A set of iron armor forty guan is only the cost price, and if you buy it, the price is at least more than fifty guan.

Not to mention that this thing is too tightly controlled, and it is difficult for you to buy it.

Li Luo planned to follow the Yuan army to the east to conquer the Wa Kingdom a year later, and now he is in a hurry to build iron armor, of course, to fight against the Japanese army.

A year later, the Li Jiajun who went out on the expedition must have a 100% armor rate. And the equipment rate of iron armor should occupy more than 50%, and leather armor should be less than 50%.

This is exactly the elite ironclad equipment rate of the Song Dynasty.

Under the premise that the quality, organization, sense of honor, and treatment status of individual soldiers are all stronger than those of the Song army, as long as the equipment level of the Song army is reached, Li Jiajun can become a first-class strong army in the world.

Li Luo plans to send 6,000 troops next year. According to half of the iron armor equipment rate, he needs three thousand sets of iron armor and three thousand sets of leather armor.

Today, there are 300 sets of iron armor, and there are still 2,700 sets left. According to Gu Kai's armor-making speed, only more than 200 sets can be produced after a year.

Unless the capacity is increased tenfold.

Li Luo asked, "Master Gu is talking about the Song Army's Shanwen Iron Armor. Is there a new type of armor that is better than the mountain armor? ”

Gu Kai was suddenly a little excited, he couldn't imagine that Li Luo would take the initiative to care about this issue.

"General Haojiao knows that the villain came up with a new armor a few years ago, which can save more than a dozen catties of iron, and the effect is no worse than that of Wenshan Jia!" Gu Kai's whole person was radiant.

Could it be that the armor was invented in the middle of the Ming Dynasty? Li Luo guessed. The best armor in Chinese and foreign history is not at all Western plate armor (too bulky), nor the famous Tang Dynasty Mingguang armor, but the little-known "hood armor".

Sure enough, Gu Kai's next words verified Li Luo's guess.

“…… The inner lining is made of iron sheets, divided and arranged, and it is not integrated, the iron pieces are covered with leather outside, and the outer cover is covered with thick cotton core cloth...... "Gu Kai talked eloquently.

What Gu Kai said was indeed armor, but it had an extra layer of leather than ordinary armor. It is a "composite armor" that combines iron, leather, and cotton.

Although the armor was invented in the Ming Dynasty, it was carried forward by the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty. The cotton armor of the Eight Banners Army belongs to the armor.

Armor (cotton armor) has good protection against cold weapons and firearms. And the new armor that Gu Kai said has an extra layer of leather armor, and the protection is better than that of cotton armor.

Although less iron is used, because it is a three-layer composite armor, the attack of sharp weapons is scientifically reduced, and it is no worse than the Wenshan armor that uses more iron.

More importantly, Gu Kai said that the weight can be reduced by six or seven catties, the cost can also be reduced by seven or eight pounds, and the manufacturing progress can be half faster.

Li Luo asked puzzledly: "This is a combination of iron armor, leather armor, and cloth armor, which is said to be more complex and complicated, how can it be built faster than Wenshan armor?" ”

Gu Kai explained: "General, Wenshan Jia is the most time-consuming and labor-intensive to build iron pieces, one or two thousand small iron pieces need to be beaten into a mountain shape, I don't know how much effort it takes. The new armor not only uses more than ten catties less iron, but also the iron sheet can be beaten into a square piece, which saves most of the effort.

Even if you add leather armor and cotton armor, it is still much faster than making Wenshan armor. If there is a tailor and a cobbler, it can be more than twice as fast as Wenshanjia. ”

Li Luo said in his heart, this is a talent! Then he asked, "If there are tailors and cobblers, how many new nails can be produced in a month?" ”

Gu Kai replied without thinking: "If the materials are enough, at least forty sets in a month!" ”

Li Luo calculated, January 40, a year is five hundred. If the manpower is increased tenfold, there will be 5,000 new armor sets next year.

"Gu Division," Li Luo directly called Gu Kai's new position, "This official orders you to have full authority to call and recruit craftsmen and apprentices, and expand the manpower as much as possible." ”

"Gu Kai obeys!" Gu Kai took the order.

Li Luo said again: "Although the armor is a big deal, it is not in a hurry for the time being. The most urgent thing for craftsmen now is the stone cannon machine! When you go back to the craftsman, you start building it right away, day and night! ”

Build a stone cannon machine first? Do you want to attack Shengfan Dazhai? Gu Kai thought secretly, and hurriedly said: "The general atonements, his subordinates don't know how to build stone cannon machines. ”

Li Luo smiled: "It's okay, you are also the head of the craftsman department, just organize and dispatch craftsmen." I asked Fang Huan, the captain of the crossbow fleet, to help, and he was very familiar with the stone cannon machine. ”

Gu Kai breathed a sigh of relief, and then he was relieved to accept his order. With Fang Huan's help, the stone cannon machine can be built in less than ten days.

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With Li Luo's order to start work day and night to build a stone cannon machine, the smart people of the company and the security regiment knew that the lord was going to use troops against Shengfan.

Don't look at the past few days, it was effortless to wipe out the two roads, but it was a field battle on the plains. If you go into the mountains and take the initiative to attack Shengfan Cottage, the situation will be different.

I heard that the walls of Shengfan are all made of big trees and stones, and they are condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The security regiment will definitely be able to take it, but the casualties will not be small.

If you have a stone cannon machine, it's much easier.

The reason why Li Luo was in such a hurry was because he had to leave the island within half a month and return north to Goryeo.

