Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 188

After taking one of his soldiers, Lao Jin quickly started training for Yang Chao, and Yang Chao also agreed to let him do it.

As a result, Lao Jin almost denied most of Yang Chao's previous military training methods. Lao Jin was noncommittal about Yang Chao's military posture, pace and basic training of turning steps, but he was almost indifferent to Yang Chao's method of training skills related to assassination and archery. Completely deny.

Li Wuliu had trained archers for a year, most of them were considered unsuitable for practicing archery by Lao Jin.

Then Lao Jin himself selected one by one in the army, and Yang Chao followed closely behind him, hoping to learn some experience, Lao Jin did not hide it, and explained while selecting.

Soldiers lined up one by one to be sorted by Lao Jin. Yang Chao thought to himself and found that Lao Jin roughly selected soldiers according to different types such as long arms, broad shoulders, thick arms, and long legs.

Among them, the ones with long arms, he carefully pinched the opponent's muscles and bones, selected more than 50 people, and told Yang Chao that it would be best for these people to practice archery.

Hundreds of people were picked out from those with broad shoulders and told Yang Chao that these people could practice sword and shield.

Those with thick arms picked out hundreds of people, saying that they can practice heavy weapons such as knives and maces, and if they want to practice mandarin duck formations, they should be asked to practice wolf puppets.

Those with strong legs are said to be suitable for practicing cavalry.

For the ones that were picked out, Lao Jin said that those were all in the middle-of-the-road posture, just practice the long spear casually, and just follow the formation to charge and kill.

Lao Jin's selection reminded Yang Chao of the method of selecting soldiers in Qi Jiguang's military book, which should belong to the selection of soldiers in the selection. Marshal Qi asked the generals to select the newly recruited soldiers. Obviously, those generals are experienced.

It's just that Marshal Qi didn't write how to pick up soldiers, probably because the generals under Marshal Qi are all experienced, at least no worse than Lao Jin, so he thinks that picking up soldiers is a matter of course, so he doesn't need to write it out.

But for the uninitiated, it's just confusing. Yang Chao has never figured out why they all seem to be big-bodied people, one of them is a good swordsman and shield, and the other is a middle-aged man who can't be used.

Yang Chao couldn't help being curious, and asked Lao Jin for advice: "Old Jin, I don't know what kind of weapon is suitable for me to practice."

The Yang family has worked hard for generations, and their physical fitness is good. Yang Chao is taller than ordinary soldiers in terms of body and muscle.

Lao Jin first looked at Yang Chao's appearance, and then he took care of Yang Chao's shoulders, arms, legs, and various joints, and shook his head.

"My lord can practice sledgehammers, but the rest are not suitable for long spears, short sticks, wolves, milling, boring, palladium knives and shields!"

Yang Chao was both depressed and surprised. What was depressed was that Lao Jin's expression clearly looked down on his qualifications. He said that it was okay to practice the sledgehammer, but he also had a reluctant tone.

Surprisingly, Lao Jin actually said that he is suitable for practicing sledgehammers. Could it be because his family has been forging iron for hundreds of years and inherited the muscle genes suitable for swinging hammers.

But Yang Chao is still not convinced: "How can I see that?"

Lao Jin said: "My lord's bones are hard, so he must have courage, but his muscles are thick and short, but he has no strength. Therefore, a sledgehammer that learns to be brave and burst is better than other weapons."

Yang Chao couldn't help but be amazed, feeling incredible about Lao Jin's ability to distinguish muscle textures with the naked eye.

According to the scientific research of later generations, there are indeed different types of human muscle textures. Thick and short muscle fibers have better explosive power, and long muscle fibers have better endurance. Therefore, different races are good at different sports. Take black people with excellent physical fitness as an example, Blacks in tropical southeastern Africa such as Kenya are short and thin, with slender muscle fibers, so they are good at long-distance running and always win prizes in marathons; tall blacks in eastern and northern Africa have thick muscle fibers and strong explosive power, and they dominate sports such as [-] meters for a while.

Well, Yang Chao admits that the method of selecting soldiers requires vision, or experience, and those experiences are often unspeakable, and they are taken for granted by people with abundant experience like Marshal Qi, so Yang Chao can't just rely on a book. To train the Qi Family Army, of course, if you explore for a long time, you can also accumulate experience. In two or three years, you should be able to learn the essence of the Qi Family Army.

Seeing that what Lao Jin said was reasonable, Yang Chao was finally convinced, so he followed Lao Jin's advice.

So the eight hundred soldiers, including the former veterans, were all rearranged. The best archers practiced archery, the spearmen practiced big spears, and the sword and shield seedlings practiced sword and shield.

In terms of martial arts training alone, Lao Jin's experience surpassed Yang Chao's, so there was nothing to argue with him.

So a few days later, groups of re-selected teams were sorted out.

Lao Jin only had one person, and he started training with spearmen first.

Yang Chao thought carefully, even if it was not suitable for people, there should be no harm in practicing, so he asked everyone to practice big guns with Lao Jin.

Lao Jin practiced big guns, which was different from Yang Chao's training with spearmen. Yang Chao went straight to the assassination, thinking that the assassination was stable, accurate and ruthless enough to kill.

But Lao Jin didn't let the soldiers stab the target, but stood up and raised their guns one by one.

Yang Chao couldn't help worrying, because Xie Fei had held the gun for four years. Of course, that kind of gun was different from the way Lao Jin asked the soldiers to pose now. Xie Fei was a martial artist who practiced martial arts. Hold the gun flat, and practice to the point where the gun does not move at all with one hand.

