There is a popular plot in "Say Yue", yue family army in Zhuxian Town and Jin Guoda showdown, killing the Jin Wushu army and defeating the army, of which the four brave generals who played an important role were Yue Yun, Yan Chengfang, Di Lei, and He Yuanqing.
The hammer is a very powerful weapon in traditional novels, and the sledgehammer is generally used by extremely powerful brave generals. For example, in "Speaking of Tang", the sui and Tang eighteen good men ranked first, Li Yuanba, the king of Zhao in Xifu, held a pair of drum urns and golden hammers in his hands, weighing eight hundred pounds, and the gods blocked the killing of the gods and Buddhas from being invincible. In the end, there is really no way, the author let God solve this BUG-level character who seriously hinders the development of the plot.
This is too outrageous for an eight-hundred-pound sledgehammer, and anyone with a little common sense can see that this is an exaggeration, an artistic need. The eight sledgehammers in "Talking about Yue" are much more realistic than in "Talking about Tang".
Yue Yun had a pair of bright silver hammers in his hand, and at first he only weighed thirty-six pounds when he was built, because he was thirteen years old, and his family was afraid that he would not be able to move. Under Yue Yun's repeated insistence, he gained weight to a terrifying eighty-two pounds.
This number must be very familiar to everyone, this is the weight of the Three Kingdoms Guan Second Master Green Dragon Crescent Knife. Obviously, the young and vigorous Yue Yun was going to the standard of a martial saint.
Some people may think that this may also be obscene, where can a thirteen-year-old child get a sledgehammer of more than eighty pounds.
The ranking official Hugh should suspect that "Saying Yue" is really not obscene in the weight of Yue Yun's sledgehammer, but has a strict provenance.
According to the History of song, 124 Yue Fei's biography, "(Yue) Yun, (Yue) Fei adopted son." In the twelfth year, from Zhang Xianzhan, he gained more strength, and the army called "winning officials". In each battle, two iron vertebrae are held in the hand, weighing eighty pounds. "Regardless of age or weapon, it is consistent with "Say Yue".
So is this account reliable?
After the fifth dynasty to the Song and Yuan dynasties, the hammer was once the main weapon of close-range combat on the battlefield, and it gradually withdrew from the mainstream weapon after the Ming Dynasty. The hammers used by Yue Yun and the other warriors in "Say Yue" are all within the range of short-handled double hammers. There are eight-sided hammers, golden melon hammers, thunder hammers, sleeping melon hammers and other types of hammers, and the common feature is that the weight is large, and the tricks are mostly hard to smash the hard frame. Those who use a double hammer need to have great strength.
Extrapolating from common sense, lifting forty pounds of something with one arm is not a difficult task for Hercules. The Seventeenth Biography of the Duke of Wei records that the Xinling Emperor Wei Wujie seized the military power of the general Jin Wei and had the butcher Zhu Hai kill Jin with a forty-pound hammer. During the Warring States period, the weights and measures of various countries were different, and if we extrapolate according to the Qin system, forty kilograms is about twenty pounds now, which is consistent with our daily life experience.
But carrying an eighty-pound sledgehammer in both hands and still being able to fight continuously is incredible.
In "Water Margin", Lu Zhishen wanted to hit a hundred-pound water mill Zen staff, and the blacksmith said that even if it was Guan Wangye's large knife, it was only more than eighty pounds. The two sides continued to bargain, and finally weighed sixty-two pounds. With Lu Zhishen's divine power to stroke the weeping willows, his hands were in unison, and he only used more than sixty pounds of weapons.
However, "Water Margin" is also exaggerated, which can be inferred from the details of some martial artists. The double whip Hu Yanzhao defeated Liangshan and fought a big battle with Lu Zhishen on the ground in Qingzhou, playing forty or fifty rounds without winning or losing. Hu Yanzhuo's double iron whip was short and light, even if the skill was high, when it encountered sixty-two pounds of iron Zen battle, it would definitely collapse in an instant. But the two finally drew, there was no scene of heavy weapons crashing into light weapons, then there was only one truth, Lu Zhishen's Zen staff was definitely not so heavy.
