Mercenaries and Adventurers

"The feeling just now, how should I put it. You always seem to know what I'm going to do in advance. Afterwards, when I return to the sword to defend, it feels like you planned it, just to knock down my sword?"

The Kolico guard clapped his hands: "It's a very keen sense. That's right, before I even started, I decided to knock off your sword as the key to victory."

"Did you see the opportunity to knock down my sword?"

The Kolico guard smiled: "Unfortunately, no. Before the battle begins, I have considered every step of the battle."

"Before the battle begins, do you think about every step?" Zhao Ji asked doubtfully.

"That's right. But it's not easy to learn. It depends on years of swordsmanship training. Years of swordsmanship training allows me to easily perceive your attack intentions. As long as you make a little trap, you will follow me. Action as expected."

The guards of Kolico clapped their hands and attracted Kiel's attention: "Let me teach you some practical foundations! You have to lay the foundation of using the sword well first. And, after mastering the foundation of using the sword, you can engage in Know what the other weapons are based on. You can pick and choose your favorite weapon afterwards."

"Okay, let's start." Zhao Ji said excitedly.

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The Kolico guard said: "Every weapon has a posture when using it. I will teach you a few basic sword postures first. When using a one-handed sword, it is not just enough to hold the sword in your hand. Is there any The basis of using a sword is to first look at the opponent's posture when using a sword."

Zhao Ji looked at himself. He just held the wooden sword in his hand and stood there normally. Seeing the appearance of Keli Ke's guard at this time, Zhao Ji quickly imitated him.

"Okay, this posture is a basic posture. The body is sideways, the right hand holding the sword is stretched forward, pointing at the enemy, the right leg is stepped forward, and the left leg is behind, serving as a fulcrum for load-bearing." The Koliko guard said, While correcting Zhao Ji's movements.

"Don't be too straight, bend forward a little, so that you can exert strength. Don't stretch the sword too far forward, and bend your arms so that it can be straightened or retracted to exert strength."

Zhao Ji arched his body a little, and retracted his arms a little.

"You can try to thrust the sword forward and compare the difference between the two."

Zhao Ji thrust the wooden sword in his right hand forward, swishing it several times. He tried again the straighter way of stretching the sword and the arm just now. Indeed, it was not easy to exert force like this. If he attacked, he had to retract the arm before stabbing out, which was much slower.

"When stabbing with a sword, don't stand still in place, but also rush forward!"

Zhao Ji listened to the words of the Kolico guards, and in the next attack, he also took steps, and the distance of the attack increased by a knot. But the Kolico guards didn't seem very satisfied.

"When taking a step, pay attention to the rhythm. The footsteps must be consistent with the attack of the hands, and the two must cooperate."

Zhao Ji followed what Keli Ke guards said, the sword and the footsteps cooperated with each other, and every attack started from moving forward. Ke Li Ke's guards were also in front of Zhao Ji, simulating the enemy, resisting Zhao Ji's attack with their swords.

"Upper section, lower section, upper section, mid-section stabbing." Keli Ke guards resisted Kiel's attack at will, while asking Zhao Ji to attack his position. Zhao Ji also launched an attack according to his words.

The two fought each other like this for a while, and the Kolico guards stopped the training.

"Okay, let's move on to another combat stance."

The Kolico guard stood still, his right leg took half a step back, the wooden sword was held in both hands, and the right arm was used as the center to accumulate power backwards. Zhao Ji also learned the posture of the Kolico guards at this time.

"This fighting posture is mainly to facilitate the subsequent attack."

Zhao Ji asked aloud: "What is a late attack?"

The Kolico guards swung their swords in the air and slashed falsely,

While explaining to Zhao Ji: "In simple terms, the meaning of late attack is that after the opponent launches an attack on yourself, relying on the experience of long-term confrontation, you can see through the flaws or shortcomings of the opponent's attack in an instant. Then use your own charged blow to interrupt the opponent's attack and create a powerful posture for yourself."

After finishing speaking, the Kolico guards waved to Zhao Ji to let Zhao Ji attack, and he came to show what he just said about attacking later.

Zhao Ji directly used the fighting stance he had just learned, and circled around the Kolico guards who were already in the attacking stance, looking for an opportunity to attack.

After going around half a circle on the left and right, the Kolico guards moved their steps carefully, keeping their eyes on Kiel, who was eager to launch an attack. Zhao Ji saw that he couldn't find any flaws in the Kolico guards, so as the attacking party, he launched the attack directly.

He rushed forward two steps quickly, and swung the wooden sword in his hand towards the Kolico guards from the lower right. This angle was specially chosen by Zhao Ji, because the body of the Keli Ke guard turned to the right, and the sword was also retracted in the direction of the right arm. Zhao Ji launched an attack from the lower left of the Kolico guards, and he should not be able to deal with it very well.

