论枪刺发明对火器军事革命的重大意义

The Significance of Bayonet Invention to Firepower Military Revolution

枪刺诞生于17世纪的欧洲,是人们在广泛使用了火器之后发明出来的冷兵器。它的发明弥补了火枪火力不足的缺陷,使火枪兵具备了自我防御能力。枪刺的广泛应用淘汰了长矛等冷兵器,简化了军队兵种构成,促使形成了能够有效发挥火枪威力的横线式队形。枪刺在机械化时代和信息时代仍被保留和使用,本质上是技术对人体能力的补充和延伸,体现了火器对冷兵器的传承。

Born in Europe in the seventeenth century, the bayonet was a kind of cold weapon which invented after the firearms widely used. The invention of bayonet makes up the defect of firepower, and makes the gunners have the ability of self defense. The widely use of bayonet eliminates spears and other cold weapons,which simplifies the constitution of army corps and urges the horizontal type formation to come into being. The bayonet was kept and used in mechanical and information era, because it embodied the extension and supplement to the body ability given by technology, and embodied the transition from cold weapons to firepower.