As a military aristocrat.

In the tomb of Zhao Hu, there is absolutely no shortage of various bronze and iron weapons, as well as chariots and horses.

Yes, chariots and horses are also a type of weapon.

From the Shang Dynasty to the Warring States, chariots have always been the most important weapon of war for the vassal states.

Equivalent to a modern tank.

The Europeans only started to play the step and tan synergy in World War I, which was not the first to be pioneered by the Europeans.

In fact, since the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, the Chinese have been using chariots to coordinate with ordinary soldiers.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the infantry and tan coordination was to use one vehicle with 72 infantry, and the group was one vehicle.

The chariot charges ahead, the infantry runs fast and follows behind, with the power of the chariot rampage, wielding the Ge and halberd, and reaping the lives of the opposing soldiers!

On the chariot, the crew is generally 3 people.

The one on the left is in charge of command and long-range shooting, and is dressed in light armor and is called the head of the armor.

The man on the right is armed with a long ge, and is responsible for attacking nearby enemies and clearing obstacles for chariots.

The pre-centering is called the rider, that is, the driver.

Generally speaking, the person on the left is the most honorable in a chariot, the one in the middle is only the coachman, and the one on the right is responsible for protecting the left.

This can also understand why the Chinese people respect the left.

You must know that during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the princes and nobles also had to go to war in person.

And they are all on the left, responsible for command and long-range shooting.

This is also why the Shang and Zhou nobles paid great attention to archery.

The children of the aristocracy also love to play the game of "throwing pots", which is related to shooting.

Because from the princes to the soldiers and doctors, they are responsible for long-range shooting when they go to the battlefield.

If you don't master a superb archery, how can you be embarrassed to say that you are a nobleman?

Archery, since the Xia and Shang periods, is a skill that a nobleman must master.

And the Zhao family of Nanyue, as a military aristocratic group inherited from the Qin State, it is impossible to practice less martial arts.

You must know that when Qin Shi Huang was young, he practiced archery, as well as commanding and driving chariots.

Therefore, in addition to ritual utensils, daily necessities, and decorations, the most funeral goods left in the West Ear Room are chariots and horses.

The types of unearthed chariots and horses are: 1350 pieces in 13 categories, including titles, hammers, umbrella handle hoops, bow caps, danglu, winding ornaments, tassels, buckles, bubble nails, copper rings, faucet ornaments, and disc ornaments!

In addition to 4 sets of iron titles and hammers, the rest of the chariot and horse equipment are all bronze.

There are more than a thousand pieces of chariot and horse accessories alone, enough to assemble four super-large chariots.

It is estimated that the Son of Heaven can use so many accessories when he drives a big war vehicle of the level of Six.

With these accessories in hand, as long as the conservation department is given enough time, it is completely possible to assemble and restore these four carriages.

However, the materials used must be new wood.

But this is enough for modern people to get a glimpse of the chariot of South Vietnam!

And in addition to chariots, the most unearthed individual weapons are not Ge, nor halberds, but arrows!

Zhao Hu, as a monarch, obviously did not fight with Changge and Changji.

If he wants to practice martial arts, of course, he has to play archery like other nobles.

And the arrow is the ancient arrowhead.

As the top nobleman of Nanyue, the arrows used by Zhao Hu are naturally extraordinary.

A total of four different styles of arrowheads have been unearthed in the west ear chamber.

Among them, Type 1 is the most typical arrow of the late Warring States period, with a length of 5.3 cm, a triangular cross-section, and a narrow blade, which is very sharp.

The real thing is very long, it doesn't look like an arrow at all, but like a knife.

This is also the characteristic of missing arrows in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the arrows are very long, so that the lethality is large enough.

There are more than 300 types of Type 1 alone.

There are Type 2 with barbs and wings, cylindrical and longer in length, up to eight centimeters, and Type 4 with blood grooves, which are shorter in length but the most lethal.

The four arrows combined, there are about four or five hundred.

During the Western Han Dynasty, or before the Han Dynasty, princes and nobles, including the emperor, preferred to go out hunting when they had nothing to do.

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Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also hunted deer in Shanglin Yuan.

These nobles will definitely not go up to fight their prey hand-to-hand while hunting, but can only use bows and arrows.

Obviously, these arrows should have been used by Zhao Hu during his lifetime.

When they were unearthed, they were all placed in a wooden "dustpan".

Dustpan, a utensil made of wicker or bamboo strips.

Unfortunately, buried deep in this acidic soil, these wooden objects are the most easily damaged.

Most of the missing dustpans are decayed, and the patterns on them can be faintly seen on lacquer paintings, which should be very beautiful when they are in good condition.

And there are several layers of silk pasted on the surface to protect the funeral function.

It's a pity that there are only a little fragments of these silks, and they are rotten.

Of course, arrows alone won't do.

In addition to arrowheads, 160 arrow shafts were also unearthed.

These 160 arrows have survived, most likely because they are not made of pure wood or bamboo.

In ancient times, most of the arrow shafts were made of bamboo or wood, and balsa wood was generally used when wooden.

Because in this way, the arrow can become lighter, so that it can shoot farther and more accurately.

But the 160 arrow shafts in Zhao Hu's tomb are not purely wooden.

The main body of the arrow shaft is made of slender round bamboo poles, but in the middle of the bamboo poles, a slender iron rod is inserted.

This iron rod, called the "arrow collar", is used to insert it into the shaft of the arrow made of bamboo pipe, and bind it with hemp rope and the arrowhead.

In this way, the arrow shaft and the shaft can be more firm, not easy to fall off.

The shaft of the arrow is intended to be a difficult item to preserve among the burial goods.

In most of the ancient tombs of the Western Han Dynasty and earlier periods, when artifacts related to arrows were unearthed, most of them were only arrowheads.

The rest of the shafts and feathers are difficult to keep.

In this tomb, which is already in a worrying state of preservation and has a high degree of decay with the burial goods, it is actually possible to find a well-preserved arrow shaft, and it is also made of iron + bamboo.

This was a surprise for archaeologists.

What's even more surprising is that this arrow collar is still forged with iron, which shows that the Nanyue Kingdom should have mastered the iron weapon forging process to a certain extent at that time.

Didn't wait for them to be sure.

On the second day after the discovery of this batch of arrow collars, the staff of the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology found an iron sword next to this pile of bows and arrows!

The style of this iron sword is a typical Warring States Chu style sword, not the style of the Qin State.

But the material used to make it is made of iron, and it is not even ordinary wrought iron, but even more advanced steel!

A sword made of steel has the elements to truly surpass a full-fledged bronze sword.

Both the sharpness and durability are stronger than the bronze sword.

The location of the Nanyue Kingdom determined that they would definitely absorb a lot of smelting craftsmen from the Wu, Yue, and Chu regions.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the level of metal smelting in these three places was leading in the world!

However, after that, the colleagues of the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology never found a second iron sword, not even a bronze sword.

It can also be seen that although the South Vietnamese Kingdom mastered the advanced iron weapon forging technology at that time, it was not able to achieve full popularization.

This iron sword may already be a sword treasured by Zhao Hu.

At this point, all the weapons that accompanied the burial in the West Ear Chamber were cleaned out.

In addition to the chariot and horse, there was only an iron sword and a bunch of arrows.

It can't be said that there are very few, but considering Zhao Hu's identity, this "arsenal" is still a bit shabby.