Chapter 438 Armor
It is different from the early years when there were only a few people in the entire department. After many expansions of personnel and an increase in the labor force, both the original equipment department and the forging department have become It is already a first-class department within Dazhou.
Now that the two departments have merged, the scale has naturally become even larger.
The armor production process is indeed relatively cumbersome, but with the appropriate deployment of manpower, it is not impossible to produce samples in a short time.
No, with all the materials and hands in place, the first set of armor as a sample was quickly completed.
After receiving the news, Zhou Xu came directly to the work area of the equipment department as quickly as possible.
Today's Equipment Department is undoubtedly still called the Equipment Department, but it has become a sub-department under the Ordnance and Equipment Headquarters. In the future, as various tasks and technologies are clarified, the sub-departments below will also be More and more.
The work of the forging department is mainly to forge the armor pieces and polish them appropriately. The subsequent assembly work is all carried out in the equipment department.
So the sample armor that was just finished was naturally in the equipment department.
The moment he saw the armor, Zhou Xu suddenly had a bright feeling. The style was very similar to the armor of their ancient Chinese generals.
When he was arguing with Wang Pengfei before, even though he was wearing scales and chain mail, he talked for a long time, but his words were clear and logical.
But in a strict sense, Zhou Xu believes that the armor he designed cannot simply be classified into a single armor such as scale armor and chain armor. He prefers to classify it as It's called composite armor.
A whole set of armor, the parts that need to be flexible, are all designed with scales, connected in series with pieces of armor. And for key parts like the chest that are easily vulnerable to fatal attacks, he uses A whole piece of armor!
Doing this will significantly increase the weight of the entire set of armor, but why is this weight so important?
Under this premise, relatively fragile moving parts such as elbows and knees adopt a combined structure of iron armor and scale armor.
While using integrated iron armor to wrap the elbows and knees, a leather and partial scale armor structure is used in the parts that need to be bent to ensure that movement is not hindered to the greatest extent.
Other than that, the other parts are mainly made of scale armor.
Looking at this set of armor as a sample, Zhou Xu had a bit of excitement on his face and planned to feel it for himself.
According to Zhuang Mengdie's opinion, he had better change his robe first. It is made of silk. For now, it is considered a luxury item in Dazhou. The process of wearing the armor is very difficult. There is a possibility of damage.
Putting on the linen clothes worn by soldiers, two staff members began to help him put on the armor. During the whole process, Zhou Xu basically only had to stand there, occasionally raising his hand to cooperate.
He was probably bored during this period, so he casually asked Zhuang Mengdie about the production process of this set of armor.
In response to this, Zhuang Mengdie looked at the armor he was wearing and thought about it, while answering casually...
"It's very simple. Just find a human-shaped mold first and give it to that person." Just put a set of linen clothes on the mold, and then sew the armor pieces to the linen clothes.”
“Of course, the strength of the scales alone is not enough, so after completing this. After sewing together, on this basis, we connected the nail pieces to ensure that all the nail pieces were connected together.”
It must be said that as a small number of intellectuals in Dazhou today. For someone who has reached three stars, Zhuang Mengdie's mind is still spinning very quickly.
At that time, when many department members were still having headaches about this problem, she had already thought of this trick.
While he was talking, the two staff members had already put on the armor for him relatively skillfully and handed him the helmet.
This helmet is worth mentioning. According to Zhou Xu, vision is very important.
Wearing a helmet like an iron bucket, although it can wrap your head tightly, the flexibility and vision will be greatly affected. This is not The effect he wanted.
At the beginning, he wanted to make the helmet into the style of a modern steel helmet. Although it didn't look very good, at least his vision and flexibility could be guaranteed.
During this process, he thought of the rattan armor of the rattan soldiers. It was designed like a bamboo hat. It did not affect the vision and flexibility, but also blocked the sun and rain. effect.
Zhou Xu thought this was a good point, so he made adjustments based on the steel helmet and added a brim. By some mistake, he came up with the style of a flying saucer helmet.
This is a design that is more in line with his ideas.
The inside of the helmet was padded with a layer of leather, taking into account the dual issues of impact resistance and comfort. After putting it on, Zhou Xu turned his head casually, and his vision and flexibility were not affected at all. He was very satisfied with the effect.
Of course, considering facial safety, they temporarily equipped the flying saucer helmet with a simple visor that exposed half of the face.
It is said that half of the face is exposed, but in fact, considering the shielding part of the flying saucer helmet, when wearing the flying saucer helmet and visor at the same time, only one pair of their eyes is exposed.
The visor is considered an independent accessory. In order to meet their king's requirement of "not affecting flexibility and vision", Zhuang Mengdie specially made many adjustments to the design of the visor close to the eyes. Some ingenuity has also been added to the way of wearing it.
It can be matched with the tether of the flying saucer helmet and can be worn without affecting the flexibility. It took a lot of thought.
The results obtained were undoubtedly quite good, which Zhou Xu greatly appreciated.
"Mengdie, your visor is so ingenious that it completely exceeded my initial expectations!"
In response, Zhuang Mengdie just smiled.
"Your Majesty, you should hurry up and try this armor."
"Okay."
While talking, Zhou Xu started to move freely, and to his satisfaction Compared with the helmet and the visor, this armor looks good, but once it is put on and moved around, many problems are exposed.
"On the shoulders, the movement is a bit limited. This side can be lengthened a little to leave some room for movement. There are also armpits that will be scratched by nails. I think this area can be replaced with leather on the inside. , and here..."
Judging from the current situation, there are still many things that cannot be done properly when sewing on the mold, and need to be adjusted bit by bit.
Zhou Xu, who entered the working state, was not ambiguous at all. During the activity, he talked about the problems he felt one by one. At the same time, he also said some relatively specific things according to his own ideas. Adjustment method.
This is also the biggest difference between him and Wang Pengfei. He may not see as much miscellaneous things as Wang Pengfei, but Wang Pengfei only knows how to follow the script. While he lacks practical ability, if there are problems in some links, you ask him what to do How to adjust or operate, he couldn't tell at all.
But Zhou Xu is different. Compared with rigid written knowledge, he prefers practice to gain true knowledge. Therefore, his experience is basically accumulated through practice, and he is also good at using his flexible thinking to combine Use it.
(End of this chapter)