Xuanyuan Jue

Chapter 31
This thing is actually a hidden weapon, made of hundred-forged fine steel, and it's called the "Hand Swing Crossbow".The body of this crossbow is like a wide hand hoop with a copper buckle in the middle, which can be firmly hooped on the wrist.The hand crossbow used are all nails and arrows about one inch long.There are six arrow holes on the top and bottom of the crossbow, and twelve featherless nail arrows can be prepared.When you want to shoot, you only need to raise your hand, lightly buckle the crossbow on the machine gun, and you can kill the opponent.The magic of the hand crossbow is that it can not only shoot single shots, but also shoot consecutively.At that critical moment, turn the button back and forth, and the nails and arrows inside will be shot out all at once, like a rain of flowers, very fierce.

Moreover, this hand crossbow is small and light, and it is hidden in the sleeves on weekdays, so it cannot be seen at all.More importantly, the use of this kind of concealed weapon does not require finger support, as long as you have the aim and get used to it a little, you can point where you want to hit without any deviation.

Don't look at the ordinary style of this hand crossbow, but if you really want to build it, there are probably not many blacksmiths in the world who can do it.Just the plugging of the spring crossbow wire inside is enough to make those skilled craftsmen click their tongues.Lin Heier's ancestors were originally boat owners on the Nanan Canal.During one release, a middle-aged man happened to be rescued from the water.After the man woke up, in order to repay his kindness, he gave Lin Heier such a thing from his ancestors.It is said that this thing is called "Swinging Hand Crossbow", and it was made in secret according to the records in "Tianjipu".Afterwards, this "Hand Swing Crossbow" was passed down from generation to generation in the Lin family.

When Lin Hei'er was young, she practiced hard on this "Hand Swing Crossbow".But ever since she became the "Mother of the Yellow Lotus", she has to "descend to the altar to invite immortals" and "recite mantras to make wishes" all day long. It is very inconvenient to wear this on her wrist all the time.Therefore, she wrapped the crossbow in silk and put it at the bottom of the suitcase for storage.

Seeing that Xianggua was struggling to learn darts and failed, Lin Heier remembered this.So, she sent someone to call the muskmelon, and gave the hand crossbow, together with dozens of nail arrows, to the muskmelon.

As soon as the hand crossbow was handed over, the muskmelon was so happy that he refused to take it off after wearing it on his wrist.Since then, Xianggua has studied the hand-swinging crossbow day and night, coupled with Lin Heier's guidance from time to time, within a few months, Xianggua has used the hand-swinging crossbow superbly, within a hundred steps, there is no failure.

In the year of Gengzi, in the name of suppressing Yihe Boxing, the Bayi countries sent foreign soldiers and generals to land from Dagukou, Tianjin, directly attacking Tianwei.Relying on strong ships and strong guns, the Qing army retreated steadily.Within a day, most of Tianjin fell.The foreigners continued to lead their troops northward, approaching the capital.

When the news came, the whole country was shocked.The Minister of Military Aircraft, Gang Yi, hurriedly wrote to Lafayette, intending to recruit boxers from all over the country first, so as to help the imperial court retreat from overseas.In desperation, Cixi nodded in agreement.

As soon as the edict was issued, Yihequan from all over the country put aside the dispute between Manchu and Han for the time being, and entered King Qin of Jing one after another to fight against foreign barbarians together with the Qing army.However, Cao Futian, Lin Hei'er and the others had to stay in Tianjin to block the foreign reinforcements.So, old man Tian was sent to Beijing with several thousand boxers.

Old man Tian didn't dare to be negligent when he got the order. He packed up his clothes with muskmelon, and rushed north with the boxing soldiers.

In addition to relying on the boxing of Yihe, Duanjun Wang Zaiyi also urgently mobilized the imperial guards to form the "Tiger God Battalion" to fight against the big powers together with the garrison of the Gyeonggi city.In the Tiger God's camp, there are all elites who can stand up to ten, and it is of course easy to kill the enemy.Moreover, the word "tiger god" is taken because tigers eat sheep (foreigners), and gods rule ghosts, which can overwhelm those foreign devils.

As soon as Old Man Tian rushed to the Guangqu Gate in the capital, he encountered a group of officers and soldiers on standby.After the two sides negotiated, Old Man Tian learned that the other party was a soldier of the Tiger God Battalion.The leader is Shi Shengkun, who is accompanied by Ma Bian of Youtai, the commander of the right army of Hushen camp.Due to the urgency of the war, Shi Shengkun had no choice but to personally lead a part of the Tiger God Battalion to fight the enemy.The soldiers of the Tiger God Camp do not hold swords or spears, and all their equipment is "Made in Hanyang".Although this kind of "made in Hanyang" is not as good as foreigners' muskets, it is still much more powerful than ordinary flying arrows and gravel.

