Chapter 206: Plate Armor
Two days later, Wancheng.
Zongzheng Liu Bao came to announce the edict, but Guan Yu hesitated and refused to accept it, the news was too sudden.
Liu Bao persuaded: "Duke Song and His Majesty have a deep and broad relationship, and there is a friendship between father and son, and brotherhood. Today, the heir of the Song Dynasty is enshrined in the Yin Shang Temple, and he is a guest of the Han Dynasty, which is really something that His Majesty is sincerely happy to see, why hesitate? ”
"Zongzheng, I'm afraid it will make people laugh."
Guan Yu hesitated and asked, "How did Xiaoxian reply?" ”
"Xiahou happily agreed, and said that the friendship between the monarch and the minister is sincere and can be seen through the ages, and it should be accepted, and there is no need to learn from Cao Pi to usurp or not."
Liu Bao replied with a smile: "After Duke Song is ordered here, he will also send an envoy to Yizhou to announce His Majesty's kindness to Duke Wei." ”
If Guan Yu didn't agree, how could Zhang Fei agree?
"Your Majesty's kindness, a certain ......"
Guan Yu's face turned even redder, and in the next words, he was Song Gong, the eldest son Shanghou, and the second son Hanshouhou; Son-in-law Chen Gong, daughter princess, and two future grandsons, one Xiahou and one Wudanghou.
Looking at the former Han Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty, can there be such a portal as Longsheng?
It can almost be described like this: Liu and Guan, the world.
In addition to the throne, Liu Bei has given everything he can give.
Liu Bao stuffed the edict into Guan Yu's hand, and comforted him in a harmonious voice: "Song Gong is calm, this is just a false name." To be conquered in the Central Plains, His Majesty will divide the land of the Central Plains and use the feudal Song Wei Chen Sanjun State and the Xia Shang Zhou Marquis State. ”
Guan Yu looked down at the fluttering edict in his hand, and in this way he became 'Han General Song Gongyu', Zhang Fei would transform into 'Han Che Cavalry General Wei Gongfei', and Tian Xin was more normal 'Han Zhengbei General Xiahou Xin'.
The more formal the occasion, you don't even need to call your surname and real name, just call Song Gong, Wei Gong, and Xiahou.
Because it is Sanke, it is both Hanchen and Hanbin.
In terms of etiquette, it is different from the ministers, and it is congenital to enter the court, praise and worship, and go to the temple with a sword.
There is no need to kneel to the emperor, and you can sit alone during the court.
Now if Lai Min dares to scold Tian Xin again, Tian Xin will be killed on the spot.
The last Peng Yi, who scolded Liu Bei for being 'old and ridiculous', is still in the Chengdu prison and is moldy, and he also loses Xiangfan, Maicheng, and successive big victories, Liu Bei has no heart to deal with Peng Yi, so he still has a life.
Scolding Tian Xin is no different from scolding Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and there are insinuations that Sang scolds Huai.
Liu Bei suddenly sealed Sanke, Tian Xin didn't have much feeling, but it brought unexpected joy.
Upgraded, it was so unexpected, I didn't expect it.
Tian Xin, Grade 14.
Constitution 19; Intelligence 14; Glamour 35;
Talent 1: Level 6 Iron Bone;
Talent 2: Level 6 Strike;
Talent 3: Level 6 Iron Wall;
Talent four; Level 6 Walking;
Talent 5: Level 6 Healing.
Remaining talents can be added to the number of points: three.
This level of promotion is too bizarre, although it is Xiahou who is entitled, but it is actually no different from Chen Gong.
As long as he and Guan Ji work hard, when they can't say that the decisive battle in the Central Plains, they can use the 'Chen Gong' battle flag, instead of the somewhat overflowing 'Xiahou' battle flag.
There is not much that can be done at present, in addition to trying to increase the population, the only thing that can be done is to go to the smelting field on the bank of the Danshui River to study smelting together, and the second is to expand the army to 5,000 people and prepare for winter training.
After all, he didn't know much about farming, so the planting of wheat and rape in autumn and winter was handed over to Pang Lin to continue to be responsible; The city construction work was mainly handled by uncles Tian Rui and Yang Yi.
Now there is a method of frying steel, and I still don't know much about it, but many of the terms that I have an impression in my mind, such as the steel wrapping method, the steel filling method, tempering, covering the soil and burning the blade, urine, and grease quenching, these words are still useful.
You don't need to know more, as long as you give the craftsmen a better treatment, and then provide improvement ideas when the site is stable, these professional craftsmen can always try and experiment with some results.
There is no hurry to urge craftsmen to build steel armor and weapons, and now the goal is only to increase the production of steel to make agricultural tools...... The quality requirements are not high, what you want is the output.
