Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After receiving the gun, while Mr. Adam was helping with the registration procedures, Liang En carefully looked at the other items in the RV. Soon, he was attracted by something in the RV.

"Is this thing for sale?" Liang En asked, pointing to a wooden box on the shelf, and in the wooden box was quietly placed a very beautiful knight's sword.

This is a knight's sword currently in production, and the overall decoration looks a bit plain and simple. But after careful observation, Liang En found that the scabbard and hilt were covered with real leather. At the same time, after pulling out the sword, he found that the sword felt very good.

Obviously, this sword is not a fake, but a knight's sword that can be used in actual combat. Considering his status as a historical follower, it is always a good thing to prepare something in advance.

Although Liang En doesn't know when his historical follower Joan of Arc will appear by his side, it is obviously better to prepare in advance than to improvise.

"You really know your stuff." After seeing Liang En choose the sword, Mr. Adam registered what he had and walked over with a cane and said.

"This is an English-French Hundred Years War-style knight's sword made by an American knife master. Although new materials are used for practical effects, the style is completely based on the knight's sword of that era -"

After getting permission, Liang En took the sword out and waved it to make sure it felt good. He found that the sword was a little short for him who was 1.82 meters tall.

However, considering that the person Liang En ordered to use this sword is even less than 1m6 tall, a knight's sword of this length is just right.

"I feel like this sword is a little short." After putting the sword in his hand into the scabbard, Liang En said to Mr. Adam who was standing at the door looking at him. "It doesn't seem to suit me very well."

"You are right, because this sword is completely modeled after the knight's sword during the Hundred Years War." Adam nodded and said. "Compared to the height of modern people, the average height of people in that era was even less than 1.7 meters."

After a brief chat, Liang En spent money to buy the knight sword. Unexpectedly, the price of the sword was higher than that of the two pistols. He spent 2,100 euros to get the sword.

The reason for this situation is also very simple. On the one hand, this is a hand-made handicraft, not a mass-produced industrial product, so it is naturally sold at the price of an artwork.

On the other hand, the person who made this sword is a master certified by the American Swordsmiths Association, so the addition of a well-known craftsman has greatly increased the value of this sword.

According to Mr. Adam, in addition to being practical, this sword also has a high collection value. After you take it home, you can keep it well and hide it to wait for the value to increase.

Since you need to apply one day in advance before carrying a firearm on a plane, Liang En simply borrowed Mr. Adam's equipment to prepare for cleaning the silver-plated copper box he had received earlier.

After sitting in front of the counter and cleaning the rust at the connection between the box lid and the box body, Liang En used a small piece of bamboo to pry open the box, revealing a pile of carbonized and blackened contents inside.

Carefully using tweezers to pick out one of the contents and putting it under a magnifying glass, he found that the organic matter was just some hay and rye that were basically rotten and black.

Among the pile of buffer things, Liang En took out a horse bit and four horseshoes, which were exactly the same as the previous X-ray results.

After a brief inspection, Liang En found that these things covered with a thin layer of rust were really just ordinary horse gear. It could even be seen from the signs of wear and tear that this was a set of practical items.

Although these things looked inconspicuous, Liang En did not dare to underestimate them at all. Because such monuments are often just ordinary things in themselves, but in fact they often have important historical value.

Because after repeated searches, he still couldn't see any written records on these things, so he had no choice but to use an [Appraisal (N)] again, and the content of the appraisal this time surprised him. eyebrows.

[The metal part of this harness comes from a brave squadron of hussars. This squadron leader and 126 other companions rushed to Tours as the first batch of attacking troops at 4 pm on September 12, 1683. The Ottoman Empire camp south of Kensants, and died heroically there. 】

[After the war, the Hussars squadron was rebuilt. Although the body of the sacrificed squadron leader was not found in the chaos, people found his horse and took off part of the harness as the new squadron's mascot and left it to today. 】

"It turns out that this is a relic of a sacrificed warrior, but this date -" Looking at the date, Liang En suddenly shuddered, then took out his phone and quickly searched using this date as a keyword.

Only half an hour later, Liang En found out the story behind this item. It turned out that the battle that this hussar participated in was the legendary Battle of Vienna that successfully interrupted the expansion of the Ottoman Empire.

On July 14, 1683, the Ottoman Turkish army surrounded Vienna with hundreds of thousands of troops. During the battle, the Ottoman army launched rounds of attacks as soon as they were ready.

Although the surrounding rugged mountain roads affected the movement of the heavy artillery units that the Ottoman Empire was proud of, with the help of Serbian engineering troops, the Turks used tunnel blasting to attack the Vienna city wall many times.

During this process, a baker who stayed in the city discovered an Ottoman tunnel through the vibration of his oven while baking bread and assisted the defenders in destroying it.

Therefore, after the victory of the war, in order to commemorate his achievements, a kind of bread in the shape of Turkish crescent was baked in large quantities. This was the origin of the croissant as it is known today.

Even though the defenders were so tenacious, more than a month after the siege began, the Ottomans still opened a huge gap in the city wall of Vienna that could allow a total of 50 people to pass side by side.

As the passage was opened, a large number of cannon fodder from the extremely poor began to launch a desperate charge. The crescent flag was once planted on the walls of Vienna.

But the defenders immediately launched a counterattack. The musketeers inserted bayonets at the muzzles of their guns and blocked the gap side by side with the pikemen. The overwhelming Ottoman army was forcefully pushed out.

Then, the city's engineers used wicker baskets and sandbags to build a city wall behind the gap to temporarily block the gap, and set up field artillery on it to bombard the outside.

This repeated tug of war continued until September 4. The Vienna defenders were exhausted due to casualties, food shortages and epidemic outbreaks, and the city's drinking water began to have difficulties.

To make matters worse, Ottoman engineers once again used explosives to blast a gap in another part of the city wall. Although the defenders tried their best to drive the opponent out, everyone knew that if reinforcements did not arrive, the city's fall would be inevitable.

But on this day, 47,000 German troops from Lorraine, Franconia, Bavaria and Saxony were summoned and rushed to the gates of Vienna. They successfully joined forces with the King of Poland, who led 27,000 Polish troops, and prepared to move Vienna from Saved from the hands of the Ottoman army.