After listening to this, Li Mingyu suddenly realized, this is like playing a game, the most important thing about a weapon is to have a high attack power and be able to break the defense, otherwise no matter how good the weapon is, it will be mandatory to do a little damage, and if you can't break the defense, it will be useless, so he respectfully hugged his fists and said, "What the master taught is that the apprentice has been taught!" "In my heart, I have all kinds of tastes, I take it for granted, I always think that things in the future must be good, too much ahead of the ancients, but ignore different times and different enemies and different ways to deal with them. It is I who underestimated the wisdom of the ancients!

It turns out that since the invention of the knife by humans, people have gradually found that the knife is more conducive to chopping than the sword, more durable, and not easy to break.

In the Han Dynasty, the sword had gradually become a weapon for pleasure, and the sword was a sharp blade for soldiers to fight. The soldiers of the Han Dynasty were all equipped with ring-headed knives, which had a straight back and a straight blade, a thick back and a flat circular handle. The powerful national strength of the Han Dynasty and the unparalleled sharp weapon of the ring head knife made the Han Dynasty army look down on it, swept the world, and greatly injured the vitality of the Xiongnu, split and fled westward, and played the great Han Dynasty's prestige! Even in a sense, it is not an exaggeration to say that the ring head knife is the backbone of the big man.

The Sui and Tang Dynasty horizontal knives born from the ring head knife have a ring head, a narrow body, a long blade, a straight back, and a small fang, which can be held with both hands. Horizontal knives are mostly used in military combat, and another use in battle should be considered, that is, armor piercing and durability.

Armor piercing requires hardness and a narrow edge. Durability requires toughness, so Tang Dao adopts the most advanced steel-clad technology. Wrought iron is used as the outer skin, hundreds of steels are sandwiched in the middle, and part of the cutting edges are partially quenched by local quenching technology, that is, covered with soil and burned edges. The blade is hard enough to cut through armor, while the blade is tough and durable.

In warfare at the time, a horizontal sword, which combined armor-piercing ability and durability, could break through the armor of any enemy in the face of an enemy wearing armor.

In the CCTV documentary "The Secret of Ancient Weapons", the modern swordsmith used the Tang Dynasty horizontal knife imitated by the ancient method to face the strongest heart guard of the Tang Dynasty's top armor "Mingguang Armor" imitated by modern technology.

In the Song and Yuan dynasties, the rapid development of iron smelting and steelmaking, the armor of the battlefield soldiers was more solid and heavy, and the "step armor" of the Song Dynasty was made up of more than 1,800 pieces of armor, weighing more than 60 catties! It was the heaviest armor in the world and even in Chinese history at that time, and its protective power can be imagined!

And one of the main opponents of the Song Dynasty, the Jin State "Tiefutu" was heavily armored, and even the horses were dressed in iron armor. In the face of this kind of opponent like iron cans, it is difficult to break the defense by relying on swords alone, and the national strength of the Song Dynasty is not as strong as that of the Tang Dynasty, and many manufacturing processes have been lost after nearly a hundred years of war, so the Song Dynasty mostly used blunt weapons such as axes and copper hammers or relied on the penetration of spears to face the enemy wearing heavy armor to achieve the purpose of breaking armor.

The sabers of the Song Dynasty are divided into "eight colors of knives", that is, eight kinds of knives, namely pen knives, phoenix mouth knives, eyebrow knives, halberd knives, glaive knives, drop knives, and hand knives. Judging from the cultural relics unearthed in the Song Dynasty, the straight knife of the Song Dynasty faced a more powerful enemy, the blade was shortened, the blade was wide, the head was widened, and the tip of the knife was oblique.

According to the Song Dynasty's "Wujing General Essentials" record analysis, in the face of heavy armor opponents, the Song Dynasty's knives had to change their shape, generally more generous than the previous knives, the blade body with arcs, the head of the knife upturned, increase the weight, not only more conducive to chopping, but also use the weight to obtain the bonus of chopping and killing.

Later, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, firearms began to appear, and in the face of firearms, the traditional iron armor could no longer play a better role in protection, while the cotton armor was more excellent.

At that time, long-distance bows and arrows, firearms, and close-range fighting spears, swords, and shields, the knives of this period not only maintained the traditional Chinese forging techniques, but also began to learn more complex West Asian and Japanese forging methods.

Including the style and shape, it has changed, there are narrow and slightly curved, light and easy to carry and fight at a medium distance Embroidered spring knife, there is a knife body without a backblade and a blood groove, the handle is straight, the tip of the knife is a Japanese knife type, can chop metal armor, is conducive to the battle array of the Qi family knife, there is a knife posture stretched, the knife body blood groove is neat and powerful, the edge is sharp, the shape is beautiful, the Yanling knife with both actual combat and etiquette and so on.

In the face of the light cotton armor, the shape of the knife has changed compared with the Song Dynasty, the blade is straighter, the blade near the head of the knife begins to arc, the tip of the knife is upturned, and it is suitable for chopping and stabbing.

