There was a house next to it, the sound of clanging and banging was endless, and the two of them who were standing next to the carriage glanced at Xiao Han, walked closer first, and pushed the door in.

Inside the house, several stone platforms are dotted, and on each side there are strong craftsmen busy, and in their hands the iron rings are like the needle and thread of a skilled tailor, which are joined together in a very ingenious way, supplemented by a sledgehammer, which seems to be tedious.

Looking down further, under each stone platform, there is also an old rattan basket, which contains several pieces of dark armor, which looks like it has been completed.

Li Shimin was happy to see the hunt, ignoring the curious eyes of those craftsmen, strode over, lifted a armor from the basket, shook it off casually, and suddenly, a delicate chain mail appeared in front of him.

And this is where Xiao Han makes chain mail!

Speaking of which, chain mail was not the first creation of Xiao Han, as early as a long time ago, just after entering the Iron Age, there was already the original form of chain mail.

Because it can be bent at will, and the knife is not broken, the arrow is not injured, and the key is not to hinder people's movements, so it is still a common armor molestation on the battlefield in the past.

However, later, stabbing weapons such as lances and spears were equipped with a large number of armies, and chain mail, which was not very good at defending against such sharp piercing weapons, gradually declined, and its cost was too high, and then only a small amount of equipment and fast scouts were used.

Li Shimin has been in battle for a long time, and he is no stranger to all kinds of weapons, just at a glance, he found that the chain mail in his hand is not quite the same as before.

Holding it in front of his eyes and looking at it carefully, he frowned, casually pulled out his hand blade from his waist, put the chain mail on the stone platform, and stabbed it hard!

I only heard a very crisp metal symphony, and there were sparks on the short blade! It can be seen that Xiao Lizi is definitely using his strength this time!

Slowly lift the knife and take a closer look at it in front of your eyes!

There is a gap the size of a grain of rice on this extremely sharp self-defense blade that can almost blow out hair! The distressed Li Shimin's eyebrows are about to stand up!

Looking down again, the chain mail was only a white mark on it, but other than that, it was unharmed!

"Wow! What kind of iron is this, so strong! Xue Shui gasped and coldly died, pointed to the chain mail and asked the craftsman who was standing on the side with his hands down.

The craftsman had long seen that these two strangely dressed young men had extraordinary backgrounds, and didn't they see that their own marquis was honestly following behind?

Now listening to this person's question, he hurriedly bowed his hand first, and then said: "If you go back to your lordship, this is a hundred steel, which is refined by my lord's master and all the masters, especially hard!" ”

"Particularly hard?" Li Shimin and Xue Shu glanced at each other, and nodded at the same time, if it wasn't hard, it wouldn't have broken all the weapons it used to defend itself!

"Can this be used as a weapon?" Xiao Lizi then asked, maybe it is a common problem of generals, they always think that offense is more important than defense, with such good steel, wouldn't it be a waste not to make weapons?

The craftsman shook his head honestly and said, "I'm afraid this won't work, it's very hard, but the weapon made is too heavy, and it has no toughness, so it's not practical, but it's very suitable for use as chain mail!" ”

Li Shimin was a little disappointed, looking at the armor was like looking at a bowl of rotten meat, and said regretfully: "What's the use of being suitable, chain mail can't stop the horse lance at all, wearing this to the battlefield is almost equivalent to looking for death!" ”

"Neither nor not!" The craftsman smiled, twisted a small iron ring from the stone platform and sent it to Li Shimin, and said, "My lord, please see, the iron ring we have here is not an ordinary iron ring!" It has a cut at the end of the end, and after it is strung together, it is hammered with a sledgehammer, as if it were one! Even if you pierce it with a spear, it won't be stretched open like the previous chain mail! ”

"Really?" Xue Shui and Li Shimin almost screamed, and hurriedly grabbed the iron ring and carefully held it in the palm of their hands to see!

Everyone knows that the biggest drawback of chain mail is that the power of each iron ring is not great! Being pierced by something like a spear often stretches the iron ring open, so that even if the iron ring is cut again, it is useless, and people are stabbed to death, and it really doesn't make much sense to cut it or not......

