Nanming Engineer

Chapter 129 Armor Penetration
Ma Xintian walked to another haystack with two sets of armor in his hands, and turned around to ask Wang Huan, "My lord, which one should I try first?"

Wang Huan thought for a while and replied, "Try the iron armor first."

Ma Xintian obeyed the order and put the mountain armor stripped off Niu Sicheng on the haystack. The haystack was not big and the mountain armor was too heavy, so Ma Xintian could only tie the breastplate on it.

Shanwen armor is made of fine steel. It consists of pieces of iron armor leaves that are interlaced and stacked together to form pieces of armor. The iron leaves are closely combined and beautiful in style. They have a very strong protective function for the wearer. The thickness of the iron leaves reaches two millimeters, and the protection function is very strong. The ability is close to that of Western plate armor, which is an excellent type of ancient Chinese armor. However, this kind of armor is very heavy, much heavier than chainmail and other armors.

Zu Bian was still standing fifty paces away, skillfully operating the bird system to reload the ammunition, and then he picked it up steadily, aiming at the mountain wenjia on the haystack and firing a shot.

"Bang!" Smoke rose, and the lead bullet accurately hit the breastplate. The impact caused the armor to sway on the haystack, but it did not fall off.

Wang Huan and the others ran over, took off the armor piece to check, and saw a clear imprint on the nail leaf in the middle of the breastplate. The bullet left a faint depression in the nail leaf, but it did not penetrate.

"It seems that at a distance of [-] steps, an [-]mm matchlock gun cannot penetrate armor with a thickness of more than [-]mm." Wang Huan thought about it.

He asked Zu Bian to continue shooting at the mountain armor on the haystack, the distance was gradually shortened, and he fired every ten steps, and then checked the shooting effect.

Zu Bian fired two more shots. It was not until the distance of thirty steps that the arquebus gun barely pierced through the mountain armor. It made a small hole in the iron armor leaf, but it could not penetrate the other side.

Holding the armor piece, Wang Huan looked at the small hole that a little finger couldn't get through, frowned and said, "Zu Bian, is the power of Niaotong all like this?"

Zu Bian blinked, and said in a puzzled way: "Yes, why, does your lord think that this power is not enough?"

Wang Huan shook his head, handed the piece of armor to the handyman beside him, and said, "Try it with our rattan armor."

Zu Bian smiled, and put the bird in his hand on his shoulder: "My lord, the rattan armor is definitely not as good as the iron armor. The rattan armor is better in lightness, and the protection power is much better than the iron armor under the same weight, but it is also a defeat. In terms of light weight, if rattan armor wants to achieve the protective effect of iron armor, it must be stacked with multiple layers, but rattan armor is so thick, let alone multiple layers, two overlapping pieces will wrap people like rice dumplings, and they cannot move at all. How are you going to fight?"

Wang Huan was noncommittal, but said: "Don't jump to conclusions, try it first."

After that, he got up and walked to the shooting position. Zu Bian curled his lips and followed with the gun on his shoulder.

The handyman took off the mountain armor on the haystack and replaced it with a piece of rattan armor, which was still tied firmly with a rope, and then hurried away.

Zu Bian still stood fifty paces away, just like testing the iron armor just now, he began to test, he loaded and fired, and under the watchful eyes of Wang Huan and Ma Xintian, he fired a shot at the target.

With a flash of flames, on the haystack fifty paces away, a burst of debris rose from the front of the rattan armor. You don't need to get close to see it. The lead bullet fired by this gun has made a hole that can be seen with the naked eye from a long distance away. .

Ancestor blew on the smoke from Niao Tong's mouth, shook his head and said, "My lord, am I right? I bet that even with a layer of rattan armor, Niao Tong can still penetrate it."

"Oh?" Wang Huan smiled: "So confident?"

"Hey, that's natural, the end of the Niaotong will know the severity. Back then in Liaodong, the Tartars were beaten into a sieve wearing cotton armor at a distance of fifty steps." Zu Bian boasted.

"How about we make a bet?" Wang Huan said, "If you can't get through with the next shot, go up the mountain to catch some wild game for drinking tonight."

