Cloth armor is also armor, and like the giant armor, it is a molded armor, and it should be worn on the body as if it were a garment. The color of the cloth is gray, because it is cloth, the surface of the armor not only does not have the luster of the armor, but looks dull in the sun.

Before Wang Jian and the others, Wang Ben grabbed a set of cloth armor in his hand, staggered, twisted again, and finally simply pulled out his huge sword and poked and twisted the cloth armor in his hand. Seeing this, Sima Wuze stepped forward and said, "The general tried his armor, and it should be like this." ”

Sima Wuze raised a set of cloth armor at Wang Ben and said, "Please stab me with a sword in both hands." ”

Slashing, with great force and heavy power, is often regarded as the most powerful means of attack by the common people who have not been in battle. Thorns, only a little bit, and because the thorns have to recover the blade, they appear slower and make people feel that they are not powerful enough. But those who came down from the battlefield knew that if none of the thorns could penetrate, the slash would have no effect. For the same piece of leather armor, the kinetic energy of piercing the leather armor is only half of the kinetic energy of cutting through the leather armor.

Sima Wuze asked Wang Ben to hold the sword with both hands and stab each other, just to illustrate the tenacity of the cloth armor. Wang Ben was also not polite, he felt that this kind of cloth armor was not like leather armor, and if it was leather armor, he would have pierced it. The cloth armor sounds thinner than the leather armor, but Shaofu doesn't know how this kind of cloth armor is made, and it is so weird. Wang Ben tried the armor, Wang Jian and the generals watched from the side, and they also wanted to know how strong this cloth armor was.

'Hey', Wang Ben, who was holding a huge sword, snorted and stabbed a sword at Bu Jia. Sima Wuze didn't dodge when he saw him stabbing him, but instead raised his cloth armor to meet him. There was no loud noise, not even a sound, and the tip of the sword stabbed hard into the cloth armor and penetrated deep into it. Sima Wuze quickly turned a position, and the cloth armor was facing Wang Jian and the others, and the generals saw that the tip of the sword only pierced the cloth armor, but did not pierce the cloth armor.

I can't even pierce a bunch of rags! Wang Ben was extremely annoyed, and he shouted angrily: "Come again!" "After that, draw your sword and retreat a few steps, and you will stab again. Ye Tunnel knew what he was going to do, and immediately said: "Dare to ask the general, is the Jing people breaking the spear and armor?" ”

A sprint is not the same as a lunge. Wang Ben was ready to sprint, and the strength of his whole body was pressed on the sword, not to mention the Shaofu cloth armor, even the Chu army's armor would be punctured, so Ye Tunnel immediately asked. Wang Ben was stunned for a moment, and Wang Jian said: "Rushing the spear to break through?" ”

"General Yu, the spear is powerful, and the armor is broken." Leaf tunnels. "The use of cloth armor is a heavy arrow to guard against the thorns."

"Oh?" Wang Jian sighed, looked at the generals behind him, and said, "Someone!" Try the arrow. ”

In cold weapon combat, the most expensive thing is the arrow, and the most valuable part of the arrow is the arrow and arrow feather. Taking the Battle of Shashui as an example, the 7,000 archers of the Chu army shot 700 kilograms of iron arrows in one salvo, and 14 tons of high-quality iron in 20 salvos; Three feathers per arrow, of course, the Chu army will not use the inferior goose feathers like the Song army thousands of years later, and dare not say that all the eagle feathers are used, and the worst is the horned eagle feathers, which are all obtained by sea boats and North Korea.

Although each battle was the Chu army's control of the war and the recovery of arrow feathers, there were still some arrows that would be taken away by the defeated Qin soldiers. The arrowheads are very hard after quenching, and the tempering temperature of the Jutiefu is high, and the time is also very short, which is to make the arrowheads collapse after being used once, but there are always some arrowheads intact.

