Chapter 405

Tachihara Nobuhisa

Chapter 405 Tachihara Nobuhisa

It is said that Nobushige Sanada discovered Tachihara Nobuhisa's flaw based on Takeuchi's spear technique, and stabbed at his atrium with a spear.

Just when everyone thought Nobushige Sanada hit the target with one blow, Nobuhisa Tachihara changed from a split to a pick with an incomprehensible movement, pushed away the wooden stick that Sanada Nobushige had brought, turned around and made another horizontal chop.

Sanada Nobushige saw that Tachihara Nobuhisa's long spear swept across and was in front of him, bent down and rolled over to avoid the ultimate move, stood up again and returned to the confrontation with Tachihara Nobuhisa.

The action description in more than a dozen lines of text is just a flick of a finger in terms of the actual actions of the two.

After the trial just now, both of them deeply felt that they were not weak against each other.

The two of them glanced at the defense line of the Xiu family in the hall at the same time, obviously neither of them wanted to lose face in front of the Xiu family.

"Ha!" After a brief adjustment, Tachihara Nobuhisa launched a second round of offensive.

He made an upward move to Sanada Nobushige, and Nobushige used a spear as a shield to withstand Nobushige's movement, and Nobushige turned his pick into a thorn and stabbed Nobushige.

Xinfan sideways dodged the stabbing spear, pushed away the opposite spear stick with both hands, and kicked Liyuan Xinjiu to the ground.

After reaching the end, Xinjiu rolled backwards, habitually trying to avoid the spear that Shinshige might stab.

But in fact, Nobushige did not launch a thrust. On the contrary, when Tachihara Nobuhisa was about to get up, a long spear was thrown at Nobuhisa horizontally, forcing Nobushi to roll to the right again to avoid the attack, and at the end, he held his gun at a 45° angle. The purpose of stabbing is to prevent Nobushige's possible pursuit.

However, after Xin Fan took the initiative to slash, he did not launch the next round of pursuit, but took the initiative to pull away from the position to stop quietly.

In fact, the choice of the two of them was not wrong, but after seeing Tachihara Nobuhisa making useless actions twice, they all smiled mockingly.

Everyone was not optimistic about Tachihara Nobuhisa because of his obvious appearance and characteristics of a foreigner, but now seeing his antics, they will naturally look down on him even more.

Perhaps it was the laughter of the people around that changed Tachihara Nobuhisa's mentality. After he stood up, he patted the dust on his body, and with both hands clenched the long stick without the tip of the gun, he launched an offensive against Sanada Nobushige again.

This time the offensive became more and more fierce, and all the moves were so open and closed that in the eyes of everyone, his moves were full of loopholes.

Nobushige Sanada seized the opportunity to shoot Nobushige Tachihara several times, but Nobushiro Tachihara didn't dare to take these small wounds, and continued to attack Nobushige Sanada.

But there was only a sound of "click!", and Nobushige Sanada's horizontal spear stopped Tachihara Nobuhisa's powerful strike. Under the huge reaction force, Tachihara Nobuhisa's long spear and wooden stick broke in response.

Tachihara Nobuhisa stretched out his hand to hold the broken part of the front, held a wooden stick in each hand, swung his left hand and right hand back and forth, and his moves rained down on Shinshige's wooden stick.

Finally, Xinfan staggered and was caught by Tachihara Shinjiu. Two wooden sticks slapped Xinfan's arms left and right, making him let go of the spear in pain. Xinjiu looked at his defenseless chest and saw the broken wooden stick in two. At the same time, he stabbed hard, stabbed Xinfan's chest fiercely, and pushed him to the ground.

In fact, after Tachihara Nobuhisa's long stick was broken, there were attendants on the periphery who planned to replace him with a new practice gun.

But Tachihara Nobuhisa played directly with the broken wooden stick, which was contrary to the martial arts of the samurai at the same time. This kind of routine of using double sticks was not even compatible with the orthodox martial arts at that time.

Therefore, even if Tachihara Nobuhisa knocked down Sanada Nobushige, the people around him did not congratulate him, and even the voices of laughing and joking about him were endless.

But in Xiu's house, he didn't think much of it. In his opinion, Tachihara Nobuhisa's later moves were much better than the special guns. It was obvious that the later moves of using double sticks to win people were more in line with his fighting style.

"What are you watching, have you finished your work?" Hideka rebuked the crowd who left to watch the excitement, and called Sanada Nobushige and Tachihara Nobuhisa back to him.

Nobushige Sanada rubbed his chest in pain. It can be seen from his expression that he is not very convinced about losing to Nobuhisa Tachihara.

Even Tachihara Hisakuna explained to Xiujia, "Gentabei used to live in the Einu tribe, and he learned the martial arts of the Einu people since he was a child. He only learned our spear skills for a short time, and his skills are not very good. Alright, let Your Highness take effect."

At the same time, he suggested to Xiujia: "I think it is better for Genjiro to win this round."

