The general was right, because the speed of the expansion of the army was too fast, and the supply of equipment could not be supplied at all, although Altic was supported by the weapons and equipment of the Tang Empire, but they were all weapons used for attack, and in terms of armor, the Tang Dynasty did not provide any equipment to Artik.

The existing helmets and armor of the army in the city are owned and captured by Artik himself, and in order to counter the threat, Altic's quartermaster department has put more energy on making weapons, Ken Ben has no time to take care of the problem of armor, if you pay attention to armor, the supply of weapons for attack will be insufficient, then the problem will be greater, soldiers can fight without armor, if there are no weapons, wearing armor and helmets can only be passively cut down by the enemy, the consequences will be more serious.

In the army of any era, weapons have always been the top priority, only an army with a large number of weapons, in order to effectively kill and injure the enemy, so as to better protect themselves, and only when the weapons and equipment are complete, and the army resources are sufficient, will begin to consider the problem of armor.

Armor can reflect the combat effectiveness of the army, but weapons are the foundation of an army, and the relationship between the succession cannot be mistaken, and the importance of weapons will always be higher than armor.

In the case of insufficient supply of helmets, most of the soldiers can only choose to wrap a turban on the top of their heads, and the defense power of the cloth is far lower than that of the standard helmet, which has no effect at all, so it has caused a large number of soldiers to be injured in the head, causing great casualties to the defending army.

To change this, it is necessary to put helmets on the soldiers, but there is no helmet stock in the city, which makes everything very tricky and difficult for the generals.

The young general of the Tang Dynasty listened to the words of the general in front of him, and said very angrily: "Only the most elite soldiers and horses wear helmets, so tell me now, where are the most elite troops, and what are they doing at the moment?" ”

The general shrugged his shoulders and spoke, "They are the most elite troops under the command of the city lord, and they are on standby in the large camp, and reinforcements here may be available at any time. ”

The Tang junior general smiled: "Okay, I understand, that is to say, these most elite troops are still hiding in the camp to sleep at the moment, people can sleep, but the helmet should not sleep with it, and the helmet should be brought to the soldiers who are fighting." ”

"This? I can't be the master, I have to get the consent of the city lord. ”

The general spoke.

"Go, see your lord."

The young general of the Tang Dynasty opened his mouth and walked towards the gate tower where Artik is located, that is, the gate tower of the main city, not the gate tower of the urn city, because at this moment, the gate tower of the urn city is experiencing a fierce battle, so Artik will not run to take risks?

"City Lord, there is something I must ask you for."

The general asked respectfully.

"What's the matter, let's talk about it!"

Artik asked.

"The casualties of the soldiers are relatively large, and many of them have head injuries, and if there were helmets, the casualties would definitely be reduced a lot."

The general spoke.

"Helmets, do we still have helmets in stock?"

Artik wondered.

The general said cautiously: "City Lord, there is no inventory in the inventory, but there are troops in the army, and they have not yet participated in the battle." ”

"You kid can! I actually hit the idea on my elite soldiers and horses, no, that is the protective gear of the most elite soldiers and horses, how can I compensate other troops. ”

Altick felt that this request was unreasonable.

The young general of the Tang Dynasty took a step forward and said: "City Lord, your elite troops are resting in the city, and it is a waste for them to keep helmets, it is better to use them for the soldiers guarding the city first, and after they reinforce the city wall, they can naturally get helmets again, to put it simply, helmets, which are scarce armor, should all be left on the city walls, not in the city." ”

"Leave all the helmets on the walls, this, well! Since General Tang has said so, then it will be done, and the order will go down, collect all the helmets of the troops in the city, transport them to the various city walls, and only use them for the soldiers defending the city, and after the removal of men and horses, the helmets should be left on the city walls to supply the next wave of troops. ”

Artik felt that what the Tang junior general said had some truth, since these helmets could reduce the casualties of his own troops, why not supply them to his own garrison troops? It's all at this point, so I can't care about it so much, and I can't lose my helmet anyway.

