October of the fourth year of the Apocalypse

Huang Shizheng discussed government affairs with Yang Zhiyuan, Bao Jiusun and others: "The ships of the Sun Pavilion Department have been handed over to Kazuo Kuroshima to take away, and Liu Qingyang has spent 10,000 yuan to buy a small city from the Choshu Domain of Japan, which can accommodate thirty people, and the location is near the port of Nagasaki. ”

"What houses thirty people is also called a city?" Bao Jiusun glared and asked, "That's the stockade, right?" ”

Huang Shi couldn't help but smile: "Don't be too demanding of Japanese castles, let me tell you a story." This story was actually seen on TV in Huangshi's previous life, but now he pretends to be Kuroshima to relay it: "In the war between the Japanese princes, one named the Niko family and the other called the Maori family fought for more than ten or twenty years......"

While recalling the plot at that time, Huang Shi happily described:

The first scene is when one of the Maori generals reports to the main attack: "The enemy has broken through our xx city!"

"What?" the lord sitting in the middle of the high seat was shocked: "I'll give you fifty people, and take the city back to me at once!"

"Yes. The Maori general went out in good spirits.

The last scene is that the general returns with a radiant face: "Report to the lord, I have taken the city back." ”

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Yang Zhiyuan and Bao Jiusun were dumbfounded when they heard this: "This is the princes? This is obviously a fight between several village chiefs, right?"

"Haha, our village chief of the Ming Dynasty is a prince in Japan. Huang Shi casually told the story of the Hojo family, the great prince of Japan, the food of the Hojo father and son when they went out on the expedition was rice soup and rice, and the son ate two bowls of soup and made Lao Tzu angry, thinking that he ate too much.

"No wonder the guy on Heidao cried and shouted to join my Ming Army. Bao Jiusun's face suddenly realized.

Yang Zhiyuan took the opportunity to compliment: "The adult is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and the end will be admired." ”

In his previous life, Huangshi played a lot of Japanese games, and he admired the so-called 3,000 birds and 10,000 cavalry, but after living with these Liaodong soldiers for a few years, he felt more and more that it was not like that. The 200,000 Japanese troops in North Korea and tens of thousands of bird guns were beaten naked again and again by the Ming army of Liaodong, which was no more than 40,000 at the peak, and finally was compressed by the Ming army, which was less than 30% of its own, and was used as a turtle in several coastal pillboxes. As far as Huangshi's own test is concerned, it is impossible for the imitation Japanese bird gun to hurt the cavalry iron armor of the Ming army, and I really don't know if Takeda Katsuyori was able to match the bamboo mahjong armor at that time.

While Yang Zhiyuan and Bao Jiusun complimented Huangshi, they were also amazed at Japan's abundance of silver and copper, and they did not understand why a country with a huge amount of silver could be so poor. It is also difficult to explain this natural wonder in Yellowstone, which in the 17th century produced more than 30% of the world's silver production, and from the current exploration, this silver mountain is not a common silver mine, but a large bare silver bed.

Nature often likes to play this joke and concentrate the earth's precious resources at random to a certain point, and this time its gift gave Japan the reputation of "the land of silver" for more than 100 years, and the Tokugawa shogunate squandered this huge amount of silver, and when the silver bed dried up, Japan became destitute again.

When the three of them were talking happily, He Dingyuan asked to see him outside the door, and after he came in, he casually said hello and asked: "The last general heard that Sun Gebu has allocated a batch of supplies, including armor. ”

"Yes, it's all real ironclad. Huang Shi had already checked the things sent by the Liaodong Metropolitan Mansion, and at first he was a little careless when he saw the thousand armors on the list, but when he saw the real thing, he was taken aback - this was not leather armor but iron armor, and it was a good iron armor, and the word "armor" on Sun Chengzong's signature slip was obviously playing with words.

This batch of iron armor is a long-sleeved scaly iron vest strangled with cow tendons, a large heart guard in the middle, the joints are lined with raw cowhide, and there are shoulder armor to protect the collarbone and neck. This kind of iron armor was originally only deserved by officers above the deputy general general, and Huang Shi wore similar iron armor before becoming a general.

