Chapter 18 A man should strengthen himself
() Early the next morning, the four Ma brothers came to the small martial arts training ground located in the southwest corner of the family house. Because Ma Teng was also a military commander, they specially opened up this place when building the house.
It was always used for martial arts training, but in recent years only Ma Chao has been using it, but today there are three more brothers.
Although this martial arts training ground is only within the radius of an arrow and cannot be used to gallop, it is fully equipped with all necessary equipment. There are racks for various weapons, wooden targets commonly used in the army, and many more.
Avoid stone locks and other objects used to strengthen one's strength, which will make people want to move at the first glance.
Ma Chao knew that this second brother had never been interested in these things before, so he introduced the furnishings here to Ma Yue. However, Ma Yue was not the person he knew, even though he had not really come into contact with these ancient people in his previous life.
He could recognize all the weapons used for martial arts training. He just responded to his brother perfunctorily a few times, then walked to the weapon rack and picked up a knife over four feet long to weigh it.
This weighing made Ma Yue shocked, because he found that although he could lift the knife, it was not easy to swing it. He was afraid that the weight of the knife must be about twenty kilograms. Ma Chao
After seeing it, he also introduced: "Second brother, don't look at this knife.
It is not big, but it is a sharp weapon used by our Liangzhou infantry to form formations to fight against the Qiang cavalry. This sword weighs twenty-five kilograms, and it is difficult to move it if the arms do not have the strength of a hundred kilograms. But once it can be formed into an array, it can be used to attack
The Qiang cavalry is enough to kill them!"
"I see." Ma Yue nodded with understanding. He originally thought that people in this era were all so strong and could use such heavy knives. At the same time, something flashed through his mind.
An idea came to his mind. He vaguely remembered that in his previous life, he was reading some historical documents and introduced a kind of military unit called Mo Dao soldiers that was very popular in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. This kind of heavy-armed unit was the nemesis of the cavalry, but he didn’t know if there was such a unit in the Han Dynasty.
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However, his idea was soon disturbed by what happened later, because Matthew and Xiu had already drawn out two weapons and started dancing there. Looking at their postures, it seemed like that, they were obviously going in.
He has also practiced martial arts. In fact, among the four brothers of the Ma family, only Ma Yue has never practiced martial arts. This is because his body is relatively thin, and it is also due to his personality. It turns out that he really lacks interest in martial arts.
lack.
Seeing his two younger brothers, who were less than ten years old and not as tall as the spears in their hands, wielding the barrels of their guns, Ma Yue suddenly remembered something and said: "Third brother, fourth brother, don't be too busy practicing the spear, just follow me first.
Let’s talk about the set (this place is harmonized again) actions.”
"Huh?" Even Ma Chao and the three brothers looked at Ma Yue with some confusion, wondering what his intentions were.
Ma Yue took a lunge and raised his legs on the ground, and said: "Follow my actions and move your body first, otherwise you will easily hurt yourself later." As he said this, he also moved his hands in a wide range.
.He is doing warm-up exercises, so that his body can adapt to the intense exercise later, and at the same time, it can stretch the ligaments.
Ma Yue knew that the structure of the body was exactly the same whether it was ancient people or today. It is still easy to hurt yourself during strenuous exercise, and children are naturally more susceptible to injury. Therefore, for everyone's safety, it is better to have sufficient preparations.
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Ma Tie and Ma Xiu's relationship with their second brother has become better and better in the past few days because of listening to stories. When they saw what he said, they followed suit even though they didn't understand the reason. But Ma Chao was confused.
, I really couldn’t understand what my second brother was thinking, but he thought this might be a method Ma Yue had seen in ancient books, so he didn’t stop him.
After warming up, Ma Chao began to introduce some simple martial arts skills he had mastered to his three brothers one by one. In fact, for Ma Xiu and Ma Tie, they already knew these, so these were only for Ma Yue.
Ma Yue also listened carefully to Ma Chao's teaching of these movements, and then began to practice hard in the corner.
What Ma Chao teaches is a set of boxing techniques. Although it is not a high-level martial arts, it can still exercise the human body and make the limbs and trunk move greatly, thus strengthening the human body. After practicing for a while,
Ma Yue clearly felt the benefits of this boxing technique, and naturally became more determined to practice it well.
After practicing for a while, Ma Yue felt his arms and legs were aching, and then he stopped. At this time, the three people over there were already practicing spear skills under the leadership of Ma Chao.
Obviously, the movements of these three people are exactly the same, but Ma Yue can still clearly feel that every move he uses, Ma Chao is much more powerful than his two younger brothers. Every time he stabs,
The red tassel on the gun in his hand suddenly bloomed, which was enough to show the strength he released at this moment.
