Da Kui had never taken such a bitter medicine in his whole life. He only felt the taste buds on the tip of his tongue were so bitter that it was numb. He swallowed it, and the soldiers fed him again. Da Kui closed his mouth tightly and did not speak, and the soldiers said: "Medical officer Wang once ordered young people like General Zhang to
If you take less than one mouthful of medicine, you will be beaten. This full bowl of medicine will probably kill the little one." This soldier was only sixteen or seventeen years old. He thought he could not make a living at home so he joined the army. The soldier said this
With tears streaming down his face, Dakui said: "Put the medicine bowl to my mouth, and I drank it in one breath." The soldier said hurriedly: "General Zhang, don't talk." After a pause, he continued: "Medical Officer Wang said this
The medicine needs to be taken one mouthful at a time to be effective." Upon hearing this, Dakui suddenly felt that suffering was coming.
Da Kui ate bitter medicine twice a day, and had to drink it in sips. He couldn't move or talk every day, and he only ate gruel and pickles for three meals a day. During this period, Liu Futong and other generals came to visit many times, all of which were for advice.
Da Kui was relieved to be raised. He survived like this for a month before Medical Officer Wang allowed him to get out of bed.
The first thing Dakui did when he got out of bed was to chat with the veteran chef for two hours until noon. During the meal, Dr. Wang said it was time to eat some meat, so Dakui ate two pork knuckles before giving up.
On the third day after getting out of bed, Da Kui took two of his followers to the military training ground. Da Kui was recovering from a serious injury and was still too weak to wear armor, so he found a leather armor and put it on himself. When his 20,000 soldiers saw the general arriving,
They lined up neatly in a square formation and shouted in unison: "General Shenwei, General Shenwei." Dakui waved and sat on the Taishi chair on the parade platform and ordered the drill to begin. For a while, the school grounds were shouting and shouting, and weapons clashed and jingled.
There were soldiers training for several miles around.
Although the soldiers were practicing very seriously, Dakui could not help but frown. This was not what he wanted to see. What he wanted to see was martial arts, which had been proven on the battlefield and defeated the enemy with one blow.
This is like being bitten by a snake once, and fearing the rope for ten years. Da Kui was really frightened by Da Shi Badulu. If he goes to the battlefield next time and there is an opponent like Da Shi Badulu, he may not be so lucky.
Dakui then ordered the officers above the rank of captain to show off their martial arts skills on the school field and play the game without working hard.
This time it was even more lively, with nearly a hundred people showing off their magical powers on the school grounds, with swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, axes, hooks and crosses in a wide variety of styles.
Dakui selected a dozen of the ones he liked and asked them to continue practicing. These dozen officers were indeed very skilled. Once they practiced, the soldiers watching cheered from time to time. Among these dozen, there were six gunmen.
, three wield broadswords, one wields a stick, one wields a mace, and one wields a double sword.
After they finished the drill, Dakui said bluntly to them: "I have been stupid since I was a child. Later, I went to the mountains to learn martial arts because of my stupidity. I only learned some basic kung fu. This time I asked everyone to come here to find some good teachers.
Me." Upon hearing this, the generals shook their heads and waved their hands. A captain said: "General Zhang is really too modest. General Zhang went around Bozhou alone among hundreds of thousands of enemy troops. The enemy general who blocked General Zhang was able to defeat him in one turn.
He killed two of them, and later he fought fiercely with the deputy general of the Yuan army, Guyebat, for 600 rounds and killed him. On the second day, he killed the enemy general on his horse. We were all in admiration and fell to the ground. How dare we say that we should give advice to General Zhang on his martial arts."
Da Kui asked for skills in every possible way, but the generals just refused. Da Kui had no choice but to kneel down in front of 20,000 soldiers. He used his old skills of going up the mountain to become a disciple and said: "If you don't agree, I, Zhang Dakui, will kneel and die here."
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When the generals saw the general bowing down, they all panicked and rushed over to help him. The soldiers who came with Da Kui hurriedly stopped him and said, "General Zhang is injured, please don't pull it." The generals had no choice but to kneel down and return the salute.
All the soldiers knelt on the ground.
A thirty-year-old general named Yang Yonghuai said: "If General Zhang wants to do this, I will kneel with General Zhang. We will kneel as long as the general kneels." The two sides were so exhausted that after a while, Medical Officer Wang came to see him.
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As soon as he saw the scene in the school grounds, he shouted loudly: "It's not easy for you to wait. How can General Zhang kneel for a long time before he is seriously injured?" After saying that, he came to help Dakui and persuaded: "General Zhang is also a general after all, how can he be so childish."
Stubbornly refusing to get up, Medical Officer Wang couldn't lift hard. He sighed and got off the parade platform, and rode a fast horse straight towards the Chinese army.
Not long after, Liu Futong and several generals came over. As soon as they entered the school grounds, Liu Futong laughed loudly: "What a Zhang Dakui." As he walked onto the parade platform, Liu Fu said: "There must be one of our divisions among the three of us, General Zhang.
It's so gratifying to have such an awakening." Dakui knelt on the ground and said nothing.
Liu Futong added: "I understand General Zhang's intentions. If General Zhang can trust me, I will leave the matter to me. If General Zhang is not satisfied, I will let you be punished." Da Kui looked at Liu Futong doubtfully, and Liu Futong knelt beside Da Kui.
The generals said: "You can go to the Central Army to apply for candidates. I will select those with strong martial arts skills among the three armies. They will compete in martial arts every day. I will give General Zhang a detailed explanation." Then he turned to Da Kui and asked Da Kui: "What does General Zhang want?
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Dakui asked: "Is this true?" Liu Fu replied: "I keep my word." Dakui then stood up, and the generals and soldiers also stood up when they saw that the general had stood up. Liu Futong coaxed Dakui back to the tent like a child.
Soldiers on the campus will continue to drill.
Starting from the second day, Liu Futong selected more than 100 people with strong martial arts skills among the more than 100,000 red scarf soldiers in the army to set up a martial arts lecture hall, including many senior red scarf generals. Everyone learned from each other and made progress together, and Da Kui benefited a lot from participating in it. Liu Futong details
Explained the practical application of various martial arts and weapons in battle formations.
Martial arts originated from ancient times and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It is divided into two schools, the North and the South, and two schools inside and outside. There are more than 400 types of martial arts in each department. When fighting on the battlefield, the martial arts used are simple and direct with few tricks. Those who are good at fighting must not only have
Superior martial arts also require a general understanding of the climate, environment, human bones, vital organs, blood vessels, etc., so as to use all means to kill the enemy in the shortest possible time.
Weapons are divided into long and short, soft and hard. The so-called long refers to: broadsword, spear, club, axe, ax, fork, clang, spear, halberd. And short refers to: knife, sword, hook, whip, mace,
Crucible, axe, hammer, vertebrae. Nine long and nine short are collectively called eighteen types of weapons.
Liu Futong also explained one by one the manned drills of several weapons commonly used on the battlefield. There are roughly two types of broadswords, one is a long-handled broadsword, and the other is a medium-long-handled plain knife. The main techniques are: stabbing, cutting, lifting, hanging, splitting,
Sweep, pick, chop, press, and bring. There is basically one type of spear. The main techniques are: stabbing, stabbing, hitting, wrapping, circling, blocking, rushing, pointing, poking, and dancing.
Dakui saw that he was particularly diligent in his spear skills, so he suffered a loss when he missed Badulu's spear.