Huangshi estimated that the 160,000 Guan Ning army only had two or three thousand sets of this kind of armor, and this kind of armor cost about 100 taels of silver, but he didn't expect Sun Chengzong to allocate 1,000 pairs in one breath - it could be worth 100,000 taels of silver!

Of course, the armor will also "drift", but Sun Chengzong has a big face, so this time he only "floated" one percent, and Huangshi still caught nine hundred.

Although the armor of Changsheng Island is also called iron armor, many of them are densely nailed to leather armor, or sandwiched in cotton armor, these iron armor are dead and heavy, and the armor weighing almost forty catties is only more than ten catties of iron pieces. The infantry was very bloated and inflexible when worn on the body, and the iron armor given by Sun Chengzong was not only lightweight, but also had a higher level of defensive power - the 30-pound armor was almost 20 pounds of iron, and the knife and javelin may not be able to cause serious injuries to the soldiers...... Of course, the spear's straight piercing scales still can't stop it.

Sun Chengzong didn't give the helmet, but there were still twenty pairs of precious iron gloves in the supply list, which were all armor pieces connected by iron rings, and it was much safer than leather gloves when grabbing the opponent's blade. Of course, two gloves also "floated" as usual, making Huangshi angry and funny, this is really no rules.

Although there was no telegraph phone, Huang Shi couldn't help but admonish: "He Guerrilla, don't talk nonsense, the other departments in Dongjiang Town have not gotten anything." ”

Huang Shi knew that this batch of signatures would be transferred to the Dongjiang headquarters, of course, the one marked on it was also a thousand "armor", so Huangshi immediately ordered to send five hundred old armors to the Dongjiang headquarters, and it was reasonable to pay two hundred or three hundred filial piety, but Huangshi did not plan to have other materials with the Dongjiang headquarters, so he gave all the armor. Armor is a scarce material in the Dongjiang Army, and it is never handed over after it is captured, and these 500 bodies must make Mao Wenlong happy for a while.

Changsheng Island has redefined the concept of iron armor, and the batch of equipment sent by Sun Chengzong can now be called iron armor, and the original equipment of Changsheng Island is called heavy armor. In the previous equipment of Huangshi, there were only more than 100 sets of iron armor standards, and the fire fighting battalion in Gaizhou lost nearly 200 infantry, leaving more than 700 old infantry who had completed the training with a set of iron armor, and their original heavy armor was removed to honor Mao Wenlong, and the rest were handed over to the recruits who were being trained.

"The last general understands......" He Dingyuan was about to say what he intended when he saw something on the Huangshi table at a glance, and reached out to take it.

"He Guerrilla, you are becoming more and more unruly. Huangshi snorted.

But these words are not powerful, and now the officers of Changsheng Island have no rules for Huangshi in private, and the idea of equality of modern people is already a part of Huangshi's soul. Although his subordinates are all Ming Dynasty people with deep-rooted feudal ideas, they still have a deep understanding of Huangshi's hidden character, and the Ming Dynasty people do not have too strong servile thoughts, and they are becoming more and more presumptuous one by one in the subtle way.

There were two iron rods on the table, He Dingyuan picked up the short one with his head in his head, weighed the weight, and suddenly grabbed the long iron rod, and made a stabbing motion casually.

"Stop!"

"Be careful!"

Huang Shi and Yang Zhiyuan shouted at the same time, they were excited to scare He Dingyuan, and hurriedly held up the iron rod with both hands: "My lord, what's the matter with this iron rod?"

"This is not an iron rod," Huang Shi reached out and asked for the thing back, carefully put it back on the table, and handed the other short stick on the table to He Dingyuan: "Look at this, this doesn't matter too much." ”

The short stick in He Dingyuan's hand was only more than 20 centimeters long, and the one he returned to Huangshi just now was one and a half meters.

Huang Shi waited for He Dingyuan to look at it over and over for a while, and then asked him leisurely, "Do you see anything special?"

"The pattern on it is interesting. "The iron rod has a spiral pattern around it, and there are three turns from beginning to end.

"So it's not called an iron rod, it's called a screw. Huang Shi said to Yang Zhiyuan: "Yang Guerrilla, tell him how much this thing is worth." ”

"Five thousand taels of silver. ”

Yang Zhiyuan's words shocked He Dingyuan, he clenched the short screw in his hand and looked left and right, and asked in disbelief: "This iron guy is worth five thousand taels - silver, is it more expensive than gold?"

