Liu Yifeng's promise persuaded most of the people, but there were still a small number of people who did not want to die for Liu Yifeng. However, they also understand that after the other party captures this place, it is likely that they will not spare their lives, and even if they do, they may be wiped out in the future. Therefore, the overall mobilization effect is not bad, and the people have mixed Liu Yifeng's early team to form two combat teams according to Li Hongji's arrangement.

Li Hongji directly opened their arsenal, which contained the spears and single knives that Liu Yifeng had purchased according to his requirements.

The Ming Dynasty was the peak of Chinese spearmanship, and many of the gunnery known to later generations were inherited in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, because of the emergence of firearms, from the late 16th century to the 17th century, the Europa civilization and the Chinese civilization basically began to slowly eliminate the heavy armor that has been popular in the Western Middle Ages and the Chinese Sui Dynasty for thousands of years.

Although generals wearing heavy armor can still be seen on the battlefield, it is rare for elite soldiers to be fully heavily armoured.

Like Europa, the pinnacle of heavy armor has begun to become a symbol of honor rather than a standard piece of equipment. Even if you want to wear armor, many people are already wearing only 1/4 of the armor, which is the so-called cuirass, which is also to protect against firearms, and the situation of full body armor is becoming more and more rare.

The same is true in the Ming Dynasty, China did not develop plate armor, but East Asian armor also left a strong mark in the history of human armor. However, the Ming Dynasty's Zajia slowly withdrew from the stage of history, and the cotton armor replaced it.

This also led to the change of the spear head in the Ming Dynasty from the large head of the Han, Tang and Song dynasties to the small spearhead. In the past thousand years, whether it was the lance of the Han, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties, or the guns of the Liao, Song and Jin Yuan, the lance head and the spear head were very large and long, and the purpose was to break the heavy armor. In the Ming Dynasty, firearms became popular, heavy armor slowly withdrew from the stage of history, and the gun became a relatively flexible small spearhead, and the overall weight of the spear was instantly much lighter.

The armament of the Qing Dynasty basically inherited the armament of the Ming Dynasty, and there was even a retreat in the use of firearms in order to guard against the Han people, so the Republic of China began to leave a name for the history of the various gun skills are generally very elegant, that is, because the gun head was changed to a light and small gun head.

"I don't expect them to use their guns well, I just hope that they will listen to orders, and I will stab them when I order them."

Li Hongji explained to Liu Yifeng while sighing that Liu Yifeng was really upright, and when he said that he was purchasing a batch of guns, he was referring to bamboo guns.

Yes, many soldiers of the Middle and Late Ming Dynasty used bamboo spears sharpened with bamboo poles. Bamboo is light and can be used when chopped. Especially when dealing with the Japanese invaders, bamboo guns are basically standard equipment, and many of the bamboo guns are controlled by the Southern Army when training recruits.

Since the Han Dynasty, bamboo has been the favorite scaffold used in the construction industry, so a large number of bamboos have been transplanted in the city. A piece of moso bamboo was also transplanted outside Jinshan City, which is known for its fast growth and can grow into a mature bamboo in 50 days. These bamboos were planted last year, and this year's best growth has already been completed.

But Liu Yifeng doesn't understand this, his concept is that the army burns money when fighting. For him, armaments and logistics always come first, and the quality of individual soldiers is second, no matter how important.

So a large number of standard spears and single knives were purchased.

He is now holding a single knife, the length of the handle is more than 30 centimeters, the length of the blade is also more than one meter, the overall shape is long and thin, the first reaction of Xiaobai in later generations must be a katana, and those who understand a little will say that this is a Miao knife, but in this era, this is actually a single knife.

The Miao knife of the Ming Dynasty refers to the short knife used by the Miao people, and the Miao knife that later generations said, that is the name given to the single knife of the imitation of the Japanese knife at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, which means that the knife body is narrow and slender.

In addition, the Japanese sword did not flow into the Central Plains in the Ming Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty had Japanese swords into the Central Plains, but the Song Dynasty was still a world of heavy armor, and the four dynasties of the Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties basically regarded the Japanese sword as a literary sword. The ones that flow into the Central Plains are basically the ones that are carefully built, otherwise they wouldn't be able to make a literary knife.

When the Ming Dynasty made trouble, Qi Jiguang found that the Japanese knife was particularly useful for light armor and no armor, so he used the skills of the Ming Dynasty to create a single knife, also known as the long knife, that is, the Miao knife that was popular on the Internet from the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China to later generations.

Daming has always had the tradition of "your good things, I studied them, I learned them, and now I have them".

Westerners' firearms are good, I bought them, I researched them, I localized them for mass production, and I had a bird gun.

