Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 197 About Marriage
What Zhang Zhao brought to Li Shengtian was a complete set of cloth face armor, including iron arm guards and a composite helmet that were not available in this era.

In addition to being heavy, the armor of this era has a big flaw, that is, it doesn't pay much attention to the protection of the arms and wrists.

Especially for the arms, soldiers often have to build or buy them themselves. Of course, it may be because the weight is too large, so they can only give up the protection of the arms.

But Zhang Zhao's blue cloth face armor only weighed about 31 catties, so he directly added the iron arm armor on his arm.

Seeing this new set of armor, Li Shengtian immediately took off the ice pack on his forehead, and his head didn't feel dizzy and his legs didn't feel weak anymore.

Although he is a more civilized king, it's not that Li Shengtian is ignorant of warfare, he just has no talent, but he still knows how to do it.

Of course he knew how much such a set of armor, which seemed to him to be quite perfect, could enhance the combat effectiveness.

In fact, Zhang Zhao wanted to make the green and black cotton robe into the red cotton armor that is common in later generations, but red and blue grass are used to dye red in this era.

Not to mention that Zhang Zhao didn't know how to extract the red color, but the fact that the red and blue grass grows in the area south of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains frightened Zhang Zhao.

The price of transporting this thing to Anxi is not low, and you can't buy it, unless you specially ask a merchant to bring it to you, so he can only honestly make it blue and black.

Li Shengtian took a closer look at the iron armor leaves lining the cotton armor. These iron armor leaves are very smooth, and are more than ten times larger than ordinary armor leaves, which greatly enhances the defense. Because the armor leaves are large, it means that the entire set of armor is The gap between the nail leaves is naturally less.

The bubble nail-style connection design on the surface is also more convenient to manufacture and easier to repair than piercing armor.

Li Shengtian signaled Zhang Zhao to go away and try it on himself. For a person like him who rarely wears armor, he can put it on quickly, which is really convenient.

Moreover, this pattern of lining the armor can also play a role in covering the weak points of the armor.

Don't think that it is impossible to find the weakness of the opponent's armor in battle. In fact, veterans in warfare are very good at finding this point.

In many cases, armored soldiers were severely injured on the battlefield, and seldom had their armor pierced by brute force. Most of them were stabbed to death after the opponent found the weakness of the armor leaf after repeated entanglement.

Therefore, for the outer armor model, especially for an army like Khotan, which is dominated by heavy armored infantry, the pressure on the manufacture, repair and maintenance of armor leaves is very high.

Because even if you are very good in every part of your body, as long as there is a small flaw, it may be magnified on the battlefield.

This kind of difficulty, which was summed up as the barrel effect by later generations, has been an unsolvable problem since the appearance of armor, and it was also a major factor in the high cost of armor in the cold weapon period.

After you make it, you have to spend a lot of time and money on maintenance, but the inner armor model of cloth face armor can avoid this problem to a large extent.

"Look, Uncle, this armor only weighs more than [-] catties, which is not heavy at all for a well-trained soldier.

So when we encounter the enemy's elite heavy armor, we can wear a ring lock armor inside, and then wear a padded jacket next to the body.

This way the total weight is no more than fifty catties, but the defense has already surpassed two layers of armor, making it almost invulnerable.

Whether it is Karakhan's Gulam guards or Saman Persia's Gulam guards, it is impossible to fight against us! "

Zhang Zhao introduced Li Shengtian one by one, and the eyes of Li Shengtian and Cao Yuanxin next to him shone. Zhang Zhaoken's unreserved introduction at least proved that Zhang Zhao didn't want to hide his secrets.

"Then what's so special about this bag?" Li Shengtian asked, pointing to the compound helmet that Zhang Zhao brought.

It was obvious at a glance what the iron gauntlet was for, but he hadn't figured out what the mystery of the helmet was.

Zhang Zhao picked up this compound helmet that only appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty in history. It was restored by him and enthusiasts in later generations with reference to "Illustrated Chinese Armor of Past Dynasties".

The reason why it is called a compound helmet is because this helmet is not a whole helmet that is simply picked up and worn on the head.

Instead, it is composed of three parts: the outer helmet, the inner helmet and the tong item, and then the outer helmet and the inner helmet are fixed together by large nails.

When being hit, the compound structure can firstly withstand the kinetic energy from sharp blades or blunt objects from the dome structure and visor of the outer helmet, and finally the kinetic energy reaching the inner helmet will be greatly reduced, so as to achieve the goal of passing through both the inside and outside. The layered helmet structure serves the purpose of protecting the head.

This compound helmet with a brim was once considered to be one of the ancestors of the flying saucer helmet of the Ming Dynasty. After restoration tests, later generations have always believed that it was the highest level of defense that could be achieved before the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhang Zhao recovered him now, he has gone through more than ten tests, more than ten of which were even tested by real people directly, two feet of cloth plus a meal, and healed for injuries, so many people are willing Come be guinea pigs.

"Erlang! Are you really willing to hand over this set of technology to uncle without reservation? This is an important weapon of the country!" Li Shengtian held Zhang Zhao's hand tightly, his face full of emotion.

For this era, it is not an exaggeration to say that the cloth face armor and compound helmet that Zhang Zhao took out are the most important weapons of the country.

