For such a divine crossbow, if the infantry of the Zhao State is equipped in large numbers, it will almost immediately be able to make the crossbow soldiers combat effectiveness to a big level!

Subsequently, all kinds of other weapons also opened Zhao Yong's eyes! The short swords used in hand-to-hand combat and the halberds used in distant battles are all weapons made of good iron! Zhao Yong once got a steel sword similar to the Yitian Sword from Dai Yan, although he didn't know the difference between iron and steel, but he didn't think that the strength of this "evil gold" like iron would be inferior to copper!

Sure enough, when he took a standard iron sword and struck each other with the copper sword produced by Zhao Guo himself, the bronze sword of Zhao Guo was immediately cut out of a gap! The sophistication of this weapon made Zhao Yong admire again!

And later, the few weapons that Mr. Zou took out not only amazed Zhao Yong, but really shocked him!

These weapons are completely equipment for cavalry!

The equipment of these cavalrymen is all set of equipment, and each set of equipment is actually not much, just a slightly curved saber, a leather armor for men and horses, a special riding bow, and two pots of arrows. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

For these equipment, the knights sent by Taoqiu demonstrated them one by one.

The cavalry mounted on his horse and began to run, then just unsheathed his saber, and then waved lightly at the wooden target that ran past, and the wooden target was cut off!

A riding equipment refers to the combined name of human armor and horse armor. In Taoqiu's armor and cavalry, the human armor is not very unusual, and it is not much different from the infantry armor of this era, but what is really peculiar is the horse armor in it. After all, this was when cavalry had just appeared, and people had not yet thought of adding so much protection to horses!

A complete set of vests, consisting of six parts: a curtain; chicken neck; When the chest; horse body armor; After the ride; Parasitism. The "curtain of face" is a long, narrow surface with eye holes on it, which mainly protects the horse's face; The "chicken neck" is actually a pair of armor on the neck of a horse, which is made of armor pieces and has a buckle in front that can be buckled; When the chest; horse body armor; After riding, it is a large piece of armor in the middle and back of the horse; And parasitism is more distinctive, it is an upturned broom-like thing placed on the tail of a horse, which mainly protects the back of the cavalry!

For the test of this whale carapace, it is even simpler. Placing a set of leather armor in the distance, a soldier of the Zhao State used the bow and arrow in his hand to shoot an arrow at the knight with normal force, hitting the leather armor. However, when Zhao Yong went over to observe in person, he found that Zhao Guo's archers did not shoot through this seemingly light leather armor!

Both human and leather armor are made of whale skin. They all have the same superior protection capabilities, so to speak, such a set of equipment can arm the entire cavalry to the teeth!

For such a set of armor riding equipment, what shocked Zhao Yong the most was its weight! It's so lightweight, but it's so strong! This kind of light equipment is not very burdensome for people and horses, even if you wear such a set of equipment and go on a long-distance run, I am afraid it will not increase the burden on the horses much!

Zhao's bow is not particularly good among the nations, but it is much stronger than the nomads on the steppe! If this time the cavalry can be equipped with such a set of armored cavalry, doesn't it mean that except for the condor archers on the steppe, these armored cavalry will hardly suffer any damage?

Zhao Yong was extremely surprised by such a kind of armor, and asked Mr. Zou directly: "What kind of material is your leather armor made of, why have I never seen such a high-quality leather armor?" ”

Mr. Zou replied truthfully: "This kind of leather armor is made of the skin of whales in the sea. Zhao Hou should know that Zhuangzi, a famous scholar of the Song Dynasty, once said: 'There is a fish in the north of the underworld, and its name is Kun'. Kun, a divine fish, is said to have the blood of the dragon king, and its body is huge, like the overlord of the sea! My lord named this sacred fish whale, and authorized the Taoqiu merchants to go whaling in the East China Sea. As the overlord of the sea, the skin on the whale's body is naturally light and hard, which is the most suitable standard armor for cavalry! ”

After listening to this, Zhao Yong nodded, and then he looked at the special riding bow. This riding bow looks unusually short and does not seem to have anything special about it. However, the Taoqiu knight only took out the bow and arrow from his body, and then pulled it hard, and the arrow easily shot out of a distance of more than 200 meters, which was much more powerful than the divine crossbow demonstrated before!

Such a powerful bow and arrow made Zhao Yong a little surprised! He took the bow and looked at it, and discovered the mystery of it, and the string on it was neither hemp rope nor cow tendon, but a material he knew nothing!

As soon as Zhao Yong asked, Mr. Zou replied directly to him: "Qi Qi Zhao Hou, this special riding bow, the bow arm is made of fine bamboo, and the bowstring is also made of the whiskers on the body of the sea god fish whale!" ”

Baleen can be said to be one of the best materials in terms of elasticity and toughness among the naturally occurring substances, and it is actually perfect for making bowstrings!

You must know that whale baleen has created a revolutionary thing in history, which is to be loved by women all over the world in later generations and popular in the whole world!

Women's corsets, also known as tight underwear, have been around since ancient Roman times in the Western world. However, the first revolutionary chest corset in history is actually related to whale baleen. The origin of the real corset in history actually comes from the 16th century Spanish corset "Basquei". And the material used in this Basqueyi is actually a sleeveless bodysuited garment made of whale baleen.