This knife type combines the advantages of straight knife and scimitar, generally one-handed grip, flexible operation, strong actual combat performance, thick back of the knife, straight back of the knife, easy to chop hard, the front end of the knife body began to produce arc, stab, cut, pick the function becomes stronger, also more suitable for cavalry horse warfare, the back of the knife near the tip of the knife to open the back, can pierce the popular chain mail and cotton armor after the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

The famous Japanese samurai sword, because Japan in ancient times iron ore resources scarce, generally rarely can afford to wear iron armor, most of the samurai under the daimyo are with bamboo armor rattan armor to protect themselves, the opponent is different, born from the Tang Dynasty horizontal knife Japanese sword has also undergone different changes, because it does not need a strong ability to break armor, so it began to evolve more curved, the arc is larger, conducive to chopping, the blade is thinner and sharper, easy to cut.

In modern warfare, the role of the knife has gradually been used as a tool, and the modern saber pays more attention to practicality, generally taking into account the aspects of opening the road, fighting, survival, cutting, tools, etc.

Moreover, the so-called three famous swords in the world do not refer to the type of shape, but to the forging process.

Li Mingyu, an ordinary modern soldier, understands these things, but he just took it for granted that the things of the future generations must be the best and the most right, so he didn't want to use them to plagiarize, until he was slapped in the face and educated by the master. Different enemies, different ways to deal with them, and the things of the future are not necessarily the best, depending on the opponent you face and the era you live in.

Since Li Mingyu was taught by his master, he understood the difference, so he settled down and practiced the horizontal knife wholeheartedly.

The goal he set for himself in his heart was half a year, and in half a year, the sword technique reached a small success, and every day in addition to the hour prescribed by the master, he added an extra half an hour to himself, and he had to practice every day until the sky was dark and he was sweating like washing, and then he was willing to stop.

After three months of practicing like this, the bamboo with the thickness of the child's arm can be broken with a single knife, but now although the bamboo can be cut with one knife, every knife must be used with all his strength.

Maybe he was too young and his physical strength was not enough, so he didn't have the strength to cut three or five times like this. Mingyu was not satisfied with this, he always felt that he could go further, he remembered what the master said that after the completion of the sword technique, the control of the strength of the sending and receiving is from the heart, and the maximum killing effect can be achieved with the least strength.

So in the next few months, Mingyu focused on practicing how to consume less force and cut more knives while ensuring the strength of the knife.

After another three months, Li Mingyu stood in front of a bamboo tree the thickness of an arm, breathing slowly and steadily, looking at his nose and nose and heart, his heart was calm and peaceful.

After adjusting his mood, I saw him take a deep breath, roar crisply, step up and split diagonally, a cold light shone through, and the bamboo broke off in response! Then Mingyu turned his wrist back, and the knife swung at the fallen bamboo, and the bamboo was cut in two. Immediately after that, he held the knife in both hands, and slashed at the two pieces of bamboo that fell twice, cutting it into four sections.

Taking advantage of the last moment when the bamboo was about to fall and not yet falling, Li Mingyu was short, lowered his body, from the bottom to the top, aimed at one of the sections of bamboo, and slashed with a step, and the bamboo was divided into two!

At this time, Li Mingyu's breath was exhausted, he calmed his breath, and just now he swung five knives in one breath! The whole action is smooth and done in one go!

That's the result of months of hard work! Li Mingyu nodded with satisfaction, and his heart finally achieved some results, but the last knife qi was about to be exhausted, so he was a little anxious, and the angle of the knife was a little off, which was a little regretful.

After a few months of practice, Li Mingyu is now able to swing fifteen slashes with all his strength, and he will not be able to continue his strength, which is simply faster than before.

Seeing that it was already dark, Li Mingyu let out a sigh of relief, and said to the black tiger who was dozing off on the side, "Xiao Hei, let's go, let's go back, we will practice here today!" ”

Xiao Hei hasn't grown much in the past few months, but the muscles all over his body are tighter, and with every step, the muscles all over his body seem to be about to explode!

Xiao Hei heard Mingyu call it, stood up, and shook off the fallen leaves on his body. It really couldn't understand why the boss had to fight with this bamboo every day for months, and even had less time to play with it. It's just a few bamboos, and they will be smashed in one slap, can you use such a tossing and turning?

How can cutting bamboo be fun to bully animals in the mountains? Every time Xiao Hei went to the mountains to inspect the territory, everywhere he went, the beasts retreated.

Find something tasty, play tricks, watch it run away, and when the prey is exhausted, you can still have a full meal. Thinking of the tender pheasant, the crisp and chewy hare, the fat and refreshing wild boar, the green eyes of the little black are shining, and the saliva is dripping out.

Li Mingyu had already put away his things over there, and when he saw that Xiao Hei was still there in a daze, his saliva was dripping, and he couldn't help but aggravate his tone, "Xiao Hei, let's go!" What are you still in a daze? ”

Hearing the boss shout again, Xiao Hei shook his head, stretched his waist with his big mouth and yawned, leaned in front of Li Mingyu, rubbed his head to express his intimacy, and then swung his body, a big tail flicked around behind him, and followed Li Mingyu's footsteps lazily down the mountain.