Chapter 185: Western Fencing
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The French Legion in Siam only nominally bears the title of Legion, just like the British mercenaries in Siam, but the number is actually only more than 1,000 people.
Because the colonies between Britain and France in Southeast Asia are currently very similar in territory and quantity, if either side is allowed to include Siam, it will undoubtedly severely affect the balance of power between the two crony countries in Southeast Asia and the 'friendship' between each other.
As a result, in this era of widespread mournful colonization in Asia, Siam was fortunate to be the only country in Southeast Asia that was not completely colonized.
Of course, the fact that it cannot be completely colonized does not mean that the economic oligarchs and military forces of Britain and France will completely abandon this rich country.
Therefore, the so-called British and French regiments in Siam are to maintain the armed guarantee of the economic invasion of Siam by the great powers, and on the other hand, it can be said to be a tool to maintain the authority of the great powers in Asia.
Therefore, the appointment of Yang Meng as the chief martial arts instructor of the Siamese Legion is just a sentence from Sal and the so-called Governor of Mento.
There is not much real power, but in Siam, where cold weapons are still the main mode of warfare, this is already an extremely respectable, if not feared, position.
What made Yang Meng laugh and cry was that he had not yet decided whether to be the chief instructor, and the British army had already announced the appointment of Bachai as the chief instructor of the British army's boxing.
Well, the left and right are only reputational, as long as he teaches Falton well, he will naturally teach the kung fu he has learned to those mercenaries. Anyway, the other party takes a fancy to himself, and it is estimated that he is only as famous in Siam as Bachai.
The eyes of the masses are bright, although under the coordination of all forces, it was announced that Yang Meng and Bachai were tied, but how wolf Bèi Bachai is, as long as he has been to the Mekong River to see the martial arts competition, he will know it.
But what Yang Meng didn't expect was that it was precisely because of the battle on the Mekong River that those French mercenaries who had witnessed Yang Meng's and Bachai human extreme boxing skills could not wait for Yang Meng in the barracks. I chose to organize a group to come to the door - to sign up for art.
Yang Meng had a headache. Because I don't even have a Chinese personal disciple until now, but I accidentally made a foreign disciple, is this because I came through here, and the gods of this plane are afraid that I will affect the rhythm of history in later generations?
Nagging in the heart is nagging. But Yang Meng was completely unable to refuse hundreds of French professional soldiers. Because of admiration for the move of organizing a group to come to the Chinese Guoshu Museum to learn Guoshu.
Of course. After discussing with Ruoli for a long time, Yang Meng decided that it would be more appropriate for Lane to lead these foreign apprentices. First, their language communication is convenient, and secondly, since he beat Falton to spit Siamese rice all over the ground with his dark hand in front of hundreds of people that day, Falton has become his follower with grief and indignation, and he also wants revenge......
Revenge may be far away, but trouble immediately came to the door, even if Yang Meng's astonishing actions on the Mekong River shocked most of the warriors in Siam and Britain and France, but let Lane's apprentice ravage or teach the low-ranking officers of France, some people will naturally have different opinions.
As a Western army at the beginning of the 20th century, in addition to boxing instructors, there are also shooting instructors in the officially recognized positions, and as for those who are no longer officially recognized and paid the corresponding salary, there is also a private Western swordsmanship instructor.
When the thermal weapon gradually stepped onto the stage of history, and the footsteps of the great powers to the entire ocean, the cold weapon irretrievably quickly withdrew from the stage of history, but as a man, there is no one who does not yearn for blood and chivalry in his heart, the legend of the martial arts and rivers and lakes in the East naturally needless to say, Western Europe because of the legend of the Knight of the Round Table and Robin Hood, etc., has a soft spot for knight swordsmanship.
Early Western swordsmanship, which advocated actual combat and technical combat, originated in medieval Europe, in Spain, France, Germany and Italy, there was a dazzling knight class, who dominated the world with exquisite swordsmanship and knightly glory, and dominated the medieval battlefield until the end of the Middle Ages, and won a wide reputation among the European folk.
Among them, the most classic and the most combat-oriented, is the hemispherical one-handed sword, set the lightness of the broadsword, the stabbing of the knight's sword, the splitting of the two-handed sword, the slash, the classic of the long sword, whether it is both hands or with the shield can be wielded, the most classic of which is the German-style hand-and-half sword, the appearance is elegant and gorgeous, with the German elegant and fierce swordsmanship.
Around 1643, King Louis XIV of France made unified regulations on the clothing and equipment of fencing in France at that time, and named the six oldest swordsmen in Paris as hereditary nobles, which opened the precedent of the French school of fencing, which changed the fencing in Western Europe and began to take shape as a sport.
By 1776, the famous French fencing master La. Boissier's face mask took the sport of fencing one step further down the noble path.
This is very similar to the prosperity of Beichen Ichito-ryu, and it may be said that the appearance of the mask is a milestone in the development of Western fencing and Japanese kendo.
Men who admired hot-blooded violence in their bones, when they put on masks, gloves, and fencing suits, could safely engage in a series of offensive and defensive encounters, which also made France the center of European fencing, and exhibited saber swordsmanship comparable to Spanish one-handed fencing and German two-handed swordsmanship.