Ten years ago, the Shaofu of the Qin State knew that the effectiveness of all the armor of the Chu army would be greatly reduced as long as it was used or heated. Wang Jian was well aware of this, and his shogunate had always had the habit of storing the armor of the Chu army. The archers used the same mulberry wooden bows as the archers of the Chu army, and the arrows were also carved arrows of the Chu army.

With a 'barge', the arrow was firmly nailed to the cloth armor, and when the generals thought that the cloth armor was pierced, Ye Tunnel's entourage immediately took the cloth armor over, only to find that the arrow was only shot on the cloth armor and did not penetrate.

"Shoot in ten steps!" Leaf tunnel again. Ten paces closer could not be closer, and this distance would be meaningless even if it pierced through the cloth armor, because the armor-piercing man had already run in front of him, and the archers themselves could not protect themselves.

The archer who tried the arrow walked into the ten paces, and shot again with a full string. The armor was not pierced except for a dull sound. Wang Jian asked the archer, "How many stone bows?" ”

"General Yu, this four-stone bow is also." The archer looked at the longbow in his hand before speaking.

"Is there a five-stone bow? Try it with a five-stone bow. Wang Jian commanded, and at this time he took the initiative to pick up the cloth armor with two arrow feathers and looked at it.

On the surface, the gray-white linen cloth was no different from the twelve or three liters of muslin worn by the common people, and the cloth armor only overlapped and glued these ordinary muslin together, which achieved the effect of protection. Holding the side of the cloth armor, Wang Jian frowned and counted it, and the cloth armor used about fifteen or six layers of fine cloth.

Qin cloth is eight feet and one cloth, and the cloth is four zhang and one horse, and one horse can be used to make five clothes. Fifteen or six layers of cloth armor with cloth or three horses and eight feet. A piece of muslin cloth is two or three hundred dollars, even if it is three hundred dollars a horse, and three horses and eight feet are only nine hundred and sixty dollars. Thinking of this, Wang Jian was taken aback. A pair of leather armor that was broken by the heavy arrows of the Chu army seventy paces away costs 1,344 yuan, and a pair of cloth armor with less than 1,000 yuan can block the shooting at a distance of ten steps from the four-stone bow......

"Who made it?" Wang Jian asked urgently.

"This armor was made by a Shaofu craftsman." Ye Tunnel knew what Wang Jian wanted to ask, but he still followed Wang Qian's words and answered.

"With this cloth armor, why didn't you make it before?!" The generals had already seen the power of cloth armor, and they did not think about the cost of this armor, but blamed Shaofu for why he didn't make cloth armor before. "Do you know how many soldiers of Great Qin fell under the heavy arrows of the Jing people?! Why does Shaofu ......?"

The person questioning was the right general Zhao Yong, who glared at Ye Tunnel with angry eyes, as if he had shot countless Qin soldiers.

"I naturally know that countless Great Qin soldiers have fallen under the heavy arrows of the Jing people, and then ......" Zhao Yong glared at Ye Tunnel angrily, and the rest of the generals also stared at Ye Tunnel, their eyes made Ye Tunnel feel cold, and he was speechless for a while.

"Leather armor is a waste thing, Shaofu has cloth armor, why is it still made of leather armor for use in the army?" Yu Fen, who had rarely criticized, couldn't help but sigh and speak, thinking of the cavalry soldiers who died in battle. The armor and iron armor are limited, and if they were all dressed in cloth armor a few months ago, at least a few thousand fewer people would have died.

"All countries make leather armor, why does the general complain about the Shaofu of the Qin State?" Ye Tunnel plucked up the courage to retort. "It's Jing people, and Jujia was also leather armor before, what's the complaint?"

"Don't be angry." Wang Jian sighed. "I don't know how many people died in our army from the heavy arrows of the Jing people, and the craftsmen of Shaofu can make cloth armor, why didn't they make it before?"

"Before?" Ye Tunnel shook his head and smiled bitterly. "Before......" he started but didn't say any more, just when the archer's five-stone bow happened to arrive.

