Chapter 8: The Idea of Turning the Meme into Reality
The person who went back to get Yang Yifei's armor equipment rode his horse and galloped, and he returned at tea time, not only bringing a set of armor and equipment, but also bringing an extra war horse.
After everyone washed their bodies, they splashed and swam in the river, and had a water fight.
Yang Yifei looked at these old men in their twenties, eighties, and thirties, as happy as a group of children, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, sometimes men's happiness is so simple.
After soaking in the water for more than half an hour, all the soldiers got up and dressed, and Yang Yifei also got his own armor and equipment.
The clothes are a set of coarse linen clothes, and the armor is made of metal leaves, which is composed of front armor (chest and abdomen protection), back armor (back and waist protection), shawl (shoulder armor), basin collar (neck protection), arm armor (arm guards), hand armor (hand guards), and a cape.
The armor is made of iron throughout, except for a bronze plate with a tiger's head on the chest, which acts like a heart goggle, and the helmet has a red feather on the top of its head, just like everyone else.
In this era, Daqin's weapons and equipment are properly at the forefront of the world, or to put it more boldly, it is okay to change "forefront" to "first".
The Qin State was able to sweep Liuhe and dominate the world, and this advanced equipment also accounted for a large part of the factor.
In addition to the armor, the equipment Yang Yifei got was a bronze long sword and a bronze spear.
Although the iron smelting technology of the Qin Dynasty was already very advanced, it does not mean that the iron sword was necessarily stronger than the bronze sword, in this era, the iron sword had high hardness and weight was lighter than the bronze sword, but the toughness was very poor and it was easy to break.
Therefore, the Qin army is mainly equipped with bronze swords, and only some iron swords created by top craftsmen can surpass bronze swords in performance.
But most of those iron swords were collected by members of the royal family or top elites, and as Meng Yi, he couldn't get a top-level iron sword.
This equipment, just a piece of armor weighs nearly thirty pounds, and the bronze sword also weighs seven or eight pounds, and the spear is made of wood, and only the spearhead is bronze, but it is much lighter than the long sword.
The overall weight of this piece of equipment is about forty catties, which is far less heavy than the hundreds of catties that some sand sculpture netizens in later generations broke blindly.
Even if you need to add bows, crossbows, arrows and other bits and pieces when you go to the battlefield, it will be about fifty catties at most.
Of course, Yang Yifei's weight is 500 grams of catties in later generations, and it is naturally impossible for a catty in the Qin Dynasty to have 500 grams, about half, if it is calculated in this way, it is indeed hundreds of catties.
If those netizens add the words "weight of the Qin Dynasty" when they are fighting, it will not be a sand sculpture remark, but very professional, after all, if you really go to war with a weight of hundreds of pounds, you don't have to fight, and you will be tired to death in a hurry.
The standard weight of the equipment of the field army in later generations was 49.5 city catties, which still makes sense.
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The soldiers put on their clothes, but they didn't wear armor anymore, the Qin Dynasty rested on the fifth day, and there was no need to go to the barracks tomorrow, these generals went back to their mansions in Xianyang to rest.
They won't go back to the camp today, so Meng Yi asked Yang Yifei to go back to his house with him first, and then go to the barracks with him the day after tomorrow.
Meng Yi and the others all brought cloth towels, and after drying their hair a little, they took a short rest on the river bank and dried their hair by the way.
When his hair was almost dry, Yang Yifei put himself in a Qin Dynasty bun like everyone else and tied it with a cloth band, and as for his beard, he could only wait until he returned home to trim it.
In the Qin Dynasty, beards could be repaired, but not completely shaved, and only the beards of criminals would be shaved off, which was called "torture", and correspondingly, "shaved hair".
Each era has its own aesthetics, the Qin people take "more beard" as the beauty, the beard is the manifestation of the character of the Qin people, the Qin people believe that if the beard is missing, it will be less fierce and bloody.
The beard style of the Qin people is roughly divided into four types, namely: a beard with a big beard, a mustache with three drops of water, a sagging beard with eight characters, and a flying beard with eight characters.
Those with cheeks and beards, generally rough and heroic, three-drop water-style mustaches, look more elegant and handsome, the eight-character drooping beard looks chic and capable, and the far-sighted strategy, and the eight-character flying beard looks like a literary and martial arts strategy, and is confident.
Yang Yifei's beard is also a mustache, but it is slightly flat compared to the sagging beard, and it is not cocked like the beard of the eight-figure flying beard, and he is a little more calm and serious in his chic and capable.
After packing up, the group put their armor on the back of their horses, held their weapons, and rode their horses to Xianyang in the southwest direction.
In addition to the long sword, Yang Yifei also has an extra spear, the war horse of this era does not have stirrups, and the so-called saddle is just a thick cloth pad on the horseback, which is very inconvenient, if Yang Yifei holds a weapon in both hands, he will not be able to control the reins.
He put the sword on his belt, pulled the reins in one hand, and held the spear in the other, so that he could barely ride steadily, and did not make a fool of himself.
After walking more than ten miles to the southwest, a bold and simple, magnificent city appeared in front of Yang Yifei.
However, such a magnificent city has no walls.
Yes, Xianyang City, as the capital of Great Qin, actually has no city walls, no wonder Xiang Yu's guy entered Xianyang City so easily.
Xianyang city north according to Biyuan, south of Weishui, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, the whole city gradually lowers from the north to the Wei River, and the northernmost part of the city is the situation of making a ladder-like steep rise.
Xianyang Palace runs through the whole city from east to west, connecting into one, condescending, and majestic.
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the construction of the palace has paid attention to a "high platform pavilion", that is, when building the palace, a high platform should be built below as a pedestal.
Xianyang Palace is located at the highest point in the Northern Plains, coupled with a platform several zhang high, so that people can see the magnificent palace at a glance no matter where they are in Xianyang City.
Looking at the majestic Xianyang Palace, Yang Yifei remembered the sentence "The palace is made of soil", which is the crystallization of the blood and sweat of the working people!
Xiang Yu rushed to the street, and after attacking Xianyang, he slaughtered the city and set it on fire, burning this good palace into ruins, you said that you slaughtered the city, but this palace provoked you?
But don't think about it so much, since he is here, he will definitely not let these things happen again, whether it is for the change of the plot, or for the calamity of the people in the world.
Since the death of the First Emperor, the dispute between Chu and Han, the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms, and the chaos of Wuhu...... How many people have died in the land of China due to wars in the past few hundred years? There are simply no counts.
If the First Emperor had been alive, it would be difficult to say whether his own clan would be able to exist or not, let alone invade the Central Plains.
Yang Yifei inexplicably burst into an evil fire in his heart, and he remembered a stalk about the First Emperor on the Internet in later generations, the core of which was "What would happen if the First Emperor got a map of the world".
Damn, after learning to write Qin seal characters, if you can successfully let the first emperor take the elixir, Lao Tzu will roughly draw a map of the world and hand it to him, and personally verify this stalk.
Even if he postponed the time to escape from the mine, he would have to spend a sum of points to leave a projection, and wait for a few hundred years to come back to see how big Daqin's territory could be.
I don't believe that I am a dignified Chinese ancestral dragon, an emperor through the ages, and I will not be as good as Genghis Khan, a foreign leader.
Just when Yang Yifei was thinking about what he didn't have, the Mengfu arrived.