Chapter 683: Reserve Armaments (3)
In the Luo family's firearms workshop, Masayo is inspecting the forging process of various weapons while thinking about the current situation of the Luo family's armament reserves.
At present, the warehouse of the Luo family has 200,000 stone of grain, more than 42,000 taels of gold, more than 3,500 taels of silver, 80,000 copper coins, 3,500 spearheads, 1,500 bows, 50,000 bundles of nearly 250,000 feather arrows, and 3,000 katanas.
In addition to these armaments, there are:
Black Hawk Dagger. Because the dagger is easy to hide, and it is a sharp weapon for assassination and self-defense, it has quickly become the favorite of the Roche family's Black Hawk Ninja team since the craftsman of the armory workshop created the first sample according to Masaliang's drawings. Later, these daggers were successively welcomed by the Luo family, such as the detective fan, so this kind of knife, which was named the Black Eagle dagger by Zhengliang, became the most popular weapon in the Luo family. At present, there are less than a hundred daggers in the warehouse of the Luo family's territory, and almost every batch made before was immediately claimed by the standing reserve and the retainers, in order to leave a little reserve, Masato had to suspend the distribution of these Black Eagle daggers, and limited it to the use of Black Hawk and Detective (Masato is also worried that a rebellious retainer will take a black hawk to assassinate him).
In terms of Spitfire Meteor projection vehicles, there are currently ten projection vehicles in the territory. Due to the unexpected siege effect of the projectile vehicle that was first in battle in the previous Chikuzen country strategy, the armory workshop is stepping up the production of this type of projection vehicle at this time. By the end of this year, it is expected that the number of projection vehicles in the Roche family's warehouse will increase to 20.
Siege ladders. Due to the fact that in previous siege battles, these ladders have shown some shortcomings. So after the continuous transformation of the armory workshop. These siege ladders are now able to adapt to most mountainous and flat terrain. The ladder will become another weapon for the Luo family to attack the city. There are currently thirty ladders stored in the warehouse (due to the excessive length. It is indeed very inconvenient to store, and under normal circumstances, the Luo family workshop only temporarily worked overtime to build more ladders before the war, and thirty spare ones are enough).
Broken city car. Its main weapon is a thick log suspended from a beam with rope or iron chains, with a metal cap at the back end and a metal head at the front, mostly in the shape of a sheep's head. It is called a battering ram. During the siege of the city, the soldiers in the siege vehicle grabbed the battering ram and moved backwards and slammed into the city gate, relying on inertia and kinetic energy to destroy the city gate or the latch structure behind the gate. This is a city-breaking vehicle that Liu Ye transformed according to the city-breaking vehicle in the Ming army to adapt to the terrain of the local mountainous area of the Wa Kingdom. It is still in the testing stage, so there is only one in the warehouse.
As a sufficient aspect of the necessary equipment for standing ashigaru, the current warehouse of the Luo family has a warehouse that can equip five standing ashigaru teams at the same time, that is, a total of 3,000 pairs of equipment. A complete set of sufficiency can be divided into three parts, namely the pocket, the armor (carcass, sleeve). Grass folding), small guzu (cage hand. Dang, Pei Ding). Therefore, it not only takes a lot of materials to make a complete set of equipment, but also consumes a lot of time, so it is commendable that the Luo Family Weapons Workshop can ensure the daily use needs of the standing ones in service, and at the same time, it can also ensure such a large number of reserves.
Masashi thinks that at this time, the number of the Luo family is definitely the largest among the major names of the Wa Kingdom. You must know that in the homes of some daimyos, even only generals are qualified to wear such equipment (the torso of the Wa State armor is collectively called "carcass", so you often see expressions such as "so-and-so carcass" in historical documents, but this does not mean that these armors belong to carcass pills or have feet, but only the name of the torso. You can see that these are full of preciousness).
And the Roche family has also made some improvements to these things. For example, the top of the foot is currently only available on the Luo family's top of the body, and this kind of wear is used to protect the thighs. It also has a black eagle painted on it. This is the symbol of the Roche family's equipment.
In addition, the armor workshop has transformed the Luo family's equipment according to the characteristics of the general armor in the past:
In terms of the adequate fixation method, the shoulder area is still fixed with a suction thread and a high button fixed to the breastplate. The opening in the ribs is also a continuation of the tradition of the Great Armor, and the opening is located on the left. However, the design of the Sufficient is an improvement on the previous medieval armor of the Great Armor, and instead of relying on the shoulders to bear the weight of the entire armor, the weight is distributed to various parts of the body.
By observing the Luo family's Gu Zu, it can be seen that the torso of the Gu Zu is basically a cylindrical shape with two ends contracted, rather than a simple box structure. Through this design, a part of the weight can be shared with the entire torso, which also greatly improves the wearer's flexibility.
Because it was originally intended to be used as armor for foot combat, the importance of defense and mobility was raised above decoration. There are many different ways to make a full carcass, but in the Roche family, the carcasses are mostly made of about 0.8 mm (this unit was introduced when the Masara unified territory was used to measure weights and measures). The sleeves used as shoulder armor are generally protected in the same way as the carcass. The cage hand of the arm armor also needs to be strengthened on the basis of the original armor such as the large armor, so the weapon workshop uses fine rope armor on the cage hand to achieve this purpose.
After the introduction of iron cannons to the local area, in order to meet the needs of bulletproof, the armory workshop also made some improvements to the guns in the suggestions put forward by Masaara. For example, the dove chest used by the Roche family at this time formed a protrusion in the middle of the cuirass to create a bulletproof bevel, which was very similar to the practice of European cuirasses of the same era.
Some breakthroughs have also been made in the production process of armor. At present, the production techniques used by other workshops outside the territory are too cumbersome in the way armor is made, and it is difficult to cope with the needs of large-scale production, mainly by combining small pieces of armor to form armor. As a result, Masaro told the armor workshop about the form of armor making Iyoza and Itraza that he remembered, and after some exploration, the craftsmen of the workshop finally mastered these two crafting techniques, thus greatly reducing the time required for production.
The reason why Zhengliang spent so much energy to transform and improve the strength is mainly because, among the standing combat strength of the Luo family, the standing ashigaru is the largest force in numbers, so they can be said to be the main combat strength of the Luo family. And every standing foot light growth needs to cost a lot of resources of the Luo family. It can be said that they are a valuable resource for the Roche family. Therefore, it is natural for Masarashi to spend a lot of energy to build these standing equipment to protect them. In order to strengthen the cohesion of the standing ashigaru to the Luo family, Masashi named this kind of sufficiency as Roche Sufficiency.
As for the armor, since it was a regular equipment for retainers, generals, and samurai, it varied depending on the individual's situation. However, for the samurai team directly under the command of Masahiro, it was based on the armor structure of the Ming Kingdom, and an armor named Roche armor by Masato was adopted. This kind of armor is made of copper and iron, and the shape of the armor piece is mostly the "mountain" pattern, which is made precisely and worn lightly, and is also equipped with an iron mesh skirt and net pants below the waist, and the feet are worn with iron mesh boots. Due to the limitations of production technology and raw materials, there are only more than 300 pairs of Roche armor in the Luo family's warehouse.
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