"Come on, follow the official to report the good news to the official's family!"

After Fan Zheng cashed in a thousand guan, he immediately led the armor supervisors and craftsmen to pick up their armor and rushed to the palace.

"What, the Weapons Supervisor has cracked the Western Xia Cold Forging Armor!"

As soon as Zhao Xu went down to the court, he got a report from Tong Guan, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

Tong Guan nodded and said, "Fan Taicheng has already been waiting outside the palace with cold forging armor. ”

"Hurry up, please, no, let Fan Zheng immediately take the cold forging armor to the palace to perform martial arts." Zhao Xu couldn't wait.

Fan Zheng has just changed the French ordnance prison for ten days, and in the past ten days, Fan Zheng has rectified the ordnance superintendent, eliminated the old and weak, and recalled the craftsmen who were requisitioned by dignitaries and dignitaries.

However, as soon as the cold forging armor came out, all doubts were immediately suppressed.

For all dynasties, the Central Plains Dynasty was better than the Grassland Dynasty with the advantages of armor, but it was extremely miserable in the Great Song Dynasty, not only the bow and crossbow were not as good as the Western Xia, but even the armor was not as good as the Western Xia.

The scab armor worn by the Xixia Iron Harrier is a cold-forged armor, which has extremely strong defensive power, and often a single charge can disrupt the military formation of the Great Song Dynasty! This gave Da Song a headache, if Da Song could also forge a cold forging armor, it would be enough to fight against the Western Xia Iron Harrier.

Inside the martial arts arena.

Zhao Xu hurriedly came, only to see that Fan Zheng and a group of ordnance supervisors were already waiting there.

"Qi Qi official family, Wei Chen was ordered to become the French military weapons supervisor, not disgraced the mission, and came to report the good news to the official family." Fan Zheng continued.

Fan Zheng waved his hand, and Mo Yue led a group of craftsmen to present the cold-forged armor and cotton armor that had just been created.

And Zhao Xu's gaze automatically ignored the cotton armor, and suddenly stared at the cold forging armor.

"This is the cold forging armor of Western Xia?"

Zhao Xu said in disbelief, once upon a time, the Great Song Dynasty gritted its teeth at the cold forging armor of Western Xia, but there was nothing to be done, and the biggest hole card of Western Xia was finally controlled by Great Song Dynasty.

Mo Yue said solemnly: "The official family doesn't know, the cold forging method is not difficult, the biggest difficulty is the iron, after Lord Fan served as the commander of the ordnance, gathered a group of blacksmiths, brainstormed, and finally refined the iron material that can be cold forged." ”

The life of the craftsmen is difficult, and the five hundred guan is a great wealth for them, and under the stimulation of the five hundred guan, almost all the craftsmen have red eyes, and they actually create cold forging armor in one fell swoop.

The corners of Zhao Xu's mouth twitched, and Fan Zheng directly threw a thousand yuan as a reward for the weapons supervisor as soon as he took office, which had already been spread in the DPRK, and it became the focus of the courtiers' impeachment.

However, no one thought that Fan Zheng Qianguan would have such a miraculous effect, in just ten days, the craftsmen of the Ordnance Supervision actually made a cold forging armor, if you can buy a cold forging armor for a thousand guan, how can the Great Song Dynasty be subject to the Western Xia for decades.

Ironically, however, the Great Song Dynasty would rather give the Western Xia a year's worth of 300,000 guan coins than give a mere 1,000 guan to the craftsmen.

Fan Zheng introduced on the side: "The Buren armor of the Great Song Dynasty adopts hot forging technology, and a full set of 1,008 armor pieces is 70 catties, while the armor is forged with this cold forging method is less than 50 catties."

"Really?" Zhao Xu said in disbelief.

The Iron Harrier of Western Xia is extremely strong, and the Great Song Dynasty has not been able to form a heavy cavalry to compete with it, the biggest reason is that the armor of the Great Song Dynasty is too heavy! It is difficult for the war horse to bear such a huge pressure! In the end, I had to give up.

If the Great Song Dynasty had cold-forged armor, the weight of the armor would be greatly reduced, and it would not be difficult to assemble an elite heavy-armored cavalry that could compete with the Iron Harrier.

