Chapter 48: The Boar Chariot
I have to say that the various equipment made by Zhao Jie is very high in terms of artistry, the prototype armor of the previous bone scale battle armor type 1 armor is like that, and this set of battle armor called the black dragon armor is also like this, the pieces of black scale armor are reasonably distributed to all parts of the armor according to their size and shape, and its shoulder armor and helmet look like they are carefully carved from the bones of the black-scaled dragon beast, and then they are painted with black paint, and finally even equipped with a cape, The cloak was also made of some kind of extremely light animal skin, and there was a group of black-gray furs on the neckline, which looked like it was made of some kind of beast's tail hair, which matched the dark tone of the whole armor.
And this set of black dragon armor also has a very high defense power, reaching 280 points, and it can also increase the fire resistance by 10%.
Guo Dafu put it on top and found that this thing can actually self-adjust the size to a certain extent, making the armor better fit the owner's figure, which is worthy of an extraordinary battle armor.
After the whole set of armor was put on, Guo Dafu moved a little, feeling that there was no sense of hindrance at all, and its weight was still very light, at most more than 20 catties.
According to Zhao Jie, this set of black dragon battle armor is actually just his test work, and then he is going to use Xiaoqing's scales as the main material to make a mid-grade battle armor.
Guo Dafu is looking forward to this, this Xuan-rank low-grade transcendent battle armor is so strong, wouldn't the Xuan-rank mid-grade one be even more hanging.
And just when Guo Dafu tried on this new armor and was about to leave, Gongsun Lie rushed over, saying that there were several iron-backed wild boar beast soldiers whose injuries had been completely healed, and he wanted Zhao Jie to help build a set of battle armor for these beast soldiers.
Although the iron-backed boar has hard armor on its back, its abdomen is very fragile, and most of the iron-backed boars are injured in this part, and now that these iron-backed boars have joined their territory, they naturally have to find a way to create a set of armor for these beast soldiers and protect these weaknesses.
This can be said to be a trivial matter for Zhao Jie, but in less than a day, he took a few of his subordinates to create a set of armor specially made for these iron-backed wild boars, and asked Gongsun Lie to try it first to see if it would work.
In addition to the head of this set of armor, the body parts are like lobster shells, which can facilitate the movement of iron-backed wild boars.
Gongsun Lie let the iron-backed wild boar named Bar Haw test it, and found that it was really easy to use.
So Zhao Jie soon began to mass-produce this set of armor, but Gongsun Lie still put forward a small suggestion for this, that is, you can wrap a layer of iron sheet on the fangs of those iron-backed wild boars, and also protect their fangs, and improve their sharpness by the way, after all, the tip of the fangs made of stainless steel can be polished, and you can polish as sharp as you want.
Zhao Jie saw that since this was the case, he simply made the metal fangs wrapped in the outer layer bigger, and directly made a batch of metal fangs about one meter long, and polished the ends into a sharp razor shape, after loading these iron-backed wild boars, it was really majestic and full of deterrence.
"Boarmon Evolve - Iron Boarmon!" After completely changing the outfit of one of the iron-backed boar beast soldiers, Gongsun Lie also shouted in a funny voice.
However, I have to say that after replacing with a full set of steel armor and metal fangs, this iron-backed boar really seems to have completed an evolution, and its attack power and defense power have been greatly improved.
I believe that no matter who it is, facing this steel giant beast with a body length of nearly three meters, it will feel very difficult to provoke.
And this Gongsun Lie was not satisfied, he even wanted to make these iron-backed wild boars also a mount, and then let himself be promoted to a wild boar knight.
It's a pity that the back of the iron-backed boar is too wide, and there is a skeleton on it, which is very hard, and it is not suitable for riding at all.
So Gongsun Lie retreated, and could only design a chariot and let these iron-backed wild boars pull the chariot into battle.
There is nothing special about the shape of this chariot, looking boxy, four wheels are added below, but the whole is made of solid hardwood, and the outside will be wrapped with a layer of iron sheet, resulting in its defense is also very strong, on the outside of the axle of its four wheels, it is also installed with a sharp axle knife more than half a meter long, when the whole chariot is moving, the high-speed rotating wheels will drive the four wheels to rotate together, the lethality is extremely terrible, once those unarmored enemy soldiers are touched, I'm afraid that the whole leg will be cut off directly.
Because the chariot was made of hardwood and iron, its weight was not light, but fortunately it was not an ordinary animal that pulled the chariot, but two extremely strong iron-backed wild boars. After testing, these beasts of incredible brute strength are able to drag these heavy chariots around the battlefield at high speeds.
