Chapter 22 Closing the Heart

"I'm not worried about losing my way, I'm worried, I'm worried that I won't be able to pick up the shore in time." Ding Dexing's face was slightly red, and he explained curtly, "The people sent by Chief Manager Zhu to land one step ahead of schedule are said to be a few Mongolians, although they say that they have nothing to do with the Mengyuan Imperial Court, but, after all, they are not of my race. ”

"Among the Mongols, there are also many heroes and heroes with affection and righteousness, and among the Han people, there is no shortage of bad seeds like Li Siqi." Fu Youde smiled and explained very helplessly.

When he first occupied the mountain as the king, he also hated the Mongols who had been riding on the heads of the people, and in the past five or six years, he had fought countless times in the green forest and the Red Turban Army, but he realized that the good and evil of people could not be simply divided by ethnic groups, like Aslan and Yu Tonghai under Zhu Chongjiu, although they were of a foreign race, as long as you wanted to treat them as brothers, they would also take out their intestines to you, and they didn't care about the first and fourth class at all, but like Li Siqi who defected to the imperial court after the Xuzhou army artillery, It is a good red scarf general who does not do it, and would rather be a dog for the Mongolian master, so that people can't regard it as the same kind at all.

However, what is the truth in this, Fu Youde himself can't think clearly, and always feels that these things can't be explained clearly with the sentence "good ministers choose the lord and serve", but in addition to this specious argument, other statements are far from the facts he has seen, and they can't explain the one that is being born around him.

"Mr. Zhu is a hero." Ding Dexing thought about it, and suddenly another sentence came out of his mouth.

"At least, Fu has never seen anyone more capable and open-minded than him." In this regard, Fu Youde agreed very much, nodded, and smiled in agreement.

The two of them are the Huai'an Army who joined the front and rear feet, and there is an instinctive sense of closeness between each other, and when looking at many questions, the views are also very similar, so when they talk about it, they don't feel bored, and when they are chatting lively, there is a sudden gentle knock on the door outside the cabin, Ding Dexing quickly got up and opened the door, revealing Xu Hongsan's honest smile.

"General Ding, the last general has been ordered by the general to send you armor, you hurry up and try to see if it fits." While holding a wooden tray and walking inside, Xu Hongsan explained with a smile, his eyes inadvertently swept to Fu Youde, and he arched his hand at the latter, and continued to say with a smile: "And yours, General Fu, your armor will also be brought over by the general, and after I am about to send it to the general, I will send it to you immediately, otherwise, the general will simply bring it to you directly." ”

"Thank you, General Xu." Fu Youde politely returned the salute and agreed loudly.

They are all men in the army, but they are not so particular, Xu Hongsan rushed out of the door to say hello, and soon, someone sent Fu Youde's armor into the cabin, but when the two reached out to lift the cover on the tray, they were immediately startled by the things in front of them, stunned, and their palms instantly froze in mid-air.

The golden silk armor, the legendary golden silk soft armor, is completely woven from a thin metal wire like a cotton thread, and the chest and lower abdomen are also covered with a few pieces of stainless steel guards, which cover the vital parts tightly, and what is even more rare is that whether it is the gold wire of the woven armor, or the stainless steel guard plate that protects the vital points, it is actually all in the color of dark clouds, whether it is worn on the body during the day or at night, there will be no starry reflection, once it blends into the crowd, it is difficult to be distinguished by the enemy's archers.

Thanks to the increasingly large scale of the Huaiyang workshop, the full-body plate armor is not too new in the red scarf on the East Road, like Fu Youde and Ding Dexing, who used to be in a prominent position, almost everyone has been equipped with a set, but it is rumored that the golden silk soft armor made by skilled craftsmen in the Western Regions has both protection and flexibility, but it is the first time in his life to see it, and no one can estimate its value.

"It's our Huaiyang Craftsman Academy that has just been opened, and there are only ten sets in the whole army, and the chief manager said that you two are new to the city, and you are afraid that there will be a mistake on the battlefield, so you will send two sets over." Afraid that Fu Youde and Ding Dexing were not excited enough, Xu Hongsan smiled and added quietly.

"This, this, how can Ding be so virtuous, dare, dare to be so loved by the general manager." Immediately, Ding Dexing felt that his heart was hot, and his eyes turned red all of a sudden.

Regardless of whether the soft armor in front of you is woven with Ugin or stubborn iron, weaving such a set of full-body armor is probably at least dozens of zhang of thin thread, and how much labor and time it takes to make a piece of iron ingot into a thread, how much time it takes, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an iron pestle to sharpen needles, so the legendary golden silk armor, almost every piece is priceless, and a priceless treasure is about to be worn on the body, so that Ding's shoulders and heart do not feel heavy.

"Please tell Mr. Zhu that Fu will be wearing this armor tonight and follow him." Fu Youde had already sold his life to Zhu Chongjiu, so he was much calmer than Ding Dexing, first picked up his armor, bowed deeply to Xu Hongsan, and then quickly straightened his waist, and peeled off his original military robe to the ground with three strokes.

