Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 51

[Chapter 51 Armor]

“Tunnel!”

Zhao Xu’s drawing is exactly the complete tunnel excavation map.

The deep tunnels are connected to each other, criss-crossing, and some tunnels even open in wells.

And there are food storage and convenient places in the tunnel.

It can be said that it is no problem to spend ten and a half months in it.

“Beidi is strong in the cavalry, so he uses tunnels to resolve its advantage. This tunnel can not only hide people, but also hide soldiers.” Zhao Xu said, “If Beidi uses scouts to plunder villages, the people can hide food in the tunnel and use it to hide food.” The secret of the tunnel attacked the dismounted cavalry.”

Liu Fu was dumbfounded, he had never seen such a fighting method.

Zhao Xu continued: “Also, all the people in Beidi are soldiers, and all the people in Yan County can also be soldiers. This time, in addition to supervising the digging of tunnels in each village, you have to establish a township military system in each township, give them weapons, and let them train. At that time, people can be turned into soldiers.”

“Wonderful, wonderful.” Liu Fu became more and more excited the more he heard it.

Now that the land is being distributed, most of the people in Yan County are attached to the palace, so there is no problem in doing so.

Implemented in this way, each village is a fortress.

It is no longer a place where Beidi people slaughter at will.

The next day, at noon.

Zhao Xu draws armor patterns with a pen in his study.

In his mind, there are several kinds of armor to choose from, such as chain mail, scale armor, Song armor, plate armor and so on.

In the end, he decided to choose two types of scale armor and plate armor according to the different combat objects of the soldiers and the performance of the armor.

Scale armor, this is the traditional armor of the ancient East, named after its shape like fish scales.

The nail plates with slightly curved surface are stacked on top of each other and can be sewn on the inner lining.

The scale armor has good defense against swords, bows and arrows. The disadvantage is that the coverage rate is low, and the armor is vulnerable to attack and falls off during battle.

Plate armor is a product of the contemporary Western post-cold weapon era.

It is made of riveted large pieces of armor, with high coverage, as if a person is packed in an iron barrel, and the defense against swords, bows and arrows is also good, but the disadvantage is that it is expensive and cumbersome to manufacture.

Therefore, generally speaking, it is only the custom-made equipment of western knight masters, and it cannot be generally equipped with soldiers.

And the plate armor is heavy, and it is mainly used for heavy cavalry and heavy infantry in the contemporary West.

At present, Beidi has a large number of light cavalry. If all his cavalry wear this, they may be beaten by Beidi cavalry with kites.

After weighing it, he decided to produce some scale armor for light cavalry and light infantry, and then produce some plate armor for forming heavy cavalry and heavy infantry.

In this way, the advantages of the armor can be fully utilized.

However, because he has improved the smelting level of Yan County.

He believed that no matter the plate armor or the scale armor, the Yanjun Bingzhangsi would definitely outperform the other Bingzhangsi of Dasong in terms of quality.

Moreover, since a large amount of iron and steel can be smelted, the cost of plate armor is not very high for him.

The only thing he needs to do is to use water power to build a hydraulic forging hammer along the river to forge large pieces of armor.

After drawing the disassembled drawings of the two types of armor, he was about to send someone to the Military Division.

At this time Feng Er came in.

Since she was to be the housekeeper of the palace, all the miscellaneous matters in the palace, big and small, were taken care of by her.

But this little girl is very energetic, and she can handle it with ease.

“Your Highness, General Chang is awake.” Feng’er smiled pretty.

She knew that Zhao Xu would be happy when he heard the news.

“Really?” Zhao Xu stood up, “Let’s go and have a look.”

Feng’er nodded, and accompanied Zhao Xu to Changwei’s courtyard. General Chang was revived with a pile of garlic, and Hu Langzhong called for the magic medicine, please give him some, Your Highness.”

Zhao Xu was slightly proud.

Chang Wei improved in a day and night, which is enough to show that Chang Wei’s physical fitness and this natural antibiotic are effective.

In this way, he not only saved Chang Wei, but also produced a Dasong version of antibiotics.

And that’s great.

On the battlefield in the future, the number of soldiers who die due to wound infection will be greatly reduced.

The most important thing is that even if others know that it is made of garlic, they cannot produce it.

Because each process has its own requirements, such as garlic needs to stand after mashing, if this process is not done well, the effect will be greatly reduced.

What’s more, only he can produce high-grade liquor.

Arrived at Chang Wei’s yard.

When Zhao Xu entered the room, Chang Wei sat up and leaned on the bed.

Seeing Zhao Xu, he struggled to stand up and salute.

Zhao Xu pressed it directly on the bed, and said with a smile: “Your injury is not healed yet, so you don’t need to care about these red tapes.”

Hearing this, Chang Wei’s eyes suddenly became moist, and he said in a mournful voice: “Your Highness, the final general will be incompetent and powerless Saving the common people, but also losing troops and generals, deserves death.”

“Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, you don’t have to blame yourself, if you are the king, you may not be able to do better than you.” Zhao Xu comforted.

It was Chang Wei’s first battle with Beidi, and the cavalry he brought was made up of patchwork. It is already good to be able to come back alive.

Chang Wei still blamed himself, and sighed, “Your Highness, I don’t know how many troops will be sent for Beidi’s autumn hunting. From what the General has seen, His Highness is extremely dangerous in Yan County. It is better to hide in another county and let the General stay with Beidi.” Fight to the death.”

“I am not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and Yan County is my fiefdom, there is no reason to abandon the people and run away, so don’t mention it again.” Zhao Xu reprimanded, “You also cheer up Come, if you want to die, you will die on the battlefield with this king.”

Chang Weiru stared at Zhao Xu in a daze as he received a blow from the head.

Previously, he only admired Zhao Xu for his diligence and love for the people.

Looking at it now, King Yan is also a man of iron and blood.

The more I feel in my heart, King Yan is a rare and virtuous lord.

He nodded, “The last general’s life was saved by His Highness, and it will belong to His Highness from now on. When Beidi comes again, the last general will risk his life to protect His Highness and Yanjun County.”

Zhao Xu laughed, “That’s almost the same. , you can rest and recuperate now, when you recover, I will show you something?”

“What is it?” Chang Wei was curious.

Zhao Xu showed the blueprint in front of Chang Wei, “This is it.”

(End of this chapter)