Volume 1 Chushan Bandits Chapter 47: The Youth is Like a Tiger
Although Xu Chen was a playboy, his skills were no worse than Xu Xin'an among the young men, and his eyesight was naturally not bad either.
He caught the long stick with his backhand and stared at Xu Huai with narrowed eyes like a poisonous snake.
He had also practiced the elastic force of the Fu Mang Spear, so of course he could see the subtlety of Xu Huai's counter-pull of the stick. He knew that the stick head used the second elastic force to generate force, slightly bent at an abnormal angle and bounced several inches, and it was no illusion that it hit Xu Zhi's shoulder.
When Xu Huai was young, he was studying in the clan school and was often the target of teasing by other youngsters. Therefore, after he followed Xu Wujiang and Su Di , even though he had the opportunity to return to Yuhuangling every now and then, he would avoid Beizhai.
Xu Chen hadn't had the chance to see Xu Huai in the past two years. He didn't expect that this fool was still as dull as before, but his skills had improved to such a level. He seemed much more agile than he was two years ago.
Of course, Xu Chen would not be afraid of this.
Even though Xu Huai's martial arts skills had improved greatly, in his eyes he was still a reckless, foolish idiot.
When facing the enemy, you must judge the situation and act ferociously and recklessly without any scheming. What's the use?
However, precisely because of this, he would not be so brave as to accept Xu Huai's challenge.
How can the children of Xu from the upper house be so brave as to act like ordinary men?
Then why do we need to spend money and food to support so many farmhands?
Xu Chen took a step back, pointed his stick forward, and shouted, "In front of everyone, Xu Huai, that idiot, is committing violence and injuring people! Come on, beat him to death or maim him, and I will take all the consequences!"
In the past, Xu Chen had the support of hundreds of people in Huolu Hall, and no young man dared to go against his wishes. He also looked down upon all the instructors except Xu Wuqi.
However, when they heard him asking everyone to beat Xu Huai to death, most people hesitated.
Of course, there were also a dozen young men who followed Xu Chen's lead and obeyed his orders, and they also hated Xu Huai for humiliating them.
Seeing Xu Xin and his two companions return in defeat, they all thought that they had underestimated their enemies and therefore failed, and they did not feel afraid. But when they heard Xu Chen's order, the dozen or so people who had already picked up sticks in their hands rushed forward with their sticks like tigers and wolves.
The weapons on the weapon rack next to the martial arts field are for the young men to practice martial arts. To prevent accidental injuries, they are mainly blunt-headed sticks and wooden shields. There are also a few long swords that have not been sharpened and are not very lethal.
Xu Wuliang was outside the courtyard wall, worried that Xu Huai would suffer a loss, so he managed to restrain himself from taking action.
Xu Wukun, however, could not hold back and kept yelling and cursing. Seeing that Xu Chen, Xu Xin and the others had no intention of stopping, he rolled up his sleeves and was about to step forward. However, a large, skinny hand, like an iron clamp, pressed his shoulder from behind.
Xu Wukun turned around and saw Xu Wuqi standing next to him. He said anxiously, "Why don't you stop them from messing around."
Xu Wuqi stared at the field expressionlessly and said, "Let this bastard suffer a little, and don't worry about it!"
"But……"
"No buts." Xu Wuqi said ruthlessly.
Most of those who followed Xu Chen's orders were descendants of the upper branch of the Xu family.
Regardless of their talents, these young men have been handling guns and sticks since they were young. They have good food and their muscles and bones are much stronger than those of the children of the lower-class Xu. Most of them are fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years old, which is the time when their energy and blood are abundant.
No matter how confident Xu Huai was, he didn't dare to think that he could withstand the stabbing and beating from eleven or twelve long sticks.
Xu Huai dragged his long stick behind him and turned around and ran.
"He finally has some wisdom and doesn't act recklessly."
Seeing that Xu Huai knew how to escape, Xu Wukun breathed a sigh of relief. But then he saw that Xu Huai had run to the gate of the martial arts arena, but did not run out. Instead, he ran along the inside of the low wall to the south of the martial arts arena. He stamped his feet and cursed at Xu Huai.
"You idiot, why are you running away? Why are you coming back? Didn't Xu Wujiang teach you how to run away in the past two years?"
How could Xu Huai not run away?
Xu Wuqi and others returned home from the Jingsheng Army. In addition to the autumn training of the local soldiers and commanding the farmhands, they also took turns to teach in Huolu Hall. The methods of charging and killing in the battlefield were also incorporated into the Fumang Fist and swords and spears, and passed on to the young people in the tribe.
If these dozen young men, each armed with sticks, shields, and long bladeless swords, were divided into two teams and surrounded from the left and right according to the rules of military formation, Xu Huai would have no choice but to escape.
However, these dozen young men relied on their numbers and wanted to show off and win merit in front of Xu Chen, so they all rushed over to fight. They never thought that they needed to use the art of military formation to bully the few and deal with a fool and reckless guy whom they usually looked down upon.
This of course gave Xu Huai an opportunity.
The martial arts arena is open, but there are still mulberry and elm trees against the courtyard wall to provide shade, and many stone rollers for training and weapon racks are placed on the side.
The dozen or so young men who had initially not intended to listen to Xu Chen's call retreated to the wall.
These are obstacles.
Xu Huai walked around the wall and quickly pulled apart the dozen teenagers .
