Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

Where did Li Wangyou know that the reason why Li Er hurriedly led Cheng Yaojin and other military leaders to the Forbidden Garden? It depends on the sets of “holy clothes”. His discipline Yan Liben was “sold out”.

A few days ago, Li Wangyou soaked in the ordnance workshop of Cuiwei Palace within the valley every day, urging craftsmen to make composite crossbows and holy clothes, so that Yan Liben had a good time spitting out.

It’s all that’s to build a composite crossbow. After all, Yan Liben also knows that if this crossbow can be built, the formidable power is huge and it can be called Divine Weapon.

In Yan Liben’s view, although the new crossbow designed by his commander is expensive and difficult to equip in the army on a large scale, it is still a weapon.

But for those weird-looking armors, when Yan Liben learned that Li Wangyou actually wanted to use them as a “costume”, he really didn’t know how to complain.

But the teacher has his life, even if he is reluctant to do this, he can only do it.

But what makes Yan Liben unbearable is that Li Wangyou actually changed his mind. He had to use the hard-won “Hundred Refinements steel” to build armor, which made Yan Liben almost aggrieved. Vomiting blood.

Hundred Refinements steel, before Li Wangyou had a hydraulic forging hammer, how precious was that? Any weapon made of Hundred Refinements steel is the famous Divine Weapon.

Although with the help of hydraulic forging hammers, the output of Hundred Refinements steel is increasing day by day, but using such good steel to make “costume armor”, Yan Liben feels that it is reckless waste of natural resources.

In his opinion, even if Li Wangyou uses pure gold to build these armors, it is better than the hard-won Hundred Refinements steel.

For this, Yan Liben took the courage to find Li Wangyou and wanted to persuade his little teacher, not to be so lavish.

“Master, since these armors are just costumes, shouldn’t it be better to use thin iron as the teacher said before? These Hundred Refinements steels are really…not easy to come by.”

Li Wangyou smiled and shook his head: “Liben, you don’t want to try it. How strong is the armor made of Hundred Refinements steel?”

He suddenly changed his mind , I also want to see whether the defensive power of the plate armor made of Hundred Refinements steel can exceed the Mingguang armor.

There is no large-scale application of Huaxia plate armor, mainly because the output and quality of steel are not good enough.

After all, the larger the steel plate, the greater the brittleness. This problem can only be solved by repeated forging. Therefore, in order to solve the cost problem, China has chosen to manufacture small steel armor pieces on a large scale since ancient times and connect them in series to form armor.

This not only saves manpower, but also facilitates repairing after the armor is damaged. The defensive power of bow and arrow is also stronger than that of plate armor.

However, in Li Wangyou’s opinion, this is only because the quality of the steel used to make the plate armor is not sufficient.

He remembered that there were military hobbyists who did experiments in later generations. Those plate armors in the Middle Ages could almost be worn with a single arrow when facing a bow and arrow. However, the plate armor made of later generations of steel is difficult to be shot through by bows and arrows. This is the difference between steel materials.

Li Wangyou thought of this when he asked the craftsmen to build the holy clothes, and he began to wonder if Hundred Refinements steel is used to build armor, with the hardness of Hundred Refinements steel, whether it can effectively defend against cold weapons attack?

Although the creation of the saint clothing is just his evil taste, but if this armor is really protective, it would be a wonderful thing.

Although Hundred Refinements steel is a bit more expensive, this small amount of money has not been seen by Li Wangyou, and it will not be like Yan Liben, like Scrooge Grande, holding those Hundred Refinements steel Reluctant to use it.

In his opinion, the so-called Hundred Refinements steel is nothing more than repeated folding and forging by craftsmen, repeated heating, carburizing and forging, thereby increasing the tenacious degree of steel.

With a hydraulic forging hammer for 24 hours of continuous forging, Li Wangyou does not think Hundred Refinements steel is rare.

For Li Wangyou’s words, Yan Liben also does not know how to answer.

Forging armor with Hundred Refinements steel?