Lao Jin now asked the soldiers to carry guns, but it was just to put on airs, at best they could be regarded as holding guns.

It is to hold the gun horizontally by the side, and lunge forward to prepare for the assassination at any time, which is similar to the split-form that Yang Chao practiced before-preparation.

But Yang Chao still had a good talk with Lao Jin. Lao Jin said that he didn't want these people to hold guns for a few years, but just adjusted the fallacy in their posture. That is to say, Lao Jin thought that Yang Chao's previous assassination training was a little wrong. .

Yang Chao is a layman, and he feels that the assassination techniques of the later generations that he copied may be a little unscientific in terms of force, because he has never practiced the assassination of later generations, and it is all based on his impressions, and he probably has not completely copied it.

So Yang Chao also supported Lao Jin, and he practiced along with him. One day or two, ten days in a row, he was lunging and holding a gun. The posture was similar to his previous training posture, only slightly adjusted.

Ten days later, Lao Jin asked the soldiers to practice assassination, but instead of aiming at the target, a team of soldiers lined up to assassinate in the air.

Lao Jin said that directly letting the recruits stab the target can only develop their deadly strength.

The so-called bravery is more than enough, but the dexterity is not enough.

Yang Chao's explanation for this is that directly assassinating a hard wooden target may cause inappropriate memories in the soldiers' muscles, because the human body is different from the target after all, and it will send out wrong messages on the battlefield.

Yang Chao followed the practice, pondering while practicing, stabbing the air muscles without bearing the feedback force from the stakes, allowing the muscles to stretch naturally, and slowly finding a stabbing mode suitable for each of the different methods.

Yang Chao couldn't help pushing back Lao Jin's reasoning for selecting troops. The people he picked out were naturally the most suitable for practicing the corresponding weapons, but the human body is adaptable, and probably slow adaptation can also improve those who are not suitable.

Yang Chao always believes that no one is not suitable for a certain skill, but he has not found a suitable method, and people are adaptable.

So my heart is still firm. In the future, I still have to let all soldiers practice big guns. After all, the power of assassination is the greatest, and long spears are also the cheapest. .

I also practiced stabbing the air for ten days.

Then there was still no target to be stabbed. Lao Jin said that Yang Chao's soldiers had assassinated targets before, so he should be allowed to get used to it for a while.

He also said that when the Qi family army used to practice, sometimes they had to hold a gun for a month, perform a false stab for a month, and then combine the false and the real for a month. Need experience, Yang Chao is still lacking.

No. In the 30 days, what Lao Jin asked soldiers to assassinate was not air, not targets, but copper coins.

During the previous training, craftsmen have been invited to set up many horizontal bars in the camp. They are built with cheap bamboo and wood, like the horizontal bars of later generations, and also like clothes racks. Make a clothes drying pole, because the rack made of bamboo cannot be used as a horizontal bar.

After the results were finished, Lao Jin asked people to hang copper coins from above. This time, Lao Jin did not move himself, but asked his apprentice Xie Fei to demonstrate.

During this period of time, Xie Fei practiced martial arts with Lao Jin every day. He trained differently from others. When other soldiers held guns, he was squatting. When other soldiers stabbed the air, he was still squatting. Xie Fei squatted for half a year, and the ruined foundation was recovered, so Xie Fei was also very serious, getting up before dawn every day, except for eating, sleeping, defecating and peeing, all the time was spent squatting on airs.

Now Lao Jin asked Xie Fei to squat under a crossbar, and then he adjusted the position of the copper coin so that Xie Fei could stab the copper coin by stabbing it straight.

Then he gave an order, Xie Fei took out his gun, and the tip of the gun lightly touched the copper coin. The copper coin flew out, and was pulled back by the rope, swinging in place.

Lao Jin gave orders again and again, and Xie Fei tapped the tip of his spear, stabbing the swinging copper coins every time.

Lao Jin said that this is called practicing skillful power, which allows the copper coins to be adjusted to the most suitable position, so that everyone can maintain the best posture for exerting force, so as to further consolidate their correct posture. Only when the posture is correct can they exert the greatest strength , but using the aptitude that emits the greatest power to stab light copper coins is called the combination of virtual and real.

Yang Chao was very convinced, but Yang Chao himself failed. Even if it was the first copper coin that did not swing, he would have to stab it three or four times. As for the swinging copper coin, he couldn't hit it once out of ten times, and the one time he hit was probably luck.

Lao Jin said that Yang Chao practiced the target too early, which made the soldier's body stiff, so he was not dexterous enough, and it took at least a month to adjust it with thorn coins.

The training of stabbing copper coins was handed over to Xie Fei, while Lao Jin began to help train other soldiers.

The first is the selected sword and shield soldiers. Lao Jin taught these soldiers one move at a time. The sword is a single sword, and the shield is a round shield.

The same is to put on airs, practice against the air, then chop the stakes, then chop the air, and chop the stakes again and again, combining the virtual and the real.

Finally, I went to practice archers, and the selected tall and long-armed men were very excited, because half of them were recruits.

In Yang Chao's previous selection system, archers were the best group of people who practiced assassination. Yang Chao's reasoning was that these people had better skills, but Lao Jin's reasoning was that these people were the most suitable. Both reasons are valid, but the concept is different.

Lao Jin taught the archers mainly the essentials of drawing the bow, how to exert strength, etc., and also asked the archers to insist on hanging their arms every day to practice their arm strength.

(End of this chapter)