Chapter 2 Chapter 2

In May 1900, Yihequan was spread to the world, vowing to destroy foreign religions, the proclamation is as follows: People in the markets and villages of the provinces in the Central Plains know: Because of Catholicism and the Church of Jesus, slandering the holiness, bullying the Chinese monarchs and ministers, oppressing the people of the Li people, the gods and the people are angry, and everyone is silent, so that we all practice righteousness and magical fists to protect the Central Plains , Expel the foreign bandits, intercept and kill the Christians, so as not to lose their lives.After revealing himself, he told the people in the village that no matter whose village you are waiting for, if there are religious people, they will be expelled quickly, and they will burn the church and other houses without leaving them.If anyone stays and resists and hides believers, we will punish them everywhere and burn them with fire, so as to restrict them.I am especially afraid of being punished without giving instructions, and we cannot bear to be burdened by it for no reason.Do not violate special instructions.

On May 1st of the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, Yihe boxing equipment. Within a few days, the Yihe Boxers issued more orders, flying to various places like snowflakes. Foreigners have been in Beijing for 40 years, and their luck is exhausted.God's will must be destroyed, so God sent the gods to the lower realms to burn down the Western-style buildings, embassies, and foreigners to revive the Qing Dynasty... The Yihe boxers are ready to attack. Although it is said that he wants to fight, Yihequan is not unreasonable.If we examine the historical data carefully, we will find that the foreign devils are responsible for the conflicts between the Boxers and the Christians.The historical data are as follows:

Because of the grievances between the common people and the religious people, they seduced Wang Qingyi and Nangong people with the surname Ma to the Songmen to recruit people for group training.There are three kinds of gods for offering, that is, the evil gods recorded in the Romance of the Gods.Fists and eyes can avoid guns, making people fight with guns.Unexpectedly, as soon as the gun was fired, he was hit in the chest, bleeding and fell to the ground to die.It is falsely blaming the disciples, saying that this time they will be seized by the disciples with objects, so the magic is not effective, and the disciples must be killed to make up for it.Since then, more and more people have gathered.

This record is from the "Compilation of Teaching Plans and Proposals".It is said that a stone's throw away from the Xiaonan River where Da Lao Wu and Liu Zhensheng's family live, there is a town of Songmen. Empress and so on.Then the big brother drank the talisman water, took off his shirt, patted his chest hard, and yelled: "It's Erlang God's Roaring Dog in the Lower Realm, woof woof, woof woof, if you shoot me if you don't shoot, I'll just shoot you!" Your sister raised it... So everyone picked up their guns and aimed at the senior brother's chest, there was a bang, the senior brother's body shook, and he fell into a pool of blood, and then touched his breath, he was already completely dead .

This unexpected incident shocked the boxers into stunned, they stepped forward to examine the body of the elder brother carefully, and the boxers all cried, saying: Our elder brother was raised by God Erlang from the upper world, and he was invulnerable to swords and guns.But now that the monster has broken the magic spell, how can this be tolerated? Where is the demon? The Boxer turned his angry eyes to the church: there it is!That's right, it was the old devils in the church who did it. If it weren't for the Western magic, they wouldn't be able to break the magic of the roaring dog!

Therefore, in Shandong and Hebei areas, boxers are surging, vowing to kill all foreign devils and religious believers.Big catastrophe is imminent for the family of Da Lao Wu and Liu Zhensheng. It is said that one day, Liu Zhensheng was practicing martial arts with his stepfather, Old Wu, in the open space at the east entrance of Xiaonanhe Village.At this time, Liu Zhensheng had grown up, and together with a fellow villager named Zhang Wenda, they worked hard all day long, and each of them practiced their own martial arts. Liu Zhensheng has the greatest strength in both arms, and people in the world call him Iron Arm Liu.Zhang Wenda is quick and light, and he will be nicknamed Shandong Zhang in the future.Both of them are born to practice martial arts, but Naihe's teacher who guides them is half jealous of the big old Wu, so the two of them practiced and practiced, and what they practiced was stupid kung fu. There is still a long way to go before the threshold of martial arts.

Just as everyone was exercising their strength, a faint shout suddenly came from a distance, and the voice became louder and louder. In an instant, countless torches were seen shining brightly in the south of the sky, and countless figures were facing towards the sky in the dark night. Xiao Nanhe rushed over. At that time, Da Lao Wu jumped up in fright and said: No, this is the Yihe Boxers. They just burned down the church a few days ago, and now they are here to kill us.Run, you two children, I'll call your mother. Liu Zhensheng hurriedly said: "Father, I will go with you to find my mother... The three of them hurried back to the village, but they could already hear the sound of crying in the village. Thousands of people sneaked to the entrance of the village, and suddenly lit torches, shouted loudly, rushed into the village, first set fire to the houses in the village, and the people in the house escaped from the panic, and were being stabbed one by one by the Yihe boxers. In an instant, the corpse lay on the ground.

The horrific scene of that night is forever condensed in Liu Zhensheng's heart.In the raging fire, there are countless boxers in brown shirts and red scarves. The bright steel knives shone frighteningly in the firelight. The ear-piercing sound on the joints turned the peaceful Xiaonan River into a slaughterhouse in an instant. Boxers killed Xiao Nanhe, this incident was lost in history, and there is no record.However, according to the book "The Chronicles of Boxing Bandits", it is described that Yihequan killed Zhang Dengzhen, but it was extremely cruel: ...When the lamp was lit, I heard the sound of people shouting and crying, and I realized that the boxers burned and killed dozens of religious families.The workers went to watch and found that the boys had fled away, but the women were left behind, and they were all burned to death in the house.A few women escaped, and the boxers stabbed their stomachs with knives. There was a loud noise, and several boxers grabbed their thighs and threw them into the fire.

It is not sure whether Liu Zhensheng witnessed his mother's death, but his mother was indeed surrounded by a group of strong boxers and hacked to death with knives.Liu Zhensheng's eyes were red with anxiety, and he and his adoptive father, the elder Wu, rushed up to fight desperately, but there were thousands of boxers, and a good tiger couldn't stand a pack of wolves, and Liu Zhensheng's kung fu was not good enough, so the elder Wu was messed up by the boxers on the spot. Liu Zhensheng and Zhang Wenda ran for their lives in the dark with tears in their eyes.Thousands of boxers are frantically chasing after them, and they must kill these two bastards.

Liu Zhensheng and Zhang Wenda fled for a whole night, and ran to the shore of Haihe Wharf in one breath, and finally exhausted their strength and collapsed to the ground.