It just so happened that since the army of the Duchy of Guedes and the combined Saxon army began fighting, the army of Guedes no longer purchased French-style plate armor and helmets from the Hydro Forge Center in Lyre County in Marin.

So, Marin ordered - to continue to start production, the production of breastplates and helmets. However, the style was changed to the Maximilian armor style. This raised cuirass has excellent properties for resisting the damage of musket bullets.

You must know that after an ordinary close-fitting plate armor is hit by a lead bullet weighing tens of grams, the shock wave will directly damage the human body. Moreover, under the strong impact force, the plate armor may become dented.

However, the old-fashioned plate armor was worn close to the body. Once a depression occurs, it will directly impact the human body. If there is a depression in the soft parts of the human body, the problem is not very serious. If there is a depression in the bone part, it is doomed, and the fracture is light, and it is not uncommon for the bone to be broken by the impact.

That's why muskets pose such a big threat to the knights in plate armor. If the outer convex design is adopted, the bullet hits those protrusions, which is not only easy to cause refraction and bounce away, but also if the convex part is smashed and dented by the lead bullet, it is only smashed from the protrusion and is not protruding, and it is difficult to directly impact the human body. Even if it is because of the strong kinetic energy, it will still cause people to suffer a certain amount of damage, but it is not a tragic situation of losing combat effectiveness like breaking bones at every turn.

As a result, the Maximilian Armor is a good armor for resisting spherical buckshot. Of course, it can only be said that this armor is better suited to resist buckshot than old-fashioned armor, not that it will definitely be able to resist it. If you're lucky, hit on an unimportant bump, and maybe you'll be fine. If you're unlucky, you'll get hurt. It's just that you won't be injured if you get shot, like the old-fashioned shelf.

With Maximilian Armor's cuirass and an iron helmet with a movable visor, Marin was able to train his soldiers to stab each other with sticks wrapped in linen around their heads, according to the set idea.

For training, Marlin decided to use a wooden stick that was about as long as a spear. In this way, the soldiers used it and used the spear no differently.

In fact, the use of spears is nothing more than the old-fashioned use of stabbing, plucking, and teasing. However, don't underestimate these three basic tricks. If you use it skillfully, on the battlefield, you can stab your opponent to death first, so that you can survive.

Moreover, later studies have shown that thorns hurt much more than slashes. Generally speaking, if you are cut with a knife, as long as you don't get cut to the vital parts such as the major arteries and neck, you will probably survive even if you go to the hospital.

However, if you are stabbed, especially if you are stabbed in the heart and other parts, it is difficult to save the basic immortals. Therefore, the gangsters and hooligans of later generations used knives to cut people, but the victims were more injured and less dead. The killers, on the other hand, often stab their targets with daggers, pay attention to being fast and accurate, and directly stab the daggers into the heart of the target.

Moreover, this was also manifested in the later bayonets. During World War II, dagger-type bayonets were still more popular, which could be stabbed and slashed. However, after World War II, when the five or six and a half rifles were designed, the blade of the bayonet was directly abandoned and replaced with a three-edged military spur. Because, the lethality of the Triangular Army Thorn is particularly great. Later, rifles in actual combat used folding military spurs. Only the rifles of the honor guards used dagger-type bayonets. Because, a dagger-type bayonet looks good......

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Therefore, Marin has strict rules for soldiers to train how to pierce spears into the enemy's body first, and to pierce them into vital parts.

During training, after the black cloth covered by the cuirass was stabbed by the enemy's "gun head" stained with lime powder, not only did the soldier withdraw from the group fight, but the referee would also score the soldier who successfully "killed" the enemy on the opposite side according to the part of the stab. The closer you are to the heart, the higher the score.

Moreover, in combat, soldiers can also judge for themselves. For example, if the enemy's stab is far from the heart, it is allowed to continue the fight for a short period of time. If you are stabbed in the heart, you must immediately withdraw from the fight, otherwise you will be punished.

After a scoring system and a certain amount of rewards and punishments, Marin believes that those spearmen, when using spears to fight, will stab the enemy faster and more accurately.

