Da Wei Chun

Chapter 76
According to Li Chengzhi's vision, if it is equipped with heavy steps like Tang Jun's, 1000 catties of steel per person, and replaced with rough smelted iron materials, it would take [-] catties to smelt, and [-] people would be [-] catties. Five hundred catties of colored copper.

Each person adds a set of bows and arrows, [-] catties of colorful copper.

There are two thousand catties of copper left, just enough to buy five hundred horses.

In the early days, heavy infantry could be used as a substitute, but after riding for a long time, it would naturally become a medium cavalry...

There are windfalls left and right, and it is not very distressing to spend.

With a decision in his heart, Li Chengzhi immediately returned to the school grounds and wrote a letter to Li Song and Hu Baozong each.

He didn't play tricks, he listed what he needed according to his assumptions, and told Hu Baozong that if his Hu family's face could be worth a few pennies in Gaoping Town, he would ask Lu Gong for some more or give him some carriages on credit. Come back with the horse and the tail feathers that make the arrows.

He also specifically instructed that apart from bows and arrows, no weapons were needed, just iron materials.

Just one sentence to Li Song: Keep an eye on Hu Baozong!

As for the food that is still in short supply, he can only wait for Hu Baozong to return, and take the remaining two thousand catties of copper that was left for emergency, and go to Liangzhou or Qinzhou.

After the messenger was sent, Li Chengzhi rushed to the mountain.

It was he who thought that since the iron bought by Hu Baozong and Li Song could almost arm the thousand soldiers to the teeth, doesn't that mean that there are still more than ten thousand catties of steel plates left?
Originally, there were only more than 6000 catties left, but Li Chengzhi never forgot that the 100 people Li Song took away were still wearing the old armor of Li's veterans.

In addition, nearly 150 pairs were snatched from the Song family by monks and seized by Li Chengzhi, which is [-] pairs. This adds up to nearly [-] catties of iron materials, and [-] catties of steel plates...

To replace the [-]-zhang gun, the gun head must be rebuilt, and the counterweight gun must be added, but the original gun head can be returned to the furnace, which can save a part, one thousand guns, and three thousand catties of steel is completely enough.

Seven thousand pounds left...

Li Chengzhi thought about it, and there seemed to be nothing else to build except for horse armor...

No wonder he kept holding on to the cavalry all the time, because in this era, the heavy cavalry of all men and horses is just like the tanks of later generations...

Li Chengzhi figured it out, if he could make two hundred pairs and distribute them to one hundred Li's old pawns, this would be one hundred heavy cavalry with two horses...

……

It was almost dark, and the people and women and elders at the foot of the mountain had finished their work, but the heat on the mountain was still in full swing.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, you can hear the sound of hammering.

More than 50 strong men worked in two shifts and were forging helmets overnight.

This thing is a little more complicated, so it is a little slow to forge, and Li Chengzhi required to wear a brim and a mask, so after five or six days of playing, there are less than [-] pairs.

Zhajia had already been prepared, and when Li Bai left, he took one hundred pairs and another two hundred, which were neatly locked in the monk's house next to the school grounds.

Li Chengzhi beckoned and called a few blacksmiths.

"How much steel plate is left?"

The old blacksmith did the math: "There are almost 1000 taels of catties left!"

Li Chengzhi nodded noncommittally and put down the horse armor: "Stop the helmet first and try to hit this... The thickness is still half a minute ([-] mm), and the horse chest and belly do not need to be cut, you can try to forge it into a plate First……"

This is the pair of horse armor of Hu Baozong.

Because the raw and cooked are mixed and the strength is not enough, it is relatively thick, at least three millimeters, and weighs a hundred pounds.

And the steel that Li Chengzhi has made now can almost reach the strength of carbon spring steel, and there is no problem with halving the thickness.

Plate?

The old blacksmith understood in seconds, and asked in confusion, "Langjun, why don't human armors be forged with plate armor?"

Humanoid plate armor?

Li Chengzhi didn't explain, but just smiled: "When Li Song comes back, there will be more iron. If you have a spare time, you can make a pair and try it on yourself..."

Let’s not talk about the number of parts and the complexity of the process, only the flexibility.

The heaviest armor in the Li family is Li Shixian's full armor, which weighs [-] pounds.

The ability to wear clothes here refers to the ability to wear clothes to fight.

If it is worn by ordinary soldiers, although it is very heavy, at least the limbs can move, move forward and backward, turn left and right, hold the spear and stab, and trot at a slow pace.

It's just that there is no way to do such a big action as a slash, and it is not very good to open a bow, let alone a flat horse.

It can be replaced with plate armor, whether it is [-] jins or [-] jins, the flexibility is the same: like a patient with an external wind in the whole body...

After explaining a few words and leaving his horse to the blacksmith as a model, Li Chengzhi went to the front yard again.

Before taking a few steps, his stomach suddenly growled twice, and Li Chengzhi remembered that since he went to the school grounds, he hasn't had a drop of water for seven or eight hours...

It's heart breaking!

(End of this chapter)