Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 184 New Equipment (2)

After several months, Ma Jun finally manufactured the first batch of weapons and armors, including a Tang Dynasty knife, an Xiangshan Wen armor and an iron ring armor, through the manufacturing method of the blueprints and his own research.

As soon as these items were produced, Ma Jun immediately found Li Song and showed them to Li Song to see how the newly produced equipment works!

Li Song looked at the armor placed in front of him, and reached out to pick up the imitation Tang knife. The scabbard has simple and exquisite patterns. Pulling the knife out of its sheath, a penetrating cold light flashed, it was indeed a sharp blade.

The weight of the knife was a bit lighter. After looking at it for a while, he put the knife back into the scabbard and said to Ma Jun, "Let's go! Go and try this knife to see if it works well."

"No!" Ma Jun took the order and followed Li Song to the martial arts arena. The soldiers who were practicing immediately assembled and waited for Li Song to speak. Use the ring hand knife to try the effect.

The two soldiers saluted Li Song, and then put on new equipment. When they were ready, one of them put on the imitation Tang sword and Xiangshan armor, while the other fought him with the current iron armor and ring hand sword.

Li Song stood on the spotting platform on the martial arts arena, looked at the soldiers below, took the imitation Tang sword from the soldier, drew the sword out of its sheath with a "clang", saw a flash of cold light, and said: "Holding this knife with both hands can greatly increase the power of chopping," Cao Ang held the handle of the knife with both hands, and slashed forward, demonstrating to these people.

"This knife is harder and more resilient than the previous ones, so it has more advantages than the previous ones in terms of armor penetration and durability." Li Song continued, "This knife can not only be held with both hands, but also Hold it with one hand." After Li Song finished speaking, he changed from swinging the knife with both hands to swinging the knife with one hand.

"Okay! Now let's see how this armor and knife compare with the current iron armor and ring hand knife, and how it will be effective!" Li Song said, throwing the knife back to the soldier, who reached out to catch Li. An imitation Tang knife thrown loose.

The two of them got into a posture, and one of them took a step forward with his left leg, gripped the handle of the knife with both hands, roared, jumped high, and slashed at his companion, who hurriedly raised the knife above his head to block the attack from above. An imitation Tang knife that cuts down.

The soldier holding the ring hand knife pushed hard, and his backhand slashed on the smooth Xiangshan armor, but it just slid across the Xiangshan armor and rubbed a little spark, and there was only one left on the Xiangshan armor. For the small marks, the soldier holding the imitation Tang knife took the opportunity to slash down, and slashed through the opponent's armor from top to bottom. The opponent's armor broke, and the two knives collided with each other. , but the imitation Tang knife is still intact, it is clear at a glance who is inferior and who is superior.

Li Song was very satisfied with this experiment. He returned to the study with Ma Jun, and said to Ma Jun, "Deheng, I am very satisfied with this experiment. How much of these weapons and armor can be produced!"

"Prime Minister! In theory, as long as there are enough materials, you can have as many as you want!" Ma Jun said.

Li Song couldn't help laughing after hearing this, he wanted as much as he wanted, the key was that besides the armor, the Tang Dao was extremely scrap iron, there was no iron, so what to forge, Li Song fell into deep thought for a while.

"Prime Minister! After my research, the new knife produced is simpler than the one described in the drawing given by the Prime Minister. In terms of power, it is incomparable with the original one, but in this way, it greatly reduces the amount of iron. needs." Ma Jun said.

Li Song, who came back to his senses, looked up at Ma Jun and said, "Is this true?" Li Song naturally understood what Ma Jun meant. In this way, although some iron can be saved, in terms of lethality, it will be more powerful. discount.

After discussing these three weapons and armors, Ma Jun bid farewell and left. Li Song hurriedly called Xu Chu, "Zhongkang! Go and check, how much iron do we have in stock now!"

"No!" Xu Chu clasped his fists in salute, and hurriedly retreated to check how much iron he had in stock.

Li Song decided to manufacture a batch of imitation Tang sabers and armors first. Li Song decided to equip the Xiangshan armor for the generals, and the iron ring armor for infantry and cavalry. The manufacture of the iron ring armor is relatively simple. The first layer is made of cowhide, the outer layer is iron net armor, the armor pieces are connected like fish scales, arrows cannot penetrate, and the production is extremely delicate.

After Xu Chu came back, he reported the inventory situation to Li Song, and Li Song told Xu Chu his idea of ​​mass producing these equipments.

After hearing this, Xu Chu was a little confused: "I told the prime minister, I heard from Ma Sizheng that the manufacture of this weapon and armor is a waste of iron. Now, our army does not have much iron in stock. I am afraid it will be difficult to manufacture in large quantities and equip our troops and horses in large quantities."

In fact, Li Song also knows that this new type of equipment wastes iron and burns money. Only in the economically developed era like the Tang Dynasty can large-scale manufacture of such money-burning weapons and armor. With the current level of strength, it may be extremely difficult. Li Song He said to Xu Chu: "It doesn't matter, as long as there is iron in stock, we will make as many of these equipments first, and we will talk about the rest later."

"We will soon be fighting Yuan Shao in the north. The most important thing is to improve our own strength, so that we can have a better chance of winning. It is good to improve a little bit!"

"Yes! Prime Minister, I'll do it now." After Xu Chu said that, he hurried down to do what Li Song told him. He also knew the seriousness of the matter. Xu Chu knew that the battle with Yuan Shao would happen sooner or later.

Soon, the iron stored in the warehouse was taken out and sent to the workshop for making weapons and armor, and made according to Ma Jun's improved drawings.

While the craftsman was enthusiastically waving the stuff in his hands and making new equipment, the two Taoist priests on the other side, after a period of research, finally made new progress in gunpowder.

Among them, there were no less than a hundred times the blast furnace. Even Li Song lamented that the lives of these two guys are really great, and they can still survive alive and kicking like this. Li Song knows how powerful the explosion is.

Li Song looked at the powder in front of him. Apart from burning faster, it was far from meeting the requirements of gunpowder. There were still many impurities in it. It seemed that this gunpowder was not so easy to research. Li Song encouraged Say a few words to the two Taoists, let them continue to work harder and so on.

After a period of hard work, Tang Dao and armor capable of equipped with two thousand soldiers and horses were finally produced, and Tie also declared that he was in a hurry.

Li Song used these weapons and armors to equip the elite soldiers selected from the army, including [-] infantry and [-] cavalry.

(End of this chapter)