Da Kui had never taken such a bitter medicine in his whole life. He 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.
The soldier said: "Medical officer Wang once ordered me to give General Zhang a beating if he took less than a mouthful of medicine. This full bowl of medicine would probably kill him." This soldier was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he thought
He joined the army because he couldn't make a living at home. The soldier actually shed tears when he said this.
Dakui couldn't bear it, so he said: "Put the medicine bowl right next to my mouth, and I drank it in one breath."
The soldier hurriedly said: "General Zhang, don't speak." He paused and then said: "Medical Officer Wang said that this medicine needs to be drank one sip at a time to be effective." Upon hearing this, Da Kui 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 dinner, 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 his body. When his 20,000 soldiers saw the general arriving,
They formed a square formation neatly. As soon as Dakui stepped onto the parade platform, 20,000 soldiers shouted in unison: "General Shenwei, General Shenwei."
After Dakui waved, he sat down on the Grand Master's chair on the parade platform and immediately ordered the drill to begin. For a while, the school grounds were shouting and shouting, weapons clashed and jingled, and as far as the eye could see, soldiers were practicing for miles around.
Although the soldiers practiced very seriously, Dakui couldn't help frowning when he saw it. This was not what he wanted to see, what he wanted to see was martial arts, martial arts that 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 captain level to show off their martial arts skills on the school grounds and play 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.
Da Kui 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 martial arts. 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 in rejection.
A lieutenant said: "General Zhang is really too humble. General Zhang went around Bozhou alone among more than 100,000 enemy troops. The enemy general Zhang who blocked him killed two of them in one round. Later, he fought fiercely with the deputy general of the Yuan army, Gu Ye.
Bart killed him in 600 rounds, and on the second day he killed the enemy general under his horse. We were all in admiration and fell to the ground, how could we dare to teach General Zhang about 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 just wasting their time. After a while, Medical Officer Wang came to see the scene in the school grounds and yelled at the generals: "It's not easy for you to wait. How can General Zhang kneel for a long time before he recovers from his serious injury?" After saying that, he came to help Dakui and persuaded him.
He said: "General Zhang is also a general after all, how can he be so childish." Da Kui was stubborn and refused to get up, and Medical Officer Wang couldn't do it hard. He sighed and got off the parade platform, rode a fast horse and went straight to the Chinese army.
Not long after, Liu Futong arrived with several of his generals. As soon as he entered the school grounds and saw what the medical officer said, Liu Futong couldn't help laughing: "What a Zhang Dakui."
When Liu Futong stepped onto the parade platform and looked around, he said earnestly: "There must be one of our troops among the three of us. It is gratifying and congratulatory for General Zhang to realize this." 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."
General Dakui looked at Liu Futong suspiciously. Liu Futong said to the generals who were kneeling next to Dakui: "You can go to the Central Army to apply for candidates. I will select those with strong martial arts skills among the three armies. I will compete in martial arts every day. I will come to give detailed explanations to General Zhang.
Then he turned to Dakui and asked, "What does General Zhang think?"
Dakui asked: "Is this true?"
Liu Fu said: "I keep my word."
Da Kui stood up with great joy in his heart. Seeing that the general had stood up, the generals and soldiers also stood up one after another. Liu Futong coaxed Da Kui back to the camp like a child, and the soldiers in the school field continued to drill.
From the second day on, 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 in ancient times and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It is divided into two schools, the northern and the southern, and the internal and external. There are more than 400 types of martial arts in each department.
When fighting on the battlefield, the martial arts used are simple, direct, and rarely fancy. Those who are good at fighting must not only have superior martial arts, but also have a general understanding of the climate, environment, human bones, vital organs, blood, etc., so that they can use all means to fight.
The enemy will be killed 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 training of several weapons commonly used on the battlefield. There are roughly two types of swords, one is a long-handled sword, and the other is a medium-long-handled simple sword. 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, pounce, point, poke, and dance.
Dakui saw that he was particularly diligent in his spear skills, so he suffered a loss when he missed Badulu's spear.