Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 15 Knife Throwing Tutorial
But even though I agreed, if I want to practice flying knives, I need to have flying knives!
So Wang Gensheng said with some embarrassment:
"Captain Kong, there's no problem teaching the flying knife, but it's impossible to practice without the flying knife!"

Regarding Wang Gensheng's difficulties, Kong Jie waved his hand and said:

"That's easy. Draw me the size and style of the throwing knives, and I'll ask my intelligence colleagues to go to the county town and find a blacksmith to make a hundred or eighty of them."

After hearing what Kong Jie said, Wang Gensheng immediately found a pen and paper and drew a very simple flying knife diagram. This flying knife is the simplest straight knife, about 20 centimeters long.

The thickness is five millimeters and the width is three centimeters. The total weight is about one hundred and fifty grams. There is no way that the flying knife can be too light.

After all, the speed at which a throwing knife can be thrown by hand is limited, so if it is too light and has insufficient kinetic energy, it may not even penetrate a person's skull.

Therefore, the lethal throwing knives usually weigh no less than one hundred grams. However, it doesn’t matter if they are used for performances. But now we are considering killing the Japanese devils, so we can’t fool around.

Of course, in order to make the flying knife have a better and more stable flight trajectory, Wang Gensheng added a hole on the drawing of the flying knife to tie a cloth strip.

Yes, although the cloth strip will bring some resistance to the flying knife, this resistance is insignificant compared to the flight stability it brings to the flying knife.

However, for a master of knife throwing, his knife control technique is so sophisticated that there is naturally no need to tie a cloth strip to the tail of the knife.

However, for long-distance flying, especially those at a distance of 20 to 30 meters, it is better to tie a cloth strip to the flying knife to increase stability, which is the same as adding feathers to an arrow.

In addition, Wang Gensheng finally added two blood grooves on the throwing knife blueprint to increase the lethality of the throwing knife.

After all, it is reasonable to increase the killing power against the Japanese.

Kong Jie took the flying knife blueprint given by Wang Gensheng and looked at it and said:
"This throwing knife has a simple structure and can be made by any blacksmith. Get ready. Once the throwing knife is made, you can start training!"

After Kong Jie left with the flying knife drawings, Wang Gensheng immediately found Sun Liansheng, who had just been exchanged for five machine guns by Li Yunlong.

What people didn't expect was that after Sun Desheng saw Wang Gensheng's youthful face, he said to Wang Gensheng:
"You look quite capable despite your young age! You've become a deputy company commander at such a young age! Show us what you can do!"

Wang Gensheng naturally knew that Sun Desheng was a little dissatisfied. After all, although Wang Gensheng reported his age as seventeen, he was actually only fifteen years old, which was considered a teenager.

In the army, it is very simple to gain people's respect. You just need to have something in your hands, such as good marksmanship, or some skills in fighting, strength, etc.

So Wang Gensheng didn't waste any time and immediately pulled out the Kaba fighting knife from his waist. He threw it thirty meters away and stuck it into a tree trunk.

Then he asked Sun Desheng:
"Captain Sun, my knife-throwing skills are quite impressive!"

"With your knife-throwing skills, you could be a deputy battalion commander, not to mention a deputy company commander!"

Naturally, Wang Gensheng's flying knife show shocked Sun Desheng. However, Wang Gensheng was still modest in response to Sun Desheng's praise:

"No, I'm still far behind Captain Sun's Mount and Blade skills! I'll be counting on Captain Sun to take care of me in the future!"

So with this friendly start, Wang Gensheng quickly learned Sun Desheng's riding and sword techniques.

In particular, Sun Desheng's cavalry swordsmanship is quite impressive, so it is naturally the most suitable for Wang Gensheng's ability to kill the enemy at close range.

However, after just a few days, Wang Gensheng had just become familiar with riding a horse and had only just learned the basics of cavalry swordsmanship!

Kong Jie brought a hundred flying knives and asked Wang Gensheng to teach him how to throw knives.

"There are two ways to throw a knife: one is a straight knife, and the other is a spinning knife. As the name suggests, when the straight knife is thrown, it flies straight towards the target.

A knife doesn't rotate during flight, but a spinning knife does. Therefore, if you don't grasp the distance well, the handle will hit the target and lose its lethality. Therefore, I will only teach you the throwing technique of a straight knife."

After saying that, Wang Gensheng took out a throwing knife and demonstrated his knife-holding skills to the soldiers in front of him.

Of course, the soldiers standing in front of Wang Gensheng were not from the entire independent regiment.

But there are only about ten soldiers. After all, to use throwing knives to kill sentries and launch sneak attacks, the whole group only needs about ten people. There is no need for more. Besides, there are not so many throwing knives for them to practice.

After all, throwing a throwing knife is different from throwing a grenade. On the front battlefield, it is better to fight with a bayonet than to throw a throwing knife!
However, it would be a different story if the person had great knife throwing skills and could throw knives continuously.

But it is not easy to practice throwing knives. Wang Gensheng selected more than a dozen people who were the best at throwing grenades to practice throwing knives.

But after a morning, no one has appeared who can master the straight flight technique.

Each thrown knife basically hits the target at an angle instead of stabbing the target with the tip of the knife.

There is no way to make the flying knife go straight to the target instead of hitting it at an angle. The most important thing is the knife control technique.

At the moment the flying knife is thrown, the index finger of the hand holding the knife should apply downward force to the tail of the knife.

In this way, the flying knife will not roll when it is thrown out, but the tip of the knife will always maintain a forward flying posture during the flight.

But that's not all. The angle of the flying knife must also be controlled at the moment it flies out and is released. Therefore, this kind of subtle control in a few tenths of a second, or even a few tenths of a second, is simply not something that the brain can control.

The only way is to practice diligently and form a set of control processes in the limbs or subconscious mind, commonly known as muscle genes, so that the flying posture of the flying knife can be controlled well.

It's like someone teaching you, you think you've learned it after watching it once, but your body actually still doesn't know how to do it.

Fortunately, after three days of continuous practice, three out of a dozen people have mastered this trick. Regardless of whether it is accurate or not, at least they can insert the tip of the knife into the target at a distance of three or four meters.

This result is already very good, but it is still not feasible to apply it to actual combat, especially to secretly attack sentries on duty.

After all, the distance is only three or four meters, and the sentry hasn't discovered him yet, so there's no need for throwing knives, just cover his mouth and cut his neck.

In Wang Gensheng's opinion, if you want a flying knife to be effective in actual combat, it must at least be able to pierce an apple from twenty meters away.

Although the human head is as big as a watermelon, only the temples, back of the head or forehead will be injured if inserted.

If a flying knife hits the face, it will not cause immediate death. Even if the flying knife hits the heart, it will not cause death immediately, because there are still a few seconds for the patient to move!

It is still possible to open the gun safety and pull the trigger in these few seconds.

(End of this chapter)