In order to convince the Kira family samurai, this time he decisively asked five Swiss mercenaries to take up arms and fight five against one. These five men are all big men over 1.8 meters tall, and are especially good at the art of combined attack in battle formations.
The five of them joined forces to launch a dazzling and wonderful combination of attacks, but they were easily neutralized by Hans' exquisite swordsmanship.
Many people find that Hans's swordsmanship has a very scary feeling, that is, the swordsmanship techniques never rely on height, arm length, or the length of the sword. Use wide open and wide cuts. Basically, all moves are centered around vital parts.
A cruel trick.
The posture of holding the long sword is also very strange. He always keeps the hilt of the sword wandering near his chin. The tip of the sword usually always covers the opponent's vital points. When making moves, the sword blade moves close to the opponent's weapon, taking advantage of the situation to poke and wipe.
, wash the opponent's wrists, neck, abdomen and other key parts, all with dark sticky energy.
Usually, Hans's sword moves are to use great force to push away the combined attacks of several people, and then target a lone Swiss mercenary to strike with precision and precision. The silver sword light flickers and always dangles on the opponent's upper body, which is extremely dangerous and cruel.
A pair of moves is when two swords are entangled almost parallel to each other. The two of them poke each other's vital points like children fighting. If anyone's sword is slightly stuck to the outside, he will be hit immediately.
The five-man team on the opposite side was defeated by this ruthless swordsmanship in the first round. One of them was defeated, and the smooth attack of the five-man team was completely broken. Moreover, Hans followed him closely and continued to obstruct them, allowing the remaining four to regroup.
It became very difficult, and then the four people took the opportunity to knock off their weapons one by one, and this short but fierce battle came to an end.
The characteristic of knight's swordsmanship lies in the use of the wrist, and many moves in swordsmanship are also very similar. Yamamoto Tokiyuki said: "This swordsmanship is indeed very powerful."
The samurai of the Kira family were all convinced. They could defeat this level of combined attack skills one by one. They would never be able to compare their feelings with themselves. Many samurai began to talk about the Nanman warriors coming all the way to the Kira family to be instructors.
, naturally I have to have two brushes, and they soon accepted this new instructor.
In the next few days, Hans began to teach the warriors sword-holding postures and stance movements. Suddenly hearing the stance was very strange to many people, and then Hans said: "No matter what kind of melee weapon is used.
You need to have solid basic skills, stand firm on your feet, and be able to exert force as quickly as possible to knock down your opponent. The requirement of knight swordsmanship is to maintain a state of four in front and six in back during confrontation."
"Then there is the pace. Whether it is a two-handed sword, a one-handed sword or a German sword, the requirements for the pace are very strict. First, alternate steps forward and backward! It must also be used flexibly in combination with lunges." Hans made a left-right step, and then
Demonstrates a variant of the alternating step, with the body's center of gravity changing as the movement progresses. Then it changes to a T-step forward and backward with a light hop on one foot, including a T-step when turning.
"This kind of step can also be called a diagonal step up and a diagonal step back. The principle is the same." The steps Hans practiced were all ones he had used before, so it was not difficult to understand them. He then continued: "I
I found that everyone has a good foundation in footwork. As long as you keep training, you can master the secrets of footwork... What I want to teach you are the four starting movements. They are starting from the plow position, starting from the cow position, and starting from the top position.
The potential and deceptive position start from the potential.”
Hans's teaching level is very high, and he is meticulous in teaching. After every part of teaching, he will stop and ask the samurai to practice with his movements. Even Nakajo Tokihide watched with great interest.
Yamamoto Tokiyuki clicked his tongue and exclaimed: "The level is indeed very high! Who would have thought that the Nanman Kingdom would also have such a high level of swordsmanship? It's really eye-opening."
"It's a pity that the Yunlin Academy has returned to Kyoto." Kira Yoshi said with a smile: "Otherwise, we can ask him to come and compete with Hans."
"In my opinion, even if the Kashima Sword Master comes in person, it's hard to be sure of victory."
"Yes, yes!" Kira Yoshichi curled his lips in disapproval. The old swordsman Kashima was over sixty years old and his energy was not as good as before. It was too difficult for him to fight Hans in his prime. The old swordsman Le
Not being willing to try it out with this Teutonic Knight is still a problem.
After a few days of basic training, group exercises were arranged. Hans said that they should learn here first, and then learn more complex swordsmanship after they have a solid foundation.
In the next few days, Rupert led the Swiss mercenaries to perform a super spear formation. They performed several basic tactical actions with three guns that were not very suitable. The back row held the spears horizontally and placed the spear shafts on the
On the shoulders of the first row of spearmen, the first row of spearmen put the spear handles on their feet and pointed the spear head diagonally forward. This action is a standard frontal anti-assault spear formation, which the Swiss mercenaries also rely on.
This tactic defeats the opponent time and time again.
