Chapter 717: A simplified and reduced version of plate armor
Thousands of morning glows illuminated the hillsides and dense forests in a golden glow. Not far away, the Yangtze River rolled eastward, and the mighty water passed under Niuzhuji and hit the rocks, making a whimpering echo.
Changsun Chong stood at the edge of the dense forest, gritting his teeth with hatred as he looked at the Shanyue people lying or lying next to him who were still snoring. Such a group of trash like dolphins and dogs, they only know how to eat and do nothing to produce. They swarmed in during the robbery but made no progress or retreat.
If you don't understand etiquette, morality, and do not respect ethical standards, you are simply wasting food! No wonder you have been incompatible with the world for generations, and have been expelled to fend for yourself in the deep mountains, dense forests, barren mountains and rivers. You are really to blame!
If I hadn't disappeared from the court, I would have brought troops to kill them all to give time to get rid of this scabies!
That Commander-in-Chief of the Shanyue Sect, who only has muscles but no brains, is also unreasonable. He keeps saying that he does not want to attack the mountain to kill Fang Jun, and does not want his tribe to die in vain, but don’t you know that if you are not regarded as the best candidate to take the blame?
How could the Jiangnan nobles allow the mountains to rise up and wreak havoc on Xuanzhou?
If I don’t kill Fang Jun, what use will you have?
Kill Fang Jun and make him useless!
No matter what, there is only a dead end in front of him, but he doesn't know it, and he still wants to send troops to plunder Danyang. It is simply greedy and stupid!
Looking up at the top of the mountain, Changsun sneered inwardly and was not anxious.
I really didn’t expect that Fang Jun was just being straightforward
Only a hundred or so men in the territorial area were able to repel several charges from the Shanyue people. It seemed that this stick's victory in two battles with the Turkic Wolf Cavalry in the Western Region was not a fluke. The means of leading troops were indeed better than his own.
But so what?
Aren't you trapped to death and about to become a lamb to be slaughtered?
Do you think that if you stick to this place, you can stand still and wait for help? How naive! Almost all the Jiangnan nobles have formed a tacit understanding. Not only will they never let each prefecture and county send a single soldier for rescue, they will also send out soldiers raised by their respective clans to die.
Come here, be sure to kill Fang Jun here, and give a shock to the Dukes of the imperial court!
Jiangnan is the Jiangnan of the Jiangnan nobles. Even the emperor cannot get involved in robbing the interests of the Jiangnan nobles!
Changsun Chong does not agree with the ambitions of the Jiangnan nobles, and even dismisses them. If you let you be arrogant for a while, you have really forgotten how your Majesty started his career, how he rose to power, and how he established his position in the world?
When His Majesty is forced to raise the butcher's knife to bury his ideals, the Jiangnan gentry will face a bloody purge. Changsun Chong is extremely sure! What a pity, he is now a bereaved dog, a lonely ghost, and important affairs of the court are still with him.
What does it matter?
Thinking of this, Changsun Chong reached out and pressed the saber on his waist, his eyes filled with hatred! He didn't care what the fate of the Jiangnan nobles would be, let alone whether the Shanyue people would be annihilated in the river of history, he only wanted Fang Jun's
Head!
Suddenly there was a "ding-dong-dang" sound in his ears. Changsun Chong listened carefully. The source of the sound seemed to be the top of the mountain. Are they forging iron? He looked at the top of the mountain attentively, but the morning sun was dazzling, and his eyes were filled with dazzling lights. The distance was dizzy.
It's also a bit far away and you can't see clearly what's going on at the top of the mountain.
Changsun Chong suddenly felt guilty. Fang Jun might be a little impatient when it came to business, but he would often come up with some fantastic ideas and surprise people with his extraordinary skills.
Could it be that this kid is up to something else?
Changsun Chong was a little uneasy. Although he was sure that the nearby states and counties could not send soldiers to rescue him, the night was long and he had many dreams, so he had to kill this kid quickly to feel relieved! But looking around, he saw that the dead soldiers from various families gathered around him were not at ease.
There are many, and most of them are crossbowmen, and there is a lack of heavy armored infantry. Crossbowmen are good at sniping, but if they are used to attack fortresses, they do not have much advantage. Now the soldiers and dead soldiers sent by various families are arriving in an endless stream.
As long as you wait a few more days, you will definitely be able to attack the uphill slope in one go and kill Fangjun with your own hands!
Suppressing the anxiety in his heart, Changsun Chong could only wait. If he did not have an absolute advantage to ensure that he could kill Fang Jun in one fell swoop, and if he found a loophole to break out with the strength of his cavalry, all his plans would be in vain...
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Fang Jun on the mountain naturally didn't know what Changsun Chong was thinking, and he didn't know that his angry father had already used his power as prime minister to mobilize his officials to start a game with the Jiangnan nobles. He was now fully devoted to the fun of blacksmithing and farming...