Soon, all the helmets of Artik's most elite troops were confiscated, and the soldiers and horses fighting on the front line could finally have reliable head armor, which reduced their casualties, even if it was only a small percentage, which was considerable.

It is not enough to have a helmet alone, because the helmet can only protect one place on the head, and many of the soldiers and horses defending the city have to expose their entire heads to the outside, and the front face is easy to be attacked by arrows, and the neck is a very weak link.

These parts have also caused considerable casualties, but there is no corresponding armor in the city, and these armor Datang junior generals have, that is, full protection iron masks, eyes are tempered glass, and the neck also has a falling flexible ring armor, which can be very effective in defending against the attack of cold weapons, which can be called an artifact of defensive operations, but it is a pity that such high-end armor is impossible to support Altic, and the corresponding manufacturing machines are still in Chang'an City, and Li An has no way to carry out large-scale manufacturing overseas.

The very small amount of equipment carried by the young general of the Tang Dynasty is for his own use, as long as Artik lets him participate in the battle, he will wear such equipment, and at this moment, since Artik has no intention of letting himself join the battle, he plans to contribute this equipment to the little generals in the city, although there are only a few pieces, but it can also play a little role.

Of course, for the large garrison of the city, such equipment is hard to come by, and in order to reduce their casualties, it is necessary to create a kind of equipment that can defend the faces of the soldiers as soon as possible, even if it can only reduce the casualties by one percent, that is good.

There are not many iron resources in Maia City, but there are still a lot of wood and bamboo chips, and wood can be used to make wooden masks with holes, the wood does not need to be too thick, as long as it can resist arrows, as for being hit in the face by stones, it can only be your bad luck, and no one else is to blame.

It can take a long time to make a wooden mask that fits the human face perfectly, but if you lower the requirements and create a similar face mask with a certain curved shape, it will be too easy, as long as it can serve the purpose of defending against arrows, it will be considered a successful product and can be put into use.

Protecting the face can be solved with a wooden mask, and to solve the defense of the neck and upper chest, you need to use bamboo chips, using small bamboo pieces and cloth, you can completely create a more flexible armor that can protect the neck and upper chest, because the soldiers defending the city only have these places exposed, so the rest of the part does not need to be protected, so it can also better save costs.

After making these requests, Artik decided that he could give it a try, so he asked his subordinates to arrange for craftsmen to create armor specially designed to defend the city, so as to reduce the number of casualties among his soldiers.

It also takes time to manufacture these special armors, and on the basis of the huge number of requirements, it takes even longer to manufacture, but at the beginning, it is enough to make a batch, a quantity of about a hundred, and it takes a day.

Soon, thousands of helmets were transported to the various city walls, and all the soldiers defending the walls had helmets that could defend against damage, which greatly boosted the morale of the defending soldiers, at least, they had a sense of being valued, and this was very important.

The materials and styles of these helmets are different, some are iron, some are copper, and rattan is made, and there are leather helmets, and the styles are even more varied, there are *** styles, there are also Western styles, and there are can't tell what style it is, which fully explains the complexity of the sources of these weapons, however, the number of other styles is not much, and no matter what style, the role of the helmet is to protect the head, as long as it can play a protective role.

All the soldiers want to get the best quality helmets, if in peacetime, it is inevitable that there will be a scramble, but at the moment the enemy army is attacking the city, huge stones fall on the city wall from time to time, which makes them have no time to fight for helmets, get a suitable one and stay on top of their heads, and then continue the battle, shoot the soldiers and horses outside the city, and the soldiers of the catapults will throw a large number of stones outside the city and attack the enemy outside the city.

The soldiers and horses in the city suddenly wore helmets, which made the soldiers and horses attacking outside the city slightly startled, and hurriedly reported the situation to the main general Qi Yade.