There are also various techniques such as holding a spear while marching, holding the spear flat when advancing in battle, and stabbing with a spear held high and suddenly lowering it. At the same time, the use of simple square formations and staggered square formations are practiced.
It is convenient to retract the spear and raise it high, then turn around and face the other direction, and rely on the translator to explain clearly the fighting method of the spearman, how to hold the spear high and change the tactical actions of the enemy in four directions at will. In theory, as long as the operation is done properly, flanking can be avoided.
The possibility of being breached.
This was not a surprise to the samurai, it was also eye-opening to those who were watching the excitement. The movements of these five veterans were uniform and the pace of action was consistent. Even when encountering a surprise attack by thirty people simulating different situations,
Their reaction coordination is also perfect.
Ever since the Kira family changed their equipment, there has been a voice that the three guns are not completely backward equipment, only new gun shields, javelins suddenly came out, making everyone's eyes confused by the new weapons, and in this war, the tomahawk
It still had some effect, and the mace was not even used at all, which also supports this statement from the side.
At this time, such a powerful spearman appeared and brought refreshing tactics. How could the Ashigaru people not be excited about it? Of course, Kira Yoshitoki was also very excited. The Swiss spearmen who dominated the last century were not
What a joke, without two brushes, how could they have forced the European knights to do nothing? He felt that the money was well spent.
When several highly paid foreign teachers were shining brightly, people began to pay more attention to them. At this time, apart from the translator, the seventh person attracted some people's attention. That was a man named Kellenberger.
The old man is known as "the best watchmaker in Europe", but no one knows what this watchmaker does.
Amid curious inquiries from the outside world, Cronenberg has never officially shown up, because Kira Yoshitoki has quietly recruited him into the Teppou Town of Kunitomo Village, which is one of the safest areas for the Kira family, and Kronenberg brought him
What he was given was a flintlock gun based on a dog-lock flintlock mechanism. The so-called dog-lock name comes from the fact that in the bolt-lock brake assembly, the firing hammer that locks the flint with a screw knob looks like a dog.
Named after its appearance.
The biggest feature of the dog-lock bolt action is the use of a spring-loaded sear, which opens a small hole behind the hammer. Inside the small hole is a piece of sear with a sear spring that is linked to the trigger. When the hammer is pulled upwards,
After moving to the sear brake position, hold the hammer to the ready-to-fire state, then pull the trigger to retract the sear and release the hammer. The hammer releases the kinetic energy of the main spring and hits the fire curtain downward to produce hot iron filings, triggering the fire.
The black powder in the primer pot burns, ignites the black powder in the primer port next to the primer pot, and conducts it to the explosion chamber to explode and expand to eject the projectile.
This kind of flintlock gun directly omits the step of using a match rope, and instead uses a sear hammer to hit the fire curtain to cause the gunpowder to burn and explode. Kiragi tried it out with someone and it was really good, but he still asked him to further modify it. First, he had to make
For a flintlock gun with a brass barrel, an explosion expansion chamber must be redesigned near the bolt to accommodate the thermal expansion of the gun barrel when the black powder explodes.
The muzzle caliber of the flintlock muskets 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 ram. Tools that use the power of nature to serve mankind have long been
For example, the famous large windmill in the Netherlands is a wind mill. A water mill is a waterwheel set up next to some rivers to use the power of the rotation of the water turbine to grind flour. It is actually an upgraded version of the animal-powered grinding mill.
On this basis, Kronenberg designed a hydraulic hammer that continuously struck the forging hammer with an iron hammer. The hammer would strike the forged object with a fixed rhythm and force, and he asked the watchmaker to
One of the reasons why he came here was that he needed to add gears, cranks and escapements to the hydraulic hammer.
He didn't understand this thing, but Kronenberg definitely understood it, because the European watch industry used mechanical gears and escapements on a large scale, which made the mechanical industry so developed in the European Industrial Revolution era. It can be said that the European watchmakers of this era
They are future mechanical inventors. At the same time, they also participated in the invention and design of many types of muskets, including his flintlock gun.
This matter couldn't stop him. After his design, he transformed a simple variable speed gear set, which can freely control the frequency of the hammer falling, and can also control the hammer to pause and fall, so that it can save time during the forging process.
In many links, when you need to stop, you only need to pull the handle.
The scope of application of hydraulic hammers is not limited to this. For example, the sorting and crushing of ores after mining can be replaced by hydraulic hammers, which saves labor and labor costs. In the past, because there was no watchmaker, he could not make hydraulic hammers to his liking.
Although Heibei Soga also learned clockwork skills for a period of time, it was only superficial, and the Nanman people would never teach him his true skills.
Because the joining of seven Nanman people has brought about new changes in the Kira family, although it is unclear to what extent it will change, it is always developing in a good direction. (To be continued, please search for Piaotian literature and novels.