But no matter what others do, under Dong Ce's command, he will definitely try his best to buy good equipment. D-M armor is the second life for soldiers, such as Dong Ce's heavy iron leaf armor weighing more than seventy pounds, cut down with a knife, unless it is a key point such as cutting the head and neck, otherwise a few armor leaves are turned up, and they can't hurt the people inside at all, and they will kill a shallow bloody wound. The weaker feather arrows can't even penetrate the armor leaves when they shoot them, and they look scary when they hang on their heads, but in fact they are useless. To deal with this kind of armor, spears and thorns are the most effective.

With this armor, it's equivalent to several more lives! If Dong Ce was wearing cloth clothes at the beginning, no matter how brave he was, he wouldn't dare to rush at those horse thieves.

Of course, Dong Ce didn't dare to think of equipping all his subordinates with that kind of heavy iron leaf armor, in fact, he couldn't do it if he wanted to equip all of them with inferior green cloth iron armor or cotton armor. This thing is a scarce material, and it is not easy to get it anywhere, and it is already Dong Ce who is very long-sleeved and good at dancing to get these things up to now.

Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao's military training miscellaneous collection has illustrations in it, and the soldiers in the illustrations are wearing cotton armor with iron leaves, in fact, this is just to smear the glory on their faces. The Jizhen border army under his command also has a very low armor rate.

However, Dong Ce has other tricks.

Du Jianhe diligently moved a pestle head, wiped his sleeves a few times, and said with a smile: "My lord, are you tired?" Sit down and take a break? ”

Dong Ce nodded, pulled off his clothes, and sat down on the head of the pestle. Du Jianhe won back some scenes, and suddenly his face was a little more bright, and he glanced at Zhao Tiean, Zhao Tieanan only patted his head in annoyance, he was still slow to react, the important thing is that he didn't think much about these camping things, so he was taken back by Du Jianhe on his own turf.

"Come, sit down, sit down, don't be restrained." Dong Ce greeted the blacksmiths with a smile.

But he said this, but no one really dared to sit down, and one guy seemed to be a little lacking in heart, so he sat cross-legged on the ground, and dragged his ass up before he touched the ground, and gave him a fierce look.

This guy asked stupidly, "What are you staring at me for?" ”

Everyone hated to strangle him, but Dong Ce laughed and asked with a smile: "What's your name, where did you come from?" ”

This guy still knows some rules, and when he heard Dong Ce's question, he first kowtowed in a hurry, and then replied: "If you know the words of the old man, the little one is called Wang Jinliang, and he came from Xi'an Fort to beat them, and he originally gave them iron there, but he couldn't live anymore, and he didn't pay money, and he beat people when he caught us taking work in private." I can't live anymore, I heard that the eldest lord is in charge of the food here, so I took my family to run here. ”

He is a mouth-opener, and all the bags are shaken out, although Zhao Tiean's anvil is a little clumsy, his eyes are also blackened, and he said in his heart, who the hell let you say so much? Can you say that clearly?

They all looked at Dong Ce carelessly, for fear that he would be annoyed. But he didn't think about it, Dong Ce laughed: "Yes, it's the truth." If you hear about it, it means that the reputation of our Rock Fort has spread, and everyone is willing to believe it! That's a good sign! ”

He looked back at Uncle Zhou and said, "Continue to spread the news, you can hire some people to spread it around, those green skins can be given to the two of them, it doesn't cost much, and a county town and a military fort will know it." Why not? ”

Uncle Zhou hurriedly responded.

Du Jianhe secretly wrote down these words in his heart, and sighed in his heart, the eldest master is the eldest master, looking at what others say, it is simple and clear, and it is easy to outline, like someone like himself, I am afraid that I will not be able to say it in this life.

Dong Ce glanced at a few blacksmiths and asked, "What kind of armor do you all build?" ”

Several people looked at each other, afraid to speak, and didn't know what to say.

Zhao Tieanan said: "My lord, I asked when they came, all eight of them have played cotton armor, and half of them will wear green cloth iron armor." ”

He pointed to Wang Jinliang and another thin man: "The two of them, as well as me, the three of us, can fight fish scale armor, fifty-eight pounds, sixty-three pounds, not seventy pounds." ”

Dong Ce was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "Not bad, very good." Compared with the green cloth iron armor, the cotton armor is nothing, as long as you can play the cotton armor, you will play the green cloth iron armor. So, you guys here are pretty good at it. ”

Dong Ce is right, the so-called green cloth iron armor, the main body is made of blue and white thick cotton cloth, dozens of layers of cotton cloth are densely beaten down, very tough and strong, and these cotton cloths are sandwiched with iron armor sheets, and the outside is decorated with iron armor leaves, and the two are connected with copper nails.

And the cotton armor, compared to the green cloth iron armor, is just missing the layer of iron armor leaves on the outside, and the weight is much lighter, of course, the defense will be weakened accordingly. After all, there is a layer of iron armor leaves on the outside, and when a knife comes over, there is a certain chance of blocking or sliding away.

