Chen Tianqi nodded slightly. No wonder Liu Bei, the first leader of the Shu Han Dynasty, was famous for his swordsmanship, but he still inevitably got the reputation of being unable to fight in battle.
Although Liu Bei was somewhat brave, he was far behind compared to the five tigers under his command and the countless famous generals in those turbulent years.
I guess it's because Liu Bei is only good at swordsmanship and not good at using other weapons.
"So, what is that in your hand? It's time to show it to me, right? It's also a way for an ignorant person like me to gain some insight."
Chen Tianqi's words made Ma Longteng smile slightly, and with a flick of his wrist, there was no other movement. The long object in his hand had been pulled out from the black cloth, and was held in his hand, under the light of the hotel.
It shines with a chilling light.
"Is this... Ma Shan?" Chen Tianqi squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, and then said a very unfamiliar term with uncertainty.
Ma Cha, a rare weapon unique to China, is extremely powerful.
It arose in the Han Dynasty, became popular in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and gradually declined in the Song Dynasty.
The Han cavalry general Ma Chao used a mulberry tree to cross the battlefield, defeat thousands of troops with one ride, and kill no one who could stop him. Cao Cao, who was in the limelight at that time and was almost sweeping the world, cut off his beard and discarded his robes to flee.
Running at full speed, you can see how terrifying its power is.
In fact, the classification of weapons is quite complex, including horse weapons that are good for mounted combat, longer and heavier infantry weapons, mixed weapons invented to deal with complex battlefields, etc.
However, usually as long as a word "槊" is mentioned, the default reference is "马槊".
Strange weapons like the horse spear are between spears, swords and knives. They have a very special shape. They have a long pole, and on top of it is a sharp blade like a two-handed sword. When facing the enemy, they can fight.
It can stab, chop, sweep or cut at any time, and it can be transformed into a myriad of things, combining both dexterity and ferocity.
Especially when they collide with each other with the help of horse power, almost everything is invulnerable! The one who gets hit will die!
It's just that a weapon like this is definitely a very rare noble weapon.
First of all, the selection of materials is extremely demanding. The Han Dynasty's military book "Qi Bing Yao Lu" says: If you want to get a spear pole, you will have to use up hundreds of trees to find just one.
What we are talking about is that the wooden pole is usually made using the method of "Ji Zhu Mu Mi". This so-called "Ji Zhu Mu Mi" is a unique Chinese craft of making weapons and wooden poles. It is very complicated and uses wooden poles as the basis.
The core is made of bamboo slices on the outside, and then painted with silk thread, leather straps or rattan paint.
As for the better quality horseshoes, they are more complicated and troublesome to manufacture.
The core of the pole is made of woven wood. After being boiled and sun-dried for half a month, it is glued with kudzu cloth using isinglass. After drying for three or four days, it is then coated with a layer of raw lacquer.
The last and crucial step is to soak the entire horsetail pole in tung oil for several months, then take it out to dry, and then soak it again for several months, repeating the process over and over again. It will take a total of five years to complete.
The resulting horse pole must also undergo a flexibility test. According to records, the success rate of the pole made in this way is only 30%.
This is just a stem, let alone a stem with more complex process requirements.
In short, weapons like the horse sword are definitely something that can only be played by aristocratic children with family backgrounds. Compared with the Japanese samurai swords that are so popular in modern times, they are much more advanced and rare.
The two are simply incomparable!
Of course, weapons like the Ma Cha still declined after the Song Dynasty. The reason why they declined was not because they were not practical enough or powerful enough.
Just because of the large number of heavy armors in the Song Dynasty, the flexibility of soldiers on the battlefield was limited, so more weapons became long swords, axes, and maces.
That kind of weapon is simple to make and terrifyingly powerful. Compared with the horse-drawn weapon, which is rare in precision, it is much simpler and cruder.
Sometimes this is the case. It doesn't necessarily mean that more advanced technologies eliminate those that are not advanced enough. In fact, it just needs to be easy to use, rough and direct, and that's enough.
And what Ma Longteng is holding now is a horse spear. It is indeed a horse spear and not a walking spear. This can be seen from the head of the spear.
It's just that this horse-stem is actually made of pure metal. Both the head and the stem are made of metal.
There was a strange black light shining under the light, and it looked a bit black. It was obviously not made of ordinary metal.
And the most surprising thing is that this horse's shaft is actually a broken shaft!
The length is only about 1.7 meters, and most of it is the head, and the pole is cut off from the middle. The cross section looks very smooth and round, as if it was cut in two by some terrifying sharp weapon.
this……
This is a bit shocking, right?
Even Chen Tianqi felt a little incredible when he saw this broken stick.
The texture of this horse pole is extraordinary at first glance, and the pole is also very thick. How can such a thick pure metal pole be broken by any sharp weapon?
What kind of weapon can have such terrifying power?
What shocked Chen Tianqi even more was that there were three large characters in running script carved on the back end of the broken pole: Mulberry!
Mulberry!?
Isn't this the weapon of Ma Mengqi, the legendary Shu Han hussar general? Could it be the same name?
No, no, no! That’s not right! Chen Tianqi has a very high level of expertise in appraising antiquities. With just a cursory glance, he can roughly confirm that the thing in Ma Longteng’s hands is definitely not a replica!
It is obviously an incredibly well-preserved ancient object! And it should be from the late Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties! So, could it be said that this horse pole is really...
"Did you see it?" Ma Longteng saw something in Chen Tianqi's shocked eyes, so he smiled slightly. The smile on that ugly face was full of pride.
"Assuming you have some discernment, this thing in my hand is exactly what one of the Five Tigers of the Shu Han Dynasty, the Han Hussar General, the champion of Xiliang, Ma Chao and Ma Meng Qi was holding, a mulberry tree!"
Upon hearing this, even Chen Tianqi's calm mind couldn't help but be moved.
This is the legendary magical weapon! According to legend, at the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty lost the entire Western Region. Later, General Fubo Ma Yuan defeated the Western Qiang and re-controlled the Western Frontier.
The famous Ma Fubo is the ancestor of Ma Chao's family.
Rumor has it that when General Fubo defeated the Xiqiang, the star fell from the sky and struck the Xiqiang army formation that was confronting General Fubo, causing chaos in the Xiqiang army. This was General Fubo's great contribution.
And this thing that fell from the sky was a piece of meteorite, which was later regarded as auspicious by the Ma family and has been enshrined in the ancestral hall of General Fubo.
It was not until the world was in chaos and thieves were everywhere that the Ma family invited the meteorite to come out and used the country's great craftsmen to cooperate with countless masters. It took a full fifteen years to use the meteorite to create the magic weapon Sangmushan.
The reason why this mulberry tree is named after mulberry wood does not mean that it is made of mulberry wood, but that on the day when this tree was formed, Andy general Ma Teng was killed by Cao Cao, and the young master Ma Chao swore on the mulberry tree that he would
Behead Cao Cao and place it in his father's mourning hall!
Therefore, the magic weapon was specially named Sangmushan, which means to care about Sangzi and not forget the roots.