Chapter 13: The Red Plague
Holding this eight-sided Han sword in his hand, the more he touches it, the more he loves it, and the more he looks at it, the more distressed he feels.
Alas, I haven't met the Lord before, but I was taken and slashed by a security guard who doesn't know anything, which really hurts you.
I said to this sword in my heart, and I completely regarded it as a beloved woman.
His left hand gently stroked the cold light of the sword, but there was no hindrance. The sharp blade was made of unknown materials, and it cut off its dagger without any forbearance, which in itself was unscientific.
The eight-sided Han sword is different from other swords, an ordinary long sword has only four sides, while the eight-sided Han sword has eight sides, hence the name. The sword is long and narrow, and it is sharpened on eight sides. Compared to other four-sided sword types, it is thicker and stronger. But it is not as nimble as an ordinary sword.
Since ancient times, it has been said that the sword is light and smart, and it is tricky and weird. However, the eight-sided sword is not, the eight-sided sword is generally twice the weight of other swords, and the power is extremely great, focusing on chopping, chopping, teasing, wiping, and stabbing. There are no bustling moves, and they usually defeat the enemy within a few moves. Under normal circumstances, there is no living mouth under the eight-faced Han sword. This in itself is a weapon that appears for the sake of killing.
If the sword is the king of the soldiers, then the eight-faced Han sword is definitely the king of the sword.
Looking at it, Li Guan suddenly found three words on the face of the sword. These are three traditional Chinese characters, not like they were carved, like they were covered with a seal or some kind of mold.
Arsenal Division.
"Arsenal? What do you mean? This sword is called Arsenal? What a strange name. β
Li Guan stroked the three sunken words, and muttered suspiciously.
Then, as if thinking of something, he walked up to the man and woman with his sword in his hand, frowned, and said, "Where is the scabbard?" It must have a scabbard, right? Where is it? β
The two of them have now reflected and know that Li Guan is not a zombie. The panic in my heart went down, but at the same time, a kind of apprehension came up.
Although he knew that Li Guan was not a zombie, he began to be afraid, afraid that Li Guan would kill him.
But it's also good, it's better to die at the hands of humans than to die at the hands of zombies and be eaten.
The woman kept talking, but Li Guan didn't understand what it meant.
Li Guan asked repeatedly, and the woman said again. Chickens and ducks talked, and neither of them understood what the other meant.
In desperation, Li Guan could only compare. Use your left glove on the blade of the sword, spaced a little apart, and then keep playing up and down to make a motion of putting the sword on it.
The woman and the security guard were stunned for a moment, and then they reacted.
The security guard muttered quickly, then pointed to a bedroom with a wooden door.
Li Guan turned around and walked over, didn't open the door, and stabbed him directly with a sword.
With a 'poof' sound, the entire sword body completely sank into the wooden door.
"Good sword!"
With a sigh of admiration, he drew his sword and went to open the door again.
I don't know why, as soon as he held this sword, Li Guan wanted to cut twice when he saw anything. And it seems that no matter what it is, it can't resist the sharpness of this sword.
When I entered the door, I stepped on the soft place, and when I looked down, I saw that the whole room was covered with wool carpet. The furnishings in the house are very expensive, and they are quite Chinese-style.
On the opposite wall is a desk with calligraphy on it. On the left side is a mahogany shelf, which is full of antiques.
It's a study. The owner of the study is quite sentimental and cultivated. If you guessed correctly, the headless corpse outside is the owner of the house, but alas, no matter how sentimental and cultivated, it also turned into a zombie and was beheaded by his own security guards.
To the right, there is a wooden table covered with a layer of yellow cloth. On the table was a sword stand with dead branches, and next to it was a red wooden scabbard.
The scabbard is also eight-sided, and there is a copper beast head hanging from the waist in the middle of the scabbard, and the sword swallow is also a copper beast head pattern. It looks quite heavy and quaint, and it is also very majestic.
Li Guan excitedly took the scabbard, put it in his hand and weighed it, and then inserted the tip of the eight-sided Han sword into the sword swallow and closed it down.
Just listen to the sound of 'ε²-ε', the sword body and the scabbard are tightly fitted, ordinary and unremarkable.
Looking further on the table, I found a certificate framed in glass. The top is in Chinese.
Collectible certificates.
