Chapter 324: The Bell on the Carriage
"Look, General, this is armor made according to your requirements. β
At the shop in the city that specializes in making armor for sergeants, a chubby shopkeeper in his fifties pointed to a pair of armor worn by a wooden man in the shop.
Feng Zhao looked at the armor in front of him, this armor was very different from the armor worn by the soldiers, he stretched out his hand and made a noise, and the armor was soft like silk cloth in his hand.
He lightly touched the weight and softness of the armor with his hand, and nodded slightly.
"Have you done any experiments?"
"I did, I invited the best crossbowmen in the army, and with the best crossbow arrows could not shoot through the armor. The shopkeeper replied softly.
Feng Zhao bowed slightly, "General Qin, what do you think of this armor?"
Qin Yuan, who was following on the side, looked at the armor and replied with a solemn expression: "Please forgive me, general, the gap between the best archers in our army and the archers trained by Liu Yi is too big, and this armor can withstand the shots of our archers, but it may not be able to withstand the opponent's crossbow arrows." β
"I'll give it a try. β
After listening to Qin Yuan's words, Feng Zhao said lightly.
Qin Yuan was stunned, "The general's skills are not inferior to Liu Yi, I'm afraid this armor can't resist such a powerful impact." β
"I have the strength to control it, this armor is specially made for soldiers to resist bows and arrows. And Liu Yi's arrow was aimed at killing the opponent's high-ranking generals, and he had no intention of targeting ordinary soldiers. β
On the school ground, the soldiers erected two wooden figures and dressed them in ordinary armor and the special armor respectively.
The midday sun shone on the two armors, the ordinary armor glowing silver, while the special armor emitted a faint black glow.
This armor was designed by Feng Zhao himself, with bronze and fine iron fused and drawn into a thin wire to form a chain shape, and in the middle of it was added the extremely flexible thin rattan and women's hair unique to the south, the whole armor was soft and silk, but the weight was heavier than ordinary armor.
A hundred meters away, Feng Zhao sat on a horse, holding a strong bow, surrounded by dozens of high-ranking generals of the Great Dragon, who stood on the side with bated breath.
Qin Yuan stood next to his armor, holding a small red flag in his hand.
He wanted to check the difference between the two armors for himself.
He looked at the wind from a hundred meters away and raised the flag.
Fengzhao picked up the bow and set up the arrowsβone bow and two arrows.
At the same time as the flag fell, the two arrows in his hand left the bowstring at the same time and headed straight for the armor.
With a clang, two arrows hit both armor pairs at the same time and fell to the ground at the same time.
Qin Yuan checked the armor and shook the flag in his hand.
Fengzhao raised his bow and arrows again.
The flag fell, and the same two arrows flew out together.
"One shot at a stone. β
A soldier shouted.
Feng Zhao nodded slightly, just now he used two percent of his strength, and the ordinary armor was already unable to resist.
The flag was raised again, and Feng Zhao used thirty percent of his strength this time to shoot the arrow. The arrows still landed.
Next to him, the lieutenant general began to whisper.
When the wind shone with forty percent of its strength, the arrow plunged into the gap in the chains of the armor.
Qin Yuan's face was overjoyed.
"General, the chains have effectively stopped the damage of the arrows. β
This armor is able to block the four forces of the wind.
With a wave of his hand, he summoned the best archers in the army and ordered them to continue experimenting with the new armor, and the result was that the new armor effectively stopped the crossbow arrows of the strong archers. However, the manufacturing process of this armor is extremely complex, and the materials used are relatively special, so it is impossible to build a large number of armors in a short period of time.
Since Fengzhao arrived at the city of Zhuye, he launched two attacks on Yongguan, but finally had to withdraw his troops, because Yongguan has been a border area since ancient times, and all dynasties have strengthened and repaired it, and now it is captured by Liu Yi, so he is willing to give up easily.
