Chapter 446 Krypton Gold Warrior VS Flesh and Blood
The Iron Hun Armor of the Ming Dynasty is extremely expensive. Sanniang Zi once said that the construction cost of the Iron Hun Armor of the Beijing Camp could buy the entire Beibei. This is not nonsense or flattery. Daming, but a fact.
To this day, except for the iron Hun armor, or Mingguang armor, of Emperor Zhu Yijun and Prince Zhu Yili of the Ming Dynasty, there is no Tie Hun armor made of homogeneous steel plates. The Tie Hun armor used by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is Artificial forging, hammering out the steel bit by bit, the construction period of this thing is really too long.
There is not much difference in the initial manufacturing process between the Imperial Tie Hun Armor forging method and the Tie Hun Armor used in the Beijing camp.
Iron materials, coal, limestone and other materials are loaded into the hopper. Under the traction of the hinge, they fall from the furnace throat into the furnace belly. The hot air pipe that bypasses the furnace body is pressurized from the tuyere through the wind box. After entering the furnace belly, the fully burned coal generates high temperature and melts the iron material into iron juice. The craftsmen insert the long tongs into the slag outlet, pull the glaze initially formed by impurities out of the slag outlet, open the iron outlet and begin to flow out. Iron juice.
These glazes are excellent for paving and do not go to waste.
The molten iron flows into a square pool, and through stirring, the air and the molten iron are fully contacted. The entry of cold air will not cause the temperature of the molten iron to drop. Instead, the temperature of the molten iron will rise further, because oxygen is needed for combustion. After the stirring air fully contacts the high-temperature molten iron, the carbon in the molten iron will burn again.
At this time, you will get a pool of [wrought iron rich in impurities].
This method is extremely inefficient and requires frequent replacement of the wood used for mixing. The wood cannot last a few times, and it is prone to accidents when exposed to high temperatures. People often fall from the edge of the pool into the water. Among them, the craftsmen of Ming Dynasty designed a cylindrical blowing steel-making front bag that can be tilted.
This kind of front bag has air holes, which can add heated air into the molten iron, and tilting can allow the molten iron to burn more fully with the air.
It took Xishan Coal Bureau seven full years to improve this step. It has been making improvements since Wang Chonggu took charge of Xishan Coal Bureau. Finally, it was possible to obtain a large amount of wrought iron in batches while basically ensuring the safety of craftsmen.
Wrought iron has extremely low carbon content, so it is very soft because the carbon in the molten iron has been burned away when it is stirred.
At this point, the imperial armor of the Ming Dynasty entered the stage of purely manual forging. Through a large amount of manual forging, the impurities in the wrought iron were removed, heated and forged, over and over again, and then began to be used There are various ways to carburize, but the most luxurious way is to put [wrought iron that has been forged repeatedly to remove impurities] into a large amount of salt and carbon powder and then melt it, then throw in the wrought iron without too many impurities and cook it for two days and two nights. , a piece of [homogeneous steel plate] was manufactured, and then the steel plate was made into the bright light armor used by the emperor.
Both labor and salt melting are too expensive to be mass-produced. Not to mention the armed Beijing camp, even His Majesty's Tiqi cannot be equipped.
The process needs to be improved. Referring to the manufacturing process of the Ming Dynasty's 'Steel Needle', Wang Chonggu led the Xishan Coal Bureau to improve the process.
Wrought iron with a large amount of impurities requires a hydraulic forging hammer. After being heated, the impurity-rich wrought iron is thrown into the mortar. The hydraulic forging hammer, which cannot perform complex and precise processing, is numb under the power of the water. , constantly lifting and lowering to forge the impurities in the wrought iron. The reason for this step of using a water-powered forging hammer is that it has rough but abundant and cheap power.
When these wrought irons without many impurities are heated again until they are red, they pass through a roller press made of two large steel rollers. This is because the Ming Dynasty is used to stamp silver coins. There have been more breakthroughs in technology. After rolling, the wrought iron without impurities has turned into [wrought iron plate with uniform thickness].
The wrought iron plate with uniform thickness is transferred from the hydraulic forging hammer workshop to the model workshop. This step only needs to be molded, and then the craftsmen repair the corners, creating a [muddy iron plate with only a false appearance] A embryo] is ready.
