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Daoist Jia took a step forward and suggested to Sun Yi: "Lord Lidel, the law of the Ming Dynasty, all private people, horses, bows, crossbows, guns and knives are not prohibited, and armor, brands, firearms, and flags should be prohibited. Did you also confiscate all these things? ”

Sun Yi immediately wanted to answer that the demobilized border soldiers should take all their weapons away, but after a while, he decided to consult his chief soldier first.

"What do you think?"

The sun fell and replied: "The armor is left, the three-eyed gun is also left, and the other blades, if you can trust this group of border soldiers, let them take them away." ”

Jia Daoshi was shocked: "No! Since the border army has gathered a crowd today, it is possible to rebel tomorrow, if they have a weapon in their hands......"

Sun Yi interrupted Daoist Jia's words, "I believe they won't rebel, because when the day comes, they will choose to run away first." ”

Jia Daoshi also wanted to argue, but Sun Yi blocked his words: "Unless someone deprives them of the right to escape, they will be forced to rebel, in that case, they should rebel, because they are defending the Heavenly Constitution." ”

The sun is falling, and the face is clear.

Daoist Jia thought for a moment and stopped silent.

Sun Yi asked the sunfall: "Why do you want to leave only the armor?" ”

The sun fell: "The two armies are fighting, and the armor is the most important. In the future, there will definitely be more wars than agricultural veterans, and it is more appropriate to leave veteran armor to protect the lives of soldiers. ”

Sun Yi didn't expect that in the heart of the sunfall, the importance of armor was so high, so he ordered someone to take a set of armor to take a look.

The so-called armor is the same as a lightning rod, an iron hat and a large cotton jacket.

Sun Yi picked up the iron helmet and found that it was made of six pieces of iron riveted and spliced. Six pieces of iron were rolled together at the position of the lightning rod, protruding sharply, weighing eight or nine catties. The raised space under the lightning rod is just right for the long hair of the Ming Dynasty.

Sun Yi has received field first aid training and knows that the first fatal injury is the head injury. Even if you don't die on the spot, you will have ear discharge and nose discharge. It is a head injury or skull fracture caused by the impact, and cerebrospinal fluid flows out of the ears and nose. With the medical conditions of the Ming Dynasty, otorrhea and rhinorrhea will inevitably lead to intracranial infection, which is equivalent to death.

So in the era of cold weapons, helmets are indeed necessary.

However, this sharp lightning rod not only can't avoid lightning in the wild, but I'm afraid it will also attract thunder.

Sun Yi only understood that the "lightning rod" was actually used to insert feathers, tassels or small flags to indicate the military rank and identity of the person wearing the helmet, which was actually equivalent to the epaulettes in the army of later generations.

Sun Yi took a piece of cotton armor and checked it in his hand, which was about ten catties. Unfold it and take a look, the upper body is like the shoulders of the later generations, the half sleeves are less than the elbows, and the lower body is like the coats of the later generations, and the hem is less than the knees. When I touched it with my hand again, I didn't notice that it was lined with hard things.

asked the sunset, "This thing is called cotton armor, isn't it just dead cotton?" ”

The sun is falling: "What the master said is good. Cotton armor is dead cotton. Seven catties of cotton, sewn into a jacket with cloth, soaked in water, spread on the ground and kicked with feet, dried is cotton armor. ”

Sun Yi: "I heard before that cotton armor is lined with iron sheets, why don't you have it?" ”

The sun is falling: "What the master said is that only the master can wear." The cotton armor is decorated with iron leaves, which is called Ming Jia, and the iron leaves are sewn in the middle of the cotton armor, which is called dark armor. The bright armor and dark armor are much heavier than the cotton armor, nearly forty catties. ”

Sun Yi asked, "How protective is this short-sleeved robe?" ”

The sun fell and replied: "The lead shot by the fire gun has no blade, and this dead cotton armor is the best to prevent lead; The arrow has a sharp edge, and it can easily cut through the cotton, and the defense is a little worse; The sword has a blade, and if it is cut by a sword, the cotton armor is basically useless. ”

Sun nodded a little and understood, "So the bright armor and dark armor of high-ranking generals have both dead cotton fireproof guns and iron leaves to prevent knives and arrows." ”

Sun Yi thought that the Ming Dynasty still had no money, and there was no way to equip every soldier with a cotton and iron composite armor, but this cotton armor was also good, at least it could be used as a cotton jacket in winter.

