After drinking and eating, Zhang Fei put down Kuai Zi, a large carp weighing three to four kilograms, with only a pair of fish bones left.

After the wine and dinner, it was time to get down to business. Zhang Fei stared at Li Mengxi and said, "Xi'er, I heard from my second brother that you are forging a knife. We had an appointment earlier. You said you would make a good knife for me. When will you give it to me?"

Li Mengxi was stunned for a while before he remembered when he owed Zhang Fei a sword. It was a long time ago. On the way back to Zhuozhou after defeating the Yellow Turban Cheng Yuanzhi Division, when he talked about the sword army, he mentioned the steel filling method.

.Zhang Fei is still thinking about this matter.

Li Mengxi smiled and explained, "I have mastered the art of pouring steel, and combined with the art of wrapping steel, clamping steel and forging the sword, I made a fine Yi Er.

However, there is still something unclear about quenching.

If a general wants a precious sword, he can make it today or tomorrow, but if he wants to obtain the ultimate sword, he needs to wait until someone improves the quenching method."

Zhang Fei understood that swords can be made, but if you want the best swords, you have to wait.

Zhang Fei weighed it and nodded, "Then let's wait a little longer."

Li Mengxi looked Zhang Fei carefully from top to bottom. Zhang Fei had a tower-like body, a dark face, leopard-like eyes, and a fierce look that could scare a child to tears. He said that during the Spring Festival in later generations,

Among the door paintings posted on the door, most of them are Qin Qiong Jingde, but there are also paintings posted on Guan and Zhang.

The Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty were comparable to each other, and Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde of the Tang Dynasty were extremely powerful generals whose bravery was comparable to that of Guan and Zhang.

According to the novel, Qin Qiong used a pair of gold-plated maces, while Yuchi Jingde used a bamboo steel whip. It can be seen from the weapons that the protective power and armor coverage rate of the Central Plains armor in the Tang Dynasty were greatly improved, thus giving birth to the invention of the Tang Dynasty.

There are many blunt armor-breaking weapons such as maces.

Generally speaking, in battle, the destructive power of whips and maces is far greater than that of swords. Swords have the advantage of flexibility, but their destructive power is insufficient against armored units.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi said to Zhang Fei again, "Third general, when it comes to making swords, I originally wanted to make a steel whip with bamboo joints for the general. The whip is a heavy weapon, good at breaking armor and destroying fortresses. The general is also amazingly powerful.

The steel whip will be as powerful as a tiger.

Moreover, the steel whip can fly when released, and can be used as a sharp weapon for Pegasus to kill enemies, which cannot be done by swords.

I think a steel whip is better than a sword, but what does the general think?"

Zhang Fei thought for a moment, scratched his head, and said impatiently, "Trouble! You made both the knife and the whip for me. Isn't it enough to do both?"

Li Mengxi was stunned for a moment, then laughed happily, "Haha! OK! I can make both a whip and a sword."

After saying that, Li Mengxi turned his eyes to Guan Yu. Li Mengxi also looked Guan Yu up and down, and then said, "As for General Guan, I want to get a handle or a pair of gold maces.

This mace is roughly similar to a whip. It is also a blunt weapon that can break armor. Like a whip, the mace can also be thrown and hurt people.

I know someone who has a special skill of "throwing away the mace". When approaching the enemy, he will hit the enemy with his mace, and every shot will hit the target."

Li Mengxi was still young, as weak as a bean sprout. He also talked about battlefield martial arts, and both Guan and Zhang looked at him with suspicion.

Seeing that the two of them were very interested, Li Mengxi continued, "If you want to use [Throwing Hand Mace], the key is to be as fast as lightning. To be as fast as lightning, you must move quickly. To move quickly, the key is to carry the weapon."

Guan and Zhang were very engaged when they heard it.

Li Mengxi continued, "Both of you are good at riding and fighting. You should know that it is a little inconvenient to carry the auxiliary at the waist or on the side of the saddle.

But the mace is so heavy that if it hangs from the waist, it will be a drag."

"I would like to ask you two more, what technique should be used by flying soldiers to throw enemies?" Li Mengxi asked Xiang Guan and Zhang.

Guan Yu frowned and thought for a moment, then made some gestures with his hand and said, "If you want to throw a flying halberd at someone with the step character, take the halberd with your lower hand, raise your hand, lean back to accumulate strength, and then throw it out with great force."

Looking at Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei also said, "I am the same way."

Li Mengxi nodded, "That's it. To send out the halberd, you have to lower your hand to pick up the halberd, you have to raise the halberd, you have to lean back to accumulate power, and then you can throw it. The movements are complicated and the delay is slow."

"The key is here. As mentioned before, the whip is heavy and burdensome to carry on the waist. But if it is not carried on the waist, where can it be placed?" Looking at Guan Yu who was thinking, and then at Zhang Fei, Li Mengxi said to himself

The answer was revealed, "It is better to put it behind your shoulders and carry it on your back. In this way, there will be no burden of carrying it on the waist."

"The method of shoulder carrying has another wonderful effect. The two of them just said that if you use a flying halberd, you should hold the halberd with your lower hand when taking it, and then raise your hand high.

If the whip and mace are carried behind the mace, think about it again. At this time, how should you take the whip and mace and fly to the enemy?"

Guan Yu was thoughtful and couldn't help but raise his hand and reach behind his shoulder to realize it. Guan Yu suddenly realized, "That's right!" Guan Yu's eyes widened. "The whip was shouldered and he was throwing it to kill the enemy. He raised his hand.

, the hand is just high, pick up the mace, raise the hand and lean back in one go.

In this way, you save one step of taking the mace with your low hand, and the moment your hand touches the mace, you are ready to throw the mace sharply, without any delay!"

