Su Xinghe smiled and said: "If junior brother said this in front of those ignorant and corrupt scholars in the Song Dynasty, they would inevitably be criticized by them. But it is the truth, it is just a thousand words and ten thousand, what is junior brother going to do?
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Murong Fu smiled mysteriously: "Let's take it one step at a time. Anyway, we have real money now. If we can use money to clear the way, isn't it difficult to solve the problem?"
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After Su Xinghe left with Xiao Lin Chaoying, Murong Fu returned to his disguised appearance.
Murong Fu walked to the back hall and gently knocked on the wall of a room a few times. The wall made regular and rhythmic sounds. The sound showed that it was obviously empty.
After a while, the partition wall parted on both sides, and a secret room appeared in front of Murong Fu.
The secret room was not big, and there was nothing else in it except for something hanging on a shelf.
What was placed on the shelf was a pair of armor.
This set of armor is quite impressive in terms of shape. It is a typical Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty. On a lion belt, a huge animal head is majestic, as if it is ready to attack at any time. There are two shoulders, one on the left and one on the right.
There are also two lion heads attached to the shoulders on the armor. The entire set of armor is divided into three layers to achieve the ultimate in protection. It is a typical heavy armor, but it weighs less than forty pounds, which is lighter and thinner than many medium armors.
The thin nails reflected a chilling light under the candlelight.
Murong Fu flicked his index finger and shot out a weak sword energy. With a "stab" sound, the sword energy, which could break gold and jade, sliced through the breastplate. It only opened a hole in the outermost armor surface, but the one inside
There isn't even a single scratch on the armor.
An ordinary sword would have been broken by this blow, but this seemingly very thin armor could block a blow from Shang Yang Sword!
This is the cold forged armor of Xixia.
The armor is much thinner than the armor of the Great Song Dynasty, and has stronger protective power. A single layer of armor can effectively resist the Song army's armor-piercing arrows from a distance of fifty steps.
As for other standard equipment of the Song Army, such as straight knives, they cannot even break armor unless they are repeatedly struck at the same place on the armor surface. However, it is not easy to hit the opponent once on the battlefield.
It is basically impossible to hit the same spot multiple times.
Different from the cold-forged armor worn by ordinary Xixia cavalry, in which the armor pieces were tied with twine, the armor in front of Murong Fu actually had extremely fine gold wires connecting the armor pieces. It was luxurious and at the same time,
The armor's defense has been raised to a higher level.
Of course, the armor of ordinary Xixia cavalry cannot be so luxurious and finely made, but its defensive performance is far better than the standard armor of the Song Army.
From this point of view, the opening sentence of "The Theory of Six Kingdoms": The six kingdoms were destroyed because of the lack of troops and lack of war. It is somewhat wishful thinking. Regardless of the six kingdoms, at least the Song Dynasty was really disadvantaged by troops and lack of war.
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In the Battle of Song and Xia in the past, 20,000 Song infantry were rushed to pieces by the Xixia heavy cavalry wearing cold-forged armor at Haoshuichuan, and the entire army was wiped out. The defeat in the Battle of Haoshuichuan made Song Renzong completely give up his plan to conquer Xixia
, in the end, in exchange for spending money to buy peace, Xixia canceled the title of emperor in name.
Murong Fu went all the way to Xixia to work for people. One of the important reasons was that he wanted to integrate into the Xixia army to acquire Xixia's unique cold-forged armor technology in this era.
This set of extremely luxurious cold-forged armor was a reward for Murong Fu's military exploits in the First Grade Hall. When Murong Fu got this armor, he was ecstatic, thinking that he could use this armor to crack the Western Xia cold-forged armor.
Secret, thereby creating a heavy armored cavalry that could run rampant in the Song Dynasty.
Murong Fu even used his "money power" to poach a Xixia craftsman and returned to the Song Dynasty to imitate it using the same process.
However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. The cold-forged armor produced by the same process in the Song Dynasty became Orange-born Huaibei - the forged armor is not only thicker than the original armor, but also brittle and has better protective power than the Song Dynasty.
The army's standard armor is still a little short of that.
Murong Fu was puzzled at first and thought it was the craftsman who was hiding something. The Xixia craftsmen swore and swore to prove their loyalty before getting rid of the suspicion. After some research, Murong Fu came to the conclusion that the source of all this was the raw materials.
Not pass.
According to the view of later generations, Xixia at this time had a high-grade magnetite under the Helan Mountain. After refining this special iron ore, it could obtain the highest quality pig iron in the world at that time. Although the overall output was not high, it
It is more than enough to supply a heavy armored cavalry force of several thousand people.
The heavy armored cavalry that annihilated the Song army at Sanchuankou has a well-known name of "Iron Kites".
However, before Murong Fu could manage to transport the pig iron from Xixia to the Song Dynasty, a series of changes occurred, and Murong Fu's cold-forged armor was completely lost.
Murong Fu stretched out his fingers, and his fingertips grazed the smooth armor surface, and a slight chill came through his fingertips. Looking at this majestic armor, a complicated color flashed in Murong Fu's eyes, and he didn't know he was thinking.
What.
After Murong Fu finished arresting him, a moment later, the handsome young man in brocade clothes disappeared. What was left behind was a tall, armored general. A majestic general. The cold light of the armor was matched with the zombie-like stiffness.
The face is intimidating.
From this moment on, Murong Fu completely assumed the role of Li Yanzong.
Murong Fu took out the sword from his waist and held it in the palm of his hand for a closer look: As for why he used the sword, it was naturally to cover up his martial arts skills, so as not to be seen by people who often used swords and expose his identity.
After everything was prepared, Murong Fu walked out of the secret room. At this time, a white dove happened to land on the edge of the window and was flapping its wings.
There is a small bamboo tube tied to the pigeon's right foot.
Yipintang special homing pigeon.
It seemed that Yipintang already knew that he was back because he had made such a big fuss before.
Murong Fu untied the letter from the pigeon's feet, took out a small handful of dried pine nuts and fed them to the pigeon. The pigeon rubbed its head affectionately on Murong Fu's hand a few times, happily ate the pine nuts, and then fluttered its wings and left.
Murong Fu unfolded the small piece of paper, and there was a line written in Xixia script on it: Come to the front of the palace to discuss matters.
There is no signature, just a simple line of text.
Murong Fu sneered: Helian Tieshu, I want to see what you, an old boy, want to do?
When Li Qiu Shui was in charge of the First Grade Hall before, Helian Tieshu was only issuing orders to the First Grade Hall as the highest official in name. In fact, he was executing Li Qiu Shui's will. Now that Li Qiu Shui is gone, Helian Tieshu, who holds a high position in Xixia,