In the Hetao area, no matter whether Chongzhen gives an order or not, Wang Zezhi will go to recover it.

The Tatars had occupied the Hetao for many years, and now it was deeply entrenched, and within a year it was enough to regain the Hetao.

Wang Zezhi spread out the map, studied it carefully for a long time, and finally entered it.

The most important thing at the moment is to ensure that all the soldiers in your hands can be used.

He looked at the more than 18,000 border soldiers and began to give orders continuously.

He will take all the armor from these men.

Armor itself is not lethal, but it is a necessary thing for the army to fight.

Although it is now the era of cold weapons, most of the battles between the two armies are hand-to-hand combat, except for artillery archers, and the importance of armor is self-evident.

Armor is an important military asset that can sometimes even determine the outcome of a war.

In the Ming Dynasty, swords can be bought and sold privately, if you like martial arts, it is completely illegal to go to the blacksmith shop to play a few short swords to practice swordsmanship, but armor is not.

Armor is used when marching and fighting, when two armies go to war, and it is a very strange thing for ordinary people to have armor at home.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty forbade the purchase and hoarding of armor, and once it was possessed, it was a major crime of rebellion to kill the head.

There was a general in the Han Dynasty named Zhou Yafu, and he planted it on his private armor.

To say that he was still very wronged, he was already old and frail at that time, and he didn't have a few days to live.

His son was very filial, and privately found someone to make dozens of armor and shields to prepare for Zhou Yafu's funeral after his death.

Although Zhou Yafu's son was filial, he was very picky, because the wages had not been settled by the blacksmith for a long time, and the blacksmith was angry and sued the Zhou family in court, saying that they were privately looking for themselves to make armor.

Zhou Yafu was disgusted by the emperor at that time, and the emperor happened to get off the donkey and put Zhou Yafu in prison.

Zhou Yafu shouted in prison that he was wronged, saying that his son bought armor and shields only for funeral purposes, not to rebel.

But the presiding judge rejected him in one sentence, saying that even if Zhou Yafu was alive, he would not rebel, and buying armor for a funeral meant that he would rebel even if he died.

Zhou Yafu was speechless after hearing this, and finally starved to death in prison.

Zhou Yafu's case is not an isolated case, and it is a felony for all dynasties to possess armor privately.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that the private possession of armor was punishable by hanging.

Cloth and cotton armor prevailed in the Ming Dynasty, and the way these armors were made was very complex.

However, its basic composition is still similar to that of iron armor, but rivets are used instead of ropes, and the inner lining is replaced with cloth or compacted cotton wool.

The iron sheet is inward, and the rivet attaches the nail plate while pressing the cloth and the nail piece together.

The Ming Dynasty's Ming Huidian clearly records the annual production of armor in the Ming Dynasty, and even in our view today, these figures are very staggering.

Beginning in the 11th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that military factories around the country produced 13,456 sets of armor every year, and this situation lasted until the second year of Jingtai.

Because of the change of the civil fort just happened at this time, the Ming Dynasty lost a lot of manpower and weapons, and began to step up the production of armaments.

In the 38 years from the second year of Jingtai to the second year of Hongzhi, the number of armor produced by the provinces of the Ming Dynasty was amazing, with 25,640 sets of armor produced every year, and if the number of armor produced by the weapons manufacturing plant directly under the central government was added, the number of armor produced every year was more than 30,000 sets.

After the second year of Hongzhi, the Ming Dynasty was peaceful for a long time, and the production of most weapons was halved, but the annual production of armor was still more than 15,000 sets, and in the late Ming Dynasty, the rated number of armor produced per year was still 12,300 and 14 pairs.

This is only the number of rated production quantities per year, i.e., the minimum amount of armor production per year, excluding the increase in armor production for various reasons.

Judging from this data, only in the 38 years when the armor production of the Ming Dynasty reached its peak, a total of 1.14 million sets of various armors were produced, even if all kinds of damage and depreciation are taken into account, it is not a problem for the Ming Dynasty army to have iron armor around 900,000.

Therefore, the field army of the Ming Dynasty maintained a good armor rate.

