Hammer and Ax: Western Combat Weapons
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<html> <h1> <strong>Simple to no longer</strong> <strong>simple: stick (Bat Club)</strong></h1> <h3> Have you seen a baseball stick? </h3> <p>In its big head tied to what hard things, or fixed a stone or large animal skull on it. Devaluation of the human skull Oh, strong and can frighten the enemy, or in the elastic long sticks on the head of the package with a blunt iron. The length of this 30 cm, weighing less than a kilogram of gadgets is popular for a long time. </p> <p><img src="https://i1.kknews.cc/large/7fb00093afa1ac03c32" width="640" height="426"/></p> <h1> <strong>The progress of the stick: the head hammer (Morning star)</strong> </h1> <h3> The nail hammer, and the Chinese meteor hammer is quite different. </h3> <p>Morning-star has a rotten translation called morning star, is the armor to develop a certain stage after the soldiers and travelers love weapons. In the top of a metal rod about a strong short spring loaded, and then connected to a pound around the ball, once the condescending to drop down, its potential, such as meteor, the general helmet must be finished. </p> <p><img src="https://i2.kknews.cc/large/7f9000933a350b79031" width="640" height="609"/></p> <h1> <strong>One hand blunt king: hard hammer (Mace)</strong> </h1> <h3> The blunt end of a hard hammer is made up of many uncrowned axes, but because there is no real blade, it is counted as a blunt instrument. </h3> <p>The face of metal armor, with the sword is a foolish act, because the blade simply can not cut the heavy deck. Unless it is armor sword; so, the most hand-fighting weapons, one is the ax, the other is the hard hammer: not only afraid of cutting edge but also smashed deflated armor. Incidentally, medieval Russian officers wear hard hammer as a token of identity. </p> <p><img src="https://i2.kknews.cc/large/7fc000939f05768a96e" width="640" height="353"/></p> <h1> <strong>Farmer's invention: Flail</strong> </h1> <h3> In many cases, chain flails and chain hammers are confused. </h3> <p>In fact, the chain is the farmer playing wheat thing, much like the Chinese nunchaku, but much larger. Once hit it, even if the chain has a risk of fracture. </p> <p><img src="https://i2.kknews.cc/large/7fa000935ae26c3fd51" width="466" height="372"/></p> <h1> <strong>Chain of flails of the brothers: chain hammer (Spiked Flail)</strong> </h1> <h3> The battle on the chain of flail lethal on the small point, but it does not matter, the front of the stick into a few small ball into it. </h3> <p>Was hit, but very painful oh ~ ~ ~, and can be dragged dragged each other's weapons, infantry is a very powerful weapon. In the Soviet invasion of Poland, the guard of the capital of the militia is also equipped with ancestral chain hammer. </p> <p><img src="https://i1.kknews.cc/large/7f9000933a432afd732" width="600" height="600"/></p> <h1> <strong>War Hammer</strong> </h1> <h3> The real war hammer began to be applied in Europe, is the thirteenth century thing. </h3> <p>The general war hammer in fact a big hammer; but the German-style is a little different, it is a sharp sickle-like hammer is the strongest weapons. Ranging from half a meter to two meters have; sharp the end of the head through the armor, and flat head can shock. Warhammer is a very strong weapon, but the disadvantage is really heavy can, can be used less people. </p> <p><img src="https://i1.kknews.cc/large/7fb00093afb0fb4e15b" width="640" height="480"/></p> <h1> <strong>Short ax and Tomahawk</strong> </h1> <h3> In the weapons used by mankind, ax and sword, is the most basic and commonly used short cold weapons. </h3> <p>But compared with the complex shape of the sword complex, ax to be simple and simpler. </p> <p><img src="https://i2.kknews.cc/large/7f9000933a5866fa095" width="640" height="477"/></p> <p> The original ax is the tool and the weapon; when the metal ax appears, it also appears on the battlefield of the soldiers and the labor of the hands of the people. </p> <p><img src="https://i1.kknews.cc/large/96d000094b5c3c569dd" width="640" height="445"/></p> <p>In the Greek era, infantry often choose ax instead of sword as a melee when the close weapons, and in the Middle Ages, the use of short ax melee warrior is only a lot. The short ax is also gradually parting with the tools of labor, into the sword and the length of the main force of the main force, which later known as the Tomahawk (Battle-ax). Even until the era of Napoleon, the signs of the engineers, but also a mighty Tomahawk: ax in addition to killing the enemy, but also often build fortifications, and even pushed to the generals at the foot of the shells of good tools.