"Ping Ping Pang Pang …"
In the garden at the top of the Great Pyramid called Chaoyang Palace, two snow-white swords that were three fingers wide were clashing rapidly in mid-air.
The bright silver armor that weighed 65 pounds did not affect Barristan's agile steps at all. His center of gravity did not change as his body slid back and forth. He put his right hand on his waist and only used his unskilled left hand to fight Danny.
Danny wore brown leather armor and held the sword with both hands. She moved forward, backward, and dodged left and right almost exactly the same as Barristan.
However, unlike Barristan who was strolling leisurely in the courtyard, she was sweating profusely. Every time she stabbed with the sword in both hands, she used almost all of her strength.
The old captain only blocked and did not attack her. Danny tried to slash at the opponent's vital points.
On the first day she officially learned the sword, the legendary knight warned her seriously, "As a warrior, especially a female warrior, the first rule you need to understand is that you have to be ruthless with your sword and hit the enemy's vital points directly.
Because on a real battlefield, a moment is often equivalent to a lifetime.
I have seen too many promising knights who won cheers in the tournament but died in the hands of an enemy whose strength, speed, courage, skill, and armor were not as good as his on the battlefield. It was all because he had a moment of fear when he should have killed. "
"Training with a blunt sword in the courtyard is one thing. Sending a four-foot long sword into the enemy's stomach and watching the light in the enemy's eyes gradually disappear is another thing.
Before you become a battlefield veteran like me, it is best to develop the physical memory of killing the enemy when you see them. The fear in your heart will only urge you to act according to your physical instincts … It is cruel to the enemy, but it is better than dying in grievance. "He taught her seriously.
Although the old man regarded the glory of a knight as his life, he was not pedantic at all. A pedantic person would not have lived to his age.
After completing the sword training, the two of them practiced sparring. There were no martial arts routines in martial arts novels.
In the words of the old knight, just use the movement you are most familiar with and comfortable to send the sword into the enemy's vital points. In a complicated battlefield situation, no one could maintain the elegant posture on the training ground.
Then the old man drew a diagram of the human body and taught her where the vital points were, where the attack would kill, where the enemy would lose his combat ability but not die …
It was amazing. In this era that was similar to the Middle Ages, there were no mistakes in the human anatomy diagram.
The old man said, "Scholars have been experimenting on human corpses for thousands of years, and I didn't invent this set of 'vital attack diagrams'." The Royal Library had many research reports of fallen scholars. After generations of Imperial Guards read them, they used hundreds of years to come up with the most efficient killing sword technique.
Yes, the Fallen Scholar was a scholar who secretly conducted experiments on living people.
If this behavior was discovered, the City of Knowledge would strip them of their academic status.
Danny was a surgeon. She was a fast learner and could often draw inferences from one example. The old knight was so shocked that he exclaimed, "She's like Prince Lega!"
It had to be said that the identity of the last princess was still very useful. If she had transmigrated into an ordinary person, it was estimated that she would never be able to come into contact with the most orthodox knight training methods.
Even Jorah Mormont was a wild knight from the countryside compared with Barristan.
The "White Knight Killing Technique" was divided into two steps. After Danny quickly grasped the vital points to attack, the old man began to teach her how to attack the weak points of the armor.
It was somewhat different from the skills that Mormont learned from Bear Island's instructor. Mormont used his understanding of the armor to find the gaps that could be pierced by the blade.
In front of Mormont, the old man seemed to be teaching Danny, and also seemed to be passing on the skills of the white knight to the younger generation. He said, "Iron armor is not impossible to pierce. Last time, the nine-year-old Danny also relied on her outstanding eyesight and skills to pierce through the giant bear's forehead with its own strength.
Every Imperial Guard is the best knight of the generation. If they don't have extraordinary talent, how can they be called the 'best'?
The perfect armor for ordinary people may be full of flaws in the eyes of the white knight who has extraordinary strength, speed, and skills.
Well, even if some people are not talented enough, they can still rely on equipment to become superior.
So, for us, the skills to find the weak points are different from others.
We will combine the thickness of the opponent's armor, the vital attack diagrams, the knight's own strength, the environment at the time, and other factors to determine the real flaws in a very short time. "
The white knight's method of finding the enemy's flaws was extremely complicated and could not be described in words. Danny could only slowly level up under the guidance of the great master, Barristan.
"Bang —"
Once again, Danny's sword was knocked away. She waved her hand at the old knight, indicating that this was the end of the day. She was so hot that her face was flushed red. She put her hands on her knees and gasped for breath.
The white knight bent down to pick up Danny's sword and put the two blunt training swords back on the weapon rack. He smiled and said, "Your Majesty, your martial arts are really improving rapidly. Half a year ago, you couldn't even wield a sword. Now, you are almost at the level of 'moving the finger as if it were an arm.' Maybe in less than two years, you will be a qualified knight. "
"Gulp, gulp …" Dani took the porcelain bottle from her maid, Doreah, and drank almost a liter of pure milk that had a slight fishy smell.
After a comfortable burp, Danny felt that she was alive again. After half a year of high-intensity training and high-energy supplements, she had grown taller again. She was almost 1.7 meters tall, and her weight had also increased by 15 pounds.
