Kaipingwei began a large-scale training in full swing in the following time. Due to the basic cohort training in the early stage, the practice of the phalanx was much faster than expected. The soldiers quickly got into shape, advancing and retreating, in unison. Running and chasing, the formation is not chaotic.

And after about a month, Kaipingwei's training has been basically completed. Jia Ke decided to conduct a simulated exercise to see the actual combat cooperation of the archers, phalanxes, and cavalry of the three parts of Kaipingwei in the field battle, so as to observe whether the current phalanx can achieve the expected goals in actual combat.

As soon as he had this idea, Jia Ke decided to implement it immediately, because time waits for no one, according to the practice of previous years, after a while, the Tatars will take advantage of the autumn to fatten, and take the opportunity to invade the south, and then Kaipingwei will bear the brunt. Therefore, it is now necessary to seize all the time to build up and even improve combat effectiveness.

Because there are two deputy thousand households, now Kaipingwei is discussing things, and there is no need to recruit all the hundred households at every turn as before. Now the general situation is that Jia Ke has recruited two deputy thousand households, and the three of them discuss. Once a consensus is formed, it is executed in the full Kaipingwei.

That afternoon, Jia Ke summoned Feng Mo and Huang Baifeng to Qianhu Mansion, and the three of them discussed the proposal for price drills in Jia Ke's study.

In fact, it can't be said to be a discussion, that is, Brother Jia put forward a proposal to conduct an exercise three days later, and Feng Mo and Huang Baifeng unconditionally supported it, and the meeting was over.

This situation will occur entirely because Feng Mo and Huang Baifeng have already regarded themselves as Jia Ke's hardcore cronies, and Jia Ke's words, they are now unconditionally executed.

Now that the meeting was decided, the team quickly got moving. Three days later, on the steppe in the north, Kaipingwei conducted its first ever exercise.

The exercise was commanded by Jia Ke, and Feng Mo and Kaipingwei respectively commanded two Macedonian phalanxes as the backbone.

At the beginning, the phalanx of archers kept firing at the imaginary enemy in front, while the cavalry simulated the steppe cavalry, from the beginning of the shooting, to the end approaching the archers, a total of fifteen rounds of fire in front and after. Able to win fifteen hundred arrows, then the archers moved to the rear of the Macedonian phalanx, and the cavalry was officially faced with a dense barrage of spears. It was impossible to advance or retreat, and in the end the losses were very heavy. Almost wiped out.

In this exercise, the great power of the Macedonian phalanx was fully displayed. Once the phalanx was deployed, the cavalry could barely move forward, and they had to face not only the incessant attack of spears from the Macedonian phalanx, but also the incessant firing of archers behind the Macedonian phalanx.

But in this exercise, it also exposed the huge flaw of the team, that is, all the people were not armored, and when facing the steppe cavalry, the steppe cavalry kept shooting bows and arrows at the Macedonian phalanx, and when they really came into contact with the Macedonian phalanx, many people in the phalanx may have fallen. If the steppe cavalry had been a little smarter, they would have been constantly walking around the Macedonian phalanx for mounted archery, although they would also have been constantly attacked by archers. But if without the help of cavalry, the Macedonian phalanx would have suffered very heavy losses.

For this situation, Jia Ke had no way, so he gathered the two deputy thousand households, and the three of them worked together to find a way. But there was no clue about it, and they couldn't conjure armor out of thin air.

The Macedonian phalanx, without the protection of armor, although it still has a strong combat capability, but its own casualties will also be very large, and this hidden danger must be solved.

Jia Ke sent the two deputy Qianhu away, and walked around the study by himself, irritable. The more irritable you are, the more you can't do it, and the more angry you are. Suddenly, he picked up the sword that hung on the wall, and looked at the books on the shelves in annoyance.

