At present, the armor of the Shandong army, the soldiers are lined with armor, with chain mail inside, and the boots are decorated with shiny iron plates, because they can look very bright at a glance.

However, this suit is not practical, it looks like a large piece of fine light, but in the end, the physical strength of the Han people is still not as good as that of the Tartars, and many soldiers and soldiers have reported that such a heavy armor makes their physical strength deplete quickly.

Wang Zheng often has such worries, this set of armor looks heavy, at first he didn't think about it so much, he didn't think that he would go so far, and now it's too late to think about the solution and perfect method.

The armor of the soldiers of the Shandong Army is a heavy infantry armor modeled after the Tartars, blindly pursuing protection, wanting to confront the Tartars head-on, but ignoring whether the soldiers are comfortable to wear.

Now Wang Zheng is no longer the Wang Zheng of the past, and the Shandong Army is no longer the weak Wendeng Battalion at the beginning, and those who have never thought about it and are perfunctory have become loopholes.

Taking advantage of the expansion of the Shandong Army now, Wang Zheng felt that it was time to make some changes, completely improve his entire set of armor, and play his own style.

However, Wang Zheng does not have so much time to design his own armor now, and these must be left for later, after all, there are less than two years left before the fall of the Ming Dynasty in history, so he can only choose from the armor of the mainstream Ming army.

At present, in addition to the cloth armor and iron helmet of the Central Plains battalion soldiers, the Ming army in various places is the various armor and chain neck guard iron helmets of the Southern Ming Army, in addition, the clothing of the Beijing camp troops is different.

The Beijing camp has long been occupied by the sons and daughters of Beizhili, and their so-called experience in the army is mostly just a beautiful bubble, which is useless in armor, and has no protective ability for a long time.

In order to deal with Emperor Chongzhen, some people even specially designed a "paper armor" that seemed gorgeous, but it was as light as a feather and had no protective ability.

However, their helmet "Cloud Wing Helmet" retains the design style of the three major battalions in the early Ming Dynasty, except that the selection of materials and construction are too rough, and the rest is quite pertinent.

Wang Zheng once asked people to buy the production method of the Jingying Cloud Wing Helmet, and after the craftsman successfully built it, he put it on and tried it, which looked very powerful.

According to those old craftsmen who used to be in the guardhouse, if the materials are selected and built carefully, the protection ability of the cloud-winged helmet is excellent.

The so-called take the essence and remove the dross.

Since the Shandong army wants to play its own style, it cannot be the same as any other army, whether it is the Eastern Tartars, the Western Mongolian or the Ming Imperial Army.

As the main force of the Shandong Army's field warfare and fortification, the armor must be of high quality, even if it cannot be very heavy, to ensure that most parts of the body of the soldiers can be held in battle.

The Shandong Army is advancing with the times, and Wang Zheng has not only the Central Plains in mind, but the global situation at this time, China, must not be left behind.

Therefore, the Shandong Army not only expanded the army this time, but also changed the usual unchanged battalion system, and was ready to update the uniforms of soldiers and horses from top to bottom, which can be regarded as a comprehensive reform.

However, this change is not blind, what is good must be retained, and what is not useful must be discarded immediately, such as the previous set of soldier armor is troublesome to wear, and it is too heavy to affect the soldiers' combat, which urgently needs to be changed.

And now is the period of the Xiaoice River, even Shandong, although it is not called a cold wind for most of the time, but it is also a cool breeze.

When the soldiers were training, on duty and on rotation, they always had to carry knives and guns around, and their hands outside held the hilts and barrels of their guns, and they always had to suffer from the cold.

Considering this factor, many clothmen under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Army designed a pair of cotton gloves, which were worn on their hands on weekdays, which did not affect the drill training and rotation defense, and could make the soldiers feel much better.

After many people learned the news, they were in tears, maybe the officials who treated their subordinates like this in the world were the ones who were loyal to the liebo.

Compared with the commanders of other imperial courts, although Wang Zheng is in a high position of loyal and martyrdom, he does not treat soldiers as family members and ordinary people, and even his own soldiers do not have any privileges, and they have always been treated equally.

In the Shandong army, even if you are the lowest level of the security department Yanding and the village protection team, at least you will have a set of standard cotton clothes and waist knives, and the higher you go, the more generous the treatment will be.

Moreover, judging from Shandong's system, one person's attainment of the Tao is often the happiness of the whole family, which is the most important reason why many people are desperate to die for the king.

After all, you can't survive in other places, but under Wang Zheng's hands, you can live a life of food and clothing, and if you risk your life to fight, you may get unimaginable glory and wealth from others.

And judging from the new armor issued this time, Wang Zhengwei really spent a lot of effort, which is enough to make the soldiers love it.

The new armor of the Warriors is lined with lighter chain mail, with fluff added to the inner armor to protect against the cold, and the outer armor is replaced with a crimson lace armor.

After thinking about it and combining various schemes, Wang Zheng finally adopted the situation of thickening the armor.

This kind of armor is a kind of purple armor commonly equipped by the Southern Ming Army, which does not cater to the figure, but the Shandong Army thickens and improves it, inserts iron sheets, and changes the original purple pattern to skull lace.

Speaking of which, this kind of skull-shaped decoration is indeed unique to the Shandong Army.

Not only that, but the decoration of the skeleton shape is different from each of the four battalions, which makes it easy to distinguish slightly, and there is also a danger of preventing enemy armor from mixing in.

In this way, the armor of the Shandong Army is different from the Ming Army in Jiangnan at a glance, with less extravagance over there, but more murderous aura that chills down the spine.

A strong army like the soldiers of the Shandong Army, who had never been defeated, really needed decorations like skulls to boost morale, perhaps in the eyes of women and children, this was too terrible.

But in the eyes of the enemy, this becomes a source of fear.

After the soldiers first saw this new type of armor, their first feeling was that they were not as thick as their own iron armor, and they were used to holding heavy iron armor, and then they felt light and fluttering when they picked up this new type of armor, and they also had a lot of doubts at the moment.

But when the first person put it on, he screamed in surprise.

The first thing that was surprising was the speed with which the soldier put on his armor, from the time he picked up the armor in one hand to the time he stood in the barracks in full clothes, it was only more than forty seconds.

As we all know, the wearing of armor has always been extremely cumbersome, like Wang Zheng every time he goes on an expedition, although the armor of the commander looks extraordinary, it is several times more complicated than that of ordinary soldiers, and he has to ask Yu'er to help two hours in advance.

The soldiers of the Shandong Army are all in iron armor, fully armed from head to toe, and the armor is the most worn by the Ming Army, which is not at all easier than Wang Zheng, so many people are used to not taking off their armor for days when they go out.

Of course, this also includes Wang Zheng.

According to the soldier, this suit of armor was as if it had been made for himself, not only was it very easy to wear, but it was also natural and easy to walk.

Speaking of this, he couldn't even hold back his excitement, shouted a few times excitedly, and ran to the outside of the camp with a knife and slashed, which seemed quite refreshing.

Seeing him like this, the soldiers around him couldn't believe it, it was too exaggerated, although this armor looked domineering, it was really so comfortable to wear?

Suspicious, the rest of the people also picked up their equipment and put it on, and within two minutes, the camp was full of soldiers comparing and questioning each other.

"It's so comfortable, I don't even want to take it off."

"Yes, thanks to Uncle Chunglie, we have new armor to wear!"

?“ Thinking about those imperial court soldiers, it's really pitiful, now they are afraid that they are still wearing the armor of a few years ago, maybe they haven't been paid for many years. ”

"Hey, don't say it, you kid looks mighty when you put on this new armor."

?“ Hahaha, each other! ”