C344 Swift sword and butterfly knife (2/2)

Butterfly double-knife, also known as ”double-fork knife”, is a short knife widely spread in ancient China, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangdong and parts of Jiangxi in Hunan. Its blade is about the length of a person's forearm, so it is called a ”palm-knife”. Because of its short length, it can be easily worn inside a boot.

The width of the edge of the butterfly double knife is good for parrying and backhand knife. Only open the blade a few inches in front of the tip of the knife, which is convenient for stabbing vertically into the body.

And because it was short and short, the torque was short, and it could be easily wielded, a ”blade technique is a fist technique”, it was easy to grasp, so it had to be used in close combat to be effective, thus it could stimulate a martial artist's courage to move forward. It could also unleash the might of ”One Inch Short, One Inch Risk”. Because of this, the famous martial arts sects in South China, such as Hong Fist and Wing Chun Fist, loved to use them as their personal weapons.

Although Xiao Wen always looked down upon the traditional martial arts and thought that compared to the traditional martial arts, the comprehensive martial arts techniques that he had inherited from Bruce Lee would be much better off — in fact, in the real world, when the traditional martial arts' masters' were questioned, they would always use the traditional martial arts to flaunt the strength of the traditional martial arts, but after the fight, they would call themselves the traditional martial arts, while those who practiced the comprehensive martial arts were just a bunch of lowly people.

However, Xiao Wen still valued conventional arms fights a lot. After all, in the circle of cold weapons of the 21st century, there were many Chinese cold weapons (excluding nonsense like Blood Drops) that could be compared with those of the Western cold weapons. In particular, the power of Butterfly's Dual Blades, if used well, was much stronger than some German two-handed sword or English broadsword. Even if it was a Swift sword, if it could not hit the butterfly dual blade user during the first attack, it would still be attacked by the butterfly double blade user.

After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing army did its best to exterminate the remnants of the Taiping army. In order to survive, some remnants of the Taiping army contacted the western ”coolie traders” and sold themselves as ”contracted Chinese workers” (piggies) without any hesitation. They travelled thousands of miles to South America on the infamous ”piggy boat” to serve as laborers in order to escape the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army.

These old Taiping Army troops were located in Peru, which was rich in guinea-dung phosphate mines. Bird dung is an important strategic resource of military industry in the nineteenth century (it can be extracted from saltpeter to make explosives), and the exploitation of bird dung was an extremely lucrative industry at that time.

But it was only the local warlords, the chauffeurs, and the big landlords who made the fortune. In their eyes, the workers were nothing more than a group of slaves for them to squeeze out their labor. Therefore, the workers were subjected to extremely cruel exploitation and enslavement.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army, who were experienced in combat, were naturally different from the common slaves. They had already started to fight back, but because they lacked weapons and were too weak, they had to wait for the most advantageous moment.

The saltpeter mines on the west coast of South America do not belong only to Peru. The mineral veins extend to Chile, Bolivia and other countries. In order to fight for this precious resource, the three countries finally declared war on saltpeter.

It was time for the Chinese workers to wait. The soldiers of the old Taiping Army were quickly organized according to the old military camp. Without weapons, they said that all the iron labor tools had been melted down to make the Taiping Army soldiers' most desirable ”two blades of peace”.

Under the western style army's equipped with the advantageous weapons of telegraph and rifle, the soldiers of the Taiping Army once again demonstrated that they had conquered over half of China in a single go, almost ending the heroic ways of the national destiny of the Manchu, bravely fighting, flying up and down, slashing left and right in the hands of the Taiping Army, the ”Taiping Dual Blades” were unstoppable! The Peruvian army was annihilated.

These exhausted remnants of the Taiping Army, reborn in the Southwest Hemisphere tens of thousands of miles from their homeland, have given the world a taste of the Chinese nation's inviolable will. It also allowed the world to experience the power of the ”two blades of peace”! The Taiping dual sword became the mysterious symbol of the Chinese street in Europe and America in the early 19th century.