Chapter 65 - Selecting Weapons (1/2)
Chapter 65 – Selecting Weapons
Translated by Bloodfalcon
Current translation is MTL, it is not translation checked, proofread or heavily edited yet.
“You truly have decided?!” Asked Lu Bu who stood in martial arts practice field in Shouchun
Yuan Shu has escaped from Shouchun, so Lu Bu naturally stationed in Shouchun temporarily. Now, cannot go through Runan, so now they are considering to reach Xinye from Jiangxia. So he temporarily stays at Shouchun, because compared to camping in the wilderness, the air is much better in the city.
“Hum!” Liu Mang nodded, he cannot be indecisive anymore, he must practice martial arts. He come from present time, where nowadays military force practice wushu as melee battle, even though there are wushu, battles usually fought with guns and bombs, no longer using wushu. But here, he must at least have a skill in wushu in order to survive. Having skill in wushu, also meant he no longer need to rely on other people to protect him.
“Good!” Lu Bu nodded. Lu Bu is the G.o.d-of-war. He has settled on Liu Mang as his heir, naturally is to inherit his power and position also he has a natural desire to make Liu Mang a valiant general. So, even Liu Mang had not request Lu Bu, Lu Bu can also force Liu Mang to practice martial arts.
In this chaos times, one cannot live if do not have skill in wushu.
Even these warlord need to learn also, even though they are not masters. For example Cao Cao and Yuan Shu. These two originally crusaded against Yellow Turban. At that time , Cao Cao and Yuan Shu are already a leader that leading their own army. Yuan Shu at that time also wield t.i.tle as Officer of Westland
Liu Bei,Liu Xuande also have a skill in wushu, and his skill is also not bad. If not, how can he partic.i.p.ate in “Three Heroes versus Lu Bu”???
Gongsun Zan's skill also excellent, if not how can he lead his Penetrating White Horse to drive out those invaders from beyond Great Wall? Thus one can see, Gongsun Zan's skill.
Tao Qian of Xu Province, Kong Rong of Beihai and Liu Biao of Jing Province, please do not think them as a mere Confucian scholars. The Confucian scholar at this age are not those who are from Ming and Qing Dynasty who even do not have strength to kill a chicken. In this day, they still following Confucius learning from Zhou Dynasty Six Arts which also included archery from horseback. And also Chen Gong although he is a strategist, his skill are very good also even defeating Cheng Yu's own skill.
TL: Six Arts of Confucius pared to willingly to learn. Seeing Liu Mang heart has the resolve to become strong makes Lu Bu really happy.
“Here got a very nice roster of weapon, choose the weapon that suited you the most!” Asked Lu Bu while pointing to army's weapon rack.
“Choose a weapon?!” Liu Mang stunned, he has not thought about this matter, in his opinion, is not a military must be adept in every weapons? But now, he must choose one.
Knewing Liu Mang's mind, Lu Bu start explaining “Skilled in ten weapon is inferior than mastering one weapon!” Lu Bu then point at his Poseidon halberd and said “I am able to wield lance, spear, sword and great sword, but that is only able to wield. The one that I truly master is halberd!”
TL: actually the phrase is “Knowing well 10 gates, is inferior, to mastering 1 gates”, so I changed it into more appropriate sentence.
Holding his halberd in his hand, he start to explain more “With other weapons I can breakthrough enemy lines, can kill enemy, but it can only display my strength around 70%. Once I encounter Zhang Fei, Guan Yu or Xu Chu, these valiant generals, I can only maintain their rhythm but cannot break their rhythm and finally killing them! But with halberd, it is different, with this Poseidon halberd, even Zhang Fei or Guan Yu came, if one on one I can kill them, with two of them attacking me together, I can still kill them and if those three valiant generals attacking me, I can keep up with their pace to a draw!” This is Lu Bu's fighting prowess and where his confidence lies.
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Xu Chu is not a pinnacle of super generals but their strength is around 90 points, and Lu Bu is confident that he is able to kill them if one-on-one, able to defeat them when they come two people and able to keep up the pace with them, if three of them come at once!
“Is halberd really so strong?!” Said Liu Mang full of doubts. If halberd is really that powerful, why so few people using it? Beside Lu Bu, their user are Dian Wei, Tais.h.i.+ Ci, etc. No one else using halberd.