</p> <p><img src="https://i1.kknews.cc/large/7fa000935b030e393ad" width="640" height="480"/></p> <h1> <strong>Throwing Ax (Toma</strong> <strong>hawk)</strong></h1> <h3> Throwing ax from the short ax derivation, can also be used as a short ax. </h3> <p>They are often short and light, and carefully designed in the center of gravity to ensure that after the throw to the midpoint of the rotation, accurately cut into the target. Nordic barbarians and Indians love this weapon. Often carrying several. There is even a tradition of throwing an ax to race. In the dark age of the barbarians have not developed a knight before the system, put on heavy armored barbarian soldiers fighting mode is actually very like the Romans. And the Roman square array first cast the same shot, the barbarian first wave of attacks is also throwing ax; ax blade cut to the shield, it is almost to the shield to the waste, but and the gun is different, the enemy would like to Throwing the ax "back" is also very easy. </p> <p><img src="https://i1.kknews.cc/large/96d000094b461798e0d" width="640" height="439"/></p> <h1> <strong>Combat ax</strong> </h1> <h3> Wrestling ax is an alternative to short ax family. </h3> <p>Their greatest feature is the sharp front of the front, can be used to assassinate the enemy. After the 16th century, fighting the sword and the sword has always been the mainstream of melee warfare weapons. Later, the fighting arm gradually changed to the spear ax, as truncated trumpet. The wrestling ax of this period is also called short stakes (Ugoshe). </p> <p><img src="https://i2.kknews.cc/large/7fa000935afad307835" width="690" height="158"/></p> <h1> <strong>Spear Ax (Speared ax), Guardian ax (Guardian ax)</strong> </h1> <h3> Like a short halberd, spear ax is a single hand can hold the heavy weapons. </h3> <p>In addition to ferocious hacking, the sharp frontier and spearheads can also be used to push, thorn, bar, in the indoor battle is often dominated by the main weapon, especially the defenders of the party. And it is the same family of guard ax (often the spear ax also included in the guard ax) is also a heavy double-edged ax. It is particularly suitable for slipping down at high places (especially on the staircase of the castle - this staircase is first in the castle, to prevent the enemy in the case of the rush into the time to maximize the delay time and design), hence the name The <img src="https://i1.kknews.cc/large/96d000094b3f1e47016" width="640" height="241"/></p> <h1> <strong>Giant ax</strong> </h1> <h3> Simply put, is the magnified Tomahawk. </h3> <p>The more popular is the Gothic and barbarian, the former suitable for horse warfare, the latter suitable for infantry, giant ax of the blade are often particularly heavy, to increase the destructive force on the armor; giant ax every need to be forced to re-mention , So is the power of large flaws are also large weapons. In the ancient battlefield is mainly used by heavy infantry. </p> <p><img src="https://i1.kknews.cc/large/7f9000933a6a5ca8e80" width="571" height="428"/></p> <h2><strong> source :</strong></h2> <p><a href="https://kknews.cc"><strong>S-1 clic_me</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ancient_Weapons"><strong>S-2lic_me</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_weapons"><strong>S-3 clic_me</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/medieval-weapons/mike-rothschild?utm_expid=16418821-311.AAszGoDYQ7WZsue0Bhz6ww.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.tn%2F"><strong>S-4 clic_me</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://i1.kknews.cc/large/7fa000935b030e393ad"><strong>IMG-source click_me</strong></a></p> <h3><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpmX59z2UVA/Toh36DpbReI/AAAAAAAAYvs/Z1ELJUcXts0/s1600/Prisoner2.jpg" width="900" height="600"/></h3> <h3>I want to warn those who, after reading my post, will want to do metal scrapping - read the legislation of your country, in many countries such hobby is prohibited and strictly punishable by law. Ignorance of the law does not absolve you from responsibility!</h3> <h3><br></h3> <h3>thanks for visiting my blog @bassemm</h3> <h3>and don't froget to upvote and share this post :) </h3> <p><br></p> </html>