From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, the weight of this European armor varied according to style, region, time and craftsmanship, and this set of full-body knight's plate armor generally weighed between 20 and 35 kilograms.

What "a set of plate armor is absolutely more than 50 kilograms, and the heaviest is 100 kilograms" is actually, if it is really so heavy, don't think much about fighting; ordinary war horses are estimated to be unable to carry it, and they have to change to camels or strong mules.

The volume of this set of gilt carved armor in Zhang Nan's hand is large, the steel plate is actually not thick, and the craftsmanship is very superb, the quality of the steel is very good, and the whole set is estimated to be about 30 kilograms.

If the boss wears it and has been trained as a knight since he was a child, he is probably also a medieval and Renaissance European hero...

But people don't want to try it, there is no way, the crotch of this knight's whole body plate armor will not be protected by hard plate armor, but how to look at the egg - it hurts - the fresh words brought by Zhang Nan have been heard by everyone around him.

After Guan Xingquan finished speaking, he himself smiled, probably thinking of the situation when he put on this set of armor, and thought that it must be very interesting.

Seeing that he also laughed, Zhang Nan smiled again and said, "Really don't you try?"

"Besides, I don't know how to wear it here, and I can't understand how to wear it. ”

Guan Xingquan is right: I have visited some European museums and castles before, and I have also seen a lot of knights' armor. Although most of those armors are not as flashy, when I first saw them, I also said that the knights had to be helped to put on the armor, and even then it would take about ten minutes, which was very laborious.

And a set of knight's plate armor is composed of a lot of accessories, no one knows how to do it, this fixing method and wearing order have to be studied slowly, this will not be that effort.

As for the egg - it hurts ...

Just watch.

Looking at the cold knight's armor, there will inevitably be "egg-egg sorrow", and there are many boxes with similar armor in this carriage, and a few of them are even more golden when they are opened.

There are a few pieces of armor that you won't believe at first glance that they are made of steel and sheet metal unless you look closely, because the surface of the armor parts is made of intricate gold plating and relief, and with a small amount of brass and gold materials, the whole set of armor is brilliant.

Several people took a closer look, and found some inconspicuous marks on several sets of armor, which should represent the identity of the master craftsman and the owner of the armor. Zhang Nan and the others couldn't understand these symbols, but they could also judge that the original owners of these armors should be dignitaries, either the king or the duke or marquis.

Full-body knight's plate armor was valuable from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and such a gorgeous and first-class quality item was not affordable for ordinary knights, or even ordinary small nobles.

At that time, under the command of the Holy Roman Empire, there were many small countries of all kinds, and in the current Graz Armor Museum, there are many armors with such backgrounds.

The armor in this carriage is the essence of the essence of the museum's collection, and the identity of the original owner is definitely not simple.

Defensive armor is indispensable for offensive swords.

There are medieval and Renaissance knightly swords and later swords of the stabbing in the carriage, but not many, much less than the amount of armor here.

Swords, in the eyes of those who finally withdrew this batch of essence and ancient weapons, the value of swords is not comparable to armor, as for these few handles, it may also be because these cold weapons with insignia on the handles were once the personal weapons of an important person.

It's a pity that Zhang Nan doesn't understand this, the study of ancient European heraldry is broad and profound, and if you want to understand it, you can estimate that you can be an expert, so I don't know if the two experts who serve you can recognize it.

Zhang Nan is not interested in European swords, the knight's sword, which evolved to deal with armor, does not conform to his own aesthetics, and the stabbing sword is even more annoying, and he thinks of a duel at a glance, and directly ignores the chic in "The Three Musketeers".

The difference between Eastern and Western civilizations is not interested in the low-intensity, effective, and life-threatening combat technique of simple stabbing, and it is not a national fencing team.

However, before leaving this carriage, the last big box that Liu Wendong pried open made Zhang Nan very happy - not only he was happy, but Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan were also happy to watch!

Good stuff!

Something that all three people loved!

Knives, good knives, really top top good knives!

This is a big box of knives, not traditional European knives (if there are traditional knives in Europe, they have always liked to use swords. The scabbards are all there, and on the outside is a simple bag of cloth, and some are even wrapped in two sheets of newspaper.

The packaging for protection is rudimentary, and it can be seen that there is not much time to pack, but the scabbards are very gorgeous, inlaid with gold and silver, and many are also inlaid with a large number of precious stones.