When she was in Kars, the 15-year-old Danny was 1.65 meters tall and weighed only 75 pounds, which was slightly light. Now, she was in her normal state.
Dani was now tall and slender, with long limbs and a well-proportioned body. Her arms were strong, her lower body was stable, her steps were light, and her lower abdomen had four slightly bulging square muscles. She was a beautiful girl full of vitality.
Danny put down the porcelain bottle and asked curiously, "The level of 'moving the finger as if it were an arm'? There is a level in swordsmanship? Why haven't I heard Sir Jorah mention it? "
Barristan said as he fastened his greatsword to the buckle on his waist, "Those northerners don't care about swordsmanship theory at all. They are satisfied as long as they can go to the battlefield and kill the enemy.
In the White Knight's Swordsmanship Manual, swordsmanship is roughly divided into four levels. 'Moving the finger as if it were an arm', 'Lifting the heavy as if it were light', 'Lifting the light as if it were heavy', and 'Mind and Body as One'. "
"What do you mean?" Danny was interested.
"'Moving the finger as if it were an arm' means that the sword in the hand becomes a part of the arm. Whatever the heart thinks, wherever the sword reaches, every movement is extremely precise."
Danny nodded and agreed with his statement.
She was a little interested now. It was a wonderful feeling: I can hit exactly where I see it.
It was just like … playing basketball in college. Sometimes when the basketball was just released, there was a feeling that it would definitely go in, and then the basketball really went into the net with a 'swoosh'.
However, that feeling was rare, and it was hard to come by even once in a few hundred times. Unlike now, she almost always had the confidence of 'whatever the heart thinks, the sword reaches'.
"I do have the feeling you said. Are there many people in the first stage?" Danny asked.
"Not many. It is difficult for one out of ten regular knights to reach this level." The old man sighed and said in a complicated tone, "As long as someone can raise the sword, they can swing it and slash, but personal talent and hard work limit most people to go further."
Danny was a little happy and a little shocked, "'Moving the finger as if it were an arm' is already very rare. How powerful will the next few levels be?"
"Your mongrel sword weighs 13 pounds, and my two-handed sword weighs 20 pounds. You may be able to 'move the finger as if it were an arm' in a short period of time, but after a long time …"
White Knight raised his chin at Danny, indicating that she should look at his sweaty and weak state.
"The feeling of swinging a 13 pound sword 200 times and a wooden stick 200 times is definitely different, right? But in my hands, the wooden stick and the sword can have the same weight … Well, it is' Moving the heavy as if it were light ', and' Moving the light as if it were heavy '. "
The old man brushed the fine gray hair hanging down from his forehead to the side and said, "Simply put, when you can swing the sword as easily as a wooden stick, it is considered 'Moving the heavy as if it were light'. This level is mainly to increase the endurance of the battle."
"How can a sword be as light as a wooden stick? This doesn't make sense. "Danny shook her head.
White Knight looked nostalgic and sighed, "Someone asked this question in the past."
"Who?"
"Jaime Lannister!" White Knight had a complicated expression, "Jaime became a Kingsguard at the age of 16. He was very talented, but his swordsmanship was not mature. The person in charge of teaching him was the strongest swordsman, Sir Arthur Dane."
"Buddha's Sword?" Danny asked excitedly, "How did he answer the King Slayer?"
"He said, 'Moving the heavy as if it were light' and 'Moving the light as if it were heavy' are actually the same level. The key is to grasp the center of gravity. It is not the center of gravity of the sword or the center of gravity of the person, but the center of gravity of the person's body, armor, arm and sword.
In the process of battle, the edge of the sword is changing, and the direction of the sword tip is also changing, but the overall center of gravity is almost always maintained at one point.
If the center of gravity does not change, it is like standing still. There is almost no force, and the person will naturally feel relaxed.
'Moving the light as if it were heavy' is the opposite. By adjusting the center of gravity, it seems … to convert gravity into speed?
Oh, I can't remember.
In short, adjusting the center of gravity can increase the strength of the edge of the sword. Even a thin assassin's sword can achieve the effect of a two-handed heavy sword. "
Speaking of this, the old man frowned. He looked a little lost, and he did not know how to continue.
Because he did not understand, although he had reached the level of 'Moving the light as if it were heavy', the old knight had succeeded completely by instinct.
"Sorry, Your Majesty, I don't understand what Sir Dane said … Sigh, the 'Book of the White Knight' is also not here.
Because of Jaime's question, Sir Dane felt that the theory should be recorded in detail, just like the 'Killing Technique of the White Knight', and left for future generations to observe. "
Awesome, awesome!
Super awesome!
Danny was convinced. The Westeros knight civilization did not transition from the Iron Age to the Technological Age for 6000 years, but the killing techniques that they trained for thousands of years were almost at the peak of the cold weapon era.
Although Whitebeard was stumbling and did not know what he was saying, Danny understood what the Sword of Dawn was trying to express.
There were two key points: center of gravity and leverage!
"As expected of the Sword of Dawn!" She exclaimed.
"Uh, you understand?" The old man was surprised.
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