to obtain them, it will take three to five years to achieve them with pure Kung Fu.
This is the reason why it is difficult for ordinary soldiers of the Tang Army to defeat the knights of the Jianghu when fighting alone.
However, the source of troops of Anbeiting Army was different from that of Zhechong Prefecture.
In addition to the Han Chinese who guarded the border, the elite troops of the Beiting Army in Anhui also had many Hu people from the Western Regions countries such as Qiuci, Khotan, Shule and Suiye, and came from Kunlun, Tianshan and other major Western Region sects.
Although its martial arts mentality is different from that of the Central Plains martial arts, it is also extremely unique and in some aspects even surpasses the Central Plains martial arts.
In addition, there are also some horse bandits who have been recruited into the Beiting Army in Anhui. They were once fierce bandits across the Silk Road, and even the local Hu merchants with the nine surnames of Zhaowu did not dare to provoke them.
After the bandit gangs were wiped out by the Tang army, some relatively loyal and brave horse bandits were recruited by the Tang army and became members of the border army.
It is precisely because of the special composition of the soldiers of Anbeiting Army that it is called the Tiger and Wolf Division. It opened up territory for the Tang Dynasty and became powerful in the western border.
It is precisely because of this that when General Li Siye led the Anbeiting march to King Fengxiang Qin, Suzong personally hosted a banquet in honor of him.
After retaking the two capitals, his powerful combat power frightened the rebels and alerted the court.
After the death of General Li Siye, the imperial court continued to transfer senior military generals such as Li Fei Yuanli, Duan Xiushi, and Bai Xiaode to other armies.
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After Yuchi's cavalry provoked the conflict, although the two groups never clashed again, Bai Fu believed that there was only one way for the two parties to resolve their conflicts and truly integrate - to use force to make friends.
For a warrior, only when the opponent you fight is convinced will your opponent truly respect you!
Sure enough, after several actual battles, the two sides were evenly matched and sympathetic to each other.
During the infantry battle, the peerless martial arts of the Shushan lineage opened the eyes of the Anbeiting soldiers:
If we say that Kungfu in the Western Regions is like a solitary smoke in the desert, the setting sun on a long river, a swordsman riding a horse with flying colors, and the seven swords proudly descending from the Tianshan Mountains.
Then, the martial arts of Bashu means that the sword pavilion is towering and cuiwei, cranes cannot fly across, apes cling to it anxiously, Kui gate is at the gate, and the sword fairy cuts across the top of Emei!
During the horse battle, Anbeiting's elite were unparalleled in their bravery. They perfectly combined their martial arts skills with horse battle, making the Sichuan cavalry admire them in admiration.
During the battle formation drill, both sides were able to perform both offense and defense, learn from each other and gain something from each other.
The horse fighting tactics of the Beiting Army in Anshan evolved from the tactics of the Xiongnu, Turks, Tuyuhun and other tribes, and learned from the hunting techniques of wolves on the grassland.
Different from the heavily armored cavalry favored by the Central Plains army, they pay more attention to the light armor of their men and horses, coming and going like the wind, running thousands of miles, and hunting and making surprise attacks.
In addition to the traditional foot combat methods of the Tang Army, the Sichuan disciples' battle formations, such as the long snake formation, the two dragons playing in the water formation, etc., also have battle formations that have been recreated in the world after hundreds of years - the Eight Formations of Zhuge Wuhou!