Chapter 761

"I said General Chung, are you kidding me?" Wang Yang rolled his eyes very angry, and almost took off the pair of smelly shoes on his feet that had been wearing for three days and threw them onto Master Chun's face.

"Don't worry, Wang Wushan, Master, let me tell you what the method is?" Su Dongpo persuaded Wang Yang and then asked Master Zhong.

"Paper armor and cloth armor!" Master Zhong rubbed his hands with some excitement, and said loudly as if he was offering treasures. "Maybe I don't know that when my Song Dynasty armor was insufficient, I used paper and linen as armor for soldiers to wear it."

Wang Yang looked at Master Zhong very seriously, but his expression seemed to be trying to hit someone. "Dare you ask General Zhong, can these two armor tools work?"

"Of course it has effect, and its defense is definitely not inferior to iron armor at all. The important thing is that it is cheap and convenient. The only problem is that both armor tools cannot withstand water and moisture. After making it, if it encounters rainy season, it will probably rot or rot in less than two or three months..."

Now, Wang Yang and Su Dongpo's eyes lit up. Wang Yang rushed to the front of Master Zhong and asked. "It's true or false, no matter whether it's rotten or rotten, the important thing is that it can allow the soldiers to wear defensive armor to go to the battlefield to support it for a month or two."

"This is natural. By the way, I don't know if there is any inventory in the treasury in Huanzhou. Zang remembered that two years ago, we made a batch of paper armor on Shaanxi Road, but it was almost consumed later..."

"Hurry and ask someone to look for it. It would be better to be able to see the samples." Wang Yang quickly urged.

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However, even though it took a lot of people to find it, it took more than a time to find five pieces. Three of them had a bad smell of rotten mold, and the other two were better, but they had green hair on the surface.

"These are paper armors? Why are they so decayed like this..." Wang Yang took a few glances and quickly took a few steps back and breathed in the fresh air. The smell was really bad.

"Because this thing is prone to decay, I believe those who are in charge are not dedicated, but it is already very good to have samples." Mr. Zhong smiled helplessly.

Wang Yang looked at these decaying paper armors in detail, and while listening carefully to Master Zhong’s explanation, the weight of these paper armors can be said to be extremely light, and the weight of them will not exceed fifteen kilograms after one piece.

However, its defense is not inferior to iron armor at all. However, because it is made of pulp hammering, it cannot withstand moisture and rain, and is very easy to damage.

Therefore, generally speaking, it can only be used for emergency purposes.

But for Wang Yang today, he is just looking for something without any effort. After all, all Wang Yang needs is armor that can play a defensive role, no matter what material he is.

The production process of this paper armor is extremely simple, but there is a big problem that it requires paper and a large amount of paper.

"In the past, when we made paper armor, we mostly used waste paper and old books collected, after all, it was cheap. If we used new paper, one pound would cost about one hundred cents, and fifteen pounds would cost five."

"That's much cheaper than leather armor and iron armor. What's important is that general. You said that the production process of this armor is simple, so that's fine. Paper, can we have a paper mill in Shaanxi or Jingzhao Mansion?" Wang Yang made up his mind after just a little thought.

Isn’t it just money? As long as you can make large quantities of paper armor and provide enough protection for the soldiers, it is better than not having any armor.

"Of course there are nearly ten paper mills in Jingzhao Prefecture alone. You don't really want to use new paper to make them, right?" Su Dongpo said with a blowjob. It's all money. Besides, in this era, the main function of paper is to record text, which is one of the four treasures of the study.

If Wang Yang really wants to make tens of thousands of paper armor, then... Su Dongpo always feels uncomfortable.

But there is no other way to imagine. In the end, Su Dongpo had to bite the bullet and agree to Wang Yang, helping him collect paper and make paper armor to the greatest extent.

Only then did the official Wang breathe a sigh of relief. After resting in Huanzhou for a night, he rushed straight to Yanzhou as soon as the sky was dawn.

On the second day, Su Dongpo began to purchase papers from all over Shaanxi Road, whether it was pound or pound. In short, all the papers that could be collected were transported to Yanzhou.

The tens of thousands of soldiers who were staying in Yanzhou were holding big wooden hammers and bulging their chest muscles and waiting for the arrival of these papers. They would use the wind to sweep the remaining clouds to carry out a great leap forward-style refining, no...the big paper making armor to defend their country.

There are several ways to make paper armor. The most sturdy and durable one is to cut the paper into an inch square, and then fix it with nails after hammering it.

The simplest one is to mix paper with paste and other adhesives, then hammer it with a sledgehammer, and then hang it up and dry it in the sun.

However, the defense effect of this simple paper armor is naturally inferior to that of the cumbersome craftsmanship, but it can definitely defend against arrows. However, the defense of cutting weapons such as swords and axes is weaker, but it is more suitable for large-scale rapid manufacturing.

Whether it is body armor or arm armor, it can be made in this way, and two people can make at least five sets a day. Moreover, in Wang Yang's calculations, these armors were originally handed over to the wing army. As for those enemies who climbed the city wall, they still have to rely on elite border troops.

It is precisely because Wang Yang's appearance and main function is to defend against arrows and crossbows that this lightweight and easy-to-make paper armor is being made at a speed that is beyond the British and American.

What is even more fortunate is that this is the northwestern border of the Song Dynasty. It was originally dry and rainy and had plenty of sunshine, so paper armor was almost unaffected by the weather.

In addition, we need to thank those physically energetic Xixia prisoners for their hard work. It was with their overtime work that the cement straight road from Yanzhou to Huanzhou had been completed and the passage was started before the end of April.

This allowed a large amount of supplies to travel rapidly along this road between Yanzhou and Huanzhou. Trucks of paper were sent to Yanzhou. After unloading the car, they were directly sent to the armor-making station outside the city.

Well... the so-called armor-making institute is a group of big men carrying large wooden hammers, like smashing rice cakes, hammering the paper soaked with paste.

After hammering them tightly, hang them to dry. After almost drying, they start cutting and finally make pieces of Dasong paper armor with simple structure and very lightweight.

Although the paper armor looks a bit ugly, after testing, it can be completely defended against the shooting of bows and arrows and crossbows, which makes both Wang Yang and the wing soldiers who will wear this kind of paper armor to climb the city to guard the city in the future smile.

Although I don’t know why Wang Jingluo almost let all the wing soldiers in Yanzhou participate in the armor-making work like a chicken blood needle, it is better to have an armor on his side than nothing.
Chapter completed!