Chapter 761

"I'm talking about generals, are you kidding me?" Wang Yang rolled his eyes angrily, and almost took off the stinky shoes on his feet that he had worn for three days and threw them in the face of the planter.

"Wang Wushan, don't worry, Shidao, tell me, what kind of method is it?" After Su Dongpo persuaded Wang Yang, he went to the Seed Master Dao to ask about it.

"Paper armor and cloth armor!" The seed master Dao rubbed his hands a little excitedly, and said loudly as if he was offering a treasure. "The two adults may not know that when my Great Song Dynasty armor was insufficient, I also used paper and linen cloth as armor for soldiers to wear."

Wang Yang looked at the seed master very seriously, but his expression was a little like he wanted to hit someone. "Dare to ask the general, can these two armor tools have an effect?"

"Of course it has an effect, and the defense is definitely not inferior to the iron armor, the important thing is that the cost is low and convenient, the only problem is that these two armors can't withstand water and moisture, after making it, if it is in the rainy season, I am afraid that it will rot or rot in less than two or three months......"

At this moment, Wang Yang and Su Dongpo's eyes lit up. Wang Yang even rushed to the front of the Seed Master Dao and asked. "It's really fake, it doesn't matter if it's rotten or rotten, but the important thing is that the soldiers can wear defensive armor to support the battlefield for a month or two."

"This is natural, by the way, I don't know if there is still stock in the treasury of this Huanzhou, I remember that two years ago, we made a batch of paper armor on Shaanxi Road, but it was almost consumed later......"

"Hurry up and have someone look for it, it would be nice to be able to see the sample." Wang Yang hurriedly urged.

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However, even with a large number of people to find them, it still took more than a long time to find five pieces, three of which already exuded an unpleasant smell of decay and mildew, and the other two were better, but the surface was already covered with green hairs.

"These are paper armor? How did it decay like this......" Wang Yang took a few detailed glances and hurriedly took a few steps back, breathing in the fresh air, the smell was too unpleasant.

"Because this thing is easy to decay in the first place, and the people who take care of it must not be satisfied, but it is good to have a sample." Seed Master Dao smiled a little helplessly.

Wang Yang looked at these decayed paper armors in detail, while listening carefully to the explanation of the seed master, the weight of these paper armors can be said to be extremely light, and the weight will not exceed fifteen catties.

However, its defensive power is not inferior to that of iron armor, but because it is made of pulp hammering and bonding, it cannot withstand moisture and rain, and is very easy to damage.

Therefore, in general, it can only be used for emergency purposes.

But for today's Wang Yang, it is just that there is nowhere to find it when he steps on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. After all, all Wang Yang needed was armor that could play a defensive role, no matter what material he had.

The production process of this paper armor is extremely simple, but there is a big problem that it needs paper, and it needs a lot of paper.

"In the past, when we made paper armor, we mostly used old books and the like from waste paper, which was cheap after all. If you use new paper, you will get nearly 100 yuan for one catty, and 5 catties will have to be 5 consistently. ”

"That's also much cheaper than leather armor and iron armor, the important thing is that you said that the production process of this armor is simple, that's fine, paper, we have a paper mill in Shaanxi or Jingzhao Mansion?" Wang Yang only thought about it for a while and made up his mind.

Isn't it money? As long as you can make a large number of paper armor, as long as you can provide enough protection for the soldiers, it is better than no armor.

"Of course, there are nearly ten paper mills in Jingzhao Mansion alone, don't you really want to use new paper to make them?" Su Dongpo smashed his mouth and said. This is all money, besides, in this era, the main function of paper is still used to record words, which is one of the four treasures of the study.

If you really want Wang Yang to make tens of thousands of pieces of paper armor, don't you want to ...... Su Dongpo always felt that it was not a taste.

But there is no other way to think about it at the moment, in the end, Su Dongpo can only agree to Wang Yang and help him collect paper to make paper armor to the greatest extent.

Wang Daguan breathed a sigh of relief, and after resting in Huanzhou for a night, as soon as the morning dawned, he rushed straight to Yanzhou.

Su Dongpo began to buy paper in various places on Shaanxi Road the next day, whether it was on catties or zhang, in short, all the paper that could be collected was shipped to Yanzhou.

And the tens of thousands of troops who are staying in Yanzhou are waiting for the arrival of these papers with big wooden hammers and puffing out their chest muscles, and they will use the momentum of the wind and clouds to carry out the Great Leap Forward-style refinement, hmm...... Large-scale paper armor to protect the family and defend the country.

There are several ways to make paper armor, but the most durable one is to cut the paper into an inch square, hammer it into shape, and hold it with a nail.

In its simplest form, paper is mixed with a paste and other adhesives, hammered with a sledgehammer, and then hung up to dry in the sun.

However, this kind of simple paper armor is naturally inferior to the kind of scaly paper armor with cumbersome craftsmanship, but it can definitely defend against arrows, but the defense against slashing weapons such as knives and axes is weak, but it is more suitable for large-scale rapid manufacturing.

Whether it is body armor or arm armor, it can be made in this way, and two people can make at least five sets a day. What's more, in Wang Yang's calculations, these armors were originally intended to be used by the Xiang army, and as for dealing with those enemies who climbed the city wall, they still had to rely on the elite border army.

It is precisely because Wang Yang's lack of attention to appearance and main function is to defend against arrows and crossbow arrows that this kind of light and easy-to-produce paper armor is being made at a speed that surpasses Britain and the United States.

What's even more fortunate is that this is the northwest border of the Great Song Dynasty, which is originally dry and rainless, and has plenty of sunshine, so the production of paper armor is almost not affected by the weather.

In addition, it is necessary to thank the energetic Western Xia prisoners of war for their hard work, and it is with their overtime and hard work that the cement straight road from Yanzhou to Huanzhou has been completed and opened to traffic by the end of April.

So that a large number of materials can be quickly traveled between Yanzhou and Huanzhou along this road, a truckload of paper was sent to Yanzhou, and after unloading the car, it was directly sent to the armor factory outside the city.

Not...... The so-called armor making office is a big boss, with a big wooden hammer, like smashing rice cakes, you go back and forth, and you use the strength of milk, hammering the paper soaked in paste.

After hammering them tightly, they are then hung to dry, and when they are almost dry, they begin to be cut, and finally produce pieces of Da Song paper armor with a simple structure and a very light weight.

Although the appearance of the paper armor is a little ugly, after testing, it can completely defend against the shooting of bows and crossbows, which makes both Wang Yang and those who will wear this kind of paper armor to garrison the city in the future smile.

Although it is not very clear why Wang Jingluo will let almost all the Xiang troops in Yanzhou participate in the armor-making work, but it is better to have a piece of armor than nothing.

It's just that the news of the large-scale production of paper armor in Yanzhou didn't take long for the news to go straight to the Beijing division and spread to the ears of the bigwigs and important ministers in the court.