In addition to the most popular simple knives, there are also relatively normal spears and large knives.
In addition, there are some relatively unpopular wolf's tooth sticks, steel whips, hook and sickle guns, Zen staffs and the like.
But there are also some more bizarre weapons, which are only strange to you, and there is no character in them that cannot be used.
Let's take stock today, the strange weapons that have appeared in the Water Margin, and see how powerful they are?
1. The big chain of fire-eyed fox Deng Fei
Although Deng Fei is not the protagonist in water margin, his role is relatively not small, and he can leave a distinct impression.
That is, Deng Fei can be called a good teammate of the Water Margin, as long as other good men are defeated and killed, Deng Fei will not hesitate to rush up to save people.
In the end, he was even killed by Shi Bao in order to rescue Suo Chao.
"When Deng Fei rushed to the rescue, Shi Baoma arrived, Deng Fei was caught off guard, and he was stabbed by Shi Bao and cut into two pieces."
In fact, it can be said that although the good man of Liangshan fell, there was no one who Deng Fei could not help, unless Deng Fei was also knocked down.
However, compared with Deng Fei's good at helping people, Deng Fei's weapons are also quite eye-catching in the book, and his weapons are a large iron chain.
"The surname Deng, the name Fei; for his eyes are red, and the people in the rivers and lakes have called him to be a fire-eyed sniper, and they can make an iron chain, and everyone can't get close to him."
According to this, it can be seen that Deng Fei's martial arts are high or low, at least he is very skilled in the use of weapon chains, and he is not afraid of anyone when he fights alone.
Moreover, Deng Fei also had the record of holding chains in battle, although he was not as superhuman as the Five Tiger Generals, but at least he could see it.
But the key is what kind of weapon is his chain?
Is it a large iron chain in the literal sense, or a hard weapon like a steel whip and a copper hammer? This is actually still controversial.
Because looking at Deng Fei's description of using iron chains, it is basically a scene of "dancing iron chains", which should be a soft weapon like a chain.
At the beginning of the Water Margin, when Wang Jin taught Shi Jin martial arts, there was also a "chain" in the eighteen weapons set in the book.
"Shi Jin's eighteen martial arts—spears, hammers, bows, crossbows, hammers, whips, janes, swords, chains, axes, axes, halberds, cards, sticks and guns, pickpockets, one by one, are well learned."
The chain is juxtaposed with whips, hammers, and swords, which can be seen that they should be hard weapons like Huyan's double whips, rather than soft weapons in the literal sense.
Later, when Wen Lu Zhishen went to assassinate He Taishou of Huazhou, the guards and attendants around He Taishou also had the weapon of "iron chain" in their hands.
And it is also juxtaposed with whips and hammers.
"There are ten yu waiting in clusters each, each holding a whip and chain, guarding twice."
It does seem like a hard weapon to look at in this way.
However, because Deng Fei is not the main character, there is rarely any ink on Deng Fei in the embroidered version of Water Margin published in the Ming Dynasty.
I only found an illustration of Deng Fei painted by the painter Du Yan in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, during the Chenghua period.
And it happens that there is a depiction of his weapon "Chain".
According to the illustration, Deng Fei's iron chain is neither a pure hard weapon nor a soft weapon such as a pure chain, but a strange product of the combination of the two.
The weapon should be flanked by a wooden or iron rod, with a longer chain in the middle of the weapon, a combination of weapons somewhat similar to a two-knuckle stick.
It's just a lot longer than lengthening the chains.
Perhaps Deng Fei was wielding this chain, and then attacking with two wooden or iron rods, so that he could attack and defend from a distance.
It's a great way to use it well.
In the same way, there is also the copper chain used by Wu, which should be similar in style to Deng Fei's iron chain, but the casting material is different.
Through the description of Wu Using to dissuade Lei Heng and Liu Tang, and Wu Yong to carry the copper chain, it can be seen that the copper chain used by Wu should be a soft weapon.
"Wu used the sleeve to put a copper chain."
And unlike Deng Fei, Wu Yong has two copper chains, which should be one sleeve, and the weight is definitely not as good as Deng Fei's.
It can be seen that his copper chain is not very heavy, and the length should not be long, which is more suitable for swinging up for self-defense.
2. The shovel of the nine-tailed turtle Tao Zongwang
Compared with the strangeness of Deng Fei's chain, the shovel of the nine-tailed turtle Tao Zongwang is obviously more eye-catching than the chain.
If you talk about Tao Zongwang in the Water Margin, I believe that many readers do not have much impression on him, because he is really a dragon runner.
There are very few scenes in the Water Margin, and the only points that readers can remember are two:
First, his peasant origins; second, his shovel weapons.
In addition, it is almost a transparent person's existence, and you don't know what kind of soy sauce he hit on Liangshan without thinking about it carefully.
"The surname Tao, the name Zongwang, the ancestor is a Gwangju people,the Zhuang family is from the tianhu family, can make a shovel; some are strength; they can also make a wheel knife."
The reason why Tao Zongwang positioned the weapon as a shovel was because he was originally from a farmer's family, and he usually cultivated the land without relying on the shovel.
