Players who are familiar with history should know that the background of Jianghu X is in an era that is highly similar to the Southern and Northern Dynasties. This is an era that has experienced the spirit of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the idle talk that harmed the country, and the five chaos that disrupted China; an era in which the familiar heroes have withered away, and the new generation of heroes has not yet emerged.
There was Cao Mengde, King of Wei Wu, who was a master of politics, military, and culture; there was Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty who dedicated himself to death; Tao Yuanming, who was bent over the rice, and Xia Houxuan, the first famous scholar who was greeted by hundreds of guests even if he was late for the banquet.
Later there were two generations of wise kings, Yang Jian and Li Shimin, known in history as the Kaihuang rule and the Zhenguan rule. There were "strong men taking off their boots, noble concubines holding inkstones", "An Deguang" Li Bai and Du Fu, who have built tens of millions of buildings and protected the world's poor men with joy," and even the two door gods Qin Shubao and Yuchi Jingde hanging in front of every house today.
As for the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there has never been much written about it, and little is known about it today.
But this era is the most important dynasty in Chinese history. It was a turning point that experienced great wealth, great fortune, great disasters, and the character of a scholar who pursued plain talk and elegance, and the recklessness of a warrior who drew his sword when the road was rough, truly blended together to form today's resolute and unyielding national soul.
Starting today, I will write some posts from time to time to share some of the less well-known character prototypes in Jianghu X.
The first thing to write at the beginning is that the last paragraph of each character should be inserted into the game plot to selectively understand it. It is just for entertainment purposes and should not be used as a historical basis. .
The title says Night Battle in Luoyang, but we don’t start here.
The first character is the villain who has been lingering around you since you walked out of the secret mausoleum of King Yan and met the owner of the Red Cloud Sword——
In Jianghu X, the first time I saw Xiao Mohe was in the Luoyang Palace in the Northern Dynasties. Zhou Sanying led a group of knights from the Southern Dynasties to assassinate the emperor, but Xiao Mohe took action to eliminate him. This was a Northern Dynasty prime minister wearing strange clothes, but his strength was not ambiguous at all. With the help of Yeluhong, you managed to get out of trouble.
Later, Xiao Mohe extended his claws to the martial arts world of the Southern Dynasties, and even involved the two closest girls around you. His volley finger power and desert finger are nightmares that linger around you; countless martial arts masters, hermit masters, and even the head of Huashan Mountain and the Shaolin monk have broken his fingertips. Today, in the inns in Luoyang, there are storytellers explaining the legend of his single-handed victory over a group of heroes.
For such a powerful person, his prototype is more than that.
We have read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the story of Guan Yu warming wine and beheading Hua Xiong is familiar to us. In the novel, fierce generals such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun all have the experience of beheading generals in front of the battle. But in fact, there are very few fierce generals who can take the lead and kill the generals in front of the battle; not to mention that Hua Xiong was killed by Sun Jian's men, and the fact was copied by writers. In the vast history of the Three Kingdoms, there may only be three or four named generals who actually killed the generals in front of the battle; one of them, Xu Zhi, may have picked up a loophole: the other party was seriously ill and had not recovered.
Here is a paragraph taken from "Chen Shu·Biography·Biography of Xiao Mohe"
According to historical records, Xiao Mo When He was thirteen years old, he rode alone into the formation and was unstoppable. He was called the contemporary Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. When attacking the Northern Qi general Pohu, the opponent's forward troops had the titles of "Cangtou", "Rhinoceros Horn" and "Dali". Each of them was so brave that Chen Jun was very afraid. The coach Wu Mingche drank a pot of wine for Xiao Mohe. After drinking, Xiao Mohe mounted his horse and galloped towards the enemy's formation. Before Wei Pohu could draw the bow string, he was killed by the slingshot thrown by Xiao Mohe. More than a dozen people from Dali's army went out to fight, but they were all killed by Xiao Mohe, and the Qi army was defeated.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, social turmoil continued. Buddhism, which entered China at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, was widely spread during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Especially in the Liang Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty, Xiao Yan, vigorously promoted Buddhism during his more than fifty years in power. There is a poem by later generations that says, "There are 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, and how many towers are in the mist and rain" - according to historical statistics, there were 2,846 Buddhist temples in the Southern Liang Dynasty, with 82,700 monks and nuns.
For people of that era, naming with Buddhist characters was a trend, just like the Su-style names that were popular in the 1950s and 1960s, and the Qiong Yao-style names that were popular in the 1970s and 1980s. . Xiao Mohe was born and grew up in such an environment. His name is "Maha". Not many people are familiar with Buddhist classics, but those who play a lot of games probably know that there is a term called "Maha Wuliang", and the meaning of Maha is "big". By the way, Maha has another pronunciation as "horse". Today's "horse road" is likely to be derived from this word, rather than the commonly imagined "horse road".
Xiao Maha had a prominent family background, and his father and ancestors all served as high officials in the Liang Dynasty. But when he arrived at Xiao Mohe, he lost his father when he was young and grew up with his uncle Cai Lu. He showed courage, perseverance and extraordinary courage since he was a child. He followed Cai Luyang in the north and south, experienced the Hou Jing Rebellion, and gained military exploits. Hehe. As mentioned earlier, it was at this time that Xiao Mohe rode alone into the formation at the age of thirteen.
Later, when Cai Luyang was defeated, Xiao Mohe followed Chen Baxian’s general Hou Andu. There is also an anecdote recorded in history books: During the expedition against Northern Qi, Hou Andu said to Xiao Mohe, "Qing Xiaoyong is famous, and seeing him once is worse than hearing it a thousand times." Xiao Maha responded boldly, "I will see you today." As a result, during the battle, Hou Andu fell off his horse and was surrounded by the enemy. Xiao Mohe once again rode alone and rushed towards the Northern Qi army with a roar. The Northern Qi army was invincible, and Hou Andu survived.
