Chapter 60 Armor Break
The fishy smell of rabbits is very strong. Making glue is not cooking. There is no need to add spices and seasonings. The key is to dip the cloth tightly. Whether it is fishy or not. So from the first piece of cloth armor, the dogs in Shaofu are not safe. They like to bite the cloth armor. This kind of difficult-to-chew stuff is very similar to jerky, and the more you chew, the more you taste it.
Wang Jian didn't expect that many dogs raised by Shaofu were killed because of the fishy smell. He just felt that the number of rabbits that limited the number of armor in the Qin army was actually the number of rabbits. This was really incredible. He wanted to laugh but couldn't. But what could I do?
The giant armor was no longer captured, and the iron armor was difficult to build, so I could only use this kind of cloth armor. If the king had known the importance of this battle, as long as there were rabbits in the middle of the country, it would not be hidden, right? Thinking of this, Wang Jian nodded slightly, but had not yet agreed verbally.
Ye Shun felt relieved when he saw Wang Jian like this. The reason why the king asked him to come to the shogunate directly to meet Wang Jian was to allow the king to step back and mediate the conflict between the shogunate and the Shaofu. He had a talk with Wang Jian first, but then he could not reach the end of the negotiation and then there was no trouble.
Originally, the armor would have to be the king no matter what, because Shaofu could not create 150,000 sets of iron armor within a year. Unexpectedly, the cloth armor has excellent performance and is definitely not as good as the giant armor, but it is very close to the iron armor produced by Shaofu. If it is thickened, it may not be as good as Shaofu iron armor, which has uneven quality and extremely uneven thickness.
Next is that cloth armor is convenient to manufacture and low-priced. cloth armor comes from Xizhou, which was originally made of copper armor, but was replaced by cloth armor. However, the hemp in Xizhou is not the hemp in the world. After comparing the two, Lord Bai Di sighed, saying that it was God who blessed the world. Why?
After planting the hemp in the world, he can harvest hemp continuously for several years. After planting the hemp in Xizhou, he harvests one year after planting, and he will have to be planted again in the second year. The second is that the hemp in the world can be harvested three times a year, with a split hemp, two hemp and three hemp. One small acre can harvest two or thirty kilograms of raw hemp every year, and after degumming, it can spin several pieces of cloth; according to the general translation of the eldest son of the eldest son, people in Xizhou may not be good at farming, and even more than fifty acres cannot spin a piece of cloth a year.
The output difference is so big that the result is that Xizhou cloth armor is more expensive than copper armor. In the world, the cheap cloth armor will inevitably replace leather armor, copper armor, stone armor, and iron armor in the future, becoming the first choice for the Qin army armor. If the rabbit is insufficient, it is just that the rabbit is insufficient this year. Shaofu has raised rabbits in the gardens, and I expect that there will be no rabbits in a few years.
With Wang Jian's final confirmation, the matter of armor came to an end. The Shaofu will provide the army with 150,000 sets of twenty-five-clothed cloth armor before next spring. The front of the cloth armor is thick, with thirty-five layers, and the back can be thin, with fifteen layers. The front of the entire armor is thirty-five layers, which costs 14 liters of linen cloth and five feet. The protection is as tried before. The five-stone longbow uses a heavy arrow to break the armor with a Jingman. It can penetrate half an inch of the armor coat within ten steps, and only slightly hurt the soldiers and cannot seriously hurt the soldiers.
The next thing we want to talk about is the spear and arrow. Ye Shun said as soon as he opened his mouth, "I think it's useless to slash the crossbow."
"Why is it useless?" Wang Jian and the generals were surprised by Ye Shun's statement.
"Can the general know that Jing people's armor is also divided into grades?" Ye Shun talked about this unknown question. Seeing that everyone didn't know, he said: "The hardness of armor clothes is all about quenching. If it is not quenching, it is no different from copper armor. There is also a different method. Even if it is quenched, the armor sold by Jing people is in the simplest way or even not quenching. The armor used alone is carefully quenched."
"But..." Ji Zhang Nuo had already been well known to the generals, and Zhao Yong was about to speak before Ye Shu could finish speaking.
"General Zhao is not anxious." Ye Shun comforted him. "Previously, Zhang's crossbow could indeed break the Jing people's armor, but the Jing people's armor became stronger and stronger. The previous ten steps could break the Jiu armor, but now it cannot be broken."
"What happened?" Even Wang Jian was surprised now, "I have never heard of it..."
"This is indeed happening." Ye Shuo looked at him with an unquestionable look. "If the General Shogunate has obtained a huge armor recently, you can try it. Or you can tell if you don't need to try it."
Ye Shun said it was extremely mysterious. Wang Jian did not dare to neglect it, so he hurriedly asked someone to go to the shogunate to find the recently seized Jing people's armor. This is not without it. The Chu infantry defeated the Qin army, but the cavalry encountered the Chu army's cavalry. If there were few people and the opportunity was appropriate, the Qin army would kill people, seize their armor, and cut their heads. Soon, they found a pair of armor pulled out from the Chu army scout.
Without a test shot, Wang Jian discovered the problem with just the weight. This is not the weight he remembered before. The whole set of armor combined is not heavier than before, and is eight kilograms lighter than before. Then he used a crossbow to test the shooting. The giant armor that could be broken by more than ten steps is now intact. At this time, Wang Ben asked the crossbow to test the cloth armor again. With a loud bang, the crossbow arrow penetrated the cloth armor and shot it into the wooden target more than one inch, either dead or injured.
The Chu army did not have a crossbow. Such a test shot was meaningless. Wang Jian, who was already in a black face, glared at his son and felt that he was causing trouble. The most fatal problem for the Qin army at present is that he cannot kill the enemy. The crossbow can no longer break the armor, and even stab the two hands with force can't break the armor. Could it be that the Qin army wants to rush the spear like the Chu army?
