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As for the steel plate, if the thickness is sufficient, there is no possibility of the bow and arrow shooting through it.

It's just that due to the limitation of the human body's weight-bearing capacity, the armor can only be made as light and thin as possible.Otherwise, if you really want to make a set of armor weighing one or two hundred catties, bows and arrows can defend, but no one is capable of fighting in such heavy armor.

Li Wangyou now just hopes that the armor made of refined steel will be tough enough.After all, compared with ordinary steel, the strength of the hundred-refined steel made by repeated forging has far exceeded.

As for the specific effect, but only to try to know.But Li Wangyou can at least be sure that the patterned iron armor in front of him is definitely not like the standard armor in the Tang Army, which is so easy to be pierced by arrow feathers.

Regarding Niu Wu's words, Li Wangyou just smiled and said: "Niu Wu, this is an iron armor made of hundreds of steel refiners. It is not certain whether the bow and arrow in your hand can penetrate it."

How could Niu Wu believe it, he took off the strong bow on his back, pulled the bowstring empty, and let out a weng sound that tore through the air.

"Lang Jun, when I was at Yanmen Pass, the arrows in my hand pierced through many armors of Turkic cavalry. I'm not bragging, the two stone bows in my hand will penetrate armors of this thickness within a hundred steps."

Yan Liben also nodded and agreed: "Master, what Niu Wu said is correct, two stone strong bows, paired with armor-piercing arrows, the disciple estimates that the distance of a hundred steps, iron armor can't stop it at all."

"Then give it a try." Li Wangyou shrugged his shoulders, and didn't bother to say more.

After the iron armor was fixed on the target, everyone stepped back.

A hundred paces away, 150 meters, in Li Wangyou's sight, the iron armor fixed on the target looks like the size of a fingernail.

Niu Wu didn't say a word, he directly drew his bow and set his arrow, and with a whoosh, the arrow feathers galloped towards the target.

Because he wanted to test the defense of the iron armor, Yan Liben sent Niu Wu an armor-piercing arrow specially used in the army.

This kind of arrow is specially made to break through the enemy's armor, and its penetrating power is extremely strong.The arrows of armor-piercing arrows are more slender than ordinary conical arrows, and have a cross-edged shape, so it has little resistance when penetrating armor, and it can easily pierce armor with a powerful crossbow.

On the battlefield, if you deal with infantry without thick armor, you can even penetrate three people with one arrow, which shows how powerful it is.

The next moment, there was a crisp sound, but it was the sound of an armor-piercing arrow hitting the iron armor.

In Niu Wu's imagination, his arrow feathers should directly penetrate the iron armor, and even be able to shoot through the target behind it.

But what surprised him happened. After the armor-piercing arrow accurately hit the iron armor, not only did it fail to penetrate, but after a crisp sound, the armor-piercing arrow was directly ejected.

Yan Liben was also taken aback, and asked in disbelief: "It bounced off? Didn't shoot through? This...how is this possible? Niu Wu used Ershi's strong bow!"

Niu Wu's old face was also flushed: "Perhaps the arrow was shot just now, wait for me to shoot another arrow."

Before Li Wangyou could speak, Niu Wu drew the bow and set the arrow again. This time he pulled the whole bow into a full moon, and the armor-piercing arrow left the string faster. Li Wangyou seemed to be able to hear the arrow feathers piercing the air. the sound of.

The unbelievable thing happened again, the armor-piercing arrow slammed, and was sent flying out by the armored bullet again...

Niu Wu's eyes were a little dull, he put down his bow and arrow and turned to look at Yan Liben who was also stupid, and then at his own husband, not knowing what happened.

Whether it was the armor-piercing arrow or the power of the strong bow in his hand, Niu Wu knew everything clearly.He was outside Yanmen Pass at the beginning, but at a distance of 150 steps, he shot and killed several Turkic cavalry in succession.

You must know that the ring armor equipped by the Turkic cavalry is not weaker than the standard armor of the Tang army.

But even so, the most elite armored cavalry of the Turkic people still couldn't resist the two-stone strong bow and armor-piercing arrows in Niu Wu's hands at a distance of 150 steps.

But today I really saw a ghost, only a hundred steps away, two consecutive arrows failed to pierce that piece of iron armor.

Seeing that he couldn't shoot through the iron armor at a distance of a hundred paces, Niu Wu took a few steps toward the target in disbelief, and drew his bow and set his arrow again... With a bang, the armor-piercing arrow was bounced away again.

Niu Wu kept shortening the distance between him and the iron armor, ninety steps, eighty steps, seventy steps... until he was fifty steps away, the armor-piercing arrow finally did not bounce off the iron armor, and stuck on the iron armor. Constantly trembling.