Guan Yu already understood the advantages of carrying the Flying Mace on his back.

To put it simply, no matter what kind of throwing weapon, as long as you want to be lethal, you must raise your hand and lean back the weapon, then throw away your arm and fly it with all your strength.

But like a sword, the sword is light, and if it flies out with insufficient force, it cannot fly far.

Moreover, the sword is too long, so it is okay to carry it in the waist. But if it is carried behind the shoulder, it will be awkward if you want to draw the sword.

If you want to take out the flying halberd at your waist and throw it to hurt someone, the first step is to hold the halberd with your lower hand. Only after the halberd is in your hand can you start throwing.

With the mace carried on the back of the shoulder, there is no need to take an extra step to hold the halberd with the lower hand. The action of holding the mace and the action of accumulating power are completed at the same time, saving a lot of time.

The mace is behind the shoulder, how should I hold it?

Lift your hands and reach behind your shoulders.

And what is the action of throwing short soldiers with low damage? Raise your hand high, stretch your hand back, and accumulate strength.

In the back mace style, the movements of taking the mace and throwing the mace overlap and are exactly the same. Therefore, the moment you move the hand, you are charging for throwing. When your hand touches the mace, that is, when the mace is fired, you take the mace and charge it.

It is done in one go, so the flying mace is a very fast and minimal means of throwing and injuring people.

On the side, Zhang Fei also understood. Zhang Fei touched his chin, eyes wide open, and thought thoughtfully, "If this is the case, wouldn't it be possible to move up a few points faster with the flying halberd on the back of the shoulder?"

Li Mengxi shook his head and said with a smile, "No matter how fast the flying halberd is, it can't be used quickly."

"...Why?" Zhang Fei was confused.

Li Mengxi explained with a smile, "I'm afraid the general has forgotten that the mace and halberd are different. There is a big difference between the two. The mace is one on top and one on the bottom, with no branches or forks, but what about the hand halberd? The hand halberd has a thin head and a thin handle. If it is carried upside down on the shoulder,

Up, how to put it?

If it is tied up with a rope, it has to be untied when using it, so how can it be said to be fast?

But if you put it in a bag, hide the halberd branch in the bag, and pull it out, how can it not catch and collide? It will also be slowed down."

"And if it's the other way around, the blade of the halberd is on top, the handle is in the bag, and it's just placed. Haha," Li Mengxi chuckled, "If this is the case, if you pick up the halberd in an emergency, touch it with your hand, and catch the blade, wouldn't you be dissatisfied?

Are the hands bloody?”

Zhang Fei suddenly realized.

Taking all these factors into account, it is not difficult to analyze why there were swords in history instead of halberds and swords. The sword was light and could not fly far. The sword could be thrown at people even if it was thrown, and the enemy would be hit.

If Fang is wearing armor, the flying sword cannot break it, and there will be no pain or itching.

The flying halberd has a fork and is inconvenient to use.

Only the whip mace is like a lump of iron when thrown. Even if the opponent is pierced through armor, he will still vomit blood if he is hit by it. The lethality is extremely high.

Furthermore, the structure of the mace is smooth. It is a stick and can be thrown out smoothly without adjusting the handle.

The only thing whose shooting speed can be compared with the flying mace is the javelin, but the armor-piercing ability of the javelin is not comparable to that of the mace.

Therefore, when it comes to the ability to kill well-armored generals and units, the fast and ruthless flying mace deserves to be number one.

In the romances of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, why are there hands-off maces but no hands-off whips? Although they are romances, romances also have prototypes based on historical reality and are not rootless.

There are maces and maces, but there are no whips. The reason may lie in the difference between the two. Although whips and maces are very close, there are still subtle differences. The most typical style of whip is the bamboo whip, which looks like a long and slender bamboo stick.

The most common style of mace is a four-edged steel whip, as thick as a stool leg.

That is to say, the whip and mace are two weapons. Generally, the whip is slightly longer and the mace is shorter.

The length is reflected in actual combat, especially the backpack style. The longer whip is difficult to pull out from the back and the whip is slow; but with the short mace, the whip action is not delayed at all and is very smooth.

For this reason, in ancient battlefields, there was a story of wielding a mace but not a whip. The slightest difference was the difference between superior and inferior.

Carry a single mace on your back and wait for the moment to strike. The name of this move is [Qin Qiong's Mace Drawing Style].

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Zhang Fei, who was good at martial arts, and Guan Yu, who was also good at martial arts, suddenly acquired a unique fighting skill. The two of them were stunned and immediately got up to give it a try.

I don't have a whip or a mace, so I can only make it in a hurry.

Li Mengxi asked the craftsmen to make a thick and short stick with a handle, as long as the arm was long.

At the same time, Li Mengxi went to the women's and children's camp and discussed with the women and children how to make a backpack to carry weapons on the back.

The rucksack was not discussed until Zhang Fei brought the quiver. Wouldn't it be okay to put the mace in the quiver?

Half an hour later, the blacksmiths hammered out an iron bar with a handle.

Then, Guan Yu rode Li Mengxi and Zhang Fei also rode out of the city.

Behind him, a dozen cavalrymen carrying straw targets followed.

A piece of land was found outside the city, and the target was randomly inserted into two rows. After the target was inserted, Zhang Fei rode on a horse with a snake spear of eight feet and an iron whip on his back, and retreated sixty steps away. Then he roared and clamped his legs tightly on the horse.

The belly drives the horse forward.

Zhang Fei's black horse is majestic, its hooves sound like thunder, and it runs as fast as a black shadow.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Fei rushed between the two rows of rakes, swung the snake spear in his hand, stabbed one target through the target, raised the target high and smashed it down, and smashed the other target into pieces.
To be continued...