Chapter 277: Master's Gift
"Sir, do you want to ...... While they are gone, let's take a look at the gifts? Seeing that the girls were far away, Leo came over with a smirk.
Hearing Leo say this, May also cast a curious look. After all, this was a gift from the Fifth Jade Master, and I didn't believe it would be an ordinary thing to kill them.
Fifth Jade shrugged his shoulders, his master had already devoted himself to the arduous and slim great cause of exploring the ruins, so the gifts that were usually given to him were mostly some strange things found there. Of course, with the passage of time, these things are just the same. Therefore, after hearing Leo's request, Fifth Jade opened the package without care.
When you open the package, you are greeted by a narrow wooden box about 1.5 meters long. Fifth Jade tilted her head, her heart suddenly moved, and then she quickly opened the lid of the box with a happy face: a rusty, simple and simple long knife was placed in it.
After seeing this long knife, Fifth Jade looked at it a little, and was immediately a little deflated, but then sighed lightly.
"What's the matter, sir?" Leo asked curiously.
"It's nothing, it's just that this knife looks a little weird." Fifth Jade loosened his brows, although there was something peculiar, but the length of this blade had already been decided, and this knife was by no means the kind he imagined. Since it's not, there's no need to dwell on it.
"Knives? Isn't this a sword? Leo pointed to the weapon in the wooden box, which was long and narrow and straight, and although it was still in its sheath, it was not difficult to tell that it was a sword and not a knife.
"Could it be...... This is the legendary Tang knife? Mei's eyes lit up and she asked.
"That's right." Fifth Jade nodded, and then explained to Leo, "The sword is not such a long blade. And there are no handguards. Of course, the most important thing is that my master knows that I like Tang Dao. Naturally, it can't be anything else. ”
The explanation of the last sentence of this sentence was really overbearing, and Leo was speechless for a while. Hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Isn't Mr. using a sword?" ”
Fifth Jade rolled her eyes when she heard this, and said, "Hobby!" Are all gun enthusiasts mobile arsenals? Besides, because the Tang knife is a straight knife, it can also be stabbed and sharpened, except for the Mo knife, it is only one blade less than the sword. Moreover, in the Tang Dynasty, there were knives but no swords, and the swords spoken of at that time were actually Tang swords. ”
"Uh......" Leo was speechless.
"Then what does the gentleman sigh for?" If it was something that the fifth jade liked, how could there be such a strange reaction? Mei asked, a little puzzled.
"This ...... We have to start with the classification of Tang Dao. "When it comes to what I like. The fifth jade came to be interested, "There are four kinds of Tang knives, namely Mo knives, ritual knives, horizontal knives and barrier knives. Let's talk about the obstacle knife first, I don't know much about this, because it's a short knife, and it's mostly used for short-handed combat after bullying, and I don't like it very much. And the Mo knife is powerful, it is the standard weapon of the Tang Dynasty army, and the infantry and cavalry are dual-purpose. Although it is a knife, it has two edges, the length of the blade varies from four to five feet, and the handle is about four feet long! ”
"Uh...... How long is it to put it in the current way? Leo was confused.
"It's nearly three meters!"
Hearing this, Leo was stunned and stammered, "Is this ...... Is this still a knife? ”
"Actually. This Mo knife is somewhat similar to a spear, but it is more lethal. After all, the spearhead of the spear is not comparable to the blade of the Mo knife at all, and the spear can only stab. And the Mo knife can be stabbed and slashed, and more importantly, the biggest enemy of the Tang Dynasty is the Xiongnu. Mo knife can cut horses! The fifth jade took a breath of relief when he said this, and then said: "I said earlier that the Mo Dao is completely for the army. So there is no need to consider the situation of solo combat at all, what is tossing and turning on the battlefield is a floating cloud, and what you want is a slash with no return! Especially when this kind of Mo knife is equipped on a large scale, the long knife is like a forest, and this momentum alone can make the enemy fearful! ”
Leo imagined the shape of the Mo knife, a double-edged blade of more than one meter, which was indeed much more domineering than a spear. The whole structure is completely for the purpose of lethality in the service, such a murder weapon is still the standard weapon of the army, such an army is completely a meat grinder in the era of cold weapons!
"Then this knife must be a ritual knife or a horizontal knife?" Mei pointed to the Tang knife in front of her and said.
Fifth Jade nodded, sighed again, and said: "This is a ritual knife, and as the name suggests, the ritual knife is naturally a weapon used for honor guards. The handle is slightly longer and is a two-handed knife. The blade is slender, beautiful but useless. ”
"And what does a horizontal knife look like?" Leo couldn't wait to ask, maybe it's the male hormones that are doing the trick, men are born with an inexplicable interest in this kind of killing weapon.