"The sun is falling, when you were a soldier before, how many padded jackets did the imperial court issue a year, no, cotton armor?"

"Ye said that he laughed, he couldn't get a body for a few years, and he had to ask for the guilt if he lost his cotton armor! However, after the imperial court did not pay for several years, the soldiers secretly sold the cotton armor, and the officials pretended not to know. ”

"Oh? Who buys cotton nails? ”

"People are willing to buy it. Dismantle the cotton armor, bounce the dead cotton in it again, and a cotton armor can make a good quilt on the bed! ”

Sun Yile is happy, the common people really know how to live,

"But the border army has no cotton armor, isn't it going to be frozen in winter?"

The sun fell and said: "The border army has another cotton jacket, called the Mandarin Duck Battle Jacket, which contains two catties of cotton. ”

Sun Yi thought back to his first aid course and suddenly realized that in the Ming Dynasty, it would be terrible to be injured in the torso.

If the spine is injured, the damage is on the same level as the brain.

If the chest cavity is punctured, it is easy to cause blood vessel rupture and massive bleeding when the piercing object is pulled out; The atmosphere enters the negative pressure chest cavity at the moment of extraction, causing a pneumothorax, squeezing the heart to stop, or the lungs will be crushed into a small ball by the air pressure. These are also very difficult to cure in the afterlife.

There are three fears of abdominal injury in later generations, the most afraid of internal organ rupture, the second fear of internal bleeding, and the second fear of infection. These three fears were three deaths in the Ming Dynasty.

No wonder when the sun falls, whenever there is a war, he wears an impermeable dead cotton jacket.

Sun Yi felt the importance of armor in the era of cold weapons, and at the same time, it was a pity that even if it was a low-tech thing like cotton armor, because there was no cotton, the ironwood battalion would not be able to do it by itself.

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References (not related to the plot, skip for uninterested readers)

Ming Dynasty cotton armor

Distinguished by materials and sewing methods, cotton armor is divided into two categories: pure cotton armor and cotton-iron composite armor.

Ming Zhu Guozhen recorded the production method of "pure cotton armor" in the "Yongbu Sketch": "Cotton armor is seven catties of cotton, sewn with cloth such as a jacket, two arms over the shoulder five inches, the lower length covers the knees, the thick line is sewn horizontally and straight into the water to soak it up, pave the ground, kick it with your feet, and take it as the degree of not fat and swollen, and dry it for use." Seeing that the rain is not heavy, the moldy sideburns are not rotten, and the bird can't be seriously injured. ”

Cotton and iron composite armor is divided into dark armor and bright armor. Dark armor or bubble nails are used to tie iron sheets into the lining, or chain iron mesh is sandwiched between the inner cotton sheets to increase the protective performance. The Ming armor is based on the cotton gallbladder, and the sheet metal iron sheet is attached to it in the form of a garment, or the iron mesh is directly wrapped outside the cotton gallbladder. Taking Qing Dynasty cotton armor as an example, the weight of a collar cotton-iron composite armor is about 35 to 40 catties.

In addition, it should be clarified that many people think that the Ming Army's fat jacket is a kind of cotton armor, which is actually a misunderstanding. According to the records of the "Ming Huidian", in the ninth year of Hongwu, the Ming army began to equip a four-color cotton suit with red as the main one, supplemented by purple, green and yellow, which was called the "mandarin duck battle jacket", "Xuande ten-year rule, each jacket, four feet six inches long, and two catties of cotton velvet. Pants cotton velvet half a catty", judging from the size of the jacket and the weight of the real cotton, this is obviously just a kind of winter clothing, not the rumored cotton armor.