Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 192 Cloth Face Armor and Armor
Sure enough, it is time for professional people to do professional things. Twenty days after the Cao family sent someone to send out the letter, a Tajik man with a red and white scarf on his head came to Polu Prefecture and successfully received the letter. Cotton is a high-tech.

After some contact, Zhang Zhao was surprised to find that the mother clan of the Cao family, known as the ethnic group of Han, Sun and Heaven, had been in contact with him a long time ago.

Because they were actually the people of the former Panduo country, and the Tang Dynasty also set up the very famous Congling Shouzhuo in the country of Panduo.

Cao's mother clan is the descendant of Pei Xing, the king of Panduo who was forced to surrender to Tubo.

At the same time, beside Zhang Zhao, because the brothers Pei Shengyuan and Pei Tongyuan, the eagle-training warriors recommended to him by the governor, were actually Cao's distant relatives. According to seniority, Cao was also the cousin (cousin) of the Pei brothers.

And the identity of the bearded governor Pei is also clear, he is the heir of Shule King Pei Leng Leng.

It's just that after Shule was captured by Tubo, his group did not withdraw to Kucha with the Anxi army, but went south to Khotan.

Although Khotan was already under the control of Tubo at that time, they settled down smoothly under the protection of Yuchi's family.

Later, he went to the territory of the Pantuo Kingdom, where he mixed with the descendants of King Pei Xing of the Pantuo.

Since then, both sides have abandoned the original Cypriot surnames, and only use the Han surname Pei to represent the unity of the two races.

However, Governor Pei also brought a piece of unfortunate news to Zhang Zhao. The descendants of the last Sergeants of Congling Shouzhuo Luo Tijie and Shouzhuo in the Tang Dynasty, as well as Lu Yang, the Shule garrison envoy who went to join them, and Kucha The descendants of Wang Baihuan were captured by the Karahans 60 years ago, a small part escaped, and most of them were taken captive and disappeared.

Zhang Zhaochang sighed, it's not that he is missing. Didn't Lu Sanlang, a descendant of the Lu family, become a traitor and betray the secret of Zhongzhenku?
Now, only the Zheng family, the Yang family, and the Xue family, the king of Bahana, are the only Anxi army that can be found. I hope that the castle they are holding on to is not found by the Karakhans.

With complicated emotions, Zhang Zhao brought Man Xiong and Dunzhu, the two generals, to the brand-new cotton processing factory.

A piece of thick, tight and somewhat hard cotton quilt was brought before Zhang Zhao's eyes. This was Zhang Zhao's somewhat incomplete golden finger.

In fact, it is similar to the cotton mattresses of later generations, except that they are harder, the biggest difference is in cost.

"Your Majesty, this cotton mattress has been cut according to your request. I tried it myself, and I can indeed make the cotton coat you mentioned.

It's really warm. I didn't expect that cotton can be used in this way besides weaving cloth! "

Cao's face was filled with excitement, and he seemed to have come out of the shadows.

Zhang Zhao also knew the source of the shadow in her heart, which was being captured together with her. The youngest son of Saktu, Ahmad, whom she raised for more than a year, had died of illness at the beginning of the year.

As for the death, is it really a death?Then only God knows.

Anyway, since Shule City was broken, Cao Shi never saw Ahmad again until he learned of his death.

"This cotton mattress must not be cheap!" Zhang Zhao touched the cotton mattress, picked it up and shook it, then asked.

Mrs. Cao nodded, "That's right! It's just too labor-intensive. The manpower required to weave such a cotton mattress can be used to weave three piles of cloth."

Died cloth, which is called Gaochang white cotton cloth by later generations, at this time, the poor quality is called folded cloth, and the better quality is called fine cloth.

At this time in Hexi, a small landlord with [-] mu of land under the control of the Guiyi Army paid almost a bolt of fine cloth a year in tax.

One bolt of fine cloth can be exchanged for two and a half bolts of cloth. In terms of conversion, the time and labor costs spent on making this cotton mattress of six or seven catties can almost pay taxes on [-] acres of dry land.

expensive!It's so expensive!But worth it.

Because cloth face armor, also known as cotton armor, has unparalleled advantages over the current Tang-style armor.

The term cloth face armor sounds like cloth armor or something, and its defense must be poor. In other words, many people think that cloth face armor is used to defend against muskets, and it is not necessarily good for cold weapons.

First of all, this thing is not a cloth armor, but made of high-quality cotton cloth and repeatedly beaten cotton, and the inner lining is made of large pieces of refined iron armor leaves.

That is to say, it looks like a padded jacket on the surface, but it is actually an iron armor lined with a hard armor.

The defense might be weaker than the one-piece plate armor of the European Middle Ages, but not to mention stronger than the Tang-style armor, it is definitely not worse.

Secondly, defense against muskets and so on, this is completely nonsense, first of all, the effect of cloth face armor against muskets is not very good, unless it is a bad gun made by the government in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the end, even if a fire-resistant gun is made, think about it, how much kinetic energy is the musket?How much is the bow and arrow?It can fire fire guns, and anti-bow and arrows is not a piece of cake.

Regardless of the era of hot and cold weapons, the biggest casualties are caused by long-range strikes. If this armor can defend against bows and arrows, it is a good armor.

Besides the weight, Tang-style armor, no matter how much you lose weight, if you want to achieve full-body defense, you must at least sixty catties or more.

As for the cloth face armor, take a Qing Dynasty armor collected by the Jinzhou City Museum as an example.

