The next day, early in the morning, after Liu Yu hurriedly washed up, he rushed to the blacksmith shop, to his surprise, as soon as the sky was bright, there were ants-like handymen and laborers, carrying burdens, from the mountains and forests outside the camp, carrying a load of cold spring water, transported back to the top of the blacksmith shop, the furnace has not yet lit a fire, these October cold spring water, so that the whole blacksmith shop, there is a trace of cold, so that Liu Yu, who is dressed in single clothes, feel a trace of winter.

Kong Jing stood with a sledgehammer, under the escort of more than a dozen parts, standing at the door of the blacksmith shop, when each servant who carried the burden of water passed, he had to carefully check the water quality, touch the water temperature with his tentacles, and even taste one or two bites, then waved his hand with satisfaction, and those handymen who passed the acceptance were all relieved, and after thanking, they happily ran to the canteen on the other side to get food.

Liu Yu walked to Kong Jing's side and said with a straight face: "Master Kong, please arrange my work today." ”

Kong Jing smiled slightly, waved his hand, sent away a small worker in front of him, and said to Liu Yu: "Liu Teamzheng (yesterday Liu Yu temporarily added a team leader), originally according to the rules, you want to start here with the basic things of fetching water, transporting coal, and moving iron, but you have once been the master of the building, and you are a well-known hero in the whole army, these miscellaneous things, I will not arrange you for the time being, from today onwards, you will start making armor first." ”

Liu Yu's heart moved, Maoqiu and Feng Qian told him about this armor last night, he hooked the corners of his mouth, and said, "Master Kong, do you want me to make leather armor or iron armor?" ”

Kong Jing turned his head and pointed to the leather armor that was piled up like a hill outside, and said, "We are a blacksmith shop here, which is used to make iron armor, and the leather armor is made in the leather clothing department in the baggage camp. ”

Liu Yuqi said: "So, leather armor is produced elsewhere?" But why was leather armor shipped here when it was produced elsewhere? ”

Kong Jing laughed: "Team Liu, I'm afraid that you haven't been on the battlefield, and you haven't worn real iron armor, or rather, you haven't paid attention to it?" ”

Liu Yu's face was slightly red, since joining the army, he really hasn't worn a genuine iron armor, even in the last martial arts exercise, the double-layer iron armor he wore was also used for training, rusty, and the effect was not very good.

Liu Yu opened his mouth and said: "Then today I happened to learn from Team Kong, why did this leather armor move here, we make iron armor, do we need to use this leather armor?" ”

Kong Jing nodded, waved his hand, Feng Qian, who was standing on the side, immediately ran to get a leather armor over, Liu Yu looked at it, only to see that on this layer of leather armor, about a quarter of the place, has begun to weave dense armor pieces, these armor pieces are rectangular, about one finger wide, three fingers long, each layer of armor pieces are stacked thickly together, next to each other, a circle of leather armor, about twenty or thirty pieces of such armor are wrapped around the front, and looking at this height, to cover the entire front of this leather armor, at least four or five hundred pieces of armor are needed.

Liu Yu's eyes widened, touched the rope under the armor, tightly wrapped these armor pieces around the leather armor, and said, "The so-called iron armor, is this how the armor pieces are entangled?" Need to add another layer of carapace on top of your leather armor? ”

Kong Jing Zhengse said: "Yes, don't underestimate these nail pieces, this is made of stainless steel, not ordinary iron pieces." If you don't believe me, take a slice and take a look. ”

Liu Yu took off a piece of nail leaf, put it on his hand and flipped it, the tentacles were cold, and this nail piece looked like a rectangle, but after taking it off, he found that the nail surface was curved, and the arc of a small mountain bag bulged outward, and its weight was not light, about half a tael, Liu Yu estimated that this layer of hard leather armor weighed about five or six catties, and four or five hundred pieces of such armor were placed on it, and the weight was more than thirty catties.

Liu Yu continued to grope for this piece of armor, kneading it gently with his hands, and found that this piece of armor was not pig iron or wrought iron, on the contrary, it was very hard and tough, and it seemed that it was really made of stainless steel as Kong Jing said. Because, pig iron cannot be forged into such an arc, and wrought iron is deformed when pinched.

Liu Yu nodded, handed the armor back to Kong Jing, and said, "Is this really a piece of stainless steel armor, is it a big armor for the generals?" ”

Liu Yu had seen some generals wearing this armor in the tent, Liu Gaozhi and Sun Wuzhong both wore it, this armor was so expensive, and the curved armor leaf was very well protected, obviously it didn't look like it was worn by small soldiers.

Kong Jing smiled slightly: "No, these armors are used to equip the Tiger Army, and every ordinary soldier of the Tiger Army will wear this iron armor." ”

Liu Yu opened his mouth wide in surprise, which surprised him more than the first time he heard from Liu Jingxuan about the formation of a tiger army: "What, let ordinary soldiers wear it?" How is this possible, where is there so much iron armor? ”

Kong Jing smiled slightly: "Now we have 3,000 armor craftsmen here, and usually a armor maker needs about 300 days to create these 500 armor leaves and make a pair of iron armor, but in my place, using my Kong family's unique method of urging work, it can be completed in 150 days." In this way, each person can complete three pieces of iron armor in a year, and 3,000 people can complete 9,000 pieces in a year. ”

"The Tiger Army should concentrate the elite of the whole army, and the number will not exceed five thousand, and if Xuan Shuai sends someone to help at that time, it will be enough to build these armors within half a year. Team Liu, now you understand, what is called elite soldiers with iron armor. ”

Liu Yu sighed: "When you say this, I understand, if a man makes a pair of pure iron armor, it is time-consuming, and if something goes wrong, it will be wasted, but if you only make this kind of small armor, you can make ten or eight pieces a day, then everyone will do it together, and the speed will be much faster." And even if it goes wrong, it's just a small piece of armor that doesn't affect the entire armor, so it's a big deal to change it. It's a good way to produce this kind of iron armor quickly and in large quantities. ”

The furball on the side smiled: "Not only that, but if these armors are attacked on the battlefield and are damaged, they can also be repaired, as long as they are replaced with armor pieces and replaced by those that are broken." Liu Teamzheng, do you see the holes on these armor pieces, which are used to thread ropes, in fact, this kind of armor only needs a strong rope, stringing twenty or thirty armor leaves together, fixed on the leather armor, so layered on top of each other, it is a pair of iron armor, far away to prevent arrows, close to prevent knives and spears, the effect is quite good! ”

Liu Yu laughed: "Okay, great, Master Kong, how should this armor piece be made?" ”