Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 61

[Chapter 61 The Strong Shield]

“Is the Bing Zhan Division already producing scale armor?”

Looking at the small pile of armor pieces piled up beside the mould, Zhao Xu was overjoyed.

Although during this period of time, he was selling alcohol and devoted himself to restoring people’s livelihood, but he never relaxed his strings for the army.

After all, in troubled times, fists are the truth.

“Back to Your Highness, more than five hundred sets have been sewn.” Wang Ying pointed to a yard not far away.

While guiding Zhao Xu over, he said: “The girls sent by His Highness are now in use.” When they

came to the courtyard, they saw more than two hundred girls busy.

In front of these women, there is a wooden frame, and sleeveless clothes are hung on the wooden frame.

Women use needles and threads to sew these nails on their clothes with thick ropes through the holes in the nails.

Use a rope to pass through the holes on the nail plate to connect the left, right, up and down of the nail plate to form a whole.

On the side, there are sleeve armor and skirt armor that can be tied to the body for protection when worn.

“There are more than 200 people, why are there only 500 sets these days?” Zhao Xu asked.

In his opinion, just armor-piercing pieces are not very difficult.

A woman can wear three sets of scales in one day.

“Your Highness, it’s not that these women are slow in doing things. It’s because the steel of the War Division was not enough in the past few days. A lot of crucibles have been added in the past few days, so the number of armor pieces has only increased.” Wang Ying explained.

Zhao Xu nodded, that’s it.

When he was talking to Wang Ying, the eyes of Xu Lie and other guards lit up.

For them, armor is a life-saving tool.

Compared with the scales on their bodies, the armor of these new scales is very strong, and the style is more beautiful than theirs.

“Your Highness, are these armors for the royal family’s army?” Xu Lie asked knowingly.

Zhao Xu understood the sound, he looked at the armor on Xu Lie.

Although these armors were brought from the Guards.

But now it is old, and there are even peeling nails on it, and the gaps are also large.

Moreover, these nail plates vary in width and thickness, and their shapes are rough.

Compared with Bing Zhansi’s uniform scales covered with fine scales like fish scales, the grade suddenly dropped.

And this kind of scale armor is considered top quality in Dasong.

“Just say what you want, what detours do you want?” Zhao Xu smiled, and said to the bodyguards: “One person picks one pair.”

“Thank you, Your Highness.” .

Liu Fu was also a little curious that King Yan had created so many miraculous things.

He believed that the armor must also be unusual.

So he said, “Your Highness, I wonder how our armor compares to that of the imperial guards?”

“It’s simple, just compare.” Zhao Xu laughed.

He also wanted to see how to defend with steel scale armor.

After all, he asked a guard to put the old armor on a cross, and put a new scale armor beside it.

When Xu Lie came back with a pair of silver scale armor, he said, “Xu Lie, use a bow and arrow to test whether that pair of scale armor is strong.

” ability.

Therefore, it is most appropriate to test the quality of two sets of armor with bows and arrows.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Xu Lie stood thirty meters away, bowed his bow and set an arrow.

The reason why he chose the armor just now was because he wanted a new pair of armor, not because he thought his old armor was bad.

He even subconsciously believed that the armor made by the Bing Zhansi in Yan County was not as good as that of the Forbidden Army.

“Whizzing……”

With two sounds in succession, Xu Lie shot arrows at the two armors respectively.

The first arrow nailed the armor, but the second bounced and landed on the ground.

This surprised him greatly, and trotted over to see what happened.

Because they were waiting at the side, Wang Ying and Zhao Xu went there first.

Picking up the armor of the imperial army, Xu Lie’s arrow had penetrated the armor, and the arrow pierced half as long as his middle finger.

On the other hand, Bingzhangsi’s armor was only dented in the place where it was hit, and it was not pierced.

“Your Highness, this is so different.” Wang Ying smiled from ear to ear, “No wonder Your Highness said it was hard steel.”

Zhao Xu nodded.

In ancient times, armor plates were basically made of wrought iron.

Pig iron is hard, but too brittle, and it is easy to break directly under force. The so-called smashing the pot and selling iron means that the pig iron pot can be smashed directly.

Wrought iron is tough enough, but soft.

Therefore, steel will appear precious.

However, there are also hard steel and soft steel in steel.

Steel with high carbon content is called hard steel, and steel with low carbon content is called soft steel.

The ratio of the crucible that Zhao Xu gave to Wang Ying was precisely for the production of hard steel.

This kind of steel is suitable for making weapons and armor, and at the same time has good toughness, no matter how hard it is hit, it will not break like pig iron.

“This…how is this possible.” Xu Lie also arrived at this time, seeing the huge difference, he was surprised from ear to ear.

The guards had the same expression as Xu Lie, but after being surprised, he all looked at the scale armor in his hand, hugging it tightly as if looking at a baby.

“I didn’t expect this piece of armor to be so powerful. It’s a treasure.”

“It goes without saying that you won’t be afraid of their bows and arrows in future battles.”

“Bows and arrows can’t penetrate them, let alone swords.”

“… …”

The guards gathered together, inexplicably excited.

Hearing the conversation of the guards, Zhao Xu remembered.

Ignoring Xu Lie who was still in shock, he called two guards, “Put it on now, and fight with real swords.”

Then he turned his head and said to Wang Ying, “Is there no helmet?”

“Yes. “Wang Ying asked someone to fetch it immediately.

Not long after, two helmets arrived.

These two helmets were also made according to Zhao Xu’s request.

Different helmet designs that expose the entire face.

The nose and face of his helmet are protected, only the eyes and mouth are exposed.

During the manufacturing process, it is molded by casting molten steel and then hammered by a blacksmith to make the details more perfect.

At this time, the two guards put on armor, arm armor, and skirt armor.

Except for the absence of armor on the inner sides of the two arms, the periphery is basically covered with a layer of scales.

Putting on the helmet again, a depressing sense of ferocity emerged from the two of them.

This is the natural coercion brought by being fully armed.

At this moment, Xu Lie had changed from surprise to surprise, watching the two fight with disdain.

“Your Highness, it’s really a cut.” The two soldiers fought against each other, confused.

“Don’t be afraid, didn’t you know it just now? You can cut it lightly first, and then cut harder.” Zhao Xu instructed.

The two guards nodded, and one guard raised his knife and slashed at the shoulder of the other guard.

He didn’t dare to use too much strength, and only used half of his usual full strength to fight.

“Zhen…” came from the ripping of metal clashes.

He only felt that his palm trembled like he was chopping on a stone, and he immediately showed an incredible expression.

Then he stopped holding back his hands and slashed at the opponent fiercely.

There was another sound of metal clashing, and there was only a white mark on the armor, but the edge of the knife in the guard’s hand was curled.

The watching guards were all dumbfounded at this moment.

(end of this chapter)