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Chapter 446 Krypton Gold Warrior VS Flesh and Blood

The Iron Hun Armor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely expensive. Sanniangzi once said that the construction cost of the Tie Hun Armor in Jingying could buy the entire Beibei. This was not nonsense or flattering the Ming Dynasty, but a fact.

To this day, except for the Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun and Prince Zhu Yili's iron armor, or Mingguang Armor, there is no iron armor made of homogeneous steel plates. The iron armor used by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was artificially forged and hammered bit by bit. The construction period of Baidu Steelmaking is really too long.

There is not much difference in the initial manufacturing process between the royal Tiehun armor forging method and the Tiehun armor used by the Beijing camp.

Iron materials, coal, limestone and other materials are loaded into the hopper. Under the traction of the hinge, they fall from the furnace throat into the furnace belly. The hot air pipe that bypasses the furnace body is pressurized through the wind box and pressed into the furnace belly from the tuyere, where it is fully burned. The coal generates high temperature and melts the iron material into iron juice. The craftsmen insert long pliers into the slag outlet, pull out the glaze initially formed by impurities from the slag outlet, open the iron outlet and start to flow out the iron juice.

These glazes are excellent for paving and do not go to waste.

The molten iron flows into a square pool, and through stirring, the air and the molten iron are fully contacted. The entry of cold air will not cause the temperature of the molten iron to drop. On the contrary, the temperature of the molten iron will rise further, because oxygen is needed for combustion. By stirring the air and high temperature After full contact with the molten iron, the carbon in the molten iron will burn again.

At this time, you will get a pool of [wrought iron rich in impurities].

This method is extremely inefficient and requires frequent replacement of the wood used for mixing. The wood cannot last a few times, and it is prone to accidents when exposed to high temperatures. People often fall from the edge of the pool into the water. Daming craftsmen They designed a tiltable cylindrical air-blowing steelmaking front bag.

This kind of front bag has air holes, which can add heated air into the molten iron, and tilting can allow the molten iron to burn more fully with the air.

This position is so critical, his equipment is so good, he is crazy, not stupid.

At this point, the iron armor is still an embryo. It is still soft wrought iron. It has no defense and is also very easy to deform. This requires quenching. Quenching is divided into oil quenching and water quenching. After severe thermal expansion and contraction, Under this condition, the embryo of Tiehunjia will be severely deformed, rendering it unusable.

It took Xishan Coal Bureau seven full years to improve this step. It has been making improvements since Wang Chonggu took charge of Xishan Coal Bureau. Finally, it was possible to obtain a large amount of wrought iron in batches while basically ensuring the safety of craftsmen.

The process needed to be improved. Referring to the manufacturing process of the Ming Dynasty's 'Steel Needle', Wang Chonggu led the Xishan Coal Bureau to improve the process.

Qiying, the real krypton gold warrior of the Ming Dynasty! The whole body is shining with eye-catching, real gold and silver light!

The cavalry's Tiehun armor is a specially made half-body armor and breastplate, and the armor Li Rusong wears is the same type of Mingguang armor as the Ming Emperor's.

The next step is tempering, which is also very simple. Put it into the earth kiln again, close the kiln without oxygen at high temperature, and then the dense crystals can be slightly thawed, and you will get [even carburization, good carburization, and Well quenched and tempered iron armor].

Dong Huxu saw Li Rusong's figure through the telescope he bought with a lot of money. Looking at Li Rusong's armor and the good horse underneath him, he was caught in two questions for a while.

Armor in the Central Plains is just like horses in the grassland, useless except for fighting, and armor is banned among the people. After the Northern Yuan court fled, the Northern Yuan court completely lost its craftsmen, and also lost a stable supply of fuel and iron ore. Coupled with the Ming Dynasty's embargo policy since the Hongwu period, there are very few iron pots on the grasslands, and even fewer armors.

It was not that Dong Fox had never thought that he would be countered, but the quick response and quick maneuvers that were unique to the grassland suddenly appeared on the Ming army, leaving him completely unable to react. When the Ming cavalry appeared in the field of vision, Dong Fox knew , he fell into the trap.

"Fooled!" Dong Fox suddenly became alert because he heard the faint sound of horse hoofbeats, which made Dong Fox realize that this treacherous Li Rusong had already seen through his plan and deliberately stayed to wait for reinforcements.