So the only thing he could access and use skilled "weapons" was a shovel.
However, the back also said that he can make a knife, it seems that it should also be amateur level, and he certainly did not take a shovel to the battlefield.
As for how Tao Zongwang changed from a farmer to a good man and a good man, the book did not add relevant details, and 80% of them were forced to go to Liangshan because they could not pay the rent.
Tao Zongwang's experience should be the most able to bring resistance to justice in Liangshan.
Therefore, when Tao Zongwang mixed the rivers and lakes, the official weapon was always positioned as a shovel, and it may even be that when Tao Zongwang decided to resist, he took the most convenient shovel he used to resist rent.
Then he was forced to live in the Huangmen Mountains.
After that, Tao Zongwang jumped to Liangshan again, because Tao Zongwang's martial arts were really not enough to see, although his weapons were strange enough, but basically he was not taken down the mountain by Song Jiang.
His basic chances of a shovel coming into battle are zero.
However, his shovels were not completely absent, and Tao Zongwang was responsible for digging ditches and digging canals and building roads in Liangshan, making outstanding contributions to the infrastructure of Liangshan.
After that, Tao Zongwang appeared in the sequence against Hu Yanzhuo, and also appeared in the Nine Palace Bagua Formation to support the Chinese army, and also showed his face during the conquest of Liao.
But it is a great pity that he did not play with a shovel, and I don't know who can be lucky enough to be photographed by him with a shovel.
Speaking of which, I have to talk about the plot in my memory about Tao Zongwang's battle.
I remember reading a hundred times the original work of the Water Margin, I don't know whether it was Hu Yanzhuo or Tong Guan, Tao Zongwang hid in a cellar with a shovel, and suddenly rushed out when the enemy army was defeated, and shot the enemy general down or killed.
But after reading many versions, I couldn't find the existence of this plot, but I was sure that I had really seen it, and it was the original book of the Hundred Times.
Finally, the shape of the Taozongwang shovel is not much different from the current shovel, but it is also slightly different, somewhat similar to the Luoyang shovel.
For details, you can see the embroidered image of Tao Zongwang painted by Du Wei below.
3. The gilded copper bricks of the Demon King Zheng Biao
The Demon King Zheng Biao was not a good man of Liangshan, but a warrior under Jiangnan La, and a low-level magician similar to Fan Rui, and an apprentice of the Great Mage Bao Daoyi.
Zheng Biao was equipped with a more bizarre weapon, gilded copper bricks.
However, this is not his main weapon, his main weapon is a conventional long gun, and the copper brick is only his auxiliary weapon.
To put it bluntly, it is used to take advantage of people's lack of preparation for sneak attacks.
The use of techniques and effects is similar to Zhang Qing's flying stone and Shi Bao's meteor hammer, which are not comparable to your seriousness for a few rounds, turn around and deceive you to chase after it, and then turn around and smash a brick in your face.
For example, when Song Jiang led his troops to attack Qingxi County, the short-footed tiger Wang Ying and yizhang Qinghu Sanniang went out to patrol the sentry, and they just collided with Zheng Biao's reinforcements.
An encounter is inevitable.
Wang Xiaohu took the lead in moving with Zheng Biao, and the two of them fought for less than ten rounds, and Zheng Biao used his magic to conjure up a black gas above his head, and a golden armor god general emerged from the black gas.
Wang Xiaohu, who had seen such a scene, was frightened by the apparition of the divine general and was overwhelmed, and he was stabbed off his horse by Zheng Biao.
This makes the third lady unhappy, your boy sneaked up on my husband jun and returned it, and he took the double knife to take revenge.
As a result, Zheng Biao confronted her for a round, and then he slapped his horse and turned around and slipped away, according to the third lady of the hu, he should be on guard, and as a result, he lost his mind in revenge.
When the shooter chased after the horse, he was caught:
"Zheng Mojun stopped the iron gun, stretched his hands to the jin bag next to him, felt out a gilded copper brick, turned back, and looked at the only brick on the green-faced door of Yizhang, knocking down his horse and dying."
Therefore, the requirements for the use of brick throwing technology are very simple, with strength and accurate head, there is no strength and can not get copper bricks.
Bricks are not as easy to hold as the meteor hammer, nor are they as good as the meteor hammer, which actually has an element of luck.
It's just a little more spoofed that if Zheng Biao really took a gold brick, the result would have been a copper brick, and he would have to plate the card with a layer of gold.
This is not only a strange weapon, people are also strange enough, Zheng Biao's appearance is completely a show operation, magic and sneak attack at the same time, but also really caused trouble to many good men in Liangshan.
In fact, his weapon is still easy to make people, reminiscent of Guangchengzi's heavenly seal in "The Evolution of the Fengshen God", and it is also smashed down to make people overwhelmed.
And like the gold bricks, it must be smashed on the front door to be effective, because the head is the most vulnerable place, and if it hits the body and legs, the effect is not great.
For the warriors wearing armor, the gold brick smashing on the body is definitely not as powerful as the meteor hammer, after all, the size of the gold brick is really small.
(A word of family, seek common ground while reserving differences, thank you for reading)