"Your Majesty, it's not that you don't have it. It's that you don't have it on. The plate armor on the legs is in the box. You can use the belt buckle on the deck to put it on during combat. Because plate armor is not conducive to marching, it is not worn at ordinary times."
Yang Fan ordered: "You put on all the plate armor on your legs."
Several soldiers immediately took out the greaves from the box and dressed them neatly. Looking again this time, you can see that these soldiers were all wrapped in large steel plates, leaving basically no trace for the enemy.
Take advantage of the opportunity.
Several governors from the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion were walking around and observing carefully. They could not help but nod. The thickness of these armor stomachs is different in various parts. The thickness of key parts is thick, and it even increases the structural strength.
Some parts that are not easy to attack use one millimeter thin armor. This focused protection design can greatly reduce the weight.
Li Banghua stepped forward and knocked on the plate armor with his fist. It felt very strong.
He looked at it seriously for a while, then took a breath and said, "Why does this stomach look like it's made of steel?"
"What, it's made of steel, made by Suzhou Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., but the cost is too high and the price can't be lowered." Linhuai Marquis Li Bangzhen said in surprise.
"What Su Gang, this is made of open-hearth steel from Dingyuanbo's own steel factory. You are so out of date. You don't even know this. Now Dingyuanbo's open-hearth steel is already the best steel in the Ming Dynasty. The price is still cheap, only
The ex-factory price is five cents of silver per catty, only one-sixth of Su Gang’s." said Deng Wenming, Marquis of Dingyuan.
Hearing this, Chongzhen was relieved. Yang Fan's things were not bad. When he heard that the armor was made of steel, he was immediately worried about the price. Steel armor and iron armor are not the same performance, and cold forged armor is better than
Not wearing steel armor.
The armor of this era, whether it was pierced armor, mountain armor, scale armor, cloth-faced armor, etc., was all iron armor. Even the Xixia cold-forged armor with the best defensive performance in history was also iron armor.
Steel was a very expensive material in this era and would only be used to make key parts such as sword edges and spear heads. In other words, the so-called good steel should be used on the blades.
This is the first time I have seen the armor and stomach made of steel. Everyone feels a little wasteful. Using steel to make the armor and stomach is too extravagant. Is there any country in the world that can use steel to make armor?
This is definitely the first one for Ming Dynasty.
Even European plate armor was made of wrought iron in the early days because wrought iron was soft and easy to process. Later, when the steel industry matured in the 19th century and muskets advanced, plate armor was eliminated directly. Therefore, plate armor did not develop
High-performance steel material for the deck.
For a moment, these military attachés felt itchy in their hearts, wishing they could make one themselves.
Yang Fan had long expected that the appearance of steel armor would definitely interest these officers. The aristocratic officers of this era all had their own ancestral armors, or they spent their own money to customize their own armors. These nobles were rich, and Yang Fan was planning to make them in the future.
Set up a private custom-made plate armor workshop in Beicheng to specially customize armor for them.
As long as they can afford it, aluminum alloy plate armor is also acceptable.
Yang Fan saw their interest and immediately handed over a colorful picture album.
This picture album is a modern print. The coated paper is very beautiful. It contains pictures and performance introductions of the plate armor of the royal families and nobles of major European countries. I specially asked Yao Guang to make a traditional Chinese version.
Opening the beautifully printed book, the armors inside are all the work of the famous armor-making family workshop in Milan, Italy.
Yang Fan first gave one copy to His Majesty, and then gave a dozen copies to the civil and military ministers for them to circulate. He also told them that all of these can be customized and made according to the body shape.
"If you adults are interested in this kind of plate armor, you can ask me to order it. I will send someone to your house to customize it for you. You can also choose the decoration and style by yourself. Anything you can do can be customized.
"
The clothes worn by the soldiers are all industrial goods. They are punched out with a bang on the punch. The clothes are not very suitable, and they are made of a few fixed numbers that can be worn by people of high, short, fat or thin.
For these officials, it cannot be like this. It is the same as the luxury cars of later generations. From the materials to the craftsmanship and the design, they are all customized. The leather lining and the patterns on the metal surface are all optional. Price
That's how it's added. Each item has its own price.
This is a business, and it is a business that makes a lot of money. As long as a military attache has the ability, he will usually buy some sophisticated weapons and armors. These weapons shops can provide them. After all, these are life-saving things on the battlefield.
Even the civil servants are very tempted. Nowadays, civil servants often supervise divisions. There are also many civil servants in the army. The chief officers such as Bingbeidao in local military towns are civil servants. They also have the need to buy armor.
In addition to the material, production process, and design of the armor, the decoration on the outside is also a big deal. You can use gold and silver, inlay gemstones, use your own family logo, emblems, your favorite patterns, etc.
As soon as Yang Fan finished speaking, the governors and generals started talking buzzingly. These people are all leaders, and everyone knows that a good set of equipment is a life-saving thing on the battlefield. A stomach made of steel, this kind of
Who doesn’t want good things?
Li Banghua glared at Yang Fan with dissatisfaction. Today, we are discussing the equipment issue of the Beijing camp, not a market where Yang sells his weapons and armor. His Majesty was looking through Yang Fan's armor album carefully. He looked very
Favorite expression.
Seeing that His Majesty was tempted to order a pair of luxurious plate armor, Li Banghua coughed and told everyone not to digress. Solve one problem in one meeting. Don't discuss issues unrelated to the meeting.
"Uncle Dingyuan, I don't care what material your armor and stomach are made of. I only care about one thing, which is its defensive power. If the defensive power is not good, no matter how good the craftsmanship is, I will not agree to purchase it from the Ministry of War.
"Li Banghua said.
"Master Li, how do you think it is necessary to prove the defensive power of my armors?"
"This is quite simple. First, let's see how well these armors defend against arrows. Let's take Jiannu's big bow as an example to test the defensive capabilities against bows and arrows." Li Banghua said.
Yang Fan nodded indifferently. The two-millimeter carburized steel plate had a stiff structure to enhance rigidity. It also had a curved surface designed to be used for ricochet. He was not worried at all about defending against Jiannu's big bow. If even this
If he can't defend himself, why is he wasting his time doing this?
"In addition, since the old slave leader Nurhachi started his army, the Jiannu have seized too many firearms from our Ming Dynasty. We have to test the firearms they have in their hands to see if they can penetrate them."
As soon as Li Banghua finished speaking, people around him started talking. It was obvious that Li Banghua was deliberately making things difficult. None of the armors of the Ming Dynasty could defend against Jiannu's big bow at close range.
After all, Qing bows were the highest peak in the history of Chinese bow and arrow development. Large bows with heavy arrows, super strong pulling force, shovel-shaped arrows and triangular pyramidal armor-piercing arrows at close range had unprecedented lethality. I was a little suspicious for a while.
Can steel armor stop it?
Li Shangshu even wanted to shoot with firearms, which was even more difficult.
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