A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television

The battle of Sarhu has not yet subsided, and the civil officials in the court are still taking the opportunity to stir up trouble and fight for power.

During this period, Xu Guangqi proposed a key defense strategy, suggesting that the court concentrate superior forces, defend Liaoyang and other important towns, make full use of artillery and firearms, and cooperate with solid cities to keep the Jiannu out of the pass.

There is certainly nothing wrong with such a strategy, but given the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, even if a good strategy is formulated, it is difficult to implement. Lack of soldiers and generals, lack of food and wages, serious corruption, local chaos, etc. are all problems.

The lack of money alone is a dead end.

However, the situation in the court at this time has little to do with Lu Cheng.

On this day, Lu Cheng had just gone to the blacksmith shop to get his customized weapons. When he returned to his temporary residence, he saw a woman in green waiting in the yard.

This woman had an upright figure, a long sword on her waist, long hair like a waterfall, and a heroic spirit all over her body. Seeing her, it was as if I saw the heroine Hua Mulan in history and Mu Guiying in opera.

"Are you the Lu Cheng mentioned by my senior brother?"

"Yes, this must be the junior sister of Brother Wen Zhao, the female hero Ding Baiying."

"I don't dare to be a female hero. You saved my senior brother, so you are my benefactor. My senior brother asked me to come and teach you the sword technique, so I came. However, before teaching you the sword technique, let me see how your foundation is."

"No problem."

"What weapon do you use?"

"I am best at short swords and bare-handed fighting. I haven't practiced sword techniques much, and I figured them out on the battlefield."

Ding Baiying nodded: "Then try the sword technique first."

Lu Cheng put the flying claws, short knives, and flying knives he brought back into the house, and then drew out his own waist knife, clasped his fists and saluted: "Miss Ding, Lu is naturally stronger, be careful."

"Oh? I want to see how strong you are."

Lu Cheng stopped talking, took a step forward, and still used a simple vertical chop. Ding Baiying did not move his feet, his eyes narrowed slightly, and at the moment when the blade was about to approach, he quickly turned around and drew his knife upwards, blocking Lu Cheng's knife, and then chopped down the long knife in his hand, and chopped down on Lu Cheng's waist knife.

This move is exactly the same as the scene in the movie.

When the two knives really collided, Lu Cheng realized that just this move of drawing the knife was not that simple.

Although Lu Cheng's downward chopping force was very strong, Ding Baiying used the slender Miao knife to relieve the force diagonally, and pulled away half a body position, and chopped down.

At the moment when the opponent's Miao Dao chopped down, Lu Cheng didn't have time to think too much. He instinctively wanted to learn from Shen Lian in the movie, and pressed his waist knife down, switched from his back to his left hand, and then attacked the opponent's legs.

But Lu Cheng had only practiced the knife for a few days, and his mind thought of a way to crack it. The movement transition was indeed a bit stiff. When the knife in his right hand was about to be handed over to his left hand, Ding Baiying's Miao Dao blade on the ground flipped and swept towards Lu Cheng with the back of the knife.

Lu Cheng didn't care about the knife in his hand, and quickly jumped back to avoid the attack.

Afterwards, Ding Baiying directly put away the slender Miao Dao and nodded: "You really haven't practiced swordsmanship, but you are very strong and have a very sensitive reaction. You are a good material for learning martial arts. Didn't you say that you are good at bare-handed fighting? Why don't we fight two more moves bare-handed?"

"I'd love to."

Just now in the contest of swordsmanship, Lu Cheng suffered a small loss, and at this moment he naturally wanted to regain some face.

Ding Baiying walked aside, untied her Miao Dao, leaned against the wall, and then looked at Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng also put her waist knife aside and moved her wrist: "Miss Ding, please."

Ding Baiying didn't waste words, took a step forward, and waved her hand to punch.

