It was another sunny morning, and Li Guanghang and his father came to the Taihu Lake, which is not far from Suzhou City.

Li Guanghang looked at the fish maw in the east, gradually turning from white to red. The mirror-clear surface of Taihu Lake is sparkling by the sun's radiance, and a breeze blows, and the silver mirror-like lake surface ripples in circles. There are a few wooden boats in the lake that fish early, and a few hard-working fishermen gently cast their nets, and they reaped a lot of joy in joy.

There was a light rain in the sky, and Taihu Lake became hazy, and nothing could be seen clearly, only the general outline of the object could be seen, as if covered with a veil.

"Yong'er, come with me."

Li Ling led Li Guanghang to a thatched hut on the edge of Taihu Lake. Due to the heavy rain for several days, a corner of the thatched hut has been soaked white by the water of Taihu Lake. Li Ling lightly pointed with his thick arm,

"The armor you asked for is in that house."

Li Guanghang felt a little surprised, if the armor was made of iron, wouldn't it be rusty in such a damp place? If it's paper, it's even worse, if this father is a careful person, there may be a glimmer of hope for the armor to be intact, but this big man, will he really be careful? Will you get a deck of scrap armor? But he has no choice, in the Ming Dynasty, the armor of the army is not easy to get, and if you get it, you will be charged with stealing military funds, and you will be exiled at least and killed at worst.

Li Ling's own armor was privately hidden, and in order to settle this matter, the old lady of the Li family bleeded a lot.

There is no way, so you can only find your own way. Li Guanghang stubbornly pushed open the dilapidated wooden door of the hut.

But as soon as he pushed open the wooden door, Li Guanghang found that something was wrong, not to mention how fierce the rain in the south of the Yangtze River was, but how much! Why is there such a big gap between inside and outside this house! There was not a drop of water in the house, and there was a large bag of unknown things piled up not far from the door. And the air in the house is a little dry.

Li Guanghang remembered that the waterproof technology of the Forbidden City in later generations was to pave the gray back first, and mix the lime paste with fine clay evenly, so that the white ash spots could not be seen with the naked eye. After paving, the compactness can reach the point where it will never seep water. On all four walls of this room, there were white spots left as if they were nothing. Out of curiosity, Li Guanghang tore off a little white wall ash with his fingers, and when he looked closely, it was lime.

"Zhang Fei threads the needle, thick and fine." Li Guanghang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, people really can't look good.

If I'm not mistaken, the pile in the corner is quicklime. Quicklime, known as calcium carbonate in chemistry, has an irreplaceable position in many cheap desiccants and has a wide range of uses, both in later generations and now.

The ancestors are still very smart, and from ancient times to the present, the Chinese have paid attention to practicality, although this has made China lead the world trend in the development of science and technology for a period of time, but the consequences of ignoring theory are to sacrifice the driving force of development, which is why Gu Yanwu will put forward the idea of applying it to the world.

But after all this time, Li Guanghang still didn't see anything resembling armor, except for a half-human-high pile of hay in the house.

When Li Guanghang was about to turn around and ask Li Ling, he suddenly thought of something, and his eyes were full of expectation.

Li Guanghang rushed to the half-man-high hay with an arrow step, ignored the hay and drew white paths on the back of his hand, and began to pick off the top of the haystack with his bare hands.

"Huh?"

Li Guanghang's hand touched a hard thing, and the metallic texture beat on Li Guanghang's fingertips, and it turned out to be a pair of iron armor.

Li Guanghang suddenly had a feeling of blood boiling, he hadn't had this emotion for a long, long time, and the years had already crushed his blood. But since he came here and came back to life, he found that what had been dormant in the depths of his body for a long time was restless again.

"Then let it wake up completely!" Li Guanghang felt full of fighting spirit and continued to devote himself to the excavation of armor......

On the official road.

"Drive!"

With the neighing of the two horses, a pine carriage carrying people was none other than Zhang Xiangjie, the envoy of the salt transporter.

After passing through a forest, we drove non-stop to the northwest of Suzhou.

"Big brother, isn't that Zhang Xiangjie's dog officer's car?" In the woods, two people who had not slept all night were nibbling on the dry food they had prepared when they came and drinking water.

"It doesn't matter who he is, as long as it's not Li Guanghang, don't care about him."

"Oh......"

One of the two was the little maid who went to the west wing of the Li family on the night of May 14. The other person is a fat man, with big shoulders and a round waist, and a simple face. The two of them were ambushed all night, but they didn't see Li Guanghang's figure, it's not that no one reported to them, but unfortunately the people who came came at night, there were no electric lights in ancient times, and it was dark in the field at night, and the two were too deep in ambush, and the messengers didn't find them, and they didn't see the messengers.

Now he was hungry and thirsty, and it was nothing for the little guy to come, but for the fat man, it was a very great thing. The fat man was a little irritable, lying on his stomach by the tree, playing with the mud and complaining.

The edge of Taihu Lake is still calm.

"Whew!"

Li Ling grabbed a fish that jumped out of the lake when the water was rising, and was removing the scales and dirty of the fish, preparing for an outdoor barbecue.

Li Guanghang, who was in the thatched hut, was already tired and sweating profusely, and finally removed the thatch attached to the armor.

A complete set of armor was displayed in front of Li Guanghang's eyes.

The helmet is a popular UFO hat in the Ming Dynasty, the long brim is said to be able to prevent the impact of the stray arrow, the top of the helmet, with cinnabar writing a brave word, the brim of the hat, hang down a circle of leather neck.

The armor body is a placket cotton armor wrapped in red cotton, and the dry environment keeps each cotton layer tough, with bright iron armor shoulder pads, layers of fine iron arm guards, and a chest iron mirror on the chest, which is very elite at first glance.

Li Guanghang remembered that cotton armor only appeared in the war circle of East Asia at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and firearms gradually flourished, and the Oriental people were the first to realize this, and the heavy armored cavalry was no longer the mainstream of warfare in the vast land of Asia. Moreover, in order to keep the troops less restricted by the weather during the operation, and better adapt to the severe cold, they switched to cotton cloth wrapped in iron, which not only maintained a certain degree of protection, but also did not weaken the mobility of the troops.

Many people in later generations felt that the Western plate armor, known as the European shield, was more protective than cotton armor, and this was indeed the case.

However, the material energy required for the fine plate armor is amazing, and the European land is already small, and fighting Germany from Portugal is considered an expedition, so there is no need to pursue mobility, so more attention is paid to protection.

In the vast land and vast territory of Asia, it is almost impossible for everyone to equip plate armor, not to mention mobility, the consumption of building plate armor alone is enough to scare off many careerists.

Li Guanghang thought about it for a long time and felt that the appearance of this cotton armor was somewhat familiar.

Suddenly, three words flashed in Li Guanghang's heart:

"No night!?"

"There is no collection and guarding the sergeant along the border at night, regardless of cold or heat, looking at it day and night, compared to the garrison, it is very industrious."

This can be called the elite of the Ming army, and there is a place for his father Li Ling, which makes Li Guanghang's admiration for this reckless father go further.

"No wonder my father knows a little about armaments." Li Guanghang sighed secretly.

Just when Li Guanghang felt that he was shocked enough, a scene suddenly appeared that made him feel incredible.

Under this cotton armor, there is a pair of half-body chain mail.

This old father can really be greedy!

Suddenly, Li Guanghang remembered that when he first arrived at Li Ling's mansion, Li Ling waved this long lance.

Li Guanghang was speechless for a while, could it be that this long lance was also obtained by Li Ling from the border army?

Immediately after, Li Guanghang saw an even more incredible picture......