Chapter 716 A simplified and reduced version of plate armor
There are thousands of morning glows, and the gorgeous rays of light shine on the hillsides and dense forests, making them golden. Not far away, the Yangtze River rolls eastward. The mighty water passes through Niuzhuji and hits the rocks, making a whimpering reverberation.
Changsun Chong stood at the edge of the dense forest, gritting his teeth with hatred as he looked at the Shanyue people still snoring as they lay or lay beside them. Such a bunch of trash like dolphins and dogs, they only know how to eat and do nothing to produce, they swarm in when they are plundering, but they have no way to advance or retreat, they do not understand etiquette, morality, and do not respect ethical principles. They are simply a waste of food! No wonder they have been incompatible with the world for generations and have been expelled to fend for themselves in the deep mountains, dense forests, barren mountains and harsh waters. They are really to blame for themselves!
If he hadn't disappeared from the court, he would have brought troops to kill them all, giving time to get rid of this scabies!
That Yamagotsu Soshuai who only has muscles but no brains is also unreasonable. You keep saying that you don't want to attack the mountain to kill Fang Jun, and don't want your tribe to die in vain, but don't you know that if you are not regarded as the best candidate to take the blame, how can the Jiangnan nobles allow the mountains to rise up and wreak havoc on Xuanzhou?
If I don’t kill Fang Jun, what use will you have?
Kill Fang Jun and make him even more useless!
No matter what, there is only a dead end in front of him, but he doesn't know it, and he still wants to send troops to plunder Danyang. It is simply greedy and stupid!
Looking up at the top of the mountain, Changsun sneered inwardly and was not anxious.
I really didn’t expect that Fang Jun was just a rate
Only a hundred or so men in the territorial area were able to repel several charges from the Shanyue people. It seemed that the stick's victory in the two battles with the Turkic Wolf Cavalry in the Western Region was not a fluke. The means of leading troops were indeed better than his own.
But so what?
Aren't you trapped to death and about to become a lamb to be slaughtered?
Do you think that if you stick to this place, you can wait for help? How naive! Almost all the Jiangnan noble clans have formed a tacit understanding. Not only will they never let each county send a single soldier to rescue him, they will also send soldiers and dead soldiers raised by their respective clans to come here. They must kill Fang Jun here and give it to the court. The Gonggun princes were shocked!
Jiangnan is the Jiangnan of the Jiangnan nobles. Even the emperor cannot get involved in robbing the interests of the Jiangnan nobles!
Changsun Chong did not agree with the ambitions of the Jiangnan nobles, and even dismissed them. If you let yourself be so arrogant for a while, have you really forgotten how His Majesty started his career, how he rose to power, and how he established his position in the world?
When His Majesty is forced to bury his ideals with the butcher's knife, the Jiangnan nobles will face a bloody purge. Changsun Chong is extremely sure! What a pity, he is now a bereaved dog and a lonely ghost. What does the important affairs of the imperial court have to do with him?
Thinking of this, Changsun Chong reached out and pressed the saber on his waist, his eyes shooting out with hatred! He doesn't care what the fate of the Jiangnan gentry is, let alone whether the Shanyue people will be annihilated in the river of history. He only wants Fang Jun's head!
Suddenly there was a "ding-ding-ding-ding" sound in his ears. Changsun Chong listened carefully. The source of the sound seemed to be on the top of the mountain. Is there forging? I looked at the top of the mountain attentively, but the morning sun was dazzling and brilliant, making me dizzy. The distance was also a bit far, and I couldn't see what was happening on the top of the mountain.
Changsun Chong suddenly felt guilty. Fang Jun might be a little impatient when it came to business, but he would often come up with some fantastic ideas and surprise people with his extraordinary skills.
Could it be that this kid is up to something else?
Changsun Chong was a little uneasy. Although he was sure that the nearby states and counties could not send soldiers to rescue him, he had to kill this kid quickly to feel at ease because of the long nights and dreams! But looking around, there were not many dead soldiers from various families gathered around him, and most of them were crossbowmen, and there was a lack of heavy armored infantry. Crossbowmen are good at sniping, but they don't have much advantage when it comes to attacking fortresses. Now the soldiers sent by various families are arriving in an endless stream. As long as they wait a few more days, they will surely be able to attack the uphill slope and kill Fang Jun with their own hands!
Suppressing the anxiety in his heart, Changsun Chong could only wait. If there is no absolute advantage that can guarantee that Fang Jun will be captured in one fell swoop, if he finds a loophole and breaks out by relying on the cavalry's prowess, all his plans will be in vain...
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Fang Jun on the mountain naturally didn't know what Changsun Chong was thinking, and he didn't know that his angry father had already used his power as prime minister to mobilize his officials to start a game with the Jiangnan nobles. He is now fully devoted to the joy of blacksmithing and farming...