Lu Cheng directly used the common tactics of close combat, leaning left instantly, blocking the opponent's fist with his right arm, holding the opponent's arm with his left hand instantly, and while elbowing the upper arm with his right hand, he stretched out his right palm and quickly slapped the opponent's head.

If it was a real life-and-death fight, Lu Cheng's elbow would directly injure one of the opponent's arms, and his right palm would also slap the opponent's ear fiercely, making the opponent dizzy and losing combat effectiveness, and then add another blow to break the opponent's throat.

Of course, it was not a life-and-death fight at this moment. Lu Cheng's palm only brought a gust of wind and stopped steadily beside Ding Baiying's ear.

Before Ding Baiying could react, Lu Cheng jumped aside and clasped his fists: "Thank you."

Ding Baiying's face was not very good, although

Lu Cheng's palm just now did not fall, but the strong wind brought by the palm directly messed up her hair and almost touched her ears.

This made Ding Baiying, who was always very confident in her martial arts, somewhat unwilling to believe, but she had to admit that Lu Cheng's speed was indeed very fast, concise and clear.

"Where did you learn this move from? Why have I never seen it before?"

"I learned it from a martial arts master in the same village when I was a child, and he didn't tell me the specific source."

"It was too fast just now, it doesn't count, let's try again."

This time, Ding Baiying just finished speaking, and then a whip kick swept towards Lu Cheng's ribs, but Lu Cheng quickly raised his arms, steadily blocked the whip kick, and took a step back to relieve the force, and then took advantage of the situation to grab the opponent's ankle, pulled it towards himself, and at the same time punched the opponent's face fiercely.

Ding Baiying lost her balance instantly and stretched out her hands to block Lu Cheng's fist, but she saw that Lu Cheng's fist stopped steadily three inches away from her. His other hand changed from a fist to a palm and pushed Ding Baiying's shoulder.

After all, Ding Baiying had practiced martial arts for many years. With the help of Lu Cheng's push, she stabilized her body.

After a moment of silence, Ding Baiying said, "I will teach you the sword skills. Can you... can you give me this set of close-range grappling skills? I don't want to exchange with you, even if you don't teach me..."

"Of course no problem." Lu Cheng interrupted the other party directly: "This is not a precious thing."

Ding Baiying nodded, turned around, and her face was slightly red.

Although Ding Baiying was a martial artist, she was also a young woman. In such an extremely conservative feudal era, she knew the separation between men and women.

Just now, during the fight, Lu Cheng first grabbed her arm and then her ankle, which made her feel a little strange.

Of course, it was just a little shyness of a girl.

Picking up her Miao Dao, Ding Baiying drew the sword out of the sheath and slowly said: "The sword I use is a Miao Dao. It was specially made by General Qi to deal with the Japanese pirates. The sword technique I learned is also a set of sword techniques created by General Qi by combining the traditional Chinese sword techniques and gun techniques with the Japanese pirates' sword techniques, called "Xinyou Sword Technique".

This sword is much longer than an ordinary waist sword. It can be held with both hands or one hand. Most of the front of the blade is sharpened, and the part close to the handle is not sharpened. When necessary, you can also hold the handle with one hand and the blade with the other hand, and the long sword becomes a short sword for flexible attacks..."

Ding Baiying is obviously a very straightforward woman. Without saying too much nonsense, she explained the key points of the Miao Dao sword technique to Lu Cheng and demonstrated one action after another.

Lu Cheng followed and imitated with the waist sword. He had indeed made up his mind to go to the blacksmith shop again later to customize a Miao Dao.

After explaining for a while, Ding Baiying said: "In fact, you don't have to use the Miao Dao like me. You can choose a single sword, double swords, or Miao Dao as your weapon according to your own preferences. You are very strong and fast, and you can choose more sword techniques.

I have four apprentices, and each of them uses a different weapon. There are sword and shield combinations, maces, Miao Dao, double swords..."

"Then I will try them all first."

"Okay, I will teach these today. Now, it's your turn to teach me."

"No problem."