October 1st, because it is the lunar calendar, it is already winter.

Outside the Xuande Gate in Miyagi, the flags were flying, and the soldiers wore bright light armor and sealed the Xuande Gate Square.

The military uniforms of the five dynasties and ten countries all follow the Tang system, and there are as many as thirteen styles of Tang armor, which are divided into metal, leather, silk, and the armor has chains, fine lines, mountain patterns, etc.

After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, from 962, armor began to be improved.

Nowadays, it is more subdivided on the basis of the military uniform of the Tang Dynasty, forming the best protective armor in ancient China.

In particular, the infantry armor of the Song Dynasty is definitely the pinnacle of ancient Chinese armor, with complex craftsmanship and the heaviest.

Taking the infantry armor of the forbidden army as an example, each piece of armor has a minimum of 1,600 pieces of armor, and a maximum of more than 1,800 pieces, with a total weight of nearly 30 kilograms.

Infantry armor was further subdivided into four types, with snake spearmen armor being the heaviest, thirty-two to thirty-five kilograms. The armor of the broadswordsman was slightly lighter, also twenty-nine to thirty-two kilograms.

The armor of the archers was slightly lighter, from twenty-five kilograms to twenty-eight kilograms, and the lightest was the armor of the crossbow archer, which was designed to be between twenty kilograms and twenty-five kilograms for the sake of convenience.

Although in Zhao Dezhao's eyes, the armor of the Ming Dynasty is the best-looking, but in terms of protection, it is still not as good as the armor of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, there are also historical reasons for this, because the Song Dynasty has never occupied the north, and horses are scarce, so it can only develop infantry.

The Ming Dynasty was the dynasty with the most horses in addition to the Qing Dynasty, and the rapid development of cavalry meant that there was less support for infantry.

In the last time and space, Zhu Zhanji developed the musket at the beginning, and the importance of armor was further reduced, and even in the end, except for helmets, almost no armor was equipped.

Because I am the only one who fights you, you can't fight me at all, what do you need armor for?

Pei Ge'an saw that Zhao Dezhao put on a set of majestic white armor and a red cloak with the help of his inner servant, and couldn't help but step forward and hug him.

"It's worthy of my husband, very majestic. However, hurry up and grow your beard, and it will be even more charming at that time. ”

Pei Ge'an liked Zhao Dezhao's beard the most in his previous life, and when he kissed her, his short mustache tied her skin, and she couldn't help herself every time.

Although the current Zhao Dezhao is exactly the same as in his previous life, he is only fifteen years old, and his beard is still fluffy, which makes her very dissatisfied.

"If you're bored, have someone bring a ladder and lean against the wall. You can't see the gate tower, but you can see the square. ”

"There's nothing to see, I'm busy checking the pulp today, so I don't have time to watch the excitement."

"Okay, then you hurry up and study, in ancient times, there was no toilet paper, and it was really sinful to wipe your buttocks."

Pei Ge'an pays special attention to the quality of life, and the lack of toilet paper in ancient times is simply her biggest grievance.

It was too hard to wipe her butt with white paper, so she wiped it with a cloth every time and then washed it again.

And this cloth is embarrassed to let others wash it, she can only wash it herself every time.

Now she stares at the rotten pool in her backyard every day, obsessed with making toilet paper.

Zhao Dezhao walked out of the gate of the East Palace, followed by Tong Liang, Yuan Burang and the two deputy heads Chang Fu and Yu Quan.

Now the farm is not afraid of Zhao Guangyi's decision, but Zhao Kuangyin attaches great importance to iron technology and sends two hundred forbidden troops to protect it, and Liu Xiao still wants to stay there to preside over the overall situation.

The three of them were all fully armed, wearing heavy armor and entering the Xuande Gate, and then went directly from the urn city to the city gate tower.

When he saw Zhao Dezhao, he smiled and hugged his fists and said: "Second brother, the matter discussed yesterday has been arranged, and today the north of the city has mobilized a large number of forbidden troops, all of whom are good in the army. After the flag is awarded, you can go hunting in the north of the city with Chongxun and them. ”

"There's Uncle Lao Han. Has my third uncle arrived? ”

"Zhongshu Ling entered the palace, I am afraid that I will come out with the official family. Xingyuan Yin is here, upstairs. ”

As he was talking, on the second floor of the city gate tower, Zhao Tingmei leaned out half of his body. "Second brother, come up and have a look."

Zhao Dezhao and Yuan Bu nodded, and the three of them stayed on the city wall to chat and fart with their comrades.

Taking Tong Liang into the house, Zhao Dezhao took a look at the layout of Xuande Building and shook his head gently.

The main entrance tower of this palace is nothing more than a lump of sheep on the outside, and although it looks good on the outside, it is extremely simple on the inside.

Compared with the Ming Imperial Palace, the regulations and scale here are much smaller.

Going upstairs along the wooden stairs, there were only Zhao Tingmei and his personal attendant Xu Shaogong upstairs.

Tong Liang and Xu Shaogong hugged each other's fists, and deliberately walked to the other side, leaving the space for the uncle and nephew.

Zhao Tingmei put her arm around Zhao Dezhao's shoulders and said with a smile: "Tell me, what is there on Shannan West Road that you are worried about, and you have to hide it from me." ”

Zhao Dezhao smiled and said, "Why don't you ask your father the fourth uncle?" ”

"Nonsense, I dare to ask him, why bother asking you?"

Zhao Dezhao smiled bitterly: "You don't dare to ask your father, and I don't dare to tell you!" ”

Zhao Tingmei became more and more enthusiastic and set up friendship. "My uncle and nephew have grown up together, and I've always been courteous to you, right? Don't you know that I'm curious and can't bear to let me scratch my liver and lungs? ”

Zhao Dezhao said with a smile: "The stakes are so high, I really don't dare to say it, you will know next year." ”

"You kid...... Well, let me ask you, what is it about? ”

"Weapons, a new weapon."

