Chapter 317: Knife and Sword

Zeren: "This is another of their long swords, um... non-reflective metal material.

Qin: "According to their inspection, not only is there a gap, there is no blood on it."

Zeren: "A brand new military long sword?"

Qin: "Yes."

Compared to the schemes of the sheep-headed people, this was the first time that Zeren came into contact with a double-edged long sword from the sheep-headed people, which was regarded as the main cold weapon in many underdeveloped areas.

Therefore, Zeren looked at a double-edged straight long sword placed in a glass box about 1 meter long, with a blade width of only 5 cm and a straight sword guard of at least 14 cm. He couldn't help but despise it.

As long as the countries or civilizations in the world use metal for war, they will inevitably create double-edged swords.

However, as a traditional cold weapon, the biggest weakness of the sword is that it is sharp but not good at stabbing. And the symmetrical design of the double blades will have a worse place, and there will definitely be more obvious cost increases in manufacturing and processing.

Of course, there may be some friends in the world who will jump out and say that they can use swords to kill him. Zelen's head was chopped off and used as a chamber pot. However, these guys have most likely never worked in an arsenal, and have not even worked properly in a blacksmith shop.

A straight double-edged longsword cannot be bent, and the double-sided blades must be symmetrical. These two conditions are enough to give many blacksmiths a headache, and they have to waste extra time on fine grinding work.

Therefore, in the Krurod Empire, using knives and single-edged swords has always been the most familiar and accustomed style.

For no other reason, the conditions for making knives are lower than those for making swords, and the requirements for maintenance and maintenance are even lower. At the same time, knife skills are easier to practice than sword skills.

A qualified knifeman needs less training time than a swordsman, and actions such as straight stabbing are not something that everyone can easily do on the battlefield.

Otherwise, why has the army never stopped? Not only have they been trained in bayonet fighting, but even the most basic soldiers are used to using bayonets or preparing hatchets just in case when they encounter a slightly narrow area.

The habits passed down from history have become everyone's natural choice.

So Zelun doesn't want to directly say that the sheep-headed people are conservative and can't adapt to the changes of the times. After all, no matter what, the cultists led by the sheep-headed people have always been able to mass-produce burning helmets.

As for the helmet, Zelun himself can understand why many countries thought about how to imitate it in the past.

As long as the wearer of the burning helmet stares at the target, the target will be ignited by the wearer's spiritual power. The most terrifying thing is that those who wear such a helmet for a long time may often stimulate their own hidden abilities.

Yes.

A certain An important reason why some people degenerate into cultists is to obtain magic power, and the cultists led by the sheep-headed people can completely meet the needs of these people.

What's more terrifying is that the cultists don't lie, just like the demons they believe in, they are really guys who won't use lies to deceive the outside world. The fallen who become a member of the cult will indeed get the magic power as they wish, and even with the help of the power of the burning helmet, it is completely no problem to watch some troublesome guys burn to death as a bystander, and there will be no evidence that can be seen by normal vision.

And to be honest, Zelun thought about it, the helmet plus... You don't say, for the intelligent race like the sheep-headed people who all know magic, the extra modern weapons are a burden. Just like those who have inside, they can destroy an aircraft carrier with their own spiritual power, and twist the aircraft carrier into a twist or iron egg that sinks to the bottom of the sea.

Weapons and so on, they are weapons themselves, do they need to continue to equip other weapons?

Of course not.

Maybe it was because of this idea that the sheep-headed man never thought of replacing the double-edged longsword with other weapons.

Or maybe it was another one.

When Zelen was a child, he heard that the civilization outside had the class concept that swords were superior to spears, and that swordsmen were a hundred times better than spearmen. Therefore, holding a sword means that the upper class is superior to other lower class people, and it is easy to be assassinated. This often happens repeatedly.

Zelen: "Our country does not have a formal cavalry unit, but, Felicity."

Felicity: "Although we do not have a cavalry unit, the sailors of the navy have also used sabers as self-defense weapons. Let's put it this way, it is more difficult to use a straight sword than a scimitar."

Zelen: "Yeah."

To borrow the famous saying of the Holy Church, agricultural civilization prefers straight swords, and nomadic civilization is used to using scimitars. Before the founding of the Krurod Empire, the scimitar was used as a melee weapon and used it as a historical symbol.

But in any case, if it really comes to close combat, Zelen feels that the cross sword will never beat his scimitar. And Zelen now knows one thing. I don't know if the Orchid Republic has finally found that the straight sword is not easy to use, and has begun to privately import a large number of scimitar blades from the Krurod Empire.

Let's put it this way.

If the straight-bladed cold weapons are manufactured using modern industrial forging technology, they will definitely have a very large production and maintenance advantage.

Just like the command sabers of the Negan Empire, they are all straight-bladed combat sabers.

But if you want to use a straight-bladed saber well, you must have a good saber technique.

In this regard, the Orchid Republic is a late-developing country. They directly learned the swordsmanship of the Negan Empire. However, this is not the best choice for the army of the Orchid Republic.

The swordsmanship of the Negan Empire is their own swordsmanship. The result of copying is various inadaptability. Therefore, the Orchid Republic is now looking for the Crurod Empire to customize a batch of scimitar-shaped single-edged sabers, so that the soldiers can be more handy.

However, no matter what kind of saber everyone uses, including the sabers of the pig-headed people, they are all single-edged designs that can chop and stab straight. None of them continues to use double-edged long swords with fully sharp edges on both sides like the sheep-headed people.

Although the sabers of the Crurod Empire have a reverse-edged style, this type has not been favored by the soldiers.

What's more, modern sabers are increasingly inclined to ceremonial ornaments, and there is a certain obvious difference from the requirements of actual combat.

In short, after looking at the long swords of the sheep-headed people, Zelun remembered a thing that used to be very similar.

The ring-handled double-edged longsword that once flourished on the Neoland continent.

It was probably a few hundred years ago, when the Kahn Empire was still around. At that time, the Kahn Empire had the rumored time travelers as the so-called heroes who revitalized their country, but...

The time travelers summoned could not forge iron, let alone various modern weapon and equipment manufacturing processes. As a result, the powerful neighboring Nigan Empire did something bad and sold ten ring-handled longswords to several vassal states under the Kahn Empire that did not obey the rule of the Central Empire.

And in order to sell them at a higher price, the Nigan Empire directly gave them the name of "horse-slaying sword". Therefore, for these ten steel longswords, which were good at the time but can only be said to be very ordinary now, the princes of the Kahn Empire broke out in civil wars many times. In the end, these ten longswords, along with a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, all returned to the Nigan Empire.

What does it mean?

How could the Nigan Empire be so kind to sell swords to alien forces? For these ten longswords, the people of the Kahn Empire did not know how much blood they shed. Moreover, the border lords who were not loyal to the central government of the Kahn Empire had repeatedly reverse-engineered the long sword and tried to imitate the same model.

However, the lords loyal to the Kahn Empire and the central forces of the Kahn Empire could not tolerate this at all and publicly demanded that they hand over the long sword. As a result, the opposing lords found various excuses to shirk their responsibilities until the ministers and the royal family of the Kahn Empire directly ordered a crusade.

For no other reason, the metal forging level of the Kahn Empire was not up to par at all, and at most it could only produce a short sword of more than half a meter in length. Facing the ten two-handed ring-handled long swords with a length of more than one meter and one sold by the Nigan Empire, just looking at their steel quality was enough to start a war...