After they finished practicing a set of guns, Ma Yue came closer and asked with a smile: "Brother, did you learn these marksmanship and boxing skills from your father?"
"Yes, these marksmanship and boxing skills are the same set. They were passed down from the ancestor of our Ma family, General Fubo, a famous general during the reign of Emperor Guangwu." Ma Chao nodded.
"General Fu Bo... Ma Yuan?" Ma Yue's heart moved, and he had already thought of this famous general in the Han Dynasty. Although he didn't know much about this famous general, he also understood that a general who could become famous in history must be extraordinary.
He was really surprised that the Maj family where he lived actually had such an origin. Just because in this era, what people valued most was family status and origin. With such a famous ancestor there, he should be surprised.
It will be helpful for future development.
Seeing Ma Yue being silent there, Ma Chao thought that what he thought about his marksmanship, so he immediately said: "Don't underestimate this marksmanship that has been passed down by our Ma family for hundreds of years. It looks very easy to learn."
, is also very simple, but if you master it, its power is also great. When I first started learning it, I didn’t think it was very powerful, but after ten years of hard practice, I have understood the secret.
It’s there.”
"How dare I have such disrespectful thoughts about the spear skills of my ancestors? It is said that great skill is like clumsiness, and great complexity is like simplicity. The more you look at simple things, the more profound and difficult they are to understand. I, my little brother,
I still understand." Ma Yue hurriedly said: "But not everyone can understand this spear skill. I think it is impossible for me to reach the height of my brother."
Ma Chao was silent. He naturally understood this. The marksmanship handed down from Ma Yuan only had thirty-six moves, but the changes in it were endless. His father Ma Teng could not compare with his son's enlightenment, so now
Ma Teng's martial arts skills were far inferior to Ma Chao's. But Ma Chao didn't want to dampen the enthusiasm of his younger brothers, so he said: "I believe you will be able to learn and succeed. Maybe one day, second brother, your abilities will still be there."
More than me."
Ma Yue did not take these words of comfort seriously. He knew that his body could improve and he would not become a burden to his family in the future. It would be good if he had the ability to protect himself. There was no need to expect to reach the top level.
The level of a military commander. However, this regret was ignored by him.
He hid it deep in his heart and said with a smile: "Brother is right, I also hope that there will be such a day. By the way, brother, when you were practicing spear shooting with the third and fourth brothers just now, I didn't see the power of it at all. It's not as good as you
Just use this spear technique with all your strength once, so that I can have a target to catch up with."
"Okay!" Ma Chao nodded immediately. After his three younger brothers retreated to the edge of the martial arts training ground, he took up his posture and danced with the gun with all his strength. Only after dancing did Ma Yue realize that this set of marksmanship skills left by his ancestors were indeed true.
It's amazing, I saw this gun stabbing, picking, pointing, pressing, sweeping, lifting, and lifting in Ma Chao's hand... Every time I saw this gun, I was defenseless, and combined with his fast-moving footsteps, it was even more...
I was dazzled.
After watching for a long time, Ma Yue felt that Ma Chao in front of him had split into countless pieces, and all he could see were gun shadows shaking around, as if dragons came to life in Ma Chao's hands.
"As graceful as a startling giant, as graceful as a swimming dragon! Good!" Ma Yue couldn't help but recited all the poems written by Cao Zhi more than ten years later!
With this shout of applause, Ma Chao happened to put away his gun, but saw that he put the gun on his back, with a calm expression, not at all like he had just practiced an amazing marksmanship. When Ma Chao saw this, he felt even more envious, if he could be so good
With his body, he had a chance to stand out in these troubled times, but it's a pity that now...
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Although he knew that he could not reach Ma Chao's level, Ma Yue was not discouraged. From this day on, he practiced martial arts with his three brothers in the martial arts field every day. In the first two days,
He still couldn't finish a set of punches, but after five days, his body finally adapted to this kind of exercise, and he was finally able to punch a set of Ma's boxing techniques without taking a break in the middle.
Ma Teng, the mother, was originally worried that her son's martial arts practice would cause the disease to relapse when he had just recovered from illness. However, after discovering that her son was getting more and more energetic, she allowed him to practice martial arts. And Ma Teng saw that his four sons could
He felt very relieved to have such a promising future. In addition, Geng Bi lost the initiative last time and could not find any other reason to embarrass Ma Teng in a short period of time, which made his life very easy.
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These ten days can be said to be the most peaceful and fulfilling days for Ma Yue since he came to this era. He practiced martial arts during the day and read military books at night, hoping that when chaos breaks out in the world, he
Have enough ability to protect themselves and their families to cope with the situation at that time.
However, the peaceful life ended soon. On the tenth day as agreed with Wang Feng and the others, good news and bad news came one after another, making Ma Yue dare not be careless at all.
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Chapter completed!