MTL - The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven-v3 Chapter 10 helmet

Berlin, Imperial Palace.

William IV looked at the pointed helmet designed by himself, and liked it no matter what he saw.

"It's just perfect!"

"Simply a masterpiece!"

With the bragging of the courtiers, the Prussian m1842 cavalry helmet was finalized.

The m1842 cavalry helmet is actually still a leather helmet, but the spire is metal. This design, which looks like a nail inserted into the helmet, was actually designed by Frederick William IV himself.

This pointed helmet, also known as a spiked helmet, was originally intended to show off the Prussian masculinity and powerful combat power. It was indeed loved by successive Prussian emperors, and even German military leaders such as Otto von Bismarck and Paul von Hindenburg liked to pose with spiked helmets.

Especially after the Franco-Prussian War, the erect beard and spiked helmet became a symbol of pride for Prussian soldiers.

It is the kind of portrait of Bismarck, which is the typical style of painting at that time.

Although William IV claimed to be inspired by the mythical unicorn, which symbolizes loyalty and beauty, the helmet was ridiculed and ridiculed both nationally and internationally as soon as it came out.

Heinrich Heine thought the spike helmet was very pompous and superficial, and wrote a satirical poem comparing the spike helmet to a lightning rod.

He even publicly criticized this helmet in the Laiyin Newspaper.

"Yes, yes, I like this helmet, it shows the highest wisdom! The king's inspiration! I'm afraid that when the storm hits, that romantic crown will attract lightning!"

So the lightning crown has become one of the pronouns of the Prussian m1842 helmet. Of course, Franz will not miss this feast. Although he can’t go off in person, it’s okay to get a vest and send a few bad reviews.

The comments within the German Confederation were quite polite, but among the British population, they contemptuously called it the "Devil's Horn".

The French began to speculate on the use of this helmet, and even France's most famous satirical newspaper "Fool" publicly solicited the possible use of this helmet from the society, claiming that it would help France to be great again.

Ever since, all kinds of whimsical ideas bloomed everywhere in French newspapers.

For example, use the devil's horn to kill the opponent, or use it to open the bottle cap, and let a few soldiers stand upside down when pitching the tent to fix it instantly.

But in the end, the German poet Heine's lightning rod got the most votes. The Folly newspaper was going to award a prize of 5,000 francs to this great poet, but it was rejected on the grounds that his inspiration came from His Majesty the Kingdom.

So the editor-in-chief of "Stupid Newspaper" mailed the prize of 5,000 francs to Frederick William IV, and the latter really thought that his design had won the recognition of the international community.

But when he saw the content of the letter, he wanted to tear it to pieces, but as a king, he could only act as if he didn't care.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty the Great King, your inspiration has entertained the masses, and we thank you for that."

—French newspaper "Stupidity salutes you.

In fact, the pointed design of this helmet is to allow cavalry units to be used as a bracket for wearing feathers and horsehair, which were very common in the army at the time and could be used for decoration and morale.

The second and most important thing is to add a spire, which can effectively deflect the stabs aimed at the head, because in the cavalry combat at that time, the mutual stabbing of sabers was a routine tactic.

Of course, you have to mention the Austrian Lancers and the American Lancers.

Austria Vienna.

The Prussian helmet incident reminded the Austrians that it was time for them to design new helmets. Austrian design must not follow in the footsteps of Prussia, it must be generous, decent and practical....

As a result, there was another quarrel within the Austrian imperial government. Prince Metternich advocated continuing to use the Hungarian-style cloth leather helmets, and even the felt hats often worn by Hungarian hussars.

The advantage of this kind of equipment is that it is beautiful, practical, and cheap, but it has no effect on anti-hacking, and it is often filled with colorful decorations by soldiers, which affects the overall look and feel, and will give the opponent a very bad feeling. Weak, giving ordinary people a feeling of motley crew.

Count Kororav visited experts and found the most famous blacksmith family in Austria to design a helmet for the cavalry of the Austrian Empire. He thought it was the perfect helmet.

This kind of helmet is larger and stronger than the Prussian helmet. It is wrapped with high-quality leather and iron plates, which can defend against most slashing attacks, and can even block shotgun attacks at a distance of 50 meters.

Their experiment was that the steel **** couldn't penetrate the helmet, and they didn't care what happened to the head under the helmet.

There is a semicircular slot made of brass on the top of the helmet, which can be used to put a lot of decorations, such as tying towering feathers into a semicircle or something.

In fact, this is the later Austrian imperial cavalry standard helmet

In order to keep the military uniform, the semicircular decorations on the helmet can also be uniformly replaced with black and gold, which can better highlight the temperament of the Austrian soldiers and the financial resources of the empire.

Of course, old book lovers should know that none of the products produced by the Austrians for practical purposes are practical.

The same goes for Count Korolov's helmet, which weighs a whopping 3.5kg without the feathers.

What is the concept of 3.5 kg? Some people will definitely say that the weight of the individual equipment of American soldiers is as high as 53 kilograms, but please understand that this is the 19th century.

Moreover, even the high-end tactical helmets used by the US special forces usually have a total combat weight of no more than 1.7 kg, and the Prussian pointed helmet weighed only 0.60.8 kg during the same period.

The weight of the famous m35 during World War II was only 1.4 kilograms, so it can be seen how outrageous Earl Kororav's helmet is.

Of course, he didn't completely consider safety and appearance. The price of this kind of helmet is very high, which will involve the interests of many people, including his own.

The same is true for Metternich's request to maintain the status quo, because he wants to protect the interests of those supporters. Military procurement has always been a sweet spot. Unless it is Franz, everyone wants to make a fortune.

Regarding the dispute between the two parties, the royal family wanted to see the military's attitude, but in fact the military had no attitude on this matter. Because Count Tural himself had been on the battlefield himself, he felt that the helmet was completely indifferent to the cavalry, and it was better to get a breastplate for practicality.

After all, there is almost no possibility of survival after being shot in the head, and chopping the head is completely a Tatar practice, which has long been proved outdated.

Once Russia sent Tatar cavalry and Russian infantry to encircle the Hungarian hussars, but the result was that 2000 hussars easily tore apart the formation of the Tatars.

After that, tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry broke up the Russian infantry formation while fleeing, causing Russia to be defeated. After that, the Tsar saw clearly the weak nature of the Tatar cavalry, and began a series of annihilation activities.

The book returns to its original story.

The lack of attitude of the military allowed the debate to be shelved. In fact, it was not until 1848 that the Austrian Empire finally decided to use this helmet after Count Kororav came to power.

The design of m35 and even m42 helmets is not difficult to achieve, because there is not much technical content, Franz can easily create this kind of helmet, but the shape of this kind of helmet is seriously different from the style of the mid-nineteenth century Take it, the sense of violation is very serious.

Just imagine, Napoleon, Wellington, one with an Adrian helmet, one with a flying saucer on his head, and then Grand Duke Karl led a group of hussars with m35s on them. What kind of scene was that.

The Adrian helmet is a famous French helmet, the flying saucer refers to the famous British flying saucer helmet mk1 during World War I, and the m35 classic German helmet of World War II.