This kind of thing, in his opinion, is almost as rich as the Western Jin Dynasty Shi Chong Wang Kai, and it is too extravagant.

“Master, if this Hundred Refinements steel is used to build a weapon, it will naturally be unprofitable, but…but it may not be comparable to military standard armor when used to build armor. The discipline feels, Don’t waste it like this.”

Li Wangyou was made by Yan Liben, a miser, didn’t know whether to cry or laugh, wasn’t it just ordering Hundred Refinements steel? How big is the matter?

One set of armor only uses 40-50 jin of steel, and 13 sets of saint clothing, only 4,500 jin of materials, this kind of thing is like killing him.

However, forging armor with Hundred Refinements steel, Li Wangyou really does not know what the defensive power is. Since Yan Liben is so reluctant, let’s do an experiment.

“Liben, what you said makes sense. In that case, let’s do an experiment to see how the defensive power of Hundred Refinements steel is.”

“Experiment?” Yan Liben Looks puzzled.

Nodded of Li Wangyou as it should be by rights: “You let the craftsman use Hundred Refinements steel to forge a piece of iron armor, and you will know after a try.”

“This… promise If you know about the discipline, lets do it. Yan Liben still wanted to persuade a couple of times, but seeing Li Wangyous persistent attitude, he had no choice but to nodded and agreed.

With the help of a hydraulic forging hammer, a piece of iron armor the size of a breastplate was forged soon. Li Wangyou looked at the plate armor, it was about one millimeter thick by visual inspection, and it didn’t feel heavy in the hand.

When he watched TV dramas in later generations, he always had the illusion that ancient armors were very heavy, but it was not. Most of the armors unearthed in later generations were between one millimeter and three millimeters thick. No matter how thick, the armor would be too heavy to be worn for combat.

Those Knight heavy armors in Europe look like tin cans, but actually weigh only 40-50 kg, and most of them are between 1.5 and 2 mm thick.

But obviously, the quality of steel used in the Knight armors in Europe is not comparable to the Hundred Refinements steel in front of you.

Due to repeated folding and forging, the breastplate forged from Hundred Refinements steel has lines formed by forging, which are very beautiful. The great and famous Damascus knives of later generations have the same pattern, which is formed by repeated forging and beating of steel.

Yan Liben fumbled for this newly forged iron armor. With a reluctant look, Li Wangyou felt that his teeth were almost sore.

“Okay, don’t look like a slapstick, hurry up and fix the nail on an arrow target. I will let Niu Wu shoot a few arrows to see how it works.” Li Wangyou yelled out of anger. Tao.

“Master, this breastplate will definitely not stop my arrows.” Niu Wu stepped forward, tapped the iron armor with his knuckles, and said disdainfully.

The bow used by Niu Wu is a powerful two-stone bow. Regarding Great Tangs standard armor, even the highest-class Mingguang armor will be shot through with one arrow within a hundred steps. There is no doubt.

Li Wangyou is also a little uncertain, can this Hundred Refinements steel plate really resist bows and arrows?

Many people in later generations have a misunderstanding that the penetration of bullets must be stronger than that of bows and arrows. After all, since the emergence of muskets, firearms eliminated the cold weapon of bows and arrows.

But Li Wangyou knows that this is not the case.

He watched a video on a military forum. The content was a test conducted by the US military in 1961.

The target of this experiment is a wooden box more than 30 centimeters thick and filled with sand. In order to simply test the penetration depth of the bullet, two partitions are used to divide the sand into three layers.

After that, the military used M1 Garland rifles and M1 carbines and M1911 pistols to shoot at the wooden box.

The result of the test is that the most penetrating M1 Garland rifle only penetrated two partitions, but did not penetrate the entire sandbox. The M1 carbine only penetrated one layer of partition, as for the pistol, it failed to penetrate even one layer of partition and was blocked by sand.

The bow and arrow with a pulling force of about fifty pounds then penetrated the entire sandbox directly and completely.

Be aware that a fifty-pound bow and arrow is only equivalent to Great Tang a strong bow…