"Okay, no problem." Zu Bian Niu Pi coaxed: "My lord, what if I win?"

"Then this bird will belong to you." Wang Huan said generously.

"Okay! My lord, once a gentleman speaks a word, four horses are hard to chase." Zu Bian was overjoyed, and quickly grabbed the end of Wang Huan's words: "Hey, I'm going to decide on this bird rule."

Ma Xintian looked at the hole in the rattan armor from a distance, and listened to the conversation between the two, with a worried look on his face. The rattan armor is the only armor that Longevity Valley can provide in large quantities at present. , very practical, but now it seems that the protective effect on the bird system is very poor, which is not easy to handle.

Wang Huan didn't change his expression, as if the effect of the shot was what he expected. After making the bet with Zu Bian, he didn't bother to run over to see how big the hole was. He directly ordered the handyman: "Change a piece of armor. Cover it with a fire raccoon."

After a pause, he said again: "Take that set of cloth armor made of Huohuanbu, and use it to cover the rattan armor."

The handyman agreed and ran to change his armor.

When Zu Bian heard Wang Huan's words, he was stunned for a moment, and asked with puzzled eyes, "cloth armor? My lord, what cloth armor?"

Wang Huan replied briefly: "The cloth armor made by Huo Huanbu, don't ask now, you will find out later."

Zu Bian scratched his head, confused, so he cast a questioning look at Ma Xintian. Ma Xintian was indifferent and silent, with an expression on his face that he didn't know anything and would not say anything even if he knew it, which made Zu Bian even more confused.

Not long after, the handyman trotted and brought what Wang Huan was talking about. Zu Bian stretched out his head and looked at it, only to realize that it was a set of robes similar to the fire-huan cloth robes worn by soldiers in ordinary times. The difference was that It seems to be a lot thicker.

The handyman replaced the armor plate on the haystack with a new one, and then put on a white robe. The haystack suddenly grew bigger, like a skinny man suddenly becoming a fat man.

Both Zu Bian and Ma Xintian were a little surprised. It seemed that the burqa was not only a little thicker, but at least several times thicker. I don’t know if it was made of multiple layers of Huohuan cloth or something was added in the middle. thing.

Wang Huan waited for the servants to run away, and briefly told Zu Bian: "Come again."

Zu Bian felt some pressure on his upper body for no reason, and the fat haystack seemed a little strange. He hesitated for a moment, and took a sneak peek at Wang Huan. He saw that he was concentrating on the haystack waiting for the gunshot, so he quietly put a little more into Tongzhong. gunpowder.

He is well aware of the quality of the fire system in his hand, and the extra gunpowder will not cause the chamber to explode.

When using the rod to compact the projectile, he used a little extra strength, then quietly moved his feet forward two steps, raised the bird's weapon, aimed at the huge target, and pulled the trigger.

Gunshots sounded, and the flames flashed.

The target fifty paces away didn't move, didn't even shake.

Ma Xintian looked sideways at Zubian.

Zu Bian's eyes widened, he looked at the target in disbelief, and then at the bird in his hand.

Missed?Missed?

Impossible, obviously Meow is very accurate, such a big white lump, two or three circles bigger than the haystack just now, how could it miss.

Zu Bian was sweating profusely on his forehead, this time he was so humiliated, he actually hit the target, where is the face of the Liaodong veteran?
He rubbed his head, laughed awkwardly, and hurriedly lowered his head to grab the ammunition and reloaded, while explaining unceasingly: "Uh, I was distracted just now, I missed the shot, come back again."

A hand stretched out and pressed down the bird he had erected to put gunpowder in his mouth.

Zu Bian raised his head in astonishment, but saw Wang Huan's frowning expression changed, and he said happily, "What didn't hit? Let's go and have a look first."

Seeing Wang Huan's expression, Zu Bian was stunned, why?Didn't hit the past to see what?
He didn't understand, and watched Wang Huan walking towards the target, he was stunned for a while, and was shocked in his heart, could it be that the shot hit, but the target didn't move.

What does this mean?
(End of this chapter)