I Teach Kendo in Tokyo Chapter 68: The end of the lieutenant battle

He Ma does not dare to underestimate the enemy, and is ready to fight.

But the other party didn't act either, just waiting to attack with the horse.

He made a heartfelt agreement with Ma and rushed forward to attack.

He is guarding against any attack on the opposite side, ready to interrupt the attack and evade at any time.

The opponent moves, looks like a standard cut, and the target is the hand holding the sword with the horse.

He Ma, as a master of cutting off, naturally knows very well how to deal with cutting off.

The easiest way is to interrupt the attack, and then retract the hand and the attack from the opponent's aiming hand will fail.

But this requires a very fast reaction speed, and it needs to predict the opponent's actions. It will be too late to shrink when the cut is shot.

Normal people can't react at all.

But He Ma has long been out of the category of normal people.

As soon as the opponent Muroya Kuangzhi was about to launch, he captured the fleeting information through meticulous observation, and immediately stopped the attack and pulled back.

Ordinary people often do this by thinking in advance that they want to feint and cut off, but Kazuma is completely improvised.

Muroya Kuangzhi's bamboo sword swept across the front of the waistcoat and waistcoat.

The referee frowned, but his body had moved, and he raised the flag representing Muroya Yasushi Tomoto.

Obviously, the referee wanted to raise the flag when he saw Che Luo's shot, but he never thought that He Ma would be able to dodge.

After raising the flag, the referee was a little embarrassed, because no one heard the sound of the bamboo sword hitting the gauntlet, obviously there was no reason.

The little girl who was forced into the referee group by the generals of Kyoto raised her objection without saying a word: "This is not worth it at all, right?"

This girl is probably an ordinary kendo enthusiast. She was brought in to help. She didn't even think about developing more in the kendo world, so she didn't have so many concerns.

The referee was very embarrassed, and was about to say something tough, when Kuangzhi Murogu raised his hand: "I also think I didn't get it, I was tricked out of it."

The referee twitched, and he questioned Shigu Kuangzhi sharply: "Are you sure you want to question my judgment? I asked you to take a copy."

"I'm sure." Kuangzhi Murogu's voice was steady and firm, "If it wasn't for a fair duel, it would be impossible to test my limits."

The referee said with a gloomy face: "Okay, since the other side disagrees with the referee's result, I withdraw this judgment. Both sides reset."

He and Ma were already waiting at the starting line. He and Muroya Kuangzhi had just played for a round, and they didn't move much at all.

After listening to the password, Zhong Duan and Ma held swords, and stood ready again.

The opponent is also holding a sword in the middle, so the situation becomes exactly the same as before.

If you attack, you must eat and cut, and if you want to break and cut, you must fight for speed, as long as your attack is faster than the cut.

But because the cut is aimed at the hand, the stroke of the knife during the attack action is short, which naturally has a speed advantage.

Actually, in a real knife duel, there is a way to cut and fall without thinking, that is to use a knife that is longer than the opponent.

In actual combat, the longer the blade, the better the advantage. As for the longer blade, the swing speed is slower. This is actually created by later games for balance.

In actual use, adding the weight of the increased length will have a far less impact on the swing speed of the weapon than the difference in the user's strength.

The sword you use in actual combat is longer and heavier, so as long as you are stronger than others, you can offset this disadvantage.

In the early period of Japan's Warring States Period, when iron cannons were not so popular, samurai clad in full armor with super-long wild swords, rushing into the ashigaru pile, just like a tank entering a crowd without anti-tank weapons.

This situation is even more obvious in the Middle Ages in Europe. Due to race and nutrition issues in Japan, the armor cannot be too heavy. Europeans are tall and big, and it is easy to grow food in the Great Plains. They can arm those iron can knights. The era of cold weapons is really almost incomprehensible.

It is also a well-developed city in Italy, capable of deploying heavy crossbows on a large scale to deal with these gang of knights.

However, no matter the heavy crossbow or the longbow, it requires physical strength to use. Although the crossbow reduces the physical demand through the mechanical device, the winding is still a labor of strength.

After the Hussite War, town craftsmen and freedmen discovered that muskets were a good thing. They were excellent in opening cans, and they didn't take much effort. Even women could reload and fire, and the era of knights and gentlemen began to disintegrate.

In short, there are ways to deal with cuts in actual combat, you can use longer knives, you can use flying props, and the ultimate solution: draw a gun.

But now the bamboo swords used by Kazuma are the standard standard stipulated by the All Swords Federation, and the length has been fixed.

If you just fight for speed, not to mention whether the opponent can fight at level 25, there is an eccentric referee next to him.

If the speed with the horses is over, but the hit is just a little bit ahead of time, when the referee raises the flag and decides the opponent wins, then there is really no reason to argue.