Hideka heard Tachihara Hisakuna's proposal, turned to Sanada Nobushige and asked, "Genjiro, what do you think of Tachihara Sensei's statement?"

Although Sanada Nobushige was not very convinced that Tachihara Hisakuna did not use spear skills to defeat him, he also knew that this was just a difference in the use of weapons. Naturally, he used his most convenient weapon on the battlefield, so he still lost.

So he replied to Tachihara Hisakuna, "If you lose, you lose. There is no need for Tachihara-sama to comfort me. Gentabei's attainments in the art of war are indeed much better than mine."

"Okay!" Hideya was very satisfied with the answer given by Nobushige Sanada. After letting him go down to rest for a while, he turned his head to look at Nobuhisa Tachihara who was kneeling in the middle, and asked him, "I see you in the first half and the second half. I believe Shifan told me that you are not good at using guns, so what is your best use of weapons?"

Tachihara Nobuhisa heard Hideo's question, raised his head to look at Hideo and replied, "It's not that I'm not good at using long spears, it's just that I'm better at using hand axes.

I started using a hand ax to help my family divide prey when I was 5 years old. At the age of 11, I followed my father and elder brother to hunt in the woodland with wooden guns, although I used a hand ax to fight at close range.

It’s just that most of the spears we use are thrusting, and we learned from his father (Hisakuna Tachihara) later by swinging the spear and chopping. "

"Oh. Is that so? I have a sleeved spear here. Let's see how you use it."

When Xiujia heard Tachihara Nobuhisa's answer, he immediately became interested, and asked someone to bring a sleeve-style spear made by his own messenger, and showed it to him.

Hideka has reformed Ukita's combat mode since time travel, but has not reformed Ashgaru's combat weapons and modes at that time.

The reason is very simple. Just popularizing the longbow costs a lot. It is even more expensive to replace the three and a half bamboo spears used by Ashgaru with hardwood set spears.

As mentioned in the previous chapter, due to the emergence of Japanese guns, the technology tree of naginata suitable for chopping was pointed out.

However, because the production method of the naginata is quite cumbersome, after the scale of the war expanded during the Warring States Period, the productivity did not increase. People at that time could only pick up the "guns" that had been dusty for many years to equip low-level ashigaru and samurai.

But at this time, the straight-up technology tree that has been crooked by the naginata made the long spear suitable for chopping even if it appeared, and the unique spear of the Japanese Warring States Period came into being from this.

It is also very difficult to find troops all over the world who, like the Japanese army, hold a 3-meter long gun and do not stab, but choose to slap.

Of course, there is another very important reason for this, that is, the gun shafts used in gun guns are all made of Japanese tea bamboo as raw materials.

This kind of bamboo is widely found in places where the Pacific Ocean current is located, such as Japan, the southern part of the mainland, Vietnam and other places.

Tea stem bamboo has a very high elastic modulus, strong deformation ability and material density, making its energy storage capacity reach 10 kJ/kg.

No concept is it?You must know that the chemically synthesized glass fiber is only 13.46 kJ/kg, while the metasequoia used by Xiujia and the Italian yew wood used by the British longbow have an energy storage density of only 1.4 kJ/kg.

Therefore, from the perspective of material science, Japanese tea bamboo is the S-level raw material for making bows, and it is the most suitable material for making bows as raw materials in nature.

So the question is, since Japan has such good bow-making materials, why did Hideka go to Ezo to cut down Metasequoia to make wooden bows?
The reason is that bows and bows made of tea stick bamboo are difficult to make, have a low yield rate, are easy to be affected by moisture, and are not easy to preserve. unrealistic.

Of course, tea sticks made of bamboo and bows are not suitable for large-scale equipment, but it is indeed appropriate to insert a spear head into the head as a bamboo spear.

This also corrects the common sense problems in the novels written by many colleagues. Bamboo spears are indeed not the same weapons for samurai, but they are indeed necessary equipment for using spears.

At that time, the Uesugi family even specially purchased tea stem bamboo from Sanyo Road to make bamboo guns for training troops in order to train Ashgaru to use spears.

For the Japanese war at that time, although bamboo spears looked tattered and cheap, for untrained and unarmored peasants and soldiers, it was actually the most cost-effective to equip them with bamboo spears and train them to use spear-strike tactics. way of fighting.

As the saying goes, without practice, you are not qualified to judge.

Before crossing, Xiujia had the same prejudice against bamboo guns, which is why Xiujia originally planned to build a set gun.

However, after investigation, Xiujia found that the seven countries of Jibei were the main producing areas of tea-stick bamboo. It was cheap and affordable to equip bamboo guns and use spear tactics. In the end, Xiujia naturally inherited this weapon and fighting style as the Romans did.

And the last batch of long guns that the Xiu family police used in hardwood suits were sealed up.

The spear that Xiujia asked his attendants to bring to Tachihara Nobuhisa was originally made by his own messengers for his own use, so the decoration is very gorgeous.