Dr. Zhang was also interested in seeing this boar chariot tossed by his friend, and took the initiative to help him design a ballista that could fire continuously, which was installed on the chariot, making this thing very powerful in both melee and long-range attacks.
This crossbow that can fire continuously is made by Dr. Zhang using the cartilage of various fierce beasts and various hardwoods and some steel, and the design is very exquisite, after installing an arrow box on the top, it can be fired ten times in a row, and its power is between the giant bed crossbow produced by the mall and the ordinary individual winch crossbow, but because of its advantage of being able to shoot continuously, plus it has a strong mobility ability when installed on the chariot, Guo Dafu felt that the lethality he could exert on the battlefield was definitely more powerful than the single-shot bed crossbow produced by the mall.
Gongsun Lie, who was very complacent about his 'invention', often set up a wild boar chariot in the name of training in the next few days, driving back and forth around the stronghold, causing the low-level fierce beasts living around the stronghold to jump all day long.
Although it has not yet shown its lethality on the battlefield, Guo Dafu feels that this thing is also very useful as a lawn mower, the four axle knives on its wheels, after high-speed rotation, it is like a harvester, and the weeds on both sides of the road will be cut off, just before Guo Dafu and his soldiers burned out of the open space began to grow a lot of weeds, so Guo Dafu asked Gongsun Lie to use his wild boar chariot to clean up this place again, lest these places be overrun by weeds again.
In fact, although this wild boar chariot looks bluffing, Guo Dafu's really optimistic class of troops is cavalry, after all, history has proved that cavalry will eventually replace chariots.
After all, although the chariot looks very impactful, it also has high requirements for the terrain, and it must be in the kind of large plain area to be able to perform, and these chariots are not easy to use on the battlefield with complex terrain.
The cavalry is different, you must know that in the real world, there are still several cavalry on the Oran side, because the cavalry can adapt to more and more harsh terrain, and in some harsh terrain that vehicles cannot drive into, the cavalry can be easily controlled, so several countries on the Orlan Star will retain some cavalry units for patrolling in these areas with relatively harsh terrain.
In history, cavalry is generally divided into archers and shock cavalry according to the different battlefields, and the archers are very well understood, and they are naturally cavalry equipped with bows and arrows that can attack from a distance.
And the shock cavalry, is a cavalry that can charge into battle, and the enemy melee cavalry, this kind of cavalry in order to reduce casualties, often equipped with heavy armor, but some in order to pursue speed of the impact cavalry will not be equipped with armor, of course, this type of cavalry in the battle casualties will be very high, so it has not become the mainstream.
Most of the most powerful shock cavalry in history were still equipped with armor, and some could even be fully armoured, arming both knights and mounts to the teeth.
The price of this kind of heavy cavalry is not low, and if you want to train a heavy cavalry, the money and materials spent are enough to train a dozen infantrymen.
After all, if you want to become a mount of heavy cavalry, the quality of the war horse must not be bad, in addition to speed, the more important thing is strength, endurance and sprinting ability. Among them, strength and endurance are designed to allow horses to carry heavy armor on the battlefield and gallop for a long time, while the ability to sprint is naturally to allow cavalry to inflict more damage to enemy formations when charging.
In this way, the requirements for the selection of chariots are very high, and often among a hundred war horses, it is impossible to select a qualified heavy cavalry war horse.
The same is true for riders, if the strength and endurance are insufficient, then I am afraid that after wearing the thick heavy armor, I will soon be exhausted and panting due to the weight of the armor, where is the strength to fight in battle!
Due to the limited number of six-legged iron hoofed beasts in his hands now, Guo Dafu now has to let the dozens of cavalrymen under him learn both combat skills. Generally, it is to practice charging in the morning and riding and archery in the afternoon, and it is really a soldier who is used for two.
After training for a period of time, after his cavalry guards were more proficient in the control of their mounts, Guo Dafu even asked them to conduct a simulated charge against the infantry trained in formation from time to time.
This is to allow the infantry to adapt to the power of the cavalry charge in advance, and improve their ability to resist pressure in the face of the cavalry charge, so that they will not collapse at the touch of the enemy cavalry when they encounter it on the battlefield.
There are no cavalry troops under the command of the steel-toothed rat king, but Guo Dafu can't guarantee that there are no cavalry troops in other veteran beast kingdoms, let alone other players, there will definitely be cavalry cultivators like him, so this training is very necessary in Guo Dafu's opinion.