Otherwise, as far as armor is concerned, at least the material of 'ten-fold steel' must be used, and the spear blade must also reach 'five-fold steel' at the very least.
As the name suggests, this is the number of folds when the material is forged.
The manufacture of armor and weapons is a loss-making thing, the production efficiency of armor is low, and agricultural productivity can not be improved, measured by grain production, how to look at how to lose, to avoid this kind of input is lower than output.
Therefore, the Danshui smelter did not touch the manufacture of weapons and armor at first, and only carried out the manufacture of the simplest agricultural tools.
As production expanded, it was not too late for gifted craftsmen to come together to study new techniques.
He didn't even understand the existing method of frying steel, and Tian Xin couldn't really do much, so he had to forge the new armor by himself.
Nineteen points of physique, strength and endurance are two points three times that of ordinary people, and there is a talent bonus...... He is a good figure for striking iron, and the efficiency of striking iron is very high.
Now there is Mingguang armor, and the protection of Mingguang armor focuses on two pieces of heart goggles on the chest that are polished and smooth like mirrors, and Tian Xin has to personally forge larger steel armor pieces and develop towards 'light waist armor'.
The characteristic of the bare waist armor is that the waist is protruding like a large steel plate like a beer belly, wearing this kind of armor, the waist will reflect light, hence the name bare waist armor.
On the contrary, I don't rely much on the heart guards of the Mingguang armor, most of the frontal enemies and arrows can be repulsed, and the two heart guards of the Mingguang armor do not need to be strengthened, but the sides and the back need to be strengthened.
With the bright light armor and the light waist armor...... That is simply in place in one step, cold forging a simple set of primitive plate armor.
In the decisive battle of Hankou, when Zhu Ran and Han Dang commanded the crossbowmen to shoot, they could be said to be frenzied, and they didn't care about the lives of the Wu soldiers around Tian Xin, and when they saw Tian Xin, they shot intensively.
This is true of the Wu army, and it is likely that the Wei army will also be like this.
Therefore, the armor must be strengthened all over the body, and it is imperative to transform the armor into plates.
The comprehensive performance of the armor is better than that of the plate armor, but what is lacking at present is the ability to defend against arrows.
Originally, there was silk armor like a horse clip outside the armor, and there were seven layers of coarse silk special clothes inside the armor to prevent arrows...... No matter how thick the silk is, it can't compare to the three-millimeter-thick cold-forged steel plate armor.
This made Tian Xin have to think of the Danyang soldiers in the late Han Dynasty, and the Danyang mountain people had the custom of mining iron ore to forge weapons and armor for self-defense.
The armor and weapons should also be made of cold forging and beating in this way, so the original Danyang soldiers were really elite.
When this batch of Danyang soldiers with strong armor was recruited, the follow-up Danyang soldiers were only soldiers from Danyang, and they no longer had the excellent armor and weapons of the original Danyang elite soldiers.
And he cold-forged a set of plate armor that was probably popular in the Sui and Tang dynasties...... Whether it will trigger a comprehensive imitation of the Wei army is no longer so much to care about.
Forging plate armor is already very labor-intensive, and it also consumes man-hours, if the Han army can maintain a fierce offensive, how much plate armor can the Wei army save?
Hundreds of sets of plate armor are of little significance, with the national strength of the Wei State, when will we be able to gather thousands of sets of plate armor?
Plate armor is different from stirrups, stirrups are dead at the sight of light, and as soon as they appear, they can be circulated at low cost and high efficiency.
Plate armor is worth what you pay for, the materials are good, and the plate armor made by Seiko is meaningful.
Otherwise, if the material is inferior and the process is simple, it is just the shape of a plate armor, with one arrow and one hole, and the performance is far inferior to the armor.
Thinking about these things, Tian Xin also cold-forged this set of plate armor called bare waist armor with a fluke mentality, and how much trouble it will cause can only be known later.
At a time when Ji Han was causing fluctuations due to the three awards, Sun Quan and Cao Pi were also worried about next year's war.
If the Han army continued its eastward crusade, it would only require Liu Bei and Ma Chao to defend Nanyang, and Guan Yu and Tian Xin to lead 50,000 people to the east, which would be enough to sweep Jiangdong.
Cao Pi has to consider whether to fully mobilize, and perhaps he can continue to lead the troubles to the east and delay it for another year.
Every year that drags on, the probability of Liu Bei and Guan Yu dying of old age is one point greater; The reserve soldiers of Wei can be about 10,000 more, and the more abundant the grain reserves.
It is even possible to use the method of consuming food to exhaust the stamina of the Han army.
Without stamina, the Han army can recuperate for two or three years before it can continue to march, and the advantage of the Wei army will be greater.