Wang Defa increased the production speed of hot-rolled steel plates...... It's not that this is used to equip a "canned man", but that the steel plate is too useful. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The hot-rolled steel plates they produce are thicker, and the edges often have defects such as waves, folds, and towers.

However, it is the best product of this time and space, and it is better than the quality of the blacksmith's hammer, not to mention the output.

After pickling these products and plating them with tin, many products can be derived.

Using them for armor is a basic option.

Wang Defa originally wanted to use these products to make buckets or canned food for civilian use...... But the first reaction of Director Hu Zhenbei was to sell armor!

Wang Defa said helplessly: "Director Hu, don't we have a rope armor made of wire?" ”

Chain mail is a kind of armor made of many iron lock plates, generally the upper body armor, the upper shoulder arm, down to the knee pad.

The chain mail with iron chains about the size of a coin and the chain mail that tightly ties many iron locks together has a strong ability to protect against cold weapons.

Although there are holes, it has the effect of "invulnerability to knives and guns, and impermeability to arrows".

In terms of its protective power, it is inferior to the Buren Armor of the Great Song Dynasty, but its total weight is no more than 15 kilograms, the protective area is large, and the movement is flexible...... For Wang Defa, it is important that its processing chain is longer.

Generally speaking, the finer the iron ring, the better the protection performance, and each iron ring must be welded or hinged, so the amount of work it requires can be imagined.

Wang Defa's purpose in developing it is to have more people to process it, because its value is high enough to train more craftsmen.

A piece of rope armor can be completed by three craftsmen with the help of tools designed by Wang Defa, on the fifteenth day...... But it can be sold for 5,000 yuan, which can top the monthly wages of a hundred craftsmen!

Of course, this is only the price when it is first processed...... The Great Song Dynasty government was not stupid at all, and when they saw that more pieces were sent from Liuqiu Island, they immediately lowered the price, which forced Wang Defa to find a way to sell them overseas.

Before they were sold to the Great Song Dynasty, they had already equipped a hundred cavalry...... This is a bit small, and it is mainly used for communications and reconnaissance work.

A long time ago, before their livestock-specific transport ships had departed, the owner of Zhang Guoan had entrusted the return merchants to Egypt to help liaise with the hiring of Mamluk cavalry.

The price is easy to say, the quantity, the more the better!

He was going to smash a cavalry team out of a lot of porcelain, silk, pepper, and cotton linen, and see if he could bring out a cavalry unit of his own!

You can also use a rope armor! You can also use a medium carbon steel knife!

The merchant named Birok was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Great and venerable Lord Zhang, are you sure that you can use the most exquisite porcelain and silk as beautiful as the clouds in the sky, and even exchange the precious rope armor and treasure sword for cavalry?!" ”

"Yes! I hope you can contact them first and order their horses first......"

"Zhang Islander, who can make steel fly in the sky and catch the most fish in the sea, it turns out that on the Badaohe wharf, the five-masted ship as big as a mountain is actually used to transport war horses!"

"I'll bring you some samples, and after showing them those samples, they'll be yours, and you'll be paid......"

Returning merchant Bilok is about to faint...... Those samples cost almost 10,000 yuan!

He asked in a trembling voice, "One piece of rope armor can be exchanged for ten Mamluk cavalrymen to serve you for the rest of your life...... A treasure knife is also worth this, I wonder if you accept this price? ”

"I don't need to be a slave, and I can serve in the military for five years, and I will pay for it during this time!"

Birok, the returning merchant, jumped to his feet and shouted: "Swear to Allah, the Holy God!" You're doing great good!! Their entire cavalry of Emperor Bougier will rush to come!! ”

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, was accustomed to the exaggerated posture of the Hui merchants, and he said calmly: "Then you can pick and choose, and our transport ship will then go to the Red Sea...... Go ahead and prepare. ”

Back to the merchant Bilok went back in a hurry.

The original cotton varieties in the Arab region, Tianzhu region and the Great Song Dynasty region are not very good, and only the Tianzhu area is okay, but the cotton varieties brought by Zhang Guoan Island are the best varieties in the world, so their cotton quality is much better.

Zhang Guoan's owner originally introduced cotton linen cloth mainly to solve the problem of sail cloth, but he didn't expect that people in all parts of the world liked this kind of strong and cheap cloth very much!

This made all the merchants who had heard of it come here...... Fortunately, the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty were not stupid, and they soon learned the weaving method, and when the production of cotton yarn and linen yarn increased, the output of cotton and linen cloth also increased.

Returning merchant Bilok happily set out with two ships full of goods, and on the way he could exchange them for a great deal of spices, and then finally obtain valuable gold or other goods at the Bourgil dynasty on the Red Sea, and complete his mission.

At that time, Wang Defa had just returned, and he was very happy that his friend Zhang Guoan could give others freedom and generosity.

He said: "Guoan, although this is an era of treating others as goods, and you can also treat others as lifelong slaves, but you can take the initiative to give others freedom, I am really happy for your kindness!" ”

"It's not just about kindness...... Giving freedom to others often gives us freedom as well, don't you see that our mercenaries are braver than the Liuqiu Guards?

And they genuinely respect us, which is so comfortable......"

Whether it is a black mercenary or a white mercenary, whether it is from Korea or Japan, they are all sincere and loyal and brave in fighting for the island...... The owner of Zhang Guoan also gave them honor and material rewards in time, in order to form a good positive stimulus.

Freedom, of course, can also bring bravery and loyalty.

The small cavalry on the Shandong Peninsula, they were excellently equipped.

Let's not talk about standing weapons like sabers and spears...... In terms of short-style weapons alone, one person has a handful in his hand and two short firearms with a bronze cap attached!

Each of them was equipped with five grenades......

Their helmets were made of hot-rolled steel plates, and their bodies were covered with deerskin armor, and the same equipment for each cavalryman weighed about forty kilograms.

Judging by the reaction, those Tatar horses can still hold on.

If on the battlefield, one cavalryman was assigned four auxiliaries with firearms.

But at the beginning, Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, didn't want them to go to the battlefield...... Well, the cavalry should hire someone else to do the technical work of warfare.

At that time, from among the white mercenaries, they picked out ten white men who had been knights, and let them serve as riding instructors, and began to practice.

The lord of Zhang Guoan waited wholeheartedly for the cavalry to be hired from Egypt, and the problems that porcelain and silk could solve were not a problem.

Since we have just been trained, it is better to use people for long-distance reconnaissance.

Captain Zhang Depei believed that one day, he would also travel on a war horse.

But for now, he could only hold up his monoculars, drool, and look at the marching cavalry in the distance. (To be continued.) )