The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 514
Try a spring plate with snow foam milk flower floating in midday, and Polygonum vulgare and artemisia bamboo shoots.The taste of the world is Qinghuan.

—— "Huanxi Sands · Drizzle and Slanting Wind Makes Xiaohan" Su Shi

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Compared with the training of the Assassin Battalion and the Martial Arts Battalion, Bai Fu has more experience.

During hundreds of battles in Suiyang, Bai Fu deeply understood the difference between killing enemies on the battlefield and fighting in the rivers and lakes.

The core essence of the bloody battlefield is: use the least cost, the least physical energy, and the shortest time to seriously injure or even kill the enemy.

Charged and surrounded, there is no room to move and dodge, it is impossible not to get injured.The key is to learn how to get injured reasonably. The injuries should not be too severe. We should try our best to exchange injuries for lives, and exchange minor injuries for serious injuries or even lives of opponents.

Secondly, the bigger the battle, the longer it will take.Therefore, to kill the enemy on the battlefield, you must save as much energy as possible, and reduce the energy consumption of every move.

In a stalemate state of war, whoever has the longest endurance will have a greater chance of winning.

Therefore, Bai Fu asked Chuanbang's disciples to simplify their moves as much as possible, reducing the complexity to the bare minimum.The pursuit of speed, the pursuit of killing the opponent before the enemy's blade breaks the armor, and kills him with one blow.

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The disciples of the Chuan Gang are all highly skilled in martial arts, so Bai Fu did not arrange too many courses in martial arts, but focused on training on riding and shooting and commanding battle formations.

Bai Fu fought against the rebel Hu Qi for many days, and he knew the importance of riding and shooting.

The reason why the Hu cavalry is invincible is not because of the strength of the Hu people, but because of the strong mobility of the Hu cavalry.When attacking, armored horses attack, aggression like fire, and unstoppable; when retreating, they are flexible, come and go like the wind, and disappear without a trace, which is not comparable to the infantry soldiers of the Central Plains.

Especially for long-distance riding and shooting, the barbarian iron cavalry can both harass and attack by force, while infantry soldiers can only passively defend, which is a headache.

With its powerful impact, a cavalry of thousands of barbarians can defeat ten thousand infantry.

The reason why the Tang army paid a lot of money to invite Huihe iron cavalry to assist in suppressing the rebellion was that it was difficult for the Tang army's infantry to encircle and suppress the Hu cavalry.

In order to strengthen the riding and shooting skills of the Bashu soldiers, Bai Fu invited the Persian general Alberts to come here in secret and teach him riding skills.

The Dashi steed is known as the desert elf, and the cavalry of Persia and Dashi are also extremely brave.Unlike the cavalry of the Tang army, the Persian cavalry, both men and horses, seldom wear heavy armor, and are good at detours and swift battles.

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This day's riding and archery class, the first person to play is Dou Yu from the Dou family in Mianzhou. The Dou family is the descendant of Dou Xian, a famous general in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Dou Yu's weapon is a sword with a ring head, a ring head, a narrow body, and a straight back.The Dou family's unique technique is Dou's cloak knife technique.This sword technique evolved from the cavalry charge of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is powerful and fierce.Especially the 45-way Breaking Wind Slash, which is extremely powerful and unstoppable.

In the riding and archery competition, three targets are placed on the left side of the horse path, each target is 35 steps apart, and each person carries a total of nine arrows, which can be repeated three times.

With a wave of the command flag, Dou Yu galloped out from a straight road, and when he was approaching the target, he drew his bow and set his arrow, with a sound of 'swish', the arrow hit the bull's-eye.

There was warm applause from the audience.

Dou Yu hit three arrows with three arrows, quite proud of himself.

Persian General Alberts whispered a few words to the messenger, and with a wave of the flag, the arrow target was no longer fixed, but began to move quickly.

Dou Yu frowned, rode out for the second time, drew his bow and set his arrows, all three arrows hit, but they missed the red heart on the target.

The command flag was waved out for the third time, and the target moved not only fast, but also irregularly.Dou Yu galloped out, but all three arrows were empty.Dou Yu was dejected, and rode back to the queue.

The second drum sounded, and it was Dian Meng from the Hanzhong Dian family.

Back then, Dian Meng lost to Zhong Yaya from the Zhong family in Yuzhou when he was discussing swords in Shushan, and missed the opportunity to go to Chang'an to participate in the martial arts.After the end of Shushan Discussion on Swords, Dian Meng felt unwilling to leave his hometown to visit famous teachers.Over the past few years, martial arts have made great progress.After the An Lushan Rebellion, Dian Meng joined the Sichuan Gang to assist the rebels in Luoyang to fight against the rebels.This time the Sichuan Gang selected elites, and Dianmeng did his part to be selected.

When Bai Fu saw Dian Meng, he felt emotional. Back then, Dou Yu and Dian Meng didn't make it to the Top [-] in Shushan Lunjian, they didn't come to Chang'an, and they didn't enter the Huben Army.

From the point of view at that time, the martial arts did not become the martial arts hand-picked by Xuanzong, and a great opportunity was missed.

I was also depressed because I was not selected for the Huben Army, and I even thought that the reason for Yang Yichan's departure was because I failed to enter the Huben Army.Now that I think about it, I don't know much about human nature, it's really ridiculous.

