Datang romantic little landlord

Cheng Yaojin laughed and scolded: "You bastard, don't talk nonsense! Quickly take out those armors!"

Li Wangyou was stunned. Li Er led a group of state princes and military generals to chase and kill him to this forbidden garden, just for the holy clothes he used for cosplay?This is crazy, right?

759 Miser Grandet

How did Li Wangyou know that the reason why Li Er hurriedly led Cheng Yaojin and other military leaders to the Forbidden Garden to see those sets of "Holy Clothes" was actually "betrayed" by his disciple Yan Liben .

A few days ago, Li Wangyou spent every day in the ordnance workshop in the valley of Cuiwei Palace, urging the craftsmen to make composite crossbows and holy clothes, which made Yan Liben complain for a while.

Building a composite bow and crossbow is fine, after all, Yan Liben also knows that if this bow and crossbow can be forged, it will be extremely powerful, and it can be called a magic weapon.

In Yan Liben's view, although the new crossbow designed by his teacher is expensive and difficult to equip in the army on a large scale, it is still a sharp weapon.

But when Yan Liben found out that Li Wangyou was going to use them as "drama costumes" for those strange looking armors, he really didn't know how to complain.

But the master has orders, even if he is a disciple who is reluctant, he can only follow through.

But what made Yan Liben unbearable was that Li Wangyou actually changed his mind, insisting that he use those hard-won "hundreds of steel refining" to make armor, which made Yan Liben so aggrieved that he almost vomited blood.

Hundreds of steel smelting, before Li Wangyou made a hydraulic forging hammer, how precious was it?But all the weapons made of hundred-refined steel are famous magic weapons.

Now, with the help of hydraulic forging hammers, the output of steel smelting is increasing day by day, but Yan Liben feels that it is a waste of money to use such good steel to forge "costume armor".

In his opinion, even if Li Wangyou used pure gold to forge these armors, it would be better than wasting hard-won steel.

For this reason, Yan Liben took courage, found Li Wangyou, and wanted to persuade his little teacher not to waste so much money.

"Teacher, since these armors are just costumes, why not make them out of thin iron sheets as the teacher said before? These hundred-smelting steels are really... not easy to come by."

Li Wangyou smiled and shook his head: "Liben, you don't want to try it out, how strong is the armor made of hundreds of refined steels?"

The reason why he suddenly changed his mind was because he wanted to see if the plate armor made of hundred-steel refining could surpass the Mingguang armor in defense.

Huaxia Plate Armor has not been used on a large scale, mainly because the output and quality of steel are not up to standard.

After all, the bigger the steel plate, the more brittle it is. This problem can only be solved by repeated forging.Therefore, in order to solve the cost problem, Huaxia has chosen to manufacture small steel armor pieces on a large scale since ancient times, and connect them in series to form armor.

This not only saves manpower, but also facilitates repairs after the armor is damaged.The defense against bows and arrows is also stronger than that of plate armor.

However, in Li Wangyou's view, this was only caused by the poor quality of the steel used to make the plate armor.

He remembered that some military enthusiasts in later generations had done experiments. Those plate armors in the Middle Ages were almost pierced by bows and arrows.However, plate armor made of steel from later generations is difficult to be pierced by bows and arrows. This is the difference in steel materials.

When Li Wangyou asked the craftsmen to make the holy clothes, he thought of this, and began to wonder, if he used hundred-refined steel to make the armor, would it be able to effectively defend against the attack of cold weapons by virtue of the hardness of the hundred-refined steel?

Although it is just his bad taste to create the Saint Cloth, if the armor is really protective, it would be a wonderful thing.

Although Baisteel was more expensive, Li Wangyou didn't take this small amount of money seriously, let alone like Yan Liben, like the miser Grandet, who was reluctant to use those Baisteel.

Anyway, in his opinion, the so-called [-]-year steelmaking is nothing more than repeated folding and forging by craftsmen, repeated heating, carburizing and forging, so as to increase the toughness of steel.

With a hydraulic forging hammer for 24 hours a day, Li Wangyou doesn't think there is anything rare in steelmaking.

Yan Liben didn't know how to respond to Li Wangyou's words.

Forging armor with hundreds of refined steel?

In his opinion, this kind of thing is almost as rich as Shi Chong Wang Kai in the Western Jin Dynasty, and it is too extravagant.

