"Fighting stabs" means fighting bayonets.

After returning from the United States, Guan Zhuofan was sure that the army of this era did not have a standardized and unified bayonet fighting technology. It's not surprising to think about it, this is the era of the transition from breech guns to breech guns, and even the bayonet is installed in a variety of positions, not to mention the stabbing technique?

The installation position of the bayonet of the breech gun was different from that of the breech gun.

The former has a bayonet mounted above or on both sides of the barrel, and the latter has a bayonet under the barrel. This is due to the fact that the breech is loaded from the muzzle, and the ammunition is stuffed into the barrel, it must be reinforced with a long through pestle - the position under the barrel is to insert the through bar, and the bayonet can only stay above or next to the barrel. The breech gun, because it was loaded with ammunition from the breech, did not need to pass through, and the place under the muzzle was vacated for the bayonet.

The bayonet is mounted above and on both sides of the muzzle, which is not suitable for the force of the stabbing action. Historically, due to powerful inertia, the bayonet was completely turned under the muzzle only after the appearance of the breech gun. Therefore, it was not until after the First World War that the perfect stabbing technique was really formed.

In this plane, this set of things will be released fifty years in advance.

The Xuan Army was one of only two full-breech gun armies in the world at present - the other being the Prussian Army. As soon as Prussia completed the Industrial Revolution, the army embarked on the road of "heavy metal" where firepower was supreme, until Hitler hung up, and the German army did not really pay attention to fighting bayonets.

It is Russia and Japan that are really famous for playing bayonets, especially Japan, which has limited industrial capacity and does not have so much steel and gunpowder to smash. I had to work on cold weapons.

China in the middle of the XIX century. It's even more impoverished. Therefore, Guan Zhuofan should vigorously develop the stabbing technique.

In the war of this era, the distance and density of firepower projection are still limited, so the bayonet has extremely high combat value, and even plays the role of "final blow". Many battles, even against the disparity of strength. The advantages and disadvantages are very obvious, but without a white sword, it cannot be said that the final victory will be achieved.

In the two Opium Wars, many times, after the British and French armies attacked the positions and batteries of the Chinese army, they relied on bayonets to disperse and eliminate the recalcitrant defenders. The army of the agrarian society loves to fantasize about "foreigners who rely on firearms for their own benefit, and are not good at hand-to-hand combat." If we engage in hand-to-hand combat, I will destroy them." When they really encountered the bayonets of the highly trained modern army, they realized that their spear blades were not easy to use at all, and they were either stabbed down one by one or scattered in a hurry.

Guan Zhuofan believes that the thrusting action of the modern army fighting with the bayonet is the most efficient and lethal action in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat of infantry on flat ground since the beginning of human warfare - there is no one; The length of the rifle and bayonet is also the most suitable length for long instruments in this kind of hand-to-hand combat. Longer or shorter, it will affect the power played.

In terms of response time to a human attack, the probability of successfully dodging or blocking a standard thrust is very low. Therefore, a fully in-place thrust move is enough to take out any opponent, including the so-called "martial arts master". This is truly called "one hit and one hit", "one move to defeat the enemy".

In accordance with the requirements of the marshal, in addition to practicing the "stab" action, the Xuan army also created the "three-person team" stabbing technique, which is as follows:

As soon as the white-knives intersected, the soldiers immediately formed groups of threes and threes. A "three-person team", two people in the front and one person in the back, forming an inverted "product" shape. The two soldiers in front, who were responsible for outflanking the front; The soldiers in the rear, who were mainly responsible for the defense, the protection of the flanks and rear of the group. Of course, when needed, the soldiers behind can also suddenly intervene and surprise the enemy in front of them with a fatal blow.

This "formation" is inspired by Guan Zhuofan's idol - Qi Jiguang's "Mandarin Duck Formation", and also refers to the gameplay of the Japanese devils in the early days of World War II. Interestingly, the first large-scale application of this tactic was also used on the heads of the Japanese devils - the Choshu Expedition, the battle of the small county town of Mudu Valley, and the Xuan army relied on bayonets to press the attack troops that Omura Masajiro had painstakingly assembled back into the Mudu Valley.

Facts have proved that in this kind of hand-to-hand combat, when the number of enemies and friends is basically equal, the Xuan army's spur and "three-man" tactics have an overwhelming advantage.

