Chapter Fifty-Eight: Li Dao vs. Cheng Pu
Li Dao has been following Dong Shouye since he led the troops to fight, and as Dong Zhuo's descendant general, his loyalty to Dong Zhuo's baby son Dong Bai Dong Shouye is naturally needless to say, and now he is also a confidant general here in Dong Shouye, this time Dong Shouye led the army to support Luoyang, and divided his men and horses into cavalry and infantry. Among them, Dong Shouye, the chief general of the cavalry, served by himself, and Li Dao, the chief general of the infantry, which shows Dong Shouye's incomparable trust in him and the affirmation of his ability.
Li Dao's weapons are not the same as ordinary people, not those knives, guns, axes, sticks, etc., but a horse lance. People who say that the horse lance generally likes to watch the romance may not have heard much, and this horse lance is a big killer, and the cow is terrible.
The predecessor of the horse lance is actually the evolution of the spear, mainly because the spear in the cavalry in the cavalry due to the continuous improvement of the cavalry protective equipment and the spear itself limited armor-piercing ability, can not effectively break the armor, tear the knight's defense, can not effectively kill the enemy and gradually becomes unsuitable for the needs of cavalry warfare.
The horse lance has armor-piercing ridges, which can effectively pierce the armor of enemy knights, and ordinary armor such as fish scale chain mail and Mingguang armor can be pierced under the attack of the horse lance, and one blow pierces the heart.
The horse lance is large and heavy, and it is abnormal if it is not brave, and it cannot be used by those who are strong and powerful.
This thing is very powerful, it is the nobility of spear and gun, and the tiger style of tank, which stands out among many cavalry weapons, and appeared in the most glorious era of cavalry hegemony in China, and it has come to an end in the remnants of the Tang Dynasty.
During the Song Dynasty, the literati of the Song army led the troops, and there was basically no cavalry, so the horse lance, a horse war artifact, naturally died out.
The shape of the horse lance is basically the same as that of the spear, but the lance is very long, far from the head of the spear, which can be divided into four parts, namely: the lance, the complex, the lance, and the tail.
The lance is generally about 70 centimeters long, with a sharp edge, and the blade is about 50 centimeters long with an armor-piercing edge, and the tail of the lance is set on the lance, and some are inserted into the lance.
The lingering complex is a calyx-like halves at the junction of the upper blade and the tail of the lance, stuck between the blade and the tail of the lance. Once pierced into the enemy's body, the person will be strung on the lance, stuck in the complex, the lance bends violently, and the enemy on the lance is taken off the ground, due to the super elastic rebound of the lance, the human body on the lance will be ejected in an instant, bringing out a puff of blood mist. The main purpose of the Sentiment Complex is to prevent the knight from penetrating the enemy while charging.
The lance is generally made of the best mulberry wood, when manufacturing the lance, first choose the appropriate fine mulberry Tuo wood rod, and then begin to soak in oil, soak it for two or three years and then take it out to dry, and then use the fish bubble glue to form the main rod, and then transversely wrap the hemp rope, cut into the lance, so that it can be transversely stressed, and then painted with lacquer, wrapped in kudzu cloth, it becomes a whole lance.
The tail of the horse lance is generally covered with a triangular iron cone, or steel cone.
In general, the cost of the horse lance is expensive, time-consuming and complicated, the probability of failure is high, the cost is large, the use of a lance and the waste of wood, can make ten strong bows, and the mulberry wood, its own natural excellence, coupled with the multi-directional force advantage of the composite process, makes the lance have a strong elastic toughness, can achieve the elasticity comparable to the instantaneous reset of the god arm bow. Both vertically, obliquely, and horizontally can withstand strong physical impulses, and things like knight guns and dragon spears in Western knight culture are almost Stone Age products compared to horse lances.
The length of the general horse lance is about four meters, but Li Wei's horse lance is made in combination with his actual situation, and its length is about three meters and five, and the horse can fight on foot.
Li Wei's horse lance also has a name called Jinding jujube yang lance, the lingering complex of this lance is crossed with a layer of gold, the lance part is dyed with red lacquer, the lance is red, it looks like a jujube as ruddy and full, so it is called Jinding jujube yang lance.
There is also a story about this golden-topped jujube yang lance.
Listening to Li Dao, when he first began to participate in the army's combat, he once again led dozens of people out to investigate, but was targeted by the big horse thief Guo Yan at the time.
So he teamed up with a few horse thieves to prepare to ambush Li Dao and rob Li Dao's gold-topped jujube yang lance.
Li Dao is not good at stubble, and after discovering that he was ambushed, he immediately organized a counterattack, and the two of them each led their men to fight together. However, because Guo Yan's men and horses were all born as horse thieves, they were naturally inferior to Li Dao's regular army, and his horse thieves suffered many casualties, but they could not help Li Dao.
Later, Li Dao's backers arrived and surrounded Guo Yan together.
Guo Yan was outnumbered and captured by Li Jisheng.
After that, Li Wei escorted Guo Yan to meet his boss Dong Zhuo.
When Dong Zhuo heard that it was a horse thief who attacked his subordinates, he was immediately furious and wanted to order Guo Yan to be beheaded, but at this time, it was Li Wei who came forward to intercede for Guo Yan, saying that the other party's martial arts were strong and similar to himself, and he could be taken under his command as a general.
At that time, Dong Zhuo's subordinates only had more than 1,000 people, and they also needed talents, so they agreed to include Guo Yan in their accounts.
Guo Yan was originally a horse thief, but now that he has been included in the army, he naturally has no big opinions and readily accepts it. So Li Dao and Guo Yan didn't know each other and became close friends.
Li Wei saw that Guo Yan liked his gold-topped jujube yang lance very much, so he had the heart to make a horse lance to the other party. A horse lance is not made casually, and the time it takes is huge, Li Dao went around to help Guo Zhuo find materials to make zuò horse lance, and it happened that Dong Zhuo had a ready-made lance around him, which had been basically formed, and he almost didn't build a lance, Li Dao opened his mouth to Dong Zhuo to beg, begging for many days, his mouth was worn out, Dong Zhuo finally let go, and was willing to be an adult.
So Guo Yan got a horse lance that was almost exactly the same as the gold-topped jujube lance with the help of Li Dao, but the lacquer color painted on the lance was slightly different.
At this time, Li Dao held the golden-topped jujube lance in one hand and the reins in the other hand, controlled the mount, slowly accelerated, and rushed into a small battlefield specially for the fighting generals in front of the two armies, and then stopped the mount, full of confidence, appeared on the arena with great force, waited for the opponent to play, and then stabbed the opponent under the horse with the golden-topped jujube lance in his hand.
Immediately, one man and one rider in Sun Jian's army came head-on, and the opponent's weapon was a spear.
Cheng Pu, one of the generals that Sun Jian relies on and trusts the most. Regarding the candidates for this battle, Sun Jing once built his own brother, and now the situation of his own camp is superior, and the third game can allow Yuan Shu's generals Chen Ji or Lei Bo to fight, and Chen Ji and Lei Bo are also willing to fight, but in the end they were denied by Sun Jian.
As far as Sun Jian is concerned, some people don't trust these generals from families under Yuan Shu, thinking that they are just a group of pampered people, and they don't have the ability to fight bloody on the battlefield, and there are many capable people in the Xiliang army.
Sun Jing saw that her brother insisted, so she stopped persuading. Chen Ji and Lei Bo saw that Sun Jian, who was the main general, did not let go, and the two had no choice but to give up on the battle.
PS; There are also materials that say that there is a hammer at the end of the lance, but this word is not easy to understand, so it is not written for the convenience of reading.