If it weren't for *** reminder, I wouldn't have found out that I can really write now, and I can "squirt"! However, if you want to calm down and analyze the details, you will find two problems. 1. Squirting is just talking to yourself, and you don't need to consider whether the reader understands it or not! In terms of word choice and sentence formation and logical coherence skills, I actually need to further improve. Because I found that some parts of the previous article were not clear, and I would like to add them again from time to time. 2. Insufficient attention to details. A lot of details can be retraced to reveal problems, and some problems even need to be rewritten if they can overturn previous conclusions.
Regarding the Mo knife, my previous conclusion was that the Mo knife has never disappeared or has always had its practical value. Because although the Tang Dynasty was broken, there was still its shadow in the armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, that is, the "green battalion long blade broadsword" shown by the Ming Qi family knife and the Qing Qianlong Wuying Palace. The Song and Yuan dynasties did not find relevant records, which may also be that they have not been discovered yet, and it cannot be proved that they do not exist.
At first, I literally deduced the shape of the Modao. Because the Chinese civilization has not been broken from one dynasty to another, the changes in the meaning of words are well documented, which can be used to study ancient culture, which is a major advantage of Chinese cultural relics and archaeology. The "Mo" in Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is a slender strip, and the "Mo" in the Tang Dynasty also means a slender strip. It is natural that Modao will consider the "slender knife". Moreover, the cultural relics unearthed in the Tang Dynasty also found slender knives that far exceeded the shape of ordinary swords, but it could not be proved that this was a Mo knife!
In general, I consider the so-called loss of the Mo knife from the shape of the knife is just a name change, and the Mo knife has actually been in service in the ancient Chinese army. There are many sayings on the Internet that the cost of Modao is too expensive, so it is lost! This statement is untenable, if it can really show its might, no matter how expensive the cost is, it will be retained, after all, which ** can be more expensive than the cost of armor? From this alone, you can see that cost is not the key limitation!
Recently, while researching the Japanese Notai knife, I discovered some interesting details! The shape of the ancient Runo Tai knife is also 1About 5 meters, there is a section of the blade that is not open, and the same is true of the Qi family knife imitated by Qi Jiguang! Online analysis of this design is used to block without breaking the edge! However, when using Japanese Notai knives, they often like to use cotton rope to wrap this part of the blade and use it as a handle. The practice of Qijia knife is to wrap it in copper skin!
From the point of view of utility, this part of the blade that is used as a "handle" is invalid! It does not play the role of a blade, and the cost is much higher than that of the handle, and it should also be the heaviest part of the whole knife, the key is that these weights are also difficult to play on the chopping top, especially when used as a handle. The reason why Qi Jiguang imitated the Ye Tai knife was because of its momentum. On the battlefield, I saw someone wielding a long, cold and shining broadsword, and the scene was quite terrifying.
However, martial arts people who have studied it should know that the part of the attack on the enemy is generally in the first third of the knife point. Since the notai knife is too long, it is difficult to use a blade close to the handle of the knife if you drag it closely, so it is not surprising that the Japanese chose to wrap it with cotton rope when using the notai knife.
Why is there such an ineffective design? That is, increase the cost and increase the weight, and increase the difficulty of use?
The answer has already been mentioned above, and it is very fierce and looks terrifying. Chinese swords once experienced such a period during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The sword is getting longer and longer to show its strength, and the sword of the Son of Heaven is even longer than 16 meters so that it can't be pulled out when it touches the assassin, and finally needs to be carried on the back to pull it out. I've seen a tutorial on the Internet to draw a wild sword, just like carrying a flat shoulder, so it's called "Wang Negative Sword", and it's easy to understand the situation at that time when I saw this way of drawing a sword.
If you use a "sting", a large gun is enough to do the job, and it can be done with a length of more than 3 meters. If you use "splitting", such a shape as the Guan knife, how long the effective strike part is, how long it is, and the broad knife head is not only strong, but also because the weight is in the blade part, the strength of the chopping is definitely greater than the striking strength of the Mo knife. In fact, although Qi Jiguang imitated a batch of Japanese knives, this kind of slender knife was only equipped with a bird hand as a defensive equipment. For the armored cavalry, it is still used to take charge of things with big axes and big sticks. In the end, the Qi family army was pulled to the north to deal with the nomadic cavalry, and this kind of horse chopping knife was not of much use. This conclusion seems to have been recorded in the "Actual Record of Military Training" written by Qi Jiguang in his later years.
