Why can a double-headed weapon like Haladi be popular?

It is said that it is strange that weapons die quickly.

Why Haradi?

This double-headed weapon

But can it be popular?

There is a saying that cold weapon lovers often talk about: weapon monsters die quickly.

In most cases, it is true.

Because most weapons are tempered by human beings after thousands of years of war, although the origin is different, they all look similar. After all, these weapons were born in a war environment.

▲ Viking swords and Song swords with similar times are quite similar in shape.

In contrast, some strange-looking weapons, on the whole, are not necessarily so useful on the battlefield. However, existence is reasonable. Since it is not easy to go to the battlefield, why can it still exist?

The most interesting thing is that there is a strange weapon that has a market all over the world: the double-headed weapon.

General sword, one end of the handle extends out of the blade; On the other hand, the blade of the double-headed weapon extends from both ends of the handle.

Among these weapons, India's Haladi dagger can be said to be the most representative.

▲ Haladi dagger

Haladi dagger has blades at both ends of its handle, which are symmetrical. Although it looks beautiful, it always gives people a strange feeling.

Some Haladi daggers have armguards on their handles, and some even have a blade extending from the armguards, which is equivalent to saying that a * * * has three blades.

▲ Haladi dagger with armguard

▲ Three sharp Haladi daggers

This double-headed weapon obviously cannot be used in a war environment.

For example, the biggest problem with using Haladi dagger is that it is easy to accidentally injure yourself and your teammates. Besides, this sheath is also troublesome.

▲ Haladi dagger drawn from its sheath

Many people may say that this is from India, and you can understand why it doesn't work well. This statement is somewhat absolute.

On the one hand, India is a truly multi-ethnic country, with Hindustan, the main ethnic group, accounting for half of the population, and many ethnic minorities are brave and good at fighting.

Haladi dagger is not a weapon of Hindus, but a representative weapon of Indian minority Rajput.

▲ LaJiPuTe people

The population of the Rajput people today is about120,000, and they live in northern India. However, they are not indigenous to India, but a new ethnic group composed of the Skatai, Yueshi and White Huns who invaded India. Rajput and Sikh are known as the two best ethnic groups in the whole Indian cultural circle.

There is a saying that if India's overall combat effectiveness is ten, then the combat effectiveness of Rajput and Sikhs can account for nine points.

▲ Immediately showed a close-up of Jippet's martial arts.

On the other hand, there are similar double-edged swords not only in India, but also in many places. For example, the word "double-edged sword" is often used to describe something that is not easy to backfire and hurt yourself.

Many people think that this double-edged sword refers to a double-edged sword, not to mention that it is normal for a double-edged sword to be a sword. In fact, this double-edged sword refers to a sword with two ends, which is called "double-edged sword" in English, which means double-headed.

Specifically, China also has many double-headed weapons. The Emei Spike and Crescent Spike in The Short Soldier are also double-headed weapons, especially the Crescent Spike, which is quite similar to the three-pointed Haladi dagger in design.

Strictly speaking, the Meridian Yuanyang is also a double-headed weapon.

▲ Emei thorn

▲ crescent thorn

▲ Meridian cymbals

Maybe you can see a clue-although they are all actual combat equipment, they are not used for war, at least not in a large-scale war. These weapons are used in small-scale private fights, especially against singles.

The same is true of the Rajput who invented the Haladi dagger. They are famous for their martial arts since ancient times, but if they fight, they will not choose the Haladi dagger. Like soldiers in other parts of the world, they will wear armor, shields, a set of bows and arrows, swords and spears to fight.

▲ Ancient Lajite cavalry

On the other hand, the ancient Laqipute people have not been unified and have been in a multi-tribal state for a long time.

In the 6th century, the Rajput people were divided into 36 tribes, and there was bound to be civil strife among these tribes.

▲ In fact, up to now, civil fighting is a big problem for the Indian government.

There are essential differences between folk fighting and military fighting. Military operations often have an open battlefield, emphasizing group cooperation and arms cooperation; Civil fights are mostly in the streets and fields.

For folk duels, weapons have their unique significance. The general swords are almost the same, and the means of attack and defense are very common. You will get familiar with them after a long time.

As far as double-headed weapons are concerned, as long as they are skillfully used, there are certain advantages in dealing with people holding ordinary short weapons in a narrow space. As far as the attack mode is concerned, the double-headed weapon is naturally much more flexible, and can stab, split, pull, hook, cone and so on. It is impossible to prevent.

As a matter of fact, the Rajput people not only invented the Haladi dagger, but also a world-famous weapon-the fist blade, which is also the masterpiece of the Rajput people. Of course, the blade is not used to kill the enemy on the battlefield, but also used in fighting and other occasions.

▲ Deformable fist blade

For example, some unique weapons in China, especially Lingnan, such as Hong Quan, also use benches as weapons, and Wing Chun's eight-chop knife is different from other swords.

Due to the long-term fighting between Hakkas in Lingnan area and "Tujia" (non-Tujia) in history, these weapons were constantly invented and developed in the fighting.

▲ Hong Quan's bench routine, JJ Hpmg's four-door stool

In short, existence is reasonable, and it is not necessarily a bad thing to use weapons that are limited and inconvenient to apply to the battlefield.

Weapons kill people and cannot be invented for no reason. For example, you have a gun that can fire at two ends, one at the muzzle and the other at the tail. If you want to shoot in a different position on the battlefield, you will never live for two minutes. But for killers or spies, it may be an artifact.