The residual weight of the helmet is 1.875 kg, the residual weight of the clothes is 13.025 kg, and the total weight is 14.9 kg, which is about [-] catties. This is the kind of large-area armor that protects the arms, armpits, and torso.

The reason for this phenomenon lies in the difference of the nail leaves. The cloth face armor can use copper nails and cotton to fix the nail leaves, so that the nail leaves can be made larger, and the weight can be reduced while increasing the defense. .

As for piercing armor, it is necessary to connect small and dense nail leaves in series with ropes, and rely on the method of stacking and covering each other to form the defense capability of the area.

Historically, cloth face armors in the Qing Dynasty generally had less than [-] pieces of nail leaves, while armor piercing generally required at least [-] pieces.

The cloth face armor is twice as heavy as the pierced armor. This is definitely a leapfrog development. For example, a stupid guy like Man Xiong can still run while wearing a [-]-pound pierced armor. Wearing a cloth face armor , it can't take off yet.

At critical moments, he could even wear two layers of cloth face armor. With such protection, Zhang Zhao believed that even if Gu Duo hit him, the damage would be halved.

In terms of saving money, although cotton is a bit more expensive at this time, it will definitely become cheaper and cheaper with the continuous updating of cotton seeds and technology, and more than [-] small nail leaves need to be made for smelting It is extremely expensive to build.

The production is similar. The method of fixing nail leaves with copper nails and cotton is much simpler and cheaper than piercing nails.

You must know that to make armor, you need to pierce two holes in the iron armor leaf, and then use beef tendon mixed with rope to tie them tightly one by one.

More than two thousand beetle leaves!More than [-] horseshoe-shaped holes need to be drilled, and it must be threaded slowly, which consumes a lot of manpower.

Then, from the perspective of maintenance, once the armor is damaged, even if only a few nail leaves are damaged, a large area around it needs to be repaired to ensure the protection.

If the armor-piercing leaf uses a mixed rope of beef tendon, it is better to say that this kind of rope is much stronger, but it is troublesome to use only red rope.

And what about the cloth visor?This thing is similar to patching broken clothes. It is quite easy to mend whatever is broken.

In the end, the advantage of the cloth face armor comes from the actual combat on the battlefield. In the battles of this era, the winners and losers cannot be quickly determined.

There is no such scene where the two sides howl and rush forward, and the winner is decided within an hour, at least in the decisive battle of the elite troops, it does not exist.

Under normal circumstances, there are three or four fierce battles in one day, so the core soldiers in the army need to put on their armor and take it off, and then put it on and take it off again.

This kind of battle can last for two or three days, until one side has no strength to support it, and then the rout begins.

Not to mention the battle with the prairie people. Most of the prairie people are light cavalry. Most of the time, their combat methods are siege and constant scaring.

This also led to the horse-riding heavy infantry in the Central Plains often needing to remove their armor to preserve their strength when fighting against the grassland cavalry. Otherwise, no one would be able to resist for a long time wearing armor weighing fifty or sixty kilograms.

Generally speaking, in the battle at this time, armor piercing and taking off are very frequent, and the armor-piercing infantry armor is very troublesome to wear. Whether it is putting on or taking off, it needs the help of auxiliary soldiers. The speed is also slow.

There have been many times in history that soldiers took off their armor to rest, but the grassland enemy cavalry suddenly attacked at this time. In the panic, the soldiers were too late to put on their armor or did not put on their armor completely, and finally they were directly defeated while wearing single clothes.

But the cloth face armor is different. This thing is actually a padded jacket lined with fine iron sheets. Whether it is wearing or taking off, it can be done by one person. If you don’t come, I will take it off. The armor is completed, it should not be too BUG.

And this is not only practical in the case of fighting in formation, but also very convenient in the march. In the event of a surprise attack, it can be completed in 2 minutes, which is enough to greatly reduce the loss of being attacked.

At the same time, it is also useful when chasing the enemy. For the enemy army that is not scattered, the heavy armored cavalry infantry wearing cloth face armor can completely disarm and chase, and when they catch up, they will wear armor and fight.

If the opponent runs with armor on, he will definitely not be able to outrun you, and he will be entangled to death. If the opponent wants to run fast, he has no choice but to lose his armor and remove his armor, eh!That's easy, just chase after the ass and slaughter.

In addition to these, cloth face armor has the last advantage, that is, it is especially suitable for use when the weather turns cold.

Because the cloth face armor used a lot of cotton, which greatly enhanced the warmth retention. The end of the Ming Dynasty was the Little Ice Age, and the weather was cold, so the Qing army equipped with a large number of cloth face armor was able to march in the severe cold.

It was the same in this era. The end of Tang Dynasty was also a wave of ice age when the temperature dropped. With the cloth face armor with excellent thermal insulation effect, Zhang Zhao could deliberately choose to fight the enemy in late autumn or winter.

In this way, while wearing warm cloth face armor and iron armor that can freeze people to death, I am afraid that there will be many battles. As long as everyone lines up and confronts each other for an hour, the balance of victory and defeat will begin to tilt.

With so many benefits, let alone a cotton mattress is worth three bolts of cloth, even if he is worth three bolts of fine cloth, Zhang Zhao still wants to make a cloth mask.

Moreover, cotton mattresses are expensive, because they are expensive in labor costs, not in value.

Ha ha!Who is King Zhang?Feudal lords of feudal society!Will you care about labor?It's useless to capture so many prisoners and so on.

(End of this chapter)