Chapter 10 Conflict
"Sir, how can I train like you?"
At this time, the surrounding soldiers had already stopped training and stood by to watch the sparring between Chen Xiao and Liu Qiang. Seeing that Chen Xiao's stabbing skills were so impressive, one of the soldiers started to ask.
After all, the better your bayonet skills are, the greater your chances of surviving on the battlefield.
Therefore, being quick and eager to learn is what every warrior should possess in order to survive the next battle.
"It's very simple. Just stand closer and I'll teach you." Chen Xiao didn't hide anything and told them all the tricks directly.
"First, if it's just one person, the guns and bayonets in our hands, no matter how we stab out, the root of the attack is actually on your shoulder, and this will never change.
Just like a bamboo, no matter how much it sways in the wind, its roots will always be there and cannot move.
The section from its root to its tip is its only way. The root is the opponent's shoulder, and the tip is where? Of course, it is our chest or body.
So between the opponent's shoulder and our body is the trajectory of the opponent's gun.
Everyone understands this, right?
No matter how the opponent stabs or how fast, the trajectory will not change, so we have the opportunity to block or push away.
You can try it out slowly with each other, whether you are practicing martial arts, shooting, or artillery, it is the same. You must first understand the principle, and then practice to get twice the result with half the effort.
If you don't understand anything and just practice as others teach you, it will be difficult to practice well.
Therefore, you must understand that in a bayonet fight, you must first figure out how to survive under the opponent's bayonet, and then practice how to kill the opponent.
So the first step you need to practice is how to block the opponent's bayonet. I will teach you a move, the Zhongping gun, which is the gun technique I used when I was practicing with squad leader Liu just now."
The Zhongping spear has existed since ancient times. It is not like what is described in some novels, where one stands in a four-square horse stance and holds the spear in front of the chest, keeping it steady.
In fact, the Zhongping spear is very simple. The butt of the spear is fixed . The left hand holds the spear shaft and lifts it slightly upwards. The tip of the spear, which is more than ten feet long, stops at the height of one's chest. Although it is called "ping", it is not really flat, but it is indeed Zhongping.
The gun stops in the middle, and when the enemy stabs at you, no matter from the left or the right, the gun in the middle only needs to be tilted slightly to the left one degree, or slightly to the right one degree, to block the tip of the gun. Because people are so small, a gun that is more than ten feet long tilted one degree and extended to more than ten feet is already a large angle, which can completely block a person's entire body.
If the opponent wants to stab his head, he can just tilt the barrel of his gun upwards slightly to block him.
Of course, if the opponent is stupid and insists on stabbing you, you just need to stretch out your hand slightly, and your gun can be longer and faster than the opponent's, and stab him in the chest.
This is the essence of the gun technique, the horizontal gun, because at any time, your slight rotation is much faster than the time it takes for the opponent to stab you.
Of course, all of this requires the gun holder to use his waist strength. Otherwise, even if you know the principle, it will be in vain if you can't push away the opponent's gun.
The training of using waist strength to hold a gun is simple. Hold the butt of the gun with your right hand and press it against your waist. Hold the gun barrel with your left hand and fix it in front of your body. Then use the front end of the stick to move the handle of the millstone. Just turn your body without moving your hands. Use the force from your body to move the millstone. You will be able to do it after practicing for a day or two.
He could even turn a millstone, let alone the gun that was stabbed at him by the other party.
Next, it’s speed.
You understand the principle, and you also know which route the opponent is coming from, and you also know that you can push away the opponent's gun by gently dialing into that center line, but you are not fast enough.
Although the time it takes to gently push it away is much shorter than the time it takes for the opponent to stab you, your reaction is much slower than that of the opponent, so this won't work.
So we need to practice, but how do we practice?
Two people practiced against each other. In the early stage, one person stabbed lightly, and the other one flicked lightly. Then they slowly increased the speed. In the end, they wiped the cloth wrapped around the gun tip with soot and continued practicing.
Sometimes people fail to achieve results in training simply because they do not know the method. Even if they do know the method, if they do not set a small goal for themselves, they will not have much motivation.
But if you understand the method and set small goals for yourself, then it will be easy to achieve results.
In the end it all comes down to footwork. After all, shooting is static but people are alive. You spend the whole day guarding against the straight line between your opponent's shoulder and yourself, but what if the opponent moves?
The straight line of the necessary path has changed, and the straight line you want to block has also changed.
If you want to change this situation, you need to change your body shape and steps along with the other party so that you are always in an advantageous position.
After explaining these principles thoroughly, it is actually very quick to learn bayonet fighting. After all, Liu Qiang and the others have a solid foundation. After all, they have survived many bayonet fights with the Japanese, so their skills cannot be that bad.
The progress is also huge. It is equivalent to someone who is not good at pinyin practicing Wubi typing. He practices blindly with a keyboard at home for half a year and can barely type a hundred or eighty words.
But he signed up for a training class, and the teacher gave him a root table and asked him to memorize it at home. After he memorized it, he returned to the training classroom and the teacher gave him a targeted tutorial on a computer. With just a few pointers, the barrier that was usually like a layer of window paper was broken in an instant. He learned it in a week and his typing speed was very fast.
There is a huge difference between having someone to guide you and having no one to guide you.
People who have made progress are of course proud, but not everyone can remain calm and not impatient. So when the soldiers of the guard squad returned to the New 1st Regiment’s base to collect supplies, a conflict broke out when they passed by the training ground.
He was just passing by the training ground and saw the old soldiers teaching the new recruits how to fight with bayonets. He remembered that he had learned this way before and couldn't help but chuckle at himself.
However, he did not expect that the self-deprecating look on his face was misunderstood, and the old soldier who was teaching bayonet fighting techniques in the training ground thought that he was mocking himself.
The soldiers in the guard squad were from the old first battalion, while the veterans in the training ground were from the third battalion. They all knew each other and avoided any signs of conflict.
The old soldier, who thought that the guards were laughing at him, became unhappy and immediately thought of a solution: "Niu Dali, you are here to collect supplies again!
Everyone, pay attention. Stop for a moment. Let me tell you about this person. He was once an elite soldier in the 1st battalion. His bayonet fighting skills were impeccable. No less than three Japanese soldiers fell under his bayonet. His name was Niu Dali.
We haven’t seen each other for more than half a month, ever since he was transferred to the yard on the hill over there. You’re new here, so you probably haven’t seen him!
Haven't seen him before? That won't do! He's our new group 's elite .
Dali, why don't we show our real bayonet fighting skills to the new recruits so that everyone can get to know you."
He didn't say a word. Niu Dali killed three Japanese soldiers with a bayonet, but he was a rare person in the team who had killed five Japanese soldiers with a bayonet.
Niu Dali was no coward: "Sure! I haven't seen my old comrade for more than half a month, let's get closer!"
He put down the things in his hands and immediately reached out to take the wooden spear from a new soldier. Seeing that the cloth wrapped around the head of the wooden spear was clean, he said to the new soldier: "Go get me some pot bottom ash..."
