Wang's father's words immediately aroused Xu Sancai's interest, and he quickly opened the booklet and read it carefully. [26nbsp;] The beginning of the handbook was a general outline, describing the general secrets of this stabbing sword skill. He had a photographic memory.
, but he read the general formula of just over 300 words over and over again. This general formula was not difficult to recite, but the profound meaning in it made him have endless aftertaste.
After reading the general formula, Xu Sancai realized the subtlety and difficulty of this stabbing sword formula. The general formula mentioned that no matter how strong the enemy is, there will be weaknesses, and no matter how mysterious the combat skills are, there will be loopholes. As long as these weaknesses and loopholes are found,
You can kill the enemy in the fastest way with the least effort.
This general strategy sounds like nonsense. Whether it is swordsmanship, knife skills, combat skills, etc., you should attack the enemy's weaknesses, but there are a few people who can quickly and accurately discover the enemy's weaknesses and moves in fierce battles.
Things are changing all the time, and who can seize the opportunity and seize the loopholes in the moves at the last moment?
Later, the general formula also described the secret of the thrusting sword move: attack the left and show the right, attack in front and show the back, attack up and show the bottom. Xu Sancai immediately thought of a passage in Sun Tzu's Art of War: The First Plan: Therefore
Show that you can't do it when you can, show that you don't use it when you use it, show how far you are when you are close, and show how close you are when you are far. He saw that this general sword stabbing secret secretly coincided with the most brilliant art of war, so he became even more interested in this sword secret.
Looking forward to it, I read it over and over again and savored the general instructions. Even the royal father quietly left the room without noticing.
When Xu Sancai continued to read the content at the back of the booklet, he realized why it was questionable whether this booklet counted as sword skills. There were no coherent moves in the booklet, and there was no explanation of the operation of fighting energy. There were only eighty-one postures.
The patterns. Those postures are very strange, some are very simple, just thrusting out; but some are weird, with the body bent down, but the sword thrust out diagonally; there is even a patterned figure almost lying on the ground,
The sword thrust out.
Some of the portraits show the sword thrust out from under the armpit, and one even bends down and lowers the head, with the sword thrust out from the waist. In other images, the posture of the human body is very twisted, with the right arm sticking out to the left.
The sword is thrust out diagonally to the right; there is another image of someone standing on tiptoes with his arms stretched upward, but the sword is thrust out diagonally downward.
The pattern does not have any instructions on how to use fighting spirit. The image is just an isolated posture. It does not depict all the moves like the Rotating Sword Sword Technique, nor does it explain the purpose of each posture. However, at the end of the booklet,
However, there are requirements for the sword to thrust out. The speed, accuracy and strength must be just right, and there are also ways to practice sword thrusting.
Xu Sancai read this booklet three times and seemed to have found some clues. There is actually no fixed routine for learning this swordsmanship, including those weird moves that are difficult to achieve, as well as additional ways to practice the speed, strength and accuracy of swordsmanship.
, all to allow people to train various attack methods, so that when the enemy's weaknesses are discovered, they can attack accurately from all angles.
Xu Sancai read the booklet carefully three times, making sure that he had memorized all the contents in the booklet accurately. Then he realized that it was almost dawn outside. Although he now spends almost all his time practicing fighting skills, he still insists on getting in the morning every day.
Practice Tai Chi health-preserving techniques within an hour at sunrise, and use Taoist Qi to cleanse your liver.
Xu Sancai read the booklet carefully the next day and tried to do the postures in the images. When he started to follow them, he found that most of the postures were extremely awkward to do, and even if he forced them to do it, he couldn't do it.
Strength. His body has been transformed into extraordinary flexibility after undergoing three times of menstruation and marrow cleansing. If even he cannot perform these postures, it will be even more difficult for others to learn these postures.
Xu Sancai also understood why this booklet was not taken seriously by the military. What the military pursues is strength. Generally, the body is strong but not flexible enough. Moreover, the soldiers wear armor when going into battle, and they cannot use this set of stabbing skills at all. Therefore,
It is indeed a waste for this rapier manual to fall into the hands of the military.
Xu Sancai stayed in the small secret room the whole day at the Wang family, tirelessly following the patterns in the booklet and trying to learn the postures like a cat or a tiger. Until the evening, when he and the Wang family had dinner together,
The royal father introduced him to two weapon shops in the city. Since the size and weight of the sword required his own selection, it was impossible for the royal father to buy it for him.
Xu Sancai and Wang Youcai returned to the academy after dinner. From then on, in addition to cultivating fighting spirit, he also had another task, which was to practice the eighty-one postures repeatedly. Of course, because the king's father repeatedly asked not to let others know
He had read the rapier manual, and he practiced secretly alone in places where people were carrying people.
Xu Sancai also visited two weapon shops in the capital recommended by his father, but he did not buy a sword. The cheapest swords that caught his eye cost more than 400 gold coins. And those cheap ones sold for more than 400 gold coins.
The sword was more expensive than what the academy sold, so he decided to go back to the academy and buy an ordinary sword that was suitable for him.
Xu Sancai had the sword. In addition to practicing those weird postures, of course he also practiced the art of turning around the sword. There are only eighteen moves in the turning sword, but each move has complex changes in moves, especially the body skills.
The footwork was erratic and difficult to learn. Fortunately, he had practiced the Piaoxu Shenfa. Otherwise, this set of swordsmanship would have been really difficult to learn.
A few months passed in the blink of an eye, and Xu Sancai finally mastered the basics of the Rotating Sword. He could also perform the eighty-one sword thrusting postures with complete accuracy. Next, he began to practice the accuracy of the sword thrusting technique according to the methods recorded in the sword thrusting manual.
and strength. It is very simple to practice accuracy. You only need to draw the target on the tree trunk and stab the target quickly and accurately with the sword in various postures.
The practice of strength is relatively complicated. The general instructions in the rapier manual require that the strength of each attack must be just right. For example, when stabbing the enemy's heart, the tip of the sword must penetrate into the opponent's heart, but only the heart needs to be penetrated.
Half an inch, you must not pierce too deep, let alone pierce the enemy's body. This will not only waste your energy, but most importantly, it will waste time to pierce and draw the sword. If you are surrounded by the enemy, it will become a fatal weakness.
The first step in practicing the strength of the stabbing sword is to tie ten layers of straw paper to a tree trunk. One thrust of the sword must penetrate the ten layers of straw paper without damaging the tree trunk. The second step is to attach equal importance to the attack power of the stabbing sword and the depth of penetration.
, if there is not enough attack power, no matter how clever the moves are, it will be in vain. In the practice method, ten layers of animal skins are tied to a tree trunk to practice stabbing.