"Master, if this hundred-steel steel is used to make weapons, it will be of no use, but... But it may not be as good as the standard armor in the army if it is used to make armor. This disciple feels that it is better not to waste it like this Bar."

Li Wangyou was dumbfounded by Yan Liben's miserly temper, isn't he just making steel?What a big deal?

The steel used for a set of armor is only four to fifty catties, and the material used for thirteen sets of holy clothes is only four to five hundred catties.

However, Li Wangyou really didn't know what the defense would be if he forged armor with hundreds of refined steels.Since Yan Liben is so reluctant, let's try an experiment.

"Li Ben, what you said is also reasonable. If that's the case, then let's do an experiment to see how the defensive power of this hundred-smelting steel is."

"Experiment?" Yan Liben looked puzzled.

Li Wangyou nodded his head as a matter of course: "You let the craftsman spend a lot of steel refining to forge a piece of iron armor, and you will know it once you try it."

"This...promise, disciple knows, let's do it now." Yan Liben wanted to persuade him a little bit, but seeing Li Wangyou's persistent attitude, he had no choice but to nod in agreement.

With the assistance of a hydraulic forging hammer, a piece of iron armor the size of a breastplate was quickly forged.Li Wangyou took a look at the plate armor, he found that it was only about one millimeter thick, and it didn't feel heavy in his hand.

When watching TV dramas in later generations, he has always had the illusion that ancient armor is very thick, but it is not.Most of the armor unearthed in later generations, the thickness of the iron armor is between one millimeter and three millimeters. If it is thicker, the armor will be too heavy to wear and fight.

The heavy armor of European knights looks like tin cans, but in fact it weighs only forty to fifty kilograms, and the thickness is mostly between [-] and [-] millimeters.

However, it is clear that the quality of steel used in European knight armors cannot be compared with the hundred-smelting steel in front of you.

Due to repeated folding and forging, the breastplates forged by Bailian Steel all have lines formed by forging, which are very exquisite.The same is true for the lines on the famous Damascus knives of later generations, which are all formed by repeated forging and beating of steel.

Yan Liben was groping for this newly forged iron armor, and Li Wangyou felt his teeth were about to ache from the look of reluctance.

"Okay, don't be petty, quickly find a target for the armor and fix it, I'll let Niu Wu shoot a few arrows to see how it works." Li Wangyou shouted angrily.

"Lang Jun, this breastplate will definitely not be able to stop my arrows." Niu Wu stepped forward, tapped the iron armor with his knuckles, and said disdainfully.

The bow used by Niu Wu is a strong bow of two stones. As for the standard armor of the Tang Dynasty, even the highest-grade Mingguang armor can be pierced by an arrow within a hundred steps. There is no doubt about it.

Li Wangyou was also a little unsure, could this hundred-steel steel plate really withstand bows and arrows?

Many people in later generations have a misunderstanding, thinking that the penetration of bullets must be stronger than that of bows and arrows. After all, since the emergence of muskets, firearms have eliminated the cold weapons of bows and arrows.

But Li Wangyou knew that this was not the case.

He had seen a video on a military forum about a test conducted by the US military in 1961.

The target of this experiment is a wooden box more than 30 centimeters thick filled with sand.For a simple test of the penetration depth of the bullet, the sand was divided into three layers by two partitions.

The military then fired at the wooden boxes with M1 Garand rifles and M1 carbines and M1911 pistols.

As a result of the test, the M1 Garand rifle with the strongest penetrating power only penetrated two layers of partitions, but did not penetrate the entire sandbox. The M1 carbine penetrated only one layer of partitions, while the pistol failed to penetrate even one layer of partitions and was blocked by sand.

After that, the bow and arrow with a pulling force of about [-] pounds directly penetrated the entire sandbox, completely penetrating.

You know, a bow and arrow weighing about [-] pounds is only equivalent to a strong bow from the Tang Dynasty...

760 Impassable Armor

Li Wangyou also knew that it wasn't that bows and arrows were more powerful than bullets, but that bows and arrows penetrated, especially for targets like sand and soil, the resistance of arrow feathers was far less than that of bullets.

But in the face of hard targets, the penetration of bows and arrows is far inferior to that of bullets.

At least in the face of a target like a wall brick, bullets can easily penetrate it, and a bow and arrow can pierce it, which is considered very powerful.