The iron ingots smelted in the iron-making furnace have not yet cooled down. They are a soft mass with a dark red color. They are clamped by iron pliers and placed on the anvil. The huge hydraulic forging hammer is pushed by water power, raised high, and then quickly dropped down.
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"when"
The huge forging hammer carries huge kinetic energy and hits the soft iron ingot hard. The oval iron ingot suddenly deflates. The forging hammer keeps falling, sparks fly everywhere, and the blacksmith holds the iron pliers to stir the iron.
The ingot constantly adjusted the focus point of the forging hammer, and in a moment the original iron ingot turned into a large, thin, rectangular piece of iron with concave and convex curvature.
The blacksmith felt the thickness of the iron piece, removed it with satisfaction, and replaced it with another iron ingot to continue hammering...
Another blacksmith took the large iron piece and used a very hard steel drill to drill holes in the four corners of the iron piece with a hammer. He passed a thin piece of leather through it and connected it with a previous patch of similar shape.
A soldier next to him had been standing there for a long time, letting the blacksmith pick up these two pieces of iron and put them on his body...it immediately became a pair of armor.
It's just that this armor is completely different from the previous fish scale armor or Mingguang armor. The front and back of the body are a complete iron plate. The protective power is not weak, but the flexibility is much worse.
Half of the more than a hundred craftsmen were blacksmiths. The blacksmiths were forging iron, and the rest were helping. Seven or eight hydraulic forging hammers were all started, and the sound of "ding-ding-ding-ding" was heard. Iron plates of different shapes were made, big or small, or flat.
Either convex, wide or narrow, each is shaped according to the drawings in front of you. The division of labor is clear and the speed is extremely fast.
On the other side, Fang Jun, Liu Rengui and Liu Renyuan, assembled iron sheets of various shapes and put them on a war horse that kept snoring.
"Master Marquis, you are simply... simply... a god!" Liu Rengui looked at the full vest on the war horse, and then looked back at the knights all equipped with iron armor around him. He simply couldn't think of any words to express his feelings.
Shocking!
Liu Renyuan next to him had twinkling eyes, looking at Fang Jun with a look of astonishment!
How did Mr. Hou grow up with such a brain?
Just after a short sleep, you can actually come up with such an easy way to make a complete set of cavalry heavy armor?
Fang Junze remained aloof throughout the whole process, making people feel increasingly enigmatic...
But I feel very proud in my heart. Are you shocked by this? Haha, you idiot, it is just a simplified and reduced version of European plate armor...
Cavalry equipped with fish scale armor and other armors are called "armored cavalry". There is no reason why cavalry equipped with plate armor shouldn't be the same, right?
The upper body of the plate armor is the main body, called the breastplate. The front, chest and back are a whole plate. The arms are two plates, the upper arm plate and the lower arm plate. They are connected at the elbow joint and are not a whole tube. The focus is on protecting the front.
, there is a gap in the back. The lower body is divided into several parts. The thighs, calves, knees, and insteps have protective plates respectively. However, there are no protective plates on the inner thighs and behind the buttocks, above the bend of the knees, because if protective plates are added to these places, there will be no protective plates.
I couldn't ride a horse or move around.
Plate armor has been deified by many people and is said to be invulnerable. In fact, it has as many disadvantages as advantages, and it is not difficult to make. The key difficulty is the quality of the iron material and the hydraulic forging hammer. Without high-quality iron material, it is difficult to make it.
To produce perfectly curved parts, there is no hydraulic forging hammer... If you rely on human power, you will not be able to hammer out the two pieces of iron on the chest and back even if you are tired of vomiting blood!
Of course, it was impossible for Fang Jun to create a perfect plate armor in a hurry. The edges of the iron plate were rough and he would cut himself from time to time. The curvature of the breastplate was uneven, swelling up and deflating at the same time. Each component was handmade and varied in size.
The shape is uneven...
Use one word to describe the resulting plate armor: ugly!
However, it is more than enough to face the Shanyue people and the dead soldiers of various major families. The threat of crossbowmen to armored cavalry is very small, and the dead soldiers of major families, no matter how powerful they are, cannot
Resist the charge of the armored cavalry. As long as there are no heavy armored infantry, the simple and reduced version of the armored cavalry created by Fang Jun is invincible - in fact, the Tang Dynasty did not have many organized heavy armored infantry.
Fang Jun believed that as long as he was given three days, he could equip more than fifty armored cavalry, enough to crush the enemies at the foot of the mountain!
In fact, Fang Jun's troops have always relied on their superior equipment to crush the enemy and win the victory. In the two battles, the Turkic Wolf Cavalry relied on the powerful power of firearms and surprise to win. Now they are facing the Shanyue people and the major forces.
A coalition of soldiers sent by aristocratic families, the plate armor has become an unexpected and powerful presence...