A few days later, in the morning, Chang'an Shunfeng Escort House, a competition was underway in the backyard martial arts hall. "Yu Dongzhu" who visited again and his friend "Shopkeeper Yang" competed here to see whose subordinates had excellent martial arts skills. [Sui_Dream]ā

"Origin Yu" is of course Yu Wen Wen, and "Shopkeeper Yang" is Yang Ji. The two of them are "subjects" of the bodyguards in Shunfeng Escorts, and the other is Yang Ji's follower, comparing to the hand-to-hand battle.

Yuwen Wen went to Shunfeng Escort Business a few days ago and found something very interesting. So he found some time to let the escort and Yang Ji discuss with each other so that Yang Ji can see what "the development of the times" means.

At this moment, both Honglan and the confrontation were wearing protective gear and holding unblack weapons. Honglan was the escort of the Shunfeng Escort, and Lanlan was Yang Ji's follower.

The weapons used by Lan Fang are of course from Qi's sword, which is the modified Japanese sword. The man used the "Xinyou sword technique" (Qi's sword technique) passed down by Yang Ji. The sword technique is mainly chopping and slashing, and different routines have evolved due to different grip methods.

The weapons used by the Red Side are a bit special. The main weapon is a unique weapon of the corpses today, called "Xunjian". The sword is bladed on both sides (practice of swords but not blades) is mainly stabbed and slashing as the auxiliary.

The secondary weapon is a small shield, the size of a washbasin, made of wooden, with a convex "iron bowl" in the middle and the inside where the shield's grip is located.

The Red and Blue sides confronted each other, and the Red side was at the upper hand. The Red side had both offense and defense, which made the Blue side exhausted. Yang Ji watched the battle, and as he watched, his attention focused on the "Speed ​​Sword" in the Red side's hand.

The sword body of this kind of sword is straight, the sword head is extremely sharp, and it looks more like a long thorn, and the sword grid is very long. When you look at the sword body together, it looks like a "cross".

There are several iron bars at the sword grid, connected to the sword head (top of the hilt), forming a dustpan-shaped cage-shaped object to protect the sword holder's hand holding the sword.

This shape is more like a long thorn, which is not the style of the Central Plains sword at all. Although the "Xuan Sword" sword body is sharpened on both sides (practice, it does not sharpen the sword used to fight), the main attack method is stabbing.

Yang Ji's looking at this sword reminded him of the "Western Sword" of that era.

"A sword is a tool for killing people. Since it is a tool, it will change with the change of purpose." Yuwen Wen said slowly, introducing the origin of this "shuang sword" to Yang Ji.

For the past dynasties, the courts of the past dynasties, mostly prohibited the people from possessing crossbows and armor, but did not prohibit bows and arrows. As for swords, the control was relatively loose.

Therefore, when the escorts in the escort business, they will carry bows, arrows, swords, shields and long sticks as protective weapons, and naturally, there are swords.

What kind of knife is it?

It is a ring-headed sword that has been passed down from the Han Dynasty to the present, and a horizontal sword that has evolved on the basis of the ring-headed sword.

The blade of the ring head knife/horizontal knife is straight, with a single-sided edge, a small knife, and is held with one hand or both hands. The tip of the knife is a cutting point. Although it can also be stabbed, it is mainly chopped.

Whether in the army or in the civilians, as long as the sword is mentioned, it is basically a ring-headed sword or a horizontal sword, and the same should have happened to the sabre of the corpse corpse sabre.

Because of the emergence of two "abnormal humans", the "Lancet" with a curved blade (i.e., the Japanese sword style of later generations) appeared. This kind of lancet held with one hand/two hands is more efficient in cutting people, and has partially replaced the "market" of horizontal swords.

Therefore, the main threat targets were the bodyguards with no armor or light armor, and they all replaced the "Lancet", which was used to "Xinyou Sword Technique" originated in the army.

Because during the warding process, the chances of the ward team being attacked are very high, and strong men blocking the road and robbing must have bows and arrows, so the wardens who cannot hold armor must hold shields to block arrows. Then, the fighting requirement of holding shields in one hand and knife in the other hand causes the wardens' sword technique to begin to evolve.

Among the army, there are already sword and shield soldiers (sword players), and there are naturally corresponding sword and shield techniques, but this battlefield technique is not suitable for sporadic confrontations mixed with cold arrows.

Moreover, the shield used in the army is too large and is relatively inflexible to use, so the shield in the hands of the corpses is appropriately reduced, and the coordination techniques of the sword and shield are also changed.

For the escort, once the escort is in a slum, it basically means that the enemy is large and we are few. If you really want to do it, your side must fight quickly and make the enemy lose its combat effectiveness as soon as possible (death or broken hands and feet, seriously injured). On the one hand, you can save your physical strength and on the other hand, reduce your casualties.

In this way, chopping becomes an inefficient offensive method. Because you have to hold a shield to defend your arrows, you can only hold the knife with one hand. The strength is not enough. Unless you hit the key point (neck, wrist, etc.) in the confrontation, the opponent will be covered in blood and will still have the ability to fight even if he is cut to the point of blood.