Wrought iron is soft and has very low strength. No one can wear a full wrought iron armor. Li Rusong, who is so strong, can't fight even if he wears a thick iron armor made of full wrought iron.
Similar to the hand-forged light armor, the superficial embryo also needs to be carburized.
Pieces of iron armor embryos were sprinkled with carbon powder and thrown into the earthen kiln. After the earthen kiln was heated violently, it began to close. This was the steel-stewing method of steel needles (Tiangong Kaiwu contained it), rows of After the iron silica embryo was fully penetrated into the carbon powder in a high-temperature sealed kiln without oxygen, [the iron silica embryo with uniform carburization and good surface carburization] was obtained.
At this point, the iron armor is still an embryo. It is still soft wrought iron. It has no defense and is also very easy to deform. This requires quenching. The quenching is divided into oil quenching and water quenching. In the violent Under the thermal expansion and contraction, the embryo of Tie Hun Armor will be severely deformed, rendering it unusable.
The deformation problem needs to be solved. When the embryo of the iron armor is heated, iron supports will be put in. The red embryo of the iron armor will be put into the cold oil. Under the severe thermal expansion and contraction, the iron will shrink violently. The formation of dense crystals is also the meaning of carburization. Carbon atoms can form crystal nuclei during this shrinkage and crystallization process. This is also the reason why the quenching strength of wrought iron will not increase much.
[The wrought iron carburized plate armor that has begun to gain defensive power] is ready. At this time, it still cannot be worn, because the iron armor after quenching has hardened, but it has also become brittle. Faced with When it comes to strong bows and fire guns weighing more than a hundred pounds, being as brittle as a piece of paper is not an adjective but a fact.
The next step is tempering. It is also very simple. Put it into the earth kiln again and seal the kiln without oxygen at high temperature. After the dense crystals are slightly thawed, you will get [even carburization] , well carburized, well quenched and tempered iron armor].
Essentially, this kind of iron armor is not steel, but wrought iron, because the carbon content of each part of the iron armor is not the same, its defensive power is far inferior to that of Mingguang armor made of pure steel, and its weight bigger.
To obtain steel plates with uniform texture, the current Ming Dynasty can only rely on craftsmen with strong ties to the nine clans to make them purely by hand.
This kind of iron armor is mass-produced and cannot be tailor-made, so it actually does not fit well. It is difficult for soldiers to use it, but in the ninth year of Wanli, it can be very accurate. Said: This is steel armor!
Not to mention the Northern Barbarians, one-third of the Ming Dynasty's capital camps have such iron armor, and their defense power is already at the limit of current productivity.
The Iron Hun armor of the cavalry is a specially made half-body armor and breastplate, and the armor Li Rusong wears is the same Mingguang armor as the Ming Emperor.
Wang Chonggu was the initiator of the official-factory group-building method in "The World Is Trapped in Mergers and Reliefs the Rogues". Likewise, the profits of the woolen official factories he led were used to pay salaries to the capital. The coal and steel joint venture of the Xishan Coal Bureau was responsible for manufacturing the Ming Dynasty. Armor, muskets, chariots and other armaments needed by the Beijing camp.
Wang Chonggu is actively improving salt melt carburizing, striving to make the mass-produced standard iron Hun armor close to the emperor's Mingguang armor in terms of defense and weight. This is difficult, but in these eight years , Wang Chonggu has been personally supervising the improvement of the craftsmanship. Compared with the clanking and forging of the Ming Dynasty, the cost of the Ming Dynasty iron armor has been reduced by half. This is the advantage of assembly line production. While the defense power remains unchanged, a full-body armor The weight of the Iron Hun Armor was reduced from forty-four kilograms to thirty-seven kilograms.
The cavalry camp led by Li Rusong is all equipped with iron half-body armor. Each person has three war horses, and each war horse is carefully selected and the best horse is selected. They are all fed with soybean grains and grass, so they will not lose weight during the winter. Everyone is equipped with a fire gun, a hand gun and a riding gun.
Qiying, the real krypton gold warrior of the Ming Dynasty! The whole body is shining with eye-catching, real gold and silver light!