After all, manpower is sometimes poor, even if the weight is the core standard of the sledgehammer, but also to take into account the needs of combat, in order to ensure that the warrior can continue to fight, must be reduced to normal weight.
Yue Yun's so-called eighty-pound sledgehammer is most likely also rumored by posterity.
Because of the limitations recorded in the "History of Song", Yue Yun did not dare to blow like "Speaking of Tang". But the other characters in the book, especially the fictional warriors, accidentally surpass the limits of humanity, giving the warriors brute force like bears.
For example, Jin Guo's second son, Wanyan Jin Marbles, is also a super Hercules who makes double hammers. He defeated Niu Gao with four hammers, Yu Hualong with ten hammers, Dong Xian with eight hammers, and He Yuanqing, who also used a hammer, in the twenty-fold battle. Even Zhang Xian, the top master under Yue Fei, was defeated by the golden marbles hammer for forty rounds.
In the end, the ultimate master Yue Yun appeared, silver hammer against iron hammer, the battle was eighty rounds, Yue Yun, who had never lost his hand, could not resist. Fortunately, Yue Yun had the aura of the protagonist, and Niu Gao, who was skimming the line next to him, shouted a voice to cause the golden marbles to be distracted, and Yue Yun took advantage of the chaos to kill the golden marbles.
The hammer of the golden marbles is unknown in its weight. But the secret of the sledgehammer's victory is to see who weighs the hammer, and the hammer that wants to come to the golden marbles must be even more terrifying than Yue Yun's.
In the second half of "Speaking of Yue", Yue Lei held high the banner of the Northern Expedition and took Yue Fei's unfulfilled wish to directly pound the Yellow Dragon. Because the plot has fully embarked on the path of fiction and obscenity, the warriors have also begun to become all kinds of absurd and bizarre, such as a great general of the Jin Army who has amazing divine power: Sticky Force.
This man used a pair of purple and gold hammers and weighed a staggering one hundred and twenty pounds. Yue Lei's four generals besieged him and could not take him down, Niu Gao appeared again, double hammer battle double hammer, he was still able to walk four rounds under the golden marbles, in the next round of one hundred and twenty pounds of purple and gold hammers fell into the wilderness and fled, using facts to explain the truth that the hammer is heavier and stronger.
This barbarian warrior who opened the hanging set a record of being undefeated in a dozen. But the righteous side still has to win in the end, and the plot needs to be sticky and must die. He was finally besieged by five famous generals in the Yue camp. These five people are Guan Ling, Di Lei, Fan Cheng, Yan Chengfang, Lu Wenlong, including two of the eight sledgehammers in Zhu Xian town, Lu Wenlong is a top good man who dares to fight a wheel war, and although the stickiness is amazing, he encounters these unreasonable fierce generals and is finally hammered and shot KO.
From this siege battle, we can also see the shortcomings of the sledgehammer. Sticky force first fought Guan Ling and Di Lei, Guan Ling made the green dragon knife, Di Lei used a hammer, both of them are power type play, and the result is that sticky force, which is known for its strength, is not afraid.
The third person to join the battle group was Lu Wenlong, who used a gun, not only powerful, but also had excellent marksmanship skills. His strength was certainly not as strong as the stickiness, but the first shot he stabbed the sticky force flashed, and used his skill to break the sticky clumsy and undefended life gate. Yan Chengfang and Lu Wenlong joined forces to immediately bite this point to expand their advantage, and finally forced the sticky force to fight more and more chaotically, losing the square inch, which was killed.
Although the weight of Yue Yun's hammer is not real enough, in the end, the martial arts of "Say Yue" is still controlled within the range that human beings can understand, and the description of hammer weapons basically follows the laws of human mechanics, and basically writes out the advantages and shortcomings of hammer weapons.