In order to convince the samurai of the Kira family, this time he decisively asked five Swiss mercenaries to pick up arms to five against one, these five people are all big men with a height of more than one meter and eight meters, especially good at the art of battle formation combined attacks, the five of them joined hands to play a dizzying wonderful combination, but the result was easily resolved by Hans's exquisite swordsmanship.

Many people find Hans's swordsmanship to have a very terrible feeling, that is, in the use of swordsmanship, he never relies on the height of the arms, or the length of the sword body to use wide open and closed slashes, and basically all the moves are ruthless yin moves around the vital parts.

The posture of holding the long sword is also very strange, always keeping the hilt of the sword near his chin, the tip of the sword is generally always covering the opponent's vital point, and the blade of the sword is attached to the opponent's weapon when dismantling, occupying the homeopathic trend, poking, wiping, and washing the opponent's wrist, neck, abdomen and other vital parts, all with gloomy stickiness.

Usually Hans's sword move is to first use a huge force to squeeze away the combined attack of several people, and then look at a lone Swiss mercenary to fight poorly, the silver sword light flickered and always swayed in the upper body of the opponent, extremely dangerous and ruthless, often a pair of moves is two swords almost parallel entanglement, the two of them like children fighting each other to poke each other's vital points, whose sword is slightly glued to the periphery, will be hit immediately.

The opposite five-person combination was defeated by this ruthless swordsmanship in the first round, so that the smooth attack of the five-person combined attack was completely broken, and Hans's continuous entanglement and obstruction made it difficult for the remaining four to regroup, and then the four people were seized to knock out their weapons one by one, and this short but fierce battle was over.

The characteristic of knightly swordsmanship is the use of the wrist, and many of the moves in swordsmanship are very similar. Yamamoto Tokiyuki said: "This swordsmanship is indeed very powerful. ”

The samurai of the Kira family were all convinced. In the face of this level of combined attacks, they can still be broken one by one. It was absolutely impossible to change the heart to the heart, and many samurai began to talk about the fact that the Nanban samurai came all the way to the Kira family as instructors, and naturally they had to have two brushes, and soon they accepted this new instructor.

Over the next few days, Hans began to teach the samurai how to hold their swords and how to stand on their posts, and when he heard that many people were feeling new to them, Hans said, "No matter what kind of melee weapon you use. It is necessary to have solid basic skills, stand firm on your feet and be able to knock down the opponent as quickly as possible, and the requirement of knight swordsmanship is to maintain the state of the first four and the last six in the confrontation state. ”

"Then there is the pace, whether it is a two-handed sword, a piece of sword or a German sword, the requirements for pace are very strict, the first alternate step forward and backward! It is also necessary to use the lunge flexibly" Hans makes a left-right stride, and then demonstrates a variant of the footwork of alternating steps, where the center of gravity of the body changes as he moves. This is followed by a T-step, a one-footed light jump step, forward and backward, including a T-step toward the turn.

This kind of stride can also be called an oblique step. Diagonally backward step, the principle is the same. Hans practiced footwork that he had used, so it was not difficult to understand, and then continued: "I found that everyone has a good foundation of footwork, and as long as you keep training, you can master the knack of footwork...... Below I will teach the four starting movements, which are the plow position, the bull position, the top position, and the deception position. ”

Hans's teaching level is very high, and he teaches the lessons meticulously, and after each part of the lesson, he will stop and ask the samurai to practice with his movements, and even Nakajo Tokihide will watch it with relish.

Yamamoto Tokiyuki exclaimed: "The level is indeed very high! Who would have thought that the Southern Barbarian Kingdom would also have such a high level of swordsmanship, it was really eye-opening. ”

"It's a pity that the Yunlin Temple has returned to Kyoto." Kira Yoshitoki smiled and said, "Otherwise, I can call him to come and talk to Hans." ”

"From the old minister's point of view, it is difficult to be sure that only the Kashima Sword Saint will come."

"Yes, yes!" Kira Yoshishi pouted disapplausively, Kashima Old Sword Saint's energy was not as good as before when he was over sixty years, and it was too difficult for him to duel with Hans in his prime, and it was still a question whether the Old Sword Saint was happy to try out with this Teutonic knight.

After a few days of basic training, group exercises were arranged, and Hans said that they would learn this first, and then learn more complex swordsmanship after the foundation was solid.

In the next few days, Rupert led the Swiss mercenaries to perform a super spear formation, they did a few basic tactical moves with three guns that were not very suitable, the back row held the spear flat and put the spear shaft on the shoulders of the first row of spearmen, and the first row of spearmen put the spear handle against their feet and pointed the spearhead diagonally at the front, this action was the standard frontal anti-assault spear formation, and the Swiss mercenaries also relied on this tactic to defeat the opponent again and again.

