In addition to the steel plate in front of the body, there are shoulder pads and bracers, because this is a bracer made of steel, which can be said to be very hard, and when necessary, it can block weapons, and the most important thing is that steel can be made very thin, and the defense is not inferior to the same leather armor.

In the assumption of this kind of armor Zou Yu, it will become a standard equipment, and there is a kind of heavy armor, the heavy armor will be the standard of European full-body armor, and the helmets are all with masks, this kind of heavy armor is not available to Lux, so Zou Yu only intends to form a few thousand people, of course, there are also heavy armored cavalry, just many war horses, you can choose the best war horses, form heavy armored cavalry, and the cavalry light cavalry in the future will mainly be based on cavalry shooting, and the frontal charge is the matter of heavy armored cavalry.

The heavy armor is a double layer of armor, steel armor on the outside and leather armor on the inside, which not only has good defense, but also does not wear out the skin, including the same for war horses, except for the eyes that are exposed, they are all protected by armor.

Now there are also heavy cavalry, called armored cavalry, also called armored cavalry, but generally fish scale armor, chain mail, and mold plate armor has a curvature, to some extent the defensive effect is better.

Just to raise heavy cavalry and heavy infantry, not only need a lot of equipment, the key also needs nutrition and supplies, such as 5,000 heavy cavalry, at least 5,000 horses and 5,000 horses, war horses only ride when fighting, horses are armored, and each heavy cavalry should be equipped with two auxiliaries, which can quickly armor for knights and horses.

In order for these elites to maintain sufficient physical strength, the food must also be the best, and meat is indispensable, which is a large expense.

Under the rule of Zou Yu, the biggest source of meat at present is fish, mutton can only be used as a supplement, of course, there is hunting, respecting the tradition of the Khitan people, but also for the grassland to eliminate pests, every autumn to hunt and kill the grassland wolves, the harvest is still very good, to say that the most on the grassland, is not the wolves, but the grassland dogs and rats, this kind of thing basically has no natural enemies, so the number is very large, which is cheap Liu Renliang's dog troops, their food, most of the meat comes from this.

With the current production capacity, about 300 steel knives can be produced per day, and of course this number will gradually increase with the proficiency of craftsmen and the increase of apprentices. So after the year, it is completely possible to let tens of thousands of troops change their clothes.

There is only armor, and there is no way to speed up this, firstly, the armor is originally slow to make, and secondly, the speed of mining cannot keep up.

Zou Yu did not participate in the production of ordinary weapons, but was interested in the various associated ores dug up, and added various different associated ores to the steel, hoping to make better alloy steel.

Dozens of materials, experimented one by one, not to mention, he really made a batch of real magic weapons.

But unfortunately it has never been able to be mass-produced, after many experiments and discussions, and finally summed up, these magic soldiers are the material reasons, and the second is Zou Yu's strength, he personally did it, tempered the steel, and repeatedly beat it with his strength, after dozens of times, even the ordinary iron has become fine iron, not to mention the steel itself.

The only gain is to use different iron ores, after smelting, to get better steel than iron iron.

Iron iron, itself is a variety of iron ore after hundreds of forging made, Zou Yu experimented out of this steel, and iron, has the same natural pattern, high hardness characteristics, just because this is graphite crucible direct smelting, so than the previous iron iron.

For Zou Yu, the weapon is very convenient to use with double sticks, so he doesn't plan to replace it, but makes a new batch for others.

Qin Qiong - two zhang panlong bright silver gun, the gun is one zhang long, dissolved silver, plus the coiling dragon, not only very beautiful, the coiling dragon increases friction, but also easy to control, the tip of the spear is double-sided, fifty centimeters long, can be pierced and sharpened, the body of the spear is coiled, the dragon head stretches out from behind the tip of the spear to both sides, and can parry the enemy's weapons.

Su Dingfang's ——— Zhang Wuliang gold three-pointed gun, because it is copper alloy steel, so the gun body is golden, one long and two short three-pointed guns are similar to horse lances, so there is no problem in use.

Han Qianxun, Han Zhao is using a horse lance, which is the same as many famous families now, and they are particularly accustomed to horse lances, so Zou Yu still makes steel horse lances for them, just for the sake of might, copper is added, and copper increases toughness, which is the most suitable for this long weapon.

Liu Jin and Zhang Zhongjian used knives, and the steel was lighter than the previous iron, so the Qinglong Yanyue knife was made for them.

The two sisters of Hei Sumei and Bai Suhua, of course, Zou Yu will not forget that they use the style of embroidered spring knives, one long and one short, and they have been bending two knives.

As for the Fang family brothers, these two forces are too great, and it is a bit wasteful to use a knife alone, Fang Zhi is used to charging, so he made a thick tiger head tower shield for him, a long-bladed arc knife with a length of nearly two meters; Fang is a long and a short two arc-shaped knives. The arc is more conducive to chopping and is not easy to get stuck.

Liu Renliang is also not small because of Zou Yu's care, but he likes single knives, bows and arrows; Some other generals, Chen Xing, Mohui and others, Zou Yu also gave a knife forged by his own hands as a reward.

To say that Zou Yu's biggest gain during this period of time is not that he learned to forge, but that in the process of forging, he practiced his own control of strength.

Forging weapons, but not the strength of the line, must be a uniform speed next to each other, the speed is appropriate, on the narrow weapon beating, the strength is not good, the weapon will be deformed, the strength is not good, the hammer is not in place, can not be biased, so for the control of strength, it can be said to advance by leaps and bounds.

Forging has a sledgehammer, a small hammer, especially when tempering, the requirement is not only fast, but also uniform, which requires skill, dozens of pounds of hammer, no one can stick to it.

"When! Dangdang! Dangdang! "It's like rain hitting plantains, rapid and beautiful, and full of rhythm, beating hundreds of times in succession, only Zou Yu's physique can do it, even so, when he stopped, he was already sweating profusely.

Tempered into steel, he wanted to try what would happen if the steel was tempered a hundred times. Under the admiring gaze of the blacksmiths, Zou Yu picked up the knife on the iron felt.

This is a shape designed by himself according to the drawings in the anime, the first time it is all handmade, the blade is twenty-five centimeters wide, one meter three five long, the front half of the blade is curved, and the back half is curved inward, until the hilt, the back of the knife winds around a golden dragon.

The whole knife weighs only eight catties, the blade is cold and shining, it is very sharp at a glance, the back of the knife is domineering, and the whole is very beautiful. One of the characteristics of this type of knife is that although it looks very flat on the surface, it actually has countless bumps and bumps, so the wound will be very difficult to heal.