Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 884 Badges
In the eyes of many people, the representative equipment of Japanese samurai is the samurai sword across their waists. This is certainly true, but it is a big mistake to simply think that those people only have samurai swords.

In fact, the most commonly used weapons by Japanese samurai on the battlefield are basically Japanese guns, high-end Nodachi swords, bows and even Vulcan guns. Japanese swords are at best spare weapons.

This is mainly due to the fact that during the Warring States period in Japan, especially in the late Warring States period, the armor rate of the army was very high, so the samurai sword, which is good at dealing with unarmored targets, naturally became a supporting role on the battlefield.

However, the situation in Southeast Asia has changed. The enemies in this area don't have much armor at all. At the same time, the dense jungle and complex terrain are not suitable for that kind of array battle, and they are more inclined to melee.

This also led to the Japanese ronin in Southeast Asia abandoning those long weapons that remained unchanged in Southeast Asia, and replaced them with short weapons such as samurai swords, and this weapon, which is longer than the traditional Cres dagger, is naturally used on the battlefield. Gained a huge advantage.

In addition to weapons, the armor carried by the Japanese at that time also had a crushing advantage.Compared with weapons, armor has a much greater effect on the ancient battlefield, and it can completely give people the strength of one enemy ten.

In addition to hiring these Japanese ronin as thugs, the mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company who came here later also hired German mercenaries. Compared with the Japanese ronin, this group of warriors equipped with plate armor is more crushing.

"I understand that these short swords are actually a kind of weapon suitable for the local situation. Although their quality is indeed good, there is no need to myth them." Jeanne waved the short sword in her hand again and said.

"But then again, what are these bends on the blade for? I know that this shape of the blade is good for cutting, but too much—"

"Ah, the question you are asking now is a very core feature of the Malacreth dagger, because for the curved sword, there are many rules in the number of curved segments, and it is not random. .

Under normal circumstances, the cres dagger is bent 3 to 13 steps, and some swords are bent as many as 29 steps.This number must be an odd number, as an even number of curved points is unlucky. "

“At the same time, in traditional Malay society, not everyone can have a krystal sword with more bends. The krystal sword with 3 bending points is worn by businessmen, and the krystal sword with 5 bending points is worn by scholars and professors. The Krys swords with 7 and 9 bending points are worn by warrior generals, the Kris swords with 11 and 13 bending points are special products for the royal family, and the Kris swords with more than 13 bending points can only be worn by extraordinary people. .The all-straight Krystal sword is available to everyone.”

"The nine swords here have at least 11 bending points, and even 17 at most. They are all the legendary royal Krystal daggers, and they are also daggers that really contain meteorite." Liang En pointed to the exquisite Dagger said.

Although it is claimed in many online stalls that this kind of short sword is made of meteoric iron, as long as you use your brain a little, you will know that the output of thousands of pieces is simply not what meteorite can provide.

Therefore, it can be said that Malay swords are all made of meteorite iron. Made of iron.

"That is to say, we have now found that this batch of daggers should be the top batch of Cres daggers." Nelson said a little excitedly, because this kind of daggers are also very famous in the West, especially the top-level daggers Always a great value.

"That's right, this is most likely a weapon captured by the Dutch during the colonial war." Liang En nodded and said. "There is a high probability that it is a spoil of war obtained from the local royal family."

After checking the boxes with weapons, Liang En and the others finally focused on the boxes with jewelry. The things they wanted to come here should be more valuable.

But the actual situation is not the case. Although there are jewelry made of gold, silver, gemstones, tortoise shell, ivory, rhinoceros horn and various aromatic plants, the historical value of these things is not high.

Because these palace jewels seem to be valuable, but from the perspective of historical research, they are not of high value. Whether it is style, workmanship or origin, they are relatively common and have little research value.

"Okay, let's look at the last box." Compared with the previous daggers, the jewels in this box obviously couldn't excite everyone, so everyone focused on the last box.

The reason why this box should be opened last is because this box is a safe, and at the same time, there are words on it that must not be opened for important supplies.

Considering that this box was just a small safe, Liang En and the others had always guessed that it might contain the most valuable items in this batch of transfers, so they opened it at the end.

However, after the safe was opened, it was a bit disappointing, because there were only two boxes, one large and one small, inside. The first thing that was opened was a small box, which contained two badges, one large and one small, and a gold chain.

The appearance of these two badges is a knight on a horse wielding a sword, and there is a green dragon under his feet. Diamonds and rubies.

There is no doubt that this badge tells the story of St. George slaying the dragon. Both of them adopt the method of three-dimensional carving, which means that the badge is double-sided.Both sides are inlaid with the same gemstones.

"Honi soit qui mal y pense." Liang En read out the words on the outer circle of the badge. This sentence meant that those with evil thoughts should feel ashamed. At the same time, this sentence made Liang En understand what this thing is.

"It's actually the badge of the Knights of the Garter, and it was custom-made by a wealthy knight around 1690." Liang En murmured softly.

The Knights of the Garter is actually a transliteration, if the meaning is over, it is the Knights of the Garter, established by King Edward III in 1347.

At the earliest time, King Edward III decided to hold a round table fight at Windsor Castle, and then set up a "Knights of the Round Table", but then something happened that changed his mind.

It goes something like this: In 1347 Edward III went to Calais to attend a banquet at which Edward III invited the Countess of Salisbury to dance.

However, at the ball, the Countess took off the garter belt, and everyone snickered. Edward hated the reaction of those knights and ladies and said the motto of the Knights, and then picked up the garter and put it on his lap.

Perhaps this incident made him realize that there are not many people with knight qualities, so he revised the Knights of the Round Table from the original plan of 300 people to the Knights of the Garter with only 26 people.

Of course, this is only an unreliable statement. The more serious statement is that the blue and gold on the medal allude to Edward III's claim to the French throne, and the motto also alludes to this.

The first batch of knights of the Garter Knights included 26 elite knights, most of whom participated in the Battle of Crecy, where the French were hanged, and this knight order has been passed down to this day.

(End of this chapter)