Seeing that Kiel was attacking from this tricky angle, the Kolico guard smiled slightly, and in an instant saw the trajectory of Kiel's sword swing, he turned directly to the right and then half a circle, and his footsteps also took half a step back, giving himself the opportunity to turn around. The body creates space. After the sword in his hand circled half a circle, he slammed heavily from behind on Kiel's wooden sword, which had been hit empty.

When the two swords intersected, they did not counteract each other, but they swung together in one direction. It turned out that Zhao Ji's sword and Keli Ke's guard's counterattack were both directed in the same direction. The sword of the Keli Ke guard hit Zhao Ji's sword, and moved forward with Zhao Ji's sword.

Zhao Ji didn't expect that after his sword missed the Keli Ke guard, he would be taken out by the Keli Ke guard's counterattack. He didn't expect such an attack, and the sword in his hand was thrown away.

The Kolico guard had already expected the result, he held his wooden sword tightly in his hand, and after flying Kiel's sword, with a twist of his wrist, the wooden sword rested on Kiel's neck.

"How is it?" asked the Kolico guard, "How do you feel?"

"Did you see through it completely again?"

The Kolico guard shook his finger: "No. On the contrary, the angle of your strike just now was very good. Normally, when I receive the sword to the right side of my body, the left side of my body is indeed the weak point. After all, the sword on the right side is not good for directly defending the left side of the body. But ah, your intention to attack is too obvious. Experienced swordsmen understand that the left side of the fighting posture of attacking backward is the weak point, so it is specially carried out here All kinds of preparations."

"So I thought about the weakness of the attacking stance, but fell into a trap instead?" Zhao Ji said helplessly.

"Although the word 'trap' is not good, it is what it means. Do you want to do it again? This time you can use another method to attack."

Zhao Ji waved his hand: "Forget it, I understand it. In fact, I still lack a lot of accumulation on the basis of using weapons. After all, as you said, I can't even master the basic movements of using a sword."

"That's right, to put it bluntly, your sword skills are about the level of my eight-year-old."

"Haha, big brother, I don't want you to hit people like this. Since your skills are so high, why don't you go out for a while? I don't think there are more opportunities for development in Kendall City, unless you go to the smelly place." Swamp for some monsters."

Hearing what Kiel said here, the Kolico guards seemed a little discouraged: "There are rules in my family, and the martial arts practiced can only serve the nobles. This is an old rule passed down from the family. Unfortunately, Kendall City has enough powerful knights , with the knights, who would want an ordinary swordsman like me?" After speaking, the Kolico guards sighed.

Seeing that the Kolico guards lost their energy to teach swordsmanship, Zhao Ji had no choice but to practice the basic skills of using a sword first. Fortunately, after being depressed for a while, the Kolico guard got up and continued to teach Zhao Ji the basic skills of the one-handed sword.

Zhao Ji felt that compared to some combat postures and such things, there were some theoretical things, and this kind of basic sword skills were just right for his level.

After all, Zhao Ji's level is only as good as the eight-year-old guard of Koli Ke's sword.

The one-handed sword's straight thrusts, oblique cuts, vertical cuts, horizontal cuts, upward thrusts, and defensive swaying, these skills were all precisely corrected by Zhao Ji's guards. Moreover, he also taught Zhao Ji the correct way to move his feet when using the sword.

When using a sword, what kind of attack should be matched with what kind of footsteps.

When stabbing, the footsteps should be stepped forward to increase the attack distance and speed of the thrust;

When slashing diagonally, the footsteps should be at right angles to the attack direction to resist the possible defensive shock force;

When chopping, the footsteps should be lunged and steady, so as to provide a solid foundation for the arms of the sword;

When slashing horizontally, the footsteps should move in the direction of the slash, so that the slash can carry the force of the body movement;

The footsteps of the upward lift should be the same as those of the vertical chop, and the footsteps of the lower body should be stable to bring more assistance to the attack;

When swaying, the footsteps should be vain instead, so as to use the counterattack force generated by the collision of weapons during swaying defense to dodge.

These are the basic skills of using a sword. Zhao Ji learned them quickly, but applying them to the use of the body requires constant practice and training.

Keli Ke guard said that if Zhao Ji can master all these things he taught today, he will teach him some higher-end swordsmanship when he comes back for training next time.

Hearing the promise of the Kolico guards, Zhao Ji practiced harder. He felt that he hadn't worked so hard when he studied the knowledge in books in his previous life. It was only then that he realized that he preferred to practice in person rather than facing a book.

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The two of them practiced from morning to afternoon. The Kolico guards guided Kiel's movements, and sometimes conducted simple confrontation training with Kiel, on the condition that both of them could only use the simple sword skills taught by the Kolico guards today.