There are also various skills such as holding the spear in the march, the action of raising the spear when advancing in battle, the assassination action of raising the spear and suddenly putting it down, etc., and at the same time practicing the use of simple square formations, the square formations that fall with each other can be convenient to collect the spears and raise them high and then turn around in the other direction, and rely on the translation of the translator to explain the combat mode of the spearmen, how to hold the spear high and change the tactical movements of the enemy in four directions at will, theoretically as long as the operation is done properly, the possibility of the flank being broken can be avoided.

This was not a surprise to the samurai, but also an eye-opener for those who watched the excitement, the movements of these five veterans were uniform, and the pace of action was the same, even when they encountered a surprise attack of thirty people in different situations, their reaction coordination was perfect.

Since the Kira family changed clothes, there has always been a voice that the three guns are not completely backward equipment, only new gun shields and javelins suddenly come out to make everyone's eyes confused by new weapons, and in this war, the tomahawk is still slightly effective, and the hammer staff is not even useful at all, which also corroborates this statement from the side.

And at this time, such a powerful spearman appeared, bringing refreshing tactics, how could it not make the ashigaru excited, of course, Kira Yoshitoki was also excited, the Swiss spearmen in the last century were not a joke, without two brushes, they could force the knights of Europe without a move? He felt that the money was well spent.

At a time when several well-paid foreign teachers were shining, people began to focus more on them, and at this time, the seventh person attracted the attention of some people, except for the translator, an old man named Kronberg, who claimed to be "the best watchmaker in Europe", but no one knew what this watchmaker did.

In the curious exploration of the outside world, Kronberg has not officially appeared, because Kira Yoshitoki has quietly recruited him into the iron cannon town of Kunitomo Village, which is one of the safest areas of the Kira family, and what Kronberg brought to him was a flintlock pistol based on the dog-lock flintlock mechanism of the flintlock device, the so-called dog lock name is derived from the fact that in the bolt locking brake assembly, the flint hammer that locks the flint with a screw knob looks like a dog.

The biggest feature of the dog-lock bolt is the use of a blocking iron with a spring, which is to open a small hole in the back of the hammer, and inside the small hole is a blocking iron with a blocking iron spring and the trigger linkage, when the hammer is pulled up to the blocking iron brake position, the hammer is buckled to become a state to be shot, and then the trigger is pulled down and the blocking iron is retracted to release the hammer, and the hammer releases the kinetic energy of the main spring to hammer the fire curtain downward to produce hot iron filings that trigger the black powder burning in the primer pot, And ignite the ignition next to the primer pot, the black powder in the ignition port conducts to the explosion chamber, explodes and expands, and shoots out a projectile.

This flintlock pistol directly omitted the step of using the fire rope, and instead blocked the iron hammer hitting the fire curtain to cause the gunpowder to burn and explode, and it was really good for Kira Yoshishi to test the shot, but he still further asked him to make a modification, first to make a flintlock pistol with a brass barrel, and then to redesign an explosion expansion chamber near the bolt chamber to accommodate the thermal expansion of the chamber when the black powder exploded.

The muzzle caliber of the flintlock pistol should be unified into a fixed caliber, in order to improve efficiency, Kira Yoshitoki decided to invite the watchmaker to participate in his newly designed equipment hydraulic hammer, with the help of natural power to serve human beings tools have long been available, such as the famous Dutch windmill is the wind mill, the water mill is set up next to some rivers to grind the surface with the help of the power of the water turbine rotation, in fact, it is an upgraded version of the animal power grinding.

On this basis, Kronberg designed a hydraulic hammer with a hammer that would strike the forging object in a fixed rhythm and force, and one of the reasons he asked the watchmaker to come over was to add gears, cranks and escapements to the hydraulic hammer.

He didn't understand this, but Kronberg certainly did, because the European watch industry was the large-scale use of mechanical gears and escapements, which made the mechanical industry so developed in the post-European Industrial Revolution era, and it can be said that the European watchmakers of this era were the future mechanical inventors, and they also participated in the invention and design of many muskets, including his flintlock pistol.

This matter is difficult for him, after his design to transform a simple variable gear set, can freely control the frequency of the hammer falling, but also can control the hammer to suspend the fall, so that you can save a lot of links in the forging process, when you need to stop just pull the handle.

The scope of application of hydraulic hammer is not only that, such as the sorting and smashing of ore after mining can be replaced by hydraulic hammer, which saves labor and labor costs, before because there is no clockmaker he can not make a desirable hydraulic hammer, although Su I Ping Bingwei also learned the clock technology for a period of time, but that is just the skin, the Nanban people will not teach him real skills at all.

Because of the addition of the seven southern barbarians, the Kira family has undergone new changes, although it is not clear for a while to what extent it can change, but it is always developing in a good direction. (To be continued......)