Late Tang

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"This is an open and aboveboard competition." Lin Wei, Wendengying's coach, shouted loudly, looking at Li Jing and Feng Liang in front of him. "You must pay attention to protecting yourselves. The main thing is to compete and learn from each other. Everything will come to an end. No matter who wins or loses, I don't want to affect the relationship between the two parties."

In the autumn sun in the afternoon, Li Jing looked very calm, as if enjoying the warmth of that autumn day.Li Jing is more than six feet tall and has a handsome face.Especially at this time, he was calm and calm, which added a bit of coldness to him.Li Jing didn't hesitate at all about the contest proposed by Princess Xihe.At this time, he was wearing the family's mountain script armor given by the old village chief. The two unicorns on his shoulders were fierce in shape, with angry eyes, especially after being gilded, they were even more domineering.The phoenix-winged phoenix made of copper and iron spread its wings on both sides, covering both ears and covering most of Li Jing's face.The cowhide neck guard studded with rivets firmly protected Li Jing's neck.

A full set of Shanwen armor weighing [-] jins is paired with phoenix wings and unicorn shoulders, lion belt and greaves, and black leather boots with cloud heads.Carrying a seven-foot jade tool, a six-horned bow with one stone, a three-foot three-standard horizontal knife hanging from the waist, holding a one-foot three-inch eight-foot hard spear, and a five-foot-tall black war horse.

Li Jing was fully armed and stared directly at Feng Liang opposite.He didn't know that Feng Liang was not only a dandy, but also a master of horses.But even if he knew it now, when Princess Xihe proposed a competition between the two, Li Jing readily agreed.Without him, Wei Wei had long thought that Feng Liang was not pleasing to the eye, and wanted to take this opportunity to severely dampen his prestige.

Feng Liang seemed to have the same idea as Li Jing. At this time, he had long since lost the embarrassment he had when Lin Wei snatched the spear empty-handed and nearly passed out.For this fight with Li Jing, he is obviously determined to win, and has already changed into a whole set of clothes.The same phoenix-winged armor with mountain armor, but the whole set of armor is also painted with a layer of bright crimson red, which is extremely shining.

Apart from the horizontal knife and longbow, the long weapon Feng Liang chose was not a spear, but a lance.

It was a ferocious weapon with a length of one foot, three inches and eight feet, and a length of more than four meters.The thick composite lance, the three-foot three-foot-long stainless steel lance, and the two-foot three-edged edge all show the majesty of this first weapon in cavalry warfare.

Looking at the spear, Li Jing couldn't help but feel a little envious, and there were voices of envy from everyone around him.

The predecessor of the lance was the spear, but compared with the spear, its performance has been improved several times.It can be said that especially with the beginning of armored riding equipment in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, cavalry became the decisive force in the struggle for world hegemony.The Xianbei Murong family established the Yan State, and the Di people established the former Qin Dynasty. From the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties was the era of cavalry duels. This environment created the development of cavalry weapons and armor.

Because of the heavy iron cavalry equipped with armored cavalry, the horse lance, a weapon with super armor-piercing ability, became the first weapon in cavalry warfare.

There are many processes in the production of a horse lance. The lance is made of the trunk of high-quality tough wood, stripped into uniform thickness, and glued together.Tough wood is best used for bows, followed by mulberry, oak, and rattan, and bamboo is the worst.Soak the noodles in oil repeatedly.The bubble is no longer deformed, no longer cracked, and the first step has just been completed.And this process took nearly a year. After one year, the strips were taken out and dried in the shade for several months.Then glue them together with high-quality glue paint to make a thick and eight feet long (note, this Han ruler, Tang ruler is one foot, three feet and eight inches, which is about four meters), and the outer layer is wrapped with hemp rope.After the hemp rope is completely dry, it is coated with raw lacquer and wrapped with Gebu.Dry one layer and wrap it with another layer until it is cut with a knife, and the lance makes a metallic sound, but it does not break, so it is considered qualified.Then remove its head and tail, and shorten it to about Zhang Liu.The front is equipped with a fine steel lance head, and the rear is equipped with a red copper lance.Continuous adjustment, the qualified standard is to hang a hemp rope at the end of the lance two feet away, and the entire zhangbama lance can be held in midair like a scale beam without falling or falling at both ends.In this way, the military commander can keep the tip of the spear forward without any effort while riding on the horse.The lance produced in this way is light, tough and strong.Generals can use their horsepower to charge with their hands, or they can wield them for melee combat.It's just that it takes three years to complete the whole branch, and the success rate is only [-]%, so the cost is astonishingly high.Therefore, since the Han and Tang Dynasties, Ma Chan has always been a symbol of generals from aristocratic families.

