The year 1936 passed in the midst of this growing national crisis and civil strife. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Communists finally seized the opportunity of the Double 12 Incident and finally achieved the goal of "forcing Chiang to resist Japan".

In February 1937, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army accepted the "reorganization" of the Nationalist Government, took off the red star cut from red cloth on the hat, and replaced it with a government military cap with the symbol of the blue sky and white sun

The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which had already gained a firm foothold in northern Shaanxi, was surrounded and intercepted by the enemy along the way of the Long March, and only 30,000 people remained, and the army suffered heavy losses in cadres.

As a result, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China established the Anti-Japanese Red Army University in northern Shaanxi.

It is worth mentioning that there were 38 students in the first department of the first university of the Anti-Japanese Red Army, with an average age of 27 years old, and three scars per capita******.

And among these students, there are many students of President Jiang who were born in Huangpu and finally stood on the communist front, such as the first president of Kang University, ****, who was born in Huangpu.

At the same time, the 226 Mutiny also occurred in Japan, which was far away from the ocean, and the Japanese military department gained the dominant position of national rule and established the fascist rule headed by the military department.

According to the law, "If you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria; If you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China", and began to sharpen its knives against the tall but weak Chinese giants.

It was almost the midsummer of 1937, and the situation in the Pingjin area was getting tighter and tighter, and the Japanese army had surrounded the 29th Army stationed in Pingjin on three sides, and every day there would be devil's planes hovering in the sky over Beiping and Tianjin.

The Chinese and Japanese forces are tense, and war is on the verge of breaking out.

Beiping, where the Chinese army was stationed.

On the playground, the soldiers formed a large circle, and the commander of the scar battalion in the circle was waving the big knife in his hand.

He holds the knife with both hands, the movements are simple and refined, wide open and close, fast and fierce, the head of the knife, the waist knife, the oblique knife, the head of the hard dance and other techniques of the silk, the knife wind is fierce, the last step to change the shape of the stabbing out, and then the face is not red and the heart does not beat to close the knife and stand.

The cheers of the surrounding soldiers followed.

"Have you seen it all?" Camp Scar asked.

"See clearly!" The soldiers replied loudly.

"Is our broadsword good?" Camp Commander Scar then asked.

"It's easy to use!" The soldiers' answers were still loud.

"Don't underestimate our big knife, this is the tradition of our Northwest Army, if you use it well, you can withstand five or six bayonets of the little devil, and if you don't use it well, it is not as good as a bayonet, it can not only save your life on the battlefield, but also cut off the head of the little devil! If you have a knife, you must practice it diligently, and you can't let it become a deaf ear - an ornament! Let's practice the Eight Swords of Breaking the Edge for me! Ready to go! ”

The momentum of hundreds of people wielding swords at the same time is different from that of one person wielding swords, although the soldiers of the Northwest Army are generally malnourished due to poor supplies, they are still imposing, and the heroic and fierce spirit of the soldiers is undoubtedly displayed in the uniform movements. "Kill! Kill! The roar echoed through the playground, and the dust seemed to be frightened by the sound of killing, and shivered in the air.

The scar battalion commander nodded with satisfaction, but when he turned around, he saw Huo Yuan standing beside him at some point, and hurriedly saluted and called the brigade commander.

Huo Yuan was promoted to brigade commander at the end of last year.

He secretly destroyed a few Japanese soldiers, and the army commander Song Zheyuan undoubtedly knew about it, afraid that he would cause some trouble, but he admired Huo Yuan very much, so he simply promoted him, transferred Huo Yuan's troops to Beiping, and put them by his side.

Huo Yuan nodded his head as a salute to the Scar Battalion Commander, but he reached out and took the big knife in the Scar Battalion Commander's hand.

In terms of sharpness, this broadsword is not as good as a Japanese sword, and it is far inferior to his son Huo Xiaoshan's hair-blowing Yanling knife, because it can be forged in any blacksmith shop in China.

But it excels in width and thickness, and is typical of machete shapes.

The length of the knife is 900mm right and right, the widest part of the front of the knife is 57mm, the width of the second half is significantly reduced, the thickest part of the knife is 5~6mm, the front end of the knife body is relatively sharp, and the weight of the knife is around 4 catties.

The gauntlet of the knife is in the shape of a common ingot, the handle is 215mm long, and there is a round knife ring behind the handle. Although the steel edge of this knife is ordinary, because of the long body, wide blade, thick back, and sufficient weight, it does not suffer when facing the bayonets of the Japanese devils and the slender katana.

