In the blink of an eye, Luo Ming had already spent the third winter after coming to this world.

Winters in Vanshey County are not bitterly cold, but they are certainly not warm as spring either. The snow and ice locked most of the people in the house, and only the regular army insisted on going out to practice every day, but that was also because Luo Ming provided them with plenty of food and hot broth, so they could have this physical strength.

As for the various projects, they are basically in a state of suspension.

Only hunting is done well in winter, and those animals that do not hibernate have to desperately find food in winter, and it is easy to be lured by hunters' bait.

Not to mention deer, wild boar, pheasant and so on, once there was even a ferocious bear comparable to an intermediate swordsman who fell into a trap and contributed a bear skin worth five gold coins to Luo Ming.

The bear meat was also stewed to a screed screed tone, providing some warmth to Lomin's soldiers during the cold winter.

Maybe it's easier to get exercised in such conditions, to get in touch with the limits of the body, and more meat or even monster meat in winter is really helpful. At the beginning of spring, a full 113 soldiers had reached the level of low-level swordsmen, and even more than 12 soldiers had stimulated their fighting spirit and became middle-level swordsmen.

Although a low-level swordsman does not have a fighting spirit, it itself represents a feeling of "perfection" as an ordinary person, full of energy and good health, which is much higher than that of ordinary civilians.

After Luo Ming did a series of tests on them, combined with what Aya knew, he basically came to a conclusion:

If it is placed on the earth, it is difficult to reach this level without a few years of hard training - that is, it is faster with the help of Warcraft meat.

Although they do not have extraordinary strength, they are definitely the best among ordinary people, they can carry equipment ten kilograms heavier than ordinary soldiers and march quickly, and they can also keep up with the pace of ordinary soldiers by wearing heavier armor.

For example, Luo Ming recently asked the military factory to trial produce the Meiquan two-year infantry heavy armor.

It is a kind of infantry plate armor that can be mass-produced, that is, on the basis of the knight's full-body plate armor, some minor parts are removed, and some processes are saved to ensure that the defense is not reduced too much while reducing the weight, process requirements and manufacturing man-hours.

Full-body plate armor is certainly a good thing, but it requires highly skilled craftsmen, and it is basically monopolized, expensive, and takes a long time to make.

Luo Ming has been thinking about how to make it a cabbage price, and he can't do it for a while, but if it is a shrunken version of the full-body plate armor, then there is a possibility of success.

First of all, the use of hydraulic forging hammer, with a waterwheel plus levers and simple gears, can drive hundreds of kilograms of heavy hammers to beat red-hot steel, effectively saving manpower, reducing the difficulty of plate processing, and reducing man-hours.

And such a set of armor itself is also simplified a lot, consisting of a front chest plate, a helmet, a mask, shoulder pads, leg armor, skirt armor, arm armor, handguards, etc.

Compared to the full-body plate armor, it saves part of the armor on the back, anyway, if the soldier shows his back on the battlefield, it is basically a rout, and the armor on the back is not very useful, and it is enough to use paper armor.

In places such as joints and leg armor with large curved surfaces and more complex ones, it is temporarily difficult for Luo Ming's blacksmiths to manufacture, so they simply use paper armor that is easy to shape for the time being—although the defense of paper armor is not as good as steel, it can also resist ordinary stray arrows and slashes.

As for some gaps, they were supplemented with chain mail.

Some of the weight that has been reduced has been strengthened to some of the most important protection parts.

After tossing in this way, after a set of Meiquan two-year infantry heavy armor with a layer of lining, the weight is only fifteen kilograms, which is much lighter than the lowest full-body plate armor of more than 20 kilograms, and it ensures that the frontal defense is not worse than it, and the defense power of some key points is even slightly higher.

To be honest, in the history of the earth, the armor of heavy infantry even existed in thirty-four kilograms, especially in the era when there was no plate armor technology and only wasted tonnage scale armor could be used.

But the heavy infantry of that kind was struggling, and could hardly stay where they were, and could only walk slowly and slowly in small steps, and it would not be long before they ran out of strength.

And Luo Ming's set of infantry heavy armor weighing only fifteen kilograms, ordinary soldiers can also change formations and walk forward normally after wearing it, if they let the soldiers who have reached the low-level swordsman wear it, they can trot for two hundred meters and still have physical strength.

A bright wall of steel charged past, and Luo Ming felt sorry for his opponent just thinking about it.

Of course, an infantry charge is difficult to compare with a cavalry charge, but whoever wants to touch these heavy infantry with cavalry, Luo Ming definitely warmly welcomes it.

If the light cavalry touches the heavy infantry, it is completely a brain-pumping act of giving people heads, even if it is a heavy cavalry Luo Ming, he is not afraid.

The weapon he prepared for this heavy infantry was not an ordinary spear, but a shorter, but more lethal armor-piercing halberd, and if the heavy cavalry dared to rush over, it would be at most one for two—the county guard Count Conle Hill could not afford to change it.

As for what kind of cavalry and kite flying, hehe, originally the range of the infantry bow was not comparable to that of the infantry bow when the bow was fired immediately, and it was not mentioned that Luo Ming had a stronger artillery than the infantry bow - this heavy infantry relied on the advantage of armor, even if it stood in place and did not fight back, let the opponent shoot three rounds, there would not be many casualties.

That is, a small number of strong people with fighting spirit or high-end forces such as spells and siege equipment will have enough threat to this heavy infantry - but Luo Ming also has this kind of high-end force, if the other party dares to waste high-end force on the heavy infantry, then the power to counterbalance Luo Ming's use of high-end force will be less.

Thinking about it this way, the future is really bright, but the iron problem really restricts the implementation of this bright prospect.

Luo Ming himself has not opened an iron ore mine for the time being, so he can only buy iron materials from outside, which is not only very expensive, but also unstable in quantity.

Even if Lomingen spends money, it is difficult to get more iron, and if you calculate the average, you can get about ten kilograms of iron every day, and the steelmaking process has to be consumed, and only eight kilograms of iron can be produced.

If this continues, even if all the iron supplies are supplied to the heavy infantry, it will take two and a half days to assemble the complete equipment of a heavy infantry.

Luo Ming could only endure the pain, put this plan on hold first, and the three sets he tried to make were equipped to three officers who had reached the intermediate level of swordsmanship.

And those low-level swordsman level soldiers can only get the armor that Luo Ming originally prepared for ordinary infantry for the time being—on the basis of paper armor, a chest plate, an iron helmet, and an iron gauntlet are added. The rest of the paper armor can only be appropriately thickened.

Such a set of equipment only needs to consume 8.5 kilograms of steel, and it can be afforded so-so.

"We must find a way to get more iron to ......" Faced with this ruthless reality, Luo Ming made up his mind that he must find another way.