"General, the soldiers and horses in the city are suddenly wearing helmets, and it seems that their elite troops have been dispatched."

The subordinate reported and told Ziyad of his judgment.

When Qi Yade heard this, he was slightly happy, and said: "In just a few moments, Artik can't hold on, and he actually uses his elite troops, it seems that it is not difficult to break through the city." ”

Obviously, after hearing the news, Ziyad also made the same judgment as his subordinates, he also thought that this was the rotation of soldiers and horses in the city, and the troops in the new city were the most elite soldiers and horses in Artik, after all, he was relatively clear about the situation in the city, he knew very well that only the most elite soldiers and horses in Artik were equipped with helmets, and the total number was only a few thousand, and he also knew the number of soldiers and horses in the city, so he was very excited to see these elite soldiers and horses put into battle, and felt that this was a very good phenomenon, This seems to indicate that the original defensive miscellaneous troops can't withstand it, so they can only let the most elite troops go to the city to defend, and only need to grind these most elite soldiers and horses to death, and the defensive force in the city will be completely finished.

The thought of soon being able to break through the defense of Maia City and enter the city to take over the city, Ziyad's heart was very excited, and even a little fierce.

When attacking the city, the more heavy the casualties of the troops, after breaking the city, the more fierce the revenge they have to carry out, and this attack on Maia City, almost all of the elite 3,000 soldiers under the command of Qi Yad were killed, which made him very angry, as long as the city was breached, he would slaughter the entire city of soldiers and horses, in order to avenge the death of the elite soldiers and horses.

Of course, in addition to slaughtering the people, he also has to give enough benefits to the soldiers participating in the war, allowing the soldiers to loot at will is a must to do, and robbing the people's women is even more legal and can no longer be legal, in short, how comfortable you can come, you can do whatever you want, as long as you can attack the city, everything is up to him.

The defense of the city is very tight, so he must use a large number of soldiers and horses to carry out continuous attacks, and he can't stop for a moment, anyway, he has a sufficient number of soldiers and horses, and he can completely rotate them, and he doesn't have to worry about the situation that he can't rotate at all.

When one unit is tired, it allows the other to join the battle and withdraw the previous troops. Using the wheel war to constantly consume the defensive strength of the soldiers and horses in the city, anyway, they have more troops, and there are many ordinary people who have been looted, and they can afford to spend it completely.

The progress of Ziyad's siege was relatively fast, because the catapults of the defending side were constantly attacking with stones, and many of these stones fell in the trenches, thus filling the trenches a lot higher, which was conducive to the siege operations of the attacking side.

By the time it was almost dark, the first trench had been largely filled, and the army under Ziyad had approached the second trench and filled it in, and the crossbowmen in the second trench had fled to the first trench.

The continuous attacks of the defenders did not stop the offensive of Ziyad's army, and the form was still not optimistic, but by wearing helmets, the casualties of the defenders and horses at the city gates did reduce a lot, and many soldiers picked up a life because of the protection of helmets.

But on the whole, the casualties are still relatively large, after a day of siege, there are more than 1,000 casualties in the direction of the north gate alone, and the remaining three city gates add up to 1,000 people, the total number of casualties is about 2,000, of which one-fifth is killed, and the rest are lightly and seriously wounded.

The lightly wounded could continue to take part in the battle, while the seriously wounded had to return to the city to recuperate, and in short, after a day's fighting, the men and horses defending the gates lost 2,000 men, which was not a small number.

Not only the loss of soldiers and horses is relatively large, and, after continuous rotation of defense, all the soldiers are very tired, the defense of each city gate is divided into three waves of men and horses for rotation, and a whole day, three waves of men and horses have been rotated once, all the soldiers are very tired, of course, the same is true of the soldiers and horses outside the city, they are also very tired, in this point is very fair.

The lost soldiers and horses must be replenished, otherwise, it will affect the next battle, and the troops must be replenished immediately.