It's better to catch up early than coincidentally. As soon as Tian and Shi's two teams met, a group of foreign soldiers came behind them to attack the city.Therefore, Yihequan charged in front, and Hushen Battalion fired in the rear. The two teams of soldiers, horsemen and soldiers joined together to fight a family.

When everyone is of the same mind, their benefits can break gold.After a bloody battle, Tian and Shi finally beat the group of foreign soldiers to the ground and fled.

Old man Tian saw that Shi Shengkun was young and bloody, unlike ordinary court eagles, so he secretly admired him.And Shi Shengkun admired the old man Tian, ​​who was old and strong, with superb martial arts skills, and he admired him deeply.After coming and going, the two of them shared the same heroic spirit, and they became friends for years, helping each other and guarding Guangqumen together.

The foreign soldiers failed to attack the city, so naturally they moved in a brigade to rescue them.Taking advantage of the dark moon and high wind, with the help of foreign guns and artillery, he rushed back again.After fighting for several hours in a row, the boxing soldiers and Qing army were exhausted from the battle, more than half of them were killed or injured, and gradually they couldn't resist, and began to retreat to the city.The foreign soldiers tasted the sweetness and continued to increase their troops for reinforcements, eventually breaking up the two teams of Tian and Shi.

After entering the city, Old Man Tian realized that several other city gates had already been breached.He didn't dare to rush in, so he had to take muskmelons and lead the remnants to start street fighting with foreigners.

However, more and more foreign soldiers poured into the city, and the remaining resistance from the officers and boxers was clearly a drop in the bucket.And at that time, when Cixi heard the news that the city was broken, she had already fled with Guangxu and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty in a hurry.When the Qing army heard that all the officials had run away, they naturally became headless chickens.As a result, the great powers became even more arrogant, and wherever they passed, it seemed like no one was in the land.Rape and loot all the way, occupied the Forbidden City.

Old man Tian has a tough bone, and he vowed to die that he would not be that subjugated slave.At the end of the battle, besides the muskmelon, there were only a dozen boxers left.Before he could continue to slash with his knife, a shell suddenly fell beside him and exploded.Old man Tian's eyes hurt and his ears buzzed, so he didn't know what happened.

When he woke up, Old Man Tian only felt the pain in his eyes, and it was dark everywhere.Xianggua rushed over and cried for a while, before explaining the matter to Old Man Tian.It turned out that when the cannonball exploded, a fragment happened to hit Old Man Tian's face, cutting all his eyes.While he was fainting, Xianggua and the rest of the boxers carried him up and escaped from the capital with great difficulty.

Fleeing all the way, those boxing soldiers were dead and scattered, and at this moment, only muskmelon was left by his side.A few days later, another news came from the north.It is said that in order to negotiate peace with foreigners, the imperial court issued an order to eradicate Yihequan regardless of faith.

So, the grandfather and grandson dragged their wounded bodies and fled.On the way to escape, he also learned that Cao Futian, Lin Heier and others died in battle, and that Boxer was almost destroyed under the double suppression of the Qing court and foreigners.

The huge blow made Old Man Tian disheartened.I am already old and weak, and now I am blind again, how can I still have the heart of revenge?Accompanied by muskmelon, the two secretly returned to their hometown, found a secluded place at random, and scraped by.

After several years in a row, Old Man Tian felt that his time was approaching, and he was afraid of leaving Xianggua alone, so he was always so worried that he couldn't sleep at night.One day, old man Tian suddenly remembered Shi Shengkun who had guarded the city together back then.That Shi Shengkun has a good personality, so he should be able to rely on him.When he was dispersed in front of the formation, Shi Shengkun once gave his bronze bracelet of the Tiger God Camp to Old Man Tian as a token, saying that if he was destined to live in the future, he would recognize each other with the bronze bracelet.

After much deliberation, Old Man Tian decided to go to Beijing to find Shi Shengkun.So, he asked muskmelon to pack soft and dry food, eat and sleep in the open all the way, and rushed towards the capital.

Who would have imagined that the grandpa and grandson would have their bags emptied by the thief before they reached the land, and they were reduced to such a land.

"It turned out to be an old hero!" Hearing these words, Feng Shen was in awe of the grandfather and grandson.He stood up and bowed to the old man Tian: "I'm disrespectful!"

"Impossible! Impossible!" Hearing what Feng Shen said, Old Man Tian hurriedly fumbled to stand up, "Feng Engong, please don't say that...you're going to spoil the old man..."

"The old hero is too modest!" Feng Shen helped the old man Tian to sit firmly, and then he said seriously, "Think of those foreign captives who dominate our Qing land and humiliate our Qing people. , not enough to vent national hatred!"

(End of this chapter)