From Li Yuanba in the Tang Dynasty holding an 800-pound double hammer, all the way to the four fierce eight sledgehammers in Yue Zhong, the first golden hammer will be Yue Yun (drum urn golden hammer), the second silver hammer will be He Yuanqing (eight-sided plum blossom bright silver hammer), the third copper hammer will be Fu Tianliang (bronze melon hammer), and the fourth iron hammer will be Di Lei (Bagua hammer).
In China's novels, there are many generals who hold hundreds of pounds, or even 800 pounds of double hammers. However, our country knows that in the excavated cultural relics, the iron hammers and copper hammers found are actually very small, and the absolute weight is not large. And the short double hammers could not carry out cavalry warfare at all.
However, our country found that in the Tang Dynasty and song dynasty there were indeed many soldiers who used heavy battle axes. The basic tactic of the Song army against the Jin army was first to block the crossbow from a long distance, and then the spear array to cover the heavy axe hand for close combat. Because, the forwards of the Golden Army, known as the hard army, all hold long guns and all are armored.
When the Jin army and the Song army used long guns to fight each other, the Song army long guns were mainly defensive and could cover, and the heavy axe troops directly rushed up to split the iron cans of the Jin army.
According to records, the real use of iron hammers is actually the Jin Dynasty, Western Xia, Liao Dynasty and other dynasties, this kind of iron hammer is also called bone flower. The Song Dynasty recorded at that time: "The garlic skull is headed by iron ruomu, and its head shape is not often made, or like tribulus, or like garlic head, which is commonly called at will." ”
In the Jin Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty, the Western Xia, including in the Northern Song Dynasty, these hammers were actually weapons used by the Janissaries, not battlefield weapons. Basically, they are two-handed single-rod hammers, and the main shape is the melon hammer. It is a melee weapon, mainly used by guards.
In fact, the real Yue Yun did not use a hammer, but a spear. History of song? Yue Fei chuan appendage yun biography recorded: cloud, flying adopted son. In the twelfth year, the military called "winning officials". Flying conquest, not without failing, counting qigong, flying and hiding. In each battle, with two iron vertebrae in his hand and weighing eighty pounds, the first armies entered the city. Captured Suizhou, and then attacked Dengzhou, Xiang Hanping, Gong in the first, Yingchang War, no worries about ten numbers, in and out of the line, the body was wounded by more than a hundred wounds, and the armor was red. He moved to the defense of Chungju with merit, and died at the age of twenty-three.
The iron cone gun is also called the wheat ear gun, and the top can both stab and hit like a wheat ear, so the Song Dynasty cavalry often uses such a striking weapon when it is really fought. In the Northern Song Dynasty generals also have the tradition of using iron whips and iron janes, in addition to the use of Song Dynasty cavalry flails is also a lot, the ability to break the armor of the short saber seems to be insufficient, so the Song Dynasty cavalry mostly uses striking weapons as the use of short soldiers. The generals who really use the hammer are almost non-existent.