Chapter 46 Troop Training

Ying Yi's eyesight was transcendent. Although he was far away and the weather was bad, he could see clearly.

Zheng Liu was practicing his strength and playing with stone locks. The stone lock looked rough and must have been newly made. Zheng Wu and Zheng Jiu were practicing killing techniques.

Each punch and kick was as powerful as a knife. Every move and every move was aimed at the vital point. The opening and closing is simple and not fancy at all. Compared with the so-called martial arts hundreds of years later, I don't know how much better it is. This is an authentic killing technique, and it seems to be a military technique.

The essence of martial arts is killing. Add martial ethics, tolerance, etc., and it is no longer martial arts. The origin of martial arts comes from the ancient times when the ancestors competed with nature and wild beasts, and came into being along with killing and fighting.

Compared with wild beasts, humans do not have the strength of muscles and bones and the sharpness of claws and claws. But people are wise and know how to summarize and think. In this process, summarizing and thinking out the method of killing, this is martial arts. In the beginning, humans were like beasts, without tools, so they had fists, feet and claws. But fists, feet, and claws were no stronger than wild beasts, so weapons were born.

Weapons are tools for the use of martial arts.

People say that martial arts can stop fighting, but Ying Yi doesn't see it that way. It is clearly a knife placed on a person's forehead, a sign of killing.

The true holy place of martial arts is in the army. Because the army specializes in killing.

It’s not the stuff in the novel that doesn’t exist in the middle of winter, such as the world, heroes, or powerful figures. The real powerful people are always in the army. Practice the techniques passed down by your predecessors. The more you kill, the more you gain experience, and you will naturally become more powerful.

Therefore, the killing methods in the army are the most ferocious and violent.

There are absolutely no twists and turns or unnecessary bells and whistles. The most direct thing is to take someone's life with just one move.

All kinds of martial arts are designed to adapt to the use of weapons. Therefore, in boxing and kicking kung fu, you can often see the shadow of weapons. The killing method that Zheng Wu and Zheng Jiu were rehearsing at this time was the use of the knife. Direct, sharp, but not pretty. There are also techniques for rolling to the ground to dodge.

Ying Yi looked at it for a while and understood that it was probably the killing method of the sword player.

The sword player, also known as the sword and shield player, holds a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. He uses his sword to kill and his shield to block, and his posture on the battlefield is very low. Especially when facing cavalry, he often rolls to the ground. Use the shield to pad, roll, and cut off the cavalry's horse legs with a knife.

It has a bad image, but it is practical.

Naturally, Ying Yi doesn't care about how to use the shield, only how to kill with the sword. He also uses a knife, but he always wins with brute force. No tricks.

However, Ying Yi also admitted that if you have outstanding skills, you can do the greatest things with the least effort.

The killing methods of Zheng Wu and Wu were very simple, just a few moves back and forth, all of which were the most basic uses of the knife. Mainly chopping, supplemented by cutting. Fierce and fierce, violent and fierce. Both of these two are quite powerful. Their palms are like knives, and the sound of the blows is howling, which is extremely powerful.

Ying Yi watched for a moment more, Zheng Wuxian's practice of killing with swords. Later, when I practiced killing with a two-handed sword, I no longer had the ability to use a shield. But it is more suitable for Ying Yi.

He watched carefully, and with his outstanding eyesight, he analyzed every movement of Zheng Wu, and even secretly deduced the movement and ventilation of Zheng Wu's muscles and bones when he used the sword. That was the real essence.

At this time, shouting and scolding came from a distance, awakening Ying Yi.

Ying Yi thought about it for a moment, then faced the direction of the noise and arrived at the valley where the army was training. At this time, more than three thousand soldiers and horses had begun to gather and prepare for breakfast.

Ying Yi also went to have a meal, then returned to the cave and fed the tiger cub. Finally, after thinking about it, he called Sun Xiucai and handed the tiger cub to him.

Without saying much, Ying Yi then asked the soldiers to take the prepared dry food and various necessary supplies and set off outside the mountain.

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The location of Xiaowangzhuang is excellent. There is a mountain behind it, and there are woods in front of it. Beyond the woods is a wilderness suitable for farming. Now the land near the village has revealed a patch of green, which was the sweet potato planted by the people of Xiaowangzhuang before.

These days, sweet potatoes have spread on a small scale in the Ming Dynasty.

Due to climate reasons, the yields of other crops have plummeted. Especially in the Central Plains, natural disasters occur frequently and floods and droughts occur year after year. Therefore, sweet potatoes have begun to be grown in many places. Speaking of history books hundreds of years later, the so-called prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong was laid in this way.

Standing at the edge of the forest, looking at the secluded sweet potato field, Ying Yi sighed in his heart.

"The sweet potatoes are growing."

Zhou Li clicked his tongue and said, "It's an extra dish."

It goes without saying the uses of sweet potatoes. The roots are the core, but the stems and leaves can also be eaten as vegetables. Of course, if the oil and water are not heavy, the taste will not be very good. However, these days, taste is not the pursuit.

It is precisely because sweet potatoes can be used from top to bottom and have lower environmental requirements than wheat and rice that they are gradually accepted by people.

"This sweet potato field cannot be ruined." Ying Yi said, "I'm sending you an order. Anyone who ruins one plant will be whipped."

"Here!" Two thousand households and thirty hundred households each looked at each other and responded in unison.

Ying Yi then pointed to the dry stream beside the sweet potato field and said to everyone: "The stream has dried up a long time ago. There are many flat areas on both sides. Find some open and spacious sections as a training ground. One is to practice formations, the other is to practice strength, and the third is to practice killing techniques. . Take the formation as the main one, and the rest as auxiliary. In the morning, we will practice military formation arrangement, and in the afternoon, we will practice strength and killing techniques. But before that, we need to dig a well to collect water."

Since it was time to train troops, he was as anxious as fire without any delay.

Ying Yi ordered them to go down and dig water in the stream first, while the others used trees as sticks to use as training spears.

Water is a top priority. Although there is a well in Xiaowangzhuang, it has been dry for a long time and the water supply is insufficient, which is far from being able to meet the needs of 3,000 people. So he chose a suitable place in the stream to dig a well, and dug several wells, stretching up and down for several kilometers, before digging out six wells with springs.

They set up camp in Xiaowangzhuang again, and the day passed like this.

Early the next morning, training officially began.

The army of the Ming Dynasty had its own rules and regulations. Use semaphore, drum rhythm, etc. to convey different commands. Ying Yi doesn't know these things. But Zhu Bingkun knew. This is also one of the reasons why Ying Yi still uses Zhu Bingkun.

Zhu Bingkun is a veteran military householder. He has been an official of hundreds of households since he was young and has also experienced battle formations. This experience is not comparable to that of newcomers like Ying Yi or Zhou Li.

All relevant training in this area is presided over by Zhu Bingkun. First let the army use small flags as units to train in small formations. The officers above the chief flag officer all gathered together to learn flag language, drum language and other knowledge that officers must memorize.

Ying Yi is also among them.

Everyone's learning ability is different. Needless to say, Ying Yi actually only took half a day to understand the way to command the army. Most of the officers, including Zhou Li, were scratching their heads over this, forgetting every detail and always failing to remember everything.

It looks like it will take some time to fully learn it.

The day passed like this.