After all, there are no ultra-high-speed cameras in the arena, and it is entirely up to the referee to judge.

The little girl who serves as the deputy referee is a kendo enthusiast at all. In that kind of situation, she can't see clearly and don't say it. Even if she can see clearly, no one will think that she is more authoritative than the main referee. .

Just now the referee's "defeat" actually sounded the alarm to Kazuma, telling him that he couldn't create a situation where it was difficult to tell who won, and everyone around him had to see that he won.

That way the referee can't do anything.

But the opponent's strength is not bad, and then it seems that they don't plan to take the initiative to attack, and they will eat and cut when they attack.

And the horse begins to move sideways.

If you are indecisive, move sideways first and enter the two-person turn mode.

If the basic skills of the face-to-face are not good, the bottom line is unstable, and the opportunity will not come?

Muroya Kuangzhi also cooperated very well, and just turned around with Kazuma.

So Ma and Ma had time to think about what to do.

Sure enough, should I still trick the opponent into making a move, cheating out the cut and taking the time to fight back?

But the opponent has already suffered a loss just now, will they be fooled again?

Thinking of this and Ma, I hated the referee. This forced me not to raise the flag and make trouble, so I took advantage of the gap to attack.

The chief referee raised the flag. Regardless of whether the judgment counts or not, the attack launched after the flag is raised will not count.

He Ma decided to give it a try, so he suddenly changed his pace - kendo attacks are basically started from footsteps.

So when a newbie starts practicing kendo, the master always says don't just stare at the enemy's sword.

As soon as Kazuma's footsteps changed, the opposite side immediately followed suit, but beyond Kazuma's expectations, Muroya Kuangzhi took a step forward.

Does this want to make the slash and cut as close as possible to give the referee more discretion?

The opponent said they wanted a fair duel, but they did not give up the advantage of the referee favoring him——

But Hema was a fake, he didn't attack at all, just retreated and waited for the cut to fall.

But the opponent didn't make a move either.

The two resumed their confrontation.

Suddenly I heard someone shouting: "Why don't you fight, it's so boring!"

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced in the direction of the voice and found it was Mikako.

This guy slaps the floor like a little kid: "It's so boring, fight!"

In fact, the people watching the game are attracted by the game between the two sides, and they are very invested in it.

Mikako's kendo strength is actually quite good, so she doesn't completely lose sight of the way.

She's deliberately acting silly.

Thanks to her acting stupid, Kazuma's mood relaxed a little, and then a brilliant idea came to her.

Competitive kendo stipulates areas for effective punching, and only hitting these areas counts, so competitive kendo battles are all head-to-head.

And there is absolutely no lower swordsmanship to attack the lower plate.

No points in the next game!

He Ma changed the position of holding the knife in the middle to holding the knife in the lower part.

The spectators immediately let out a circle of exclamations, because they didn't know what to do with the horse.

Hema's idea is actually very simple. It becomes difficult to use a knife to cut and fall in the face of the lower section. Generally, cutting and falling are practiced against the attack of the upper or middle section, and there is basically no attack against the lower section. Cut off practice.

He's just forcing the opponent to change his moves.

Although the lower part is a posture that is not common in kendo competitions, the opponent is facing the winner of Kuixing Banner, the modern swordsman Kiryu and Ma who have experienced many life-and-death duels. of.

The other party thought for a while, and suddenly stepped forward to attack.

It is very convenient to use a knife to cut legs in the lower part, but it is much more difficult to hit the effective punching area of ​​competitive kendo than in the middle and upper parts.

And the lower part is not easy to develop defense.

The opponent apparently decided this was the perfect time to attack.

It seems that Muroya has a lot of confidence in his kendo.

Slipped sideways with the horse, dodging the opposite straight cut by a tiny margin, then lifted the lower section and swept towards the opponent's carcass.

But Muroya Kuangzhi directly raised his center of gravity, and Kazuma hit the apron with this knife.

At the same time, the opponent slashed horizontally with a knife in both hands, hitting Hema's side.

He Ma directly raised both hands up and pulled up the blade to block.

During this process, the bamboo sword of the horse touched the effective hit area of ​​the carcass, but the effective strike of competitive kendo does not mean that you win if you hit it, you must have a corresponding sword action, and some referees even require a step forward. The combination of this leg movement can be regarded as an effective punch.

Let's put down the horizontal slash with the horse, and push forward quickly to maintain the bamboo sword.

He wanted to try to see if he could force the opponent to have a problem when he stepped back, after all, the opponent had just raised his center of gravity.

After taking a few steps forward, the opponent stumbled a bit, and the horse immediately retreated and pulled away, without adjusting their posture, they stepped forward and fired a knife.

Muroya Kuangzhi, who was unstable in the bottom plate, hurriedly challenged and blocked very reluctantly.

