As the saying goes, the gun is the king of all battles, the sword is the king of all battles, the stick is the ancestor of all battles, and the knife is the handsome one.
However, in fact, only the king of hundreds of battles is a gun, which has a source in ancient books.
Cheng Zhongdou said: "The gun is the king of art, and it is difficult for the enemy with its various devices." "The world respects guns as the king of art, and beggars' gangs can't match this skill."
"Weapons" wrote: "The gun is the king of all weapons, and all weapons are defeated by guns. Drop the gun, so the stick is broken, and arrange flowers left and right, so the card is broken. Broken arrow, fork, shovel, double knife, short knife, broken whip, mace, broadsword, halberd, hook jump. People just didn't see the real guns, so they were fascinated by these devices. As soon as you get the real gun, you treat all the devices as jokes. I don't know: a bloody battle is hand-to-hand combat. If the husband and the enemy are within 20 feet, isn't that a bloody battle? What's the use of such a short weapon if the real gunman kills people and the enemy can't get within ten feet? Just to rob the camp, fight in the street, take a knife and slap your ears. As for the crossbow, it must be twenty paces away, the shield can be restrained, the gun can't hit, and it will take days. Although they are good at guns, they are not afraid. "
It is mentioned in the annals of weapons that guns have different ways to crack all kinds of weapons, so that "all weapons are defeated when they encounter guns." In modern times, A Xiang soldiers went on strike. Participants wear protective gear and use various weapons to fight. Parker always has a huge advantage in the circle of soldiers, and the winning rate is very high. Because it is one inch long and one inch strong, but it is flexible. There is also a saying in Japan that kendo is three times as long and pike is nine times as long.
Even a novice who has only been practicing pike for a month can beat an old hand who has been practicing sword for many years in a one-on-one battle.
When a soldier attacks, it is always a narrow escape to go straight into the gun.
It can be found that many military commanders who used other weapons in romance and storytelling also used guns in official history.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Bu painted a halberd with Tian Fang, and in the official history, he used a spear. "Heroes in the Late Han Dynasty" recorded that "the cloud fought with Bunai, and Bunai stabbed the cloud with a spear." It is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Ying Bu stabbed Zhuo with a spear, and he was interested in cutting it."
Qin Qiong, who used a double mace in the Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, is also recorded in the official history as "leaping forward with a gun" and stabbing the enemy general killed by Emperor Taizong.
The official cheng also used it.
Some people may say that a spear is not a gun. In fact, the official classic of the Tang Dynasty, The Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty, and the important military work of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Beizhi, all refer to guns as the general term for spears. For example, "Wu Beizhi" said: "All the theories of calendar examination are guns and the like." In other words, some people think that the spear and spear of "Ma Zhanshen" are actually a kind of gun.
In fact, except the gun is the king of a hundred soldiers, the titles of other hundred soldiers can't be found in ancient books.
However, the saying that the sword is the king of hundreds of battles is highly recognized among the people. The reason is that the sword has a very high cultural status. Confucianism compares the sword to a gentleman, and the elegance of the sword is deeply loved by the world. However, in some periods, the sword is not a weapon often used on the battlefield. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it was recorded in the "Art of War" that "fencing has been lost for a long time."
In addition, the practice of putting the knife first in the eighteen martial arts has led some people to mistakenly think that the knife is the first of the eighteen martial arts. The correct explanation is that the 18 kinds of martial arts are divided into nine long and nine short, the knife is the "first of nine short" and the gun is the "first of nine long". Moreover, this statement of "eighteen martial arts" only appeared on the stage in modern times and is not suitable for discussing actual combat.