Chapter 350: Plate Armor Comes Out
Wang Yuyan's three daughters were afraid after hearing Zhao Zhen's story, and they were really afraid that everyone began to reject their bedrooms, especially Yang Caiwei has been staying in the palace almost after entering the palace, thinking about the gloomy palace, even in the hot summer, it is extremely cold!
For the two pregnant daughters, the child in the womb is the most important, and there can be no mistakes, so Wang Yuyan and Yang Caiwei decided to live in the Funing Hall in the future and not go anywhere! Who knows how much mercury was poured that year? In case a little bit of survival happens to be caught up by your own children......
After the mercury incident, Zhao Zhen was not in the mood to go out of the palace, holding his daughter in the back garden slowly, mixed-race children are good-looking, human beings are the advanced products of life evolution, the biggest benefit of mixed blood is that it can optimize genes and absorb the excellent genes of both parents, which is the instinct of biological evolution.
Ling'er in Zhao Zhen's arms is a good example, she has the blood of the Han royal family and some Caucasian blood, the royal blue eyes are the best proof, the whole person is like a doll, pink and cute, a pair of big eyes Even Yang Caiwei is jealous, and the high nose makes Wang Yuyan envious.
Zhao Zhen insisted that Vera breastfeed, even if there was a special nurse in the palace, how could the child eat other people's milk? Zhao Zhen disliked the nurse abnormally, and Wang Yuyan sent all the nurses in the palace home, which is also what she wants, who wants her mother's love to be divided by an irrelevant person?
Today's Tianjia is high in the eyes of outsiders, but it is also the life of ordinary people, or more of a life in the future, Zhao Zhen has been following the lifestyle of the next generation, efficient, comfortable, and enjoying life.
Zhao Zhen has long been prepared for the education of his children, and he must not let the sour Confucianism of the Great Song Dynasty take the children badly, he is a person since thousands of years later, and he has not been imprisoned by Confucianism ideologically, but the children are not necessarily, and the royal family's sect will definitely teach the children to be "honest people" who are limited to the terms and conditions of the article!
Just when Zhao Zhen was about to formulate enlightenment teaching materials for the child, Chen Tong walked quickly to Sancai's side and bit his ear, and after a while, Sancai said in front of Zhao Zhen: "Qijuan's family, Wubei Si Ding Du has come to see you, and he also sent the armor and Mo knife you wanted!" ”
Zhao Zhen nodded slightly: "Let him come in, and by the way, tell him about the palace as well, after all, the general supervisor is also subordinate to the Armed Forces Division." ”
"Yes!"
It wasn't until the third disappeared behind the Moon Gate that Zhao Zhen showed a satisfied smile, but he didn't expect that after a long time of development, the plate armor finally came out!
Mo knife is not difficult to make, according to the gourd painting scoop can be quickly obtained, Zhao Zhen is now the smelting technology of the Great Song Dynasty is very assured, large-scale mining of iron ore is bound to drive the development of smelting technology, soil blast furnace steelmaking is not an difficult thing to achieve.
In fact, there was nothing wrong with the methods of the Great Leap Forward, but at that time, it was a family and a small group, and there were no craftsmen who were familiar with the craft and high-quality iron ore, how could it be possible to make good steel? Some families even throw copper into the blast furnace, and the results can be imagined.
Now the best blast furnace is used in the local steelmaking of the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Zhen has realized all the favorable factors that can be thought of, and the carbon content of the steel smelted in this way is of course very small.
This is the advanced forging technology of the Great Song Dynasty, and many by-products have been obtained through Zeng Gongliang's reforms, such as the raw materials of steel cannons that he accidentally discovered.
Ding Du walked into the side hall of the back garden under the guidance of Sancai, and it was not polite to meet the courtiers in the side hall, but this was no way, when Zhao Zhen learned that the hall was filled with mercury, he retreated from the place full of mercury vapor, and resolutely did not summon the ministers in the hall.
A large box was carried up, and on the side was the Mo knife that Peng Qi held tightly...... Ding Du entered the palace with a Mo knife, but the people of the pro-health department were scared miserably, the six-foot-tall weak scholar holding a seven-foot long knife was really scary, as if he would be thrown out by the Mo knife at any time, and he walked staggeringly, and the little waiter on the side was afraid that this person would cut off his head with a long knife......
Peng Qi could only deign to become a knife holder, but the moment he took the Mo knife, he really wanted to play it, the three-foot-long blade, the four-foot-long handle had an excellent feel, and the wide blade was only three feet long but slightly heavier than the handle, and it was very suitable for wielding under the balance of gravity.