[The wrought iron carburized plate armor that has begun to gain defensive power] is ready. At this time, it still cannot be worn, because the quenched iron armor has hardened, but it has also become brittle. It is difficult to face a strong weapon weighing more than 100 kilograms. When using a bow and a musket, being as brittle as a piece of paper is not an adjective but a fact.

Wrought iron is soft and has very low strength. No one can wear a full wrought iron armor. Li Rusong, who is extremely strong, cannot fight even if he wears iron armor made of full wrought iron.

The Ming Dynasty's cavalry did not step into the trap, but chose to take a detour. Dong Fox ambushed two thousand people and was completely exposed. The ambush turned into an encounter. Dong Fox suppressed the fear in his heart and began to command. war, and fell into a disadvantage.

In order to obtain steel plates with uniform texture, Ming Dynasty can only rely on craftsmen with strong ties to the nine tribes to make them purely by hand.

"Major General, should we be more cautious?" A personal guard obviously also observed this situation. These dozen scouts are a bit like bait.

This kind of iron armor is mass-produced and cannot be tailor-made, so it actually does not fit well, and it is difficult for soldiers to use it. However, in the ninth year of Wanli, it can be said with great certainty: this is steel armor. !

The first question is: Who are the prairie people? A cavalryman actually has three war horses. They are war horses, not horses!

According to the information from Dun Tai Yuanhou, the intruder was Dong Hu. Dong Hu killed Tang Kekuan in Miyun using this method of luring the enemy deep into the enemy. Xu Da's defeat in the Battle of Lingbei was also due to the lone army. Going deeper, Li Rusong kept in mind what Qi Jiguang told him. If the forward wins, the balance of victory will tilt by 70%. If the forward loses, it will be a crushing defeat.

Li Rusong reined in his horse, nodded and said, "You are right."

"Dong Fox wanted to deceive me and set up an ambush here, so I took advantage of his trick and played tricks on him here." Li Rusong led a dozen personal guards and began to drive their horses forward, but they did not enter the disadvantageous terrain for a long time. He was walking around the trap, constantly observing. The more he observed, the more Li Rusong was sure that an ambush had been set up here.

Not to mention Beilu, one-third of the Ming Dynasty's capital camps have such iron-hun armor, and their defense power is already at the limit of current productivity.

Li Rusong couldn't observe the situation of this mountain col from his position, but it was very easy to set up an ambush here. There were gentle slopes of hills on both sides. Once the enemy rushed down the gentle slope, Li Rusong and the twelve personal guards he led would be isolated and helpless. the point.

The wrought iron without many impurities was heated again until it was red, and then passed through a roller press made of two large steel rollers. This was because the silver coins were embossed, and Ming Dynasty had more knowledge about roller pressing technology. Breakthrough, after rolling, the wrought iron without impurities becomes [wrought iron plate with uniform thickness].

The second question is: Are the traps I set really leading you into a trap, or are you trapping yourself in a cocoon?
It wasn't until he saw Li Rusong and the cavalry camp he led that Dong Huxu understood Chahan Nur's despair and what kind of monster Cha Han Nur was facing.

The deformation problem needs to be solved. When the embryo of the iron armor is heated, iron supports will be put in. The red embryo of the iron armor will enter the cold oil. Under the violent thermal expansion and contraction, the iron will violently shrink to form dense crystals. This is also The significance of carburization is that carbon atoms can form crystal nuclei during this shrinkage and crystallization process, and this is also the reason why the quenching strength of wrought iron will not increase much.

The uniformly thin and thick wrought iron plate was transferred from the hydraulic forging hammer workshop to the model workshop. This step only requires molding, and then the craftsmen repair the corners, and an "iron armor embryo with only a superficial appearance" is ready. .

At this point, the imperial armor of the Ming Dynasty entered the stage of purely manual forging. Through a large amount of manual forging, the impurities in the wrought iron were removed, heated and forged over and over again, and then began to use various means to carburize. The most luxurious way is to put [wrought iron that has been repeatedly forged to remove impurities] into a large amount of salt and carbon powder and then melt it, then throw in the wrought iron without too many impurities and cook it for two days and two nights, and a piece of [homogeneous steel plate] 】The manufacturing was completed, and then it was made from steel plates into bright light armor for the emperor.