"Yes," Yang Zhiyuan was very satisfied with the expression on He Dingyuan's face, and adjusted his body on the chair to make himself more comfortable: "When the apocalypse came back from Shanhaiguan two years ago, the adults picked two blacksmiths to do nothing, and made this thing every day, and it was not done until July this year, not to mention how many iron rods were scrapped and how many knives were worn out during this period, let's just say that these two blacksmiths, if you don't make this screw, how many armor and weapons do you think you can make in two years? Five thousand taels of silver, I said less." ”

He Dingyuan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and looked at the things in his hand again and again: "This iron rod...... No, what's so strange about screws?"

Yang Zhiyuan told He Dingyuan that although there are only three short turns of threads on this screw, the entire thread is just the thickness of a blacksmith's thumb, almost a centimeter, and the protrusion in the middle of the thread is also the thickness of three fingers.

In July, after the acceptance of this three-turn screw, a batch of three-turn wooden screws were made with it as a mother rod, and then five turns, nine turns, seventeen turns and so on, Huangshi also specially built a set of hydraulic abrasives, and finally used a large number of uniform wood screws and waterwheel power to grind a one-meter five seventeen-turn iron screws, and the screws designed by Leonardo da Vinci appeared one hundred and fifty years earlier than the history of practical products.

Huang Shi saw He Dingyuan in a cold sweat when he heard this, and the primitive screw in his hand was held by him like a jade weapon, Huang Shi smiled and said, "This three-turn screw is useless, although He Guerrilla can take it back to play, today Yang Guerrilla and Bao Shoubei brought me this long screw, this thing is now my Huangshi's lifeline." ”

"Two blacksmiths have worked hard for two years, and a special set of hydraulic knives is for this long screw. He Dingyuan looked at the screw on the Huangshi table in a daze, and asked incredulously: "It takes so much manpower and effort to build such an iron rod, and it is worth less than a hundred sets of armor, what is the use of it?"

"Very, very useful. Yellowstone again showed the expression that Duncan called "mechanical obsession", and he stroked the screw on the table and sighed, "This thing is worth a fortune, and it can't be measured by silver." ”

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There were still more than 300 pairs of iron armor in the warehouse, and Huangshi refused to give them to the horse team, which was why He Dingyuan came to Huangshi. He Dingyuan was born in the horse team, and the cavalry of the fire battalion were also close to him, so He Dingyuan wanted to take the rest of the iron armor away for the horse team: "My lord, how can the cavalry be worse than the equipment of the infantry, this will affect morale, and the cavalry is not easy to come by, each person should have a set of iron armor." ”

"You say cavalry is precious?"

"yes, isn't it?"

"It's because cavalry is so precious that I'm not ironarmoured. Huang Shi turned around and said to Yang Zhiyuanhu: "Don't secretly give He guerrilla iron armor, otherwise Ben will never be spared!"

"The last will understand. Yang Zhiyuan responded with a smile and made a helpless expression to He Dingyuan.

"The last general does not understand. He Dingyuan dragged a bench and sat down by himself, and he had a posture of wasting with Huangshi.

Huang Shi was not in a hurry, he picked up a brush and turned it in his fingers, this thing was much more difficult to turn than the ballpoint pen in his previous life: "He Guerrilla, the cavalry of my fire battalion, how should I use it?"

"Scouting, pursuit. ”

"Yes," Huangshi was reluctant to charge with his hundreds of cavalry, so the training of the fire battalion was closely around the infantry, and in Huangshi's vision, cavalry battles should be avoided as much as possible, and the work of frontal combat should be completely handed over to the infantry to complete: "Pursuit, it is enough to have a saber, and you can't use iron armor for reconnaissance, and the heavy armor they are equipped with now is very good." ”

"But...... But ......" He Dingyuan felt that Huang Shi was obviously talking nonsense, but he couldn't think of how to refute Huang Shi's crooked reasoning for a while.

Huang Shi put the pen back on the table: "Sooner or later, I will equip the cavalry with iron armor, but not now, but after I have more supplies." I promise you that I will make the horse team have the finest armor, much better than what you have seen now. ”

"What armor?"

