Burning General
Yunlong was a native of Liujing Village. In order to occupy his homestead and move his ancestral graves, the rich man Shi Rentian colluded with the government and sued Yunlong's parents for rebellion. Yunlong's parents were unjustly killed, and Yunlong escaped with the help of relatives.
On the winter night of the 23rd year of Daoguang's reign, Yunlong wandered to Rongzhou and fainted from hunger on the street. At this time, Wang Lanshui, director of Rongzhou Silong Martial Arts Hall, walked out of Xiujiang Restaurant surrounded by his disciples. Wang Lanshui staggered a little because he drank a few too many glasses of wine. Inadvertently, he tripped over Yunlong who was lying on the ground. He lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground. He vomited all over his body.
The apprentices rushed forward to help Wang Lanshui up. When they saw that the person who tripped the master was actually a beggar, they couldn't help but lift him up to beat him. Wang Lanshui quickly stopped him: "We martial arts practitioners talk about fighting injustices, how can we bully the weak? Quickly, help him to the restaurant."
Everyone rescued Yunlong and brought him hot soup and rice. Yunlong devoured the food and after he was full, he clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, uncles!" Everyone said, "Thank you, Director Wang, if you want to thank us." Yunlong plopped down on the ground and said, "Thank you, Director Wang, for your rescue." ! Yunlong is wandering around, and I hope the curator will do his best and take Yunlong in. Yunlong is a cow and a horse, but he must repay the curator." Wang Lanshui saw that Yunlong was articulate, smart and sensible , and he felt a little fond of him. He said to him: "It's so pitiful to be wandering around at such a young age. Come to our martial arts studio. The kitchen is short of a fireman." From then on, Yunlong helped in the kitchen of Silong Martial Arts Gym.
Silong Martial Arts School teaches various martial arts, but the main event is javelin throwing. Wang Lanshui himself is also known as the "Javelin King". If a flat peach is placed a hundred meters away, Wang Lanshui closes his eyes and throws the javelin in his hand with a "whoosh", and he will hit the flat peach impartially. There are no weak soldiers under a strong general. Under Wang Lanshui's teaching, his apprentices were all very skilled in throwing javelins.
The kitchen of Silong Martial Arts School is right next to the training ground. After lighting the fire, Yunlong often watched Wang Lanshui and his apprentices throwing javelins, and he was very envious. He wanted to ask Director Wang to learn javelin several times, but finally held back. He thought that Director Wang saved him and gave him food and shelter, so he should be content and not bother others anymore. However, Yunlong couldn't help but get excited when he thought that if he learned how to throw a javelin, he could sneak back to the village and stab Shi Rentian to death to avenge his parents. He often lit the fire and listened to Director Wang's instructions to his apprentices. Whenever he had free time, Yunlong followed the key points of throwing mentioned by Director Wang and used the fire stick in his hand as a javelin to practice throwing.
One autumn , a mysterious figure came to the martial arts school. He had a secret conversation with Director Wang and then left. Soon, the number of people coming to the martial arts hall to learn martial arts suddenly increased, reaching more than 1,000 people. As a result, an extra row of stoves was opened in the kitchen, and lighting the fire became a busy job. Yunlong was busy every day. Really overwhelmed, Yunlong used his brain and found that in order to prevent fires, the firewood was piled 50 meters away from the kitchen. He kept walking back and forth to collect firewood for the fire, which was very energy-consuming. Yunlong thought that instead of spending most of his time getting firewood, he might as well use flying firewood to make a fire. He just did what he said. He stood on the pile of firewood and looked at the row of blazing stoves 50 meters away. When the firewood in any stove was almost burned, he picked up a piece of firewood and threw it over with a "swish".
As a result of practicing every day, eventually, even if a winter melon was placed a hundred meters away, Yunlong could throw a fire stick and pass through the melon.
Five years passed by and Yunlong grew into a young man. Whether it's flying firewood or throwing a javelin, his skills are very impressive.
One day in the summer of this year, Yunlong, who was eager for revenge, took a small bucket of yellow phosphorus and ten fire sticks and rode back to Liujing Village. He stood at the entrance of the village and saw seven or eight barns next to the rich man Shi Rentian's house. Under the eaves of each barn, there was a wall full of dry firewood stacked up.