In essence, this kind of iron armor is still not steel, but wrought iron, because the carbon content of each part of the iron armor is not the same, its defensive power is far less than that of Mingguang armor made of pure steel, and it is heavier.

Wrought iron with a large amount of impurities requires a hydraulic forging hammer. After the impurity-rich wrought iron is heated, it is thrown into the mortar. The hydraulic forging hammer, which cannot perform complex and precise processing, is numb under the power of the water, constantly lifting and falling. , to forge impurities from wrought iron. The reason why a water-powered forging hammer is used in this step is that it has rough but abundant and cheap power.

Dong Hu saw Li Rusong's figure, and Li Rusong also discovered the trap set by Dong Hu. A dozen scouts galloped on the grassland and entered the mountain col. This is the mountain leading from Wuchuan to Bansheng City. It is called Wengguan Mountain. Through the road.

Wang Chonggu is actively improving salt melt carburization, striving to make the mass-produced standard iron Hun armor close to the emperor's Mingguang armor in terms of defense and weight. This is difficult, but in the past eight years, Wang Chonggu has been personally supervising With the improvement of the process, compared with the original hammer and forging, the cost of the Ming Dynasty iron armor has been reduced by half. This is the advantage of assembly line production. With the defense power unchanged, the weight of a full-body iron armor has been reduced from Forty-four pounds, reduced to thirty-seven pounds.

Wrought iron has very low carbon content, so it is very soft because the carbon in the molten iron has been burned away when it is stirred.

The cavalry camp led by Li Rusong is all equipped with iron half-body armor. Each person has three war horses, and each war horse is carefully selected and the best horse is selected from the best. Each war horse is fed with soybean grain, Feeding them with fodder will keep them from losing weight during the winter. Everyone is equipped with a fire blunderbuss, a hand blunderbuss and a riding blunderbuss.

Seeing this scene, Dong Hu felt like a fox was scratching his heart. Now it was time to compete for strength. Li Rusong refused to leave and was still testing. In order to kill with one blow, Dong Hu could only hold back the pain deep in his heart. Ready to move.

After Longqing negotiated peace, there were indeed iron pots on the grassland, but from the iron pots to iron armor, do we expect the Northerners to use cow dung to forge them?

Pieces of iron armor embryos were sprinkled with carbon powder and thrown into the earthen kiln. After the earthen kiln was heated violently, it began to close. This was the steel-stewing method of steel needles (Tiangong Kaiwu contained it), rows of After the iron silica embryo was fully penetrated into the carbon powder in a high-temperature sealed kiln without oxygen, [the iron silica embryo with uniform carburization and good surface carburization] was obtained.

Just like hand-forged light armor, the superficial embryo also needs to be carburized.

Therefore, the prairie people are real flesh and blood, and it would be nice to have a pair of leather armor.

Whether it is artificial or salt melting, they are too expensive to be mass-produced. Not to mention the armed Beijing camp, even His Majesty's Tiqi cannot be equipped.

Wang Chonggu was the initiator of the official-factory group-building method in "The World Is Trapped in Mergers and Reliefs the Gangsters". Likewise, the profits from the woolen official factories he led were used to pay salaries to the capital. The coal and steel joint venture of the Xishan Coal Bureau was responsible for manufacturing the Ming Dynasty. Armor, muskets, chariots and other armaments needed by the Beijing camp.

The Ming Dynasty's iron cavalry, Jingtang warriors and krypton gold warriors are swimming in the dragon.

To be precise, the Ming cavalry relied on the range and lethality of the fire cannons and did not intend to engage in direct contact. Each cavalry in the cavalry camp was too expensive. After Li Rusong discovered the lethality of "line up and shoot", he chose long-range combat and went to the cavalry camp. In the past three hundred years, this was the unique skill of the grassland. Riding and shooting, without contact, the enemy could be killed and wounded as much as possible, and then charge after the enemy's morale collapsed.

The grassland has not yet entered the rainy season, and gunpowder smoke fills the battlefield. The explosion of gunpowder is like a reminder. Every time a salvo is fired, countless grassland warriors will be blown into pieces of blood by the lead, and the arrows of the grassland people, Completely unable to hit enemies.

