Chapter Seventy-Five: The backbone that the Great Song Dynasty lacks is actually iron
Zhao Huan looked at this invulnerable Guo Jing, and the first thing he doubted was not his values and worldview for more than 20 years.
The world is material, this is the core value, it is the unquestionable value of dialectical materialism.
So how exactly does this guy do it?
He thought of the soldiers on the city wall who had no armor, and stuffed bricks and cowhides into their clothes, and there was no armor, and they stuffed bricks into their clothes to block the cutting of the golden soldiers, which was a kind of cheap armor.
This is because the armor rate of the Great Song Dynasty is really low, very low. Only the elite has a small full armor, and many people wear water jackets to the battlefield, and if they don't die, they have to freeze half to death.
"Shen Cong, cut his neck." Zhao Huan said that if he doesn't die this time, it's not too late for him to start denying his values.
Guo Jing was terrified to the extreme, since he came down the mountain, he has been performing smoothly, why doesn't it work when he gets to the emperor?
He received countless applause, countless cheers, and countless copper plates, originally thought that he would be invincible when he reached the emperor, after all, the previous emperor was the sect leader Daozun!
I thought that I could get a lot of rewards from the emperor, but I didn't expect to wait for the knife in the neck.
"Yes." Shen Cong was also very curious, how did this guy become invulnerable.
If he was attacked this time, if he had this kind of kung fu, how could he be so embarrassed?
"Your Majesty spares your life!" Guo Jing did not hesitate, and knelt on the ground.
He kowtowed a few times in a row, if he stabbed his neck, he could only go to see the Sanqing Dao Ancestor.
Admit it, admit it, admit it, it's not okay, please don't cut it.
"Take it out." Zhao Huan was sure that this world was material. It doesn't change just because this person is wearing a robe.
Guo Jing took off his robe tremblingly, and everyone saw the soft armor and the cowhide lining.
The steel rings with one buckle and one ring were laid flat on his body, looking a bit like chain mail. But it doesn't quite look like the mountain chain mail of the Central Plains.
"Your Majesty, this is a golden silk soft armor. It is my master's famous work. Your Majesty spares your life. Guo Jing was frightened.
It is rumored that the new emperor is tyrannical and clever, and it is true. When you come up, you cut off your neck. Who can withstand this?
"Zhao Ying, go to the side hall and peel off the soft armor for me to see." Zhao Huan said with a smile that the crime of bullying the monarch was a capital crime, but he didn't have much interest in cutting off Guo Jing's head.
He's very interested in this soft armor!
This is a steel ring, each ring and the other four rings are buckled, like a chain mail with a net lock!
He is not interested in the craftsmanship of this chain mail, the mountain pattern armor of the Buren Armor, the Iron Harrier, and the Tiefutu series are actually the Xuanjia of the Xuanjia Army of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the mountain pattern chain mail.
These armors are all upgraded versions of chain mail, double cold forged armor, which is much more powerful than chain mail.
He wanted to know even more, how did this Guo Jing find the steel needed for chain mail! That's the key!
The Great Song Dynasty is a salt and iron franchise! He can get one for no reason? Why? The armor of the Great Song Dynasty is all numbered, and it will not be more out of thin air, nor will it be less out of thin air.
He keenly sensed that there was something big going on inside!
"Call Li Gang here!" Zhao Huan asked Shen Cong to run errands, this Li Gang is the young eunuch of the Ordnance Prison, and he must be clear about this matter.
Zhao Ying came in with Li Gang's front and back feet, Zhao Ying was cleaning up the rust of the chain mail, of course, it was not washed, it was washed with sand, and then it was sent to the Wende Hall and presented to the official family, and the rusty appearance was too miserable.
"See the official family." Li Gang saw the chain mail surrounded by steel rings for the first time, and his eyes couldn't leave.
"Li Shaoqing, take a look at the steel used in this chain mail. But is it from the Great Song Dynasty? Zhao Huan asked Li Gang to take a look.
The Great Song Dynasty was not iron-free, and he judged from the salt and iron taxes that the Great Song Dynasty had an annual output of at least 100,000 tons of pig iron. But pig iron is not steel, the Great Song Dynasty lacks steel, and there is a lack of steel that can forge armor!
But whether this steel is produced in the Great Song Dynasty needs to be confirmed from Li Gang.
The sergeants of the Great Song Dynasty, even if they are elite, are also lacking in armor, and they are very lacking. Zhao Huan had studied this issue with Li Gang for a long, long time.
The conclusion was that the iron material of the Great Song Dynasty was too poor, either hot and brittle, or cold brittle, but Zhao Huan knew that it was because of the two elements of sulfur and phosphorus.
"This is the steel of a hundred forged! Official! Tempered steel! Iron! From the territory of the Great Song Dynasty! Official! Da Song Zhongxing is hopeful! Li Gang issued this sentence from the bottom of his heart, and he was already a little incoherent.
The armor rate of the Song army was very low, and it was already very good for two thousand sergeants to have five hundred pieces of armor.
In fact, these 500 pieces of fully equipped armor still have to be marked with big questions.
Da Song Wutie!
100,000 tons of pig iron a year, but you can't forge armor?
Because it's so hard to forge.
Now forging the armor, horse harness and even weapons of the Great Song Dynasty are all in the form of raw rice, made of pig iron and wrought iron, but the iron and stone of the Central Plains are extremely barren, not only that, it is either hot and brittle, or cold and brittle, and it cannot be forged at all.
Elite sergeants, such as personal servants, personal officers, and the Western army, all use wrought iron inside and two pieces of cast iron outside, which are tempered thousands of times, and a piece of scale armor is square.
In the process of grinding, there is a possibility of fracture and spalling, and cracks may occur during quenching. The scale armor pieces used to produce about one piece of armor require thousands of catties of iron, and the iron essence does not know the consumption geometry, and it is difficult to find the Great Song Dynasty armor.
The most distressing thing is that the nail pieces made in the past few days cracked when they were quenched, and the scale armor leaves had to be forged from scratch.
Hot and crispy, cold and brittle, the iron and stone quality are too poor, which has become a big problem for Li Gang!
And I don't know what the reason is, in the territory of the Song Kingdom, the hot-forged nail leaves are all like goods, and the armor like raw rice sandwiched by pig iron and wrought iron will be broken when touched.
It's the same with or without armor, and it's still very cumbersome.
Why is that? Li Gang has been looking for an answer for a long, long time, and Da Song has also searched for more than 180 years without finding a result.
"There are iron harriers in Western Xia, there are also iron forest troops in the remnant Liao, and the Jin people have iron floating slaughter, but the step armor of the Great Song Dynasty is in the embarrassing situation of being at the end, and the armor can't prevent the arrows of the bow and crossbow, and even the knife and axe can't be prevented!"
"Even the small Qingtang has a scarlet armor, and I, the Great Song Dynasty, have searched all the territories. I can't even find an iron mountain that can forge armor! Official, this golden silk soft armor! From the Great Song Dynasty, this technique is the means of forging armor in the Great Song Dynasty! ”
Zhao Huan's face was even more surprised! I don't know if it's Guo Jing's master, whether he has improved the process or found a new mine?
"What Li Shaoqing said is true! Da Song is really ZTE's hope. Zhao Huan also sighed.