However, I would like to remind everyone that the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties is written like a novel, and there are many exaggerated elements in it. This has a lot to do with the chaos of the world and the changes in political power at that time, which also led to a lot of suspense when we later interpreted the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Another famous figure, Chen Qingzhi, who "shunned thousands of troops in white robes", fought with hundreds of people from south to north and defeated hundreds of thousands of people on the opposite side. This was also written by a history book, as if he was reading a modern article. For the history books of that era, the deeds were generally correct, but the numerical values ??were often exaggerated. Let's jump out of the history books and see that Xiao Mohe is at least a brave general, comparable to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. As for being unparalleled in the Northern and Southern Dynasties alone, this is probably the opinion of novelists headed by Yao Silian. This is why the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties is not popular in China, so be careful not to trust it at all.
After the death of Emperor Chen Xuan, a fratricidal incident occurred between his two sons, Chen Shuling and Chen Shubao. Chen Shuling held a sword to assassinate the prince Chen Shubao in front of Emperor Xuan's spirit, but failed. After Chen Shubao escaped, the morale of the army was turbulent, and no one dared to attack Chen Shuling. At this time, someone suggested that Chen Shubao summon Xiao Mohe. There is another anecdote here. It is recorded in "Southern History" that Xiao Mohe responded to Chen Shubao's summons. This signal frightened Chen Shuling so much that he immediately sent someone to visit Xiao Mohe and offered him the position of Three Dukes to attract him. Xiao Mohe (according to Xiao Mohe's resume, it is estimated that he will be given the rank of Taiwei, equivalent to the current position of Chairman of the Military Commission). Xiao Mohe said, OK, you have to be sincere and send your cronies over for a chat. Chen Shuling really sent his cronies there, but was hacked to death by Xiao Mohe. Later, Xiao Mohe led hundreds of soldiers to put down the rebellion and killed Chen Shuling.
From this time on, Xiao Mohe was reused by Chen Shubao and appointed as a regular servant of Sanqi, a general of Hussar, and a doctor named Zuo Guanglu. It is probably equivalent to the level of Commander-in-Chief who has been vacant for a long time after Zhu De. It should be noted that Sangong basically only had a false position in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it was the hussar general who really made the decision.
The good times did not last long. It is said that good birds choose trees to roost in, and good ministers choose their masters to serve. Chen Shuling may not be a good person, but Chen Shubao was an extremely incompetent king in the test of history.
After Yang Jian (later Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty) took over the Northern Zhou Dynasty stably, he sent his general He Ruobi to attack Nanchen. Xiao Mohe repeatedly requested to go to war, but Empress Chen ignored him. It wasn't until He Ruobi's troops came to the city that Chen Shubao panicked and summoned Xiao Mohe.
Xiao Mohe was not polite and said to Chen Shubao, "I used to fight for the country. This time I am willing to fight for the sake of my wife and children." So he went into battle.
We all know that Chen Shubao, the master who wrote the song "The Flowers in the Back Courtyard of Yushu" that was despised by later generations as the sound of national subjugation, had a very beautiful concubine named Zhang Lihua. Zhang Lihua and Xiao Mohe's second wife, Ren, have a very good relationship and love each other as sisters, so they often get together. Something happened. Chen Shubao, a pervert, took advantage of Xiao Mohe's fight against the enemy to take over the Ren family.
Xiao Mohe didn’t believe it at first, and thought it would be good for Ren and Zhang Lihua to have sisters in the palace to take care of them for a long time. Unexpectedly, the green on his head turned out to be as green as the prairie after the rain, so he continued He had no intention of resisting He Ruobi and was captured by the Sui army. Then He Ruobi captured Jiankang (Nanjing) and the Chen Dynasty was destroyed.
It is ridiculous and lamentable that loyal people are forgetting themselves and dying in danger at this moment, but their families are destroyed by the person they are loyal to.
As a result, there is a history here that is almost a joke.
After Chen was destroyed, "Maha asked Bi and said: 'I am a prisoner now, and my fate depends on me. I would like to see my old master once, and die without hatred.' Bi mourned and agreed. Maha When he came to see the queen, he fell down and cried. He still went in to get food from the old kitchen and left with his words. No one on guard could look up at him."
After the fall of the Chen Dynasty, Xiao Maha asked He Ruobi, "Now I am your prisoner, life and death depend on your thoughts. I only want to see my old master, so that I will have no regrets after death." He Ruobi agreed. After Xiao Mohe saw his master, he fell to the ground and cried bitterly. He even cooked and gave food to his master himself. After saying goodbye, the soldiers guarding Chen Shubao did not dare to raise their heads (for fear that they would be discovered when they were moved to tears)
Subsequently, Xiao Maha surrendered to the Sui Dynasty. A generation of famous generals has been buried in dust.
Later generations have mixed opinions about Xiao Mohe. It is recorded in the historical books that Xiao Mohe surrendered to the Sui Dynasty and ignored his second wife. She died of Xiao Mo He did not let her son accompany her, and only asked her son to collect her inheritance after her death. In addition, she later rebelled against the Sui Dynasty and was killed, which left a lot of stains. However, some history books still comment that Xiao Mohe was brave and resourceful, similar to Li Guang, which is also a compliment.
However, Xiao Mohe’s unique skill of volleying divine fingers, which he became famous for, still remains in the rumors of the storyteller of Heluo Inn, and has become the longing and dream of generations of shrimps in the world. Hope, and... Shadow.