Editing Bayonet (section)

===Plug bayonets===
[[File:02 158 Book illustrations of Historical description of the clothes and weapons of Russian troops.jpg|thumb|Depiction of an early 18th-century [[Tsardom of Russia|Russian]] infantryman installing a plug bayonet.]]

The first recorded instance of a bayonet proper is found in the Chinese military treatise, {{ill|Binglu|zh|兵录}} published in 1606. It was in the form of the {{ill|Son-and-mother gun|zh|子母鳥銃}}, a [[breech-loading weapon|breech-loading]] musket that was issued with a roughly {{convert|57.6|cm|adj=on|abbr=on}} long plug bayonet, giving it an overall length of {{convert|1.92|m|abbr=on}} with the bayonet attached. It was labelled as a "gun-blade" ({{zh|t=銃刀|s=铳刀|p=Chòngdāo}}) with it being described as a "short sword that can be inserted into the barrel and secured by twisting it slightly" that it is to be used "when the battle have depleted both gunpowder and bullets as well as fighting against bandits, when forces are closing into melee or encountering an ambush" and if one "cannot load the gun within the time it takes to cover two bu (3.2 meters) of ground they are to attach the bayonet and hold it like a spear".<ref name="needham volume 5 part 7 456">Needham, Volume 5, Part 7, 456.</ref><ref name="Binglu 《兵錄》, Scroll 12">Binglu 《兵錄》, Scroll 12.</ref>

Early bayonets were of the "plug" type, where the bayonet was fitted directly into the barrel of the musket.<ref name="johnfixbayonets"/><ref name="COLD" /><ref name="militaryhistory" /> This allowed light infantry to be converted to heavy infantry and hold off cavalry charges. The bayonet had a round handle that slid directly into the musket barrel. This naturally prevented the gun from being fired. The first known mention of the use of bayonets in European warfare was in the memoirs of Jacques de Chastenet, Vicomte de Puységur.<ref name="worldbayonets.com1"/> He described the French using crude {{convert|1|ft|adj=on}} plug bayonets during the [[Thirty Years' War|Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)]].<ref name="worldbayonets.com1"/> However, it was not until 1671 that General [[Jean Martinet]] standardized and issued plug bayonets to the French regiment of [[fusilier]]s then raised. They were issued to part of an English [[dragoon]] regiment raised in 1672, and to the Royal Fusiliers when raised in 1685.<ref name=EB1911/>