During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the only one in the Qing Dynasty produced by the Arsenal Division of the Ministry of War, the eight-sided Han sword made of 100 refining pattern steel, Yongzheng fitness sword. On September 5, 2015, Junshun Auction Company sold at a starting price of 4 million and a transaction price of 23.79 million yuan, witnessed by a notary public. It is personally owned by Mr. Tan Tien Duc, an overseas Chinese from Myanmar, and is hereby certified......
After reading the collection certificate with small print, Li Guan's eyes widened in complete astonishment, and he looked at the eight-sided Han sword in his hand in disbelief, and then looked at the photo on the collection certificate, and muttered incredulously:
"The sword of the Qing Dynasty? What did Emperor Yongzheng use to exercise? β
The price of being auctioned for more than 20 million yuan shows that this sword is definitely an antique in the Yongzheng period.
But as for whether it was really used by Yongzheng, it is not clear whether Yongzheng himself has seen this sword. Yongzheng's martial arts are very powerful, this is a fact, but how powerful it is, no one knows. What weapons Yongzheng likes to use, no one knows, because Yongzheng is often assassinated and loves his job very much, so since he became the emperor, he has hardly been out of the Forbidden City in his life.
No one in the outside world has seen Yongzheng's methods at all.
However, there is no doubt that this sword must be noble.
The Arsenal Division is the only institution under the Qing Dynasty Ministry of War that is responsible for building sword soldiers. It can be said that he is the only blacksmith shop officially designated by the Qing Dynasty, and he is very mysterious, even better than the Shenji Battalion.
There are many masters in the Arsenal Division, all of which are ancestral crafts, even if the Hundred Refining Pattern Steel Formation Methods that have been lost in the outside world, there are also masters in the Arsenal Division.
However, the Arsenal Division generally only crafts standard weapons such as armor, spears, clear knives, clear swords, ring head swords, bows, arrows, and crossbows.
It's absolutely impossible to build such a thing as an eight-sided sword.
The eight-sided Han sword was originally a bronze sword, and during and before the Qin and Han dynasties, it was actually a weapon of ordinary soldiers, and it was a battlefield sword at that time. But after hundreds of years of actual combat tests, it was found that this sword was not suitable for the battlefield at all. Because the eight-sided Han sword has a double-edged edge, it is long and narrow, and after killing the red eye, it is round and swung, which is not the enemy and me.
In ancient times, on the battlefield, there were often teammates who were hacked to death with a sword. The sword body is straight, and it is actually not suitable for chopping, and it is easy to pull it out when it is cut in. Therefore, after the invention of the ring-headed sword, the eight-sided Han sword was quickly replaced.
The ancestor of the sword was thus wiped out by everyone, and no longer participated in any battlefield battles. It was only used as a symbol of honor and was only worn by military attachΓ©s such as generals.
And gradually, the four-sided light sword appeared, and the eight-sided Han sword once again ushered in the risk of extinction. No one wants to use the eight-sided sword anymore, because it doesn't look good when practiced, and it is far less chic, beautiful, and light than the light sword dance.
So by the time of the Tang Dynasty, there was basically no swordsmanship of the eight-sided Han sword. Because the swordsmanship of the eight-sided Han sword was only useful in the Qin and Han dynasties, it was an authentic battlefield killing swordsmanship, which was extremely sharp. There are fewer eight-sided Han swords in the back, and the swordsmanship is also lost.
Later, the swordsmanship was gone, and the sword was not much use, so it became a collection. No one will use it, they are all made to look good in the house.
Therefore, from the perspective of the status of the eight-faced Han sword, it is impossible for the Arsenal Division to use the incomparably precious means of refining pattern steel to create an unusable sword.
But it was indeed created by the Arsenal Division, and it was still a lost technology of refining pattern steel. Then the background of this sword is bigger.
Those who can directly order the Arsenal Division, except for Yongzheng, will not be the second choice. Then it can be inferred from this that even if this sword was not used by Yongzheng, then it was also ordered by Yongzheng himself. And as for who it is given, no one can get it except for the few high-ranking people in the world.
Seeing the last line of the certificate, Li Guan said, "It turns out that your name is 'Ba Ling'?" β
After thinking about it, Li Guan said again: "What a frustrating name." Since you're with me, you'll be called 'Red Plague' from now on." β
With that, Li Guan pulled out his sword violently.
'ε²-ε'
The blade trembled in the air, emitting a soft sword groan.
"Satisfied? Red Plague. β
Li Guan said with a smile.
Looking at the trembling sword body, Li Guan felt that it seemed to be very satisfied with the name......