In fact, this is also very easy to understand, can the natural sagging part of the human body maintain a long time of firmness, and can be used to shape the body corset, can the material used be ordinary things? Compared with the bowstring used in the bow and arrow, its requirements for the toughness and elasticity of the material are really not as good as the chest binding!

If someone doesn't believe it, you can try the elasticity and toughness of the chest binding! (Sha Xianjun snickers)

Taoqiu's equipment for cavalry is a complete set of equipment, and the weight of this complete set of equipment does not exceed 30 catties, which is completely within the load-bearing range of a horse!

For these equipment, Zhao Yong's eyes were hot, but when he asked the price, he was immediately moved!

Not to mention bed crossbows and ballistas, such equipment is not available in the entire Zhao Kingdom, although the price of Taoqiu merchants is relatively high, and the price of each set has reached more than 100,000 yuan, but in the eyes of Zhao Yong, it can still be afforded. What really cares about him is actually those universal standard equipment!

A divine crossbow is only 500 yuan, and the matching special crossbow arrow is only 5 yuan a piece! And each of these crossbow arrows has an iron metal arrow on it!

You must know that the standard crossbow made by Zhao Guo himself, not to mention that the range and accuracy cannot be compared with the divine crossbow at all, and the cost of each crossbow is bound to exceed 40 gold, which is twice as expensive as the price of Taoqiu! And those crossbow arrows, needless to say, not to mention that their copper arrows are extremely rough, and the cost of making 100,000 arrows will reach 80,000 gold! Its price is more than 4 times that of a crossbow arrow in Taoqiu!

As for those iron melee weapons, although Zhao Yong is also very excited, but in recent years, most of his thoughts have been on cavalry, and what he values more is actually a full set of cavalry equipment!

For these cavalry equipment, when Dai Yan sent out the sales team, he made it very clear to Mr. Zou that he must sell these equipment to Zhao Guo in a complete way!

Because the military factories that produce sabers, armor and riding bows are all not from one family, if they come separately to quote to Zhao Guo, they will definitely suffer a great loss, and if they are combined together, then the profit will be very large!

A complete set of cavalry equipment costs 20,000 dollars! However, for Zhao Yong, such a price is actually not expensive at all! Because for Zhao Guo, the manufacture of armor is controlled by Zhao Guogong Yin, and the armor that Zhao Guo can produce every year is actually no more than 1,500 pieces, and the price of each armor is actually more than 800 gold! The price of such a piece of armor is actually more than the equipment of this entire set of cavalry!

After all, in this era, armor was actually only equipment that military attachés could have. For ordinary creeps, it is usually enough to issue a melee weapon!

Although cavalry was Zhao Yong's most important type of troops, he never thought that he could match all the cavalry of Zhao State with armor!

After knowing that the price of Taoqiu's equipment was so good and cheap, Zhao Yong really felt a little remorseful! If he knew that Zhao Guo's Gong Yin was so unbearable, he shouldn't have agreed to give a large amount of money to Gong Yin and buy equipment directly from Tao Qiu!

At the same time, he also secretly swore in his heart that if he could win this crusade against Lin Hu, he would definitely take advantage of the situation to take down the Gongyin of Zhao State, and let such a group of people with wine bags and rice bags sit in such an important position, with so much money, and the things they made were not as good as those made by mere businessmen!

In fact, this is Zhao Yong's lack of knowledge. Although Zhao Guo's Gongyin also has various problems, with Zhao Guo's status as a powerful country today, if it is compared with the kingdom of the world, it is really not so unbearable. The gap between them and Taoqiu is actually a management problem!

The Gongyin of the Zhao State, which was almost equivalent to the later Gongbu Shangshu, was in charge of the engineering and weapon manufacturing of the entire Zhao State, and all the craftsmen in it were managed by the nobles of the Zhao State. In the eyes of the aristocracy, the craftsmen were nothing more than a group of lowly pariahs, who never thought to give them any respect, and used them as slaves!

On the other hand, all factories, under Dai Yan's reforms, are under the management of a market economy, and all craftsmen and workers are free, and factory owners are not allowed to restrict the free movement of workers! Moreover, in various factories, the power of the Mo family has gradually risen among the workers, which makes the factory owners extremely respectful of the craftsmen!

This relaxed atmosphere in the Taoqiu factory is conducive to the development of a wide variety of equipment by craftsmen. On the other hand, the work of the respected craftsmen was much higher than that of the slave-like craftsmen of other countries in this era, which made the weapons produced by the pottery mound factory far superior to those of other countries in the world in terms of quality and quantity!

Therefore, although most of the weapons produced by Taoqiu are only half of the price of Zhao, the cost of producing them in Taoqiu, plus the freight to Zhao, is actually less than half of the selling price!

In other words, the military industry in Taoqiu can easily earn more than 100% profits!

Of course, Tao Qiu will naturally not sell the real core equipment easily! For example, the steel plate armor that is better than the whaleskin armor riding gear, the composite riding bow specially made with whale baleen, and even the extremely simple one in Dai Yan's opinion, is a stirrup and horseshoe with a layer of window paper!