Only two men with long legs and strong strength followed closely behind him, one holding a long stick and the other holding a mace, and rushed towards him to kill him.
Xu Huai used the long stick as if it were a gun, turned around and swept, first knocking the long stick of the man on the left to the side; then he used the long stick as a knife, letting it drag on the ground. He used his spine as the root, suddenly turned sideways, and exerted a strong force to swing his body. He used the momentum of dragging the long stick that fell to the side behind him to hit the man holding the mace.
With no one to hold him back, and if they could just attack from the front, how could any of these young men be a match for Xu Huai?
The long stick came over angrily, leaving a shadow on his head. The wind whistled, and the young man hurriedly raised his mace to block.
In addition to Xu Wuqi and Xu Wukun standing in front of the corridor, there were several instructors and farmhands who came here after hearing the news. It was impossible for Xu Huai to kill indiscriminately and smash the man's head into pieces as if it were a piece of dead tree.
Xu Huai had already seen the hidden secret of making light of heavy tasks. He turned around and swung his sword hard. It seemed that his attack was as sharp as thunder and lightning. However, when the mace was about to collide with the mace, Xu Huai's muscles began to vibrate under the drive of his spine. The long stick then trembled slightly like a python. The second section of the elastic force was used in advance to unload the force with force, and the whipping of the long stick was stopped at the slightest moment.
Xu Huai stepped back half a step, swung his long stick downward, crouched down as if he was riding a horse, and instantly turned his strong pull into a thrust, stabbing the man in the chest; the level of control over his muscles and bones that he had practiced hard for more than two months was fully revealed.
The most basic spear stance of the Fumang Spear, the "Zanci" stance, is actually very difficult to practice.
When the spear tip is thrust out, there needs to be a shaking and vibrating force stored in the gun head. Then the spear blade is like a poisonous python's triangular poisonous head that suddenly jumps up and shakes, thrusting out quickly and fiercely, and then withdrawing and stabbing again with even more lightning speed.
The essence of the saying "man is like a dragon and spear is like a python" is most vividly reflected in the stabbing.
The long stick had no blade, and Xu Huai had no intention of killing anyone, but after three strong stabs in the chest, the young man, who usually prided himself on his bravery, was suffocated and took several steps back. He sat down on the ground and fell backwards with his face up.
In the blink of an eye, another person was knocked down.
The key point is that this man usually appears to be very brave and much stronger than Xu Xin. Seeing him being beaten to a life or death level with just one move, the young men who were chasing him from behind were all stunned and couldn't help feeling a chill in their hearts.
"Fuck you! Kill me if you want!"
Xu Huai did not retreat at this time. Taking advantage of the momentum, he roared and rushed towards the scattered and panicked young men like a tiger descending from the mountains.
In the martial arts world, spearmanship emphasizes killing one person every ten steps. A long stick in one's hand may be used to perform many tricks, but in the military, swords and guns emphasize killing one person every one step.
Xu Huai took a step forward to counterattack, but not only was his movement slow, it was even quite sluggish, as if he was wading forward.
He held the long stick in front of him as if he was holding a gun, like a poisonous python staring at its frightened prey. There were no extra or fancy moves, but he used the most concise movements of stabbing, blocking, flicking and chopping to deal with those scattered and panicked teenagers.
Xu Huai's attacks were definitely not fast, but the young men felt like a ferocious tiger was biting at them. Even though they fought against it in a panic, the force transmitted from the collision of sticks was enormous. Each of Xu Huai's simple gun and stick moves would contain one or two unpredictable subtle changes, making it difficult for them to cope with.
Almost no one could withstand three blows from Xu Huai. Often, they would be knocked out of their sticks after one or two blows, and then beaten until they screamed in pain and fled in panic, completely forgetting the essence of military formations and combined killing that Xu Wuqi usually taught them.
"Did you see that? Xu Huai was using the real Fu Mang Spear - God has eyes, he has gotten it!" Xu Wukun excitedly grabbed Xu Wuqi's arm, and seeing that he still had an expressionless face, he wished he could dig his eyes wider.
"Bullshit Fumang Spear! It's just that these losers are afraid of it and don't dare to fight it!" Xu Wuqi snorted coldly. He couldn't stand Xu Wukun being too excited and shook off his hand.
This does not mean that the younger generation of the Xu family is too bad.
In fact, among the younger generation of the Xu family, there were a few people besides Xu Chen and Xu Xin'an who had mastered the Fumang Spear to the level of hiding the power within the spear.
However, these people have achieved great success in martial arts at a young age, and even those from the lower classes of the Xu family are often arrogant and proud.
Xu Chen was usually arrogant. If anyone didn't do what he wanted, he would get upset. He had beaten and scolded the people who followed him on several occasions. Who would want to be around him if they were so arrogant?
When Xu Huai came today, there were several young men from the Xu family who stood on the sidelines and watched coldly from the beginning. They were secretly surprised to see Xu Huai pouncing on his prey like a ferocious tiger and beating the lackeys around Xu Chen to a pulp.
However, they did not see Xu Huai's subtle intention of escaping first and then counterattacking. After all, Xu Huai acted too much like a desperate and reckless person.
What frightened them was Xu Huai's reckless aura when they met him on a narrow road, which made them doubt whether they could withstand Xu Huai's attack...
