I just ate the local characteristic dumpling rice in Nanhai County; it is fried shrimp, fish broiled, chicken and goose breast, pork and lamb spine, chicken soup, cake enema, steamed vegetables, fanci, banana seeds, ginger and cinnamon, salted soy sauce, cover On the new rice produced in the Pearl River Plain, layers of hybrid steamed risotto are made.
Zhou Huaian, who was still a bit greasy and belching, also appeared outside Nanhai County, where the handicraft workshops and furnaces are the most dense.
Although the smell of soot and thin dust is everywhere, for Zhou Huaian, this is the dawn of a primitive industrial foundation; this is the commander hiding under the wings of men, and feel relieved. In the deep house compound, the same kind of people play intriguing games of raising Gu, and they are also known as the heroine of true love, the special romance and sex that can't be experienced;
At least, after re-integrating the iron smelting industry under the rule of the South China Sea and the various peripheral and downstream handicraft workshops attached, he can finally think of the reason for the rebels to prepare ordnance, and the private use of public weapons is based on this world line, which has a certain meaning. The military technology research and development of the above (pre-climbing the technology tree).
For example, after the forging of weapons with the most shallow swords and sharp arrows, consider the further improvement and use of local materials for armor and protective gear with higher technical content.
After all, in this era, although there are official standards and governance procedures from Armament Superintendent Jia Nufang, in fact, due to the huge difference between the north and the south, the fluctuation of the cost of materials and the total investment of people is also a huge difference. Something else.
For places close to the grassland and lack of iron, the use of cattle and sheep skins and felts must be the priority; in the wet and rainy areas of the southwest, vine wood is popular for armor; and near the center of the central plains iron smelting center In Handan and other places, the equipment rate of high-quality iron armor is much higher than that of other opponents. And this is also one of the important bonuses that the three towns in Hebei, which have long been segregated and refused to obey Wanghua, against the imperial court.
Previously, he tinkered with it as an excessive paper armor. Although the protection is barely acceptable, it is not resistant to long-term rain and wetness, as well as the need for wading and swimming, and different degrees of deformation and delamination will occur; if it is short in wartime It's fine to wear it, but it's a bit embarrassing if it is used for daily duty inspections and drills;
The same goes for those mahjong sliced bamboo armors. Although this thing is not afraid of wading and swimming, it can even provide a buoyancy bonus; but under the general weather in Lingnan, it is very moldy and brittle, and some There are even examples of accidentally growing fresh fungus and mushrooms on the body.
In contrast, leather armor is much better. Although it will also suffer from moldy and damp problems, it can still be used for a longer time as long as it is carefully maintained.
Therefore, he was able to personally participate here this time to conduct a comprehensive cost-effective evaluation of the protective effect and cost-effectiveness of armor made according to different materials and processing techniques.
Among the thirteen types of armors set by the Tang Dynasty, a considerable part of them are so-called ceremonial armors in the form of ceremonial decorations. The remaining leather armor, and the six types of iron armor (including Mingguang, Guangyao, Fine Scale, Shanwen, Black Hammer, and Chain Armor) are the actual combat armors equipped by the army. Take, for example, leather armor, which is relatively light, inexpensive, and is the first to be commonly used by humans.
The best material in the South is undoubtedly the rhino hide of China origin, which is the legendary "Rhinoceros"; it is not only dense and tough, but also has a natural gorgeous pattern; therefore, since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, rhino hide has been made only It has always been one of the existences that military commanders like to pursue; if it is properly maintained by means such as oil immersion and painting, it can even be used as a family heirloom, and it has been inherited for several generations.
It’s just that the rhinos that have been in the wild for thousands of years are becoming scarcer. If you really want to exhaust the mountains and go for adventures, you may get a few, but as a batch of equipment for the army, or even a small batch of equipment for the Guards, don’t think about it at all. ；
Secondly, there are crocodile skins and elephant skins as candidates, which are more common than rhinos; at least "elephant moxibustion" made by elephants is still a more common delicacy in this era; as for crocodiles, they are more common in this era. In Datang's officialdom, circles are cursing you, juxtaposing "you go to Chaozhou to raise crocodile" and "go to Qiongzhou, Hainan to feed liliao" as one of the most vicious mantras, and it is also a major trend of the times.
However, wild elephants are not so easy to deal with. They are all active in groups; and there is a high probability of casualties caused by panic and madness. In addition, adult elephants have too thick skins, so they can be stripped as a whole. Difficulty; even after hunting and successfully peeling it, one-third of it needs to be polished before tanning can be carried out. With this accumulation, the cost-effectiveness of hunting elephant hides is actually not much higher.
The crocodile is much simpler. In ancient fashion, it was called the "shark crocodile", and its skin was called the shark leather; it was called a piece of equipment together with rhino leather. "Xunzi Yibing": "Chu people think that they are armored, and they are like golden stones." But although Chaozhou is a famous crocodile paradise, when it is used to equip a large army, it cannot become a long-term source; After all, it is not a modern breeding farm artificially raised in captivity. It takes a lot of effort and effort to find and hunt in the wild. It is more troublesome than the big target elephant that runs into the water when it is alarmed; therefore, it can only As a supplement to small batches.