Mo Yue had been prepared for this, and immediately took out the scale and personally measured the weight of the cold forging armor.

"Forty-eight pounds!"

Zhao Xu's eyes froze, the foot armor was seventy catties, and the cold forging armor was twenty-two catties, which was a great blessing for the soldiers who were running long distances, reducing the weight of more than twenty catties.

"Although the weight of the cold forging armor has been reduced, the defense power is still above the step armor!" Fan Zheng said solemnly.

At that moment, Mo Yue wore the cold forging armor and the step armor on the dummy in the martial arts arena.

"Divine Arm Crossbow!"

Zhao Xu waved his hand, ordinary bows and arrows are of little use against step armor and cold forging armor, if you want to test the defense of cold forging armor, it must be the divine arm crossbow!

Tong Guan immediately stepped forward and handed over the divine arm crossbow that had already been wound.

"Buzz!"

Zhao Xu personally picked up the Divine Arm Crossbow and shot at the step armor at a distance of twenty paces!

"Ding!"

There was a sound of gold and iron clashing, and I saw the arrow piercing deep into the foot armor.

"One inch into the armor!" Mo Yue said loudly.

The Divine Arm Crossbow is the most powerful at a distance of twenty steps, and the Step Man Armor can block the Divine Arm Crossbow in the strongest state, and only one inch into the armor is already a great achievement.

But Fan Zheng shook his head, an inch is more than three centimeters in the future, and such a deep wound is enough to cause heavy wounds.

At that moment, Tong Guan wound the divine arm crossbow again and handed it to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu raised the Divine Arm Crossbow and aimed it at the cold forging armor and pulled the trigger.

"Ding!"

The sound of gold and iron resonating again.

This time, Zhao Xu missed slightly, and the cold forging armor actually directly bounced the crossbow arrows of the god arm crossbow away, and the cold forging armor only lost two armor pieces.

"Come again!"

Zhao Xu was overjoyed when he saw this, and once again raised his divine arm crossbow to shoot at the cold forging armor.

"Ding!"

This time, the bolt of the Divine Arm Crossbow did not miss, and it was nailed straight to the cold forging armor.

"Half an inch into the armor!" Mo Yue said excitedly.

"Half an inch!"

Zhao Xu said in surprise.

This is the most powerful Divine Arm Crossbow in the Great Song Dynasty, and the Cold Forging Armor Hard Resistance Divine Arm Crossbow is only half an inch into the armor.

Fan Zheng nodded slightly, half an inch is about less than two centimeters, although the Divine Arm Crossbow is still armor-broken, but the Divine Arm Crossbow in the body wearing cold forging armor is not fatal, at most it is a slight injury!

At that time, under the city of Pingxia, the Xixia Iron Harrier relied on the protection of cold forging armor, and rushed to the city wall, if it were not for the Song army not afraid of death, plus the earth-shattering thunder to block the reinforcements, I am afraid that Pingxia City would be difficult to hold.

Zhao Xu stepped forward to verify it personally, and sure enough, it was only about half an inch into the armor.

Zhao Xu couldn't believe it, and raised the Divine Arm Crossbow to shoot several arrows in succession, but the Cold Forging Armor always steadily blocked the Divine Arm Crossbow without causing heavy damage.

"The cold forging armor is the strongest armor in the world, and this divine armor is enough to create an iron armor cavalry belonging to the Great Song Dynasty." Fan Zheng said solemnly.

At present, Fan Zheng will come up with the idea of forming Tiefutu.

"Iron Float!"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, Futu is the meaning of tower in Buddhism, and Iron Futu is the iron tower, a cavalry man and horse are wearing cold forging armor, standing like an iron tower.

"Good! The Great Song Dynasty will also build the Iron Floating Slaughter belonging to the Great Song Dynasty at any cost! Zhao Xu said solemnly.

Although the Great Song Dynasty is not prosperous, it is also possible to find out the three thousand most elite war horses, and there are three thousand iron harriers in Western Xia, and the Great Song Dynasty is bound to build three thousand iron floating slaughter to compete with it.

