Pillars of the Wu family

In order to convince the samurai of Kira's family, this time he decisively asked five Swiss mercenaries to take up arms and fight five-on-one. The people join hands to play a wonderful combined attack that is dizzying, but it is still easily resolved by Hans' exquisite swordsmanship.

Many people find that Hans's swordsmanship has a very scary feeling, that is, in the use of swordsmanship skills, he never relies on his height, arm length, or the length of the sword body to use wide-open and wide-open slashing, basically all moves are around the vital parts His vicious tricks.

The posture of holding the long sword is also very strange, always keeping the hilt wandering around his chin, the tip of the sword generally always covers the opponent's vitals, and the blade moves against the opponent's weapon when undoing the move, taking advantage of the situation, poking, wiping , Wash the wrists, neck, abdomen and other vital parts of the hands, all with dark sticky strength.

Usually, Hans's sword move is to squeeze a few people away with a huge force first, and then aim at a single Swiss mercenary to fight fiercely. A pair of moves means that two swords are entangled almost parallel to each other. The two of them poke at each other's vitals like children fighting. Whoever's sword is slightly glued to the periphery will be hit immediately.

The five-person group on the opposite side was defeated by this fierce swordsmanship in the first round, which completely broke the smooth attack of the five-person combined attack, and Hans's continuous entanglement and obstruction followed him like a shadow, allowing the remaining four to form a new formation. It became very difficult, and then the four people seized the opportunity to knock out their weapons one by one, and this short but fierce battle came to an end.

The characteristic of knight swordsmanship lies in the use of wrists, and many moves in swordsmanship are also very similar.Tokiyuki Yamamoto said: "This sword technique is really powerful."

The samurai of the Kira family were all convinced.In the face of this level of combined attacks, it can be defeated one by one.It is absolutely impossible to compare your heart with your own. Many samurai began to talk about the Nanban samurai coming all the way to Kira's house as instructors. Naturally, they had to have two brushes, and they soon accepted this new instructor.

In the next few days, Hans began to teach the warriors the posture of holding a sword and the posture of standing. Suddenly, many people felt very fresh when they heard standing. Then Hans said: "No matter what kind of melee weapon you use. It is necessary to have a solid basic skill, stand firmly on one's own footsteps and be able to knock down the opponent as quickly as possible, the requirement of knight swordsmanship is to maintain the state of the first four and the last six in the confrontation state."

"Then there is the step. Whether it is a two-handed sword, a one-handed sword or a German knife, the requirements for the step are very strict. First, alternate steps forward and backward! It must also be used flexibly in combination with lunges." Hans made a left and right stepping movement, and then Demonstrates a variation of gait with alternating steps, where the body's center of gravity shifts as it moves.Then change to a T-step step forward and backward with light hops on one foot, including the T-step step when turning.

"This kind of step can also be called a diagonal step. The principle is the same as a diagonal step back." The footwork that Hans practiced was all used by him, so it is not difficult to understand, and then he continued: "I I found that everyone has a good foundation in footwork. As long as you keep practicing, you can master the tricks of footwork... Next, I will teach four starting movements, which are plow position, bull position, and top position. Momentum and deceitful position."

Hans's teaching level is very high, and he is meticulous in teaching. After each part of the teaching, he will stop and ask the samurai to practice with his movements. Even Tokihide Nakajo watched it with relish.

Yamamoto Tokiyuki exclaimed: "The level is indeed very high! Who would have thought that the Nanman Kingdom would have such a high level of swordsmanship, it is really an eye-opener."

"It's a pity that the Yunlin Academy has already returned to the capital." Kira Yoshishi said with a smile: "Otherwise, we can ask him to come and compete with Hans."

"From the point of view of the veteran, only Kashima Sword Master can't be sure of victory if he comes in person."

"Yeah, yeah!" Kira Yoshishi curled his lips disapprovingly. Kashima's old swordsman was over sixty years old and his energy was not as good as before. It was too difficult for him to confront Hans who was in his prime. The old swordsman Le Not willing to try out with this Teutonic knight is still a problem.

A few days of basic training will be followed by group exercises. Hans said that let them learn here first, and then learn more complicated swordsmanship after the foundation is solid.

In the next few days, Rupert led the Swiss mercenaries to perform a super-spear array. They used the three guns that were not very suitable to do a few basic tactical actions. On the shoulders of the first row of spearmen, the first row of spearmen put the handles of their spears on their feet, pointing the spearhead obliquely at the front. This action is a standard frontal anti-assault spear array, and the Swiss mercenaries also rely on This tactic beats the opponent time and time again.