The armor in the Central Plains is just like the horses in the grassland. It is useless except for fighting. Armor is banned among the people. After the Beiyuan court fled, the Beiyuan court completely lost its craftsmen and had no stable fuel supply. And the supply of iron ore, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's embargo policy since the Hongwu period, there are very few iron pots on the grasslands, and even less armor.
After Longqing negotiated peace, there were indeed iron pots on the grassland, but from iron pots to iron armor, do we expect the Beibei to use cow dung to forge them?
So the prairie people are real flesh and blood, so it would be nice to have a pair of leather armor.
Dong Huxu saw Li Rusong's figure through the telescope he bought with a lot of money. Looking at Li Rusong's armor and the good horse underneath him, he was caught in two questions for a while.
The first question is: Who the hell is the prairie man! A cavalryman actually has three war horses. They are war horses, not horses!
The second question is: Are the traps you set really leading you into a trap, or are you trapping yourself in a cocoon?
It wasn't until he saw Li Rusong and the cavalry camp he led that Dong Huxu understood Chahan Nur's despair and what kind of monster Cha Han Nur was facing.
Dong Fox saw Li Rusong's figure, and Li Rusong also discovered the trap set by Dong Fox. A dozen scouts galloped on the grassland and entered the mountain col. This is the mountain from Wuchuan to Bansheng City. It's called Wengguan Mountain and is a must-pass road.
Li Rusong’s position at the viewpoint cannot observe the situation of this mountain col, but it is very, very easy to set up an ambush here. There are gentle slopes of hills on both sides. Once the enemy rushes down the gentle slope, Li Rusong and the twelve men he brought with him will Wei will be left alone and helpless.
"Major General, should we be more cautious?" A personal guard obviously also observed this situation. These dozen scouts are a bit like bait.
Li Rusong reined in his horse, nodded and said: "You are right."
According to the information from Duntai Yuanhou, the intruder was Dong Fox. Dong Fox killed Tang Kekuan in Miyun. It was this method of luring the enemy deep in, and Xu Da's defeat in the Battle of Lingbei was also due to the deep penetration of his army alone. Li Rusong kept in mind what Qi Jiguang told him, if the forwards win, the balance of victory will be tilted by 70%. If the vanguard is defeated, the army will be defeated like a mountain.
This position is so critical, and his equipment is so excellent. He is crazy, not stupid.
"Dong Fox wanted to deceive me and set up an ambush here, so I took advantage of his plan and played tricks with him here." Li Rusong led a dozen guards and began to drive forward, but he still refused to enter. The disadvantageous terrain was just like this, walking around and around the trap, constantly observing. The more Li Rusong observed, the more he confirmed that an ambush had been set up here.
Seeing this scene, Dong Hu felt like a fox was scratching his heart. At this time, it was time to compete for determination. Li Rusong refused to leave and was still testing. In order to kill with one blow, Dong Hu had no choice but to Hold back the urge to move deep in your heart.
"I've been fooled!" Dong Fox suddenly became alert, because he heard the faint sound of horse hoofbeats, which made Dong Fox realize that this treacherous Li Rusong had already seen through his plan and deliberately stayed. , just to wait for reinforcements.
It was not that Dong Fox had never thought that he would be countered, but the quick response and quick maneuvers that were unique to the grassland suddenly appeared on the Ming army, leaving him completely unable to react. When the Ming cavalry appeared in the field of vision, Dong Fox knew , I fell into the trap.
The Ming Dynasty’s cavalry did not step into the trap, but chose to take a detour. Dong Fox ambushed two thousand people and was completely exposed. The ambush turned into an encounter. Dong Fox suppressed his inner feelings. Fear began to take command, and as soon as they entered the battle, they were at a disadvantage.
The iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, the Jingtang warriors and the krypton gold warriors are swimming in the dragon.
To be precise, the Ming cavalry relied on the range and lethality of the fire cannons and did not intend to engage in direct contact. Each cavalry in the cavalry camp was too expensive. After Li Rusong discovered the lethality of 'queuing to shoot', I chose long-range combat. Counting three hundred years ago, this is the unique skill of the grassland. Riding and shooting, without contact, can kill and injure the enemy as much as possible. Wait until the enemy's morale collapses before charging.
