Top Ten Cold Weapons in China

The top ten cold weapons in China are bed crossbows, crossbows, door-stopper knives, spike bats, catapults, strange knives, stirrups, maces and hags.

1. Bed crossbow

Bed crossbow, which originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, flourished in the Han Dynasty. After several generations of trimming and updating, it became a powerful high-precision heavy-duty long-range weapon until the Tang and Song Dynasties. Bed crossbow, that is, one or several bows are installed on the bedstead with a wooden or copper crossbow machine in the middle, which is used to twist the axle bow at the back to install arrows. Because the bow is pulled by twisting, it is far more powerful than ordinary bows and arrows, and can shoot through armor and even ordinary shields. Moreover, because a crossbow machine can hold multiple bows, it can achieve the effect of continuous firing.

2. The crossbow

The crossbow was first invented by Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms Period. The earliest crossbow, also known as Zhuge Liancrossbow, is an ancient version of the pistol, which can continuously fire ten crossbows in a short time. It is a special weapon with the strongest medium-range lethality and coverage in ancient times. However, the original Zhuge Lian crossbow was large in size and weight, similar to the shape of a cart, similar to a car crossbow, requiring two or three people to cooperate with it, and its power was far less than that of a bed crossbow, so it did not show its advantages in actual combat.

3. Door-stopper knife car

As the name implies, a knife car is a car full of sharp swords, and a door-stopper knife car is an artifact dedicated to blocking doors when attacking cities and guarding cities. When the city gate is breached by the enemy, you can push a few door-stopper knives to block the city gate, delay the enemy's attack, and also act as a fortress.

4. spike pat

spike pat is also an artifact of guarding the city in ancient times, that is, on a elm board with several feet in length and several inches in thickness, hundreds of nails with a length of three to five inches are fixed, and sharp blades are arranged around it, and the rope is slipped on the pulley and hooked on the city. When the enemy climbs the city wall, the rope is untied and taken down. After filming, use the pulley on the pulley to pull it up, ready for the next attack.

5. The catapult

There are magic weapons to defend the city, and there are also artifacts to attack the city. The catapult is naturally one of the most powerful roles. The catapult first appeared in the Warring States Period, because in ancient times, siege was one of the biggest problems in history, so the progress in siege equipment is inevitable.

6. Mo Dao

It was a sharp weapon that prevailed in the military in the Tang Dynasty. It was a long-handled two-edged knife, which was ten feet long and weighed ten to fifteen kilograms in general. It was a high-order artifact for riding by steps, and was mostly held by infantry, which was beneficial to chopping horses. After Kaiyuan, it was widely equipped in Tang Jun.

7. Horse pin

Horse pin is a heavy weapon used by ancient cavalry. It was reformed from the original spear, and its power is far better than that of the spear. It is divided into two parts: the pin front and the pin pole, and the pin front is 5-6 cm long. Armed cavalry use this heavy weapon to charge the array.

8. mace

a cold weapon which is relatively simple to make, but quite powerful, is mainly used for cavalry fighting. mace is divided into long and short, and its shape is not fixed. The head of the stick is like a jujube pit, and nails are planted on it, which looks like a spike. Mace was introduced into the Central Plains from ethnic minorities and was widely popularized in the Song Dynasty. At first, it was used as a weapon to restrain cavalry with infantry.

9. Hag Beating

Hag Beating and Spike Beating have similar functions. They are both used in guarding the city. They are made of wet elm wood with a diameter of 1 foot and a length of more than 1 foot, and the surrounding nails are nailed reversely. They are usually hung on the city wall, and the ropes are pulled by a winch. When the enemy is besieged, they are put down, and then the winch is twisted to make it roll in the enemy array, so as to kill the enemy.

1. Chariots

Chariots are tanks in ancient positional warfare. From the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Spring and Autumn Period, chariots have always been the absolute core force of the army. In the Spring and Autumn Period, countries decided their military strength by the number of chariots. However, because the chariot is only suitable for array warfare, not for field combat, and it needs to be trained for a long time, it was abandoned in the Warring States period and became a subsidiary of infantry.