"Your Majesty, the soldiers in the Beijing camp seriously lack training and actual combat experience, so they must make up for it in equipment. Otherwise, it will be difficult to win the battle after going into battle." Yang Fan said quickly.
Li Banghua said: "It is too late to re-make armor weapons now. In particular, making armor plates is very labor-intensive. I checked and found that there is a serious loss of craftsmen under the Ministry of War. There is no registered amount of 20 to 30 percent. And most of them are young and old.
There is a particular shortage of skilled craftsmen. There is also a serious shortage of iron materials. It will take at least a year to prepare the equipment for these 50,000 people."
Yang Fan looked at Chongzhen and said: "Your Majesty, if you want to attack the Tumut and Ordos people, it is best to start the war in March next year. There is no time to delay. Spring has begun and the grass is green. The Mongols will disperse and nomadic. We
We don’t have enough cavalry, so we can’t spread out across the mountains and plains to find them. Besides, the combat capability of our small unit is worrying. If we gather together, we still have a chance of winning, but if we disperse on the grassland, it’s hard to say whether we can recover them.”
Chongzhen nodded. Although he didn't understand military affairs, the truth was still understandable.
After all, isn't it nonsense for a man to chase cavalry on the prairie on two legs?
"Yang Qing, you are in Zunhua, which is the iron smelting center of the Ming Dynasty. Since Xuanzong, all the northern equipment of the imperial court has used Zunhua iron. Can it be produced in Zunhua? I can make weapons, armor and firearms for you.
Charter."
This is what Yang Fan wants. What he did before were all illegal. They were done privately. Although the frontier commanders all did this, it would be even more different if it was authorized by the imperial court.
"Your Majesty, if it is too late to make armor, it requires too much labor. I have a kind of plate armor that can be made quickly. I can definitely deliver 50,000 sets in a month. It can be enough to catch up with the army."
"There are such personal soldiers of Jiawei Chen. You can let them in and let your lords take a look."
Yang Fan knew the level of craftsmen in the imperial court.
Three people had to work hard for more than two months. After all, forging iron plates was time-consuming and laborious. Yang Fan guessed that in all likelihood they would purchase it from outside and directly let the soldiers wear stamped steel plate armor.
"Oh, that's great, let's call a few people in to take a look." Chongzhen said happily.
After a while, three soldiers came in.
They all wore European-style plate armor, but it was the kind that only reached the knees, an enhanced version of the half-body plate armor. There were a few people behind them holding a few wooden boxes, which contained installable decks for the legs and feet.
This kind of armor is the kind worn by soldiers in Europe. The armor skirt is no more than the knees to facilitate the march of the infantry.
As soon as these people arrived here, they immediately attracted the attention of the civil and military ministers.
The key is that the shape of their armor is so strange.
The pyramidal polyhedral beak-style helmet and the reinforced decks on the shoulders and neck are designed to prevent cavalry from slashing infantry from above.
The front chest is a whole piece of curved plate armor. The joints are designed to be flexibly rotated. The thighs and crotch are both large armor skirts.
Above the knees, except for a very narrow horizontal slit for the eyes, everything is basically covered. There are two small holes for the ears to make it easier to hear the superior's orders clearly.
The color of these armors is black and gray. In order to prevent rust, Yang Fan specially washed them with acid. It also prevents reflection from exposing the target.
What surprised everyone the most was that there were beautiful and complicated patterns on these plate armors, with Tangcao-style decorations. These were directly pressed on during mold stamping. It didn’t take much trouble. It was mainly for the sake of appearance.
These plate armors are stamped from pure steel plates. A hydraulic stamping machine is used. The steel plates are fed in and pressed by the punch to make a piece of plate armor. The production speed is very fast.
These parts are designed in advance, and then the mold is opened and made. Then the assembly line operation is performed, with each machine responsible for stamping one part. Finally, the women in Xincheng take the parts home and assemble them with pliers, earning a piece-rate wage.
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Now, many housewives under the Yang Fan system can receive a job to work at home. This is also their income after completing housework.
The stamping machine is working around the clock, and the parts are assembled in various small workshops. Tens of thousands of sets of armor can be produced in no time.
These armors are either made of aluminum alloy, or are made of steel that has been surface carburized and hardened after quenching. The thickness is only that of aluminum alloy, two millimeters thick on the front and one millimeter thick on the back. The whole set weighs about 30 pounds.
In order to simplify production, there is no leather lining inside. Anyway, in this season, it is covered with thick cotton clothes, which are not abrasive to the skin. These plate armors are the beggars and simplified versions of Yang Fan’s system plate armors. They are industrial products produced in large quantities for the sake of fast production.
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The nobles and the military attachés from the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion immediately came forward to check. While looking at it, they were amazed. Such large plate armor had never appeared in the Ming Dynasty.
The reason why the Ming Dynasty used armor was mainly to maintain flexibility. The Ming Dynasty had a vast territory, and the infantry had to be mobile. Otherwise, how could they enter the battlefield if they couldn't walk.
Europe is a small country and does not need to consider long-distance marches of thousands of kilometers, so they build heavy full-body iron cans. The different weapons and equipment routes taken by both sides are closely related to the actual battlefield conditions.
Just like firearms, the reason why the Ming Dynasty did not develop giant heavy artillery like Europe, they were all small general cannons. They were all small-power artillery with large caliber, short barrel, small recoil and small charge. It was because of the artillery on both sides.
The design uses are different.
The cannons of the Ming Dynasty were used to hit people, so they were not big. There are castles all over Europe, and most of the city walls are stone walls, with a thickness of about one and a half to two meters. They made huge cannons to blast through the city walls. So the red in the late Ming Dynasty
When three-ton cannons like the Yi Cannon came to the Ming Dynasty, the gap between the two-speed artillery was already very large.
The reason why the Ming Dynasty did not take this route is because the city walls of the Ming Dynasty were made of rammed earth covered with bricks, and the thickness was generally about 30 meters. Walls built with Sanhe rammed earth are very elastic.
It's made of bricks and very hard. The red cannon can't blast through the city walls, but it can blast through the city gates just fine.
Flexibility is very important in combat. However, the armor's ability to prevent arrows from missing is not very good. Especially when faced with powerful bows and arrows such as Qing Bow, it is often shot through at close range.
"Yang Qing, why does your armor have no lower legs?" Chongzhen looked at it for a while and asked strangely.
The mandarin duck war jackets and cloth armors of the Ming Dynasty generally have skirts that cover the main knees, close to the ankles. Yang Fan's plate armor does protect the upper body very well, but it does not protect the lower part of the knees. It looks a little too careless about the head and the buttocks.
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