Liu Yi created a strong and powerful archer for the Ji Kingdom, and Ren Dalong's soldiers were heroic, but the casualties caused by the forcible siege were incalculable. Fengzhao can't exchange so many soldiers' lives for a city, he wants to exchange the smallest casualties for the greatest victory.
On the one hand, he wrote to Feng Ze asking him to send envoys to Molong to seek cooperation, and on the other hand, he asked Yanlong if he could let Dalong's army attack the Ji Kingdom from there through Yanlong.
But Chang Ruojin refused. It was only agreed that the three countries south of the Yangtze River could ally assist Dalong in attacking the Ji Kingdom.
He knew that his uncle Chang Ruojin had concerns, and being able to allow the combined army formed by Western Wu and Jiang Li to pass through Yanlong was already the greatest help to Dalong.
Now, he patiently waited for news from Molong while designing this armor.
He wanted to send the Eagle Guard back to the imperial capital with the manufacturing requirements and methods of this set of armor, and asked Emperor Fengze to order all the craftsmen of Dalong to assist in the manufacturing, and he could make as many pieces as he could.
It's winter now, and he has been in the city for three months, and the day before yesterday he received a message from Yueming that the Jiangnan coalition army had captured the seven cities of Jiguo. And the news of Molong will also arrive in the next few days.
He wants to take advantage of the time of the past few days to think about how to capture Yongguan, as well as the century-old border pass of Jiguo opposite Yongguan - Eagle's Beak Pass.
After the founding of the country, the ancestors of Fengzhao once carried out a tentative attack on the country of Ji, but they were defeated at the Eagle's Beak Pass and almost lost their lives.
The Eagle's Beak Pass of Jiguo is the same as the Yongguan of Dalong, which is built according to the mountain, as if a mountain has been split in half with an axe, half of which is Yongguan and half of which is Eagle's Beak Pass. In the middle is a long and narrow river, but the river has long since become a mulberry field.
If it weren't for the fact that General Wu, who was stationed at the dry ferry port, was frustrated and drunk because his family was implicated by his sister Wu Yan, and was attacked by Liu Yi to break through the defense of the dry ferry and the Yongguan was captured, how could Dalong be so passive.
Feng Zhao was in the school field, but his heart seemed to have spread out a geographical landscape map, on the map, there were Yongguan, Yingzui Pass, and every pass connected by Dalong and Jiguo, as well as every pass of the three countries in the south of the Yangtze River.
Just when he was thinking about it, suddenly the sound of a bell came, and he jerked his head up and followed the sound of the bell.
A horse-drawn carriage was parked outside the school yard, with four strings of bells hanging from its four corners, clanging and swaying in the cold winter wind.
He looked at it in a daze, was his Yao Ling coming? However, it was clear in the letter the day before Yueming that Yaoling could not come to the city of Zhuye, because the soldiers of the three kingdoms south of the Yangtze River attacked the Ji country, and there were many people who were not accustomed to the water and soil, and the frostbite was serious in winter, and the doctors in the army were all from the south, so they were not accustomed to the water and soil, let alone treat the soldiers.
Although he was annoyed with Yueming, he knew that he must be reluctant to come over Yaoling, but he didn't want Yaoling to come over in his heart, so he followed him, because Yongguan was the closest to Jicheng, once he captured the eagle's beak pass between Yongguan and Jiguo, then he would definitely arrive at Jicheng before Yueming, and how to deal with Jirujin at that time, he would not be afraid of Yaoling's interference.
But now the carriage bewildered him.
Just as he was startled, the carriage door opened, and a robe embroidered with dark blue peonies floated out.
Qin Yuan on the side was also stunned, and his mouth was half open.
In the cold wind, Qin Min stood beside the carriage with a haggard face, and looked at the wind silently with resentment in his eyes.
"Sister!"
Qin Yuan's open mouth finally made a sound.
Feng Zhao's head grew bigger and bigger.
Holding back the anger in his heart, he threw off his robe and walked away.
This woman is really crazy, the journey from the imperial capital to the city of Zhuye is far away, and it is so cold, and the most infuriating thing is that she actually hung a bell on the carriage.