This can be seen from the weight, a pair of green cloth iron armor, weighing twenty-four to twenty-five pounds, equivalent to thirty pounds in later generations. And a pair of cotton armor, helmet and armor, is only less than 20 catties.

The so-called fish scale iron armor is the kind of heavy full-body armor worn by Dong Ce, and China has never developed a full-body plate armor like the heavy white armor of Europa, but in terms of scale armor, it has reached the peak. Of course, due to the structure, force and other physical reasons and the limitations of forging technology, the defensive power of the scale armor is definitely not as good as that of the plate armor, and the cost is also high (before the appearance of the hydraulic forging hammer), Dong Ce understands this.

"You all make cotton armor, don't you?" Dong Ce smiled and groaned: "Come, tell me, how is the cotton armor made?" ”

He nodded at the little man that Zhao Tiean's anvil pointed at and said, "You say." ”

Although the little man was thin, his muscles were tense, and he was obviously very strong, his complexion was very dark, and his face was a little old. reminded Dong Ce of the Muay Thai fighters he had seen in later generations, all of them were like this, lean and lean, but their bodies contained extremely strong strength, and they could fight to death one by one.

The little man's name is Xie Worm, and his expression was also a little flustered, but he was much stronger than Wang Jinliang, he first saluted Dong Ce, then thought about it, and said: "Back to the old man's words, the little one is stupid, he said the wrong thing, don't be surprised." ”

Dong Ce was always very tolerant of them, and smiled: "You say, this official will not blame." ”

"Master Xie." Xie Worm seemed to be a little slow in his brain, thought for a while, sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "The last time I made cotton nails was seven or eight years ago. It seems that it is still the year of the Apocalypse, at that time, cotton was issued, with seven or eight catties of cotton, cloth was pasted on both sides, and then the four sides of the cloth were sewn on, and the sewing was strong, just like making a cotton jacket. Sew it with a thin thread first, and then sew it again with a thick thread on the outside. ”

"Soak it in the water again, and when it is sober, take it out, put it on the stone slab, and hit it with a stick, and when it is strong, and when it is thin, and it can no longer be thinner, it is finished. Then dry it in the sun, and after it is dried, put it in the water again, smash it again, and dry it again. After drying, there is no need to enter the water again, and it is directly thinned. At this point, a cotton sheet is complete. ”

Xie Worm was a little stumbling at first, but later, seeing that Dong Ce was also kind, he became more and more slippery.

His ability to express himself is like that, upside down, but he can finally understand it in general.

Seven catties of cotton are soaked and pressed thinly, and after drying, the extremely thin cotton sheets formed are already very tough. Then take many pieces of this cotton and stack them together, and put copper nails in the middle to form an extremely thick and strong cotton cloth. In fact, this is out of the category of cotton, which is extremely strong and at the same time, it is also very tough. It has even surpassed the same thickness or even double the thickness of the leather.

Spread a thick cotton cloth on the ground, press a layer of iron armor leaf on it, and spread a piece of cotton cloth on top of the iron armor leaf. After pressing and firming, it is fixed with copper nails, and then a layer of cloth of different colors is applied to the outside, and some of them will draw patterns. In this way, a piece of cotton armor is considered complete.

The cotton armor made by strict supervision not only has a strong ability to withstand the cold, but also has considerable defensive power against bows and arrows.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, cotton armor had already appeared, but it had not been equipped on a large scale at that time. In the Ming Dynasty, cotton armor was popularized, because cotton armor is lighter than iron armor, and it is easy to keep warm in the north wind, which is much better than iron armor. Jiannu and Daming fought for many years, and a lot of cotton armor was captured, and it was found that it was very suitable for use in the bitter cold Liaodong, so it was manufactured on a large scale. Now there are the most cotton armor among the Jiannu, of course, due to the limited defense of cotton armor, they basically do not wear only cotton armor. Many of the slaves wore cotton armor on the inside and iron armor on the outside.

Dong Ce said: "To put it bluntly, to make this cotton armor, is to soak cotton first, then gin, then dry, then soak, and then press, and so on, and then it will become?" Right? ”

Du Jianhe immediately smiled and said, "My lord is really concise and to the point, in one sentence." ”

Xie Worm also nodded vigorously: "What you said couldn't be more right." ”

Dong Ce nodded, pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Xie Worm, this official asked you, how thick was the jacket before it was soaked into the water?" How thin is the final cotton pad? ”

Xie Worm was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and gestured: "At the beginning, it was so thick, but later, it was almost so thick. ”

Dong Ce looked at his gestures, roughly pressing the cotton from about an inch thick to only one-tenth of it, that is, almost three millimeters thick. This is not an easy task. Although cotton is soft, fluffy, and easily compressed, it is difficult to press it to this portion. It's like a spring, it's not difficult to press down a little, a little, or even a half, but after pressing to a certain extent, it's almost impossible to press down a little bit.

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