Zhu Yijun is practicing martial arts. He can't fire a 120-pound tiger bow now, but he can fire a strong bow of more than 100 pounds. But when riding a horse, he can only use a 60-pound soft bow. Qi Jiguang said Mounted archery is of little use on the battlefield because the battlefield environment has changed since the addition of firearms.

The recurve bow of the grassland people only weighed sixty or seventy pounds, and the effective killing range of the fire blunderbuss was much higher than that of bows and arrows. The Ming Dynasty's cavalry camp harvested the lives of the warriors under Dong Hu's tent in volleys again and again.

Dong Huxu began to order his men to charge with their eyes on the muskets, hoping to bite the enemy. However, the horses under his men were not all war horses, and after the harsh winter, due to the haze of war, the men and horses were all skinny, regardless of their explosive power. In terms of endurance, they are not as good as the cavalry in the riding camp.

Unknowingly, Dong Hu didn't notice that the battlefield had shifted somewhat. The two hilly hills had changed from the area where the Ming army was attacking the enemy's formation to the hills where the enemy's army was attacking the Ming Dynasty. "Artillery!" Dong Fox's eyes were about to burst!

If you can’t afford it, don’t play!
A good cavalry hedge, what do you mean by setting up an artillery array on the top of the mountain?
This Li Rusong, without respecting martial ethics, actually pulled the chariot to the top of the hill!

In half an hour of confrontation, Li Rusong completed the artillery arrangement, and the initiative on the battlefield had already been quietly transferred to Li Rusong's hands.

"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"

Dong Hu stood under the big hammer and shouted orders, but it was too late, because the smoke of the artillery had already risen, and the roar came after a short while.

A total of forty-five nine-pound artillery fired the first salvo, and forty-five explosive shells streaked across the sky, reflecting the sunset at dusk, and exploded suddenly as they approached the ground. The iron caltrops ribbons in the explosive shells With a roaring sound, it crashed into the space between Dong Hu's charging soldiers.

The grassland cavalry without armor has only flesh and blood when faced with artillery, especially explosive bullets, and has no resistance at all. Not many people died, most of them were injured, whether they were people or horses, they were all injured on the battlefield. deadly.

"Retreat! Retreat!" Dong Huxu finally realized how powerful Li Rusong was. He was like a madman, shouting loudly and commanding. After he ordered to retreat, he took his slaves and started to escape.

Li Rusong picked up his mace, drove the horse forward slowly, and shouted loudly: "Da Ming Cavalry Camp, charge!"

The tooth flag began to wave, and the cavalry camp began to gather behind Li Rusong. The cavalry camp started with a slow walk, and after more than ten steps, it turned into a quick walk. After more than twenty steps, the quick walk turned into a gallop, with Li Rusong leading the way. , led the cavalry battalion and began to charge towards the enemy under the hills. The horseshoes under the horses' hooves crushed the grass and gravel. The cavalry battalion, like a torrent of steel, rushed down from the top of the hills.

Li Rusong is a madman on the battlefield. The weapon he uses is a mace. Every time he swings it, it will bring out a puff of blood mist. The two hundred personal guards he leads, like a sharp knife, completely tear apart the enemy formation, and then personally The soldiers were divided into two and torn left and right. Dong Hu's troops were immediately put into a complete disadvantage.

After two rounds of charging, the rout began. The heavily armored cavalry battalion did not pursue the enemy, but the supporting cuirassiers on both sides began to pursue the enemy.

Cuirassiers are cavalry with only breastplates, not even half-armor. They are mainly mobile and are responsible for mobile support and pursuit on the battlefield. Heavy cavalry is mainly used to break formations and penetrate the enemy's line, causing the enemy to rout. .

Li Rusong has completely mastered the battle of the cavalry camp. After the light cavalry repeatedly harassed and shot the enemy, causing the enemy to tire out, the heavy cavalry made the final decision, and the light cavalry began a long hunting and pursuit.

The only heavy rider among the light cavalry is Li Rusong himself. His armor is very light, only twenty-five pounds, and his horses are very strong. He has three horses, one named Feiyi and the other One was named Shengjian, and the other was named Zhaoxue. The first two horses were royal horses given to His Majesty by Shah Maimaiti (Chapter 350). Zhu Yijun gave these two horses as a national gift to Li Rusong.

