Transmigrate to be an Ancient Saint - C344 Swift sword and butterfly knife

Just as Xiao Wen was on his way to the weapon shop to repair his weapon, Xiao Wen suddenly realised that Guan Yu had been staring at Xiao Wen’s sword the entire time. He seemed to be very concerned about it, but at the same time, curious about it. Therefore, he turned around and asked Guan Yu: “Xiao Yu, why are you always staring at Mister’s sword?”

Guan Yu was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking about what to say. After a while, he said in a simple and clear voice, “Teacher’s sword is very strong and very interesting.”

Hearing that, Xiao Wen immediately understood that Guan Yu had noticed the power of his sword just now. Just now, when Xiao Wen was fighting, he used this sword to attack the enemy at a lightning fast speed. Those hoodlums who were attacked by Xiao Wen, had not even clearly saw how Xiao Wen launched his attack before their throats were directly pierced by his sword. Then, they died from excessive loss of blood and suffocation. Evidently, Guan Yu was able to tell that the reason why Xiao Wen was able to unleash such power just now, was not because of how powerful he himself was, but because of the sword.

Xiao Wen understood what Guan Yu was thinking, laughed, and said to Guan Yu: “This sword is indeed powerful, but it is not suitable for you.” With that, Xiao Wen passed his sword with its own sheath to Guan Yu, for him to see.

Guan Yu was silent for a moment, then tied the rope that connected the two captives to his hands. Because just now, Xiao Wen had already changed the clothes of the two captives. He had even insulted the two of them and treated them like slaves. No one was surprised to see him dressed like that. After all, in the Great Tang Dynasty, slave trading was legal. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be any Kunlun slave in history.

Guan Yu released both hands and took the treasure sword from Xiao Wen’s hands, then pulled it out and looked at it carefully.

At this time, Xiao Wen also explained from the side: “This form of sword is called the Swift sword, or Sword Thrust. Swift sword s were the product of a cold European weapon that had evolved to its peak level in a 1v1 fight before its maturity. Because Xiao Yu only intends to be a general, I didn’t prepare this kind of sword for you. ”

Hearing that, Guan Yu nodded. Because of Anthony’s existence, they students were not completely clueless about Europe. He knew that in the Pre-Qin era, there existed a Roman Empire as powerful as Zhou, Qin, and Sui. And now, there are countries in Europe such as the Eastern Roman Empire, the Divine Roman Empire, the Kingdom of France and so on.

Anthony looked at the sword and nodded his head. He said, “Besides the form of the gauntlet being slightly different, the appearance of this sword is actually no different from the Swift sword s that the Genoese nobles use when I was at Constantinople.” There was a Genoese settlement on the other side of the north river of Constantinople, near the mouth of the Black Sea. Constantinople and the Genoese still jointly controlled a chain that sealed off the river. As a result, Anthony who grew up in Constantinople, he could often see nobles from Genoa or Venice dueling with Swift sword in their residential area.

The length of the Swift sword was around 2500px-3000px, and the length of its blade was about 2250px-2750px. With a single grasp, its attack range exceeded that of the longsword. From the center of gravity of the guard to the top 250 px of the gauntlet, the manipulative ability is excellent and the change is very fast. There are usually very tight gauntlets to protect fragile fingers.

But because he had to pursue etiquette, he did not want others to feel that he carried a sword that was different from the swords in the Central Plains area. Therefore, Xiao Wen did not install a set guard on his Swift sword. What replaced it was a groove on the sword hilt. As long as Xiao Wen had installed the gauntlet into the groove before using it, it would be able to perform the same function as a fixed gauntlet.

“Swift sword sacrifice their cutting ability in order to gain unparalleled attacking range and piercing speed. They can almost surpass the defense of any sabre and sword. “When it hits the torso or the head, it will penetrate deep into the internal organs or the brain. I dare say that with the medical skills of today’s world, once it hits the internal organs, there is absolutely no way to treat it.”

In the ancient times, some godly doctors would face the wounds of ordinary sabre and sword and might be able to perform surgery to sew up the patient’s internal organs. Under these circumstances, if the physique of an injured patient was strong enough and their life force was tough enough, they might be able to survive. But the wounds caused by the Swift sword, could never be healed. Not to mention the ancient era, even the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution would not be able to cure it. Only after the second world war, when the technology told the development of the world, would it be possible to heal the wounds of Swift sword. After all, the appearance of penicillin and sulfa could solve the problem of infection. The improvement of blood transfusion technology has also helped to solve the problem of bleeding.