Guan Xingquan took out a handle from the box, slowly drew the knife out of the sheath, saw the knife behind him and said, "Damascus!"

He is talking about the meaning of traditional and authentic Damascus pattern steel, the perfect combination of ancient powder metallurgy and forging technology: the pattern is naturally formed, unlike folding steel, which is made by folding and forging materials with different properties by artificial hard.

Any real Damascus steel knife is a treasure in the hands of cold weapon lovers and collectors, and the price of the boutique can easily exceed the same weight of gold!

This will close the handle in the boss's hand, just a few glances can feel that it is the best of the best!

Pretty!

Zhang Nan took the knife from Guan Xingquan's hand, ignoring the scabbard decorated with a large number of precious stones and gold, but admiring the pattern on the knife.

The carriage is illuminated by a portable battery lamp, which will add a flashlight to look at carefully, looking at the eyes a little tired, Zhang Nan said casually: "You have to pull a wire in as soon as possible, it's awkward." ”

The electric lighting in the tunnel, a few kilowatts is enough, which is more comfortable than the current one, just like the power of the electric oven in the hotel.

After watching the meeting, Zhang Nan said to a few people on the side: "This is authentic Indian Uzi steel." ”

After establishing friendship with the Tuwang family in India and receiving the Uzi steel knife as a gift, Zhang Nan studied the pattern steel for a few days: the Damascus pattern steel that modern people say is not all Uzi steel, and most of it is folded and forged.

The authentic Uzi steel is a kind of crucible smelting ultra-high carbon steel with a carbon content of 1.5% to 2%, which is a casting and smelting steel, not similar to the forging pattern steel of the hundred steels in the Han and Tang dynasties of China, and the steel of Uzi steel itself has a pattern.

From the 6th to 5th centuries B.C., Hyderabad (the Hyderabad of Pakistan, not Hyderabad in present-day India, was found in both countries. began to smelt Uzi steel, which was also exported in large quantities to Persia and even ancient Egypt.

The smelting method of Uzi steel is very special, and the black manganese ore, bamboo charcoal and certain plant leaves are sealed and burned in a pottery oven for heating.

When these raw materials are melted, they form a mass of metal, which is then melted and cooled four or five times before being smelted into metal balls weighing about one or two kilograms.

The metal balls of Uzi steel made in India are not the same as Damascus steel, and these metals have been continuously sold to Damascus for two thousand years, and after Damascus has been forged into Damascus steel knives, it is called Damascus steel.

During the Crusades in the Middle Ages, when Europeans saw this kind of weapon of their opponent, they thought that this high-quality weapon was made from materials near Damascus, hence the term "Damascus steel".

In fact, modern people say that Damascus steel can be divided into three types, the first is cast Damascus steel, which is the most traditional and authentic Uzi steel.

Crucible casting, low-temperature forging, under the same hardness conditions after quenching, the elasticity is better than carbon steel, and it is the best steel grade in the era of cold weapons.

Zhang Nan judged with his eyes and said that the blade of this knife is authentic Uzi steel, because it has the biggest feature of Uzi steel knives: the pattern is never continuous!

The second modern sense of Damascus steel is forged Damascus steel, in addition to the Chinese hundred steel has been spread, the popularity of forged Damascus steel in other parts of the world is also related to the Third Reich: in World War II, the Nazis used a folding method to forge a variety of commemorative swords, swords, after the defeat of the war these swords became trophies spread to all over the world, resulting in the popularity of the forging process.

Because the material can be freely selected and the pattern can be designed, this type of Damascus steel has many variations, so it is welcomed, and its pattern is continuous.

The third type is mechanism Damascus steel, which is laminated steel.

Multi-layer rolling steel, the cutting edge can see the thin lines of different metals stacked on top of each other. There are also rolls with patterns, the materials are carbon steel, stainless steel, Swedish powder steel, different rolls can produce different patterns.

For collectors, the first cast Damascus steel is Uzi steel, and that's the real Damascus steel!

As for Huaxia's 100 steel, because it is a series of inheritance, it cannot be called Damascus steel, it is a craft passed down from the ancestors of China, and it has nothing to do with Damascus!

It is not surprising that there are weapons from the Arab world in the armour and weapons museums in Europe, and it is normal for the two sides to fight for hundreds of thousands of years, winning and losing each other, and capturing each other.