stubborn thief

Chapter 553
It is not far from Ningyuan County to Lanzhou, and soon Liu Yiyong came back.

At first Liu Chengzong thought that Liu Yiyong's analysis was just nonsense from a young man who had never been on the battlefield, but when Liu Yiyong told him the details, Liu Chengzong couldn't help re-evaluating Zhang Yichuan's combat effectiveness.

It was difficult for Liu Yiyong to directly explain Zhang Yichuan's combat effectiveness to Liu Chengzong, so he danced a set of knives in the marshal's mansion on the spot.

The sword technique was very short, Liu Yiyong was afraid that he would not be able to see clearly and remember, so he danced three times in the main hall of the Marshal's Mansion. Liu Chengzong frowned while watching, and finally waved his hand and said: "Stop, I understand."

More than just seeing it clearly, Habayashi dances twice... There is no need to dance twice, he feels that he has already learned this set of knives now.

Because this set of knives is too plain and simple, it can even be said to be very crude.

Attacking is chopping, left sweeping, right sweeping, and stabbing; defense is knocking, knocking up and down, left and right, basically all actions are for attacking.

"Sure enough, the commander-in-chief can understand it at a glance." Liu Yiyong smiled: "The humble job also read it a few times and remembered it, they will know this."

Liu Chengzong was very confused, got up and made a gesture with empty hands, and asked: "Why did the stroke change into a stab when chopping? I think it became smooth; what does it mean to sweep back? And this footwork, just keep going forward ?”

Liu Yiyong smiled very plainly: "They said they had helmets, or were blocked by weapons, so they stabbed in; it was the same when knocking, the footwork commander was right, but in fact they didn't have any footwork, they just moved forward and couldn't stop. "

"Sweeping back is the same, and moving forward first. If it's a long spear, you can smash it. Knock it and go in. You can chop it as you like; if it's a short weapon, you can chop it in the head. No matter how long or short it is, you can knock it open or block it. That’s fine, just forget about it, go over and sweep the knife backwards, and continue to move forward.”

Liu Chengzong nodded thoughtfully: "There is no counter move, I probably understand."

This set of knives gave him the same feeling that Zhang Yichuanbu gave Liu Yiyong, confusion.

Liu Chengzong has systematically learned many weapons, such as bows and arrows, meteor hammers, spears, etc., but the knife is the weapon he is most familiar with, but he has never systematically learned any knife skills except the beheading knife.

In fact, not having systematically learned sword techniques does not prevent him from being able to fight better than those martial artists who guard the house, because he is strong and powerful, has experienced many battles, and has stronger actual combat experience than those who create martial arts. The most important thing is It is the right knife.

Accuracy is very important. When the frontier soldiers of Yuhebao do not have battalion exercises, they practice martial arts by themselves, and what they practice is accurate.

For recruits who haven't been trained, let alone holding a knife, they can't hit the point they want to hit with their own punches. They are off by an inch or two. When using a knife, it is the difference between cutting flesh and armor.

But almost no one of them practiced swords. The big ones in the battalion practiced the battle formation, and the small ones at the brigade level practiced horseback riding and shooting, spears and muskets.
Only in small-scale encounters or in the melee stage, when the spear is broken and the arrows are exhausted, will you take out the secondary weapon and fight hard... No one puts the main energy on practicing the knife, just like wrestling. As a relaxing game in your spare time.

But this did not prevent Liu Shizi from being able to see the way of this set of knives.

There is almost no defense, especially does not pay attention to leg defense, and is very particular about body skills. It keeps moving forward without stopping, and the movement of sweeping back with a knife can be used by infantry and cavalry.

This is definitely not a folk knife, because the characteristics of folk martial arts are very obvious: the choice of weapons is limited, limited to the law, and you are more cautious about causing damage. You will specialize in the same weapon, and the application scenarios are mostly one-to-one or one-to-many. , will consider more ornamental and controllable tricks that cause injuries and disabilities.

Such as attacking hands and feet, using weapons to defend hands and feet correspondingly, picking a weapon you like, striving to improve a martial art to perfection, practicing for a lifetime, being able to adapt to various situations, and even cultivating one's morality, so as to avoid accidents. Beat people to death and bring lawsuits.

And the army is not so particular, just learn how to use the weapons of the camp well, and you don’t have to worry about dealing with various situations alone. The master of swordsmanship on the opposite side is thinking about stealing hands, and the crossbowman behind you has already shot him into a hedgehog. No, even the Juggernaut can't stop the Fran's machine gun in front of him.

But this is exactly where Liu Chengzong feels ambivalent about this set of sword techniques. This set of knife techniques is not popular among the people, and the army does not need to spend energy to master this knife technique.

In the state of battle, this knife is useless again. The advantage of short weapons is that it is portable and can be used as a deputy. However, the iron law on the battlefield has never changed since ancient times. It is to let the enemy die on the road of attack, so long weapons are He is the master of the battlefield.