The Japanese samurai are all fierce and abnormal, and they also have a lot of experience in slashing - according to Chinese standards, they must be regarded as "practitioners", or even "martial arts masters", right? But often, as soon as he raised the sword above his head, and was about to roar, the bayonet of the Xuan soldier stabbed him in the stomach - damn, why is there so much nonsense!

In battle, the "three-man team" is able to quickly develop a local advantage; It will not be long before the local superiority of a group of groups will snowball into the overall superiority of the whole army. This advantage grew until the battle was won. In the case that the opponent lacks sufficient organizational skills, this tactic can even play more with less.

Of course, this tactic only had an organizational basis for realization after the Xuan Army implemented the reform of the company, platoon, and squad structure. A class of nine to twelve people happens to form a "three-person group" of three to four.

At this time, the 600 soldiers who performed military boxing and grappling had already left the field, and 600 soldiers armed with "Springfield" breech guns entered the field. However, it is a pity that on this occasion, the "three-team" tactic cannot be practiced - because this tactic is really not ornamental, and the Queen Mother should not be able to see any fame.

For the sake of "ornamentality", the "stabbing drill" added an action that will never appear in actual combat: playing with guns.

This fancy action of rotating the gun body is generally only seen in the salute performance. However, Guan Zhuofan believes that this action, in addition to making the royal sister more happy at the military parade, can also be used to train the soldiers' ability to control guns. In this way, when fighting with white knives, it is not so easy to grasp or even get rid of each other's guns when they collide violently with each other.

This movement looks fancy, but it's not that complicated, and with a little effort, you can roughly master it without crowding out the time of other more important training subjects.

Six hundred rifles, turning like windmills and six hundred bayonets, cut countless shining circles in mid-air, which was very spectacular. The Queen Mother was dazzled, and the three-layered Dadong bead on the phoenix crown trembled slightly—it was nodding slightly, and sure enough, "Kind face is happy".

The last link of the "martial arts exercise" is "hard qigong", which has two items: "splitting bricks" and "crushing boulders in the chest".

"Hard Qigong", Guan Zhuofan originally had no interest. Although Guan is from a liberal arts background, he also knows that "hard qigong" is just a kind of muscle tightening training, and it has nothing to do with "qi" and magic. It cannot be said that "hard qigong" is not useful at all -- at least it can increase the ability to endure pain and resist blows. However, in military combat, "hard qigong" basically has no value, and there is no word "hard qigong" in the Xuanjun drill code.

Take "splitting bricks" and "crushing boulders on the chest" as examples, "splitting bricks", and the meaning of "hard work"; What "chest crushing boulders", to put it nicely, is called "acrobatics", and to put it badly, it is simply selling dog skin plasters and using them to fool people who don't understand the basic principles of mechanics.

In the "martial arts exercise," it was Daniel Zhang's idea to put "hard qigong" into it, and his reason was that it was "good-looking." This reason moved Guan Zhuofan. Yes, the Queen Mother doesn't have any knowledge of modern physical science, can she not be stunned when she sees "splitting bricks" and "breaking boulders in her chest"?

Okay, just fool the royal sister.

Originally, Daniel Zhang also wanted to add a "silver gun piercing throat", but Guan Zhuofan resolutely rejected it. If you do that, you'll be talking nonsense -- you'll really be a trick and a trick. The most important thing is that we can't let the Queen Mother have the illusion that we are "invulnerable"!

"Splitting bricks" and "crushing boulders on the chest" are enough.

"Split bricks" first.

Twenty soldiers were naked, lined up, and in the cold wind, each dressed in shiny tendons. Four red bricks were built in front of everyone, tied up the horse steps, broke off with a bang, and split down with a wave of palms, and twenty stacks of red bricks were broken together in response!

The royal sister couldn't help but let out a soft "huh".

And then "chest crushing boulders".

In the "Splitting Bricks", twenty soldiers were divided into ten pairs, each pair in this position: one was lying on a bench, and a rectangular blue stone was pressed on his chest, about two feet long, one foot wide, and half a foot thick; Another man with a sledgehammer in his hand was watching from the sidelines.

The royal sister's heart lifted.

The commander said "start", and on the first pair on the right hand, the hammer bearer picked up the big hammer, shouted, and smashed it down violently, and a large piece of blue-striped stone was suddenly torn apart!

The royal sister couldn't help but let out an "ah".

The one on the stool jumped up, faced the parade platform, clasped his hands into fists and saluted, and was calm.

Guan Zhuofan heard the royal sister say in a low voice: "Okay! ”

Ashamed, ashamed.

*(To be continued......)