Feiyi ran very fast, Shengjian moved forward extremely fiercely, and Zhaoxue was given to Li Rusong by Qi Jiguang. The biggest advantage of this horse is endurance. It was Qi Jiguang who gave it to Li Rusong to escape. Endurance is the most important in escaping. Li Rusong did not take advantage of it. Teruxue is not used for escaping, but for chasing.

Two days later, Dong Hu took a rest with about 300 defeated soldiers in the lee of the grassland. He did not know where he was.

His headquarters originally consisted of 10,000 people. After repeated conflicts, when he defected to Anda Khan, only 5,000 people were left. He used 2,000 people to ambush Li Rusong, but they were all eaten by Li Rusong. He fled back to the camp. Later, I thought Li Rusong would not chase him, but it only took half a day for the Ming Dynasty cavalry to assemble. After dawn, the Ming cavalry camp began to attack his camp.

The camp built by Dong Hu was not able to last for more than two hours before it was completely breached. Dong Hu took two thousand people and fled. Another day and night left less than three hundred people around him.

"Madman, really madman!" Dong Hushu said sternly with red eyes. In the past two days and two nights, Li Rusong's fang flag was always flying at the front. Dong Hushu didn't think of charging and killing the opponent's general directly, but every time They were all pushed back by Li Rusong.

"I regret that I shouldn't have killed Tang Kekuan." Dong Hu was lying on the grassland. The plants and trees were like enemies, making him unable to sleep. Regret once again clouded his heart. Regret had been said countless times, but there was no regret medicine to take.

The Ming Dynasty is very vengeful. If you win a battle, you will take it away. Who led how many people and where to defeat the enemy? What kind of military exploits were obtained? If the battle was lost, the writing would be endless. The writers of the Ming Dynasty would start their own performances. , analyze why they lost, how to win back, and how big the enemy is. The analysis of the memorials is very long, and it is even written in the historical records.

If you win, you should write it down, if you lose, write it down in a small notebook.

Dong Hushu really didn't sleep for two days and two nights and kept running. Li Rusong slept for two hours plus one hour. He was not a tough guy. Before going to bed, he would make a bowl of fried flour and pour it into the water and stir it casually. Pour it directly into your mouth, eat a piece of cake, and drink a bag of water.

The reason why Li Rusong wanted to pursue Dong Hu was not let go for two days and two nights, and he continued to pursue him. It was because Qi Jiguang once mentioned his guilt towards Tang Kekuan.

Tang Kekuan's death was due to disobeying Qi Jiguang's general orders and attacking on his own. However, Qi Jiguang felt that he had his own reasons. He was a general and commanded a large corps to fight. He should have considered the complexity of the battlefield.

Tang Kekuan died, and his son could not inherit Tang Kekuan's hereditary command of Tongzhi (a fourth-grade military attache) and became a white-robed officer. Qi Jiguang had thought that if he had a chance, he would kill Dong Hu so that Tang Kekuan's children and grandchildren could continue to command Tongzhi hereditary. Even if you don't lead the army, you can still receive a salary.

When Li Rusong had the opportunity, he would naturally not miss it.

The traces of Dong Fox were found, and Li Rusong set off again. It was not far away, less than ten miles away. It only took a quarter of an hour for Li Rusong to find Dong Fox. The completely exhausted Dong Fox's eyelids were fighting when he heard the sound of horse hoofbeats. .

The sound of horse hooves came from all directions and he was surrounded.

"Dong Fox! Capture him without mercy!" Li Rusong's angry shout sounded a hundred steps away, and arrows were thrown into the circular formation of Dong Fox's three hundred people.

Dong Hu and his remaining three hundred men had absolutely no fighting ability or will to resist. Two quarters of an hour later, they were either killed or captured.

Dong Hushu lay on the ground panting, looking up at Li Rusong on the horse with the mace in front of him, and showed a relaxed and relieved expression. He was tired, really tired, and this madman couldn't get rid of him at all. On the contrary, if he was captured, he could live a stable life for a month or two, and he would be beheaded when he was escorted to the capital. But if he continued to run, his subordinates would definitely chop off his head as a token of surrender, and surrender to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for a reward.