And the reason for the appearance of such slender knives in the Qing Dynasty army is simpler, and they themselves have already given the answer when they explained it, which is to inherit the previous dynasty salvation. The Qing army's entry into the world was purely lucky, and the Donglin Party was still fighting in the country until the country perished. Therefore, under the banner of "I can't bear to watch your civil strife, neighbors come to help", he has been unreasonable to inherit the old system of the Ming Dynasty in its entirety. It doesn't have much to do with whether the slender knife is suitable for the army or not. Moreover, many pictures of the Qing Dynasty reflecting the victory of the war also show that the vast majority of people use guns and waist knives, and they have not seen a large long knife so far. For example, in the Qing Palace Military Illustration Dictionary published by the Palace Museum, including this kind of picture scroll of "Huerman's Great Victory"!
The long sword was also popular in Europe for a time in the century. Personally, I feel that there will also be an appeal problem. The length is not as good as that of a gun, and the chopping force is not as good as that of an axe and a hammer or a large knife. If the slender blade is capable of piercing through the gaps in the armor. This kind of operation requires very high precision, and I am afraid it is not an easy martial art to master. The reason why it is more popular now, especially in the military circle, is probably due to the fact that there is a relatively complete teaching system since ancient times, which can make people follow the map, achieve quick results, and the learning threshold is not high.
It's okay to play it, if you really attack the armored samurai with a long sword in the battle array, the slashing strength of the long sword is not easy to hit the opponent hard, and if the accuracy of the stab is not high, the opponent steps into the middle door, because the length is too short, the long sword found by archaeology at that time is generally 1About 2 meters. In this case, the swordsman can be very dangerous. Or let's say so, because your slash is not strong enough, so your opponent can rush in without avoiding your slash, and bet that he is on the move, and the gap in the armor is not easy for you to stab. This situation will be very tricky, and the probability of failure of the swordsman will be high.
Qi Jiguang was frightened when he first saw the Japanese invaders slashing the Ming army with a long knife. I thought about it for a long time to use a longer knife to restrain the sword! Later, Mrs. Washi of Guangxi brought double knives and wolf soldiers to break the Japanese and won nine out of ten. The wolf soldiers are in formation: a group of 7 people fights together. The second is spear stabbing: no matter what sword saint and martial saint you are, the spears will be stabbed to death as soon as they rush up! I remember that a Japanese TV station did an experiment and found 4 untrained housewives to attack a martial arts master with a spear, and the martial arts master also fought with a spear. As a result, in the face of 4 powerless housewives, the martial arts master had no chance of winning at all, and was stabbed and fled!
Qi Jiguang was inspired by the wolf soldiers and invented the Mandarin Duck Array. There is no such thing as a long sword in the configuration! The basic tactics of using a knife and a player to resist the Japanese invaders, disturbing the sight of the Japanese with a wolf whisk, and waiting for the opportunity to stab the spearmen to fight a military miracle of destroying thousands of enemies and killing no one in battle. Moreover, the Mandarin Duck Formation will also change the formation according to local conditions, Qi Jiguang is really a genius!
Of course, long knives and long swords have their great power, but the slashing power is not as good as that of Guan knives and long axes of the same length, the length of stabbing is not as good as that of spears and spears, and the flexibility of close melee combat is not as good as that of one-handed swords. And as far as the ** itself is concerned, the effective utilization rate is not high! Therefore, in the end, the Modao can be used to show its strength and show off its strength, or because of the economy, it withdrew from the actual combat military formation, and the reason for the discontinuation of the dynasty during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty armor and the heyday of the Song Dynasty armor was not because of the cost! It is caused by its difficulty in adapting to changes in the pattern of warfare. Armor is not easy to cut with a thin knife!
If this is the above conclusion, how to explain the "two-handed broadsword" of Europe? According to foreign information, the two-handed sword is mainly used for two purposes: 1. As a referee in martial arts training, it is used to separate the two sides of the battle from a safe distance. 2. One-to-many. As an outpost of the army, it plays a side role and is a sharp weapon for group warfare. However, looking at their technique introduction and my current little understanding of the use of equipment, I have doubts about this explanation! Because he picked up the great sword, he relied on the speed to achieve lethality when his own balance was difficult to maintain. It really doesn't seem like a good idea!
Group warfare in Europe is a "dual-handed" weapon, while the group warfare weapon in East Asia is a "dual-wielding" weapon, in which one weapon in one hand rushes into the enemy's formation, kills all sides, and defeats the enemy with high-frequency strikes. There are not only military generals such as: Mrs. Washi, but also military types such as: rolling knife hand. In the Ming Dynasty painting "Anti-Japanese Picture Scroll", there are also images of Ming Dynasty double knife hands and Japanese double knife hands.
Finally, I suddenly remembered that Coach Li told us that there is no trick in Chinese wrestling, no trick is omnipotent, and every trick has a way to crack it. It may also be the same, there are always areas where it applies and where it doesn't.