"Hey!" Speaking of the fifth jade of the horizontal knife, he couldn't help but sigh, "The appearance of the horizontal knife...... I haven't seen it either, because there is no physical reference at all. However, it is recorded that the blade of the horizontal knife is seventy or eighty centimeters, and the blade starts from the handle to the tip of the blade, and because it is an actual combat weapon, the thickness of the tip and the root of the blade is also different considering the center of gravity. The horizontal knife is a one-handed knife, and the ring head of the handle is also smaller than that of the instrument knife. After speaking, the fifth jade shook his head, "It's a pity! Whether it is a Mo knife or a horizontal knife, it has never been unearthed, but it is a flower frame like a ritual knife, because of its elegant posture and gorgeous decoration, it is mostly used for burials, and now this one, the master has already brought me three. ”
"Sir, didn't you say that all knives are two-handed knives? This one doesn't seem to be! Leo was intrigued by the fifth jade's words, and suddenly asked after careful observation.
"Well, I found out too." Fifth Jade nodded, "It's indeed a bit strange, but the blade of this knife is about one meter two, and this alone has already been decided, this knife is definitely not a horizontal knife used in actual combat." ”
"For what? Doesn't it say that an inch is long and an inch is strong! Leo asked curiously.
"Stupid, that's hard enough!" Mei habitually hit Leo, and then said: "The blade of this knife is long and narrow, and it looks good, but if you really take it in actual combat and cut it to the armor, I'm afraid it will break in a few clicks." ”
"Uh......" Leo was dumbfounded, the reason is very simple, Mei understood it when he mentioned it a little, but he was affected by the current film and television, especially anime, and he didn't react just now. Thinking of the anime, Leo suddenly asked, "Which is better, Tang knife or Japanese sword?" ”
Nowadays, when it comes to cold weapons, it is natural not to mention Japanese swords. Fifth Jade pondered for a moment when she heard this, and then said, "Japanese swords should be sharper. ”
"Huh!" The blood boiling when he heard the fifth jade talk just now suddenly said that it was not as sharp as the Japanese sword, and Leo was suddenly disappointed.
"Half of the blade of a Japanese sword is a blade, while a Tang sword is only a quarter." Fifth Jade explained, "If you say which one is sharp, the Tang knife is naturally inferior to the Japanese sword. However, if you put it in the army, not to mention the Mo knife that was completely born for war, even if it is a horizontal knife, it can cut the side with a Japanese sword to pieces! ”
Leo thought about the nearly three-meter Mo knife and suddenly shuddered, that thing was completely a meat grinder, and it was indeed a bit of a bully compared to the Japanese knife with the Mo knife.
"What's so powerful about the horizontal knife?"
Fifth Jade smiled and explained: "One-half of the blade is more than sharp, but the price is not hard enough. The battlefield is not a fight between two people, the knife is just sharp, it has to be hard enough, otherwise what if the knife breaks in the middle of the fight? ”
"Uh...... Not really, right? Japanese swords have also been baptized by war. Leo said with some disapproval.
"Hmm......" Fifth Jade glanced at Leo with a strange face, and said, "Japan's war...... A few dozen people can revolt, and the rest are all peasants who don't even have armor. The farmer who uses a Japanese knife to chop a cloth coat is, of course, chopping melons and vegetables. ”
Leo was speechless for a moment, and then Mei suddenly said: "Sir, pull out this knife and take a look, since this knife is a little strange, and it was sent by your master, maybe there is something strange about it!" ”
Even if Mei doesn't say it, Fifth Jade plans to take a closer look. Although this knife should not be the horizontal knife that Fifth Jade is most looking forward to, even if it is a ritual knife, such a strange style of ritual knife is worth a closer look at by Fifth Jade.
Although the fifth jade said that this was a ritual knife, in fact, he couldn't be sure of it himself, because the ritual knives were both two-handed knives with a very long handle, and the handle of this knife was too short, if it wasn't for the ring head still there, the fifth jade even thought that the handle was broken. Speaking of ring heads, the ring heads of this knife are also different from ordinary ritual knives. The ring head of a normal ritual knife is very large, but the ring head of this knife is very small, which is somewhat similar to the legendary horizontal knife. But even so, the fifth jade didn't recognize that this knife was a horizontal knife. As mentioned earlier, the structure of the blade has already determined that this knife is not suitable for actual combat, and the knife that cannot be used in actual combat is certainly not a horizontal knife.
The fifth jade bent down and slowly grabbed the "instrument knife". Inexplicably, Fifth Jade's heart began to beat strongly, and such a simple action suddenly became stagnant in the eyes of Leo and Mei.
Fifth Jade's hand was slender but powerful, and seeing him grab the knife, Leo and May, who were watching from the sidelines, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, followed by a wry smile.
"It's just an antiquity, why are you suddenly nervous......" Mei thought to herself, laughing at herself.
But then, when the fifth jade grabbed the scabbard, a mutation appeared! The pupils of the fifth jade shrank suddenly, and then a huge spiritual power burst out from the body of the fifth jade, and then the black hair was like a waterfall, dancing in the air with the fluctuation of spiritual power, and time seemed to stand still at this moment. Leo and Mei looked at the fifth jade in front of them in disbelief, and they had all kinds of doubts in their hearts, but they couldn't even open their mouths.
The fifth jade stared at the "ritual knife" in his hand, his right eye was yin and yang, and his left eye was reincarnated, on the one hand, he was angry, and on the other hand, he was a sea of blood! (To be continued......)