The grassland has not yet entered the rainy season. The smoke of gunpowder fills the battlefield. The explosion of gunpowder is like a reminder. Every time a salvo is fired, countless grassland warriors will be blown into pieces by pieces of blood. The arrows of the prairie people were completely unable to hit the enemy.
Zhu Yijun is practicing martial arts. He can't shoot a 120-pound tiger-force bow now, but he can drive a strong bow of more than 100 pounds. But when riding a horse, he can only use a 60-jin bow. Qi Jiguang said that mounted archery was of little use on the battlefield because the battlefield environment had changed after the addition of firearms.
The prairie people’s recurve bow weighs only sixty or seventy kilograms. The effective killing range of fire blunderbuss is much higher than that of bows and arrows. The Ming Dynasty’s cavalry camp harvested the lives of the warriors under Dong Fox’s tent in volley after salvo. life.
Dong Fox began to order his men to charge with their eyes on the muskets, hoping to bite the enemy. However, the horses under his men were not all war horses, and after the harsh winter, due to the haze of war, both men and horses were They are skinny, and their explosive power and endurance are not as good as those of the cavalry in the cavalry.
Unknowingly, Dong Hu didn't notice that the battlefield had shifted somewhat. The two hilly hills had changed from the area where the Ming army attacked the enemy's position to the hills where the enemy's army attacked the Ming Dynasty. "Artillery!" Dong Fox's eyes were about to burst!
If you can’t afford it, don’t play!
A good cavalry hedge. What do you mean by setting up an artillery array on the top of the mountain?
This Li Rusong didn’t follow martial ethics and actually pulled the side chariot onto the hills!
In half an hour of confrontation, Li Rusong completed the artillery arrangement, and the initiative on the battlefield had already been quietly transferred to Li Rusong's hands.
"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"
Dong Fox stood under the big hammer and shouted the order, but it was too late, because the smoke of the artillery had already risen, and the roar was separated by a distance. It came over a little while ago.
A total of forty-five nine-pound artillery fired the first salvo. Forty-five explosive shells streaked across the sky, reflecting the sunset at dusk, and exploded suddenly as they approached the ground. The iron caltrops hit by the bullet smashed into the space between Dong Hu's charging soldiers with a whistling sound.
The grassland cavalry without armor has only flesh and blood when faced with artillery, especially explosive bullets, and has no ability to resist at all. Not many people died, most of them were injured, whether they were humans or horses. , are deadly on the battlefield.
"Retreat! Retreat!" Dong Huxu finally understood Li Rusong's strength. He was like a maniac. He shouted loudly and ordered. After he ordered to retreat, he took his slaves and started to escape. .
Li Rusong picked up his mace, drove the horse forward slowly, and shouted loudly: "Da Ming Cavalry Camp, charge!"
The tooth flag began to wave, and the cavalry camp began to gather behind Li Rusong. The cavalry camp started with a slow walk, and after more than ten steps, it turned into a quick walk. After more than twenty steps, the quick walk turned into a gallop, with Li Rusong leading the way. , led the cavalry battalion and began to charge towards the enemy under the hills. The horseshoes under the horses' hooves crushed the grass and gravel. The cavalry battalion, like a torrent of steel, rushed down from the top of the hills.
Li Rusong is a madman on the battlefield. The weapon he uses is a mace. Every time he swings it, it will bring out a puff of blood mist. The two hundred personal guards he leads are like sharp knives. It was completely torn apart, and then the soldiers were divided into two and torn left and right. Dong Hu's troops immediately fell into a complete disadvantage.
After two rounds of charging, a great rout began. The heavily armored cavalry battalion did not pursue them, but the supporting cuirassiers on both sides began to pursue them.
Cuirassiers are cavalry with only breastplates, not even half-armor. They are mainly mobile and are responsible for mobile support and pursuit on the battlefield. Heavy cavalry are mainly used to break formations and penetrate. enemy lines, causing the enemy to rout.
Li Rusong has completely mastered the operations of the cavalry camp. After the light cavalry repeatedly harassed and shot the enemy, causing the enemy to tire out, the heavy cavalry made the final decision, and the light cavalry began a long hunting and pursuit.
The only heavy rider among the light cavalry is Li Rusong himself. His armor is very light, only twenty-five pounds, and his horses are very strong. He has three horses, one of which is named Feiyi, a horse named Shengjian, and another named Zhaoxue. The first two horses were royal horses given to His Majesty by Shah Maimaiti (Chapter 350). Zhu Yijun gave these two horses as a national gift to Li Rusong.