Niu Wu put down his bow and arrow, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand.

Ershi's strong bow, even if it was as strong as him, even if he opened the bow seven or eight times in a row, his arms were so tired that his arms began to swell.

Li Wangyou didn't expect that the iron armor forged with hundreds of refined steels would have such a good defense. It took fifty steps, more than 70 meters, for the armor-piercing arrow to penetrate into the iron armor.

Yan Liben was even more stunned. The defensive power of the armor was completely beyond his imagination.

Everyone walked quickly to the archery target, only to see that there were only seven or eight pits on the iron armor, which were obviously the marks left by the impact with the armor-piercing arrow just now.

As for the feathered arrow hanging on the iron armor, Li Wangyou dropped it with a light touch. Looking carefully, the arrow of the armor-piercing arrow only pierced a small hole in the iron armor and did not penetrate at all.

Niu Wu was speechless now, at a distance of fifty steps, even a two-stone strong bow and an armor-piercing arrow could not pierce this iron armor. If such steel was forged into armor, wouldn't it be equivalent to invulnerability?

"Lang Jun, this armor is so hard! I estimate that it is only twenty or thirty steps away to shoot through this armor. Tsk tsk, if I had such armor when I went to battle with my brother back then, how could my brother do it?" Lose an arm."

Li Wangyou nodded. In the era of cold weapons, if you have a good set of armor, it can indeed effectively reduce the chance of injury.

He thought about it, and said to Yan Liben: "Liben, let the craftsman put a few layers of silk on the back of the armor, and then line it with tanned cowhide. In this way, I estimate that even if the distance of twenty or thirty steps , I'm afraid even Niu Wu can't shoot through this iron armor."

The method Li Wangyou said is naturally the idea of ​​compound protection for later generations of bulletproof vests.

Iron armor absorbs and reduces the kinetic energy of arrows, while silk is made of raw silk, which has good elasticity and tension, and can reduce the kinetic energy of bows and arrows again.The innermost cowhide itself has strong toughness and can defend against arrows.

Three layers of composite defense, Li Wangyou did not believe that bows and arrows could penetrate such armor.

But Niu Wu didn't believe what he said.

The iron armor made of hundreds of refined steels was indeed extremely strong, and he could barely shoot it out of a small hole at a distance of fifty steps.But to say that the iron armor is pasted with a few layers of extremely thin silk, and then lined with a layer of cowhide, it will be impossible to shoot through. No matter how you listen to it, you think it is a fantasy.

"Lang Jun, I don't believe what you say!" Niu Wuweng said in a low voice.

Yan Liben also shook his head, he naturally didn't believe what Li Wangyou said.

Seeing that neither of them believed what he said, Li Wangyou was quite happy.

"Li Ben, why don't you make a bet with Wei Shi? If according to Wei Shi's words, Niu Wu's arrows can't pierce this armor, then you can make all the thirteen sets of armor for me with hundreds of tempered steels, how about it? If it is shot through, you can use any pig iron to forge armor for the teacher. How about it, dare to take a gamble?"

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Li Wangyou felt that after he traveled to the Tang Dynasty, this sentence almost became his mantra.

But this matter can't be blamed on him, who makes Tang Ren easy to gamble?

In addition, what he said was often questioned by others, so Li Wangyou didn't mind making a bet to gain a little benefit for himself.

For example, using hundreds of refined steel to make armor, although he can also force Yan Liben to use hundreds of refined steel to make it.But since Yan Liben didn't believe what he said, why not make an irrelevant bet with him, so that Yan Liben would willingly take out hundreds of refined steels to make these thirteen sets of armor for him?

Li Wangyou would make such a bet, so he naturally had confidence.

The iron armor forged by hundreds of steel smelters was stronger than he expected.The iron armor with a thickness of only about one millimeter can actually make Niu Wu's strong bow return without success at a distance of fifty steps, which is enough to show its strength.

Secondly, Li Wangyou has confidence in the composite protection concept of later generations of body armor.

Although Datang could not make the Kevlar fiber of later generations of body armor, silk can also play a similar role.

When the Mongolian cavalry swept across the Eurasian continent, their death squad cavalry battalion, the Balu Battalion, would wrap their bodies tightly with multiple layers of silk before each battle.It is wrapped in layers of dense and delicate silk, which is regarded as "soft armor" to reduce the damage caused by arrow feathers.

The world's first body armor was also invented by a British tailor after the Industrial Revolution, and it was made of coated silk.

Coupled with the cowhide lining, this three-layer armor of hard, soft and tough is compounded together. Li Wangyou didn't believe that it could be shot through by Niu Wu's bow and arrow.