Yesterday, Hanhai Wolf Mountain and Xiongnu Wolf Mountain said that before Prince Dan sent Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin, he had used a hundred gold to buy the famous Lady Xu dagger, and after buying it back, he specially found a craftsman to quench the poison operation on this originally quite sharp dagger. This poison quenching process operation should be to use a highly toxic potion to further quench the dagger and other special processes, of course, I am not sure that the dagger will be heat treated and then quenched. If the dagger is not hot processed and directly used cold treatment such as soaking or smearing to make the dagger poisonous, then this process may have been lost. Because it is difficult to make the dagger poisonous without heating, it is difficult to maintain the toxicity for a long time. It has been said that some kind of three-sided bayonet is naturally poisonous, but this is actually a certain misunderstanding in it. Wolf Mountain had really seen people stabbed by the three-sided bayonet in the past, and it was true that the wound was repeatedly inflamed and did not heal for a long time, so he suspected that the three-sided bayonet was poisonous. Of course the man who was stabbed by this bayonet,
It's because of accidents. It wasn't really a cold weapon on the battlefield that was seriously injured, and the wound wasn't very deep. In fact, the wound does not heal for a long time because the wound caused by the three-sided bayonet itself is not easy to heal. Triangular wounds do not conform to the general law of regrowth repair of muscle cells; moreover, bayonet wounds are deeper than ordinary wounds even if they are mild, and it is normal that they will become inflamed repeatedly if they are not handled well. Therefore, this kind of bayonet wound generally needs to be professionally handled and sutured by a special surgeon, and it is easy for the average person to deal with it himself. It is not that the three-sided bayonet was manufactured through the so-called poisoning process. If it must be said that the three-sided bayonet is toxic, then it is only in order to prevent rust when manufacturing, a certain phosphating treatment has been carried out. The phosphating of the metal surface does have some toxicity to organisms, but it is very slight. The main reason why wounds don't heal easily is not this slight toxicity that can be largely ignored. Then the three-sided bayonet is not very toxic.
Is it also possible to deny other historical poisoning of cold weapons? In fact, the history of adding poison to weapons may be more than 10,000 years, and the earliest may not be used for war, but to enhance the effect of hunting. After all, in prehistoric civilizations, all kinds of large prey and even beasts were everywhere, and human physical strength was relatively weak compared to the jackals and beasts at that time. Even if humans hit their prey with a spear dart or bow and arrow. Nor will these prey easily and immediately lose the ability to escape. Immediately fall to the ground and let the ancients cut the meat at will. If the prey is hit by a cold weapon and then escapes as usual, of course, this is a high probability event. Not only did the extremely physically demanding hunt fail. And it will take away extremely valuable weapons from its prey. It should be known that hunting weapons were also the most important means of production for the ancients at that time. It is not easy to make, and the quantity is very small. If half of the weapons were taken away by injured prey on every hunt, then no ancient hunter could stand it. So the smarter hunters,
According to the characteristics that some venomous snakes bite people can cause paralysis and incapacitation; even other animals, such as poisonous frogs, secrete venom that paralyze the effect faster than the venom of venomous snakes, and soon invent special hunting weapons such as poisonous arrows, cold weapons that smear such venom, as long as they hit the body of the prey, even if they do not hit the vital parts, as long as the arrow pierces the skin and the animal's blood contact, you can achieve severe paralysis of the prey in a few minutes. In this way, the animal that was hit fell down before it could run far. This paralyzed prey meat was still edible, greatly increasing the efficiency of ancient hunting. In addition to animal venom such as poisonous frogs, it is said that the sap of some plants also has this highly effective paralytic effect. It can also be used to smear cold weapons, so there is a legend of seeing blood and sealing the throat. However, if you pay attention, you will find that both poisonous frogs and poisonous trees are basically produced in the tropics. In temperate and cold zones, in ancient times, there were very few such animals and plants that increased the lethality of cold weapons.
So it can be considered that the ancients in the Wen Dynasty and the cold zone did not have artificial toxic measures on cold weapons? Nor is it. The ancients found out early on that if the tip or blade part of the cold weapon was very dirty, once it hit the human body, the subsequent damage would be greatly increased. Hence the practice of applying dirt to the tip and blade of a knife. In fact, modern research has shown that if there is a large amount of rust on the tip and blade of the gun, then the subsequent damage is stronger than the application of biological poison and dirt, because the cold weapon with rust will increase the probability of tetanus by hundreds of times compared with the cold weapon that is completely polished. In fact, most of the knife and gun injuries in ancient times were fatal until the "arrow wound cracked", which was basically caused by tetanus. Therefore, if you are accidentally injured by a rusty nail, you must immediately break the cold needle.