Feiyi runs very fast, Shengjian is extremely fierce when moving forward, and Zhaoxue was given to Li Rusong by Qi Jiguang. The biggest advantage of this horse is endurance. It was Qi Jiguang who gave it to Li Rusong to escape. Endurance is in the escape Most importantly, Li Rusong did not use Zhaoxue to escape, but to pursue him.
Two days later, Dong Hu took a rest with about 300 defeated soldiers in the lee of the grassland. He did not know where he was.
His headquarters was originally composed of ten thousand people. After repeated conflicts, when he defected to Anda Khan, only five thousand people were left. He used two thousand people to ambush Li Rusong, but Li Rusong killed them all. After escaping back to the camp, he thought that Li Rusong would not pursue him, but it only took half a day for the Ming cavalry camp to assemble. After dawn, the Ming cavalry camp began to attack his camp.
The camp built by Dong Fox could not last more than two hours before it was completely breached. Dong Fox took two thousand people and began to flee. Another day and night passed, and there were only less than three people left by his side. Hundreds of people.
"Madman, really madman!" Dong Hushu said sternly with red eyes. In the past two days and two nights, Li Rusong's fang flag was always flying at the front. Dong Hushu didn't think of charging and killing the opponent's general directly, but every time They were all pushed back by Li Rusong.
"I regret that I shouldn't have killed Tang Kekuan." Dong Fox was lying on the grassland. The plants and trees were like enemies, making him unable to sleep. Regret once again clouded his heart. He had said regret countless times, but There is no regret pill to take.
The Ming Dynasty is very vengeful. If you win a battle, it will be passed down. Who led how many people and where to defeat the enemy? What kind of military exploits were obtained? If he lost the battle, he would never finish writing. The pen of the Ming Dynasty They started their own performance, analyzing why they lost, how to win back, and how big the enemy was. The analysis of the memorials and the weight of the analysis were lengthy and lengthy even in the historical records.
If you win, you should write it down. If you lose, write it down in a small notebook.
Dong Fox really didn't sleep for two days and two nights and kept running, while Li Rusong slept for two hours plus one hour. He was not a tough guy. Before going to bed, he would make a bowl of fried flour. Just stir it in the water and pour it directly into your mouth, eat a piece of cake, and then drink a bag of water.
The reason why Li Rusong wanted to pursue Dong Hu was not letting him go for two days and two nights, and he continued to pursue him. It was because Qi Jiguang once mentioned his guilt towards Tang Kekuan.
Tang Kekuan died because he disobeyed Qi Jiguang's general order and attacked by himself. However, Qi Jiguang felt that he had his own reasons. He was a general and commanded a large corps to fight. He should have considered the complexity of the battlefield.
Tang Kekuan died, and his son could not inherit Tang Kekuan’s hereditary command, Tongzhi (a fourth-grade military attaché), who became a white-robed military officer. Qi Jiguang had thought that if he had the chance, he would kill Dong Fox so that Tang Kekuan’s children and grandchildren could Continuing the hereditary command of Tongzhi, he can receive a salary without leading troops.
When Li Rusong had the opportunity, he would not miss it.
The traces of Dong Fox were found, and Li Rusong set off again. It was not far away, less than ten miles away. It only took a quarter of an hour for Li Rusong to find Dong Fox. The completely exhausted Dong Fox’s eyelids were fighting. , and heard the sound of horse hooves.
The sound of hooves came from all directions and he was surrounded.
"Dong Fox! Capture him without mercy!" Li Rusong's angry shout sounded a hundred steps away, and arrows were thrown into the circular formation of Dong Fox's three hundred people.
Dong Fox and his remaining three hundred men had absolutely no fighting ability or will to resist. After two quarters of an hour, they were either killed or captured.
Dong Fox lay on the ground panting, following the mace in front of him, and looked up at Li Rusong on the horse. Instead, he showed a relaxed and relieved look. He was tired, really tired. This The lunatic couldn't get rid of him at all. He could live a stable life for a month or two after being captured. He would be beheaded when he was escorted to the capital. But if he continued to run, his subordinates would definitely chop off his head as a token of surrender and surrender to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for a reward. .
