The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century - #316 - Chapter 317 Knife and Sword
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Zelen: “This is their long sword again, um… made of non-reflective metal.
Qin: “According to their inspection, not only was there a gap, there was no blood on it either.”
Zelen: “A brand new military sword?”
Jean: “Yes.”
Compared to the schemes of the sheep-headed people, it was the first time for Zelen to come into contact with the double-edged long sword, which was regarded as the main cold weapon of the sheep-headed people and even in many underdeveloped areas.
Therefore, when Zelen looked at a double-edged straight sword that was about 1 meter in a glass box, with a blade width of only 5 centimeters and a straight sword grid of at least 14 centimeters, he couldn’t help but feel contempt.
Any country or civilization in the world that uses metal for war will inevitably create a double-edged sword.
However, as a traditional cold weapon, the biggest weakness of the sword is that its sharp thorns are not suitable for cutting. Moreover, the double-edged symmetrical design will have a disadvantage, and there will definitely be a more obvious cost increase in manufacturing and processing.
Of course, maybe some friends in the world will jump out and say that they can chop off his head like a sword and use it as a chamber pot. However, these guys have most likely never worked in an arsenal or even a blacksmith shop.
A long sword with a double-edged straight body cannot be bent, and the double-sided blades must be symmetrical. These two conditions are enough to give many blacksmiths a headache, and they have to waste extra time on fine polishing work.
Therefore, in the Crurod Empire, using knives and single-edged swords has always been the most familiar and the most accustomed style to everyone.
If nothing else, the conditions for making knives are lower than those for making swords, and the requirements for care and maintenance are even lower. At the same time, swordsmanship is easier to practice than swordsmanship.
A qualified swordsman requires less training time than a swordsman, and not everyone can easily perform direct thrusts on the battlefield.
Otherwise, why has the army never stopped training on bayonets? Even the most junior soldiers habitually draw bayonets whenever they encounter an area with a slightly narrow environment, or prepare hand axes just in case.
The habits passed down from history have become everyone’s natural choice.
Therefore, Zelen doesn’t want to directly say that the sheep-headed people cannot adapt to the changes of the times. After all, the cultists led by the sheep-headed men have always been able to mass-produce burning helmets.
As for helmets, Zelen himself can very well understand why many countries were thinking about how to imitate them in the past.
Searing Helmet As long as the wearer stares at the target, the target will be ignited by the wearer’s mental power. The most frightening thing is that people who wear such helmets for a long time may often activate their own hidden abilities.
Yes.
One of the important reasons why some people become cultists is because they want to obtain magic power, and the cultists led by the sheep-headed people can completely meet the needs of these people.
What’s even more frightening is that cultists don’t lie, just like the masters they believe in, the demons, they really don’t use lies to deceive the outside world. The fallen who become a member of the cult will indeed get the magical power as they wish. Even with the help of the power of the burning helmet, there is no problem at all as a bystander watching some troublesome guys burn to death alive. Not a shred of evidence that can pass normal visual inspection will be left.
And to be honest, Zelen thought about it, and added the helmet… Not to mention, for an intelligent race like the Sheepheads, where all members can use magic, extra modern weapons are actually a burden. Just like those Ariko, Ariko can destroy an aircraft carrier only by relying on his own mental power, and twist the aircraft carrier into a twist or iron egg that sinks to the bottom of the sea.
Weapons are weapons themselves, is there any need to equip them with other weapons?
Of course not.
Perhaps because of this idea, the sheep-headed man has never thought of replacing the double-edged sword with another weapon.
Or maybe another one.
When Zelen was a child, he heard that outside civilizations had a class concept that swords were superior to spears, and that swordsmen were a hundred times better than spearmen. Therefore, holding a sword means that a superior person is superior to other inferior people, and things that can be easily assassinated tend to happen repeatedly.
Zelen: “We don’t have an official cavalry unit in this country, though, Felicity.”
Felicity: “Although we don’t have a cavalry unit, sailors in the Navy also use sabers as self-defense weapons. Let’s put it this way, it is more difficult to use a straight sword than a scimitar.”
Zelen: “Yeah.”
To borrow a famous saying from the Holy Church, agricultural civilization prefers straight swords, while nomadic civilization is accustomed to using scimitars. Before the founding of the Klurod Empire, the scimitar was used as a melee weapon and as a historical symbol.
But no matter what, if he really wanted to fight in close combat, Zelen felt that the cross sword would never be able to defeat his scimitar. Moreover, Zelen also knows something now. The Orchid Republic finally discovered that straight swords are not easy to use, and began to privately import a large number of scimitar blades to the Crurod Empire.
Put it this way.
If straight-edged cold weapons are manufactured using modern industrial forging technology, they will definitely have great advantages in production and maintenance.
Just like the command sabers of the Negan Empire, they are all straight-edged combat knives.
But if you want to use a straight-edged saber well, you must have good saber skills.
In this regard, the Orchid Republic is a latecomer country. They directly learned the sword skills of the Negan Empire. However, doing so is not the best option for the Orchid Republic’s military.
The swordsmanship of the Negan Empire is their own swordsmanship, and the result of copying it mechanically is various discomforts. Therefore, the Orchid Republic is now looking for the Krurod Empire to specially order a batch of scimitar-type single-edged sabers, so that the soldiers can be more handy.
However, no matter what kind of sabers everyone uses, including the pig-headed sabers, they are all single-edged designs that can cut and stab. None of them continue to use double-edged swords with two sides that are fully bladed like the sheep-headed clan. Long bladed sword.
Although the Krurod Empire’s sabers had a reverse-edged style, this type was not favored by the soldiers.
What’s more, modern sabers are becoming more and more ceremonial accessories, and there is some obvious differentiation between them and the requirements of actual combat.
In short, after looking at the long swords of the sheep-headed people, Zelen remembered something that looked very similar to it.
A ring-handled double-edged sword that once flourished on the continent of Neoland.
At that time, it was probably a few hundred years ago, and the Kahn Empire was still there. Even though there were rumored time travelers in the Kahn Empire at that time as so-called brave men who could revitalize their country, however…
The summoned time traveler does not know how to forge iron, let alone various modern weapons and equipment production techniques. As a result, the Negan Empire, as a powerful neighbor, acted mischievously and specially sold ten ring-handled long swords to several vassal states under the Kahn Empire that were not willing to obey the rule of the Central Empire.
Moreover, in order to better sell the sky-high price, the Negan Empire directly dubbed it the “horse-killing sword”. Ever since, for the sake of these ten steel long swords, which had good performance at the time but can only be said to be very average now, the princes of the Kahn Empire broke out civil wars overtly and covertly many times. In the end, these ten swords, together with a large amount of gold and silver jewelry, were all returned to the Negan Empire.
What’s the meaning?
How could the Negan Empire be so kind as to sell swords to alien forces? For these ten swords, the humans of the Kahn Empire shed countless blood. Moreover, the border princes who were not loyal to the center of the Kahn Empire reverse-engineered the long sword many times and tried to imitate the same model.
But as a result, the princes loyal to the Kahn Empire and the central forces of the Kahn Empire couldn’t bear it at all, and publicly demanded that they hand over their swords. As a result, the opposing princes found various excuses to evade, until later, the ministers of the Kahn Empire and the royal family directly ordered a crusade.
If nothing else, the level of metal forging in the Kahn Empire was not top-notch at all, and they could only produce daggers over half a meter long at most. Facing the ten double-handled long swords sold by the Negan Empire, each with a length of more than one meter and one meter, just looking at their steel quality is enough to start a war…