Spears, crossbows, muskets, cannons, the longer the better.

Therefore, Liu Chengzong did not understand the logic of the existence of this set of knives. It is full of flaws in civilian use scenarios, but on the battlefield, according to the existing tactics, the only form of application is that the enemy does not form an formation and disperses.

Only under such conditions, groups of soldiers in the form of skirmishers, holding knives and charging at the enemy troops that have not yet formed and dispersed, will one attack the enemy without killing, and the next one will continue to move forward without turning back until the enemy is killed. Penetrate the enemy formation.

The soldiers who were besieged inside and died when they stopped were the ones who used this set of knife techniques.

And in this situation, this set of knives has no flaws, um...it may be a bit troublesome, but overall, there are almost no flaws.

So this knife is very unreasonable. How can there be enemies scattered and waiting for you to kill?What's more, if there was such an opportunity, the cavalry directly ran over it.

With such doubts, Liu Chengzong paced slowly in the hall, thinking about this seemingly simple but very practical knife technique under certain circumstances. After he sat back, he raised his eyes and asked: " What is this knife called?"

"Break."

Liu Yiyong said seriously: "It's called Chuang, they all call it Chuang Dao."

rush.

Liu Chengzong nodded, as if thinking of something, he smiled silently: "A very appropriate name."

He probably knows who created this set of saber techniques. Zhang Yichuan joined Gao Yingxiang's sect first, and then joined forces with Li Zicheng. He has dealt with King Chuang and General Chuang, but Li Zicheng has a high probability of actually putting this kind of saber technique into actual combat. a little.

"How many of Zhang Yichuan's nine thousand soldiers know how to use this set of knives?"

As soon as he finished asking, Liu Chengzong regretted asking such a simple question. This knife method is too simple. He can use it after reading it twice. Anyone who can practice it for three days can use it and can clearly grasp it. The logic of the law:

Go forward, if you have the ability to break into the enemy's battle, if you don't have the ability to break into the life and death battle, in short, against the person standing in front of you - a slash in the head, a stab with a different move, a sweep with the back of the body, an opponent no matter whether he lives or dies, he can only fight three times. Knife, if you can pass it, you can pass it, if you can't pass it, you will die.

"Everyone."

After Liu Yiyong finished speaking, he explained: "Zhang Yichuan never refuses anyone who recruits troops. Men, women, old and young are strong and weak. Anyone who can run will be given a knife. After learning this set of knives, he will run away when he encounters an officer. Let the officer chase him until he can't escape. Just rush back, as long as the officers and soldiers disperse and there are more people rushing back, the officers and troops can be broken up."

"He said that when he joined forces with the Fifth Battalion of the Chuang Army in the past, as long as he broke through the enemy's formation, Li Zicheng's Chuang Battalion cavalry would defeat the official army."

Liu Chengzong frowned and thought: This is too idealistic.

He asked: "Only relying on the hungry people, even if the sword is issued, the officers and soldiers will scatter in two steps. Even if the officers and soldiers disperse, there will not be enough people rushing back, it will not work."

"The commander-in-chief is right. This is also a low-ranking doubt, but according to Zhang Yichuan, after their people learn this set of knives, they will pay attention to running with the brigade when they run, so as to find a way out." Liu Yiyong thought for a while and replied. : "My humble opinion is that, just like the cavalry disciplines taught by the Marshal's Mansion Academy, when cavalry confronts, no matter the enemy or us, there are only three heroes in a centurion."

The orphans of Habayashi have all taken classes in various military departments of the academy, and they are very familiar with the drills.

Liu Chengzong has also heard about the cavalry theory of these three heroes. It was created by Yang Yao, the cavalry leader of the Lion Battalion. There were only three heroes who dared to take the enemy's head with all their might, and the other seven were followers who only cared about defending their lives while charging.

The remaining ninety are just idiots with neither guts nor brains. They just follow the crowd and rely on the bravery of others to decide their own life and death.

When others rushed to kill bravely, they stabbed two knives at the corpses as well, and they were honored;

Regarding this theory, Liu Chengzong, who is the forward of the Cavaliers, thinks, um... it is a psychological suggestion to instill faith and courage. It is not necessarily correct, rigorous, and reasonable, but it is useful.

The enemy may not have only three heroes, but if there are ten cavalry at the front of our cavalry who firmly believe in this theory, the entire brigade will not steer their horses when charging, and the cavalry will have very few opportunities to counterattack. If they really collided, the enemy's turn at the last moment proved that the enemy had ninety idiots who followed the crowd.

On the contrary, if you have the courage to hedge, you will definitely lose both sides. We firmly believe that our cavalry, which has only three heroes in the enemy army, must have higher fighting spirit in the battle. If the first wave kills ten cavalrymen on the opposite side, it is possible to start the second collision with the certainty of victory. The enemy army certainly did not have such courage.

