Chapter 911 Something is better than nothing! If he doesn't work for the welfare of his soldiers, what kind of general is he?
After receiving the personal verification from Yang Duanhe, the man who committed the crime, the battle report that should have been compiled long ago finally came to the end.
Hundreds of messengers rushed out of the Yishui Great Wall and galloped westwards!
On December 10, the 16th year of King Qin’s reign.
Da Qin, Xianyang, Imperial Study Room.
Li Si sat in the audience, smiled and cupped his hands: "On November 19, Huang Chang, a powerful man from Jiyang County, knew that the coalition forces had sent more than one million troops to attack our country, Qin. He thought that our country's internal defense would be relaxed, and he brazenly gathered hundreds of old people. The boy servants wanted to cause trouble."
"The day after the rebellion, six boy servants shouted the name of Lord Chang'an and went up to kill Huang Chang, and most of the boy servants responded."
"Ji Huang Chang. Chang has been imprisoned in Jiyang County Prison, awaiting sentencing."
Ying Zheng nodded with a smile: "Good! Great kindness!" All officials are rewarded.”
"Call those six heroes into Xianyang, I want to see them in person, and then reward them generously!"
Although the Qin Dynasty has always supported bravery and spontaneous killing of thieves, Jiyang County is in the old Wei Dynasty!
The young servants of the old Wei brazenly killed the dignitaries of the old Wei in order to protect the Qin State. This was something that was simply unimaginable in the past.
But now, this thing has really happened!
What does this mean?
What the people want!
Tonight Ying Zheng might be able to wake up laughing in his dreams!
As for the boy servants shouting for Lord Chang'an instead of the King, does it matter?
It doesn’t matter at all!
The commander-in-chief, Zhao Cheng, followed closely and said with cupped hands: "Your Majesty, the weather is now cold and it is no longer suitable to continue building the Qin Wang Zheng 15-style blast furnace."
"Before winter, I will serve as the chief minister in Guanzhong, Yiyang, Daliang and other places to build 27 Qinwangzheng 15th-style blast furnaces, which can smelt more than 32,000 stone and iron every day!"
< br>"When the weather continues to cool down, I don't know whether these twenty-seven blast furnaces can continue to produce, and I should ask Lord Chang'an for advice."
Ying Zheng's pupils shrank visibly. He praised with emotion: "More than 32,000 stone irons! More than 32,000 stone irons!"
"How many farm tools can be cast! How many instruments can be cast! How many armors can be cast!"
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“Brother Wang is dismissive of Qin Wangzheng’s fifteen-type blast furnace, but this Qin Wangzheng’s fifteen-type blast furnace is actually a powerful tool for rejuvenating the country!”
Ying Zheng felt a hatred in his heart!
When Ying Zheng discovered Qin Wangzheng’s Type 15 blast furnace, it was already autumn and the temperature had begun to drop.
Otherwise, relying on Da Qin’s infrastructure capabilities, it would be easy to build more than a hundred blast furnaces within a year!
In this way, Da Qin can obtain tens of thousands of stones of iron every day! How much more iron can Da Qin get in one year!
Thinking of Ying Chengyu, Ying Zheng immediately asked: "How much iron armor can the general produce per month?"
Hear the sound of strings and know the elegant meaning.
Of course Zhao Cheng understood that although Ying Zheng was asking about the iron armor production capacity of the general's office, he actually wanted to send more armor to Ying Chengyu.
Zhao Cheng quickly replied: "The young master has ordered all the blacksmiths in the counties surrounding the blast furnace to make iron armor."
"With the current strength, we can get more than 4,000 iron armors per month." Deputy. ”
With abundant iron materials and abundant craftsmen, Shaofu’s production capacity will explode!
Nurhaci raised an army with only thirteen pieces of armor.
But today Daqin can forge more than four thousand pairs of armor every month!
If you give Great Qin one year, you can gather nearly 50,000 pieces of armor, and in just ten years, you can give Great Qin 480,000 armored warriors.
Although the armor worn by these 480,000 warriors is only cast iron nail armor and not the copper nail armor of the Qin Dynasty, it is still armor!
If Bai Qi could be given 480,000 pairs of raw iron nails, I'm afraid Qin Shihuang would not be Ying Zheng, but Ying Ji!
However, Ying Zheng frowned slightly when he heard this.
Only 4,000 pairs of armor can be made every month?
This amount is indeed astonishing, but for the current Ying Chengyu, I am afraid it is just a drop in the bucket!
Observing Ying Zheng's expression, Zhao Cheng continued: "The day before yesterday, Gongsun Qian (Ying Qian) offered a plan."
"Cast a thicker iron plate into an arc, and the two There are holes on the side, and before the battle, the soldiers are ordered to wrap the two iron plates on the chest and back, and then thread them with ropes to form a armor."
"Pour molten iron directly into the armor-shaped iron frame, open a hole in the lower part, and tie it with a rope to make an armor."
"The defensive capabilities of this armor are inferior to ordinary armor, but fortunately it is easy to cast."
“If we gather the strength of General Shaofu to create such armor, we can get more than 60,000 pairs of armors every month!”
“Shaofu Jiang has already cast several finished products and they are ready for use at any time. The king’s judgment.”
Ying Zheng became interested and immediately ordered: “Send it up!”
Soon, ten pairs of cast iron armors were moved into the imperial study.
After Ying Zheng was silent for two seconds, he looked at Zhao Cheng and asked in a deep voice: "Ai Qingyan said, is this armor?"
You tell me, is this armor?
You bully others and don’t know how to fight!
These are clearly twenty curved iron plates and twenty iron bowls!
Zhao Cheng was not embarrassed at all, but said firmly: "This is the armor!"