Today, due to the rebellion of Yongwang Li Lin, the Huben army led by Ji Guangchen has become an army that the court does not trust.This former army of heaven's favored son was stationed in a corner of Pian'an, and it has long since lost its former glory.

Misfortunes and blessings, arranged by God, how can mortals see clearly.

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As expected, Dian Meng had experienced in the rebel army, whether it was a fixed target or a moving target, all nine arrows hit the red heart.

Persian General Alberts smiled, and ordered Dianmeng to be given three more arrows to shoot again.

Dian Meng didn't know what the Persian general Alberts meant, but he still obeyed.Dianmeng clamped the horse's belly, and the steed galloped out, and the first target was about to enter the range.

Dian Meng held his breath, stretched his bow and set his arrow...

Suddenly, there was only a sound of gongs and drums, and dozens of gongs and drums sounded suddenly. The eyes of the steed under Dian Meng's crotch showed frightened eyes, and with a neighing sound, it quickly dodged and ran away from the horse path.

The stress response of the horse flashing and stopping suddenly produced a huge force, and it threw the horse's bow and arrow out of the horse, and fell off the horse.Dianmeng was quick-witted, dropped his bow and arrow, flipped three times in the air, and landed firmly on the ground.

Dian Meng put away his pride, feeling ashamed.If this is the time to charge into battle, this will put oneself in a tight siege, and there is even a risk of being trampled by thousands of troops.

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After a round of riding and archery competition, Dou Yu and Dian Meng are already the best students.For the rest of the people, there are still many martial arts better than these two, but their riding and shooting skills are not satisfactory.

Persian General Alberts said: "The art of riding and archery is a test of horse, riding and archery at the same time.

First, let's talk about horses.Untrained horses are very easily startled.Weeds on the roadside swinging with the wind, or debris blown by the wind, may cause stress reactions such as sudden flashes and sudden stops on the running horse, and the rider will be thrown off the horse, endangering the safety of the rider.

Therefore, not all horses can be used for riding, and not all horses that can be ridden can be used for riding and shooting.

A qualified war horse must not only be physically strong, but also bold and alert, able to overcome its natural weakness of timidity.Therefore, a qualified horse should turn a blind eye to any external factors such as any weapons wielded by the cavalry, the noisy environment of the battlefield, and continue to fight even if it is injured.

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Let alone riding.

When riding a horse, the rider should sit deeply on the saddle, step on the stirrups with the soles of the front feet, with the toes pointing up and the heels pressing down when stepping on the horse.In this way, the rider's feet will not go deep into the stirrups, and once the horse falls, it will not be easy to be caught by the stirrups.

When cavalry fights, they have to hold the weapon tightly with both hands, so they cannot hold the rein.At this time, the cavalry can only control the horse through the combination of legs, waist movements, passwords, etc.It all depends on regular training.

Without a rein, the cavalry can command the horse to control the direction through the password and the change of the center of gravity of the body.The rider can turn the horse by pressing the outside leg against the horse's belly.Only a horse that can perfectly match the cavalry is a qualified war horse.

In battle, in addition to the above actions, excellent cavalry is also good at mobilizing the strength of the waist and abdomen, and the force transmitted to the horse's back through the saddle, so that the horse can make various tactical actions such as accelerating, advancing, turning, and decelerating.

When a horse is trotting, running and gaiting, the body also has an ups and downs, like waves, which are called "waves".

The rider must perform waves according to the different paces of the horse, also known as sit-ups, pressing waves or pushing waves.Riders need to feel the waves of the horse. When the waves rise, the body rises with them, and when the waves fall, they sit with them.

When the waves are big, you can hit the waves; when the waves are small, you can directly press the waves with the strength of your waist and buttocks, and let your buttocks stick to the saddle and move together with the horse.When a horse is running fast, its hind legs will continue to exert force. The rider needs to match the force of the horse to send his waist forward and then retract it. This is called pushing waves.

In short, no matter hitting, pressing or pushing the waves, the rider's movements must always follow the rhythm of the horse.Only in this way can man and horse unite as one. "

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Although the disciples of the Chuan Gang knew how to ride horses, after the explanation given by the Persian general Alberts, they realized that they had so much knowledge about how to ride a war horse.

　1. Reference poetry

　　On December 24th, the seventh year of Yuanfeng, traveled to Nanshan from Uncle Liu Qian in Sizhou

　　The drizzle and the slanting wind are Xiaohan, and the light smoke is sparse and the Liu Meiqing beach.Into Huai Qing Luo gradually long.

　　Try a spring plate with snow foam milk flower floating in midday, and Polygonum vulgare and artemisia bamboo shoots.The taste of the world is Qinghuan.

　　—— "Huanxi Sands · Drizzle and Slanting Wind Makes Xiaohan" Su Shi

　　2 References

　　1. "The Art of War in the Age of Cold Weapons", refers to Wenfenghuo Studio, Jilin Literature and History Publishing House, October 2018 edition.

　　2. "Analysis of Traditional Bow and Arrow and Mounted Archery", Qi Ming, Jilin Literature and History Publishing House, October 2018 edition.

　　
　
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