Prince of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 111: Soldier armor

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The reason why I believe that Wang Junjun’s industrial workshop cannot produce this refined crossbow is that its manufacturing is extraordinary. If every crossbow piece is put together, if it meets the requirements, it will take ten years from the growth period of the material! This is also the original intention of the three-year bow and ten-year crossbow!

Crossbows and other utensils are all made of wood, not every kind of wood can meet the requirements, and the hard and soft requirements of the parts are different, which is the reason why the crossbow is expensive!

Similarly, the lethality of the crossbow is also terrifying, it is an ancient best long-range weapon, and its power and shooting speed even exceed the most primitive musket. The current Jin Kingdom learns to imitate the various weapons of the Song Kingdom, especially gunpowder, but it is difficult for anyone to recreate this kind of sophisticated crossbow equipment that was unique to the Song Dynasty!

"Thank you, I will give you ten one-foot-long mirrors and twenty of the most exquisite crystal glass crafts." Zhao Zhen said, he didn't use Li Yanxian for nothing, this person helped him so, it is not Zhao Zhen's not to give him benefits. character.

"No! As long as the prince can defeat the Golden Army, these things will be used on the blade, which is much stronger than what exists in our arsenal. Now the Golden Army is powerful, and will be limited by the emperor's order and cannot help in the fight. Lack of gold and silver, I just want to see how far you can lead your army!" Li Yanxian shook his head and said.

In fact, Li Yanxian was right. On the surface, everything that believes in Wang Jun is thriving and is marching towards glory. But the fatal crisis has actually reached the bottom of the nose. That was the time when the main force of the Jin army returned south.

If Zhao Zhen didn't hurry up about half a year and a little bit of time, he would connect his two lands into one piece and border the occupied land of the Southern Song Dynasty. Smashing down an iron bucket-like sturdy territory, and backing the land occupied by the Southern Song Dynasty can return food, military supplies and other materials, which means that Zhao Zhen will face the golden army's full retaliation attack.

Zhao Zhen has reason to believe that once things get to that point, Zhao Gou will kill himself with a smile, and there is absolutely nothing to say. Instead of saying that Zhao Zhen has set himself more than half a year, it is better to say that he only has half a year of arrogance.

For Xin Wang Jun, time is such a urgency. Although Li Yanxian didn't want expensive mirrors and glass products, Zhao Zhen had to give them to him. Originally, Li Yanxian didn't want to help Zhao Zhen, he just wanted to expel Jin Bing.

But Zhao Zhen must give. There is no way, Li Yanxian's soldiers and young men need him to spend more than 20,000 people. Even if Li Yanxian has a certain amount of court worship, it is not easy to feed 20,000 people. It is one thing that Zhang Jun above Li Yanxian is better than Du Chong. But in the same way, because of his literati background and good family conditions, he is not a person who knows hardship. When Da Song was invaded by the Golden Soldiers and the national strength had begun to decline rapidly, this Zhang Jun began to drastically reduce some unnecessary expenditures.

This is inevitable, because in the heart of this aspiring, talented and self-employed Chuan-Shan Xuan-Fu Disposal Officer, large tracts of land have been lost due to the large-scale invasion of the south by the golden soldiers. The taxes of the imperial court were rapidly reduced, and the army's demand for money was extremely crazy. Zhang Jun has to deduct a little bit, start for his own soldiers, and have all his own expenses. Of course, it is also possible to install some of your own personal pockets.

Therefore, the military payment sent to everyone is naturally greatly reduced. However, Li Yanxian's military resources have been getting less and less, and the welfare of soldiers has decreased, and various deficiencies have made Li Yanxian helpless. But for Zhao Zhen, he had to help the other party to find a way, not to mention, the other party's army was a lubricant that separated Wang Jun and Song Jun. With Li Yanxian's army in the middle, believe in the king's army will not conflict with the Song army.

Moreover, after a long period of war in Shanzhou City, there is not much food left. For the military, food is the most important thing.

However, Xin Wang Jun was also short of food, Xin Wang Jun was unable to fund Li Yanxian's food. However, although Wang Jun Xin was short of food, they were valuable things. Naturally, countless big merchants came to send a large number of food pigs and sheep in exchange for glass, mirrors, and mirrors that were not worth a few cents to Xin Wang Jun. Perfume and other items.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen must give Li Yanxian the promised mirrors and glass products, these objects are the most exquisite workmanship, and they are much more expensive than ordinary mirrors and glass products. Believe that these things can allow Li Yanxian to directly raise enough military rations for 20,000 people for three months.

Some people may be surprised that just some mirrors and glass products were enough for 20,000 people in that era. It's amazing! But this is the fact. All kinds of transparent and colored glass products are worth tens of thousands of dollars, and they can really be sold for tens of thousands of dollars. Mirrors are even more expensive. Ten thousand cans of money can buy military rations worth more than 20,000 and a half months.

Of course, this is the price to the south. If you sell it to merchants who trade back and forth, one-third to one-half of the price is good. Of course, the merchants trade in grain and gold. Merchants are profitable, and naturally they have to make a lot of money back and forth.

Li Yanxian was in military affairs, and he was leaving in a hurry. He didn't know how many spies and spies from the Southern Song Dynasty and Jin Kingdom were in his army, so he had to rush back overnight. After sending off Li Yanxian and instructing his guards to bring the items to Li Yanxian, Zhao Zhen came back.

At this moment, Zhao Zhen was in the hall, and Li Yuxuan walked in from the room next to it. "His Royal Highness, General Li is really a loyal and courageous person, but with such a big hand, is there an instruction from someone above him?" "Above?" Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "You mean Zhang Jun or Zhao Gou!"

