Li Yanzhao returned to the camp and summoned Liu Jiwu's ten people, and went to the arsenal with him to carry the military materials that were called. Liu Jiwu is now the head of this thing. Hearing Li Yanzhao's call, he immediately called a few people in the tent and dragged back the other guys who were still fighting at the table. Gathered all ten people and followed Li Yanzhao to the arsenal.

The treasurer of the army opened the door of the arsenal, and then called a few sergeants to go in with Liu Jiwu and others to count the military supplies. The treasurer made a record of the exit from the warehouse on top of the case next to the door. After that, Li Yanzhao and the others either held iron armor, or were covered with bows and arrows, or hung ropes for capturing prisoners, and walked to the camp after leaving the arsenal.

Looking at the collared iron armor in his arms, everyone was full of novelty. Cui Yang, who was short, walked at the end of the team and shouted repeatedly: "Tsk, I saw Pang Sima's soldiers wearing this iron armor before, but I didn't think there was anything special. When I got it in my hand today, I realized that it was so heavy! ”

"I knew it was so heavy and so hard. Last time, you were just a rammer, and you bit it on someone's shoulder, and you didn't see what the bite was? I didn't bite anything else, and I still broke two teeth! Cao Jian heard Cui Yang's sigh at the end of the team, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Now you know, will you bite next time?" ”

When Cui Yang heard this, he scratched his head embarrassedly: "Didn't the captain of the hundred people say that except for delivering food, no one will be allowed to enter." Seeing that they are going to break in, where do I care so much. ”

"I'll tell you, the next time you take another blacksmith with you to make iron and use that hammer, and then you see the iron turtles under Pang Sima messing around, you take out this hammer and give it to them, make sure they have a long memory, and the next time I see you, I will walk around. Ha ha. Cao Jian looked at Cui Yang's embarrassed appearance and smiled and gave him a bad idea.

"Hey, this is a good solution, I didn't think of it." Cui Yang's eyes lit up at once, and he couldn't close his mouth with joy.

"Cao Jian, you are feasible, come up with such a bad idea. If you really come like this, I won't go to the arsenal and be confined for six days, Pang Sima will have to peel off my skin, and none of you will want to run. Li Yanzhao saw that Cui Yang really had another hammer to knock on the iron-clad soldiers under Pang Sima, and hurriedly spoke out to stop it.

When Cao Jian heard Li Yanzhao's words, he smiled embarrassedly. Cui Yang, who was at the end of the team, also scratched his head embarrassedly. Then he looked down at the iron armor in his hand as he walked, and suddenly asked: "Hundred people, this iron armor is so heavy and so hard, wearing it, are we really invulnerable?" ”

Li Yanzhao couldn't help but feel a dumb smile. Due to the limited knowledge, the soldiers who have not been on the battlefield in this era always have two extreme views on these protective gears: either they do not think so, or they are blindly superstitious. After all, they have not seen the real swords and guns on the battlefield, and they cannot have an objective understanding of the performance of these armors, which will also make them easy to blindly rush forward or fear the enemy like a tiger when facing the real battlefield one day in the future.

There is no doubt that both of these emotions will cost their lives on the battlefield of real bloody fighting.

Li Yanzhao felt that as their superior, it was necessary for him to explain to them the use of each weapon and equipment, as well as their advantages and disadvantages. At this time, Cui Yang asked, so he lifted the iron armor in his hand with his right hand and held it flat in front of him. Then he asked the people who were walking beside him, "Come, tell me what you saw." ”

Cui Yang walked at the end of the team, but he was quick-mouthed, and hurriedly replied: "Back to the hundred people, we saw the iron armor in your hand." ”

Li Yanzhao smiled and nodded: "This standard of iron armor is called the sleeve armor." Look, what parts of the body can it protect, and what parts of the body can it not protect? ”

Cao Jian looked up at the sleeve armor that Li Yanzhao was holding, and then at the one in his hand, thought about it, and said, "It can be prevented from the body, as well as the shoulder." Forearms, legs, and head are not protected. ”

Li Yanzhao listened to Cao Jian's answer with a look of approval: "What Cao Jian said is very right. This iron armor can protect the body and shoulders, but the forearms, legs, and head are unprotected. Therefore, it must be worn with an iron helmet. in order to achieve its maximum protection effect. ”

Then Li Yanzhao turned his head and asked Cao Jian: "Cao Jian, think about it, what kind of weapons can this iron armor protect, and what weapons can't it prevent?" ”

Cao Jian took the iron armor in his hand, looked at it over and over for a while, and then replied: "This kind of iron armor is not a big problem in defending against bows and arrows, even if it is a stone and a hard bow, it may be difficult to enter." However, it is difficult to prevent the crossbow from firing. In melee combat, swords and swords cannot be entered. However, it is difficult to prevent the spear from stabbing it. Moreover, weapons such as axes, hammers, maces, and maces are also difficult to prevent. ”

Li Yanzhao listened to Cao Jian's summary, praised Cao Jian, praised Cao Jian a few words, and then said to everyone: "What Cao Jian said is good. This iron armor can indeed defend against bows and arrows, swords and slashes, but it is mostly impossible to defend against blunt weapons such as crossbows, spears, and axes and hammers. ”

When everyone heard this, they were all surprised. Originally, they thought that if they got the best iron armor in this army, they would be invulnerable to guns and others, and they would be ten with one. It wasn't until Cao Jian and Li Yanzhao's objective evaluation of the iron armor that they were pulled back to reality and woke up like a dream.

