Although the imperial court had not made preparations, Jinan had already begun various pre-war preparations, from building several small earthen fortresses to the placement of artillery. Of course, the reason was very simple - to use the winter leisure to recruit people to serve as corvees and to serve as officials.

Even the rural soldiers began to gather for training under the pretext of winter leisure. In short, winter leisure became the only excuse.

Although the outside world didn't know it, people who were close to the prince like Liang Minghai always knew some rumors, so Liang Minghai told the prince what he had been suppressing for many days.

"Your Majesty, when I went to the warehouse to pull the cannon a while ago, I saw a lot of iron cabinets idle there. Those iron cabinets are all made of fine steel."

Iron cabinet?

Hearing this, Zhu Guoqiang was stunned for a moment, and then remembered what he said.

"Oh, you mean those collections...iron cabinets, what's wrong?"

They were just some railway containers. In order to facilitate the "transportation" of scattered materials, Zhu Guoqiang spent a lot of effort to find that the specifications of the 10-ton railway container were similar to the size restrictions of the materials being transported. These days, containers are used to transport materials.

However, I had never considered the use of the container. After he reminded me, it was indeed a bit difficult.

"I think the fine steel sitting there is a bit of a waste. If it can be used to make armor, it would be a good idea!"

"armor?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, it's armor. Although we have nearly 20,000 sets of armor from captured slaves, if we really fight, we have almost 100,000 men. This armor is still somewhat lacking, so I think we might as well use those fine steels.

Made into armor."

Build armor!

Liang Minghai's suggestion immediately brought a picture to Zhu Guoqiang's mind - plate armor!

Container steel plate!

That is an excellent material for making plate armor!

After he reminded him like this, Zhu Guoqiang realized that he seemed to have fallen into a misunderstanding. Recently, he had been focusing on the construction of cannons, muskets and other armaments, and even ordered musket parts from another world... But firearms are easy to make.

, but training to use firearms, especially training officers to use firearms, is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process.

And providing muskets for 100,000 people is also a big project. Although musket parts can be ordered from another world and assembled here, it would only cost 100,000 people...the risk is too great.

Now being reminded by Liang Minghai, Zhu Guoqiang suddenly realized that it was a waste to put those containers there. Besides, he really needed armor here. After all, hand-to-hand combat was inevitable at this time. Wearing a bright armor was definitely better than

It's even scarier to hold a musket.

"Armor, um, not bad. Narumi, your suggestion is good. I think it's okay. However, this armor can't be made casually. I think... well, I'll let the craftsmen in the factory make it according to the drawings.

A new style of Western-style armor!”

The so-called "Western armor" is naturally plate armor.

You don't even need to search for the drawings of plate armor, you can easily find a complete set of drawings online.

The drawings are ready, and so are the tools - there are ready-made hydraulic hammers at the factory, and even steel plates are in large quantities. Not only are there dozens of 1.5 mm to 2 mm thick cold-rolled steel plates on railway containers available for disassembly

, as long as Zhu Guoqiang is willing, he can buy hundreds of tons of cold-rolled steel plates from the market at any time.

The only problem is how to use it…

"Armor, heavy infantry..."

He was staring at the piece of iron armor in the room that was captured from a self-inflicted slave, and then turned his attention to another set of plate armor bought from Taobao. This set of armor was used as a sample.

Zhu Guoqiang said to himself.

"In the future, I will also use heavy infantry to defeat heavy infantry?"

The reason why Zhu Guoqiang is so six is ​​because unlike many people's imagination, the Eight Banners of Jiannu, known as the "Mandarin Cavalry and Shooting", have continuously strengthened their armaments since their inception, especially the armor protection of heavy infantry.

Under the city, 20,000 pieces of armor were actually seized, which shows the high armor rate of the Eight Banners Army. The heavy armored infantry among them was second to none on the East Asian continent in this era. The heavy armor they used was very powerful against the Ming army's firearms.

And bows and arrows, both have good protective effects.

To fight against it, you must have your own large-scale heavy armored infantry force. Of course, this is not the only option. In fact, Zhu Guoqiang can choose muskets and use large-caliber muskets to fight armor. In fact, in Europe at this time,

Plate armor is on the verge of being eliminated.

In fact, the birth of plate armor is actually very embarrassing. It's a bit like a martial arts master who has practiced hard for thirty years and achieved unparalleled martial arts. On the way down the mountain, he beat a few slimes and bandits with kitchen knives. He walked into the city in high spirits and found various masters.

They were all playing with matchlocks... He used all his life's knowledge to catch two pistol bullets, and the third one flew in. It was fired by the heavy Musket, a master of the generation - Su.

"But the canned soldiers are scary!"

While talking to himself, the image of a phalanx of thousands of canned soldiers appeared in Zhu Guoqiang's mind. The appearance of such canned soldiers on the battlefield would have a great deterrent effect on the people of the Ming Dynasty in this era, and even

No need to imagine at all.

When thousands of "canned soldiers" appear on the land of Qilu, those people will be shocked. The effect is definitely not comparable to thousands of muskets, not to mention that in hand-to-hand combat, troops equipped with heavy armor often have

An unparalleled advantage. Even the musketeers will eventually need to defeat the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Of course, the more important point is that now our officers are more familiar with cold weapon combat.

"Actually, use "canned soldiers" to fight hand-to-hand, to... get into battle?"

Trapped?

When this word came to mind, Zhu Guoqiang naturally thought of the Three Kingdoms' trap camp. This unique army had a small number of people, but it fought extremely bravely.

"The more than 700 soldiers we command are numbered as a thousand. Their armors are all well-equipped and well-organized. Every attack is broken. They are called 'trapped camp'... Tsk tsk, that's right, that's right..."

Tapping on the Taobao version of the plate armor, Zhu Guoqiang's eyes narrowed into slits.

"It's not impossible to fall into the formation. Why do we have to use muskets and spears? What if we use muskets to shoot from a distance, and then use canned soldiers to fall into the formation?"

At this moment, a picture seemed to appear in front of his eyes. The picture was very exciting. Thousands of "canned soldiers" charged into the formation, killing Buddha when Buddha blocked it, and God when God blocked it. That scene was really

…

In this era, these "can soldiers" wearing plate armor made of high-quality cold-rolled steel plates from the 21st century are absolutely unimpeded on the battlefield, and can even be said to be invincible.

After all, ordinary bows, arrows and muskets are basically ineffective unless they are at close range. They are not "canned soldiers", they are clearly a group of "human tanks" from the seventeenth century!

"When the time comes, this will be my tank unit!..."

Zhu Guoqiang, who was immersed in that scene, touched the silver plate armor and said to himself,

"You all just stand there obediently...let the brains chop off your heads!"

Just when he was excited, the voice outside the door interrupted his thoughts.

"Your Majesty, there is news coming from the capital."

Before Shi Lei even entered the room, a voice came in.
Chapter completed!