The same is true for this set of breaking knives. The peasant army recruits who have no backhand against the officers and soldiers believe that they can master a knife technique that can cut down the officers and soldiers by gathering strength. When they flee, they will take the initiative to run in one direction. Stimulated by the first-level meritorious service, the army scattered and chased. When those who could not run and those who were unlucky were killed, the peasant army who still had the strength to fight back and disperse with knives did have a chance to rush away from the official army.

If you have the help of elite soldiers, you don't need to be so elite. As long as you have a cavalry brigade composed of a few regular troops, it is possible to turn defeat into victory.

Obviously, this is a tactic developed by the peasant army in Shanxi and the Central Plains as a last resort, and the central idea is asymmetric warfare.

Liu Shizi understands this set of saber techniques, so he has a good idea of ​​the fighting power of Zhang Yichuan's troops. Liu Yiyong's evaluation of his troops is true. He sighed and said: "The whole army is practicing this saber technique. longer."

This time he was reckless, taking it for granted that the peasant army should not be weak until this time... It is indeed not weak, but they are not in the same way as him, and they will not follow the conventional route from peasants to soldiers to elites People are following the upgrade line of thieves, swordsmen, and Kansai horse bandits.

From the beginning to the end, this route does not seem to have considered changing to a regular army and carrying out the straggler tactics to the end.

In Liu Chengzong's opinion, this tactic is not very clever, but he can understand the choice of the peasant army, especially Zhang Yichuan, a leader with limited strength. Limited strength means that there is no choice, and everything is a life-saving straw.

And their opponent, the Ming Empire, is too strong.

In fact, Daming is at its weakest today, but due to the legacy of its ancestors, even the weakest is too strong for its enemies.

The virtues of the ancestors are the righteousness of the country.

If the country is not right, in other words, the existence of the country itself is unreasonable, so even if there are no internal and external problems, someone who rebels will get more responses.

Only when the country is upright, can the family be turned into the country, the country into the world, and cast into the most powerful amulet.

If you can't turn your family into a country, officials and ministers who are not loyal to the emperor may succeed in rebellion; if you can't turn a country into a world, people's rebellion has a higher chance of success.

This country supposedly should have perished as early as the defeat of Tumubao, Lord Jiajing's cultivation of immortals, and Lord Wanli's neglect of government. In the end, he insisted on mastering the art of fraudulent corpses, and he has been alive and well until now. .

This kind of strength is reflected in Da Ming's body, that is, he can fight.

The Hundred Years' War was still interspersed with a truce of several decades, and Ming fought in Liuheyu for almost 100 years in a row. The north fought the east, the east fought the west, and the outside continued to fight.

Being able to fight does not mean that you will definitely win, but toughness can bring a terrible sense of oppression and despair to the enemy, which will help you win in the end.

Until now, those opponents who have fought against Ming Dynasty for a hundred years have been lying down one after another, and few are still standing. Even Hou Jin, who performed best, is just trying to maintain a look that death is worse than life.

At this time, even Huang Taiji would not believe that Daming would perish soon, and Chuoros didn't take Daming to destroy him first, so he didn't know where he was.

Only those who stand on Daming's side will believe that the rebellion can be wiped out and Houjin can be wiped out.

This belief has led to the current situation, where drought, flood, military disaster, famine, and plague are rampant. People on this land make forced choices, and they are divided into two groups in one place.

There was not enough food, and the land could not support so many people. People made a natural selection. One group of people became rogues in response to the peasant army, and the other group became Tuanlian in response to the government.

So Liu Chengzong can understand Zhang Yichuan's despair. At this time, there will not be any peasant army who really believes that Daming can be overthrown in the end. At most, they are just like Hou Jin, trying to maintain a state of survival.

It's just that their desperate choice brought a lot of trouble to the reorganization of the Marshal's Mansion.

"I originally thought that the inclusion of Zhang Yichuan would save me some trouble, but I didn't expect to find myself a bigger trouble."

Liu Chengzong shook his head with a wry smile, and all the equipment capable of arming a battalion had already been transported.

According to Zhang Yichuan's old tactics, if the reorganized five battalions are sent to the front line, they may be able to get away with winning the first or even the second battle, but once the officers and soldiers figure out the way, they will inevitably lose At that time, the equipment of this battalion will be the enemy.

"The Henan Fifth Battalion can't learn battle formation in a short time, but it doesn't take that long to learn as much as you can."

Liu Chengzong told Liu Yiyong a few words, then sent him back to Ningyuan County for military training, and then issued an order to the entire Marshal's Mansion: "Generals from Gansu, Xining, and Lintao will go to Lanzhou to discuss matters and prepare for the Eastern Expedition."

　good afternoon!

　　
　
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