The bandits who dare to intercept the Eagle Team are basically all desperate people and will not be scared away by just a few wounds. The Eagle Master also has to carry a shield to prevent cold arrows, so it mainly focuses on holding a knife with one hand. In this way, if you want to obtain efficient means of killing, you can only stab (poke).

Of course, it is also good to knock a person's head with a long stick, but in many cases, it is inconvenient to use long soldiers. Therefore, the main weapon of hand-to-hand combat in the hands-on battle in the hands of the corpses has evolved into a "sting sword" with stabs as the main and chopping (cutting) as the auxiliary, rather than an ordinary sword.

This kind of "stinging sword" is like a long needle, with the cut surface of the sword body in a diamond shape, like a thin iron mace, and can use the sword surface instead of the sword blade to block the opponent's weapons.

In order to protect the sword-holding hand and prevent the opponent from sliding down the sword body and cutting his fingers, the sword has a large sword grid, and together with the sword body, it looks like the word "cross".

The emergence of new weapons has evolved into new sword techniques, which have been continuously improved through actual combat. Because various escort companies often intervene internally and share experiences, this "sword-sharp" sword technique has developed rapidly.

For ordinary warriors, they are used to slashing with ring-headed swords. When they encounter a "sharp sword" with a strange attack method, they will be stabbed by the opponent with one sword after a few moves, piercing through the vital points, and they will be seriously injured if they don't die on the spot.

As a result, the escorts from various escort businesses replaced the cross-shaped "swords" and walked around the world with small shields, so that the "cross sword" became the iconic weapon of the escorts.

Such easy-to-use fighting weapons and techniques were quickly learned by sailors from the North and South Oceans Trading Company. When they encountered a large number of pirates on the boat, they quickly killed the enemy with their swords and related techniques.

In the battle on the ship, especially in a small space like a ship warehouse, the chopping movements are relatively limited, so the stabbing swords are highly praised by sailors. The duel wind that emerged in South China has further developed the sword holding.

When two skilled "swordsmen" duel, they held a small shield in one hand and poked the sword in the other hand. They could not decide the winner for a long time without a single day. This was a waste of time, so poked (cutting) the hand became the first choice to break the deadlock.

The large sword grid, which is like an iron rod, can block the knife but cannot block the stabbing sword, and it can no longer effectively protect the sword holder's hands and wrists.

As the duel was in the midst, more and more people could not hold the weapon because their wrists (fingers) were poked, resulting in their subsequent deaths, and the sword-savage guards began to evolve.

The result of the evolution is that bowl-shaped handguards and cage-shaped handguards appear.

The bowl-shaped handguard is a sword grid that turns into a bowl-shaped shield, protecting the front of the sword hand, which can effectively prevent poking, but is not very good at preventing weapons from cutting the side of the finger.

Therefore, the cage-shaped handguards that can be protected by all fingers become the mainstream of new handguards. This cage-shaped handguard is a small iron cage that is stalked into a dustpan-shaped dustpan-shaped one, protecting the hilt of the sword.

Because the cage-shaped handguard is like a flower, a stabbing sword with a cage-shaped handguard is called the "Flower Sword".

Because the word "Hua" is too sissy, and the slash is as fast as lightning when stabbing, it is renamed "Xunjian".

The "Xun Sword" improved in Nanyang was soon passed back to the Central Plains, so the stadiumers changed into "Xun Sword" one after another, practicing the technique of shield and sword matching, and dealing with ordinary robbers and even "people in the martial arts world" was very relaxed.

Yuwen Wen said it smoothly and the competition was a result, but what made Yuwen Wen embarrassed was that Hong Fang (the corps officer) holding the "Shuang Sword" was defeated.

Yang Ji's personal follower was a veteran who had been on the battlefield for many years. He had killed many more people than escorts. He had rich experience in hand-to-hand combat and had a good mentality. The most important thing was that he was cunning enough. He used a method similar to the "drag strategy" to "slash the Red Square" and instantly turned the tables.

Li Xinhe, the shopkeeper of the branch of the escort business waiting beside him, and other escorts were worried when they saw this. Yuwen Wen laughed, "It's okay, you can have a lot of training in the future. You can follow the shopkeeper Yang. But you can't beat the veterans for the rest of your life. You can't beat them, nothing."

After he said this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Yuwen Wen pulled out a "Speed ​​Sword" and looked at Yang Ji with a smile.

Seeing this, Yang Ji quickly interrupted, "Uh, Master Yu, let's talk about the serious matter."

"Okay." Yuwen Wen took the sword back to the scabbard and handed it to Li Xinhe. Then he walked out with Yang Ji, whispering while walking, "So, are you still worried about Xue Yantuo of the Tiel tribe?"

Yang Ji replied, "Reply to Your Majesty, what I am concerned about is not Xue Yantuo, but Tubo."

"If the court uses Tielle as a hawk and dog to attack Tuyuhun, if the situation does not evolve as expected by the Secretariat, Tuyuhun's monarch and ministers ask the dynasty for justice, but go to the west to Tubo and think that Tubo has become a powerful force. If Tuyuhun asks Tubo for help, this will be tricky."
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