The overall length of the spear is 3.15 cm, and the total length of the gun head is 83.75 cm, of which the blade part is 58.25 cm, and the holster part is 15.50 cm.

For counterweight and reinforcement, Xiujia put a small metal hammer on the tail of the spear for balance, and there is a section of iron-clad wood about 20 centimeters in the middle of the wooden handle of the spear.

Since it was the spear that Xiujia designed for himself in the first place, he naturally put a lot of effort into the decoration. Xiujia carved coiled dragons on the holster and the iron-clad wood as decoration.

Tachihara Nobuhisa took the long spear, brandished it in the courtyard, and made a few thrusts forward in front of Hideka.

In fact, the assassination tactics of mainland China are very common, and there is only one move, which is thrusting. The various swings of the red-tasseled spear in later film and television works are called tricks, which shows that it is not the mainstream of spear skills.

Even if there are a few movements of picking, poking, and chopping, they are all for parrying the opponent's weapon, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of stabbing.

Therefore, the range of movements such as picking, pulling, and chopping in orthodox battlefield fighting is not too large, unlike in Japan, where picking, pulling, and chopping have become the mainstream.

But don't look at only one thrusting movement, but it is not easy to do it standard. Although Tachihara Nobuhisa's movement is single, Hideo is indeed very skilled and standard from observing his steps.

As the saying goes, the outsider is lively, and the insider knows the way. Tachihara Nobuhisa's thrusting spear technique is very simple, which has no aesthetic feeling in Japanese martial arts, but in Hideka's opinion, it is indeed a killing technique that is very suitable for battlefield use.

Of course, Tachihara Nobuhisa's spear skills are not very standard. After all, due to the production process in the Ezo area, most of the guns used are short spears, which are still different from the orthodox use.

And the appearance of Tachihara Nobuhisa really made Xiujia's eyes shine, and rekindled the hope of Xiujia's original discovery that he planned to give up the equipment of a suit gun.

"Good! Good! Good!" The Xiu family called out three times, and called Tachihara Nobuhisa back, "Your set of marksmanship is quite similar to the one learned by the Ming army. This is the method used by the orthodox marksmanship. You Where did you learn spear skills?"

Tachihara Nobuhisa couldn't put it down, especially the decorative patterns on it, which he had never seen before.

Seeing the call of the Xiu family, he reluctantly returned the spear to the attendant beside him, and re-entered the house to report to the Xiu family, "My brother taught me the spear technique, and we use it for hunting here."

"You just said: You all use this for hunting here, which means that the guns in Ezo are conventional weapons?"

Facing Hideyoshi's question, Tachihara Nobuhisa replied calmly, "Yes, wild beasts are ferocious, how can we defend against the enemy without using spears, and hand axes are mostly weapons that are only used when tribes clash."

Hearing Tachihara Nobuhisa's answer, Hideka's thinking became lively again. It would not be much easier to train a group of Japanese idiots if they recruited a group of pikemen based on Ezo soldiers, and then found teachers from Spain or the Ming Dynasty to train them. ?

The more Xiujia looked at Tachihara Nobuhisa, the more pleasing he looked, nodded and said to him, "Do you like that gun just now?"

"." Tachihara Nobuhisa would be lying if he said that he didn't like it, but he is very smart. From the decoration on it, it can be seen that the gun is unusual, so he replied, "It's a good thing to be able to use this kind of gun. Honored."

The Xiu family knew that he was insincere, so he took the initiative to say, "Since you like it, I will give you the gun. It is my favorite gun. It is called "Bai Long Po". From now on, you should make good use of it and spread his name to the world." Go all day."

This gun used to carry Hideka's martial arts dream, but because he learned the Takeuchi-style marksmanship, this gun was gradually put on the shelf. Now that he doesn't even have his right little finger, it's wishful thinking to dance with the gun again.

Since "Bai Long Po" followed him and would only be silent in the world, the Xiu family simply rewarded him to Tachihara Nobuhisa, saying that he would not have the opportunity to make him famous all over the world and become a national treasure in the future.

Tachihara Nobuhisa was very happy to be rewarded by Xiujia, and immediately bowed to Xiujia and saluted "Yes"

The Xiu family turned to look at Tachihara Hisakuna and said, "He is a good seedling. I will agree to make him your heir. There is a younger sister in Fujido Takahu's family who is 16 years old this year. It seems that she hasn't left the cabinet yet. Why don't I come forward to match the two of them?" Man, how about being his wife?
Although you have already taught him some of our Yamato culture, I am afraid that you will not be able to come to the house, so let her wife teach him well. "

Hisakuna Tachihara knew that Todo Takatora was the chief of the new senators, and he was the elder of the Uki family. It was of course a great joy to be married to him, so he pulled Nobuhisa Tachihara to thank Hideo repeatedly.

"It is Gentahei who can get married with Fujido Sadomori"

(End of this chapter)