From the end of the Han Dynasty to the period when the powerful clans of the Sui and Tang Dynasties were in power and led the army, many clans in the Tang Dynasty had a very long lineage and could be traced back to the Han Dynasty. Cui, Fan Yanglu, Taiyuan Wang and other five powerful families in the Central Plains.Longxi Li Family can be traced back to the Han Dynasty.Therefore, a powerful but expensive weapon like the lance can only be equipped by a few nobles, while ordinary literati nobles and bureaucrats wear gorgeous swords to show their status.Only the aristocrats who need to lead troops in battle need practical cavalry weapons. Therefore, the combination of 槊 and generals from aristocratic families has become its symbol.

Cao Cao, who was born in a family of officials and eunuchs in the Eastern Han Dynasty, once said, "With this lance, I broke the yellow scarf, captured Lu Bu, destroyed Yuan Shu, captured Yuan Shao, went deep into the northern part of the Great Wall, and went straight to Liaodong. I will rule the world and live up to the ambition of a man." Many famous generals in history , especially the famous generals from aristocratic families in the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, they were basically masters of envoys.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the gun was not a formal weapon for cavalry warfare. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, generals in cavalry warfare were either lances or spears.When the gun was acquired in the Song Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, it gradually appeared on the battlefield with the withdrawal of the lance.

The lance evolved from the spear, but the value of the two is very different.

The pole of Ma Chan is a composite wood pole, which is made of thin poles soaked in oil and dried, then glued with fish foam glue.Then wind the hemp rope horizontally, pull it into the lance, make the horizontal force, then paint raw lacquer, wrap it with Ge cloth, and form a whole lance.Moreover, in terms of the design of the lance, the design principle of the lance first considers piercing and armor-piercing. The sharp edge of the horse lance is an obvious armor-piercing edge. Under the blade, one blow can penetrate the heart.In the violent collision of heavy iron cavalry equipped with armored cavalry in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this kind of horse lance with armor-piercing characteristics is an inevitable product.

Spears are mostly made of hard logs, but due to the natural growth direction of this original wood shaft, it cannot fully express the stress in multiple directions at the same time. Therefore, ancient Chinese weapon masters invented composite shafts.In terms of physical structure, the way that multiple uniform rods are glued together and then tied horizontally with rope tendons can be explained from the perspective of structural mechanics, which can add more forces in different directions than any natural force direction of original wood. ability.

The material used to make a horse lance is enough to make 75 of the best Zhemu bows, but the success rate of a horse lance is only 370%, and the materials used to make a horse lance are as high as [-] Zhemu bows.However, it takes three years to make a Zhemu bow and is worth [-] Wen. In conversion, a horse lance is worth at least [-] guan.

A lance worth 37 yuan is just the most common lance.If it is made by a famous master, it is even more precious, often more than ten times that of ordinary lances. A lance is worth hundreds of gold, and there are thousands of gold.For a general, owning a good war horse is expected, but owning a famous horse lance or just an ordinary horse lance is an unattainable dream.

Feng Liang's horse lance is a famous product, worth a hundred gold, equivalent to 80 copper coins.Such a precious Ma Chan, a direct descendant of the Bohai Feng family, was only one of the more precious gifts among the bunch of gifts he received when he was ten years old.

Riding on the horse, Feng Liang looked proudly at the envy of the crowd for the horse in his hand, smiled and danced a few moves, "It's just that the fighting is a little boring, so it's better to add some glory. The horse lance is made by the lance master Yu Wenxin, and it is worth a hundred gold. As long as Li Sanlang can defeat me, then this lance master will be given to you."

Everyone at the scene exclaimed when they heard the words. The horse lance produced by a famous teacher worth 80 yuan turned out to be a lottery. Ma Yang took it.

"I won the horse lance and it's mine. Well, I'm short of a horse lance, so what are you waiting for, let's start!" Facing Feng Liang's arrogance, Li Jing didn't have the slightest fear.

"Wait!" Feng Liang stretched out his hand and shook it: "If you win, the horse will belong to you. But what if you lose?"

lose?Although Li Jing had never formally fought against Feng Liang, he had also seen Lin Wei take Feng Liang's spear empty-handed before, and put Feng Liang down as soon as he joined.Although he thought he definitely didn't have Lin Wei's abilities, he wasn't worried that he would lose to Feng Liang. "If I lose, everything is up to you!"

"Okay!" Feng Liang laughed loudly when he heard this, "You said this. In front of so many people, I guess you can't go back on your word. If I win you, I don't want anything else from you." Things, you need a full set of equipment on you, a set of mountain armor, a jade sword, a rhinoceros horn bow, a war horse and a horizontal knife. It's equal, but as long as you are willing to take off your equipment and clothes after losing, and go around the school field naked, then it will be equal, how about it?"

Li Jing put the spear horizontally and said with a sneer, "Okay, but if you lose, then you also have to walk around the field naked, how dare you fight!"

"Hahaha!" Feng Liang didn't think at all that he would lose to a countryman like Li Jing, Tian Shelang, who started practicing riding and fighting when he was young, so he laughed and said: "Okay, I will accept you, don't talk nonsense, Come out with as many abilities as you have! Drive!"