If you fight, you can't beat. If you run, you can't escape.
In the battle of Wengguan Mountain, Li Rusong annihilated more than 5,000 Dong Hu’s men and killed more than 4,300 enemies. Only 17 people were killed in the cavalry camp. Dong Hu was captured alive in the first battle. Megatron Grassland!
The collapse of Bansheng City was even more serious than before. Ananda Khan’s five thousand households and five thousand troops deserted more than nearly five thousand, and morale had completely fallen to the bottom. Qi Jiguang led his troops Having arrived and camped ten miles away from Bansheng City, the army began to besiege the city.
Ada Khan did not go out of the city for a decisive battle because the cavalry battalion led by Li Rusong was still stationed in Wuchuan. Once he left the city, he would be at a disadvantage in attacking from both front and rear.
Qi Jiguang did not order an attack on the city, but began to announce that the head of Anda Khan was worth one thousand taels, the head of ten thousand households was five hundred taels, and the head of one thousand households was one hundred taels. As long as he got it, he could go to the Ming army. Come and receive the reward for ten days. After ten days, the Ming army will break the city.
Qi Jiguang was not a threat. He spread out the artillery one by one and started bombarding three times a day.
On the third day, Bansheng's city wall had been completely smashed. Under the pouring of nearly 10,000 artillery pieces and 500,000 kilograms of gunpowder that came to the capital this time, Bansheng could not withstand a city that could not be surrounded for more than thirty miles. Can't stand such artillery coverage.
Qi Jiguang was not a squanderer, but also a helpless act. The gunpowder had to be shot out as soon as it was pulled out, otherwise it would deteriorate in the rainy season. The grassland is not the Central Plains and does not have such good preservation conditions.
Moreover, another 100,000 jins of gunpowder arrived at the front line as supplies. With 500,000 jins of gunpowder gone, Bansheng City could no longer be called a city.
On this day, Qi Jiguang came to the front line. Ten artillery pieces, more than two feet long and with bellies like buckets, appeared outside Bansheng City. These were thirty kilograms of artillery made by the Royal Gewuyuan.
It is said that it is a naval gun to be used on the Youlong. The largest artillery in the Ming Dynasty is fifteen kilograms of gunpowder, and these thirty kilograms of artillery are beyond everyone's expectations.
In land battles, this thing can only defend the city, and it is of little significance, but in naval battles, this thing is extremely useful.
It is said that the madmen from the Imperial Academy are planning to get another 50-pound cannon. This 30-pound cannon has been test-fired many times. This time it was brought to the grassland to test the reliability of the equipment. Whether it can be fired smoothly after the bump, the ammunition fired is not a blooming bullet, but a solid sub-munition.
Such ten artillery pieces were pulled under Bansheng City. Buyan Taiji, who was in charge of the lookout, slowly raised a "?" on his head. 'Come.
How virtuous and capable is Ida Khan? How virtuous and capable is Bansheng City? Do you need this thing?
Qi Shuai, use a telescope to look at the completely collapsed city wall!
After the fuse was ignited, everyone stepped back a hundred steps. It would be no joke if this thing exploded. Qi Jiguang had seen it explode with his own eyes, and the continuous roar echoed on the board. Outside Sheng City, there was a sound like thunder, and the heaven and earth were trembling. Under the roar, the sub-munitions, like black horses, rushed towards the only remaining city gate. After smashing through the city gate and the building, the remaining power remained unabated. Entered the city.
Ten thirty-pound artillery pieces killed 0 enemy people.
"What a waste." Chen Dacheng looked at this scene blankly. The big fireworks were certainly beautiful and scary, but three hundred kilograms of gunpowder = 15,000 rounds of flintlock muskets could kill two people. Apart from completely smashing the already dilapidated city gate, the thing seemed to have no use.
Actually, it is useful to lower morale.
In the afternoon, Anda Khan sent his second son Buyan Taiji to the Ming Dynasty camp to discuss surrender.
These ten 30-pound cannons were the confidence. The Ming Dynasty had plenty of gunpowder. Anda Khan finally chose to surrender. Qi Jiguang built the camp to the bottom of Bansheng City. He was already desperate.
(End of this chapter)