"You'll see. Huang Shi nodded at the screw: "It landed on this baby." ”

Yellowstone is actually a plate armor admirer, and he thinks that plate armor is much stronger than scale armor. First, if the armor is the same thick, then the scale armor will be heavier because of the overlapping parts; second, the weight of the scale armor mainly sits on the shoulders of the person, which greatly affects the movement of the arms; third, the scale armor of 30 catties has less than 20 catties of iron plates, and the plate armor of 30 catties is all iron, and the plate armor of 20 catties can be equivalent to the defensive effect of 30 catties of scale armor.

The main advantage of scale armor is that it can be repaired as long as the broken scales are replaced, and this design idea is to let the human body also share part of the impact force, after all, human life is not as valuable as armor. However, since Huang Shi planned to take an elite route, he would rather let the armor be damaged than try to protect the human body inside.

Whether the bow and arrow can tear through the metal plate armor is a question in the first place, and even if it can, it will definitely consume more energy according to the law of conservation of energy. It's just that plate armor is too expensive in the current technical conditions, and it is also difficult to repair. But now that there is a screw, the hydraulic forging machine will soon be born. Once armor can be cold-forged using water power, plate armor can be made faster than scale armor.

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Sun Chengzong allocated a lot of materials to Huangshi, and although Wu Mu and his gang were also very happy, they faintly felt that they had lost face, and they tried their best to find reasons to prove that Huangshi's success was accidental, and Sun Chengzong was an outlier among the outliers.

On October 10, He Dingyuan got married, and the bride was also from the Qin army, so he and He Dingyuan could be regarded as the right family. The other senior officers were very envious, Zhao Slowxiong's status was not low, and it would be even higher in the foreseeable future. This made them unwilling to ask the daughter of the military family for marriage, but they could not find a suitable candidate.

They toasted He Dingyuan round by round with bad intentions, making it clear that they wanted to see his jokes, and Huang Shi was happy to see that everyone was messing around, so he sneaked out and was not ...... Except for Wu Mu - it seems that this guy doesn't like to make holes in the house either.

Wu Mu said that he wanted to talk to Huang Shi in private, and when Huang Shi arrived at Wu Mu's residence, he saw him solemnly holding out a set of armor: "I heard that General Huang was bravely wounded, and the Holy Lord originally planned to give him a set of armor, but Gonggong Wei was worried that General Huang would be reluctant to use the armor given by the Emperor, so Shengshang changed his mind and asked Gonggong Wei to choose this set of armor on his behalf." General Huang, try it and see if it fits. ”

A set of exquisite mountain armor is better than what Huangshi is wearing now, each of the shiny armor pieces has been tempered thousands of times, as well as cold-forged knee pads and shin armor. For a military general, armor is his second life, when Huang Shi looked at this set of mountain armor and swallowed his saliva, Wu Mu handed over another sword: "After hearing that General Huang didn't have a weapon in his hand, Gonggong Wei carefully selected this sword again." ”

The custom of the Ming army was that soldiers wore swords, and officers wore swords. However, Huang Shi learned from his actual combat experience that it was easier to use a long knife, so he never changed his sword. In fact, the officers of the entire fire battalion all use knives, and they all climbed from small soldiers to today's position, and they have not yet learned to play music, and they can't imagine that even this Wu Mu has reported to the palace.

After listening to Huang Shi's explanation, Wu Mu smiled generously: "Father-in-law Wei is also kind, General Huang will accept it and leave it in the tent." ”

Huang Shi no longer shirked, took the long sword and took it out to see, it was indeed a good sword, both in texture and craftsmanship were much stronger than his own saber, he said a little embarrassedly: "This sword is indeed better than the last general's saber, the last general has changed his mind, let's use this." ”

"Okay, General Huang will use it first. Wu Mu smiled and watched Huang Shi tie his sword, and when he spoke again, his tone became a little gloomy: "This time it is more than 300 levels, and Changsheng Island has 12,000 soldiers, it stands to reason that General Huang should be promoted again, our family is really sorry for General Huang, and Gonggong Wei also feels very unfair." ”

Huang Shi listened intently to Wu Mu's next sentence - what did Wei Zhongxian want me to do?

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