"Hahaha! Zhang Jun doesn't have the guts. In terms of military ability, he is not as good as Li Yanxian. As for Zhao Gou? To put it bluntly, he is just a pig! It's just a pig before me. He wants it. The rebellious rebels may collapse, and at the same time they want to make peace with the golden soldiers. But they can't even drive tigers and wolves, watch the fire from the shore and reap the benefits of fishermen. He is a fool except that his piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are better than me. Military idiot!" Zhao Zhen is very disdainful of the present emperor Zhao Gou of the Song Dynasty! He believed that the reason why Zhao Gou was able to contend with himself was to instruct others to have the right time and the orthodox name.

But this sentence can be regarded as Zhao Zhen's complaint. In fact, it cannot be said to be completely right. In fact, Zhao Gou is actually very smart. Whether he is wise or talented, he is actually not bad. If it hadn't, the world of Song Dynasty would not fall into his hands.

But the problem is only his character. Zhao Gou had the courage when he was the prince. Entering the barracks for the first time, he was secretly mutilated by the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin, and then he had a hidden illness.

Zhao Gou's body was mutilated by the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin. In fact, it was a very secret matter that no one could tell. Jin Guo said that it would affect their reputation. Even the barbaric Jurchens were unwilling to play with the reputation of the imperial prince at will. And Zhao Gou needs to swallow his anger and endure the pain of being unable to have personnel and no offspring.

Zhao Gou has a psychological shadow, but at the same time he is afraid of the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin and the army of the Kingdom of Jin. Therefore, there was a shadow in Zhao Gou's heart. Therefore, Zhao Gou feared the Golden Soldiers from his heart, and commanded other generals to fight against the gold, but secretly sought peace and blindly fled. But Zhao Gou was very smart, and all the famous members of the Zhao family's royal family and all the powerful rebels were murdered or dismantled by him. In the end, Zhao Gou, who had fled, was still sitting on his feet. Although a group of famous generals played a role in turning the tide, but if you say that Zhao Go is stupid, he is not stupid.

From the military crossbows brought by Li Yanxian, Zhao Zhen took out crossbows such as stepping crossbows and continuous crossbows, and directly let his craftsmen imitate them.

"I want you to find a way to trial-produce crossbows. You see, the main components of crossbows are wood products. I want you to find a way, in addition to the main structure, to see if you can replace the parts with copper and iron as much as possible. You know, crossbows The attrition rate is extremely high, mainly for the parts and utensils in the crossbow. If those sensitive things are replaced with copper and iron, the effect is believed to be much better!" Zhao Zhen pointed out the direction to the craftsmen.

In Chinese civilization, the crossbow made has always been in the front of the world. But the problem is that Chinese crossbows are generally made of wood. When the Chinese crossbows were introduced to the West, the West has been thinking about improving them. The main way is to replace the wood materials on the crossbows with metal. Because wood materials are prone to accidents and wear and tear, if you don’t use them for ten years, a crossbow may be finished, or if you use it too many times, the wood grain will be broken and it will be broken. In contrast, it can be used permanently by replacing it with metal.

The craftsman leader naturally had no objection, but he said: "It is okay, but the lord, we need to take apart a few crossbows... this..." What he meant, Zhao Zhen understands that military crossbows are very expensive. The military crossbow is disassembled at will

But Zhao Zhen naturally allowed it. He didn't hesitate to say: "Okay, let's dismantle five crossbows for you!" A fine military crossbow is very expensive. The best continuous crossbow, due to the high requirements for wood and compact workmanship, can even cost as much as several dozen. Even if the products here are mass products, no matter how cheap it is, a crossbow will have to be about ten points. What does this ten points mean? Dozens of taels of silver! Faced with five crossbows of various types, they can be disassembled and studied at will. This means that valuables of hundreds of silver can be damaged at will.

Do you know why the Kingdom of Jin can't learn Song Kingdom's best bow and crossbow technique? In addition to the skill level of the craftsmen is not as good as the Song State and they do not attach importance to crossbows, only the bow, but also because their craftsmen are not allowed to dismantle expensive crossbows at will. When the craftsman leader heard Zhao Zhen's words, he was very moved. He was holding a crossbow and could hardly speak.

"When will the new weapons of the cavalry land I want be ready? The Commander-in-Chief's mansion has already been ready to distribute to the ministries, you must hurry." Zhao Zhen said.

The craftsman leader said: "Don't worry, you can build it in half a month. If it is not for our lack of manpower, we can do it faster, and the main reason is that the Lord wants too many types of weapons..."

Zhao Zhen sighed, "This is nothing we can do. Golden soldiers are more powerful than us, and our cavalry is actually inferior to the other in some aspects. So our cavalry must use enough weapons, otherwise how to improve theirs. What about the combat effectiveness... We now have a lot of soldiers, and I also have a headache! Some weapons should be made better, such as throwing knives and shields!"

The flying knife is to learn from the Arab flying knife camel soldier, the Arab flying knife camel soldier is very powerful, so that the powerful and heavily armored European Crusaders were beheaded and returned with countless failures.

As for the shield, Zhao Zhen designed a small shield for cavalry. It has two handles, one for putting it on the arm and the other for holding it in the hand. The shield surface is curved and extremely strong. There are three types of shields designed by Zhao Zhen. One is a thorn shield. There is a spike on the shield surface, allowing people to counterattack in addition to defense. One is to add a blade to the front of the shield, the one with a single blade is a shield knife, and there is a double-edged shield with double blades.

In addition to the small shields, there are large shields like pot lids used by light cavalry, and large shields used by infantry...Anyway, under Zhao Zhen's whimsical ideas, a lot of facilitating battles have been created. The peculiar cold weapon.