After seeing the rain of arrows shot by his own side enveloping Jiang Ningwei's cavalry, Xu Hongji and the others were all overjoyed, and Lu Jianshen laughed excitedly: "Okay...... Shoot the thieves...... Shoot them! ”

But they were too happy, and the rain of arrows they had high hopes for was set on the cavalry that launched those Jiang Ningwei, and all of them were bounced out of the armor on their bodies, and occasionally one or two unlucky horses were shot and galloped desperately.

Seeing such a scene, Xu Hongji muttered in disbelief: "How is this possible, Yang Feng is willing to equip them with iron armor all of them?" How much silver does it take? ”

In addition to the hereditary title of Duke of Wei, Xu Hongji also held the position of Governor of Nanjing and Garrison of Nanjing, and as the person who commanded almost all the soldiers and horses in Nanjing, he knew very well how much material and financial resources it would take to equip so many cavalry with iron armor.

If you want to make a set of armor or weapons, you first need to get a large amount of fine iron. Because in various materials, pig iron is hard but too brittle, wrought iron and too soft, so these things are not suitable, and the only suitable for armor is steel, of course, people in this era are used to calling steel fine iron.

In this era, because metallurgical technology was still very underdeveloped, the price of steel was very expensive. Taking Wanli as an example, the price of a pound of wrought iron is about one and a half cents of silver, and to make a body of armor (cotton armor), it takes fifteen catties of iron (waist armor, about 8 catties to be built) to thirty catties (the whole armor is about 24 catties to 36 catties after the completion of the build), so the price of the most ordinary cotton armor needs about five taels of silver.

But please don't forget that the above armor is only made of wrought iron, if you use fine iron (that is, steel), then the price has to be at least ten times higher, for example, the most famous Su steel in the Ming Dynasty needs one pound of silver one or eight cents of silver, yes, you heard it right, the price of a pound of Suzhou steel is more expensive than silver.

Therefore, if you want to make an armor made of pure iron (steel), the cost alone is at least fifty taels of silver, plus war horses, harnesses, sabers, firearms, etc., and the equipment alone requires no less than two hundred and fifty taels of silver, plus the food consumed by the training cavalry and the food and salary for the cavalry, etc., the cost required is even more sea.

Here is an example, the most famous Tiefutu in the Jin State in the pre-Song Dynasty, this kind of heavy cavalry with heavy iron armor all over the body of both people and war horses was the most deterrent type of the Jin State at that time, it can be called a heavy tank in the era of cold weapons, both defense and attack power have reached the peak of heavy cavalry, but even so, with the strong national strength of the Jin State at that time, it can only afford to raise 5,000 Tiefutu, which shows the difficulty of supporting a heavy cavalry.

Xu Hongji has the Wei Mansion with a foundation of hundreds of years as a support, but it is only enough to support a thousand cavalry, so this cavalry is only equipped with cotton armor, but now he finds that the opponent's cavalry is all equipped with iron armor made of stainless steel, this discovery makes him so depressed that he almost vomits blood, is this Yang Feng already rich to this point?

Well, Xu Hongji's depression only lasted for a while, and then his eyes widened again, his two hands were tightly clenched, and his eyes were so stunned that the boss looked ahead, although he was startled by the sophisticated equipment of the Jiangning Wei cavalry, but he did not lose confidence, he was still very confident in the cavalry under his command, after all, this is a fist force that their Xu family has been operating for hundreds of years, and the cavalry inside has undergone long-term training, although they dare not compare with the Houjin army outside the gate who grew up on horseback, But he asked himself, in this one-third of an acre of land in the south of the Yangtze River, he was still not afraid of anyone.

"Rush up and kill them!"

With his hands clasped tightly, he looked at the two approaching cavalrymen, and his face turned red with excitement.

"Kill!"

Sure enough, as he expected, after the first round of arrow rain, the distance between the two sides was less than fifty meters, and the cavalrymen put their bows and arrows behind them, and used their weapons from the saddle to prepare for the most brutal duel between the cavalry, but the next scene greatly surprised them.

"Fire!"

I only heard a faint roar from the front, and a cavalryman led by the other party raised his arm flat, only to hear a crisp gunshot, accompanied by a puff of white smoke, dozens of cavalry who rushed to the front fell from their horses without saying a word, and were soon trampled into meat sauce by the war horses behind.

"Fire!"

After firing two shots in a row, Yang Daniu turned the three-eyed handcuff in his hand, pulled the bracket with the thumb of his right hand, and pulled the trigger with his index finger. With another crisp sound, a cavalryman less than twenty meters away from him was hit in the chest by a lead bullet with a huge impact, and the whole person flew upside down from the horse and smashed heavily into the body of a cavalryman behind him, and the two men rolled off their horses, and then disappeared into the rolling iron stream.

"Brothers, rush up and kill all these wretched!"

After running out of ammunition in the firecracker, Yang Daniu casually inserted the firearm back into his waist, pulled out the saber on his saddle and threw himself at an enemy soldier in front.

Here is a special mention, in order to improve the attack power of the only mobile force under his command, Yang Feng can be said to have put a lot of effort into it, he not only equipped each cavalry with a handcuff, but also deliberately asked Hang Weihu to carefully build a batch of sabers. This saber is imitated from the 65-style cavalry knife of later Huaxia, which is the first and last standard cavalry saber in later Huaxia.

This cavalry knife is 92.5 cm long, weighs 3.7 pounds, is made of stainless steel, the blade is chrome-plated, and the hardness is 54HRC. Yang Daniu still remembers how he couldn't put it down when he got this saber, and even pressed it under the pillow when he slept.

"Kill!"

Yang Da Niu waved the saber in his hand and swung his horse towards an oncoming enemy soldier, the heavy knife in the hand of the enemy soldier who was still wielding a long knife and just wanted to chop it down felt a cold neck, and then his eyes were dark, and a huge human head flew into the air.

"Bang ......"

The two war horses collided with each other, and the high-speed charging war horses and the cavalry on their bodies added up to hundreds of pounds, and the consequence of hitting each other was that even the people and horses fell to the ground. The cavalry behind did not give a second glance at the fallen companions, and they did not hesitate to wave their respective weapons and kill each other. The sound of slashing, scolding, screaming and the sound of fire guns sounded from time to time on the battlefield, and the cruelty and bloodiness of war were vividly reflected at this moment.

Looking at the cavalry in front of him, Xu Hongji's breathing began to become short, these cavalry were all accumulated by the Wei Mansion for generations, and now they are constantly dying like cheap consumables, which makes him feel that his heart is dripping blood.