He wanted to maintain the cross and fight for a chance to adjust his posture, but Kazuma didn't give him a chance, so he closed his sword like lightning and attacked again - two fights!

Muroya Kusashi is indeed a level 25 master who has already stood at the top of the mortals, and he even managed to defend the second time.

But now he's completely passive, losing even the chance to use the cut.

Consecutive attacks with horses.

Muroya Kuangzhi, who was tired of dealing with it, finally had a major flaw after taking the fifth sword, and the bamboo sword fell out of his hand.

According to He Ma's life's memory, dropping a knife in a kendo match is not considered a loss, but many times the person who dropped the knife would surrender voluntarily because of shame.

Be thick-skinned and then hit no one can say anything about you.

But the rules here are obviously different. When the knife fell to the ground, the spectators made an "oh" sound, and the referee also raised the flag.

"Tokyo University pioneer, shoot down the opponent's bamboo sword, win!"

He Ma raised his eyebrows.

He had previously discovered that the rules of kendo in the two worlds were somewhat different: in a previous life, he remembered very well that a thrust was only effective if it hit a special throat guard under the helmet.

But apparently stabbing the carcass here is also effective.

Because this difference was discovered before, the current and Ma are not very surprised.

It turns out that if the knife is dropped here, even if he loses, he silently remembers it in his heart.

Wouldn't that create a lot of weapon-specific playstyles?

As long as you have enough strength, greet the opposite bamboo sword, and you will win if you hit the fly.

However, the design of the bamboo sword itself can buffer and absorb force, so it must be quite difficult to fly the bamboo sword.

Bamboo knives are not made of whole bamboo, but a flexible structure formed by many bamboo strips tied together.

The two bamboo knives collided, and most of the force was absorbed by the deformation of the blades.

You can still feel pain in the tiger's mouth with a bamboo knife, which means that the opponent's strength is extraordinary.

The estimate that can achieve the effect of tiger's mouth pain also shows the current upper slash.

Muroya Kuangzhi picked up the bamboo sword that fell on the ground and bowed to Kazuma: "I made you laugh, Kiryu-kun."

"No, you're already doing pretty well."

In all fairness, Muroya Kusashi simply relied on the level of kendo, which made Kazuma quite uncomfortable.

If it weren't for the fact that he had a lot of actual combat experience with horses, and the blessings brought by the entry, the result of this battle would probably be one-sided.

If Muroya Kuangzhi raises two more levels and reaches the level of Ping Zhongshi, Kazuma may not be able to fight.

——It seems that the pursuit of experience and actual combat is not enough.

It's time to find a great teacher and teach yourself a few tricks.

According to Kazuma's experience, if you seek guidance from someone who is good in kendo and has the skills to teach you everything, the speed of leveling up is faster than finding monsters yourself.

And the guide can also learn new sword moves.

The Qiluo and Ma of Pingzhong Shijiao have been used all the way to the present, and they have benefited a lot.

At this time, the referee issued the "li" password.

Kawama hurriedly made the action of holding the sword, took the bamboo sword to his waist and held it in the other hand - this symbolizes returning the sword to the sheath - and bowed to Muroya Kusashi in front of him.

After doing this, Muroya turned around and took off the mask at the same time.

Miss Ghost Court hurriedly stepped forward to take his helmet, handed him the towel, and said softly, "It's hard work, Murogu-kun."

He Ma also took off the helmet, handed it to Honami, and looked at Honami.

Honami showed a puzzled expression for a moment, but she understood immediately: "It's hard work, Kazuma."

Then Honami didn't hand over the towel, but directly wiped the sweat with her hands.

Tamazao next to him opened the thermos pot, turned the lid back up as a cup, filled it with iced barley tea, and handed it to Kazuma.

"And the battle of the generals," she said, "and you're done with the first string of fives after the generals."

Honami: "By the way, Toda-senpai asked, do you want to take a break? If you want, a few of them will come, and try to help you delay the time."

I thought about it with the horse~IndoMTL.com~ I really used up a lot of physical strength.

Twenty minutes of rest should be in better shape.

At this time, Kyoto University's Kendo general, Tanzhoulou Hiroshi, was already standing behind the starting line opposite.

The strong man folded his arms and said, "I suggest you take a break, and I'm just in time to warm up with a dozen of your weaker seniors."

While saying this, Miss Ghost Court helped him pull his hair back and tie it into a ponytail.

Seeing that the other party said so, Ma and Ma tilted their heads and said to Honami, "Let the seniors come on."

Honami nodded, then turned her head and made a gesture to Toda-senpai on the contestants' seat.

Senior Toda immediately raised his hand: "The University of Tokyo will change the contestants!"

The referee: "Are you sure? In this case, the vanguard can't continue to play until the rest of you are eliminated."

"We're sure," Toda-senpai said.