Wang Jian took the initiative to pick up the two iron plates and looked at them, then weighed and knocked them in his hands. He gave his own evaluation cautiously: "Compared with Qin armor, this armor is more than twice as heavy, making it inconvenient for soldiers to travel long distances."
"In the heavier case, this armor is more The armor can only protect the front, chest and back, but does not protect the shoulders and arms at all. If you want to protect the shoulders and arms, you should also cover them with leather armor. "This armor is completely inflexible, making it difficult for soldiers to bend down. It cannot be distributed to crossbowmen. ”
“And this armor cannot be adjusted according to the height, height, weight and thickness of the soldiers like armor. Once it is damaged on the front line, it cannot be repaired and can only be transported back to the rear. Recast.”
"Although I haven't personally tested it, I'm afraid the defensive power of this armor is..."
At first glance, this armor looks a bit like the common plate armor in Europe, especially the breastplate of the French cuirassiers.
However, European plate armor is forged with the pursuit of defensive power as the starting point, while this iron armor is cast with the pursuit of cheapness and easy availability. The starting points of the two are very different. The raw materials and processes used It is fundamentally different from technology.
Key designs such as the dome structure and inclined corners that allow European plate armor to dominate the battlefield are the same!
This directly leads to the fact that although this armor looks like plate armor, it does not have many advantages of plate armor, but it has many disadvantages, and there are many things that plate armor does not have. Disadvantages and Problems.
As soon as Wang Jian got started, he listed more than ten shortcomings of this armor. Every single one of them could sentence this armor to death!
But in the end, Wang Jian changed the subject, looked at Ying Zheng and said sincerely: "If the armor allocated to the general in the imperial court is all like this, the king will not give an explanation to the general. Just stay at the door of the royal study and don’t leave!”
“But if the imperial court can give the general tens of thousands of such armors after allocating them, the general will be ranked high or low. Give it to the king!”
“This is armor after all!”
Although cast armor has many shortcomings and few advantages, the advantage of being cheap and easy to obtain is enough to cover up all the shortcomings. !
No matter how tight the hip armor is, it is safer than no armor at all. No matter how ugly the iron armor is, it is stronger than black cloth.
Yes, it’s better than nothing!
Ying Zheng was a little surprised and asked seriously: "General, do you think this armor is worth the effort to cast it?"
Wang Jian handed over his hand with determination: "It is worth it!"
< br>"The general advises me to use all the iron materials obtained by the Qin Dynasty this year to build this armor extensively."
"I will do my best to make all the officers and soldiers of my Great Qin wear armor!"
Han Cang said with some distress: "But the amount of iron consumed in this way will be extremely huge."
" Moreover, this armor is made by casting. If it is damaged, it will have to be smelted in a blast furnace, which is very expensive!”
Such an armor weighs more than forty kilograms!
The iron material used to make a pair of iron armor can easily make sixty or seventy hammer heads and forty or fifty pairs of Chang'an plows.
If all these iron materials are used in farm tools, how many more farm tools will Great Qin be able to acquire this year, and how much more wasteland will be reclaimed next year?
Wang Jian said in a particularly strong voice: "There is a huge difference in morale and combat power between soldiers with armor and soldiers without armor."
"Although this armor is simple, it can be used at critical moments. But it is possible to save a soldier's life!"
"I know that building this armor will definitely consume a lot of iron, but our soldiers of Great Qin are worth it!"
Wang Jian! He is ready to fight alone in the court.
If he doesn't work for the welfare of his soldiers, what kind of general is he?
It just so happened that he had fallen asleep for a long time during the court meeting, so he was full of energy!
However, before Wang Jian started to show his strength, Ying Zheng had already made the final decision: "Make it!"
"Chang'an Jun only led 700,000 troops against the coalition's army of more than one million, and the strength was nearly Half of the coalition forces!"
"At this moment, Chang'an Jun must be under great pressure!"
"The government should do its best to help Anjun instead of being stingy with the iron materials."
"The iron materials were also obtained from the blast furnace developed by Changanjun, and it is only right that they be used to help Anjun win. "
"And this victory or defeat is directly related to the survival of our Qin Dynasty. If you don't plan for today, how can you plan for the future?"
Wang Jian excitedly handed over: "Your Majesty is wise!"
Wei Liao! , Lu Buwei and others thought for a moment and then all handed over their hands: "Your Majesty is wise!"
Even Han Cang endured his heartache and shouted: "Your Majesty is wise!"
Han Cang was just scared, but he could distinguish the importance.
If Da Qin loses this battle, how can we talk about sustainable development!
Ying Zheng nodded happily: "Good!"
"Send that armor up."
Thinking of Ying Chengyu's joy when receiving these armors, Ying Zheng couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.
Rubbing the rough surface of the cast iron armor, Ying Zheng asked thoughtfully: "This armor was developed by Gongsun Qian?"
"I remember that Gongsun Qian especially loved to study the law. , now he is the Guards Order, why did he suddenly delve into the art of craftsmanship?"
Zhao Cheng smiled and said: "It's not just Gongsun Qian, there are many royal princes, Gongsun Yu, since Chang'an Jun developed Chang'an paper? "I will be a young master."
"Since February of the eleventh year of the Qin Dynasty, the princes and grandsons of the royal family have presented 386 pieces of craftsmanship."
"Except for 302 of them, which are techniques that have been recorded for a long time as I will make the Shaofu, the rest are all ingenious, and this iron armor is the most dazzling piece of craftsmanship among them!"
The reward in February of the eleventh year of the Qin Dynasty and Ying Chengyu's deliberate guidance finally planted a seed in the hearts of the children of the Qin royal family.
After nearly four years of arduous growth and waiting, seedlings sprouted out of the ground one after another, showing a young but thriving scene, and even produced the first seedlings that were not good-looking but sweet. Thirst quenching fruit!
(End of this chapter)