In fact, Li Shengtian had already prepared the worst plan, as long as Zhang Zhao was willing to leave him three hundred sets of cotton armor, it would be fine, but now he did not expect Zhang Zhao to be willing to announce the full set of techniques.

In fact, Zhang Zhao had a pretty good opinion of Li Shengtian. Although his uncle had many problems, such as being a little wary of him psychologically, he was not ambiguous about right and wrong.

For example, Zhang Zhao invented the technique of plucking cotton. Now, all the people who master this technique are Cao Yanmian's clansman. Li Shengtian didn't send anyone to steal it. In all fairness, Li Shengtian treated Zhang Zhao very well.

"Of course I'm willing to do it, because nowadays there are so many people around, and my nephew has to work with my uncle to protect Tang Wenhua together!
Khotan and the Guiyi Army, whoever is missing, cannot survive alone. Only with the same spirit and prosperity can it be passed on to the world.

But my uncle and nephew have a request, I don't know whether I should say it or not. "

"Let's talk! Between you and my uncle and nephew, there is nothing to say!" Li Shengtian ignored Cao Yuanxin's eyes, and with a big wave of his hand, he decided that even if Zhang Zhao asked him for a big piece of land, he would give it to him.

"If, in the future, my nephew goes east to the Central Plains one day, I will ask my uncle to support me!"

The words were short, but it was like a thunderbolt exploding in Li Shengtian's mind. He looked at Zhang Zhao dumbfounded, marching into the Central Plains?

This is also the second time that Zhang Zhao has revealed his feelings to outsiders. The last one was Cao Yuanxin's father, Cao Yijin, the Jiedu Envoy of the Guiyi Army.

Before Li Shengtian could speak, Cao Yuanxin thought of this very quickly, and she let out a scream.

"No wonder! It's no wonder that with his true heart, not only did he not order you to be killed when he met you, but he also gifted dozens of the most elite soldiers of the Guiyi Army to you, and promised to marry Yanxi to you, and he even wanted to marry you. Yannai! I am more willing to let Yanming go west with you.

I couldn't figure it out before, Yannai is not an ordinary Cao's daughter, she is the governor of Guazhou of the Guiyi Army, and her status in the Guiyi Army is higher than that of her elder brother Yuan De.

His Majesty Linggong's decision is not sure how much benefit he will give to the Murong family. Yanming is the most beloved grandson of His Majesty Linggong, how can he be willing to let him take risks with you?
Now I fully understand, it turns out that you, Zhang Erlang, have such great ambitions! "

"Okay! Sure enough, a hero is a boy!" Li Shengtian suddenly stood up, staring at Zhang Zhao with burning eyes, and suddenly gave a wry smile. He finally knew the answer of Zhang Zhao Yutian's hard work.

"Uncle now understands why you are so generous to a certain person, and why you are so dedicated to Tian Dajin, it turns out that you have this kind of ambition.

But uncle supports you, if you really want to go east to the Central Plains, you can take whatever you like here!but"

Li Shengtian was suddenly stuck. He supported Zhang Zhao, and he also wanted to bring Khotan Jin Guo to support Zhang Zhao. This was not free, it must be counted as an investment, and the safest investment is to directly kiss and get married.

However, Li Shengtian only had four daughters, and the eldest daughter died young. The third daughter had already been betrothed to the third generation of Cao's Guiyi Army, that is, Cao Yanlu, the younger brother of Mrs. Cao San. The fourth daughter was only two years old, so it was not suitable at all.

As for the remaining second daughter, it was even more embarrassing. She was born to Queen Yutian who was sent to Samoruo Temple by Cao Yuanxin to become a nun. How dare Li Shengtian use this daughter to marry Zhang Zhao?
Moreover, even if the second daughter's background is fine, Zhang Zhaozheng's wife has already been assigned to Cao Nineniang Yanxi of the Cao family.

Even if Li Shengtian's princess is not born enough, it is impossible for him to be a concubine.

Unless Zhang Zhao can really sit on the dragon chair, anyone's investment can guarantee success. If Zhang Zhao can't sit on the dragon chair, he, Li Shengtian, will be embarrassed.

The three of them suddenly fell into embarrassment. Zhang Zhao took a deep breath and decided to take a gamble.

"Uncle, how about this, Cousin Cong De is about the same age as me, why not let the next generation marry.

If a certain's first son is a boy, he will marry the eldest daughter of cousin Cong De as the queen. If I have an eldest daughter, he will marry the eldest son of cousin Cong De as the queen. "

This is really a gamble, because Zhang Zhao intends to support the civil servants to check and balance the military officials after entering the Central Plains.

And once the atmosphere of Confucian civil servants is formed, it is absolutely unacceptable for a white Scythian to be the queen.

So Zhang Zhao is betting, he is betting that his first child with Cao Yanxi will be a girl, if it is a boy, there will be trouble.

"That's good! In this way, we will be more intimate!" Before Li Shengtian could answer, Cao Yuanxin happily agreed.

She was afraid that Li Shengtian would give up his heart and agree to marry the second princess to Zhang Zhao to make him a child. Now that his son Li Congde can make a marriage contract with Zhang Zhao, it can be said that it is the best ending.

Whether it is his granddaughter marrying Zhang's family to be the queen or even the queen, or Zhang Zhao's eldest daughter marrying to be the queen of Khotan, there is no better ending than this.

Li Shengtian thought for a while, and thought that there was no better choice than this, so he nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)