In the ancient history of China, the chances of winning by stepping on a horse were very small. Regardless of the outcome, the rumble of a ticket on the ground is enough to cause great psychological shock to the infantry on the battlefield. Before the battle began, morale had lost more than half. In addition, the cavalry on horseback attacked the infantry with thunderous whips, and their commanding posture of waving sabres was enough for the cavalry to chop melons and vegetables. ? From the military point of view of China's ancient war history, the history of China is actually a bloody history interwoven by the agricultural civilized infantry in the Central Plains and the nomadic cavalry in the north. In the process of resisting foreign invasion again and again in the Central Plains, infantry constantly defended Chinese orthodox civilization with flesh and blood. Since the siege of Deng Bai in the early Han Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang almost became a prisoner of Xiongnu. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizong's Yongxi Northern Expedition used140,000 infantry, laying a flat, army and whole array that made later generations crazy. It can be said that the Central Plains Dynasty tried its best to cut off its head and try its best to ride step by step, but it didn't work in the end.
Only the Han, Tang and Ming dynasties abandoned the infantry, and let the Han people who cultivated the land take sabres and ride horses, and went deep into the northern desert to hunt down aliens crazily. Numerous painful lessons in history have proved that it seems that only cavalry tactics against cavalry can bring down the prestige of our Han children.
So, in the ancient history of China, was it only the athletes from the Central Plains who rode horses that could defeat the cavalry of the northern nomadic people? Generally speaking, this is indeed the only way, but the time node entered the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and it was not until the emergence of an earth-shattering and weeping terrorist killer that this situation was completely broken.
This magic weapon to open the nightmare of cavalry is the "horse-chopping knife" talked about by later generations, which was called "strange knife" by the Tang people.
Taibai said in a quiet voice, "The stranger's sword is very powerful. It's edged and bleeding." It is said that people who are good at using strangers' knives can achieve the chilling effect of killing people with one knife. As one of the few famous alien knives in historical materials, Li flies freely in his hands with amazing power. Even the cavalry torrent, which has always been famous for its thunderous momentum, encountered this fierce weapon-the stranger's knife.
In 757 AD, the Central Army of the Tang Dynasty confronted the Anshi Rebellion at Ji Xiang Temple in Chang 'an. An Shi Rebellion took the lead in launching a fierce and unusual attack with excellent cavalry. The Tang army was defeated by thousands of miles, and the pace of defeat seemed unstoppable. However, 2,500 warriors led by Li stood behind the army with sharp knives, watching the killing of a sea of blood not far away, and their expressions were unusually calm and cold. Li believes that the fate of these rebels is to be chopped into pieces alive by Mo Dao, and this small number of arms he leads has a fearsome title-Mo Dao Team. ? According to Tang Jun's deployment, in the12,500-person army, the crossbowman is at the front, the spearmen are close behind, the cavalry is on the wings, and the soldiers standing at the last side are responsible for fire fighting. In war, once the enemy cavalry breaks through the defense line composed of crossbows and spears, when it is about to break into the army array, the strange knife team will reach the breakthrough point in time and kill and stop the enemy cavalry with knives and guns, thus avoiding the danger of falling into total annihilation.
At this time, Zhong Jun's camp in Tang Jun was in danger. Li stripped off his shirt and went shirtless, and quickly led 2500 brothers to enter like a human wall with grotesque knives. In the roar of the strange knife, Li shouted: "When you are the successor, your men and women are all broken!" " In a flash, the rebels with abnormal life were cut into powder by the magic knife team led by Li. ? The momentum of fierce fighting between rebel cavalry is now suppressed by Modao team. Tang Jun rallied and launched a new round of counterattack, eventually beheading 60,000 people. The rebels fled everywhere and the bodies were bleeding everywhere. ?
This is a bitter battle recorded in the Book of Old Tang Dynasty. In this campaign, the ink knife team led by Li completely reversed the war situation and made great contributions to Tang Jun's recovery of Chang 'an. ? Because of its great lethality, in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the ink knife, as a unique weapon in Tang Jun, was independently equipped into a series of troops. According to the Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty, "Mo Dao, a long Dao, is held by infantry. It is used to cover grain and cut horses. It weighs 15 Jin, also known as machete, with a length of seven feet, a blade of three feet, a handle of four feet and an iron drill under it. The waterway of "Ma bu" or horse stance just look is salty. Lux holds it, and it is dust that blocks it with waist strength! "
According to historical records, the ink knife is about seven feet long. According to the unit conversion, one foot in the Tang Dynasty is 30.7 cm today, that is, the whole blade is more than two meters long and the smooth blade is nearly one meter. However, in today's unit, Mo Dao weighs more than 20 kilograms. Moving this huge weapon itself requires a lot of effort, not to mention fighting to kill the enemy and chop the horse.
Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, if you want to be elected as a member of the Mo Dao team, the most basic prerequisite is that you must have extraordinary strength. Otherwise, you can't even afford a Mo Dao. How can you go into battle to kill the enemy? Besides, brute force alone is not a qualified stranger. The use of strangers is very simple, that is, chopping cavalry with both hands. Therefore, chopping is a basic skill that must be learned. Only after long-term training can the terrorist power of strangers be brought into play.
It is precisely because the ink knife is powerful and has a lot of bleeding that the Tang government stipulates that it is forbidden to bury the ink knife. So far, no physical objects have been found, and historical materials only describe the shape of Mo Dao. Therefore, it is difficult for future generations to imagine the true shape of the ink knife.
Although the shape of the strange Dao has not been described in detail in historical materials, in recent years, some ancient weapons experts have recovered a strange Dao in the Tang Dynasty through a lot of textual research on cultural and historical materials. After examination, a dead pig was cut off by a strange knife under the flick of a knife by an adult man, which also confirmed the description of the power of the strange knife in Tang Dynasty in historical classics such as Taibai Silent and Six Classics of Tang Dynasty.
However, this deadly weapon that frightened the cavalry gradually disappeared after the Tang Dynasty, as if the strange knife was a unique weapon specially tailored for the Tang Dynasty, which blessed the Tang Dynasty to expand its territory and suppress aliens. Why did the strange Dao gradually disappear in the dynasties after the Tang Dynasty?
We can spy on the secrets from the historical process and the strange knife itself. The manufacturing process of the strange knife is extremely complicated and the cost is very expensive. A strange knife is about the price of two war horses. Only a powerful central government like Datang can afford this kind of weapon with high cost and complicated technology.
In addition, in the hundreds of years after the Tang Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty was always in a state of alien invasion and disintegration, especially in the late Song Dynasty, and it was always in a defensive strategic situation in the face of foreign invasion. As an "anti-tank" weapon to cooperate with the cavalry's active attack, the strange knife is naturally incompatible with the strategic deployment of refusing to defend the city in the Song Dynasty. Moreover, after the Anshi Rebellion, the authority of the emperor was greatly weakened, and the strange knife was a terrible weapon.
For various reasons, the appearance of ink knife is not only the need of Tang Dynasty's external expansion, but also the need of the development and application of steel casting technology, and it is also caused by the great environment of "I would rather be a centurion than a scholar" in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. However, no matter how good the weapon is, under the desperate struggle of countless patriotic heroes, the Tang Dynasty can only last for a hundred years. And Li, who is seven feet long and has extraordinary brawn, is undoubtedly a pearl who is good at making strange knives in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When the country was breached, Li shouted: "The country is in danger! Please start with your inheritance! " It is still respected by future generations.