- Plains Ordnance Factory

This is a large factory built by Ma Qiang in the plain for several years to use water power to forge ordnance, on the opposite side of the river in this factory, there are garment factories, agricultural machinery factories, textile factories and other factories, and various materials and resources such as iron and wool are continuously transported here by water, and then become various industrial products here, and then dumped everywhere.

Due to the secrecy of ordnance production, ordnance occupies one side of the river alone, which is very special.

Ma Qiang can proudly say that here, there are the best swords and guns of the Great Han, and here, there are also the best armor of the Great Han.

"Brother Pony, what do you think of this armor?" Yue Yang took a few pieces of armor and handed them to Ma Qiang.

Although Ma Qiang doesn't know much about armor, he also knows that the pinnacle of armor in the cold weapon era is plate armor, and the semi-cuirass or cotton armor in the East is actually armor in the firearms era.

Plate armor Ma Qiang can also get it out now, after all, after several years of development, the hydraulic forging technology of the plain has been relatively developed, but the problem of plate armor is that it can only be customized privately, and there is no way to popularize it.

Of course, when Ma Qiang is free, it is okay to organize a small elite to try to play with plate armor.

Now what Ma Qiang asked Yueyang to build here is the mountain armor that appeared in the late Han Dynasty and reached the peak of the Tang and Song dynasties, after all, the armor worn by the statues of gods and Buddhas in tourist attractions is this, in his simple concept, since they are all used by gods and Buddhas, they must be good armor!

But what kind of structure Shan Wenjia was, Ma Qiang was not sure, he just drew a sketch, said a request, and threw it to Yue Yang to study.

Thanks to Yue Yang's single-minded belief in his little brother Ma, if an expert who crossed over in later generations saw Ma Qiang's request, he would have to lift the table, because in later generations, not a single physical object of Shanwenjia had been unearthed, that is to say, this thing is only recorded in history, and no one knows what the structure is.

Yueyang made mountain armor, which is made of inverted iron armor pieces interlaced with each other, if this kind of armor is to be classified, it should actually be regarded as a kind of chain mail, but it is different from ring chain mail.

Ma Qiang shook a piece of shoulder armor that had been made, and found that it was full of flexibility, which meant that people wearing battle armor could make more complex movements.

"How strong is this armor? How much does it cost? How much does a normal suit of armor weigh? ”

Yue Yang scratched his head and said, "The defense is okay, according to the principle of mechanics, when there is an oblique angle, the force will be dispersed, so this kind of armor is definitely more resistant to arrows than the flat armor, anyway, I tried, fifty steps away with a stone bow to shoot this armor, ten arrows were bounced off, but the effect on melee weapons is not so significant."

In addition, the accuracy of this nail is extremely high, according to Brother Xiaoma, this nail should not need ropes to penetrate, that is, staggered and fixed, so the labor cost is not small, so let's put it this way, to make such a pair of mountain armor, at least twenty or thirty thousand dollars, you can do three pairs of armor. ”

Ma Qiang nodded slightly, this is also the same as he expected, this kind of exquisite armor like Shanwen armor is impossible to popularize.

After all, it's a battle armor used by gods and Buddhas!

"If it's more expensive, it's worth it, I'm going to use this mountain armor for the elite, by the way, the place before and after this heart should be thickened, go, and then take me to see something else."

Yue Yang took Ma Qiang to continue to visit the armor workshop.

"Brother Xiaoma, you see, the price of this kind of chain mail is more expensive, my opinion is to try to make armor, that thing is cheap!"

The chain mail that Yue Yang said is a kind of soft armor that is locked by small iron rings, also known as chain mail, and the advantage of this kind of armor is one word - soft! There is no difference between wearing clothes and wearing clothes, and it is generally put on the outside of clothes, but because this kind of armor labor is too expensive, a skilled craftsman cannot make twenty square centimeters a day, so it can only be used by elites.

"I know, I'm also going to use this chain mail for the elite, anyway, a thousand pieces, not one less!"

Yue Yang couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, this kind of thing can only be done by hand, it can't be simplified, fortunately it's only a thousand pieces, if Ma Qiang says one or two thousand, Yue Yang won't want to do it.

"Alright, stop complaining, let's go, take me to the firearms factory!"

Speaking of the firearms factory, Yue Yang's expression also became serious.

Firearms, this demon that should not have appeared in this era, has been released by Ma Qiang in advance.

Coming to the innermost workshop, there are several sergeants guarding it, and both the sergeants and the craftsmen inside are all from the Red Star Battalion.

"Brother Xiaoma, you see, this is the third generation of musket we developed, the rifling has been successfully pulled out of the barrel, the gun weighs eleven pounds, and the caliber is 18 mm, but the life is still too short, and it is still a problem with iron.

In addition, there is also production, and now these few people can't make much in a month. ”

Ma Qiang touched the cold musket, what armor, what bow and crossbow, in front of this thing, it was not worth mentioning.

This thing is the future!

I just don't know when I'll see the spectacular scene of the line being shot.

Of course, Ma Qiang also understands that not a strong army can solve social problems, and the Han is still proud of the military situation, at least on an equal footing with Rome, but it still can't stop the pace of destruction.

Not to mention the big man, the so-called lighthouse in later generations, no matter how strong the force is, isn't it still just a lighthouse.

By the time the sun rises in the east, the world will not need any lighthouses.

Ma Qiang retracted his scattered thoughts and asked Yue Yang to demonstrate musket shooting to himself.

Just as he was trying, the sergeant ran and said, "Ming Gong, the Prime Minister's Office called, saying that there was an urgent military situation, please Ming Gong return quickly." ”

Ma Qiang looked at the musket that had not yet been fired with some regret, and said, "That's it, I'll try it later, Yue Yang, you have to pay attention to the musket, and the artillery, I want to listen to the roar of the god of war quickly!" ”

Yue Yang nodded and said, "Brother Xiaoma, don't worry, I will definitely help you rectify it clearly." ”

Back at the Prime Minister's Mansion, Ma Qiang saw that Huang Zhong was also coming, and he knew that this was really an emergency military situation.

"What the hell is going on?" Ma Qiang sat down in his seat and asked Duan Ying.

Duan Ying replied, "Just two hours ago, Yuan Shao suddenly dispatched 10,000 soldiers and horses, and he was coming to my plain country, and Yan Liang, the pioneer among them, should have almost reached the Maji River. ”

Ma Qiang blinked, making sure he had heard correctly.

"Yuan Shao came to beat us? Why is he? No, shouldn't it be time to prepare the princes to beg Dong, he's crazy? ”

Ma Qiang was worried about Yuan Shao's move before, but he didn't expect Yuan Shao to dare to really do it.

He has only been in the Bohai Sea for a long time, why does he think he can eat himself.

Just because you look like a bully?

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