Spain's one-handed swordsmanship is similar to the law ** swordsmanship, emphasizing agility and hand, and is known for its fast sword and sword, which looks quite gorgeous and pleasing to the eye, and it is also the main source of current synchronized fencing.
The German two-handed broadsword, in fact, still belongs to the German hand and half swordsmanship, mostly using the principle of lever to stir and twist, the focus is on the thorn, its gorgeous Cheng dù is by no means under the Spanish swordsmanship, can be held with both hands, can also be one-handed with a shield, supplemented by German swordsmanship, in the battlefield is stronger.
Therefore, when the first swordsman of the French mercenary legion, Elixiva, wearing a black top hat and a black cloak on his head, and holding a one-handed stabbing sword in his hand, he happily followed more than a hundred foreign apprentices to the Chinese Guoshu Museum. And when he chose to kick the gym very coolly, Yang Meng's first feeling was not to pull this thing over and beat him up, but suddenly felt that he had passed through the corridor of time and space again, and saw the Spanish ranger who once made him young and frivolous, and fantasized about riding horses and swords all day long like him-Zorro.
Well, compared to the later actor of "Zorro", Alain Delon, Elixiva's square face and golden appearance can only be said to make people barely feel ugly, and he definitely does not have the black blindfold that Zorro praises. But after he showed off several signature fencing moves. Yang Meng felt from his extremely advanced muscle group and his right arm, which was obviously two points thicker than his left arm, that this officer who still retained the style of an ancient Western European knight in his bones was obviously in Western fencing techniques. A true swordsman who has put a lot of effort into it.
It's just that Yang Meng is very aggressive because of Elixivara's appearance. But Aliciva had no idea of letting him fight with him personally.
As a skilled swordsman who witnessed the battle of two beasts on the Mekong River. Elixiva clearly felt the huge gap between his sword stabbing skills and this non-human.
The one he named to challenge in the National Art Pavilion was still Ryan, who had a very high hatred value.
Ryan had a headache. At the same time, there is a little unease.
Ever since he met Yang Meng, a typical delinquent teenager as a teenager, he has always been more interested in hand-to-hand boxing, even if his uncle once reminded him that he could not abandon the Western swordsmanship that marked the noble lineage and inheritance, but he still only perfunctory for two years, and then he insisted on embarking on a journey to find a teacher in China.
Therefore, when Ryan and Alice Siva fought with Western swordsmanship, he was beaten back by a series of fierce and ferocious swords, if it weren't for the great progress in national arts, so that his agility and eyesight made the sword in his hand quickly fly Elixiva's attacks again and again, I am afraid that in just one minute, he would be hit by Elixiva's gorgeous and continuous sword light.
Fortunately, in addition to Yang Meng, a less responsible master, Ryan also has a master who is better at teaching, and reminded him before he went on the field that fist is a sword, and a sword is a fist, which also made his bold attempt to combine fist and sword, and finally resisted the stormy opening sword of Elixiva, and gradually began to regain a little bit of feeling in the hands of the already very rusty Western swordsmanship.
The horse-shaped galloping footwork was used to move back and forth quickly, and the stabbing sword in his hand was wielded with human strength and almost sound shots, and at the same time, his jerky and rough swordsmanship suddenly rose to the strategic level and posed a direct threat to Alisiva.
In Yang Meng's eyes, these two strong men crossed their waists with one hand, like sissies, and after two or three minutes, Lane's hand and forgotten Western fencing techniques had recovered a small half, and after Elixiwa suppressed him with a brilliant attack for two minutes, his eldest disciple was not only not crossed, but gradually regained the absolute disadvantage of being clumsy......
Yang Meng nodded meaningfully, seeing that this clever apprentice had already integrated the infinite flow national art he had learned into Western fencing, and from his occasional magical moves, it could also be clearly seen that it was the most obscene and practical way of playing in the national arts, "That's right!" ”
Not to mention Yang Meng's itchy comments on the side, not to mention those who were originally because of Ryan's ravage, they planned to coax and laugh at this apprentice group of senior brothers, just to say that Ryan's opponent at the moment, Elixiva, already felt very uncomfortable.
Although Ryan didn't have Yang Meng's inhuman behavior, every time the stabbing swords in the hands of the two struck each other, he would feel an indescribable power, which would penetrate into his fingers and tiger's mouth little by little......
The fact that his gorgeous swordsmanship would be blocked by such a simple and direct sword style made Elixiva feel that his mind was blank for a while, and his fighting spirit was low for a while, making it more difficult to predict the opponent's undisciplined sword path.
One dozen, two dozens, three dozens, three dozens, and/a.......
The beast-like body, coupled with the surging dark energy driven by qi and blood, made Ryan's seemingly rough and untechnical swordsmanship close to the sound again in the mess, and the fencing rhythm like the above, which can definitely be called the first-level fencing rhythm, completely interrupted Elixiva's artistic fencing technique and bloody pride.
The continuous lightning block, the straight stab, the straight stab, the straight stab, the straight stab, the straight stab, the swordsman, made Elixiva, who was a swordsman, feel nowhere to start, and the soreness that gradually spread on the thick right arm was so uncomfortable that he almost vomited blood.
"You're foul ......"
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