There are also various skills such as holding the spear in the march, holding the spear forward when advancing in battle, and stabbing the spear suddenly lowered while holding it high. It is convenient to retract the spear and hold it high, then turn around and face the other direction, and rely on the translation to explain the combat style of the spearman. How to hold the spear high and change the tactical movements of the four directions to face the enemy at will. In theory, as long as it is operated properly, it can avoid flanking possibility of being breached.

This is not surprising to the samurai, those standing ashigaru who watched the excitement were also eye-opening. The movements of these five veterans were uniform and the pace of action was the same. The response coordination is also perfect.

Ever since Kira's house was changed, there has always been a voice that the three guns are not entirely outdated equipment, only the new gun shields and javelins suddenly come out to make everyone's eyes confused by the new weapons, and in this war, the tomahawk It also has a slight effect, and the mace is not even useful at all, which also supports this statement from the side.

And at this time, such a powerful spearman brought refreshing tactics, how can the ashigaru people not be excited about it, of course Kira Yoshishi was also very excited, the Swiss spearmen of the last century are not Just kidding, without two brushes, can they force the European knights to fail?He thought it was well worth the money.

When several foreign teachers hired with high salaries shined, people began to focus more on them. At this time, apart from the translator, the seventh person attracted some people's attention. It was a man named Cronenberg. The old man is known as "the best watchmaker in Europe", but no one knows what this watchmaker does.

In the curious exploration of the outside world, Kronberg has never officially shown up, because Kira Yoshitoshi had quietly recruited him into the Iron Pao Town of Kuniyou Village, which is one of the safest areas for Kira's family, and Kronberg brought him What was given to him was a flintlock based on the dog-lock flintlock mechanism brake locking device. The so-called dog lock is named because the firing hammer that locks the flint with a screw knob in the gun lock brake assembly is very similar to a dog. Named after its appearance.

The biggest feature of the dog-lock bolt action is the use of a sear with a spring. A small hole is opened behind the hammer. Inside the small hole is a piece of sear with a sear spring that is linked with the trigger. When the hammer is pulled up After moving to the position of the sear brake, hold the hammer to be ready to shoot, then pull the trigger and the sear retracts to let go of the hammer, the hammer releases the kinetic energy of the main spring and beats the fire curtain downward to produce hot iron filings. The black powder in the priming pot burns, and ignites the black powder in the firing port next to the priming pot, conducts to the explosion chamber and explodes and expands to shoot out the projectile.

This kind of flintlock gun directly omits the step of using the matchlock, and changes it to block the iron and hammer the fire curtain to cause the gunpowder to burn and explode. It was really good to try it out when Kira Yoshishishi tried it, but he still asked him to make further modifications. A flintlock gun with a brass barrel, and then redesign an explosion expansion chamber near the bolt to accommodate the thermal expansion of the barrel when the black powder explodes.

The muzzle caliber of the flintlock should be unified into a fixed caliber. In order to improve efficiency, Yoshitoki Kira decided to invite the watchmaker to participate in his newly designed equipment, the hydraulic hammer. The tool that uses natural power to serve human beings has long been Yes, for example, the famous big windmill in the Netherlands is a wind mill, and the water mill is to set up waterwheels beside some rivers to grind flour with the help of the power of the water turbine rotation, which is actually an upgraded version of the animal-pulled mill.

On the basis of this, Cronenberg designed a hydraulic hammer that uses a hammer to continuously hit the forging hammer. The hammer will hit the forged object with a fixed rhythm and force, and he asked the watchmaker One of the reasons for coming here is that he needs to add gears, cranks and escapements to this hydraulic hammer.

He doesn't understand this, but Cronenberg must understand it, because the European watch industry uses mechanical gears and escapements on a large scale, which makes the mechanical industry so developed in the post-European industrial revolution era. It can be said that European watchmakers in this era They are the future mechanical inventors, and they also participated in the invention and design of many muskets, including his flintlock.

This matter can't help him. After his design, he transformed a simple transmission gear set, which can freely control the frequency of the hammer falling, and can also control the pause of the hammer falling, so that it can be saved during the forging process. In many links, you only need to pull the handle when you need to stop.

The scope of application of the hydraulic hammer is not limited to this. For example, the sorting and crushing of ore after mining can be replaced by a hydraulic hammer, which saves labor and labor costs. Before, he could not make the desired hydraulic hammer without a watchmaker. As for the hammer, although Su Woping Bingwei has also learned clock technology for a while, it is only superficial, and the Nanman people will not teach him the real skills at all.

Because of the addition of the seven southern barbarians, the Kira family has undergone new changes. Although it is not clear how far it will change for a while, it is always developing in a good direction. (To be continued..)