After the discussion, the mercenaries did not set out immediately. Instead, they went back to the house and made preparations.

This is the practice of mercenaries. That is, the arrangement and mode of fighting are decided by the mercenary rather than the employer. This is also because the employers of most mercenaries are purely laymen in the battle, and it is easy for laymen to command experts and cause unnecessary losses.

As soon as he returned to the room, Chechen took out his thin long sword wrapped in tarpaulin.

This is a mass-produced thin long sword. Its body is more than an inch wide and more than a meter long. The body is designed in an edge shape to increase the strength of the body. The cross section of the body is also very thick, solid and flexible. It can withstand great strength without breaking.

The body of the thin long sword is not open, but the sword tip is extremely sharp, just like a spear. The prismatic design makes it naturally have four blood grooves, and there is a blood hole in the stab.

This long and thin sword was the weapon that Pedro bought for Cherchen after he took Cherchen across the sea to Riga. Although his uncle uses one and a half swords and his swordsmanship is extremely high, he doesn\'t seem to want to pass his swordsmanship to Chechen, but chose the weapon of thin long sword for Chechen.

At the beginning, Chechen didn\'t have no idea about Uncle Pedro\'s practice, so he had a temper with Uncle Pedro for several days. But when Uncle Pedro took the sword back from the weapon shop, Chechen immediately fell in love with this weapon. The light body of the slender sword is full of beauty, and it is more hand-held than the Knight Sword taught by his father.

Chechen named the long thin sword "hummingbird". It is also precious and careful to keep it. It is not only wrapped with tarpaulin, but also wiped it every day.

The other mercenaries are also preparing weapons. Compared with Chechen\'s long thin sword, their weapons are more rough and crazy, and they are more manly.

One of them, the tall and thin Malone sitting behind Cherchen in the church, leaned against the wall of the wooden house and wiped his own Swiss halberd. This two meter long weapon, as long as there is enough space to display, is definitely a big killer.

Beside Malone, Ruth, sitting on the edge of the bed, spread his weapons on the bed. He used a pistol. In addition to the gun itself, the flint, push rod, gun and powder box should be inspected and cared for.

Fidel, the last mercenary who lived with Chechen, had a simple weapon - a short and broad sword.

This weapon, together with the small round shield, once conquered one Indian tribe after another with the Spanish warriors in America. Whether it was Maya, Aztec or Inca, it fell in the chopping of short broadsword and the roar of musket. With the development of firearms, the small round shield gradually withdrew from the weapon sequence of the Spanish conquerors, but the short and wide sword was still very popular with the soldiers and remained in various battlefields.

Chechen\'s uncle Pedro didn\'t come back with Chechen. On the pretext of some specific questions about the robbers, he asked the village head of Mikhail and sent Chechen and others away.

It was not until lunchtime that Pedro returned to the cabin.

"Uncle Pedro, when shall we set out to destroy the robbers?" Chechen asked excitedly as soon as Pedro came back.

"Early, Chechen, how\'s your sword practice?" Pedro didn\'t answer Chechen\'s question, but asked him about his sword with a smile. This look was quite different from the way he wanted to teach Cherchen angrily in church.

"I\'m very skilled. I practice according to the sword manual you gave me every day. Don\'t you see it every day, uncle!"

"Well, show us some tricks," said Pedro.

Seeing another good play, Malone and the three of them also put down their work and took the initiative to help clear a space in the wooden house.

Che Chen drew his sword and stood in the middle of the room.

"Basic sword power," said Pedro.

Listening to Uncle Pedro\'s cry, Chechen immediately raised the hilt above his head, the blade was vertical, and the tip of the sword was facing uncle Pedro, taking him as an imaginary enemy.

"Turn attack to defense" cried Pedro again.

Che Chen put the hilt down slightly and kept it flush with his arm. The two movements are done at one go, but they are also similar.

"Confrontation."

Chechen lowered his arm again, raised his hand at the same height as his waist, turned the palm slightly outward, tilted the blade slightly to the right, and pointed the sword straight at Pedro\'s face.

"OK, it\'s over." Pedro shouted the end.

It\'s not that Pedro is lazy. In fact, the sword spectrum he gave Chechen only has three moves: attack, defense and confrontation. In Europe at that time, swordsmanship was tempered by countless swordsmanship masters for hundreds of years, which turned complexity into simplicity. All the moves that could be left were extremely practical. Its attack, defense and confrontation seemed simple, but in fact it was full of the keys of swordsmanship.

"Uncle, how was my practice?" asked Chechen after the ending. Although there were not many moves and the time was not long in the practice just now, there was a little white gas on Chechen\'s head and a little sweat on his face, which obviously took Chechen a lot of effort.

"It\'s like a model," commented Pedro.

"Then can I fight robbers together?" Chechen asked again.

"No."

"Why?" Chechen felt very wronged. Just now uncle Pedro praised his sword skills, but he won\'t let himself go.

"Federer, tell me. You\'ve been laughing just now." Pedro turned to Federer.

Fidel wiped the tip of his nose. He had been laughing just now. Before becoming a mercenary, Fidel was once a soldier of Spain in Netherland. Nederland is close to Germany, where Fidel also met many so-called swordsmanship masters. In his opinion, Chechen\'s swordsmanship is really exquisite, and may even come from the sword Manual of a swordsmanship master, but he made the same mistake as most swordsmanship Masters - taking practice as a real battle.

Chechen\'s swordsmanship is really rigid, but when he is facing his opponent, his attention is completely focused on the front, and he can\'t even use Yu Guang. Such a rookie swordsman can cope with a robber who uses the same weapon at his current level; As long as the opponent\'s level is not too high, he can remain invincible as long as he doesn\'t have flaws in his three moves swordsmanship. But once the opponent is plural and the long and short weapons cooperate, the "school swordsman" like Chechen can\'t Parry at all.

When Fidel said his meaning in euphemism, the young Chechen immediately shouted.

In Xiao Chechen\'s opinion, he had practiced swordsmanship hard for several months, but in Fidel\'s eyes, he couldn\'t even win two ordinary robbers, which obviously looked down on him.

"Do you want to try?" instead of helping, Pedro stood on Fidel\'s side. In fact, what Federer said was the same problem that Pedro saw. Chechen\'s swordsmanship embarked on the "feeding move"

I pay too much attention to one-on-one fighting.

"Come on." Chechen really got into the set.