Although the imperial court did not make preparations, Jinan had already begun various pre-war preparations, from a few small earthen pillars to the placement of artillery. Of course, the reason is very simple - to use the winter leisure to recruit the people to serve as officials and serve on official errands. Even the village soldiers began to gather and practice under the pretext of winter leisure. In short, winter idleness became the only excuse.

Although the outside world doesn't know, he always knows some rumors about the relatives around the prince like Liang Minghai, so Liang Minghai said to the prince that he had suppressed the idea for several days.

"Lord Shizi, when I went to the warehouse to pull the cannon a while ago, I saw that there were a lot of iron cabinets idle over there, and those iron cabinets were all made of high-quality stainless steel."

Iron cabinets?

Hearing this, Zhu Guoqiang was stunned for a moment, and then remembered what he said.

"Oh, you mean those sets...... Iron cabinet, what's wrong? ”

In order to facilitate the "transportation" of scattered materials, Zhu Guoqiang spent a lot of effort to find that the specifications of 10 tons of railway containers are similar to the size limit of the materials crossed. However, he didn't think about the usefulness of containers, and after he reminded him, there were indeed some difficulties.

"The villain thinks that the steel is a bit of a waste if it is left there, if it can be used to make armor, it is not a good way!"

"Armor?"

"Yes, Shizi, it's armor, although we have nearly 20,000 sets of armor that captured Jiannu, but if we really fight, we have almost 100,000 Ding Zhuang, and this armor is still a little lacking, so I think I might as well use those stainless steel to make armor."

Craft armor!

Liang Minghai's suggestion immediately made a picture that immediately appeared in Zhu Guoqiang's mind - plate armor!

Container steel plate!

That's a great material for making plate armor!

As soon as he reminded him, Zhu Guoqiang realized that he seemed to have fallen into a misunderstanding, and he had been focusing on the construction of armaments such as cannons and muskets, and even the musket parts ordered from another world...... However, firearms are easy to manufacture, but training to use them, especially officers, is a time-consuming and laborious process.

And to provide 100,000 muskets is also a big project, although it is possible to order musket parts from another world to assemble here, but that is 100,000...... This is too risky.

Now being reminded by Liang Minghai, Zhu Guoqiang suddenly realized that it seemed too wasteful for those containers to be left there, besides, he really needed armor on his side, after all, it was inevitable to engage in hand-to-hand combat at this time, and wearing a bright armor was definitely more scary than holding a musket.

"Armor, well, yes, Narumi, your suggestion is good, I think it's okay, but this armor can't be made casually, I think it's ...... Well, let's go back and let the craftsmen in the factory make new Western armor according to the pattern! ”

The so-called "Western armor" is naturally plate armor.

The drawings of the plate armor do not even need to be deliberately searched, and it is easy to find a full set of drawings from the Internet.

The drawings are ready-made, the tools are also ready-made - there are ready-made hydraulic hammers at the factory, and even the steel plates are in stock in large quantities, not only are there dozens of cold-rolled steel plates with a thickness of 1.5 mm to 2 mm on railway containers to be disassembled, but Zhu Guoqiang can buy hundreds of tons of cold-rolled steel plates from the market at any time if he wants.

The only question is how to use the ......

"Armor, Heavy Infantry, ......"

Staring at the captured iron armor of the self-built slave in the room, his eyes turned to another set of plate armor bought from Taobao, this set of armor was used as a sample.

Zhu Guoqiang muttered to himself.

"In the future, I will also use heavy infantry to overcome heavy infantry?"

The reason why Zhu Guoqiang is so six is because unlike what many people imagine, the Jiannu Eight Banners, known as the "Chinese Cavalry Shooting", have continuously strengthened their armament level since their inception, especially the armor protection of the heavy infantry. The hoplites among them were the most important presence on the East Asian continent in this era. The heavy armor they used had a good protective effect against the firearms and bows and arrows of the Ming army.

To confront it, it is necessary to have its own large-scale forces of heavy infantry. Of course, this is not the only choice, in fact, Zhu Guoqiang can completely choose a musket, using a large-caliber musket against armor, in fact, in Europe at this time, plate armor is in a position of being eliminated.

In fact, the birth of plate armor is actually very embarrassing, a bit like a martial arts master who has practiced hard for thirty years to achieve peerless martial arts, and on the way down the mountain, he fought a few slimes and thieves with kitchen knives, and walked into the city in high spirits, and found that all masters were playing with arquebuses...... He used what he had learned all his life to catch two pistol bullets, and the third flew in, which was fired by Heavy Muskett, a generation of masters, Sudden.

"But the canned soldiers are scary!"

Talking to himself, Zhu Guoqiang's mind appeared in the picture of a phalanx of thousands of canned soldiers, such canned soldiers appeared on the battlefield, how much deterrent power would be for the people of the Ming Dynasty in this era, and there was no need to imagine it at all.

Thousands of "canned soldiers", when they appear on the land of Qilu, what will those people be shocked into, this effect is definitely not comparable to thousands of muskets, not to mention that in hand-to-hand combat, troops equipped with heavy armor often have an unparalleled advantage. And even the musketeers need to fight hand-to-hand in the end. Of course, the more important point is that now their own officers are more familiar with cold weapon warfare.

"Actually, use the" canned soldier " to go hand-to-hand combat, to ...... Trapped? ”

Trapped?

When this word came to mind, Zhu Guoqiang naturally thought of the trapping camp of the Three Kingdoms, this unique force, which was small in number, but extremely brave in battle.

"There are more than 700 soldiers, numbered 1,000 people, the armor is all refined and neat, and each attack is broken, which is called 'trapping camp'...... Tsk, good, good......"

Knocking on the Taobao version of the plate armor, Zhu Guoqiang's eyes narrowed into a slit.

"It's not impossible to trap in a camp, why do you have to be in a musket and spear formation? What if you shoot from a distance with a musket, and then get into battle with a canned soldier? ”

At this moment, a picture seemed to emerge in front of his eyes, the picture was exciting, thousands of "canned soldiers" were charging into battle, Buddha blocking and killing Buddha, and God blocking and killing God. It was a ...... scene

In this era, these "canned soldiers" wearing plate armor made of high-quality cold-rolled steel plates of the 21st century are absolutely rampant on the battlefield, and can even be said to be invincible.

After all, an ordinary bow and musket is basically ineffective unless it is at close range. Where are they "canned soldiers", they are clearly a group of "human tanks" of the 17th century!

"When the time comes, this will be my tank unit! ……”

Zhu Guoqiang, who was immersed in that picture, touched the set of silver plate armor and said to himself,

"You are standing there obediently...... Let's cut off the head! ”

Just when he was excited, a voice outside the door interrupted his thoughts.

"Lord Shizi, there is news from the capital."

Before Shi Lei entered the house with his front feet, the voice came in.

"Lord Shizi, as you expected, Jiannu broke through the wall and entered the customs!"