Influenced by works of art, we always think of the image of a golden cavalry with a mace. After all, there is gold and a hammer, Song Tianling said.

Everyone is puzzled. The cavalry in the state of Jin has a terrible mace as a weapon. Why is Song Jun not equipped?

In fact, we have been led into a misunderstanding by artworks. In fact, Song Jun is also equipped with mace, a blunt instrument, but the artworks are not specified.

What is the weapon history of mace?

The development history of mace and other weapons can be traced back to the North during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, northern nomads such as Xiongnu and Donghu in the north used to use blunt objects such as Tribulus terrestris and Gu Duo, mainly because the blunt objects were simple to make.

However, this weapon can't be compared with the sword in the battlefield strike effect. If this weapon wants to achieve the lethality of holding a sword on the battlefield, it needs to cooperate with cavalry, who will smash it under the rapid impact and cause certain lethality.

Not only that, the soldiers in the Central Plains also have weapons similar to maces. At that time, people called this weapon "Shu". This weapon is similar to mace in appearance and strike action, and it also causes fatal damage to the enemy by striking.

Later, after the evolution of battlefield weapons and technological innovation, a variety of hand-held weapons appeared, and hammers were also improved into jujube-shaped blunt objects, and some of them had some protrusions on their surfaces, which were called Yu Wang or Spike.

This weapon is similar in shape to a mace, except that it has a spear point at the top.

By the time of the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, it can be said that it was a period of war, and frequent wars led many troops to simplify the process of making weapons. After all, time was tight in wartime, and the spike gradually became a mace.

Why do nomads from the army like to use mace instead of Song Jun?

After understanding the development process of mace weapon, it is not difficult to find that mace is loved by Jinbing mainly because of its simple manufacturing process and good lethality with cavalry.

Compared with the nomads from Song Jun, it has advanced weapons manufacturing technology, but the cavalry was seriously injured, and the Song military mace could not reach the combat effectiveness of the nomads from Song, so the mace has not been widely used in the Song army.

Although Song Jun seldom used mace as a blunt instrument, Song Jun also had a way to deal with the combined mode of mace of nomads from the army, that is, the infantry used a long-handled axe as a weapon.

Compared with mace, the advantages of long-handled axe are obvious. The long-handled axe can not only be used as a blunt weapon to defeat the enemy wearing heavy armor, but also can be used to cut off the limbs of the nomads from the army, so that the cavalry of the nomads from the army cannot give full play to their advantages.

Not only that, long-handled axe and mace also have unique advantages. Without the advantage of cavalry hitting at high speed, mace can only hit with strong arm strength, which takes several seconds. The long-handled axe is extremely sharp, and it only takes two seconds to cause a fatal blow to the enemy. Besides, Song Jun has a gun, which is the weapon of the king of hundreds of soldiers.

Since Mace was so miserable, why did Song Jun lose many wars?

Although Song Jun has won and lost in front of the nomads from the army, people used to think that Song Jun was already in a state of defeat.

We should know that the battle between the two armies is not only to compare the strength of weapons, but also to compare many factors such as non-commissioned officers, generals, strategy, weather and geography.

The Song Dynasty has always emphasized literature over martial arts, deliberately weakening the power of military commanders, which led to the emphasis on literature in the Song Dynasty, thus resulting in the low overall combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty. In addition, military commanders who command troops to fight against the enemy are often suppressed by civilian officials, who are only familiar with the art of war in theory and their strategies are only on paper.

Nomads from the army and Song Jun often fight in the wild, which is good for the nomads from the army and bad for Song Jun. If you attack the city, the nomads from the army may not have such a big advantage.

There are also many factors intertwined, such as internal corruption, which made the Song Dynasty lose to the Jin Army and made us mistakenly think that the Jin Army mace combination became invincible.

Mace in Song Jun's eyes is just a weapon that has been eliminated and used in a small scale. Song Jun's defeat to Nomads from the Golden Army was not based on weapons and physique, but on valuing literature over martial arts and internal corruption.