Immanuel Can wrote:Bayonets were not "a clean cut." Not at all. They were used "stab-twist-pull." And that groove along the blade created suction with the intestines. Used to full effect and directed at the torso, everything inside came outside. Nasty, nasty, nasty.Hobbes' Choice wrote:No way.Immanuel Can wrote:Morning star and mace. Nasty on the head. But I'll warrant that the bayonet was a worse way to go.
A nice clean cut and bleed out. A mace would cause contusions multiple internal bleeding and far more pain.
Soldiers in WW1 were in abject terror of the bayonet because of this.
Have you ever hit your finger with a club hammer? Or had some blunt force trauma?
Levels of pain
1 Burn
2 Crushing
3 Cuts