When quoting Sima Qian's Historical Records (Volume 95) and Biography of Fan Liteng (Volume 35), Pei Gonghe was sitting alone. Fan Kuai was outside the camp, and when he heard something urgent, he entered the camp with an iron shield. The camp guards stopped, plunged in and set up an account.
Then, like the 1994 version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms filmed in China, the shield used is made of asphalt cloth and resin, which looks rough at close range, but looks like an iron shield. This is not true.
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A few simple examples:
Hook setting; It is a semi-defensive attack shield made of pure iron, but it has the smallest area and cannot be completely defended.
Big shield; More common in temporary trees, or painted, for the purpose of forming a formation or defending the camp to block the army, some unearthed. It is equivalent to a foreign tower shield.
Square shield; The common battle shields are mostly made of leather bags and wood, but also coated with iron and painted, with excellent workmanship. There are many classifications, such as double arc shield is one of the known types. It can be seen that there are many sacrificial objects.
Rattan shield; At present, only Tibetan areas can be tested. Although there are Fujia Tengdun in Guizhou and other places at present, it is difficult to assert it in history.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the method of shield making continued in the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin and Han Dynasties, including shield nose and shield tile. But compared with the shield, its shape and production style make me prefer to call it the roof. ...
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As for materials, temporary wooden shields are made of miscellaneous materials, because there is no high expectation for the service life of the shield itself. And some well-made small and medium-sized wooden shields are mostly made of high-density materials such as oak. Leather shield is just a kind of cowhide, because pigskin is too rotten and sheepskin is too thin.