"Our army can..." An Qi was Li Xin's general, and his understanding of the Chu army was the deepest among all the generals. However, Wang Jian, who was thinking, stopped him first and asked Ye Tundao: "May I ask the great craftsman, if our army rushes to spear, can we break the giant armor?"
Ye Shun talked about how the Chu army's giant armor was, which paved the way for this problem. He smiled a few times and shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"How can the great craftsman not know?!" Wang Jian's eyes burst out again with anger. He suddenly understood why Ye Shun just mentioned that the Jing people's armor became stronger and stronger. Perhaps it was because the Jing people's armor was getting stronger and stronger. But isn't it because the Shaofu has no way to defeat the Jing people's armor?
Wang Jian's anger became more and more intense and his breathing became more and more rapid. He instantly felt that he shouldn't wait until next year to fight again. The more he waited, the bigger the gap between the two sides, and the Shaofu could not fill the increasingly larger gap between the two armies, so he could only chase further and further. As for the cloth armor, how could the cloth armor be compared to the giant armor? Even the cloth armor was a skill provided by the craftsmen in the West, otherwise why did the Shaofu not build cloth armor before?
Under Wang Jian's glaring, Ye Shun was sweating profusely, but the actual situation was as Wang Jian guessed. With the improvement of the skills of the Chu State Ju Tie Mansion, the Shaofu could no longer guarantee that the iron spear produced could break the Chu army's armor by rushing the spear. Although the spear was fierce, if there was a deviation in the angle of the spear, the forward speed was not enough, and the soldiers were not weighed enough, the armor would be unscathed.
Everyone knows that armor-breaking is extremely important, but armor-breaking is a competition of the skills of iron smelting masters from both countries. At the time of King Zhao, the Chu State's iron swords were already famous all over the world, and today's skills are even better than the past. If the Shaofu had not obtained the group of superb iron smelting masters from Yan State and had worked hard to maintain the gap in skills between the two sides, the Qin Dynasty would have probably been destroyed.
"General, generals, please listen to what the next time I am." Ye Shun was speechless and sweaty. Sima Wuze on the side was born as an iron official. He understood the iron smelting skills of Shaofu, and stood up and spoke.
Wang Jian's eyes turned to him, and Ye Shun then felt a sweat. Wang Jian didn't say anything, but just looked at Sima Wuze. Sima Wuze said with a tough head: "General, you should know that iron soldiers are different from copper soldiers. The advantages of copper soldiers are in the sixth level of Jin; the benefits of iron soldiers are all in the quenching. However, quenching is also harmful. If the temperature is not right, the iron soldiers are too brittle, just like the fragile Lu Li; if the temperature is slightly inferior, the iron soldiers are not brittle, but not good. The art of iron smelting and smelting in the Shaofu was passed down from Yan State. This is only a few years, and there are still few craftsmen who can quench for several years, with only a few hundred people..."
"Only hundreds of people in several years?" Wang Jian listened, Zhao Yong listened, and the other generals were listening. The craftsmen of Yan State entered Qin for almost ten years, but they did not expect that there were so few craftsmen who could truly be tempered and refined.
"Oh!" Sima Wuze shook his head, "This is difficult. When the iron soldiers enter the fire, their color is yellow first, then blue, and then red, just like a colorful rainbow. When can it be quenched, it depends on the color, and it depends on the quality of the iron. Different iron, the color of the quenching is also different. If you are not careful, the edge of the soldier is either too brittle or too soft. Too brittle cannot break the armor, or too soft cannot break the armor. The giant armor was soft before, but now the giant armor is harder. The spear edge of the giant armor was able to break the spear edge of the giant armor before, but now it is difficult to break the..."
Sima Wuze didn't seem to explain, but it seemed to be complaining. In the past, when the giant armor was not so hard, the Shaofu was even softer and the armored spear could break the armor, but now it is not possible. The hardness of the giant armor is gradually increasing, and the range between the armored hardness and the spear tip is getting narrower and narrower, and the yield rate of the Shaofu chief spear is getting lower and lower. To ensure the output, some chief spears are too soft and brittle and cannot break the armor. To ensure the armored spears, the output of 300,000 chief spears cannot be guaranteed.
"What should I do for it?" Wang Jian stopped breathing, his heart was cold. Armor breaking was more important than whether the soldiers had reliable armor. If the chief spear could not break the armor even if it could rush the spear, what would the soldiers use to fight against the Chu army? Do they bite them with their teeth?
"The general should use the remaining 30,000 spears of the remaining 30,000 spears." Ye Shun came back and said that he had nothing to hide. "The spears of the young mansion are far inferior to those of the Jing people. If the spears of the giant armor are broken, they should be less than 50,000 spears within a year."
"Fifty thousand pieces?" The generals gasped. The young and energetic Wang Ben even wanted to leave on the spot. Six hundred thousand people and 50,000 spears, plus the remaining 30,000, less than ninety thousand pieces. This means that only 90,000 men had weapons, and the remaining 500,000 were a bare wooden scepter that could not be killed.
"Yes." Ye Tun told frankly. "The spears of the Shaofu are ten or only one or two that can break the giant armor. The rest are either too fragile or too soft. However, Lord Bai Di once said that there are iron smelting craftsmen in the west, and they know how to make iron soldiers more fire. This is what the Shaofu doesn't know, and the Yan State smelting craftsmen in the west, and they don't know how to make iron soldiers more fire..."
The so-called "re-fire" means backfire. This skill that is not in the world is far away. It takes two years to go there at the fastest time. It is not too late for two years. Wang Jian, who is already cold, wanted to say something to comfort the generals beside him, but he couldn't say anything. He regretted summoning the generals to the martial arts field.
Chapter completed!