Become a feudal king from today

"Is the Bingzhan Division already producing scale armor?"

Looking at the small pile of armor pieces piled beside the mold, Zhao Xu felt happy.

Although during this period, he was selling alcohol and working to restore people's livelihood, he never relaxed his focus on the army.

After all, in troubled times, fists are the truth.

"Back to Your Highness, more than five hundred sets have been sewn." Wang Ying pointed to a yard not far away.

While leading Zhao Xu over, he said, "The women His Highness sent are now in use."

When everyone came to the courtyard, they saw more than two hundred women busy.

In front of these women there is a wooden frame with sleeveless clothes hanging on it.

The women threaded needles and threads through the holes in the nail plates, and sewed the nail plates onto their clothes with thick ropes.

Then use ropes to pass through the holes on the nail pieces to connect the left, right, top and bottom of the nail pieces into a whole.

Next to it are sleeve armor and skirt armor, which can be tied to the body for protection when worn.

"How come there are only 500 sets for more than 200 people these days?" Zhao Xu asked.

In his opinion, just piercing armor plates is not very difficult.

A woman can wear three sets of scale armor in one day.

"Your Highness, it's not that these women are slow in their work, it's that the war department didn't have enough steel in the past few days. They added a lot of crucibles in the past few days, so the number of armor pieces was increased." Wang Ying explained.

Zhao Xu nodded, that's it.

When he was talking to Wang Ying, Xu Lie and other guards' eyes lit up.

For them, armor is a life-saving thing.

Compared with the scales on their bodies, the armor of these new scales is very strong and the style is more beautiful than the ones on them.

"Your Highness, are these armors for the royal family?" Xu Lie asked knowingly.

Zhao Xu understood what he heard and looked at the armor on Xu Lie's body.

Although these armors were brought from the Praetorian Guards.

But now it looks old, with even pieces of nail peeling off and large gaps.

Moreover, these nail plates vary in width and thickness and are rough in shape.

Compared to Bingzhansi's uniform scales, which were as finely covered as fish scales, the grade suddenly dropped.

And this kind of scale armor is considered to be of top quality in Dasong.

"If you want it, just say it. No need to go around the bush." ​​Zhao Xu smiled and said to the bodyguard, "Let each of you pick one."

"Thank you, Your Highness." The guards suddenly became excited, and each one rushed to pick up the armor first.

Liu Fu was also a little curious that King Yan had come up with so many magical things.

He believed that this armor must be unusual.

So he said: "Your Highness, I wonder how our armor compares with the armor of the Praetorian Guards?"

"It's easy, just compare." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

He also wanted to see how the scale armor with steel plates was used for defense.

After that, he asked a guard to place the old armor on a wooden cross and placed a new scale armor next to it.

When Xu Lie picked up a pair of silver scales and came back, he said: "Xu Lie, use a bow and arrow to test whether the scales are strong."

In war, because the arrows of bows and arrows focus on one point, they basically have the ability to break armor.

Therefore, it is most appropriate to use a bow and arrow to test the quality of two pairs of armor.

"Yes, Your Highness." Xu Lie stood thirty meters away, bow and arrow ready.

The reason why he picked the armor just now was because he wanted a new pair of armor, not because he thought his old armor was bad.

He even subconsciously believed that the armor made by Yan County's Military Division was not as good as that of the Forbidden Army.

"Whizzing……"

With two consecutive sounds, Xu Lie shot an arrow at the two pieces of armor respectively.

The first arrow nailed the armor, but the second arrow bounced and fell to the ground.

This surprised him greatly, and he trotted over to see what was going on.

Because they were waiting aside, Wang Ying and Zhao Xu went over first.

Picking up the armor of the Forbidden Army, Xu Lie's arrow had already penetrated the armor, and the arrow pierced half as long as his middle finger.

Bingzhansi's armor only had a dent in the place where it was hit, but was not pierced.

"Your Highness, this is as different as clouds and mud." Wang Ying smiled from ear to ear, "No wonder Your Highness said this is hard steel."

Zhao Xu nodded.

In ancient times, the armor plates were basically made of wrought iron.

Pig iron is hard, but too brittle, and can easily break when exposed to force. The so-called selling iron by smashing the pot means that the pig iron pot can be smashed directly.

Wrought iron is tough enough but soft.

Therefore, steel will become extremely precious.

However, there are also hard steel and soft steel in steel.

Steel with a high carbon content is called hard steel, and steel with a low carbon content is called soft steel.

The crucible ratio that Zhao Xu gave Wang Ying was used to produce hard steel.

This kind of steel is suitable for making weapons and armor, and it also has good toughness. No matter how hard it is struck, it will not break like pig iron.

"This...how is this possible?" Xu Lie arrived at this time and saw the huge difference. He was so surprised that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.

The guards had the same expression as Xu Lie, but after being surprised, they all looked at the scale armor in his hand, as if looking at a treasure, and hugged it tightly.

"I didn't expect this armor to be so powerful. It's like a treasure."

"Needless to say, I won't be afraid of their bows and arrows in future battles."

"A bow and arrow can't penetrate it, let alone a sword or something like that."

"..."

The guards gathered together and were inexplicably excited.

After hearing the conversation between the guards, Zhao Xu started to think about it.

Ignoring Xu Lie, who was still in shock, he called the two guards, "You guys put it on now and fight with real swords."

Then he turned to Wang Ying and said, "Don't you have a helmet?"

"Yes." Wang Ying immediately asked someone to get it.

Not long after, two pairs of helmets arrived.

These two helmets are also made according to Zhao Xu's requirements.

Different helmet designs that expose the entire face.

His helmet's nose and face are all protected, with only his eyes and mouth exposed.

During the manufacturing process, molten steel is cast and shaped, and then hammered by a blacksmith to make the details more perfect.

At this time, the two guards put on their coats, arms, and skirts.

Except for the fact that there is no armor on the inside of the two arms, the outside is basically covered with a layer of scales.

Putting on the helmets again, a depressing sense of ferocity emerged from the two of them.

This is the natural coercion brought by being fully armed.

Xu Lie's surprise had turned into surprise at this time, and he watched the two fighting in disbelief.

"Your Highness, it's really a chop." The two soldiers faced each other and were confused.

"Don't be afraid. Didn't you see this just now? You can cut lightly first and then harder." Zhao Xu instructed.

The two guards nodded, and one guard raised his knife and slashed at the other guard's shoulder.

He didn't dare to use too much strength, and only used half of his usual full strength.

"Zhao..." came from the tearing sound of metal clashing.

He felt the palm of his hand tremble as if it were being struck on a stone, and an incredible look appeared on his face.

Then he stopped holding back and struck at the opponent fiercely.

Another sound of metal clashing sounded, and there was only a white mark on the armor, but the blade of the knife in the guard's hand was curled.

The guards who were watching were all stunned at this moment.