When Huo Yuan returned from Guanwai to rejoin the Northwest Army, in the famous Battle of the Great Wall, Xifengkou, it was with such a big knife that he cut off the heads of seventeen devils, so as to win the respect of his soldiers with his undisputed knife skills, and he was worthy of the name of the regiment commander.

And the Eight Swords that Scar Camp practiced just now is a typical two-handed knife technique.

It was Huo Yuan who absorbed the essence of classical knife techniques such as Qi Jiguang's "Xinyou Knife Method" and Cheng Zongyou's "Single Knife Method" in the Ming Dynasty, and further simplified it according to the characteristics of white-knuckle combat on the battlefield, so as to become a knife technique that any ordinary soldier could master.

Huo Yuan himself is a master of martial arts, so he has a lot of experience in using this Eight Swords, so he can make the enemy frightened in the white-knuckle battle with the devil, and the Scar Battalion Commander also benefited from Huo Yuan's guidance and coach.

"Why do you still have this knife, it's time to go back to the furnace." Huo Yuan said, while stroking the blade with his thumb, the blade was obviously well maintained, but there was a small gap in the middle of the knife, which was extremely inconsistent with the overall knife.

"Hehe" Battalion Commander Scar smiled embarrassedly, "As soon as I saw the gap on this knife, I remembered that you used this knife to hack the little devil with an iron scarf, so I didn't want to replace it. ”

"Hehe, you kid!" As soon as he heard what the Scar Battalion Commander said, he suddenly made Huo Yuan, who was sighing, laugh.

It turns out that there is an allusion to the gap on this knife, which starts with the iron scarf of the Japanese devil.

It was after the battle of Xifengkou that the Japanese invented a ridiculous iron scarf due to the lack of an effective way to deal with the broadsword of the 29th Army.

With a half-moon-shaped piece of iron, fold it into a semicircle, make two holes in the upper end, rivet it to the steel helmet with rivets.

When the steel helmet was worn, the iron scarf was worn around the back of the neck, believing that this would effectively protect the soldier's head from being cut off by the Chinese broadsword.

Although it has not been widely used, it has still been encountered once by Huo Yuan's troops, but this scarf can protect the back but not the front, and the Japanese army still did not save his life under the exquisite and ruthless eight knives, but Huo Yuan's big knife was also broken out of a small gap.

The devil's embarrassing method was a joke in the 29th Army for a while, and he would not do anything about iron scarf in the future so as not to be embarrassed.

"When I went back to the division, I heard an interpreter that Japanese devils are also superstitious, saying that if their heads are cut off, they will not be able to continue to be human beings in the next life." Huo Yuan said with a sneer.

"Damn, what else are they talking about in the next life, these eight calves are not human now!" Battalion Commander Scar said angrily.

As soon as he heard this, Huo Yuan's face also became angry, this was because he thought of the villagers in the village who had been killed by the devils a few years ago. After a long time, Huo Yuan's face darkened again.

"What's wrong? Brigade? The Scar Battalion Commander asked, puzzled

"Although our big knife is powerful, but this is also no way, we took advantage of the big knife when we touched it in the middle of the night at Xifengkou, and used the big knife to fight hand-to-hand with the devil's bayonet during the day, and the casualties are slightly larger, our firearms are not as good as the Japanese devils, and the casualties will be greater if we are not entangled with the devil's white-knuckle fighting." Huo Yuan sighed.

As soon as he heard Huo Yuan say this, the scar battalion commander was also silent, yes, if he could compare to the Japanese in firearms, how good would it be.

The Northwest Army was originally a ragtag army, and Jiang Mou, who was far away in Nanjing, did not equip the Northwest Army with first-class German ordnance that was first-class in the world at that time because the Northwest Army was at the forefront of the anti-Japanese resistance.

Instead, he had the idea of eliminating dissent, and always put the ragtag army at the forefront of all battles.

At present, the ration of each soldier in Huo Yuan's brigade is still two sets of rough clothes, two pairs of straw sandals, 20 rounds of ammunition per person, no air cover, and no artillery.

The soldiers ate only two meals a day, one of which was thin.

Therefore, they could only try to give full play to their strengths in the battle against the Japanese army, and use white-knuckle warfare, that is, to play the role of a large blade. (To be continued.) )