"Don't dare to deceive adults!" When the craftsman talked about his achievements, he immediately changed to a different person, and said with a big grin: "Don't say it's a spear!" A while ago, we experimented with our pigs! It's to put chain mail on the pig, and then shoot it with *, and guess what? ”

"The result?" Li Shimin and Xue Shui asked in unison!

The craftsman touched his beard and laughed: "Haha, just the chain mail I knocked on, I was hit head-on, and the crossbow arrows that could even be pierced by cement were stuck by a layer of armor, and the arrows were all blocked and crooked, stuck on the armor, and I couldn't take it off!" ”

"So powerful?" Li Shimin was speechless, and asked again: "What about the pig?" Is it okay? ”

"Ahem......"

Before the craftsman could speak, Xiao Han in the back coughed twice in time, stepped forward and said to the two: "That, don't worry about the pig, it will die in one go, clean and neat!" ”

Li Shimin and Xue Shui were stunned for a moment, and muttered, "Didn't you say that the arrow was blocked?" How can you still die? ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Han was a little irritable, raised his hand and pulled Li Shimin and walked out: "You don't know what kind of crossbow experiment they are taking, they just want to open meat at all, so they did this experiment!" Well, I'll show you the crossbow, and you'll know! ”

"Hey, slow down, what kind of crossbow are you showing us? Didn't you send it*? Li Shimin and Xue Shui were a little confused.

When he was in the barracks a while ago, Xiao Han brought some * with him when he sent the black armor, which was short in appearance, but extremely powerful!

As for the iron-clad wooden shield commonly used in the army, it can be directly penetrated within ten steps! Mingguang armor couldn't hold that guy, making a group of generals lose their minds for a while.

If it weren't for the letter saying that it was extremely complicated and time-consuming, the people watching at that time really wanted to throw an order of 10,000 to Xiao Han!

Xiao Han didn't explain, buried his head and walked forward, and the two of them followed Xiao Han to a river with puzzlement, where there was a strange house with a cement plate.

Knocking on the iron door, Xiao Han walked into this strange house like a tomb first, although Li Shimin was a little strange, he still followed him with his head down.

The room was a little dark, and Xue Shui and Li Shimin, who had just come in, got used to it for a while, and only then did they see the furnishings in the room clearly.

It's very simple, or it can be said that there are no furnishings, in this strange circular room, except for the rows of long windows, there is only an iron guy that resembles the eight-point crossbow!

"It's ......*! How is it so big! After their eyes adjusted to the darkness in the room, Li Shimin and Xue Shu's eyes almost popped out!

Also, anyone who sees this crossbow for the first time, which is not fancy, and every trace is full of steel art, is not surprised!

This is Xiao Han's*! Based on the eight-ox crossbow, the whole body is cast from steel! The weight alone is a thousand pounds! Just to make it move, Xiao Han had to put a lot of effort into it, if it wasn't for the successful development of the bearing, it would be a waste, and no one would want a weapon that needed two horses to pull!

The one in front of me, because it was placed in the outpost, was canceled and replaced with a rotatable turf.

The recurved bow arm pressed by three pieces of spring steel, and the steel wire as thick as chopsticks are full of wild power and beauty!

Its power is so great! Whoever controls it needs to wear special protective gear to control it! And for it, it can only be used with a pulley block and a ratchet!

That's not all, in order to exert its maximum power, the masters in the Zhuangzi used each set* with different crossbow arrows!

There are large arrows the thickness of a single thigh, there are also arms thick arrows in a group of three, and there are even thinner scattered arrows, among them, several iron pieces in the shape of a waning moon are extremely ferocious! An excitation, the trajectory of the movement is unpredictable! And it's powerful enough to cut off the bodies of several people without exhaustion.

If you put it in a dense army formation, you can imagine that once it is launched, the crowd on the opposite side is like a plough, and a path of flesh and blood is cut out raw, with stumps and broken arms everywhere, and blood flying everywhere, although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, just thinking about it makes people shudder!