The strongest Qi army in the Ming Dynasty had about 100,000 troops when they were defending the northern frontier, and these troops were all wearing armor except for a small number of baggage soldiers and men.

Wang Zezhi thought about collecting the armor on these people and distributing them after they were trained by Li Hua.

However, it's okay not to accept it, but Wang Zezhi's heart is half cold.

There were more than 18,000 people, and the armor collected was incomplete.

Some only have arm guards, some only have helmets, and some only have armor.

If that's the case, it's okay, and it can still be used.

Wang Zezhi ordered people to piece it together, and finally pieced together more than 3,000 pairs of armor.

But these more than 3,000 pairs of armor made Wang Zezhi very angry, because most of these armors were rusty. Micro book bar

In the end, there were only 800 pairs of armor that could really be used, and the rest had to be rebuilt.

"Even if the food and salary are deducted, the weapons and equipment will also be deducted, can such a Ming Dynasty be saved?"

Wang Zezhi looked at the statistics and muttered to himself.

If the entire Ming Dynasty was like this, he felt that with the soldiers and horses in his hands, he could sweep the entire Shanxi.

At this moment, the idea of rebellion in his heart became stronger and stronger, but when he thought of Chongzhen, he was only an eighteen-year-old young man.

This young man is doing his best to save the world.

He swayed a little.

"Do you help him, or do you oppose him?"

Wang Zezhi was a little unbearable.

"My lord, a few people have frozen to death." Just when Wang Zezhi hesitated, the herald stepped forward to report.

A few of them wore cotton clothes that were not cotton but weeds, and they took off their armor and froze to death.

Wang Zezhi was furious and kicked over the table in front of him.

"Ling Liu Yang sent down the cotton clothes accumulated in the library."

"Obey."

During the Chongzhen period, the government was gradually corrupted, officials were corrupt, and the country's strength declined.

The current Ming Dynasty is in the waning mountains.

Not to mention the armor, even the weapons captured from the border soldiers are not much better.

Let's talk about the Japanese knives, many of them don't even have the handles, and the border soldiers use straw ropes to tie the blades.

In addition to the sword, the bow and arrow and the fire gun are not much better.

The bow in their hands can't shoot far, and when the strength is great, it will be broken directly.

As for the arrows, many of the arrows have rusted arrows, and even if they are shot, they will not kill anyone.

Finally, there is the firecracker.

The firearms in the hands of the border soldiers are mostly shotguns and three-eyed guns.

After testing, nearly 70 percent of firearms were dumb.

The three percent of firearms that can be used, Wang Zezhi can't look down on them.

Now the only one who can enter the Eye of Wang Ze is Lu Mi Gong.

The left and right battalions of the Foundry Bureau have cultivated professional Lumi gun craftsmen, and their current speed has reached the point where each person can produce a Lumi gun in ten days.

So far, the Foundry Bureau has stockpiled more than 6,000 Lumi guns.

It just so happened that now more than 18,000 border soldiers have been replenished.

Wang Zezhi thought about transferring the soldiers and horses in the old camp into the fire battalion, and then transferring the border soldiers to train and brainwash while guarding the old camp.

"The order was ordered, ordering the commanders of all battalions and battalions to return to Huacheng as soon as possible.

The order was given to the instructors of the guerrilla battalion to speed up and reach the city of Guihua as quickly as possible.

The order was ordered to the two battalions on the left and right sides of the Foundry Bureau to take out all the Lumi guns in stock, escort them with 2,000 steel armor heavy horses, and set off immediately without delay, and quickly transported them to Naturalization City.

The order was ordered, and Li Hua, Wang Sanlang, Liu Yang, Bai Yu, and Yang Zhihui were ordered to come to Naturalization City quickly.

The order was sent to the old battalion to transfer 3,000 soldiers and horses to the Naturalization City.

The order was issued and Li Hua was ordered to select 3,000 advanced people from the border barracks to fill the old camp.

The order was that the New Year was approaching, and ordered the logistics department to buy more wine and meat and distribute it to the battalion stations. ”

"Obey."

After reading the statistics, Wang Zezhi made up his mind that he would prepare for a rebellion.

He has to prepare for at least a year.