Iron Dynasty

A set of plate armor has many parts. With the help of the craftsman, Lu Fei successfully put on the plate armor.

Putting on the helmet, Lu Fei now looks like a steel monster, wearing plate armor and walking around excitedly.

Yes, very flexible. Lu Fei said excitedly: I just don't know if this plate armor can resist swords.

This is not easy, Zhao Hu, go and give him a knife. Xiao Ming said.

The cold sweat on Zhao Hu's forehead immediately stayed, Your Highness, this...

What are you afraid of, come if you want to come, mother-in-law, are you the soldier I brought out? Lu Fei cursed.

Hearing this, Zhao Hu's face turned dark. He pulled out the steel knife around his waist, facing Lu Fei, it was the knife. The knife was slashing at Lu Fei's abdomen. He only heard the sound of 锃 rubbing against metal. Appeared

There was a shallow scar cut by a knife. Although Lu Fei took a few steps back, he was not injured at all, and he did not even cry out in pain.

His Royal Highness, I have nothing at all, come and give me a few more knives. Lu Fei said excitedly.

Zhao Hu was also amazed. At this time, he was relieved and bold, and he kept slashing at Lu Fei with the knife.

Lu Fei stepped back again and again, but he was still the same as the first knife.

Zhao Hu was interested, slashing after slashing, not stopping until Lu Fei kicked him to the ground, and he stopped.

Stinky boy, look at my precious armor for you, it's all knife marks. Lu Fei said in pain, then said to Xiao Ming with a drooling face: His Royal Highness, give me another set, look at this set for this kid. chopped.

Xiao Ming pouted, This set of plate armor will cost at least thirty taels of silver to produce, how dare you say it.

Thirty taels? Lu Fei said in surprise, This is my annual salary.

Xiao Ming naturally wanted to scare Lu Fei and wanted him to cherish and use it. However, if this plate armor really adopts the previous forging method, it really cannot be forged without thirty taels, but now because of the hydraulic forging hammer, the slaves are free, this set Plate armor is actually about the same price as an ox.

It's still very little. Your armor is a general's armor, with different thicknesses and glyphs. Xiao Ming said.

Lu Fei suddenly regretted his bowels, and looked at Zhao Hu viciously, You pay!

Zhao Hu said aggrieved: You asked me to cut it. Besides, I have no money.

Seeing Lu Fei's painful appearance, Xiao Ming stopped teasing him, but said, Forget it, for the sake of your merits in Cangzhou, I will give you three sets of this plate armor.

Thank you, Your Highness! Lu Fei was overjoyed.

Touching his full body armor like a baby, Lu Fei said again: Your Highness, this armor is really too powerful, it is almost invulnerable. Now you give me ten thousand soldiers equipped with plate armor, do we still need to be afraid of barbarians?

You can't talk nonsense. Xiao Ming's expression became serious. In order to prevent Lu Fei from being arrogant, he said: The plate armor is strong, but it will reduce the flexibility accordingly.

Lu Fei moved for a while and said, It's a little bit, but it doesn't have much impact. The main thing is whether the bow and arrow can shoot through this plate armor.

General cast iron arrows can't do it. Xiao Ming bluntly said that the forging technology used in his plate armor is basically equivalent to the modern seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Without corresponding special arrows, the damage to plate armor will not be great. .

In fact, even the early muskets could not penetrate the plate armor, and it was not until later that the power of the firearms continued to increase, and the plate armor was eliminated.

Xiao Ming now equips his army with plate armor just to deal with the domestic situation in Da Yu, and for the technology he has mastered, the production of plate armor is much faster and cheaper than the production of scale armor.

So he chose plate armor.

Really? Lu Fei's mouth widened, and he wanted to put on plate armor to fight immediately.

This is just a guess at the moment. The specifics can only be tested by war. Xiao Ming said, this is his sincere words, any equipment can only be distinguished from the good and bad if it has experienced war.

Lu Fei was now fascinated by the sophisticated, and he didn't know if he heard Xiao Ming's words, and said, Your Highness, I will take these 300 sets of plate armor back to the barracks.

Wait, what are you anxious about, there is something else here. Xiao Ming waved his hand, and the craftsman brought a long-handled long-blade weapon over.

Your Highness, could this be the Mo Dao you said? Lu Fei said.

The last time Xiao Ming said he would take him to see Mo Dao, he always remembered this.

That's right, this is the Mo Dao, specially designed to deal with the heavy cavalry of the barbarians. Xiao Ming said.

Most of the Manchus in the grasslands today are light cavalry, but there are also a lot of heavy cavalry. These are the elites of the barbarians. Generally, the barbarians generally use the tactics of harassing the light cavalry on both wings and pushing the heavy cavalry in the middle.

There is basically no solution to defeating the army of the Great Yu Kingdom in this way.

Lu Fei picked up the Mo Dao and weighed it, and said in surprise: Your Highness, this Mo Dao is not light, it must have 20 pounds.

So, if this kind of Mo Dao is slashed, it can kill people and horses with one blow. Xiao Ming said, the Mo Dao is all made of stainless steel. .

Lu Fei rubbed the Mo Dao in his hand and matched it with the plate armor. If this Mo Dao faced the cavalry in battle, it would be a nightmare for the cavalry.

In addition to the Mo Dao, the Iron and Steel Workshop also built a lot of weapons such as spears and swords for the army, and for long-range weapons, he chose the crossbow.

Although the cost of making crossbows is high and the firing speed is low, for Xiao Ming, a qualified archer needs at least three years of training, which is too long.

In war, soldiers are consumables, which is why they can quickly become an army, and this is also the reason why muskets became the mainstream of war later, a batch of dead, and another batch of three months.

The same is true of this crossbow. Compared with bows and arrows, soldiers naturally do not need much harsh training to use crossbows, which is also suitable for the current situation of fiefs.

Moreover, he can improve the biggest drawback of the ancient crossbow. Generally speaking, the reason why the crossbow is inferior to the bow and arrow is the reloading speed of the pit father. This advantage, even the initial firearm is completely destroyed by the bow and arrow.

In ancient times, crossbows were basically called foot crossbows, that is, the hands and feet were used together to wind the string, but Xiao Ming applied the pulley principle to the crossbow.

This means that soldiers require less effort to maneuver the crossbow nimbly.

At present, this kind of pulley crossbow is being developed and produced, and the steel mill has not yet produced it, but modern mature technology has proved that this is feasible, and it is only a matter of time for production.

Taking Lu Fei to see the equipment in the army, Lu Fei immediately sent people to come to transport the weapons and equipment in the iron and steel workshop back to the military camp.

The current new army is basically still wearing the clothes they brought, no different from ordinary people. Taking these equipment back can finally give the soldiers hope.

Chen Wenlong and Xiao Ming reluctantly looked at Lu Fei's busy figure. This was just the beginning. With the maturity of the iron and steel workshop, the production speed of plate armor will become faster and faster, and his soldiers will no longer be embarrassed. No weapon armor.