Fang La rebelled. Yang Yi had not yet completed the compilation of "Wanshou Taoist Canon" 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 some can only be exterminated. The difference lies in whether they are crowned king.

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

The rebellion in Liangshan 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 was, even if the county was destroyed and the state was destroyed, the official Zhao Ji did not care

, at the last sign of recruitment, he accepted the eagle dog, it was just a question 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 Dynasty officials. This will cause trouble, 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 powerful 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 bother to recruit them, and they knew that

They would not accept recruitment, and the nature of the rebellion changed from the day they 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 need for negotiation. Not only that, Fang La also established the reign name "Yongle", which further showed his attitude of fighting against Zhao and Song Dynasty.

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 people armed.

At this time, it was no longer possible to suppress the enemy. Fang La's momentum was so strong that it obviously went beyond the ordinary concept of rebels gathering in the mountains and forests. Instead, they 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.

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Hangzhou was the largest city of the Song Dynasty in the south and the most important tax source of the Song Dynasty 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 Prefecture was very strong and the soldiers in the city were well-prepared. Let the Song Dynasty go there on their own.

You can't even defeat it.

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.

There is no need to mention the Xiang army. They were only sent as gifts to Fang La. The imperial army was also unreliable and they had no fighting capacity.

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 Custodes covered with wounds.

The Western Army of Yanzhou could only be sent out. They were the only army in the Song Dynasty that could still fight. So Tong Guan led the Western Army southward.

The Song Dynasty despised military generals very much, so the commander-in-chief 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 still did not trust the military generals, and they also arranged supervisors in the army who were above the military command. The supervisors were all eunuchs and were directly appointed by the officials.

From this point, it can also be seen that the power structure of the Song Dynasty army was actually a combination of the civil service group and the imperial power to suppress military generals, which 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 civil service group

There were also overt and covert struggles with the imperial power in the army.

Because they are rootless people, eunuchs have always been trusted by the emperor. Tong Guan was a eunuch who was very trusted by Zhao Ji. He was 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 was not the eunuch who rose to power by flattery as I thought. He was a man of real ability, both civil and military. Tong Guan was a great martial artist, and he was the official number one expert 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 the ancestor of Tong Guan.

Tong Guan's martial arts attainments have undoubtedly surpassed those of his ancestors, and he also possesses a very good literary talent. 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 his physical and physiological characteristics is called "Sunflower Collection". Maybe many years later, it will cause a bloody storm in the world, who knows.

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

Yang Yi and his four apprentices were speechless.

Professor Wu Daniu was raised to give him the ability 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.

He accepted Li Xiaoyao as his disciple in order to spend his leisure time in the Valley of Immortality and to have a warm family atmosphere in the Bamboo House. Who would have known that he would become the number one swordsman in ancient and modern times.

I felt sorry for the miserable Xu Zhu, and didn't want to see him being bullied because of his ugly appearance in this cold and 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. Swordsmanship has basically withdrawn from the battlefield because of its weapon characteristics. It is just a weapon for private fights in the world, so Yang

Yi did not teach Luda how to practice swordsmanship.

Unexpectedly, Luda, who had no swordsmanship at all, turned out to be 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 took the bowl-mouthed bird.

The willow tree was uprooted.

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

Two years later, Ruda was promoted to Tijuan. In the thirteenth year, the supervisor Tong Guan invited him to spar. After one hundred and ten moves, Ruda hit Tong Guan three times in a row, almost killing the supervisor.

He firmly established his reputation as the number one martial artist in the Western Army.

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

Luda was proficient in eighteen kinds of weapons, and he had used all eighteen kinds of weapons. But after ten years of fighting on the battlefield, he sublimated 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 bring out all his martial arts ideas.

Tiha 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 the army craftsmen to use fine steel to build 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.

Luda spent three years integrating all the martial arts of eighteen types of weapons, including spears, spears, halberds, knives, sticks, maces, axes, whips, hammers, 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 constrained by the sword and could play freely, thus starting to prove the way of the sword 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 the sword, which weighed 100 kilograms, was ideal, but it was as big as a door panel and could be used as a shield when it was put up.

It was so huge that it also caused minor inconveniences in use, but as it became smaller, it would become lighter, and if it was lighter, it would be unsatisfactory. 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 pulled it on 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 finally yielded 98 kilograms of black fine iron. Ruda used it to create a 98 kilogram dark iron epee. The size is only slightly larger than a Western broadsword, and it has both strength, toughness and hardness.

It is much more than a hundred refined steels.

Perfect.
Chapter completed!