The box was opened, and the golden plate armor appeared in front of Zhao Zhen's eyes, Zhao Zhen looked at the plate armor in surprise and said, "This is not made of pure steel, right?" ”
Ding Du said proudly: "No, this is a hundred steels with a little other ore, which increases the flexibility and is most suitable for blocking heavy weapons such as swords and iron bones. ”
The corners of Zhao Zhen's mouth twitched slightly, this is from practice, and he actually uses people to do the test, but after thinking about it for a while, this is also the truth, there is no advanced measuring equipment in the Great Song Dynasty, and no one can get such accurate data.
Plate armor is a type of armor made from large shaped pieces of metal that have been shaped, and most of the structure is one, which means that the endurance is enhanced, even if it is much better than the Iron Float, which is just a type of cold-forged fish scale armor.
Today's Great Song Bu armor has the reputation of Tiefutu, but compared with the Jin Kingdom of later generations, there is a lack of human and horse armor.
The plate armor is lighter than the step armor, and the protective performance is much better, and the military division creatively applies the arc technology of the Mingguang armor to the plate armor, the arc is more durable than the plane, and the powerful ratchet crossbow can barely shoot through the frontal defense of the plate armor at a distance of fifty steps.
This amazing defensive effect made Zhao Zhen and Peng Qi dumbfounded, in ancient wars, it was generally about three hundred steps to throw crossbow arrows, only a few breaths after a large group of cavalry will come, at this time the crossbow arrows can only shoot flat, or use bows and arrows to assist, if the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the cavalry, are equipped with this kind of plate armor, they can almost carry the main arrow rain and rush to a distance of fifty steps from the enemy, and the cavalry without much damage rushing into the arrow array is simply a massacre, even if there are spears and spears and the like, it can be difficult to hurt the cavalry wearing plate armor.
The most important thing is that the weight of this set of plate armor is not heavier than that of the step armor, but much lighter.
The Great Song Dynasty is dominated by infantry, and under the cover of the cavalry, the infantry of the main formation can come to support, and I believe that the hoplites wearing plate armor and holding Mo knives can completely kill the enemy's main formation!
The significance of these two weapons to the Great Song Dynasty was too great, and Zhao Zhen didn't dare to imagine what the battlefield would be like in the future.
The impact of the generation difference in technology on the battlefield can be seen, the cavalry and infantry of plate armor are like tanks in this era, and the Mo knife and ratchet crossbow are anti-tank equipment, when both are mastered by the Great Song Dynasty, who is competing on the battlefield?
Zhao Zhen looked at Peng Qidao, who was excited with a Mo knife in his hand: "You put on this plate armor, I want to see how it goes!" ”
Peng Qi became extremely frightened, this plate armor is gorgeous and abnormal, and the appearance of a dragon is depicted with golden lines on it, at first glance, it is tailor-made for the official family, how can he wear it.
But in the end, he still succumbed to Zhao Zhen's reprimand, and when the graceful curved plate armor was worn on Peng Qi's body, his whole person seemed to have changed, as if the god of war had descended into the world and was extremely powerful!
It may be a little smaller, and Peng Qi's movements are a little stiff.
Ding Du on the side deftly adjusted the buckle on the plate armor, and the gap in the connection became slightly larger, and Peng Qi, who was unfolded, went into battle with a Mo knife in his hand, and one person was able to face several veterans of the Guards Division, and even could resist the damage of the iron bone duo and put down a few people with the heavy back of the Mo knife.
Zhao Zhen nodded again and again, if on the battlefield, these veterans of the Guards Division had already gone to the first emperor to report...... The armor and Mo sword produced by the Armed Forces Division were brought into full play in Peng Qi's hands, and he was happier than anyone else: "Ding Du, I ask you, in addition to the decorations made by the Imperial Pavilion, what is the value of a set of equipment on Peng Qi's body?" ”
Ding Du replied confidently: "Less than ten dollars!" ”
Yes, within his expectations, Zhao Zhen nodded with satisfaction: "Can you continue to reduce costs?" ”
This made Ding Du start to worry, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Qi Guanjia, my military preparation division has used the assembly line operation method, which is already the fastest in speed, reducing the consumption of manpower, but the cost can not be lower, and the cost can only be reduced from the source of materials. ”
Zhao Zhen was satisfied: "You and Zeng Gongliang are discussing and discussing, to see if we can reduce it, every time you reduce the consistent money, you can save 10,000 or even 100,000 yuan for my Great Song Dynasty military expenses!" ”
Zhao Zhen plans to give the entire Northwest Army and the four guards of the Son of Heaven to change clothes, this time the national defense expenditure will be borne by the treasury and the inner treasury together, to put it bluntly, it is to use their own private money to subsidize military spending, which is an extremely common phenomenon in the Great Song Dynasty, and if you can save it, you can save it, after all, the money in the inner warehouse is still very useful.