In the end, it is the cowhide whose source is universal and relatively simple. However, after the various authorities in Lingxi successively returned and sent their sincerity, the source of large quantities of cowhide is no longer a problem, because the local people raise cattle in the mountains regardless of the Han and Han natives. Traditionally, there is a custom of bullfighting and slaughtering bulls to select good breeds every year.
But even buffalo hides can’t be used casually. They need to be raised until the corresponding years. It’s too early and too loose and too late and too brittle; and when the material is taken, a few specific parts of the body are suitable. Others can only be used to make simple and crude leather goods.
Moreover, these parts cannot be subjected to intensive flogging, too many bites or even obvious trauma, to destroy the relative integrity of the overall tissue fibers; then, because of the strength of the armor coat, it is tanned into finished leather. In the process, there is also a certain amount of failure rate and loss. Then paint several layers to prevent daily wear and natural oxidation.
Therefore, it is simply too sweet for those who can easily equip the migrant army with the materials and craftsman who can just pull the materials and craftsmen.
As for the more common pigskins and sheepskins, they are either thin and soft or loose and crisp, and the area that is well used is small; they can only be used as clothing and leather materials. As for the horse skins that some people have mentioned on the forums in later generations, what a joke? How big is the heart or how deep the brain is that the horses, which are important strategic resources in ancient times, will be slaughtered and skinned as protective gear. What
The following iron armor six styles (including Mingguang, Guangyao, Fine Scale, Shanwen, Wu Hammer and Chain Mail) imitation work. Among them, the bright light and light armor composed of a variety of different materials and components are the most complicated. Of course, this is basically not equipped by the big soldiers, except for a small number of trial products for training crafts, which are used as gifts for high-level and related customers. , Can basically be eliminated;
The black hammer armor is a very labor-intensive cold-forged iron armor, which can basically be eliminated at this stage. The difference between Shanwenjia and chain mail is one circular splicing and the other three-strand cross splicing;
Among them, the chain mail has the most variants in ancient and modern times. The larger and thicker ring can be called ring armor or chain ring armor, and the smaller and denser holes are put together. It became the so-called chain armor and secret ring armor for later generations.
Although it seems that the structure is very simple at a glance, the smaller the parts, the more demanding the strength of the material; and the processing of so many fine parts is too labor-intensive to knit and socket.
So the final choice is the scale armor, and it is not the half-length thin scale armor that is officially recognized as at least three hundred and fifty-seven pieces; it is an enlarged and simplified version of more than a hundred "thick scale armor" that is more like a shrunken version of the zha armor. ; Each piece has increased from the size of the copper coin to the size of the bottom of the tea cup; of course, the comfort and weight have also shown an inverse increase.
And after forming through this imitation process, there is also room for other variants; for example, the clips are forged, lengthened and thinned and then combined together, which is the embryonic form of the so-called golden willow leaf beetle. If these iron strips are lengthened, Riveted in a circle, it becomes a kind of ring that once appeared in the end of the Jin Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. If the clip is further expanded, the ancient zhajia and iron armor based on the jade garments of gold will come back again.
Of course, this kind of thick scale armor can be directly punched and nailed on a leather case or cloth suit as a double protection, or it can be connected in series with a silk thread as a separate armor jacket; the final product that can be determined at present is only the front half of the armored tube. The original version of the vest, which weighs about 16 kg; and the enhanced version with the addition of shoulder pads and the key pieces of the back, which require a weight of three kg; there is also a high-end full-body version with a knee-shading and belly-holding leaf, which is about It weighs more than thirty-five catties.
However, it’s because of the scattered load of the body, the pressure is actually easier than simply carrying the same weight. If after proper adaptive training, the body’s load balance and marching rhythm are mastered, it is still easier. Will stick to the activity longer.
As for those whole breastplates or armors made of large pieces of steel that YY novels are described as fascinating; sorry, Zhou Huaian has not yet converted a hammer drill with sufficient strength and a large car platform that is integrally forged. . The hard iron piece the size of a teacup is the maximum limit of manpower and processing machinery that he can use and transform at present.
On the other hand, the iron in Nanhai County is more than tenacious but not hard enough, so it doesn’t matter if you can hit a little lighter and thinner. You really need to rush within a dozen steps and twenty steps before you have the chance to put arrows face-to-face. Not too much. In the case of increasing production and accumulating experience, it is actually possible to slightly lower some indicators of protection performance;
Anyway, this batch of iron armors for training should be given priority to the rebels of the Northern Expedition. The real good things with stable craftsmanship and quality will have to wait for the next few batches. According to the current progress, more than 100,000 scales can be forged in about a day, plus the work of hiring women to sew and embroider, that is, to control the level of nearly 200 collars of Nissan scales.
Correspondingly, the unpainted plain leather armor can reach about five hundred, as long as the raw materials supplied by the specialized hunting team and the sea can keep up; this is mainly due to the simple assembly line driven by three shifts day and night and animal power. .
And what he has to do is to randomly check and determine the quality of specific finished and semi-finished products, and then provide guidance on further optimizing efficiency in a certain link; while watching these busy handicraft workshops, he is a little satisfied. , Zhou Huaian suddenly received another message from Guangzhou.
"Xiao Chai is asking me for help...?" (End of this chapter)