It's been ten days since he came out, after all, he has an official position, how can he leave his post for a long time? A month has already reached the sky.

However, before he leaves, he must first destroy the three families.

The first is to return blood for blood, and strengthen the ram revenge ideology of immigrants and the army of "revenge for all husbands" and "revenge must be avenged".

The second is ...... How can there be a reason to guard against thieves day and night? These three families are "repeat offenders for many years", and they are only a few dozen miles away from the resettlement area, so they are really impossible to prevent. Maybe one day they'll rush down the mountain to do a big job.

The third is to save people. I heard that Ikuban had captured a lot of young women before, and I had to rescue them.

Fourth...... Li Luo wants their supplies!

There may not be any good things in raw skin, but there are definitely animal skins, especially wild boar skins, which are more suitable for leather armor than cow skins.

There are these four reasons, of course, Li Luo has to do this before leaving Haidong Island.

In the next five days, Lin Biju organized Jurchen immigrants to open up the wasteland, Gu Kai and Fang Huan organized craftsmen to build stone cannon machines, and the security regiment trained recruits.

The number of recruits in various departments has gradually increased, and many departments have begun to exercise their powers. Li Luo personally supervised the directors of each department, and each department gave the guiding ideology of the work.

The Han immigrants who came first were also busy taking care of the early rice planted and preparing for the next month's harvest.

Cui Xiuning is not idle, she has done two things in the past few days. The first is to organize Lang Zhong from the medical department to look for transplanted Artemisia annua and tell them how to use Artemisia annua to treat malaria miasma.

The second is to start forming an intelligence group in Haedong so that even if you return to Goryeo, you can know about Haedong on a regular basis.

From top to bottom, everyone was busy. Under the management of Haidong Company, more than 5,000 immigrants slowly began to get on the track, and various departments gradually took on the appearance of functional organizations.

Everything is busy and orderly.

Several stone cannon machines built by craftsmen are also gradually taking shape, and it seems that they will be completed in three days.

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In the days when the Haidong Company was born, both the Chuma tribe in the mountains and the fish bone tribe in the southwest Baixi area fell into great panic.

The cottage of the Chuma tribe has been overwhelmed by the solemn atmosphere these days, and every life has been shrouded in dark clouds.

Everyone was wondering whether it was the ancestral spirit who was angry, or the mountain snake god who was angry.

Why did the gods send down great calamities?

Otherwise, why did the great patriarch Dou Duo personally take more than 500 warriors out of the mountain to hunt for heads, and all of them died?

Their heads were piled up at the mouth of the mountain trail below, forming a small mountain!

More than 500 warriors, all dead!!

The entire Chuma tribe had a population of just over 3,000, and the sturdy warriors were only more than 700, and more than 500 died at once.

Who killed them? Han? Mao-blooded? Fishbone clan?

O gods!

The entire Chuma tribe was in a state of fear, confusion, and disbelief, and the prayers of the high priests and shamans never stopped.

During this time, more than a dozen Han women who were ready to give birth were turned to sacrifice as a way to appease the angry gods.

Even if they don't know where to offend the gods.

The patriarch who succeeded to the throne also did two things after the sacrifice. The first is to gather the remaining warriors of the clan to defend the wall. The second is to send someone to the Fishbone Clan to ask what happened that day!

Almost the same scene also happened in the Fishbone Clan in the Baixi Belt.

Suddenly losing more than 500 warriors, the Fishbone Clan, like the Chuma Clan, suddenly fell into a huge crisis and fear.

This is something that has never happened before!

They also performed a brutal sacrifice again, and a dozen Han women who had been robbed for months, all pregnant, were still executed in a vomit-inducing manner in front of the idols.

Then, they thought the wrath of the gods had been appeased.

Then, like the Chuma, they gathered the last warriors to guard the wall, and then sent people to the Chuma to ask what happened that day!

The Chuma and Fishbone clans were all terrified, but the Mao-blood clan in the mountains farther away was ready to move.

After learning that the Chuma and the Fishbone had lost a large number of warriors, the first reaction of the Hairy Bloods was to want to annex.

The Mao-blood clan believed that the warriors of the Chuma and Fishbone clans were fighting for the spoils of war, and many people died.

As for the possibility of dying at the hands of the Han people, the Mao blood clan never thought about it at all.

Unlike the Huma Fishbone Clan, the Maoxue Clan does not hunt heads. But don't think that the Mao Blood Clan is more civilized than other civilizations.

They don't hunt heads, but they ...... Cannibalism.

We're Mao-blooded, we're cannibals, right? Just ask if you're afraid.

At this time, the patriarch of the Mao blood clan was convening the clan elders in the community.

He has an oily black face, a pork chop nose, and nose hair that is more than an inch long, and his appearance is extremely ugly. But he was very strong and strong.

Without saying a few words, he felt a little hungry, he licked his lips, and suddenly shouted to a student outside the door: "Tuo Suo!" ”

"Great patriarch...... "The one named Tuo Suo came in.

"Tuosuo ......," said Lu, "slaughter a Han man and eat it at night." ”

Tuo Suo smiled, revealing a mouthful of blackened teeth, and said, "Is it the murderer or the mother?" ”

He smacked his mouth, grinned cruelly, and his nose hair was shaking, "Kill the man, the meat is chewy!" ”

An elderly clan elder said: "It's better to kill your mother, the meat is tender and chewy." ”

Haha laughed, "Kunda, you're old, your teeth are gone!" ”