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After Gu Liuxiao rejected Liang Xiulie, Liang Xiulie asked her out in the next few days, but Gu Liuxiao refused everything, don't ask why,

The range of ancient weapons was very wide, and each country and region had its own characteristics. For example, our spears, broadswords, swords, bows, arrows, etc. have long been familiar to everyone, and they are often seen in dramas. It is not possible to give a comprehensive account of ancient weapons here, but only a brief description of foreign antiquity in Europe and Asia.

So. What are the ancient foreign weapons in Europe and Asia? How are these weapons used? What about power?...... Let's start with a famous ancient war.

Battle of the Marathon

In 490 BC, the Persian state sent troops to attack Greece and fought a fierce battle in the plain of Marathon, which is known as the Battle of Marathon in history.

At dawn on August 12, the Persian army braved the wind and waves by sea, landed ashore, and advanced to the plain of Marathon, and the battle of Marathon began in history.

In the center of the Persian army were the archers of the main force, and only they were the true Persians in the Persian army. They wore felt hats and robes decorated with iron scales, and their main weapons were bows and arrows, as well as short spears, which were generally made of reeds with iron arrows and held in quivers. Around the main forces were mercenary armies, about twenty thousand in all. In comparison, the Greek army was only one-third the size of the Persian army. The Greek army was heavily armed infantry, they wore helmets with cockscomb-shaped tops, cuirasses, shin armor on their legs, short swords at their waists, bronze log shields in their left hands, and iron spears more than 2 meters long in their right hands.

When the Persian army invaded the phalanx, which was only a hundred meters away from the Greek army, the Greek army suddenly rushed towards it with a terrifying roar. This sudden charge frightened and caught the Persian archers off guard. The Greeks struck the Persian army from both flanks, first crushing its foreign mercenary army, and then striking it in from the flank, leaving the Persian army to the ground with corpses strewn across the field. The Greeks won a complete victory.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the Persian army abandoned 6,400 corpses on the battlefield and the Greeks died only 192, when one of the Greek soldiers ran from Marathon to Athens to report the victory, and when he reached the central square of Athens, he shouted: "We have won!" Then he fell to his death due to overwork from running. Today's marathon runs originated here.

bow

Now, let's talk about the archer's main weapon, the bow and arrow.

There are two types of bows in ancient times, Europe, and Asia, namely barrel bows and synthetic bows.

Around 10,000 BC, simple bows appeared in Europe. A simple bow is made of bones or stones, which are made of bone or stone, using the elasticity of wood and tightened by ligaments. It is used both for hunting and for fighting.

In the thirteenth century BC, synthetic bows appeared in Europe. The synthetic bow adopts a "three-in-one" structure, with the middle layer of wood flakes, the outer layer of beef tendons, and the inner layer of, and the three are tightly glued into one. Because the tendons and cuticles have equal elasticity on both sides, the bow is arc-shaped when at rest, like a "C" shape. When the bow is opened, the strength of the knee must be used to turn the two ends around, and the bowstring is immediately attached to fix it. When fixed, the bowstring is as tight as a string and makes a sound when plucked.

There are two types of synthetic bows. One is smaller in size, with a width of only about 55 cm after the bow is opened, and the bowstring is very tight, and the arrows used are about 45 cm, which is a typical Scythian bow; The cavalry of the Eurasian steppes and later the Mongol bows belonged to this category. The other is larger, about 1 meter wide after the bow is opened, the bowstring is less taut than the former, and the arrows used are 70 cm long, and the bows of the Assyrians and Persians belong to this type.

The arrows fired by the Synthetic Bow can pierce a buffalo at close range, making it more powerful. The maximum firing range can reach 400 meters, and the effective firing range is 60~80 meters.

Throwing weapons

In the ancient battlefields of Europe and Asia, you can also see a kind of cold weapon ---- throwing weapon, here only two kinds of catapult and javelin thrower are introduced.

The development of weapons is inseparable from the development of technology. It has been hundreds of thousands of years since the ape-man wielded his first weapons (mace, horn dagger or semi-jaw knife) 500,000 years ago, to the Stone Age with the development of grinding stone technology with the emergence of catapets and large simple bows, and the latter is also 10,000 years ago.

The catapult appeared around the tenth century BC and consisted of two belts or linen belts connected by a bag. The bag contains stone bullets, hard clay bullets or lead bullets, which weigh about 20~30 grams, and sometimes much heavier. When throwing, rotate the catapult with your hand above your head and choose the right time to loosen one of the belts, so that the stone projectile can be thrown out and can be hit accurately at a distance of more than 100 meters. The most famous slingers are the inhabitants of the Balearic Islands, who have been trained in slings since childhood, and they are generally able to wrap 2 or even 3 catapults around their heads, the shortest for quick throws at close range, and the longest for long throws.

The javelin thrower appeared at the same time as the catapult, made of a wooden handle or a horn handle, leaning on the end of the javelin, the javelin can be thrown a hundred meters away, which is two or three times farther than throwing it directly by hand. Later, the Roman army made the throw even longer with the help of a belt that increased the thrust.

However, throwing weapons were not valued much in Europe and Asia in ancient times, and were only equipped with lightly armed infantry, and were only auxiliary units of heavily armed infantry phalanxes.

Heavily armed infantry

In the Battle of Marathon, the Greek army was heavily armed infantry. A little more ink on this.

Around the fifth millennium BC, the Sumerians of the Two Rivers Valley recognized and utilized copper and began smelting. By the third millennium BC, the Indo-European Anadolu people had invented copper-tin-antimony alloys --- bronze. Bronze is relatively hard and melts easily into clay molds at high temperatures, so it can be used to make weapons and equipment such as swords, spearheads, shields, and cuirass.

By the end of the 2nd millennium BCE, the Hittites of Asia Minor and the Dorians of central Greece had developed iron swords. The former swept through Egypt; The latter shocked the Aegean region and created the "Greek miracle".

In the Homeric Age, at the junction of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, there was an ancient Greek heavily armed infantry that had dominated the landscape for more than a thousand years." "Heavy infantry" is the word "hoplite" in both English and French, and it is derived from the name "hoplon" for a log shield with bronze armor.

From Bean