When Yang Qi decided seven days later, the army marched into Si County. Xinyi County began to hurriedly prepare for the general mobilization, and the atmosphere of slaughter and tension infected the entire county, many people felt that something was wrong, and intended to escape from the county, and even bribed the rebel army defending the city, and there were really soldiers of the rebel army who were greedy for money and let some people go.

But the affairs in the city were immediately reported to Wang Wei by the secret disk of the Qingqi banner, and after Wang Wei learned the news, he summoned his subordinates to arrest the escapees and immediately reported them to Yang Qi.

Yang Qi was furious when he heard this, and personally beheaded the money-greedy soldier and hung it on the city gate. And those who escaped were all captured by the secret agents of the Blue Banner, and Yang Qi was also unceremoniously beheaded to show the public, and the bloody lesson made the others tremble and tremble, and they didn't dare to move.

Yang Qi has frequently gone to the arsenal in recent days, and for these laborers, Yang Qi is roughly divided into three batches.

The first group was undoubtedly blacksmiths, carpenters, leathersmiths and the like.

The treatment of these people is the best among all kinds of laborers, and it is also what Yang Qi values the most. At his request, the craftsmen began forging weapons and armor for the rebels. The conditions and resources in Pingcheng County are much better, and some iron ore can be obtained, so it is not a problem to build ordinary spears, and leather armor can also be repaired and crafted.

The second group, craftsmen, maintenance, repair and other people, do not need these people for the time being, but they will be needed for bridge building, shipbuilding, road repair, etc. in the future.

As for the third group of people, they are basically the above people who have neither special skills nor average physical strength, especially strong women. They were transferred by Chen Wu to make paper armor!

That's right, it's paper to make armor.

As for the specific method, it is roughly made of hard cloth and then prevaricated with hammered paper tendons, and then fixed with iron nails after being stacked to a thickness of one inch. It takes a lot of effort for an ordinary sword to cut through it. If you want to make it better, you can also mix some iron pieces in important parts, and arrows may not be able to shoot through.

The most important thing is that paper armor is not difficult to make, the material is relatively cheap, and the only drawback is that it is not durable. But in the absence of better conditions, it is definitely the best choice to use it instead of leather armor and iron armor.

If the whole army can be armed, these 2,000 elite soldiers are enough to withstand 5,000 officers and soldiers!

More than 1,000 sets of paper armor were transported to the school grounds.

At this time, more than 1,000 rebel soldiers stood on the school grounds, silent and silent, looking at piles of paper armor.

Li Wu, Zhou Ping, Wang Yi, Zhao Gong and others, looking at these thousand recruits, were shocked in their hearts, the orders were unified, the marches were strict, the orders were forbidden, and the military discipline was solemn.

Wang Wei obeyed Yang Qi's instructions to randomly select a few paper armors from the pile of paper armor and hang them on several human-shaped scarecrows made of cork, without using straw, because the scarecrow is empty inside and cannot be compared with the human body, and cork is very suitable.

In order to distinguish them, a row of several cork scarecrows is covered with leather armor, which can only be worn by ordinary elite veterans, and the other row of scarecrows is covered with paper armor, so that it is easy to distinguish.

Yang Qi personally stepped forward, and the soldiers who commanded the bow battalion first held a hard bow with a stone and shot at a distance of twenty paces.

More than a thousand recruits hurriedly looked over and saw two selected elite archers, who had been waiting for a long time.

In fact, in ancient times, when the empire was founded, when the Great Yan Forbidden Army foot archers were assessed, they used a stone hard bow, and those who could pull the bowstring were already sharp soldiers in the army.

If you can use a hard bow with one stone, you are an outstanding archer in the imperial army, that is to say, most of the bow and arrow damage will not exceed this, as for those who have two stones and three stones, they can only be used by generals and fierce generals, and many of them can be famous in history.

Yang Qi gave an order.

Poof!

Both elite archers shot feathered arrows, striking their targets in a black shadow.

Yang Qi personally went up to check the situation, and found that within twenty steps, the feather arrow shot into this set of paper armor pieces, and the arrow pierced into it, about an inch long.

Almost at the same time, the leather armor worn by Baihu was also shot in, but it was only pierced half an inch long.

When all the soldiers stepped forward to see it, they knew it in their hearts, and they talked about it.

"Forty steps!" After Yang Qicha, he commanded again.

Poof!

It was two swift feather arrows again, and when I looked up again, I saw that the paper armor was shot through, but the tip of the arrow had no power left, and it couldn't pierce half an inch into the cork, and the leather armor was concave and slid out directly.

That is, within twenty paces, the soldier is wearing paper armor, and as long as he does not directly hit the vital point, he will be slightly injured, which shows his flexibility and safety.

At more than forty paces, the soldier was wearing paper armor, and the bow and arrow were no longer threatening, and there was an uproar, looking at each other, not believing, but the truth was in front of him.

"Continuous slashing with a long knife!" Yang Qi ordered.

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