It was when he soon discovered that the sword was constantly chopping these books made of paper. You must know that Jia Ke is now infinitely powerful, although he didn't use all his strength, and the amount of each sword is also very large, but in many cases, he can't cut through these books made of paper.

Jia Ke suddenly thought that before the crossing, he had seen a news report in the news, saying that it was ancient China that made paper armor to equip the army for war.

At that time, I was very curious, and I also specifically looked through the information in this area.

According to the data, China is the country where papermaking was invented, and the ancient Chinese used incredible wisdom to use paper in various ways, and the manufacture of armor is one of the great inventions.

The general manufacturing method of paper armor, Jia Ke thought of something after thinking about it for a long time. Probably, paper armor is made of paper as raw materials, the manufacture of paper armor first folds the paper thickly, then hammers the wheel, hammers it into three inches thick, and then nails are nailed in some special positions, and then these small armor pieces are connected with silk threads, and finally cut into a complete armor, if this armor is soaked in water, it can not only resist the shooting of bows and arrows, but also block the fire.

Although paper armor also has the disadvantages of short life, paper armor has low cost, light weight and easy production, so it has become Jia Ke's first choice at present. Let's be honest, there is still a certain gap in the defensive power of paper armor compared to iron armor, but at this stage, it is better than nothing.

So Jia Ke decided to gather all the craftsmen of Kaipingwei and try to make a few pieces first, to see if they could be used? If it can be used normally, it will be promoted throughout the army.

Jia Ke did not delay, the general steps of making paper armor were written on a piece of paper, and then with this paper, he went to the craftsman camp of Kaipingwei.

The system of this dynasty was inherited from the previous dynasty, and the artisan household did not have the freedom of life, and the identity of the artisan household was the succession of the father to the son, and there was no other income except for the salt and grain issued by the government and the occasional reward of clothing, so the life was difficult, and the food and clothing were not given, and the matter of the children of the code often occurred.

Kaipingwei's artisan camp is no exception, when Jia Ke took Liu Yu to the artisan camp, he saw that the ground sewage was flowing sideways, and the houses on both sides were all shantytowns. It's autumn now, but the craftsmen in the artisan camp are still wearing single clothes, and it seems that the exploitation and oppression of the artisans in this era is very heavy.

The ordinary craftsmen in the craftsman camp saw Jia Ke coming, and immediately notified the head of the craftsman camp, and after a while, the head of the craftsman camp ran to Jia Ke's face, and when he saw Jia Ke, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and said humbly: "Lord Qianhu, if you have anything to do, just let me go over, how can you get your guibu to come to us." ”

Jia Ke saw that he was still dressed very well, and his face was red, which was really different from those ordinary craftsmen. So he said impatiently, "Get up, I have something to tell you when you come." Is there a clean place for this? ”

The head of the camp hurriedly said to Jia Ke: "My lord, in front of you is the lobby of the craftsman camp, if there is anything you can do there, you can order your humble duties there." ”

So the head of the camp led the way, and Jia Ke followed behind, and came to a fairly neat building, where Jia Ke sat on a big chair in the center of the room. The head of the camp was at the side.

Jia Ke asked the battalion leader, "Can we Kaipingwei make armor?" ”

The battalion leader replied: "Let's Kaipingwei, although there are some craftsmen, they can only repair all kinds of armor, swords, and guns. If you want to talk about production, one is the shortage of iron. Second, there are also big defects in the skills of craftsmen. If it is forcibly manufactured, it is also possible. But firstly, it is expensive, and secondly, it takes too long to manufacture. ”

Jia Ke nodded, although this battalion leader seems to have some corruption, he is still a relatively capable person, at least he did not blindly echo the officials, and his words are still very realistic.

Jia Ke took out the method of making the paper armor he wrote, and asked at the same time: "Look at the method I said, can it be successfully made?" You have to look carefully, think carefully, and don't jump to conclusions right away. ”

After saying that, he handed him the paper, and the head of the camp took it. Standing in the hall? Look at it for yourself.