The five-stone bow has a bow power of two hundred and sixty catties. For the short Chu army, there are not many people who can shoot such a heavy bow. The Qin people were taller than the Chu people, and their bows were heavier. Rao is like this, the archer's face is still red when he pulls the string, he inhales and drinks low before he pulls the bowstring full, and when the string is released, there is a 'boom', and the sound of the bowstring almost coincides with the sound of hitting the target.

Wang Ben ran forward to take a look, only to see that the arrow had penetrated the cloth armor, but it was only penetrating, and the arrow was at most half a point. "General, please see."

Wang Ben moved one step faster, and Wang Jian took one step slower. After taking the penetrated cloth armor from his son's hand, and seeing that the arrow was only half a point through, the old face smiled and said, "Great goodness! Jing people's arrows have been harmless since then. ”

He laughed, and Zhao Yong and the others nodded frequently when they saw that the arrow was only shot through the cloth armor. Penetration is not the same as killing, it takes at least one inch to injure someone, and two to three inches to kill. In the face of Jing Ren's five-stone strong bow and six or seven two arrows, which can achieve this defensive effect, the Chu army's arrows are indeed harmless to the Qin army.

But there are also people who are not very happy, and Liu Chi said: "It's better to be a big armor." ”

"It's not as good as a big armor." The blade tunnel is clear about the level of protection of the cloth armor. "However, the armor weighs at least seventy pounds, and the cloth armor is only twenty pounds. And the cloth armor can also be thickened, and the thickness of one inch is about the same as that of the giant armor. The armor can't resist the spear of the Jing people, what good is the thickness? ”

"Although the armor can't stop the Jing people from rushing at the spear, but wearing the armor, when the dead are injured, the wounded or not injured, how can it be useless?" Liu Chi was not speaking to Ye Tunnel alone, but also Wang Jian and the generals. Including Wang Qian, they all nodded when they heard the words. Armor not only has the effect of preventing damage, but also has the effect of mitigating it. "The subordinates thought that if the cloth armor could be one inch thicker, it should be one inch thicker."

"General, the last general thinks so." Zhao Yong agreed. "In wartime, the old soldier stands in front of the formation, and his armor should be one inch thick, and the new soldier stands behind the formation, and his armor can be ...... with arrows."

Cloth armor is good armor, and since it is good armor, all soldiers must be equipped with a pair. After the generals finished talking, Ye Tunnel said: "One armor and ten clothes, 600,000 people are six million clothes, can't you raise it, can you be thick?" The meaning of Shaofu is to make 150,000 sets of ten sets of cloth armor for the general, and if you want to thicken it to one inch, there will be only 75,000 sets. ”

As soon as Ye Tunnel said, the joy on the faces of the generals disappeared without a trace. Wang Jian coughed and said unhappily: "Under my Great Qin's rule, there are no six million cloth clothes?" ”

"Yes, it's hard to get it." Under the rule of Great Qin, there are 20 million Dingkou, and there are naturally 6 million new clothes every year, but the problem is that cloth armor is not only cloth, but also glue. Cloth is available, glue is rare.

"What kind of glue is used for this armor?" Wang Jian asked, but Ye Tunnel kept silent at this time. The secret of the cloth armor is not in the cloth but in the glue, how can he tell Wang Jian what glue is used in the cloth armor?

"The smell of meat too." Wang Ben picked up the cloth armor and sniffed it under his nose, smelling a smell of flesh. The rest of the generals followed him and picked up the cloth armor and sniffed violently, and also smelled the smell of flesh. Yu Fen opened his mouth to say what this was but couldn't say what it was, but Qiang Qi broke through the words, and he said in a rough voice: "Why is the rabbit smell so heavy?" ”

Ye Tunnel was taken aback, "Please silence the general." If you want to make cloth armor, there are not enough cloth rabbits, so there are only 150,000 sets. ”

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