For those outstanding soldiers who often and quickly stab the "spearhead" in the heart of the opponent, Marin is also allowed to give certain commendations and rewards. There may not be many rewards, but commendations will greatly satisfy the vanity of soldiers. Although it is a bit inappropriate to say this, it is better to say that there is a sense of honor. But in reality, the difference between the two is not very big. Ma Lin remembered that he was commended by the school in his previous life, and he was extremely proud when he stupidly held the award certificate on stage and was watched as a monkey......

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Marin did not treat Saqqara badly, who invented the "group beating training method", not only raised his annual salary, but also removed the word "acting" from his "acting commander of the English legion", making Saqqara successfully become a high-ranking general.

In addition, Marin also passed the improved group beating training method back to Newcastle. In addition, Marin also sent 2,000 sets of Maximilian cuirasses and iron helmets with movable masks to Saqqara as props for the new group brawl training method.

After all, the new group beating training method, if there is no protective gear, the training will cause a lot of casualties.

Of course, all regular Maximilian cuirasses and helmets were used, and the production capacity of the forging center could not keep up. What to do?

When Marin inspected the training of the Wolf Tooth Commandos and the Colonial Army, he saw that the auxiliary units of the Colonial Army were wearing wooden chips that resembled "mahjong mats......

This kind of wood chips are not wrapped in iron sheets, and the cost is very low. And, the point is, it's fast......

After all, there were more carpenters than blacksmiths in any era. Marlin easily found enough carpenters to process the chips in large quantities and drill holes for each mahjong-sized piece of wood.

After that, it's time to find a skilled person to weave the "mahjong wood chips" into a zhajia. This is a little more troublesome, but Marin has had people make a batch of armor for the auxiliary units of the colonial army before, and he can be regarded as a skilled craftsman.

After testing, the soldier who put on a layer of "mahjong mat" wood chips armor was still very painful after being stabbed with a wooden stick. So, Marin simply asked the soldiers to put on a double layer of "mahjong mats". Sure enough, the effect was much better.

As for the helmet, Marin was also simplified. He asked a group of carpenters to make a batch of wooden helmets in the style of motorcycle helmets in later generations. Then, in front of the eyes, a large hole was chiseled. Then, over the large hole, a barbed wire fence is woven as a protective ......

In this way, the training soldiers wearing double-layered "mahjong mats" and wooden "motorcycle helmets" have become a "beautiful" scenery in the barracks.

What surprised Marin the most was that the fighters actually liked the "mahjong mat" wood chip armor and the wooden "motorcycle helmet" and refused to take it off......

Why? The total weight of the "mahjong mat" wood chip armor and the wooden "motorcycle helmet" is much lighter than the Maximilian chest armor and the iron helmet with a movable mask, and it is comfortable to wear.

Moreover, most of the soldiers were not equipped with chest armor and iron helmets. Moreover, their physical fitness, wearing such heavy armor, will not last long.

However, the "mahjong mat" wood chip armor is different from the wooden "motorcycle helmet", even if you wear two layers of "mahjong mat" and wear a wooden motorcycle helmet, the average soldier can withstand it.

Moreover, on the battlefield, if you don't wear armor and are touched by the enemy's weapon, you will definitely be killed or wounded.

Instead of that, it is better to wear a double-layered "mahjong mat" with wood chips and a wooden "motorcycle helmet" to fight the enemy.

Moreover, the protection of the double-layered "mahjong mat" wood chip armor and the wooden "motorcycle helmet" is really good. At the very least, the survival rate is definitely high when assassinating enemies with cold weapons. Because, after everyone had done experiments, the survival rate of domestic pigs wearing double-layered "mahjong mats" and wooden chips to pierce their armor was close to half when they were stabbed with spears and shot with bows and arrows by soldiers...... Especially in the face of bow and arrow shooting, the protection is excellent...... Of course, in the face of muskets and wooden armor, there is no protection against them......

Nevertheless, the soldiers fell in love with "mahjong mats" and wooden "motorcycle helmets". Later, this became the standard equipment of ordinary infantry...... Moreover, the cost of this equipment is also very low, and it is also convenient for mass production......

Of course, Marin later ordered that a thin layer of iron be nailed to the outside of the wood chips of all "mahjong mats". In this way, although the weight is increased, the protection is higher......