"Xiao Cao, be careful!"

Seeing that the bird gun was about to start, Shi Dayong couldn't help but remind Cao Bianjiao. If the horse is dead, it doesn't matter, if the horse is shocked, the war horse with iron armor and a spear on his body will get up and step forward, Xiao Cao is fierce, but the flesh and blood, how can he stop it!

Cao Bianjiao didn't listen, his face didn't change at all, he just stared at the fire rope. He didn't move, but he frightened the craftsmen with a blank face and everyone frightened.

"Sizzle..."

The fire rope burned fast, and soon burned to the medicine room, and in an instant I heard a "bang" explosion, and then black smoke rose up, and then I heard a "hiss", but it was the mournful roar of the war horse.

Almost at the same time, the six iron horses rushed forward like crazy, because the horses were all tied by iron cables, and the six horses rushed forward at the same time.

Shi Dayong was so anxious that he shouted: "Xiao Cao, run!" ”

Cao Bianjiao was not afraid at all, and shouted: "Beast, stop!" An arrow stepped forward, and when the horse was about to hit him, he stubbornly pressed against the horse's neck, and stood like a thousand pounds, without shaking his body.

This Cao Bianjiao is so powerful!

Shi Dayong's eyes were straight, although he was also infinitely powerful, but compared to Cao Bianjiao, I am afraid that it is a small thing, I really don't know if this Cao Bianjiao is born with divine power or how to practice it!

The horse was so topped by Cao Bianjiao that it was not allowed to move forward. However, the horse was dragged forward by the other five horsemen and rushed forward involuntarily.

The six horsemen exert their strength at the same time, and the force is no less than a thousand catties.

Although Cao Bianjiao is infinitely powerful, he is really not a god, even if he uses his strength to eat, he is also led back a few steps, but that's all.

"Hold the horse, pull the horse!"

Under Shi Dayong's call, the soldiers came to their senses, and stepped forward to pull the horses, pulling the tails and pulling the legs of the horses, and more than a dozen soldiers finally stopped the horses that were startled by the sound of the guns.

It wasn't until the war horse didn't move at all that Cao Bianjiao exhaled, let go of his hands, and slowly took a few steps back.

The face is not red, and the breath is not panting!

This... This... This...

The soldiers and craftsmen who witnessed this amazing scene were simply stupid, they had heard of strong men in the past, but they could lift two or three hundred catties of boulders with both hands, but today Cao Qian always resisted six horsemen with the strength of one person, which was really a strange thing that had never been heard of in his life!

"Xiao Cao, you're fine, right?"

The frightened Shi Dayong was afraid that Cao Bianjiao would be injured internally, so he pulled him out and asked anxiously.

Cao Bianjiao waved his two arms and said with a smile: "Don't worry, general, Xiao Cao's body is very hard, how can horses and animals hurt me." ”

Seeing that Cao Bianjiao didn't seem to have internal injuries, Shi Dayong made up his mind.

Cao Bianjiao walked straight to the horse that had been tested before, and bent down to check the place where the gun was blowing. However, I saw that the nail piece was obviously concave, forming a large deflated pit, but the gun was not penetrated. A look of joy suddenly appeared on his face, and he shouted: "Okay, that's it, that's it, that's it, general, Tiefutu is hopeful, Tiefutu is hopeful!" ”

The vest can withstand the distance shot of the bird's gun, and the horse will not be injured, so if the armor is there, the Iron Floating Tu can naturally be built.

Shi Dayong looked at it carefully, happy in his heart, but also suspicious, because the armor on the horse he saw was not a whole piece of iron armor, but a piece of palm-sized iron sheets, with a thickness of only two or three centimeters, but he didn't know how to have such protection.

Xu saw Shi Dayong's doubts in his heart, and Cao Bianjiao couldn't wait to pull an old man among the craftsmen over and said to him: "Old Qin, you tell the general how these vests are made. ”

Lao Qin is the head of the craftsmen in Jinzhou, and he is so happy that the armor he created can block the gun. As soon as he heard that Cao Qian always asked him to talk to General Shi, he hurriedly explained one by one: "General, this vest is exquisite, although it is made of chain mail in the ordinary army, but the villain has taken a lot of effort to change it. ”

"Oh? Where is it all changed? Shi Dayong became interested.

