Steel Dynasty - Chapter 85

[Chapter 85 Plate Armor Effect]

A set of plate armor has many parts. With the help of the craftsman, Lu Fei successfully put on the plate armor.

Putting on the helmet, Lu Fei now looked like a steel monster. He walked around excitedly in his plate armor.

“Not bad, very flexible.” Lu Fei said excitedly: “I just don’t know if this plate armor can withstand swords.”

“This is not easy, Zhao Hu, go give him a blow.” Xiao Ming said.

The cold sweat on Zhao Hu’s forehead immediately stayed, “Your Highness, this…”

“What are you afraid of? Come as soon as you are told. Mother-in-law, are you the soldier I brought out?” Lu Fei cursed.

When Zhao Hu heard this, his face suddenly darkened. He pulled out the steel knife from his waist and pointed it at Lu Fei. The knife was slashing at Lu Fei’s abdomen. He only heard the sound of metal friction, and there was only a sound on the plate armor. There was

a shallow mark from the knife. Although Lu Fei took a few steps back, he was not injured at all and did not even cry out in pain.

“Your Highness, there’s nothing wrong with me. Come and give me a few more knives.” Lu Fei said excitedly.

Zhao Hu was also surprised. At this time, he felt confident and bold, and stabbed Lu Fei with his knife.

Lu Fei retreated repeatedly, but still cut for a long time just like the first knife, and only felt a slight pain.

Zhao Hu became interested and struck one blow after another without stopping. He didn’t stop until Lu Fei kicked him down.

“You brat, look at the damage you’ve done to my precious armor. It’s full of knife marks.” Lu Fei said in pain, and then said to Xiao Ming with saliva on his face: “Your Highness, give me another set. Look at this set for this boy. “Cut it.”

Xiao Ming curled his lips, “This set of plate armor costs at least thirty taels of silver, you really dare to say that.”

“Thirty taels?” Lu Fei said in surprise, “This is my year. “

Xiao Ming naturally wanted to scare Lu Fei and wanted him to cherish it and use it. However, if this plate armor were to be forged using the previous forging method, it would really be impossible to forge it without thirty taels, but now because of the hydraulic forging hammer, the slaves It’s free. This set of plate armor actually costs about the same as a farm ox.

“This is still a small amount. Your armor is a general’s armor. The thickness and carvings are different.” Xiao Ming said.

Lu Fei suddenly felt regretful, and looked at Zhao Hu fiercely, “You pay!”

Zhao Hu said aggrievedly: “You asked me to chop this, and besides, I don’t have any money.”

Seeing Lu Fei’s body hurting so much, Seemingly, Xiao Ming stopped teasing him and said, “That’s all. For the sake of your meritorious service in Cangzhou, I will give you three sets of plate armor.”

“Thank you, Your Highness!” Lu Fei was overjoyed.

Touching his own armor like a treasure, Lu Fei said again: “Your Highness, this armor is really powerful, almost invulnerable. Now if you give me 10,000 soldiers equipped with plate armor, do we still need to be afraid of the barbarians?”

“This Don’t talk nonsense.” Xiao Ming looked serious. In order to prevent Lu Fei from being arrogant, he said: “The plate armor is strong, but it will also reduce the flexibility.”

Lu Fei moved a little and said, “It’s a bit. , But the impact is not big, the main thing is whether the bow and arrow can penetrate the plate armor. “

“Ordinary cast iron arrows can’t do it.” Xiao Ming said bluntly that the forging technology used in his plate armor is basically equivalent to the modern seventeen-eighteen. Century, there is no corresponding special arrow, and the damage to plate armor will not be great.

In fact, even the early muskets could not penetrate plate armor. It was not until the power of firearms continued to increase that plate armor was eliminated.

Xiao Ming now equips his army with plate armor just to deal with the situation in Dayu. Moreover, with the technology he has mastered, the production of plate armor is much faster and cheaper than the production of scale armor.

That’s why he chose plate armor.

“Really?” Lu Fei grinned even wider, wishing he could put on his plate armor and go fight immediately.

“This is just speculation at the moment, and the specifics can only be tested through war.” Xiao Ming said, this is his true words. Only by experiencing war can the advantages and disadvantages of any equipment be distinguished.

Lu Fei was now fascinated by the sophistication, and he didn’t know whether he heard Xiao Ming’s words, and said: “Your Highness, I brought these three hundred sets of plate armor back to the military camp.”

“Wait, what are you in a hurry? There is something else here. .” Xiao Ming waved his hand, and the craftsman brought over a weapon with a long handle and a long blade.

“Your Highness, could this be the Mo Dao you are talking about?” Lu Fei said.

Last time Xiao Ming said he would take him to see Mo Dao, but he always remembered it.

“That’s right, this is the Mo Dao, which is specially used to deal with the heavy cavalry of the barbarians.” Xiao Ming said.

Today, most of the Manchus on the grassland are light cavalry, but there are also many heavy cavalry. These are the elites of the barbarians. In general, the barbarian battles basically adopt the tactics of light cavalry attacking on two wings and heavy cavalry in the middle pushing flatly.

This method is basically impossible to defeat the army of Dayu.

Lu Fei picked up the Mo Dao and weighed it, and said in surprise: “Your Highness, this Mo Dao is not light. It weighs twenty kilograms.”

“So, if this kind of Mo Dao is slashed, it can kill humans and horses with one blow.” Xiao Ming said, Mo Dao is all made of fine steel. The handle is very long, and the top is similar to the head of a gun, but it is long, wide and very sharp.

Lu Fei rubbed the Mo Dao in his hand, and combined with the plate armor, this Mo Dao would be a nightmare for the cavalry if used against the cavalry in a battle formation.

In addition to Mo Dao, the steel workshop also made many spears, swords and other weapons for the army. As for long-range weapons, he chose crossbows.

Although the manufacturing cost of crossbows is high and the firing speed is low, for Xiao Ming, a qualified archer requires at least three years of training, which is too long.

In war, soldiers are consumables. This is a competition to see who can form an army quickly. This is also the reason why muskets later became the mainstream of war. After one group died, another group died in three months.

The same goes for this crossbow. Compared with bows and arrows, soldiers naturally do not need much rigorous training to use crossbows. This is also suitable for the current situation in the fiefdom.

And he can improve the biggest drawback of ancient crossbows. Generally speaking, the main reason why crossbows are inferior to bows and arrows is the ridiculous loading speed. With this advantage, even early-stage firearms are completely destroyed by bows and arrows.

In ancient times, crossbows were basically called foot crossbows, which could only be cocked by using both hands and feet, but Xiao Ming applied the pulley principle to the crossbow.

This means the soldier needs less effort to maneuver the crossbow.

This type of pulley crossbow is currently under development and production, and the steel mill has not yet produced it. However, modern mature technology has proven that it is feasible, and production is only a matter of time.

After taking Lu Fei to see the equipment in the army, Lu Fei immediately asked people to come and transport the weapons and equipment from the steel shop back to the military camp.

Nowadays, the new army basically still wears the clothes they brought, no different from ordinary people. Taking back these equipment can finally give the soldiers hope.

Chen Wenlong and Xiao Ming helplessly looked at Lu Fei’s busy figure. This was just the beginning. As the steel workshop matures, the speed of producing plate armor will become faster and faster, and his soldiers will no longer be embarrassed. No weapons or armor.

(End of chapter)