The excavation work on the second day was still not very pleasant.

After cleaning the gold and silver objects first, the second thing to look for is the bronze objects.

However, the Tang Dynasty was already a period when the iron culture was very developed, and in fact, there were not many things made of copper.

In addition, the main burial chamber has been visited many times by tomb robbers.

So there is no bronze left.

The only complete bronze vessels found are two copper basins near the altar, which are held upside down on the ground.

The bottom of these two copper basins is still missing, and the body does not have any patterns or decorations, which is a very ordinary basin.

It is estimated that it was used for meat during the sacrifice at that time, but it was later overturned on the ground by tomb robbers.

In addition, in the northeast of the main burial chamber, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences also found a pile of copper armor stomach tablets!

The preservation of this pile of copper armor stomach tablets makes people want to cry.

Green!

It's so green!

It's even so green that it's about the same color as turquoise!

It doesn't look like bronze at all!

When he first found out, Chen Han thought that this was armor made of turquoise, which was called a.

As a result, after touching it, the difference between stone and metal can still be felt by touching it.

It can only be said that this bronze armor has endured too much wind and frost that it should not bear at its age.

Seriously, Chen Han has seen so many bronzes in the tombs and ruins of the Qin, Han and Zhou dynasties, but he has never seen anything as green as this armor.

This shows that the alloy ratio of this set of armor stomach is absolutely very unique, and it is different from the alloy ratio of traditional Chinese bronze.

Otherwise, it should be dark green, turquoise, or black, bluish rusty green.

And not this bright green bright green turquoise color!

The excavated pieces of the nail stomach are nearly rectangular and the lower part is semicircular.

Each piece is about 10 cm long, 5 cm wide, and 0.3 cm thick, and should be part of the cuirass.

And the production process is a more traditional bronze armor.

The armor of the Tang Dynasty can be regarded as a pinnacle of all dynasties.

Because the Tang Dynasty was rich and controlled a vast territory, the Tang people not only had luxurious weapons, but also had excellent development in armor.

The proportion of armor and equipment in the Tang Dynasty army increased greatly compared with the previous generation.

The Tang Dynasty standard was that armored soldiers accounted for 60% of the total number of troops. Although not all of them wore iron armor, this ratio was still a great improvement compared to the proportion of armor worn by the Han Dynasty army mentioned earlier.

In terms of the types of armor, Volume 16 of the Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty provides information: "There are three out of ten armors: one is called Mingguang armor, two is called Guangyao armor, three is called fine scale armor, four is called mountain armor, five is bird hammer armor, six is white cloth armor, seven is Fu silk armor, eight is cloth back armor, nine is infantry armor, ten is leather armor, one is one wooden armor, two out of ten is chain mail, and three out of ten are horse armor. ”

In other words, in the Tang Army, there were a total of thirteen types of armor.

The order between these armors is not sorted by the strength of the combat power, but by random order.

Among them, Mingguang armor, fine scale armor, mountain armor, and chain mail are all well-known types of armor.

Especially Mingguang armor, basically there are scenes of the Tang Dynasty in TV dramas, such as the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the generals in it wear Mingguang armor.

However, it is a pity that this set of armor unearthed in the tomb of the Tuyuhun royal family is not the Mingguang armor.

Anyway, from the remnants of these armor pieces, I really can't tell what kind of armor it is.

I'll have to wait for the follow-up repair to see if I can fix a rough idea, and then I can see what kind of armor it is.

However, it can be seen from the materials that Tuyuhun is still using bronze as a raw material for armor.

It can be seen that although the Han people in the Central Plains have been using iron tools for hundreds of years, the nomads in the north are still in the development stage of semi-iron and semi-bronze tools.

Why do you say semi-iron?

Because next to this set of armor, 13 iron arrowheads were also found!

These arrowheads are nearly triangular in plane and flattened in cross-section, making them very standard arrowheads.

In other words, although the Tuyuhun armor is still made of bronze, the arrow loss has been replaced by iron.

This is also in line with the development of the times.

Iron was first used in the military field, that is, it was first used to make iron arrowheads, replacing the original bronze arrowheads.

Because of the "arrowhead", that is, the arrowhead, the difficulty of creating this thing is obviously much easier than that of swords, ge, halberds, knives, shuo, and spears.

And even if this thing is made of inferior iron, it also avoids the danger that occurs when weapons such as swords, guns, and swords need to be killed on the battlefield and enemy weapons.

For example, if you hold a sword made of inferior iron and slash at the enemy's high-quality bronze sword, if the iron sword is broken, the soldier's life will obviously be lost immediately.

The cost of this trial and error is too high.

But Iron Axe will not have this worry.

This thing is shot from a distance, even if the iron is inferior when it first comes out, what quality problems are there, it's a big deal that an arrow can't kill the other party, and he won't die.

And no matter how inferior iron is, it is also metal.

As long as you sharpen it enough and don't think about hardness, you can still shoot the enemy with one arrow.

Therefore, during the Warring States Period, a lot of iron was used to make iron arrowheads and used on the battlefield.

This can also be seen in the excavations.

However, this Tuyuhun people are still using half-iron and half-bronze tools, which is indeed an exaggeration.

After experiencing the land sinking of the Central Plains during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a large number of Han people in the Central Plains became the people of the regime established by the northern nomads, providing advanced technology for the nomads.

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it can be said that it was a cultural *** of the northern nomads.

The nomads who were still using primitive bronze and even stone tools were immediately dazzled by the advanced culture, craftsmanship and civilization after they entered northern China.

Otherwise, the Northern Wei Dynasty would not have been fully sinicized, and chose to abandon the culture of the Xianbei people and integrate into the cultural system of the Han people.

Because the civilization level of the Han people is indeed too advanced!

You have to learn!

As a result, the cultural level of these nomads, especially the craftsmanship of making weapons, immediately changed shotguns.

Then there came again in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the same was to distribute the Central Plains high-level civilization technology gift package to the nomads.

So the Liao, Jin, Western Xia, and Mongolia, which were originally still drinking blood, learned from the long skills of Yi to control the Yi, and became the big daddy, pressing the Song Dynasty to fight.

What people didn't expect was that after the edification of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in the Tang Dynasty, Tuyuhun was still using bronze armor?

Tuyuhun is a Xianbei branch, and his ancestors were also wide back then!

The Northern Wei Dynasty of the Tuoba Department is the northern regime established by the Xianbei people!

If it is said that the Xianbei Tuoba Department that established the Northern Wei Dynasty was the top student among the nomads who learned the culture and technology of the Central Plains.

The Tugu Hun of the Xianbei tribe is definitely a bad student among the bad students!

has been mixed for hundreds of years, but it has not yet fully entered the Iron Age!

It's no wonder that he will be laid down by Tubogan.

Give you a chance, you won't be useful!