The iron ingots produced in the iron-making furnace have not yet cooled down. They are a soft mass with a dark red color. They are clamped by iron pliers and placed on the anvil. The huge hydraulic forging hammer is pushed by water power, raised high, and then quickly dropped down. .
"When"
The huge forging hammer carried huge kinetic energy and hit the soft iron ingot hard. The oval iron ingot suddenly deflated. The forging hammer kept falling, sparks flying everywhere. The blacksmith held the iron pliers and excited the iron ingot, constantly adjusting the focus point of the forging hammer. In a moment, the original iron ingot turned into a thin, rectangular piece of iron with concave and convex curvature. .
The blacksmith felt the thickness of the iron piece and removed it with satisfaction, then replaced it with another iron ingot and continued hammering...
Another blacksmith took the large iron piece and used a very hard steel drill to hammer holes into the four corners of the iron piece. He passed a thin piece of leather through it and connected it to a previous patch of similar shape.
A soldier next to him had been standing there for a long time, letting the blacksmith pick up the two pieces of iron and put them on himself... and it suddenly became a pair of armor.
It's just that this armor is completely different from the previous fish scale armor or Mingguang armor. It has a complete iron plate in front and behind. The protective power is not weak, but the flexibility is much worse.
Half of the more than a hundred craftsmen are blacksmiths. The blacksmiths are forging iron, and the rest are helping. Seven or eight hydraulic forging hammers are all started, and the sound of "ding-ding-ding-ding" is heard. The iron plates of different shapes are large, small, or flat. Either convex, wide or narrow, each is shaped according to the drawings in front of you. The division of labor is clear and the speed is extremely fast.
On the other side, Fang Jun, Liu Rengui and Liu Renyuan, assembled iron sheets of various shapes and tied them to a war horse that kept snoring.
"Master Marquis, you are simply... simply... a man of God!" Liu Rengui looked at the full vest on the horse, and then looked back at the knights all equipped with iron armor around him. He simply couldn't think of any words to express his feelings. What a shock!
Next to him, Liu Renyuan's eyes flashed, and he looked at Fang Jun with a look of astonishment!
How did Mr. Hou grow up with such a brain?
Just after a short sleep, you can actually come up with such an easy way to make a complete set of cavalry heavy armor?
Fang Junze remained aloof throughout the whole process, making people feel increasingly enigmatic...
But I was very proud of myself. Are we shocked by this? Haha, you're so sophisticated, it's just a simplified and reduced version of European plate armor...
Cavalry equipped with fish scale armor and other armors are called "armored cavalry". There is no reason why cavalry equipped with plate armor shouldn't be the same, right?
The upper body of the plate armor is the main body, called the breastplate, and the front, chest and back are a single plate. There are two plates on the arm, the upper arm plate and the lower arm plate, connected by the elbow joint. It is not a whole tube. It focuses on protecting the front, and there is a gap in the back. The lower body is divided into several parts. The thighs, calves, knees, and insteps have protective plates respectively. There are no protective plates on the inner thighs, behind the buttocks, and above the knee bends, because if protective plates are added to these places, it will be impossible to ride a horse, and there will be no way to ride a horse. The law is active.
Plate armor is deified by many people and is said to be invulnerable. In fact, it has as many disadvantages as advantages, and it is not difficult to make. The key difficulties are the quality of the iron material and the hydraulic forging hammer. Without high-quality iron materials, it would be difficult to create perfectly curved parts. Without a hydraulic forging hammer...it would be impossible to punch out the two pieces of iron on the chest and back even if you vomited blood by manpower!
Of course, it was impossible for Fang Jun to create a perfect plate armor in a hurry. The edge of the iron plate was rough, and he would cut himself from time to time. The curvature of the breastplate was uneven, and it bulged and deflated at the same time. Each component was handmade and varied in size. The shape is uneven...
Use one word to describe the resulting plate armor: ugly!
But this is more than enough to face the dead soldiers of Shanyue people and major families. Crossbowmen pose little threat to armored cavalry, and no matter how powerful the warriors of major aristocratic families are, they cannot withstand the charge of armored cavalry. As long as there is no heavy armored infantry, the simple and reduced version of the armored cavalry created by Fang Jun is invincible - in fact, the Tang Dynasty does not have many established heavy armored infantry.
Fang Jun believed that as long as he was given three days, he could equip more than fifty armored cavalry, enough to crush the enemies at the foot of the mountain!
In fact, Fang Jun's troops have always relied on their superior equipment to crush the enemy and thus win. In the two battles, the Turkic Wolf Cavalry relied on the powerful power of firearms and surprise to finally win. Now facing the coalition of Shanyue people and soldiers sent by major families, the plate armor has become an unexpected and powerful presence... (End of this chapter)