Yunlong mixed ten fire sticks with yellow phosphorus in a yellow phosphorus bucket, and threw them towards the barn a hundred meters away. When the fire sticks were inserted into the firewood wall of the barn, they caused friction and caught fire. House. Shi Rentian ran out and shouted: "The barn is on fire, come and put out the fire! Put out the fire!"
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet. Yunlong threw the fire stick in his hand towards Shi Rentian, hitting the old rich man right in the heart! The flames burned the old rich man's clothes and spread with the help of the wind. Yunlong still felt resentful and threw another fire stick, and Shi Rentian became a burning person.
When the servants arrived one after another, the pampered old rich man was already blackened all over, lying on the ground with only the air coming in and no air coming out. Yunlong didn't wait for the servants to gather around him, got on his horse and ran away.
After taking revenge, Yunlong returned to Silong Martial Arts Hall and was surprised to find that the training ground was full of people, all of whom had learned martial arts here before. The director of the museum, Wang Lanshui, was speaking impassionedly: "Today is a good day. We are going to Guiping County to celebrate our birthday! Everyone brings their weapons."
Yunlong didn't know whose birthday he was celebrating, so he mobilized troops and brought weapons. He followed everyone suspiciously.
When I arrived at Jintian Village in Guiping, I found out that the person doing the birthday celebration was Hong Xiuquan, and the mysterious man who came to the martial arts hall a few years ago was Feng Yunshan, the Southern King whose status was second only to Hong Xiuquan. In addition to Rongzhou, many martial arts practitioners from all over Guangxi came to celebrate their birthdays, a total of 20,000 to 30,000 people, and the momentum was huge.
After the "Longevity" event, Hong Xiuquan immediately announced the uprising and established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Later, Yunlong followed Wang Lanshui and others to grow their hair and change clothes, wrapped their heads in red scarves, and started the Taiping Peasant War that shocked China and the world!
On the battlefield, Yunlong used his unique skills, constantly throwing fire sticks, burning enemy camps and enemy ships, and made great contributions.
Ten years later, when Yunlong's Taiping Army attacked Zhejiang, they encountered stubborn resistance from the Huaer Foreign Gun Corps and the Qing Army. The foreign gunmen knelt on one knee in the front row and stood upright in the back row. Wall waved the command knife in his hand, and rows of gunshots rang out. The Taiping troops who were shouting to charge immediately fell to the ground in pieces. The Qing troops hiding behind the foreign gunmen I applauded with joy…
The leader of the Taiping Army turned red with anger. Seeing this, Yunlong stood up and stepped forward: "I used my clay-burning fire sticks to deal with the foreign devils' foreign-burning fire sticks. I don't believe I can't beat them!" As he said this, he picked up a bunch of fire sticks dipped in yellow phosphorus and faced the hail of bullets. Horse forward.
The war horse was quickly shot and fell to the ground. Yunlong used the corpse of the war horse as a cover and threw the fire sticks in his hand towards the foreign gun team one after another. Each fire stick hit the small gunpowder barrel next to the foreign gun team. There were explosions one after another. The foreign guns were all uniform just now. The team suddenly broke into chaos, some were killed and some were injured, and the remaining members of the foreign gun team fled one after another. The Taiping Army shouted and rushed forward.
As Wall retreated, he aimed his pistol at Yunlong. There was a gunshot and Yunlong was unfortunately shot. Before falling, Yunlong struggled and threw the last fire stick towards Hua Er. The fire stick hit Wall's chest, and Wall's uniform immediately burst into flames. Upon seeing this, the leader of the Qing army quickly sent people to fight to the death, put out the flames on Hua Er's body, and rescued him.
In this battle, the Taiping Army won a great victory, but Yunlong closed his eyes forever.
Three days later, Wall, the first captain of the foreign rifle team, died of his injuries.
After Hong Xiuquan learned about Yunlong's deeds, he posthumously named him "General Burning Fire".
For this reason, the fire stick is a joking name for firearms in other places, but not in Rongzhou. It tells the heroic story of Yunlong from a beggar to a Taiping soldier…