During the Three Kingdoms period, was the weapon used by Lü Bu really fang tian painting halberd? Stop being fooled by TV dramas
Friends who have watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" must have been deeply impressed by Lü Bu, who was invincible, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Eighteenth Route Princes gathered in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, Lü Bu single-handedly stepped forward, successively killed countless allied generals, the majesty was magnificent, and finally Liu Guanzhang's three brothers went together, and the extremely disgraceful "group beating" was not easy to win Lü Bu. The reason why Lü Bu was able to shine was that he was able to shine with a Fang Tian Painting Blade in his hand and the red rabbit BMW under his crotch, which was invincible. However, in fact, the Fang Tian Painting Blade appeared in the Song Dynasty, and Lü Bu in the Three Kingdoms period could not use the Fang Tian Painting Blade, so what kind of blade was used in his hand?
Although it was impossible for Lü Bu to use Fang Tian to draw a halberd, he was definitely using a halberd-type weapon, and Shi Youmingwen was clear. In the sixteenth episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Yuan Shu sent the general Ji Ling to attack Liu Bei, who was stationed in Xiao Pei, and Liu Bei's soldiers were unable to resist, so he hurried to ask Lü Bu for help. Lü Bu did not want to hurt his peace with Yuan Shu, but he could not save Liu Bei, so he called Liu Guanzhang and Ji Ling into the camp together, and ordered the soldiers to insert their halberds outside the yuanmen, indicating that if he could shoot an arrow at the yuanmen, the two families would strike. Only to see Lü Bu Zhang's bow and arrow, the arrow came out like a shooting star, and sure enough, it was right in the middle of the small branch, Ji Ling and Liu Bei were all stunned, quite amazed.
And this section is also recorded in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which shows that the blade used by Lü Bu is indeed a halberd, but since it is not a Fang Tian painting halberd, then what halberd did Lü Bu use? It has a long history among the ancient cold weapons of the mainland, and is called a sentence soldier together with Ge. And Ge is naturally a long history, the so-called "Jinge Iron Horse", it can be seen that Ge has long been a standard weapon in the military, and Ge and halberd shape is quite similar, Ge is a two-sided blade, and the halberd is extended above a halberd tip, next to a blade, the shape is quite similar to the Chinese character "Bu", so this kind of halberd is also called bu zi ji, and later derived from the Ya zi ji, the shape of the Ya zi ji believes that you can imagine.
Until the Eastern Han Dynasty, the halberd basically belonged to these two shapes. Therefore, when Lü Bu crossed the world, what he was holding in his hand was not a Fang Tian Painting Blade that opened widely, but an iron halberd. Fang Tian painting halberd and other various shapes are different, the majestic halberd was basically born in the Song Dynasty, the left and right sides of the halberd in this period extended out of the crescent-shaped blade, which looks imposing, but in fact, it increases the weight, and the use of the Fangtian painting halberd requires superb skills and strong strength, so it is not suitable for ordinary soldiers, so it is not included in the standard weapon, mainly used as a ceremonial instrument.
Although Lü Bu did not use the Heavenly Painting Blade above, with the iron halberd in his hand, he was still invincible all over the world. Correspondingly, the Three Kingdoms period can be described as a period of brilliant halberd weapons, in this period in addition to Lü Bu, there are not a few famous generals who use halberds, such as Donglai Taishi Ci, who have two short halberds inserted behind them, and are mighty. Although Cao Cao wore the Heavenly Sword around his waist, it was actually just used for decoration, and one of the weapons commonly used by Cao Cao was the Gehu Euphorbia. As for Dianwei, who guarded Cao Cao, he was holding a pair of iron halberds in his hands, known as "there is a dianjun under the general's account, and a pair of iron halberds is eighty pounds."
Dianwei relied on a pair of iron halberds, and in the Battle of Wancheng caused by Zhang Xiu's rebellion, he fought left and right with a double halberd, desperately defending Cao Cao out of the siege, which showed his bravery. In addition to the iron halberd, Dianwei is also good at using another kind of halberd, the hand halberd. In order to retake Puyang, Cao Cao led his army to fight with Lü Bu, and the Cao army next to him shouted loudly to Dianwei: The enemy army is coming! Dianwei was not allowed to send it, and without saying a word, he took out the handshake around his waist and threw it out, and all those in the middle fell to the ground. Since the Three Kingdoms period, the halberd has never been so brilliant.