"Lü Bu among people, red rabbit among horses" refers to Lü Bu's martial arts in the Three Kingdoms, and no one can stop him. It's like a red rabbit in a horse. Lü Bu's strength is indeed amazing, the three famous generals Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and a generation of tyrants Liu Bei attacked him alone, Lü Bu can not fall behind, and finally calmly retreated, at that time, on the value of force alone, he may be unparalleled in the world. And Lü Bu's legendary weapon, the Fang Tian Painting Blade, made him a reaper of life on the battlefield. For example, at Tiger Prison:
The Shangdang taishou Zhang Yangbu general Mu Shun came out of the horse to meet the battle, and was stabbed by Lü Bu with a sword in his hand. The crowd was horrified. Beihai Taishou Kong Rongbu will take the state of Wu'an, so that the iron hammer will fly out of the horse. Lü Bu waved his sword to greet him. After more than ten battles, a halberd cut off An Guo's wrist, abandoned the hammer and left. The Eighth Route Army came out and saved Wu Anguo. ”
Although Lü Bu's Fang Tian Painting Blade was a long weapon, it was made as flexible as a short weapon by Lü Bu, and the head was particularly strong, and Mu Shun here was not a generalist, and was actually stabbed to death by Lü Bu's Fang Tian painting halberd; and another Wu Anguo, who made the iron hammer, also fought with Lü Bu for 10 rounds before Lü Bu's Fang Tian Painting Blade cut off a wrist. This Fang Tian painting halberd can stab and slash, it is incomparably powerful, why is there so little use of it except Lü Bu?
In history, it seems that eighty or ninety percent of the people who use the Fang Tian Painting Blade are all world-famous generals, and they are particularly fierce famous generals. In addition to Lü Bu, we know that the use of Fang Tian's painting halberd is also Xue Rengui, Fang Jie in the Water Margin, and it is said that Xiang Yu of the three armies of the late Qin Dynasty was also fang tian's painting halberd. We know that these people were basically the kings of the battlefield at that time, and they were difficult to meet opponents. For example, Xiang Yu dismounted infantry cavalry:
"He ordered all his horsemen to dismount on foot and engage them with short troops. The Han army killed hundreds of people. King Xiang's body was also wounded by more than ten times. ”
Fighting cavalry with infantry can also kill hundreds of cavalry by one person, which is also the only few strongmen in history, so there is a saying that "the king is not too good, and the general will not be Li". And Xue Rengui was also a Tang Dynasty fierce general with undue courage. In the Tang Dynasty, when Xue Rengui was in the period, other famous generals gradually grew old, so Tang Taizong especially cherished this new generation of famous generals. And Xue Rengui did not live up to the high expectations of Tang Taizong and Tang Gaozong. For example, during the conquest of the rebellion of the Nine Surnames of Tiele, the history books recorded:
"Vice Admiral Zheng Rentai was the commander-in-chief of the Tiele Road March, when the nine surnames were more than 100,000, ling Xiao rode dozens of challenges, Ren Gui sent three arrows, killed three people, so he was intimidated, and all of them fell... The song in the army said: "The general's three arrows set the Heavenly Mountain, and the strong man sang into the Han Pass." ”
In the midst of the rebellion, Xue Rengui could shoot three fierce generals of the enemy army with three arrows in a row, and it was no wonder that the enemy immediately surrendered--how can you resist such an opponent? So when we look at these characters who use fang tian's painting sword, they are basically super fierce generals in history. However, why didn't others use fang tian painting sword with such a powerful combat power? Studies have shown that Lü Bu actually doesn't like Fang Tian's paintings.
Let's first take a look at the Heavenly Painting Blade. The halberd is actually a composite weapon, which is actually the ancients combined the spear that can be stabbed and the gob that can slash and stab. The Fang Tian painting halberd is composed of a halberd head and a halberd, the halberd is usually made of wood or bamboo, and the halberd is made of metal. In ancient times, the more famous halberd had the word Bu, as the name suggests, that is, the halberd was attached to the halberd, which looked like a divination "Bu" character.
This kind of Bu Zi Ji was widely used in the Han Dynasty, and could be used by both cavalry and infantry, especially infantry equipped with Bu Zi Ji, which was particularly powerful when facing cavalry head-on, and Fang Tian's painting ji was different from other halberds, and its shape was more complex. In the middle of the Fang Tian painting halberd is the spearhead, and on both sides there are crescent-shaped blades connected to the spearhead through small branches, so that the halberd can stab, pick, hook and peck.
Of course, the fang tian painting halberd is so complicated, first of all, it increases its weight, so unlike spears and guns, the Fang tian painting halberd is a heavy weapon, which requires the user's strength to be very large, and the halberd method should be particularly flexible and exquisite, especially like Lü Bu, who can continuously see several fierce generals like an arm, that is not something that can be practiced in one day or two days, so there are very few generals in history who really use the Fang Tian painting halberd.
Although after the fang tian painting sword practice is exquisite, it can be compared with the heavy weapon axe, hammer, bone, and can be compared with spear, gun, knife, sword skill, but the long weapon is originally particularly demanding in the chaotic army fight, and the Fang Tian painting sword is so heavy Fang Tian painting sword is very troublesome to fight in the chaotic army: think of a few people blocking in front of your Fang Tian painting sword, you have to sweep away with the heavy sword and those people, it is too difficult. Therefore, in fact, Lü Bu did not like Fang Tian's painting.
Although Lü Bu records in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that he used the Fang Tian Painting Sword, zhengshi records that the spear he used was a weapon similar to Zhang Fei's. Lü Bu's spear level was even more powerful than Zhang Fei's, and at that time, Dong Zhuo saw Lü Bu's amazing combat strength and adopted him as a righteous son, and Lü Bu also used a spear to make the princes look sideways before the tiger prison pass- and finally Dong Zhuo also died at Lü Bu's spearhead:
"Zhuo is coming, the horse is shocked, and the strange fear wants to return." Lü Bu ordered the entry and entered. (Li) Su stabbed him with a sword, Zhuo wrapped in armor and fell into the car. Gu Da shouted, "Where is Lü Bu?" Bu Yue: "There is an edict against the thief..." Bu Yingsheng stabbed Zhuo with a spear, and the fun soldiers beheaded him. ”
So, why was Lü Bu's spear later replaced by Luo Guanzhong's "spear" with "Fang Tian Painting Blade"? Since Lü Bu did not like to fight with the Fang Tian Painting Blade at all, why did many novelists and dramatists, including Luo Guanzhong, later replace Lü Bu's weapon with the Fang Tian Painting Blade? In fact, Lü Bu is not entirely related to Fang Tian's painting sword, he has really played with the halberd once, which is also recorded in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms":
"Bu Ling Men waited at the camp gate to hold up a halberd, and the cloth said: "The kings look at the cloth and shoot the small branches of the halberd."
This is also the story of the Yuanmen shooting in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but we can clearly see that Lü Bu here is "waiting for the door to hold a halberd in the camp gate", indicating that he himself is not a swordsman, but a general in his army who plays with a halberd. Moreover, here Lü Bu took a branch of a halberd, what kind of halberd, Fang Tian's painting or the Green Dragon Halberd, the book does not explain. It is more likely that it is not Fang Tian's painting, because those who use Fang Tian's painting are certainly not nameless people.
Therefore, from here, Lü Bu himself did not like Fang Tian's painting sword very much, but the descendants forcibly added this anti-heaven weapon to Lü Bu's body, if Lü Bu could run to Luo Guanzhong to choose, he would definitely shout: "Please give me a spear!" ”。