At this time, Sun Shangxiang couldn’t help but be curious. She asked: “Sir, since the Swift sword is so powerful, then how about compared to the Butterfly Blade?”

Butterfly double-knife, also known as “double-fork knife”, is a short knife widely spread in ancient China, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangdong and parts of Jiangxi in Hunan. Its blade is about the length of a person’s forearm, so it is called a “palm-knife”. Because of its short length, it can be easily worn inside a boot.

The width of the edge of the butterfly double knife is good for parrying and backhand knife. Only open the blade a few inches in front of the tip of the knife, which is convenient for stabbing vertically into the body.

And because it was short and short, the torque was short, and it could be easily wielded, a “blade technique is a fist technique”, it was easy to grasp, so it had to be used in close combat to be effective, thus it could stimulate a martial artist’s courage to move forward. It could also unleash the might of “One Inch Short, One Inch Risk”. Because of this, the famous martial arts sects in South China, such as Hong Fist and Wing Chun Fist, loved to use them as their personal weapons.

Although Xiao Wen always looked down upon the traditional martial arts and thought that compared to the traditional martial arts, the comprehensive martial arts techniques that he had inherited from Bruce Lee would be much better off — in fact, in the real world, when the traditional martial arts’ masters’ were questioned, they would always use the traditional martial arts to flaunt the strength of the traditional martial arts, but after the fight, they would call themselves the traditional martial arts, while those who practiced the comprehensive martial arts were just a bunch of lowly people.

However, Xiao Wen still valued conventional arms fights a lot. After all, in the circle of cold weapons of the 21st century, there were many Chinese cold weapons (excluding nonsense like Blood Drops) that could be compared with those of the Western cold weapons. In particular, the power of Butterfly’s Dual Blades, if used well, was much stronger than some German two-handed sword or English broadsword. Even if it was a Swift sword, if it could not hit the butterfly dual blade user during the first attack, it would still be attacked by the butterfly double blade user.

After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing army did its best to exterminate the remnants of the Taiping army. In order to survive, some remnants of the Taiping army contacted the western “coolie traders” and sold themselves as “contracted Chinese workers” (piggies) without any hesitation. They travelled thousands of miles to South America on the infamous “piggy boat” to serve as laborers in order to escape the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army.

These old Taiping Army troops were located in Peru, which was rich in guinea-dung phosphate mines. Bird dung is an important strategic resource of military industry in the nineteenth century (it can be extracted from saltpeter to make explosives), and the exploitation of bird dung was an extremely lucrative industry at that time.

But it was only the local warlords, the chauffeurs, and the big landlords who made the fortune. In their eyes, the workers were nothing more than a group of slaves for them to squeeze out their labor. Therefore, the workers were subjected to extremely cruel exploitation and enslavement.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army, who were experienced in combat, were naturally different from the common slaves. They had already started to fight back, but because they lacked weapons and were too weak, they had to wait for the most advantageous moment.

The saltpeter mines on the west coast of South America do not belong only to Peru. The mineral veins extend to Chile, Bolivia and other countries. In order to fight for this precious resource, the three countries finally declared war on saltpeter.

It was time for the Chinese workers to wait. The soldiers of the old Taiping Army were quickly organized according to the old military camp. Without weapons, they said that all the iron labor tools had been melted down to make the Taiping Army soldiers’ most desirable “two blades of peace”.

Under the western style army’s equipped with the advantageous weapons of telegraph and rifle, the soldiers of the Taiping Army once again demonstrated that they had conquered over half of China in a single go, almost ending the heroic ways of the national destiny of the Manchu, bravely fighting, flying up and down, slashing left and right in the hands of the Taiping Army, the “Taiping Dual Blades” were unstoppable! The Peruvian army was annihilated.

These exhausted remnants of the Taiping Army, reborn in the Southwest Hemisphere tens of thousands of miles from their homeland, have given the world a taste of the Chinese nation’s inviolable will. It also allowed the world to experience the power of the “two blades of peace”! The Taiping dual sword became the mysterious symbol of the Chinese street in Europe and America in the early 19th century.