Zhao Dezhao crossed over for a good time, and Sichuan happened to be attacked and became the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although there are now many rebellions, they are mainly concentrated in the southern part of Chengdu.

Laojun Mountain in the Jiangyou area is located on the Shu Road leading to Shaanxi in the north, and it is quite stable here.

This is the only natural saltpeter production area in China other than Xijiang, and if Zhao Dezhao wants to develop muskets, gunpowder production must be put on the plan.

With the experience of the Ming Dynasty, the current primary gunpowder technology does not need to be studied at all, and Zhao Dezhao directly came up with a plan for the production of granular gunpowder that is easy to transport.

In order to facilitate secrecy, gunpowder production will also be placed in Xiangyang.

However, saltpeter had to be mined and transported from Sichuan, and as for charcoal and sulfur, the two main materials were more common and could be collected from all over the country.

Later, he conquered Hokkaido, where there was enough natural sulfur to produce gunpowder that would destroy the earth.

Today's gunpowder is mainly a by-product of Taoist alchemy, and there are already fireworks.

However, saltpeter is hard to find, and today's gunpowder production is very small.

In order to keep it secret, before the musket of the Great Song Dynasty was manufactured, it would take some time to mine saltpeter in Laojun Mountain.

Zhao Tingmei is still an eighteen-year-old guy with no scheming, and Zhao Dezhao is not guarding against him, mainly because he is afraid that he will get drunk and brag and leak this matter.

But he was the envoy of Shannan Xidao, and Zhao Kuangyin sent someone to Xichuan to give an order, so that the local government was responsible for mining Laojun Mountain, and called Cao Bin, who participated in the counterinsurgency, back, and this matter could not be concealed from him.

After getting the answer, Zhao Tingmei was satisfied, and said with a smile: "When the weapon is made, you must give me insight." ”

Zhao Dezhao deliberately pretended to be angry. "If you see it, you won't have it."

He looked at the horizontal knife on Zhao Dezhao's waist. "Isn't that again!"

The two chatted for a while, and saw that the newly formed Xiongwu Army and Xiaoxiong Army in front of the square had begun to enter the field and line up.

The Xiongwu army was all dressed in armor and was majestic, compared to the Xiaoxiong army in riding uniform, which looked a little chaotic because they did not enter the field on horseback.

However, in terms of momentum, they are not inferior to the Xiongwu Army at all.

For a long period of time, the superiority of the cavalry was stronger than that of the infantry.

Two generous array teams entered the field, neatly arranged. In front of each large phalanx, there was a mountain of copper coins, as well as a stack of military flags.

In ancient times, soldiers didn't have any feelings for their family and country, they were all for promotion and wealth, and for food.

Without money, it is almost impossible to get soldiers to serve.

Zhao Dezhao also noticed several generals in front of the Xiongwu military formation who had cloaks outside their armor and feathers on their helmets, but they didn't know which one was Wang Jixun.

"History of the Song Dynasty, Chronicles of the 140th Soldier 1, Forbidden Army" records that on the first day of October (the third year of Qiande), the Imperial Martial Arts Hall read all the soldiers, and more than 10,000 people were obtained.

With the cavalry as the hero, the infantry army as the hero, and subordinate to the guard, and ordered the king to succeed the lord and give the money to marry a wife.

Following Xun Zong's daytime robbery, the street envoy can't stop it.

The emperor was furious, and hundreds of people were killed, and Yan Chenghan of the Little Yellow Gate saw that he did not play, and he also had dozens of rods.

In order to win the morale of the army, Wang Jixun was still not satisfied after receiving the reward, and deliberately indulged the soldiers to rob the people's daughters as daughters-in-law when they left Kaifeng Mansion, and the local officials were helpless.

Although Zhao Kuangyin was furious and beheaded hundreds of people, he did not deal with Wang Jixun.

It was just a matter of getting rid of his official position, seizing his title, and exiled him to Dengzhou.

Moreover, before Wang Jixun could go to the place of exile, Zhao Kuangyin reassigned him to the position of deputy head of the right prison gate.

This incident can show that Zhao Kuangyin's mentality is not an emperor, just a warlord.

As long as it works for me, I'll keep you.

As for eating a few women, it's not a big deal.

In fact, in addition to Wang Jixun, there was another general in the early Song Dynasty who was extremely cruel, but Zhao Dezhao liked it, that is, Wang Yansheng, the training envoy of the Shenzhou regiment.

Because Wang Jixun eats the weak women of his country, while Wang Yansheng eats the ears of the enemy.

When Wang Yansheng was guarding Yuanzhou, he treated the party members who broke the law very cruelly.

He summoned his subordinates to a feast and tore out the prisoner's ears with his hands in public to accompany the wine. The prisoner was bleeding all over the ground and did not dare to move.

During the period of guarding Yuanzhou, Wang Yansheng ate hundreds of people's ears before and after, which made the party members afraid and did not dare to harass Biansai again.

If Wang Jixun eats the enemy, Zhao Dezhao will not hate him, but it is unforgivable to eat a weak woman!

The gongs and drums on the city wall sounded, and Zhao Dezhao knew that this was the emperor coming, so he and Zhao Tingmei hurriedly went downstairs.

Coming to the mouth of the city wall, Zhao Kuangyin walked up to the city wall vigorously, but Zhao Guangyi, who came up behind him, was out of breath.

Seeing that his face was pale and his waist couldn't stand up, Zhao Dezhao didn't mention how comfortable he felt in his heart.