"The official is wise!" Fan Zheng bowed and said,

"The Iron Floating Massacre is expensive and cannot be mass-produced, and if the Great Song Dynasty wants to revitalize the cavalry, it needs the second type of armor that Weichen presented today, cotton armor!"

"Cotton armor? Cotton can also be used for armor? Zhao Xu frowned and looked at the armor in front of him covered with a layer of cotton.

Everyone knows that cotton is the softest thing in the world, and armor is the most defensive thing in the world, how can the two be confused, if it weren't for Fan Zheng's new armor with the strongest defense, he must think that Fan Zheng is talking nonsense.

Fan Zheng nodded solemnly and said: "Although the cold forging armor is lighter than the step armor, it still weighs fifty catties, and the biggest advantage of cotton is that it is light, and the advantage of cotton armor is also light!" ”

"Light?"

Zhao Xu was puzzled, what is the use of being light? No matter what kind of armor it is, the most important thing is protection.

Fan Zheng explained: "The cotton armor wets the picked cotton, beats it repeatedly, and makes a thin cotton sheet, and the cotton sheet is embellished into a very thick and solid cotton cloth, between the two layers of cotton cloth is an iron armor, fixed with copper nails inside and outside, and the full set of armor is only about 30 catties." ”

"Thirty pounds?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but be surprised, even the lightest cold-forged armor in traditional armor is only about fifty catties, most of the ordinary iron armor is about sixty catties, and the cotton armor is only thirty catties, so I am afraid it is the lightest armor.

Fan Zheng nodded solemnly and said: "The Great Song Dynasty war horse is slightly behind the Liaoxia war horse, and if you want to make up for the gap, you must reduce the weight of the Great Song Dynasty's war horse, and cotton armor is the best armor for the Great Song cavalry." ”

"How's its defense?" Zhao Xu asked.

"Better than paper armor, slightly inferior to iron armor!" Fan Zheng said solemnly.

"Better than paper armor, slightly inferior to iron armor?" Zhao Xu frowned.

Paper armor is another kind of armor in the Song Dynasty, but the iron armor is expensive, the Great Song Dynasty has 1.2 million troops, all of them cost too much to build iron armor, and the paper armor with good quality and low price came into being, and the defense of the paper armor is not bad, the only drawback is that it is easy to damage.

At that moment, Zhao Xu picked up the divine arm crossbow, aimed at the cotton armor and pulled the trigger.

After a muffled sound, the bolts of the God's Arm Crossbow also pierced into the cotton armor.

"One and a half inches into the armor!" Tong Guan stepped forward to check the extent of the damage to the cotton armor, and said with a solemn face.

"An inch and a half!"

Zhao Xu's face changed, although he was not a doctor, he also knew how terrifying the injury of an inch and a half into the armor was.

Fan Zheng said unhurriedly: "The official family doesn't know, the army that cotton armor needs to be equipped with is light cavalry, and when it is not necessary, it will not engage with the enemy in short combat, and the Liaoxia cavalry only has bows and arrows, and the cotton armor is enough to defend, coupled with the advantage of the light weight of the cotton armor, the gap between the Great Song Dynasty and the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty has been equal to that of Liaoxia." ”

Zhao Xu nodded slightly, the Great Song Dynasty lost to Liaoxia on the war horse, but the cotton armor, which was half lighter, had an advantage, and the Great Song cavalry did not have the strength to fight.

Fan Zheng said again: "Cotton armor is lower than paper armor, and it is lighter than paper armor, and its defense is better than paper armor. ”

"Keeping warm is also an advantage?" Zhao Xu was puzzled.

Fan Zheng didn't answer, got up and recited: "The north wind swept the white grass and folded, and the snow flew in August. Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom. ”

Zhao Xu's heart moved, and what Fan Zheng recited was "Bai Xue Ge Sends the Military Judge to Beijing" by the Tang Dynasty Border Fortress poet Cen Shen.

"Scattered into the bead curtain wet curtain, the fox fur is not warm and the brocade is thin. The general's horn bow is not controlled, and it is difficult to .................. the iron clothes. ”

"It's hard to protect the iron clothes?" Zhao Xu's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood the benefits of cotton armor for warmth.