Lao Qin pointed to the armor piece on the horse's body and said: "My lord, please see, this armor piece has a hand in width, put it together with three or four pieces, smear resin on it, and then connect it with a belt or leather rope, overlapping one by one, like fish scales, so connected, a nail has the thickness of three or four armor, although it is occasionally insufficient, but it can be several times better than ordinary single armor." ”

"Fish scale armor?" Shi Dayong nodded somewhat understandingly.

Lao Qin boasted again: "Cao Qian always told the villain about the general appearance of the iron floating slaughter, and the villain pondered that in order to ensure the invulnerability of the war saber, it is necessary to use a whole iron plate on both sides of the horse's body, but in this way, the horse cannot bear the load." Therefore, after thinking about it several times, the villain overlapped the nail with fish phosphorus, how to reduce the weight.

It was covered from the tail of the horse to the head of the horse, and was tied in the middle to the saddle, behind the saddle, and then in the saddle, and in front of the saddle, it was also tied. Cover the horse's rump with another piece and leave a hole in the armor so that the horse's tail can stick out of the hole. Take another piece of armor and cover the horse's chest. The four armors are connected side by side until the joints of the horse's legs. According to what Cao Qian said, the villain put a piece of armor on the horse's forehead, which was connected to the armor on both sides and tied to the horse's head. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Qin suddenly paused, hesitated, and said: "General, in fact, the fish phosphorus armor is draped on the war horse, and there was a precedent in the previous dynasty. There seems to be such cavalry among the Mongols in the former Yuan Dynasty, and I heard that it was mostly used in the Western Regions, whether it was true or not, the villain did not know. ”

Did the Mongols also build heavy cavalry?

Shi Dayong was a little puzzled, whatever, since the problem of the war horse armor was solved, the human armor would be better solved.

was about to ask Cao Bianjiao how the armor was, but Lao Qin preemptively said: "The knight is wearing armor, just like this war horse, but it is thicker than the war horse." The chest armor and the back armor, the villain picks an iron plate, and connects the two iron plates with a buckle, and an iron plate on each shoulder. A piece of armor should also be worn on top of the arm, covering from the shoulders to the wrists, and below the wrists are exposed. On top of each leg, cover another piece of armor. The helmet was made of iron, with a visor attached to it, which protected the head and covered it with an open eye so that the knight could observe. In this way, it is not leaky, but the weight is much more than that of the vest, and the first armor weighs about 80 pounds. Well, from the villain's point of view, the general and Cao Qianzong said that the Tiefu Tu is probably like this. ”

The human armor weighs eighty pounds, and the horse armor weighs more than forty pounds, which is one hundred and twenty pounds, plus the weight of the horseman, the weight of a single horse is nearly two hundred and fifty sixty pounds. This is already the limit of the Mongolian horse, and under such heavy armor, the war horse can only charge the battle once at most, and there is no power to charge the battle repeatedly.

If you rush in a burst and do not do your best, you will be surrounded by the enemy's cavalry, and even if the sword and arrow are not injured, the war horse itself will be tired and paralyzed on the ground. This Iron Floating Slaughter can be regarded as the total annihilation, so it is necessary to have a light cavalry similar to a kidnapping horse to cover it to ensure that the Iron Floating Massacre is successful, and even if it fails, it can be returned with its whole body, instead of falling into a heavy encirclement and dying of exhaustion.

Shi Dayong was not worried that the Eight Banners would cut off the legs of horses like the Song Army, because the Eight Banners were cavalry, and they were proud of their cavalry and archery, thinking that they were invincible in the world, and they couldn't look down on the infantry of the Ming Dynasty at all. However, the Song army lacked cavalry and could only rely on infantry groups, so the tactics chosen were naturally different. With the arrogance of the Eight Banners, it is impossible to abandon their strengths and choose the tactics of the Song army.

Since there is no difficulty in building the Iron Floating Massacre, the next step is to solve the problem of auxiliaries and kidnapping horses.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he asked Lao Qin: "Since this man and horse double armor has been successful, then General Ben asks you, within half a month, can you build three hundred horse double armor for me?" ”

Hearing this, Lao Qin's face was embarrassed and squeaked: "This..."

"How?" Shi Dayong's heart was cold, and he glanced at Cao Bianjiao.

Cao Bianjiao smiled bitterly: "General, it is impossible to build three hundred people and horses in half a month, you don't know the way, this armor is too cumbersome, Lao Qin led more than 20 people to make it for a few days before he got the six armor." Moreover, we don't have enough manpower, and there is little wrought iron, according to the last general, we can make thirty armor within half a month, which is considered fast. ”