Chapter 285 Standard Weapons (Seeking votes and subscriptions)

After the leather armor design is completed, the standard weapons must also be replaced. Previously, the Han tribe mostly used copper spears, but they were also very simple and not suitable for military equipment.

The biggest feature of the military spear is that it must be added with a spear tassel, which is the red tassel we often call the red tassel spear, the tuft of hair added under the spear head.

But don't think that it is just a decoration. The role of the red tassel is actually very large. First, when waving the spear, the spear tassel will swing with the wind, and the gun holder can judge the size of the force by observing the swing amplitude of the spear tassel.

Second, when you hold the spear and shake it at the enemy, the spear tassel will attract the enemy's attention. At this time, you can stab it out with a gun and kill it with one shot.

The third and most important point is that it is used to suck blood. As we all know, the spear is a weapon that kills the enemy by stabbing. A gun pokes a hole in the enemy, but when you draw the gun, the enemy's wound will spurt blood. If there is no spear tassel, it is easy to be sprayed on the body.

However, with the tassel, most of the blood will be blocked and then absorbed by the tassel. The blood will also gather on the tassel and finally flow down from the tassel. Otherwise, the gun holder will be sprayed with blood by the enemy first, and then the blood on the gun tip will flow down along the gun barrel, making the entire gun barrel covered with blood, which will make the gun holder's hand slip.

Slipping is a taboo on the battlefield. Not being able to hold your weapon will kill you. This shows how great the practical use of the gun tassel is.

The new standard long gun is made of steel, with a four-sided flat cone-shaped gun head and a blade length of 30 cm. Then there is a 10 cm long sleeve at the end for inserting the gun barrel.

The material of the spear shaft is still the sapling of the man-eating tree, but it is longer, at least three meters and two meters long. After the spear head is inserted, the net length is three meters and five meters. However, this can only be regarded as a short spear in the cold weapon. The real long spear is five meters long, and six or seven meters long is not uncommon, such as the Macedonian spear, Zhang Fei's Zhangba Snake Spear, and the European lance, which are all long weapons that hate the sky.

The spear tassel is still made of horsetail, which is dyed and glued to the head of the spear handle, and then the spear head is put on.

Spearmen are also the largest type of soldiers. At the same time, spearmen are also equipped with a second equipment, which is a steel multi-functional ordnance shovel with a wooden handle. The shovel head is a flat arc made of steel with a small arc, which is similar to a flat plate. The shovel head is round, straight on both sides, and has a blade. It can be used to dig soil and can also be used as an axe to chop trees. Of course, it is no problem to chop people, which makes up for the shortcomings of spearmen who cannot chop people.

It can also be used to fry or grill food, or as a kitchen knife to cut vegetables. It is very powerful. Usually, it is hung horizontally on the back of the waist and can be picked up with a hand.

The weapons of the sword and shield soldiers also have their own characteristics. The shield is a rectangular wooden board with a shallow arc surface and slightly protruding outward. The shield is composed of hard oak boards and is two centimeters thick. There are two horizontal copper strips on the outside as reinforcement ribs to fix it.

The shield is one meter high and half a meter wide, the same size as the current military explosion-proof shield. It is also something that Luo Chong has seen with his own eyes, so he is more familiar with it. However, the most distinctive feature of this shield is that there is a semicircular gap in the middle of each side on both sides of the shield.

The advantage of this design is that when the sword and shield soldiers form a shield wall, the gaps of the two shields will form a circular hole, and the shield soldiers can stand sideways with one hand holding the shield to resist the enemy's attack, and use the other hand to stab the knife out of the circular gap to inflict damage to the enemy.

At the same time, the shield also has some humanized designs. For example, two shoulder straps are installed on the inside of the shield. When marching, you can directly carry the shield behind your back, freeing your hands and greatly saving arm strength. After all, it is very tiring to hold such a large solid wooden shield in your hand all the time.

Luo Chong considered for a long time about the sword of the sword and shield soldier, and finally decided to equip the curved goose feather sword, which is not very long, only 70 cm.

This kind of sword was the main equipment in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. From the Han Dynasty, the first ring-headed sword was specially prepared as a standard weapon, to the later straight-bladed Tang horizontal sword, to the Song Dynasty, and finally to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the style of the sword has been evolving, but it is not without reason that it finally evolved into a goose

feather sword. The goose feather sword has a curve. Compared with the straight-bladed sword, the curved blade is longer under the same length, so the killing area is also larger. Secondly, because the blade is curved upward, the resistance will be reduced a lot when chopping, which is more in line with ergonomics and more convenient to chop people.

At the same time, because the sword and shield soldier holds the shield in one hand and the sword in the other, the blade should not be too long, otherwise it is not easy to operate with one hand. As a one-handed sword, the blade length of 70 cm is already very long.

In addition, the sword and shield soldier is also equipped with an ordnance shovel as a secondary weapon. This shovel is simple to make and powerful. At least it is much easier than making a knife.

Then there is the equipment of the cavalry. The main weapon of the cavalry is a four-meter-long lance, which is the same style as the spearman, but half a meter longer. The secondary weapon is also an ordnance shovel.

Originally, they should be equipped with sabers, but Luo Chong is going to equip the cavalry with a larger Miao Dao. Because it is not easy to make, it cannot meet the equipment needs in a short time. It can only be upgraded after enough is accumulated.

Miao Dao is a general term for a kind of knife. There is no fixed shape, and it has nothing to do with the Miao people. This name is entirely because the blade is shaped like a seedling, so it is named Miao Dao.

To be precise, any long knife with a blade length of 1.2 to 1.6 meters can be called Miao Dao.

The standard Miao Dao equipped by Luo Chong has a blade length of 1.25 meters. The blade is slender, slightly curved upward, with a not very obvious arc, plus a 35-centimeter handle, the length of the whole knife reaches 1.6 meters, which is very similar to the imperial army sword of the Ming Dynasty.

This kind of knife is used as a saber by the cavalry. When confronting the cavalry, as long as the blade is held flat and motionless, relying only on the sprinting speed of the horse, the enemy can be cut into pieces with one knife, which can be called a head harvester.

Moreover, it is also very powerful when used for dismounted combat. The long blade, coupled with the long handle, can use the whole body's strength when swinging it. No matter how the knife is used, as long as you rush into the enemy formation and chop it randomly, it will be absolutely lethal. No one can get close to it. It is comparable to the Scottish greatsword in Europe. It can kill a large number of people by swinging it in a crowd.

Finally, there are the weapons of archers. At present, longbows are still the main ones, because they are simple to make, powerful, and easy to equip quickly. As for crossbows, they must be developed, but they will definitely not work in a short period of time, because the structure of crossbows is complex, and the bow body on it must be made of composite materials, which is quite troublesome to make.

In addition, in order to enhance the survival ability of archers in the chaos, they are also uniformly equipped with military shovels, which are used to chop people at critical moments.

(End of this chapter)