On the pier on the South Main Island.

Lu Ming and the four of them walked off the ship with solemn faces, and ordered their crew members not to cause trouble on the island, and to control their own hands and feet, otherwise they would be severely punished.

No way! The trip to the north main island had already frightened Lu Ming and the four of them, in fact, there was no need for Lu Ming's four stewards to remind them, the sailors on the ship also saw the ironclad army, and they were all scared to pee, if it weren't for Lu Ming's stewards who were quite calm, they would have fled away a long time ago.

There is still an ironclad army hidden on the island, how can others live!

It wasn't until the South Main Island that Lu Ming and the four finally put their minds at ease, the Wufeng Islands didn't have the heart to rob the fleet, otherwise they wouldn't have let the fleet leave easily.

However, these people still didn't have eyes, if there was a military general present at that time and saw the ironclad army, he would definitely exclaim and buy a set of such ironclad from Zhen Qian with a lot of money.

In ancient times, iron armor was a forbidden item, and people were not allowed to make armor, even if ordinary people had a set of iron armor, it was a great crime to rebel, so although Lu Ming and others saw that it was iron armor, they didn't know what kind of iron armor it was, or what such iron armor was.

There are many types of iron armor, which are divided into half-body armor and full-body armor in terms of appearance, and if in terms of weight, they are divided into light armor and heavy armor, and even infantry armor and cavalry armor according to different types of troops. In the final analysis, the quality of a set of iron armor is related to the production price, materials, defense, and lightness, and the iron armor worn by Zhen Qian's iron armor army is heavy armor, which can completely crush any armor in this era.

The armor of the Tang Dynasty, according to the records of the Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty, has 13 kinds of armor, such as Mingguang, Guangyao, fine scales, mountain inscriptions, bird hammers, white cloth, soap juan, cloth back, infantry, leather armor, wooden armor, chains, and vests. Among them, Mingguang, Guangyao, Chain, Mountain, Bird Hammer, and Fine Scale Armor are iron armor, and the latter three are named after the style of armor armor pieces. Leather armor, wooden armor, white cloth, soap, and cloth back are named after the materials used to make them.

The iron armor that Lu Ming and the others saw was not one of the thirteen armors of the Tang Dynasty, but the plate armor used by Westerners in later generations.

Most of the ancient Chinese armor evolved from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the armor refers to the square pieces of armor directly pierced through each other with leather strips and ropes. The armor pieces are stacked on top of each other horizontally and vertically, making it difficult for the sword to enter.

The gap in the armor is basically parallel to the human body, and even if it is drilled through the gap in the expansion and contraction part, the blade will be pressed by the armor pieces stacked up and down at an angle parallel to the human body, making it difficult to cause effective damage to the human body. In the early days, the materials of the armor were mostly made of leather, and in the later period, iron, copper, gold and silver began to be used.

Usually iron armor, ordinary crossbow arrows can not shoot fifty paces, which shows its sturdy.

The weight of the iron armor is usually more than 20 catties, and the infantry armor of the Song Dynasty even reached a terrifying 60 catties, which has extremely high requirements for the quality of the soldiers, and also limits the scope of use of the iron armor.

In later generations, there were many netizens on the Internet to discuss whether the Westerners' plate armor defense was stronger, or the Easterners' armor defense was better, in fact, the test data has proved that under the same weight, the plate armor is much higher than the armor.

In fact, in Zhen Qian's opinion, this problem is not a problem at all.

Some people say that the reason why plate armor did not appear in ancient China is not that it cannot be made, but that when plate armor is used against the armor-breaking blunt weapons of the northern nomads, the impact resistance of plate armor is not as strong as that of piercing armor, as if Westerners do not have armor-piercing blunt weapons in their hands.

There are two reasons why the Oriental plate armor did not appear, one is the development of iron-making technology, and the other is the application of hydraulic forging hammers.

Just imagine, if there is no high-quality steel and hydraulic forging hammer, a piece of plate armor can not be forged at all, even if it is a hammer and hammer beating, just imagine the production process of the treasure knife, it is almost incomprehensible, even if a plate armor is made, because of the quality of the whole piece of steel, it is impossible to be better than a piece of iron made of armor!

Ironmaking!

Zhen Qian has never experienced it in this life or in the previous life, but who let himself come to the era of information explosion in the later generations?

I don't know what's going on with thousands or tens of thousands of cubic meters of automated blast furnaces, but I understand the principle of ironmaking! The hot blast stove, coke, and various raw materials have an impression!

The ironmaking charge is loaded into the furnace from the top of the furnace according to a certain batch, and the hot air heated to thousands of degrees by the hot blast furnace is blown into the tuyere, and the coke in the charge is burned in front of the tuyere, producing high temperature and reducing gas, and the slowly declining charge is heated in the process of rising in the furnace, and the oxide in the iron ore is reduced to metallic iron. After the ore rises to a certain temperature, it softens, melts and drips, and the unreduced substances in the mine form slag to achieve slag separation. The slag iron collects in the furnace cylinder, undergoes many chemical reactions, and finally adjusts the composition and temperature to reach the end point, and the slag and molten iron are discharged from the furnace at regular intervals.

The principle of the entire iron-making process is clear, and it is more real than gold, but Zhen Qian can't do anything.

However, this is difficult for the craftsmen of this era, what they lack is Zhen Qian's theoretical knowledge, coupled with Zhen San's continuous experiments, as early as the wolf's den, a small iron furnace with a daily output of 10,000 catties has been built, but because of raw materials and some other reasons, they dare not make iron on a large scale, for fear of being discovered by people outside the mountain.

When Zhen San arrived in the Wufeng Islands, he built a small iron furnace again, refined it with a steady stream of molten iron, and used a hydraulic forging hammer to create pieces of iron plates, making the plate armor worn by the ironclad army today.

A piece of armor requires countless craftsmen to hammer it one by one, which is time-consuming and laborious, and even the simplest piece of armor requires hundreds of hours of careful polishing.

However, a set of plate armor was forged by water power, and it was made in a few hours.

Although the plate armor is simple to make, the weight is also not light, and the quality of the soldier is extremely high, which causes not every soldier to wear full-body plate armor.

In later film and television dramas, the Tang people were portrayed as strong and burly people, but in fact this is not the case, ordinary people rarely see meat and oil water in their daily diet, in the words of later generations, that is, malnutrition, how many ordinary people can be strong, especially on the Wufeng Islands, most of them are born as homeless, and the difficulty of selecting the ironclad army is even more difficult, resulting in the number of ironclad troops is less than four hundred.

However, fortunately, the Wufeng Islands are implementing a policy of elite soldiers, and in order to blindly expand the source of soldiers, the quality of soldiers is generally higher, even if they can't wear full-body plate armor, they can also bear the weight of half-body plate armor, and even then it is very terrifying.

Lu Ming and the four of them were frightened by the ironclad army, and the idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob was extinguished by a bucket of ice water, and they came to the South Main Island in a gray manner.

(End of chapter)