Basically, Zhao Ji lost. Although both of them used the same tricks, the long-term training of Kolico guards made him move faster than Zhao Ji forever, without any mistakes in judgment, and his physical strength was stronger than Zhao Ji many. In the afternoon, every movement of Zhao Ji had various movements and deformations, and every sword move of the Keli Ke guards was still very standard.

Their training came to an end when Zhao Ji was completely exhausted and could only sit on the steps in the backyard panting for breath.

The two rested for a while, and each drank a lot of water, but they were still hungry. Zhao Ji said that he would treat Keli Ke guards to a good meal, and Ke Li Ke guards also nodded in agreement. After all, he would bother his wife to light a fire to cook when he got home, so it would be more convenient to have a meal outside with Kiel.

The two packed up the training equipment together, and Zhao Ji first paid today's training fee to the Keli Ke guards. Then the two of them simply cleaned up with the clear water in the backyard, and under the leadership of Zhao Ji, they went to the Table Corner Tavern for dinner.

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As a local, the Kolico guard naturally knew that he had been to the Table Corner Tavern. But their guards usually go to a cheap tavern near the city gate, not this table corner tavern in the vast poor area.

Keli Ke guards didn't wear his guard equipment today, just ordinary clothes, and Zhao Ji didn't bring his sword, only a dagger, and hurried to the table corner tavern together, after all, they are very hungry now Now, Zhao Ji is really not in the mood to go upstairs to the chamber of commerce to get the long sword.

As soon as he entered the tavern, Zhao Ji asked Todd for two meals and two beers. There were not many people in the tavern. After all, this time was the least lively time of the day in the tavern. It was only because the Harvest Festival was approaching and the population in the city increased that the Table Corner tavern also had drinkers at this time.

Todd glanced at the Kolico guard who came in with Keir, his face was familiar, but he didn't know him. He handed the beer to Keel, and went to prepare the food.

Zhao Ji and Keli Ke guards randomly found a seat, and first each drank a big mouthful of beer. The refreshing beer greatly relieved the tired bodies of the two.

Todd quickly brought up the food that Zhao Ji asked for one by one. Baked potatoes, grilled chicken legs with dipping sauce, warm bread, and the rich broth that always appears on the table.

They were all very hungry, Zhao Ji and Keli Ke guards both wolfed down the food on the table. After they were no longer hungry, the half-fed two finally had time to chat.

"Koliko, who will train me next week?"

"Hey, he is our team leader. His two-handed sword is very powerful, and no one among the guards can beat him. If you want to learn how to use his sword, you must first prepare a wooden training sword. "

"But will Captain Jess teach me his great sword skills?"

"Didn't I entrust you with my one-handed sword skills? Don't worry, Captain Jess will definitely teach you. In fact, our guards have been learning from each other, and no one will hide their own Skills, after all, the guards rely on unity to win. Usually, we are in the garrison at the gate of the city, and we will practice with each other when we are free. It’s just that everyone spends too much energy on duty every day. After a long time, there is no one Thinking about studying again, everyone is more likely to get together and discuss all kinds of troublesome things they encounter every day."

"If I were a guard, I would definitely learn all your skills."

"Hahaha, you are still young. When I was your age, I thought the same thing, but only in the one-handed sword that I am good at, I may have to spend my whole life to reach a certain height. Not to mention putting all People have learned all the skills."

"There will be a way. In this strange world, there must be a way." Zhao Ji muttered to himself in a low voice.

The Kolico guard finished his food in a few bites, and drank his beer in one gulp: "There may be some way, after all, the omnipotent god is definitely able to do it. Thank you for your treat, Keel. See you next time. Remember, at this time next week, prepare two wooden training swords in advance!"

Zhao Ji waved to the Kolico guards as farewell. The Kolico guard also waved, and hiccupped out of the table corner tavern.

Todd saw the Colico guards leave after eating, and came to Zhao Ji's table to clear away the wine glasses and plates.

"Todd, is there anyone here today?" Zhao Ji put a piece of baked potato into his stomach in a few mouthfuls.

"There is no commission, but there is some news, do you want to know?"

Hearing the news, Zhao Ji's eyes brightened. He is tired of hunting slime monsters. After all, he can kill slime monsters even with his eyes closed: "I can let you say it!" The news is definitely not a trivial matter, right? I want to know, please tell me quickly!"

Seeing that Kiel was interested in his news, Todd whispered to Kiel: "In the early hours of this morning, the male owner of a family a few streets away was suddenly killed. Interestingly, The wife of the dead man shouted to the onlookers: 'Whoever avenges her husband, she will give the avenger a treasure' Look, isn't that very interesting."

"Treasure! If it's not fake, then I'm very interested." Zhao Ji raised his glass and drank it in one gulp.