It is the autumn and summer season, and everyone is dressed very thinly, so after taking off his regular clothes, Fu Youde immediately revealed a knotted tendon meat, Xu Hongsan glanced at it enviously, and stepped forward to help with a smile, "This set of soft armor is divided into three layers, in addition to the outermost layer of black steel soft wire, the inside is also lined with a layer of Lu silk and a layer of cotton cloth, even if you don't have a lining, you can wear it directly, and it can also be breathable, far cooler than the plate armor." ”

While proudly explaining, he quickly moved his fingers up and down, and after a while, Fu Youde was dressed up, as the so-called saddle of a man's clothes and horse, as soon as the new armor was put on his body, Fu Youde immediately seemed to be reborn, and the whole person was heroic from the inside out, which made onlookers dazzled.

"And helmets, boots, and knives." Xu Hongsan took another tray from the guards and placed it at Fu Youde's feet, "The size is all according to the size that General Fu left with our chief manager before, it should be just right." ”

The last time he received the armor from Zhu Chongjiu's side, it was last autumn, when Fu Youde was ordered by Zhao Jun to bring 5,000 soldiers and horses to assist the Huai'an army to go south, and he felt that no matter what he took from Zhu Chongjiu's hand, he was justified, so he didn't regard that set of plate armor as anything valuable, but he never thought that after more than a year, in the hands of Zhu Da, he still kept the size of the things he chose at that time, and each piece was exactly the same.

"It just so happens that Fu hasn't personally gone into battle to kill the enemy for a long time, and tonight with this set of armor, it's just time to capture the flag for the chief manager." There are some words, just know it in your heart, there is no need to say it in the open, Fu Youde simply put on his helmet neatly, changed his combat boots, and was ready to fight with a knife at any time.

"Ding is willing to go with General Fu tonight." Ding Dexing also sniffed a few times, and under the service of several other guards, he quickly took off the regular clothes of the Suzhou Army and changed into the soft armor of the Huai'an Army.

Compared with the plate armor he had before, the gold silk soft armor is at least seventy percent lighter in weight, and the elbows, knees, waist and other places can be easily bent at any angle, which has little impact on flexibility.

"Xu's skills are low, and I have to ask two more for the safety of my family's chief manager tonight." Seeing that Fu Youde and Ding Dexing both changed into the costumes of Huai'an Army, Xu Hongsan was not polite, arched his hand, and asked in a low voice.

"General Xu, rest assured, unless both of us are killed in battle, we will never let anyone hurt a single hair of the chief manager." Fu and Ding nodded solemnly and replied in unison.

At this time, what the two of them were thinking about was not whether they could succeed in tonight's cross-sea surprise attack, but that no matter what the situation was, they would not fail Xu Hongsan's request and live up to the gift of General Manager Zhu, after all, they could not find a second Huai'an army in the whole world, nor could they find a second one, and they dared to give their lives to their heroes after meeting a few times in a hurry.

"Then Xu won't talk much nonsense." Xu Hongsan looked the two of them up and down, and nodded with a smile, "Today's ship is a little fast, almost half an hour or so, we will be able to enter Jiaozhou Bay, at that time, fifteen warships will rush to the beach together, please be prepared by the two generals." ”

After saying that, he raised his right hand to his forehead, made a strange salute to Fu and Ding, and then turned around and led a group of guards to leave quickly, leaving only the old clothes and old boots on the ground, one in the east and one in the west, which were messily placed in front of the two of them, as if they were in the previous mood.

"This gold silk soft armor is very comfortable to wear." Fu Youde was silent for a moment, bent down to pick up his old clothes and old boots one by one, and carefully placed them in the wooden tray left by Xu Hongsan, no matter how many regrets and glory there were in the Xuzhou Army in the past, in the future, like these old clothes and boots, it has nothing to do with him Fu Youde at all, he is not the abandoned general of the Suzhou Army now, but a pawn under the account of the Huaiyang Grand Governor, as long as the Grand Governor points to the flag, he will move forward bravely, and he will die without spinning.

"This knife is not bad, Ding is making it easy." Ding Dexing smiled, picked up the Qiushui Yanling knife left by Xu Hongsan, and slowly wiped it under the light (Note 1)

The knife is also brand new, using the unique cold forging technology of Huaiyang Workshop, the knife body is four feet long, the handle is seven minutes long, and the knife body of two points wide and narrow is a uniform triangle type, with a positive and negative blade, and four blood grooves are forged on it.

In the lower part of the blade near the oval blade, there are clearly engraved four Chinese characters with silver hooks and iron paintings, "Return my rivers and mountains." ”

Note 1: In the first year of the Gandao (1165 AD), the Southern Song Dynasty Military Weapons Supervision began to create a new knife weapon, because it is shaped like the feathers of the wild goose, so it is named "Yanling knife", the knife is long up and down 9ocm, 4cm wide, bent upwards from two-thirds of the blade, the front is full-edged, and the reverse side is about 15cm from the part downward, there are two to four blood grooves, which is a sharp weapon in the army, and the people are prohibited from manufacturing and selling.

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