"Although this iron armor is not as indestructible as everyone thinks, the leather armor is not the same as its protective ability. In the future, everyone can wear leather armor inside and iron armor outside, so that the torso of the body can be protected to the greatest extent. ”

"As for those weapons that cannot be guarded against by iron armor, the only way to avoid being hit by them is to use shields and fighting skills. If you want to survive on the battlefield in the future, you will have to work hard to hone your skills. ”

Li Yanzhao analyzed these things reasonably, and used them to motivate everyone, so that everyone should not be superstitious about the sharp blade of armor, and pointed out that improving skills is the right thing to do, and everyone was impressed. Moreover, wearing leather armor inside and iron armor on the outside does make everyone feel an incomparable sense of security compared to before.

This matter was deliberately done by Li Yanzhao, and when he asked the Governor of Qianren to order the transfer of weapons and armor, he did not propose to return the leather armor used before. However, the Governor of the Thousand People did not care about these details at all, and the treasurer only obeyed the warrant of the Governor of the Thousand People to transfer weapons, and would not take the initiative to ask Li Yanzhao to return the things he used before, so he let Li Yanzhao take advantage of the loophole and won twenty opportunities for his subordinates to wear double armor.

When he himself was promoted to the commander of 100 people before, it was also the governor of the thousand people who saw that he was still dangling a pair of soldiers' leather armor all day long, so he ordered the treasurer to allocate a pair of iron armor for him. At that time, he did not return the leather armor he had worn before. Therefore, including him, there are already twenty-one people in the cavalry who can wear double armor.

Regarding the scarcity of iron armor, Li Yanzhao also summed it up. On the one hand, it is because the iron armor is expensive, and on the other hand, it is because the iron armor is cumbersome to manufacture, consumes a lot of man-hours, and there are few craftsmen in the county. Due to these conditions, the yield has not been high.

The output cannot be increased, and there is a lack of money. Naturally, for the soldiers of the Guangwu Army, this iron armor is a rare thing.

However, for this kind of thing, Li Yanzhao can't do it. After all, the accumulation of funds by the prefecture and even the state and the expansion of financial resources to fill the treasury are by no means something that can be accomplished in a short period of time.

Today, Taishou has already concentrated most of the craftsmen under the rule of the county town in Guangwu County. The centralization of industry has already been achieved. Over time, both yield and quality will be much higher than ever before.

The assembly line operation of the harness workshop has also been realized for a long time. The production of semi-finished saddles without stirrups has almost doubled. It's just that the output of stirrups is not high, so the output of finished products is still not high. In the past few months, the clay suitable for refractory bricks has already been found, but the kind of combustible black stone-like coal that Li Yanzhao asked for has been searching for to no avail.

led his ten men back to the camp, and Li Yanzhao ordered everyone to put the ten sets of iron armor that had been left in their tents for the replacement of the sentry after work. He also called the Lin team rate, and told the Lin team rate in detail about the changes in the land of Henan, Chen An's movements, and the matter of the thousands of people supervising the cavalry to cross the river and spying on them. After he returned to the camp on leave, he reported the news to the Ye team.

From today onwards, the cavalry battalion will be led by a hundred commanders and two team leaders, and three officers will take turns to lead the team to cross the river before going out to investigate. Two shifts a day, changed to three shifts a day.

After the explanation, Li Yanzhao summoned Liu Jiwu's ten people, and saw that the ten people were neatly dressed. He also ordered them to examine their weapons and armaments in detail, and to examine the arrows and arrows, and to see that there was nothing abnormal. Then Cao Jian took Cui Yang and Wang Qiang. went to the military doctor to get some trauma medicine, gauze and other things to wrap the wound; Liu Jiwu led Niu Erzhuang and Qin Dayong to go to the gang room to get five days of dry food for everyone, and ordered the rest of the people to take everyone's water bladders to fill them.

After all these preparations were completed, Li Yanzhao thought left and right, until he couldn't think of anything missing, so he ordered everyone to go to the stable and horse storage to receive military horses and some bean cakes and other fine materials for emergency use.

Before leaving, Li Yanzhao went to the tent of the Thousand Governors, made a report to Du Jie, and then led ten people out of the camp when he came out, and then got on his horse and galloped all the way south.