If you fight, you can't fight, if you run, you can't escape.

In the battle of Wengguan Mountain, Li Rusong wiped out more than 5,000 Dong Hu's men and killed more than 4,300 enemies. Only 17 people were killed in the cavalry camp. He captured Dong Hu alive in the first battle and shocked the grassland!

The collapse of Bansheng City was even more serious than before. Anda Khan's 50,000 households and 50,000 troops deserted more than nearly 5,000. Morale had completely fallen to the bottom. Qi Jiguang led his troops to Bansheng City. Encamped ten miles away, the army began to besiege the city.

Anda Khan did not leave the city for a decisive battle because the cavalry battalion led by Li Rusong was still stationed in Wuchuan. Once they left the city, they would be at a disadvantage in attacking from both front and rear.

Qi Jiguang did not order an attack on the city, but began to announce that the head of Anda Khan was worth one thousand taels, the head of a ten thousand household was five hundred taels, and the head of a thousand households was one hundred taels. As long as he got it, he could come to the Ming Army to receive the reward for a period of ten years. Today, ten days later, the Ming army will break the city.

Qi Jiguang was not a threat. He spread out the artillery one by one and started bombarding three times a day.

On the third day, Bansheng's city wall had been completely smashed. Under the pouring of nearly 10,000 artillery pieces and 500,000 kilograms of gunpowder that came to the capital this time, Bansheng could not withstand a city that could not be surrounded for more than thirty miles. Can't stand such artillery coverage.

Qi Jiguang was not a squanderer, but also a helpless act. The gunpowder had to be shot out as soon as it was pulled out, otherwise it would deteriorate in the rainy season. The grassland is not the Central Plains and does not have such good preservation conditions.

Moreover, supplies brought another 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder to the front line. With half a million kilograms of gunpowder gone, Bansheng City could no longer be called a city.

On this day, Qi Jiguang came to the front line. Ten artillery pieces, more than two feet long and with bellies like buckets, appeared outside Bansheng City. These were thirty kilograms of artillery made by the Royal Gewuyuan.

It is said that it is a naval gun to be used on the Youlong. The largest artillery in the Ming Dynasty is fifteen kilograms of gunpowder, and these thirty kilograms of artillery are beyond everyone's expectations.

In land battles, this thing can only defend the city, and it is of little significance, but in naval battles, this thing is extremely useful.

It is said that the lunatics of the Imperial Academy are planning to get another 50-pound cannon. This 30-pound cannon has been test-fired many times. This time it was brought to the grassland to test the reliability of the equipment and whether it can be fired smoothly after a long and bumpy journey. , the ammunition fired is not a blooming bullet, but a solid submunition.

With ten artillery pieces pulled under Bansheng City, Buyan Taiji, who was in charge of the lookout, slowly raised a "?" on his head. 'Come.

I answer that Khan is so virtuous and capable, and Bansheng City is so virtuous and capable. Do you need this thing?
Qi Shuai, use a telescope to look at the completely collapsed city wall!

After the fuse was ignited, everyone stepped back a hundred steps. It would be no joke if this thing exploded. Qi Jiguang had seen it explode with his own eyes, and the continuous roar echoed on the board. Outside Sheng City, there was a sound like thunder, and the heaven and earth were trembling. Under the roar, the sub-munitions, like black horses, rushed towards the only remaining city gate. After smashing through the city gate and the building, the remaining power remained unabated. Entered the city.

Ten thirty-pound artillery pieces killed 0 enemy people.

"What a waste." Chen Dacheng looked at this scene blankly. The big fireworks were certainly beautiful and scary, but three hundred kilograms of gunpowder = 15000 rounds of flintlock muskets could kill two people. In addition to destroying the original The dilapidated city gate was completely shattered and seemed to be of no use.

In fact, it is useful and reduces morale.

In the afternoon, Ada Khan sent his second son Buyan Taiji to the Ming Dynasty camp to discuss surrender.

These ten thirty-pound cannons were the confidence. The Ming Dynasty had plenty of gunpowder. Anda Khan finally chose to surrender. Qi Jiguang even built the camp to the foot of Bansheng City. He was already desperate.

(End of this chapter)