Chapter 2 second quarter

The first to stir up this wave was Zuo Zongtang, the last iron-blooded general of the Qing Dynasty. He led the capable Hunan Army. In Russia, the Gansu Muslim Rebel Army retreated to Dahejia in Hezhou.No one expected that when the army was pressing down on the border, Ma Zhanao, the leader of the Hui army, would be able to raise his troops to counterattack and use the black tiger's heart-piercing tactic to take out the tenth battalion of the Hunan Army.The banks of the Daxia River at the foot of the Prince's Mountain are just like this fertile fields watered by blood, and the loess is nourishing, as if drinking the rain.Zuo Shuai stood dumbfounded on the high dry plateau in Hezhou.

Ma Zhanao led the victorious army to surrender and became Zuo Zongtang's general. He went on an expedition to Xinjiang with the army and wiped out Aguba. Ma Zhanao's sons and nephews were appointed officials and nobles, and this was the beginning of later.Later, the Eight-Power Allied Forces attacked Beijing, and the brave and fierce Mongolian prince Seng Gelinqin was killed by the Nian Army in Shandong. The Hunan Army and the Huai Army were defeated. He and the Queen Mother escaped from Beijing and "toured west" to ancient Chang'an. Ma Haiyuan, the seventh old man who was in charge of escorting the "Western Patrol", became the most prestigious soldier of the Western Army.

The grand imam came to Xining at the invitation of the seventh old man.Ning Haijun's armed forces school is located here, and the students are all officers' children of Ma's army.Ma Qi paid for the official position of Ninghai Township's envoy.Ma Fuxiang from the same family won the martial arts examination, and became the town guard of Ningxia by virtue of his fame. His ancestors were bandits." The Ma family has always been taboo about being a bandit. The fall of the Manchu Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China happened to be the time to change the family.Nephew Ma Buying looked down on his uncle's behavior. "A bandit is a bandit. Which one is Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang not a bandit?" His father, Ma Bao, was the battalion commander of the Ninghai Navy. His son's words startled the battalion commander Ma, "I don't dare to talk nonsense. Uncle is doing it for everyone's good."

"For him or for everyone?" "Don't do this to your elders!" Battalion Commander Ma also specially told his son, "Don't compete with your cousin, just give in if you can." "I can't let it go into the ditch!" "People don't grow up. The heart grows up first. It's so big that it has no boundaries." What Battalion Commander Ma was worried about still happened. At that time, Ma Zhongying went to Wubei Primary School, and his cousin Ma Bufang Ma Buqing went to Wubei Middle School.Ma Zhongying's name at the time was Ma Buying, but she changed her name to Ma Zhongying after falling out with her cousin.

The brothers sat in the hall and waited for the distinguished guests to come.Instructors from Germany and Japan have come here, and the foreign instructors admire the martial spirit of the Great Northwest, and think that it can be compared with Yamato Bushido and the Germanic Teutonic Knights.The Japanese instructor told his German colleagues: This desolate plateau produced the most powerful Han and Tang Dynasties in Chinese history, and China's center of gravity has never been stronger since it moved south.The German instructor said that the hard loess here is like the ice and snow in our northern Europe, which can produce military spirit.

The brothers were all guessing which country the distinguished guest was from. In their impression, the soldiers of Germany and Japan were the best.Their elders walked in with the imam in uniform, and the children stood up to salute.Ma Qi, the guardian of Ninghai, told the dolls: The Imam wants to see your kung fu and see who is the son doll. Ma Qi hoped that his son Ma Bufang or Ma Buqing would be favored by the Imam, but the Imam's eyes stopped on the face of his nephew Ma Buying.The seventh old man twisted his white beard with his hands, squinted his eyes and said nothing.The seventh old master's Guan Gong's eyes are squinted all the year round, once opened, there will be lightning and thunder.

Ma Bufang and Ma Buying wielded the Hezhou saber, point to point, like two leopards churning together, killing indistinguishably.The first round was tied, and the second round was just beginning. The young Ma Buying took the initiative to attack, not giving his cousin a chance to breathe, and slashed at his vital parts continuously like a raging sea wave, with precise, powerful and tight movements.Although Ma Bufang intercepted the attacks from the left and right sides, he exposed his own identity, so that the knife edge of the opponent lay across his neck, and his lips turned blue with anxiety.At the end of the competition, Ma Bufang still stayed where he was.The guardian said, "Buying is younger than you, but his sword skills are better than you." Ma Bufang said, "Is a sword as powerful as a gun?" missing teeth.The guardian said: "Swallow it." Ma Bufang gulped down blood and teeth.The guardian envoy said: "The soul and courage of a soldier lie in the sword. Only by practicing good sword skills can you lead the army."The guardian envoy stroked his nephew's bare head, "Buying is a good boy." The guardian envoy awarded the Hezhou sword to the nephew.

The guardian envoy's intentions are obvious, his nephew Ma Buying has already received his reward, and the grand imam should also express something to Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing.The Seventh Old Master's eyes opened, the eyes were bloody, and the pupils were as red as roses, and it was chilling to be set in such narrow eyes.The Seventh Old Master covered the guard envoy tightly with this kind of gaze, and the guard envoy seemed to have been acupointed, and watched the Seventh Old Master and the Imam enter the scripture hall. The Imam said: "Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing will control Ning Haijun, but his son is Ma Buying."

The seventh old man said: "I am very happy that Hezhou can produce a fine horse." The great imam said: "I will take him to live in Shenma Valley of Qilian Mountain for three years, and let him see Qilian Mountain. It will be difficult for him to gain a foothold in Ning Haijun in the future." "Ning Haijun can't stay, we don't rely on Ning Haijun, there are plenty of sons and dolls on the plateau." "Qilian Mountain can save my baby from disaster, but my baby will become a wild horse. Wild horses are destined to wander in the wilderness." "The Republic of China has come, and the Mustang can feel proud."

"The baby is indeed a good baby, and his knife skills are like sea water, wave after wave. The sea mentioned in the scripture "Reshhar" is like that." The great imam took Ma Buying into the Shenma Valley in Qilian Mountains. During the autumn exercises of the Ninghai Navy, Ma Bufang bravely won the three armies, and the guard envoy awarded him his beloved Dongyang sword.Ma Bufang still hasn't forgotten the failure of the sword competition. He said loudly to the officers and soldiers in the audience: "The Hezhou sword is used by bandits. Soldiers should wear this."

At that time, Oriental knives were popular in Chinese military circles.

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