Both the Liaoxia border is located in the north, and the winter is unusually cold, while the Western Xia Liao State lives in a bitter cold land all the year round and is extremely cold-tolerant, while the Song army is located in the south, and the winter combat is miserable, and often falls into the downwind.

Cotton armor is lightweight, warm, and defensive, which is the best thing to defend Liaoxia in winter, and even counterattack Liaoxia in the future.

"How much does cotton armor cost?" Zhao Xu asked solemnly.

"It's only three percent iron." Fan Zheng replied.

Zhao Xu's breath was sluggish, except for the slightly inferior defensive power, the cotton armor was almost impeccable.

Once the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty was equipped with light cotton armor, the cavalry's speed increased greatly, whether it was a long-distance attack or a roundabout side attack, it could come and go like the wind, and with a strong bow and spear, it was enough to fight against the elite cavalry of Liaoxia.

Fan Zheng brought together the combat ideas of the kidnapping horses of later generations.

He is going to follow the path of the Jin Army, so that the Jin Army has no way out.

"Kidnapping horse!"

Zhao Xu was passionate, and the cavalry had always been the pain of the Great Song Dynasty, and with cold forging armor and cotton armor, Zhao Xu finally saw the hope of the rise of the Great Song Dynasty cavalry.

At the moment, Zhao Xu personally tried on cold forging armor and cotton armor, which really had great advantages compared to traditional armor.

"It is indeed much better than traditional armor, Fan Aiqing has made a great contribution!"

Zhao Xu was full of praise immediately, he didn't expect Fan Zheng to give him such a big surprise in just ten days.

Fan Zheng said modestly: "The minister does not dare to take credit, this is the work of the craftsman of the ordnance supervisor, and this is not the strongest armor, as long as the craftsman perseveres, there will be stronger armor in the future, and lighter cotton armor." ”

"Decree, the ordnance supervisor will reward him for March!" Zhao Xu waved his hand and said generously.

"Thank you, official!" Mo Yue and the others were overjoyed, the ordnance supervisor first had a reward from Fan Zheng, and now the official family has rewarded him with three months' worth of money, so he is not too happy.

Fan Zheng advised: "Where there is a spear, there is a shield, and the ordnance supervisor must not only study the strongest shield, but also study the strongest spear, and the contradictions are mutually restrictive, so that the Great Song Dynasty soldiers can make the armor of the Great Song Dynasty powerful in the world." ”

"The subordinate obeys!" Mo Yue said solemnly.

"The Western Xia Iron Harrier is the number one enemy of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Ordnance Supervisor must study a way to crack it as soon as possible." Fan Zheng ordered again.

"Yes!"

Mo Yue and the others took the order, and then retreated.

After the craftsmen of the ordnance prison left, Zhao Xu stroked the cold forging armor and cotton armor, and couldn't help but say excitedly: "I want to form the Iron Floating Slaughter and the Kidnapping Horse, does Fan Aiqing have the right candidate?" ”

Fan Zheng thought for a while and said: "In the battle of Pingxia City, General Chongpu was brave and strategic, and he was really a good general, but he could be the main general of the Iron Floating Massacre!" ”

In later generations, Chong Pu went out to fight because he was conspired to die, and if he could wear cold forging armor, he might be able to escape the catastrophe.

"Yes!"

Zhao Xu thought about it for a while, and finally nodded.

"And the kidnapping horse needs elite cavalry, and the most elite cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty is none other than Xihe, and Yao Xiong, the main general of Xihe, can try out the kidnapping horse."

"Yao Xiong!"

Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

He originally thought that Fan Zheng would recommend Yang Weizhong, the deputy general of Pingxia City, but he didn't expect Fan Zheng to recommend Yao Xiong, the main general of Xihe!

"Yang Weizhong is better at defending the city! , Pingxia City is a great threat to Western Xia, if it is not expected by Weichen, next year Western Xia will definitely attack Pingxia City in a big way, and Yang Weizhong is in Pingxia City, so you can sit back and relax. Fan Zheng explained.

"Accurate!"

Zhao Xu waved his hand and immediately ordered.

(End of chapter)