The rear-loading smoothbore small-caliber rapid-fire gun of the Fran machine man is good, I bought it, I researched it, I localized it for mass production, and I had the Fran cannon.

The large-caliber breech cannon of the Dutch is very good, I bought it, I researched it, I localized it for mass production, and I had a Hongyi cannon in the Ming Dynasty.

Your Japanese knife is really good, I seized, I researched, I localized mass production, I have a single knife (Miao knife) in the Ming Dynasty.

In this era, there are many more Daming: your soft sailing ship looks very powerful, I bought it, I researched it, I localized it for mass production, and I Daming has a Zheng He class comparable to the Galen ship.

Liu Yifeng learned the sword holding style of the katana in his impression, and slashed 3 times in a row.

Li Hongji walked over and said with a smile: "Big boss, the wide open and closed slash is suitable for you, but you had better make sure that you can hack the enemy to death before using it, so that the other party can easily sneak attack you when you are exhausted." ”

Liu Yifeng nodded, the weight of this single knife is estimated to be close to 4 catties, counting the forward shift of the center of gravity caused by the length, in fact, Liu Yifeng's hands bear a pulling force of nearly 10 catties. If it's a protracted war, it's really not suitable for slashing all the time, and it's definitely going to be exhausted.

Li Hongji took the single knife in Liu Yifeng's hand and said: "There are three ways to use the single knife, basic chopping, flexible stealing knife and half knife and half gun. ”

There is no need to demonstrate the chopping, but more to test the footwork and physical fitness that novices tend to ignore.

The flexible knife stealing later generations of Miao knife lovers are no strangers, the exquisite forward step with the fast knife, with a tricky angle with the tip of the knife to stab the enemy's hands or legs, mostly used for mastery of heads-up masters, belongs to the advanced use of single knife.

And half a knife and half a gun, this is a favorite skill used by military masters. Most single-blade hilts continue to be 30 cm on the net and the blade is not open, and the master will change his move halfway, and the other hand will suddenly move forward to hold the unedged part, and use the stab in the spear on the single knife.

If you don't have a lot of experience in facing battles and have been preventing slashing and slashing, it's easy to lose.

Liu Yifeng watched Li Hongji first demonstrate a section of the army's slashing method, and the technique of direction and force is indeed different from the reckless way that Feng Shuo taught himself, less elegant, more fierce.

Then Li Hongji changed his moves halfway, with exquisite footwork, several picks in a row, teasing, even if he was facing the air, Liu Yifeng could imagine that if there was really an enemy, he would definitely be injured in his hands now.

Then there was another slash, but just when people thought that the second knife was also a slash, Li Hongji changed his move halfway again, and his left hand grabbed the part of the blade in front of the handle of the knife fiercely, and the distance between his hands was half a meter, and he stabbed out fiercely.

There is a fundamental difference between the stabbing of the spear and the stabbing of the sword in that the stab of the gun can do many powerful stabs in a short period of time, which can only be done by holding the gun with both hands. The stab of the sword can be stabbed several times at most, but the force is definitely not comparable to the force of the two-handed grip of the gun in accordance with the ergonomics of the gun.

The most terrifying thing about a single knife master in the army is here: the second change of moves.

As if holding a broken spear and stabbing three times in a row, Li Hongji suddenly changed his moves again, and when he stabbed the third time, his left hand came back and held the knife, and with a flick of his wrists with both hands, the blade of the knife slanted from his left shoulder over his head, and formed a downward slash from right to left on his right shoulder.

If the enemy has been defending against the stab before, this change of move reaction has not kept up with the slightest bit, and it is a dead word.

"Awesome!"

Li Hongji exhaled, a little embarrassed, he hadn't practiced for a long time, and he felt a little rusty. In the Yugoslav Army, they have to practice every day, and they have a small ratio every month and a large ratio once a quarter.

"No matter how powerful it is, it's useless, the future is the world of firecrackers."

"Not so fast." Liu Yifeng retorted: "There are still several thresholds to pass for the complete replacement of cold weapons by firearms. ”

In fact, even firearms during the Opium War in the 19th century did not completely make cold weapons disappear from the stage of history. The British lobster soldiers did not rely on salvos to repel the Qing soldiers, but relied on the charge behind the bayonets.

It sounds counter-intuitive, but that's the true history.

Basically, in the two hundred years of the 17th and 18th centuries, cold weapons were not completely eliminated, but they did slowly change from the main arms to the second-line arms.

"Lao Li, after this crisis passes, you teach me how to use a single knife."

"Okay."

(Today, I will update a chapter, the building next door to the company has been diagnosed, we may be quarantined, and we don't have time to write the second chapter)