You see, Barbie-san scolded me a lot before. She tells me to make sure to check my surroundings all the time. That’s why you have to be mindful of the entire field, not just focus on the enemy in front of you If you focus only on the enemy in front of you, you’ll lose sight of your surroundings.
The more relaxed you are the better you’d be able to see what’s going on around you. That’s why she’s scolding me all the time for not being a bit more frivolous
Oh, it’s the same with Edie’s smile and Michi’s expressionless face.
In a match, it’s obvious that there’s only one opponent, but.
In real combat, you don’t know when someone will come from the side.
Therefore, you don’t just focus on the enemy in front, but continue to be cautious with your surroundings.
They look like they’re being careless that way.
Your family’s spear technique was born from an actual battlefield experience during the warring states so you should know that
Kinoshita-san told Kuromiya-san.
But, the 270 years of Edo period is a long time, since it became a traditional family martial art, it has lost many of the important aspects of the actual combat martial arts. I think that’s what happened Kuromiya-san stares at Kinoshita-san.
Especially since your style has been passed down from generation to generation by the head of the house, right? In that case, you can’t do any unfair methods or use gorgeous techniques that aren’t suitable for the head of the family, making your martial arts even more useless That’s.
In real combat, unfair methods don’t exist. You can avoid all your unfair methods but what’s the meaning of that if you don’t survive
that’s.I know that.
You don’t get it. Your technique shows it. Your family’s spear techniques had been just boiling for about three hundred years inside your family. So in a sense, it’s beautiful and sophisticated, but it’s lost its power as a martial art for combat. Haiya!
Kinoshita-san goes after Kuromiya-san again.
Kuh
Hoiyahoiyahoiya
Nugugugugu
Kuromiya-san’s on the defensive.
See, it’s hard to receive my attacks, right? Do you know why? It’s because your house technique is designed to fight enemies wearing a wafuku and nothing else, so you have a lot of blind spots. Like here, or here Kinoshita-san’s spear is cornering Kuromiya-san.
Besides, the spears from before were heavy. You don’t think about what kind of action you can do with such a light carbon flexible spear, do you? Your imagination and initiative are lacking. You should’ve practiced learning more with your imagination Kinoshita-san’s holding the lowermost part of the spear, attacking Kuromiya-san where the spear is a snake.
You can use it this way too. Well, I’m a professional so we learned techniques of Chinese martial arts, bayonet fighting, and even modern stick fighting techniques and apply them. However, your arts only apply to the other martial arts that existed in Japan during the Edo period. An ancient one Kinoshita-san’s guiding Kuromiya-san while fighting her.
That’s why you can’t win against me
Kinoshita-san uses the rubber tip to slap Kuromiya-san’s hand.
Kyaa!
Kuromiya-san dropped her spear.
The carbon training spear rolled on the ground.
If you hit that part of the hand, even the strongest people will open their hand. That’s how it is
Kinoshita-san said.
So, do you want another go?
She smiles.
i haven’t lost yet!
Kuromiya-san hurriedly tried to pick up the spear she dropped but her hands were numb, she can’t pick it up.
I think that’s enough
Misuzu goes to the courtyard.
Kuromiya-san, look at yourself and compare it to Kinoshita-san.
Misuzu-sama?
Kuromiya-san is surprised.
You’re sweating all over, your clothes are disordered.
Misuzu’s right. Kuromiya-san’s white hakama is already worn out.
Her face is sweating, shining in the moonlight.
But look at Kinoshita-san, she’s not sweating at all
Kinoshita-san’s showing a nonchalant face.
Well yes, that wasn’t enough to make me sweat
Kinoshita-san swings her carbon spear and said.
Kuromiya-san compared herself with Kinoshita-san and then.
I seem to have lost
She accepts her defeat.
But, that’s not a loss of the Kuromiya spear arts. In the end, it was me who’s inexperienced
Kuromiya-san said, but.
No, it’s the same
Kinoshita-san said.
You two are the only people in the world who have inherited the Kuromiya style spear fighting, aren’t you?
Only Kuromiya Motoko-san and Mikuriya Kurumi-san practices that art.
That’s why your loss is Kuromiya arts’ loss. You mustn’t make a mistake in that
Oh, she’s.
She never reads the mood.
Kuh
Kuromiya-san’s overwhelmed by humiliation.
1322. Farewell to the Spear Another Defeat
Spears is one of the oldest weapons of mankind
Rei-chan said.
Naturally, the first one was just a long stick with a stone tool attached to the tip. It’s only after human history was recorded that sharp metal blades were added. One of the most famous is the phalanx, in which soldiers armed with long spears and large shields from ancient Greece formed a dense formation and deployed spear slings in front of them. But the Macedonian army of Alexander the Great had their spears increase their length, calling it Sarissa Rei-chan said, and then looked at Haiji.
Haiji-chan’s taking an in-depth lecture at an academy in Europe, right?
Yes
Haiji replies.
In warfare from old times, it’s important to know how to communicate the orders of the commander to the troops, because it’s not possible to give orders by radio as we do now. If you’re using a unit with spears fighting together as a fighting force, then you can move many people under one will. However, this would require a lot of well-trained soldiers, in Europe, from ancient to the middle ages, when feudal societies where each lord ran their own domain, dense formations of soldiers with spears has become obsolete It was the time of knights and mercenaries
Rei-chan smiled.
However, when Switzerland gained independence from the Habsburgs in the 15th century, the citizen-soldiers defeated the cavalry by forming defense formations with long spears called pikes That brought back the age of spears
That’s right. Even after guns came into use in warfare, spearmen were indispensable for escorting the gunners and for close combat, since early guns took a very long time to fire in succession. In the 16th century, the Spanish army has established the tactics of Tercio in which soldiers with guns and spears are combined to a formation. After that, spears have remained a mainstay in the European warfare until the 17th century Haiji said.
Bayonet was invented to put a sword at the end of the musket. Before that, they had to separate gunners and spearmen, but when it came to close combat, we could attach bayonets to the guns and make all the soldiers gunners The increase in production capacity in European countries also made it possible to get more guns to the soldiers. Before that, it was hard to prepare a lot of guns because of their expensive and complicated structure. Spears are cheaper and easier to make than guns Meaning, in Europe, the spear has become bayonet
A weapon attached to the end of a long gun is used to stab or cut through enemies.
In the past, rifles were designed to be as short and small as possible to make them easier to handle, nevertheless, many rifles officially adopted by many countries in the world still had bayonet attachment possible. There’s also training in bayonet fighting, although many countries have switched to combat knives in close combat, they still do it It has a longer reach than a knife. The US army stopped teaching bayonet fighting in 2010 but the Marines are still training bayonet fighting. The British military has conducted actual bayonet charges in the Falklands war in Iraq and in Afghanistan They still use bayonets even in the 21st century.