Traveling through the divine eagle: the first sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 332 Rattan Armor
However, Li Qingwei also has a faster "transportation" method.You can cross thousands of rivers and mountains in a few days.Then quickly transport food and other materials to the city.

It's just that his plan is a bit unrealistic to realize in this era.

That is "repairing the railway".

Although he couldn't make a steam locomotive, it was still possible to build a "manpower handcart".

If you build a railway in most areas, then design a post station every fifty miles, and then four or eight soldiers will use a large "human handcart" to pull food or other supplies and set off every fifty miles, and then change to another The soldiers at the station relayed back and forth day and night.

Materials that are thousands of miles away can reach the place where they are needed within a few days.

Or like in the movie "Let the Bullets Fly", a horse-drawn "train".It can also greatly improve the efficiency and speed of transportation.

Soldiers are expensive, and war is about speed and logistics. If this is really done, let alone transporting supplies, even tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can be quickly assembled to the corresponding area within a few days.

It's just that this is a bit difficult for these ancients.

However, although it is difficult to build railways, people of this era can even build the Great Wall, so should railways.

It's nothing more than more dead "slaves".What's more, prisoners of war are also used to repair.These people are "consumables" and don't deserve sympathy.

But the key problem is that forging technology in this era is difficult to achieve the hardness level of steel required by rail transit.

Li Qingwei was a little annoyed, why couldn't he have more hobbies when he was in college?For iron smelting, forged steel has never been understood.

Otherwise, if this can be built, he can directly overthrow the entire Eurasian continent.

Moreover, after the railway is built, the occupied area can be blocked in a grid. Afterwards, as long as the castle and other facilities are prepared, an area can be completely occupied.

However, this plan did not work well.No!It should be completely impossible!
After thinking about it, Li Qingwei just sighed silently in his heart.

After the demonstration of wooden cows and horses, Zhuge Qingyun took Li Qingwei to watch today's highlight.

At this time, Zhuge Qingyun picked up something that was firmly sealed with oiled paper, and handed it to Li Qingwei.

Li Qingwei smelled the pungent smell above, Li Qingwei asked: "What is this?"

He weighed it after taking it, and it was very light.It looks like a helmet.

Zhuge Qingyun introduced: "This is the 'vine armor' of Nanman back then. It was imitated and restored by my great-grandfather. Other things are not afraid of being traced by the court, but these rattan armors are prohibited. If they are tracked down by the court, we The two families will probably copy and chop all over the house."

At this moment, Tang Lan took the rattan armor helmet from Li Qingwei's hand, and put it on Zhuge Qingyun's head.

After that, she picked up an ordinary saber beside her, and she slashed at Zhuge Qingyun.

"Miss Tang! This is very dangerous!" Li Qingwei stopped talking.

But Tang Lan didn't stop, and Zhuge Qingyun didn't dodge.

Until the knife in her hand hit the rattan helmet on Zhuge Qingyun's head.

Tang Lan threw away the saber in her hand, and took a look at the rattan helmet. Although there were knife marks on the rattan helmet, it was not broken.

Li Qingwei clapped his hands and praised: "Amazing!"

Zhuge Qingyun said: "It's natural. These things have been prepared since my great-grandfather's generation. I don't know how many times they have been soaked in tung oil and how many years they have been exposed to the sun. Coupled with the improvement of the weaving method, the defense is far better than that of Ji Han. Although it is still not as good as the current iron armor, it is somewhat flammable and cannot prevent fire. But it is light and light, and these things are still quite useful in the early stages of an incident.”

"And it's good to distribute it to the security forces in the later stage." Tang Lan added.

Li Qingwei looked up and down and asked, "How many sets are there?"

Tang Lan said: "Counting the armor and shields, there are more than 5 sets in total."

"Five" Li Qingwei was at a loss for words for a moment.

He touched the rattan armor in his hand, this is not "useful", it is simply "too useful".

Although Tang Lan and Zhuge Qingyun are great talents, these two people are still talking about military affairs on paper, while Li Qingwei has actually been a "March Master".

As Zhuge Qingyun said, although these rattan armors are not as good as iron armors, they are also flammable and can be broken by rockets.

But he didn't always think about what the equipment of most soldiers is now.

Song Jun Li Qingwei didn't know much about it, and he didn't know much about it.

However, in the battle sequence of the Mongolian army, only the Mongolian cavalry or elite troops would wear iron armor, and some of those troops invaded the Song Dynasty under the hands of Kublai Khan and Brother Ali, and most of the rest participated in the "Eldest Son Xi Levy" is currently in Europe.

The rest of the troops are mostly equipped with leather armor and iron plates.

The "puppet army" of the Han people mainly used leather armor and cloth armor.

Some are "wooden armor", which is made of wood chips soaked in tung oil and then woven on the leather armor for protection.

The [-] "private soldiers" trained by the Li family in Luoyang were also not allowed to be equipped with iron armor, and they wore this kind of "leather and wood" armor.

Only a small number of vanguard battalions and officers can be equipped with iron armor or iron armor.

And the armor with the hardness lower than the iron armor is far inferior to the "vine armor" in front of you.

And the armor combined with "leather and wood" is also easy to catch fire.And the defense is not as good as "vine armor".

But in reality, even if the armor catches fire, the soldiers can take it off or disperse.It will not be wiped out directly like in the TV series.

Even if Zhuge Liang burned the rattan armored soldiers, he relied on the terrain advantage to squeeze the tens of thousands of soldiers into a narrow, unavoidable, and scattered valley.

If they were fighting in the open plains, the rattan armored soldiers could completely avoid fire attacks.

Li Qingwei asked at this time: "Miss Tang, the things in this warehouse are so useful, let me make a price, and I will send the money later."

Tang Lan said at this time: "No need, these things are from my lineage, and the accumulation of three generations of Zhuge's family, and did not use Tangmen's money, so there is no need to say anything about the price. And here are Fifty thousand swords are enough to arm us."

At this time, Zhuge Qingyun sighed and said: "Hey! Some of these things were prepared decades ago, but at that time everyone was betrayed by Song Ting, and these things could not be transported to Guanzhong. Otherwise, the rebel army would not be defeated. so fast."

Li Qingwei said: "If it's just transportation, it's not difficult. I am familiar with Emperor Ziwei and Princess Pingyang, so I can ask their sisters for help."

Zhuge Qingyun said at this time: "Haha, since this is the case, everything is ready, and I only owe Brother Li the east wind to lead us. I don't know where is the right place for our uprising, and when will it be?"

Li Qingwei came back to his senses, and then said: "Ah! This matter needs to be discussed in the long term. Although there is no need to worry about military resources, food, grass, and soldiers are still a problem, as well as the timing. This kind of failure or benevolence is a matter for us. It's better to have a long-term plan. This is not a place to talk, let's go out first."

Tang Lan nodded, and led the two of them out of the warehouse.

The two followed her to her boudoir.

(End of this chapter)