Chapter 110 The Power of Strangers 1

Li Zhong walked over and picked up a knife. He felt a little difficult, but his eyes were full of excitement and joy.

"Mr. Pu Yuan, you did a good job," Li Zhong turned around and said to Pai Pu Yuan.

"Thank you for your praise. If there is no drawing given by you, your subordinates will never be able to make such a domineering knife," Pu Yuan said from the bottom of his heart, looking at Li Zhong with a worshipful face.

This knife is about 2 meters long and 1 foot wide. The knife handle alone is about 1.5 meters long. This is the equipment of Li Zhong's heavy infantry in the future of the Youzhou Army. At this moment, Li Zhong is not to mention how happy he is.

Of course, this Mo Dao is also a drawing drawn by Li Zhong from Tang Dao according to his own memory, but there are some changes compared with the original Mo Dao.

Mo knife, a kind of Chinese long knife.

Mo Dao is a two-edged long knife, which is heavier, about 50 catties (the Mo Dao weighs 50 catties to ride in the city. Thieves will enter and raise their knives, which can be seen in the biography of Zhang Xing in the New Tang Dynasty. Because the Mo knife appeared in the Sui Dynasty, 1 catty of the Sui Dynasty was only equivalent to 220 grams in modern times, and 50 kilograms in the Sui Dynasty was equivalent to about 11 kilograms in modern times, but this was still quite a heavy combat weapon. It was heavily equipped in the Tang Dynasty army.

Through enlightened politics and powerful military power, the Tang Empire became the center of the world at that time. From the unification battle in the early Tang Dynasty to all the internal and foreign wars in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there was a weapon that had an unprecedented impact on later generations in the history of cold weapons - Tang Dao.

The Mo knife in the Tang knife was used as an important war material and equipment for the army, and was used as a military artifact in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Private manufacturing and private collection were strictly prohibited.

Its predecessor was the beheading sword made by the Shaofu in the Han Dynasty. Although the Han beheading horse sword given to the Southern Xiongnu also contains the military purpose of helping them, because the casting process of this sword is complex, it must be forged on both sides into sharp blades and thick backs in the middle. Therefore, the whole Han Dynasty basically only stayed in the court to serve the court. The stage of the ruling class has never been used for military purposes.

"Han Shu" Volume 67 "Zhu Yun Zhu": "I would like to give Shang Fang to kill the horse sword and break the rest of the slang minister." Shi Gu said: Shang Fang, a subordinate official of the young mansion, as a royal weapon, so there is a sword to behead the horse, and the sword can also behead the horse. The knife has two edges and a handle length of four feet.

After Tang, there are few traces of strangers in historical books.

So far, no physical objects have been unearthed in archaeological materials. The "sword" and "three-pointed two-edged knives" drawn by Song's "General of the Classic of Martial Arts" may be the direct successor of Tang Modao. The* used in the years of Xining is a reduced version of the strange knife.

And the * equipped by Li Zhong's cavalry was actually changed from a strange knife, but its power was not affected at all.

Tang Modao began to be popular between Gao Zong's exposure and Kaiyuan ten years. At first, the mochi was used to fight against the Turkic cavalry, but later it was popular in the armies to deal with the "Four Yis" of the Tang Dynasty, which was known as cavalry.

The perfect jiedushi system in the prosperous Tang Dynasty made the army's equipment and training become regularized. As a result, the strange knife became one of the main weapons of the Tang infantry and became conventional equipment. The establishment of the jiedushi system enabled the towns to recruit troops and buy horses, and established medium-sized cavalry, and the cavalry played an important role, which made the restraint of cavalry. The weapon-Mo knife has been popular until the late Tang Dynasty.

Most of Li Zhong's army is equipped with ring knives.

The ring knife was born in the Western Han Dynasty of China. It is a straight blade long knife made from steel after repeated folding, forging and quenching. It was the most advanced and lethal close-body cold weapon in the world at that time, and also a weapon of extraordinary significance in human history. To some extent, it can be said that the first sword defeated the Huns and indirectly contributed to the great migration of the Eurasian nation at that time.

Mo Dao is a double-edged long knife held by Tang infantry. It developed from the Western Han Dynasty and absorbed the shape and smelting technology of Hanlu Mo Dao and the long knife of the Six Dynasties. There are specific departments for casting, storage and management. The knife is extremely sharp and has an excellent killing effect. It is mainly used to kill enemy cavalry in war. Its tactical role is equivalent to today's anti-tank weapon, and because of its great deterrence, it is also used by civil and military officials and the guard of vassal towns. In the Song Dynasty, the strange knife began to decline.

There are many ways to use Mo Dao. There are more sensibility than the history recorded by rational scholars who do not pay attention to combat. There are only two uses of Mo Dao, c cutting and waving. But rational analysis is not. First of all, let's talk about splitting. According to historical books, Mo Dao enters like a wall, and then splits together. Because for soldiers, standing in front of the sharpness of the weapon can effectively boost their morale... Well, it's to give yourself courage!

So, what is the normal and reasonable means of attack? Put the knife in front of him, but his arm is bent to leave the remaining force for the front stab.

The bright knife advances like a wall. On the one hand, it can effectively boost the morale of its own soldiers, and on the other hand, it can seriously deter the enemy.

The deterrent brought to the enemy by the wide and sharp knife is far from comparable to the narrow gunhead and spearhead. After approaching the enemy, assassinate hard, and you can also cut, chop and cut if necessary. The knife is 8-9 feet long and the front end is sharp. Therefore, the stab should be a common attack method of the knife, otherwise it is impossible to explain why it is made such a sharp tip. Mo Dao is a long-handled war knife that is said to push forward like a wall.

Mo Dao has been lost, and its application principle has been tried many times. First, collective combat, pay attention to teamwork; second, the attack point is clear, that is, to deal with cavalry and make up for the weakness of horses.

As early as the Warring States Period, the Qin army used an ultra-long spear to form a spear phalanx similar to ancient Greece and Macedonia. The failure to attack Japan in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty was a loss of steel knives; the military saber of the Qi family in the middle of the Ming Dynasty was specially used to deal with the Tatar cavalry, cutting horse legs and cutting people's heads, so that the Taters did not dare to invade for several years.

Mo Dao is also mainly used for the reloading of the troops of the Tang Dynasty, and some major generals use Mo Dao as the main weapons (such as Li Siye, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty).

According to the Tang Weigong Military Law, the main combat methods of the Tang army are recorded: among them, the armies are divided into archers, crossbowmen, garrisons, fronts, horse troops, jumping, strange soldiers and so on according to their functions.

Whenever the battle begins, when the enemy is 150 steps, the crossbowman begins to shoot; when the enemy is 60 steps, the archer begins to shoot arrows; when the enemy enters 20 steps, the archer shoots an arrow and then holds a knife stick (i.e. knife, stick) and fights with the front team.

After their heavy infantry are connected with the enemy cavalry, the strange soldiers, the horse army and the jumping army are not allowed to act rashly. If the battle situation of the infantry in front is not smooth, the jumping soldiers and the horse army can attack the enemy, and the heavy infantry will retreat and prepare for further assistance.

If the attack of jumping, strange soldiers and horse army is unfavorable, all infantry (in addition to heavy infantry equipped with strange knives in the Tang Dynasty military system, including shields who defend long-range weapons such as bows and arrows and light infantry with short weapons) must cooperate with the Malaysian army at the same time.