Chapter 175: Broadsword and Spear (3)
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The two armies continued to face each other, only this time it was replaced by thirty against thirty.
Thirty veterans to thirty recruits who took the initiative to stand up and have some foundation in swordsmanship. It's not that there are many thorns in the recruits, but the reward given by the fat group seat is very tempting, no matter which side, as long as you win, you can get a bowl of pork and two taels of white wine plus a night's rest tonight. The allure of the young lads, who had trained hard for two months without a drop of alcohol, was too great.
Eighty-five years later, it is estimated that 99 percent of the people will dismiss this kind of reward, but for China in this era, the vast majority of the people can only eat pork two or three times a year and drink a few meals of wine, even if they still have pigs at home.
These things are rare for recruits from the countryside. What's more, you can also get a good night's sleep after eating and drinking!
If you go to high school in the Republic 80 years later, you will understand that sometimes sleep is really a luxury.
Of course, what is more important is that there is a fat group seat, and perform in front of the fat group seat and the chiefs, Cai Dadao lost last time and even lost his pants, but the name of Cai Dadao was remembered by the group seat, isn't it? I am afraid that more than 80 percent of the recruits have such thoughts.
So in this battle, the recruits are also holding back their energy, and it doesn't matter if the person standing opposite is their veteran squad leader.
The veterans are naturally even more aggressive, and under the leadership of Hu Dazhuang, who had just lost a city, they have already geared up, and they are determined to give these recruits a good look. The pride of the veterans simply does not allow them to lose again.
Seeing the situation of the two sides, in order to prevent accidental injury, Liu Lang specially asked someone to replace the new rattan protection that Wang Zhiyi had just sent to the recruits and veterans, and even the face and neck were tightly protected.
The sticks were replaced by wooden spears that were as thick and thin as those made in Hanyang, and the knives were replaced with real broadswords, but the blades were wrapped in thick canvas and sprinkled with white lime, and as long as there were white marks on the armor that had been stabbed by wooden spears and knives, they had to withdraw from the battlefield.
After arranging all this, Liu Lang stepped aside and motioned for them to start.
The two sides shouted and rushed together to fight in the field.
Liu Lang didn't look at it, and recruited several worried recruit company commanders together to listen to their reports on the training of the recruits in the past two days.
"Sir, what if the veterans lose? How can I continue to practice this stabbing technique! Ling Hong saw that a veteran had been slashed in the chest by Cai Dadao and was sentenced to death, and couldn't help but remind Liu Langdao with a sad face.
Although the group seat never said that he missed it, the knife skills of Cai Dadao and a few recruits were really good, and they were all very brave at this time, not to mention that they had the upper hand.
"Do you think they are all martial arts masters? Hehe, this battle let them know what an army is, and let them understand that personal martial arts on the battlefield can never be the key to determining victory or defeat. Liu Lang smiled slightly.
Liu Lang said this, naturally he relied on him.
This is before he entered the Longyan army in his previous life, Liu Lang's company was discussing that the Northwest Army's broadsword team was so powerful, why not spread the sharp knife technique of breaking the edge and eight knives to the whole country after the Great Wall War of Resistance in 1933, and the national army with no advantage in bayonets each carried a big knife and trained for a few more years, so that most of the troops would not be completely disadvantaged when fighting with the Japanese army in the early days of the war.
The collision of two different minds naturally leads to arguments, and the facts naturally have to speak for themselves. The company commander of Liu Lang's company was also a simple person, and he directly conducted a combat exercise similar to today's.
The participants in the experiment were all soldiers who had been in the army for a year and a half, and none of them had undergone formal training in knife and stabbing techniques.
A warrior with a broadsword, against a warrior with a spear, the one with the broadsword is clearly at a disadvantage, and the bayonet wins in a 1v1 battle. In the 2V1 that followed the broadsword, the warrior with the spear could still stab an opponent if he was slashed by the knife, which was considered a tie. In the next 20V20 competition, it was the world of pikemen, in less than 2 minutes, the whole team with big knives was "killed", and the pikemen only withdrew from the competition.
The undying broadsword advocates tried many group warfare methods in a row, such as the tactics of three or four people huddle, but the pikemen were a kind of "one-word formation" that beat them without the power to parry.
It turns out that because of its short length, it is difficult to slash close to the bayonet with the imaginary attack on the defensive range of the bayonet, and the assassination speed of the bayonet is much faster than the chopping action of the broadsword, and the stalemate between the two sides only needs to be a little longer, and the broadsword will be defeated; In addition, the "Blade Breaking Knife Method", which is slashed by smashing the bayonet on the back of the knife, is difficult to perform in group battles.
At the beginning of the war, the Japanese veterans had a very high level of fighting, and the only one who was skilled in swordsmanship could compete with the Japanese army in white-knuckle warfare was the Northwest Army, and it was not surprising that the Japanese army and the national army had the upper hand in white-knuckle warfare.
Obviously, this battle in the field will not be an exception, the recruits will use big swords, but the veterans' stabbing skills are not in vain, and they have the advantage in weapons, if Liu Lang is not mistaken, the recruits will soon be defeated.
Sure enough, as Liu Lang expected, just a minute later, the recruits began to be stabbed by wooden guns one after another and were judged to be down, the veterans became more and more courageous, two minutes later, only Cai Dadao, who was skilled in swordsmanship, could still stand on the field, and he was facing veterans of up to twenty-five people. He didn't resist for more than ten seconds, and at least five spears stabbed him in the chest.
If it was a real battle, this person could be poked into a sieve with a bayonet all over his body.
"Sir, I was wrong, on the battlefield, bayonets are really more useful than broadswords." Looking at Liu Lang with a smile on his face, Cai Dadao lowered his head with a flushed face.
Cai Dadao, who can mix with the leader level in the bandits' den, is certainly not stupid, and immediately understood the subtext of Liu Lang's letting them compete, the army that emphasizes disciplined group cooperation and the bandits who like to show their own martial arts are completely different things. If he were to do this on the battlefield one day, he would probably have harmed his own brothers.
"No, Cai Dadao, you still think wrong, I never said that you used a big knife wrong." Liu Lang shook his head and said.
Cai Dadao and the lost recruits around him were stunned.
"Brethren, do you know why you want to practice stabbing techniques?" Liu Lang suddenly asked in a loud voice. "That's because the Japanese invaders think that their white-edged combat is unparalleled in the world, not to mention us Chinese, even the strong Russians have also fled in defeat under their bright bayonets. So they are proud, so they are cruel, and in order to save bullets, they like to use their blades to open the chests of our Chinese women and children, and use the blood of our Chinese to water the medals of their imperial army. ā
There was silence.
The men involuntarily clenched their fists.