Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

"Come, follow me to tell the official family the good news!"

After Fan Zheng cashed in one thousand coins, he immediately led the weapons supervisors and craftsmen, picked up their armor and rushed to the palace.

"What, the weapons supervisor cracked the Xixia cold-forged armor!"

Zhao Xu had just gone to court when Tong Guan came to report, and he couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised.

Tong Guan nodded and said: "Fan Taicheng has already been waiting outside the palace with his cold forged armor."

"Please come quickly. No, let Fan Zheng take the cold forged armor to the palace martial arts arena immediately." Zhao Xu couldn't wait to say.

Fan Zheng had just reformed the Ordnance Supervision for ten days. During these ten days, Fan Zheng reorganized the Ordnance Supervision, weeded out the old and weak, and recalled the craftsmen who had been requisitioned by the dignitaries. There had already been an uproar in the court, and various impeachments and rumors continued.

However, as soon as the cold forged armor came out, all doubts were immediately suppressed.

Throughout the ages, the Central Plains dynasties have always outperformed the grassland dynasties with their weapons and armor. However, in the Song Dynasty, the situation was extremely miserable. Not only were their bows and crossbows inferior to those of Xixia, but even their armor was inferior to Xixia's.

The Xia Zi armor worn by Xixia Iron Kites is cold-forged armor with extremely strong defensive power. A single charge can often disrupt the Song Dynasty's military formation! This gave the Song Dynasty a headache. If the Song Dynasty could also forge cold forged armor, it would be enough to fight against the Xixia Iron Kites.

Inside the martial arts arena.

Zhao Xu came in a hurry and saw Fan Zheng leading a group of weapons supervisors and craftsmen already waiting there.

"To report to the officials, the humble minister was ordered to reform the military weapons supervisor. He has fulfilled his mission and came here to report the good news to the officials." Fan Zheng continued.

Fan Zheng waved his hand, and Mo Yue led a group of craftsmen to present the newly completed cold forged armor and cotton armor.

Zhao Xu's eyes automatically ignored the cotton armor and stared at the cold forged armor.

"Is this Xixia's cold-forged armor?"

Zhao Xu said in disbelief. Once upon a time, the Song Dynasty was gnashing its teeth at Xixia's cold-forged armor, but there was nothing they could do about it. Xixia's biggest trump card was finally controlled by the Song Dynasty.

Mo Yue solemnly said: "The officials don't know. The method of cold forging armor is not difficult. The biggest difficulty is the iron material. After Mr. Fan served as the weapons supervisor, he gathered a group of blacksmiths and brainstormed, and finally made a method that can be cold forged. of iron."

The life of the craftsmen was difficult, and five hundred strings was a huge fortune for them. Under the stimulation of five hundred strings, almost all the craftsmen were jealous, and they actually created cold-forged armor in one fell swoop.

Zhao Xu twitched the corner of his mouth. Fan Zheng had just taken office and directly spent thousands of dollars to provide a reward for the weapons inspector. It had already been rumored in the court and became the focus of impeachment by the courtiers.

However, no one expected that Fan Zheng's thousand guan would have such a miraculous effect. In just ten days, the craftsmen of the Ordnance Supervision actually made cold-forged armor. If you could buy cold-forged armor for just one thousand guan, How could the Song Dynasty be controlled by Xixia for decades?

However, the irony is that the Song Dynasty would rather give Xixia 300,000 guan of annual coins every year than reward craftsmen with a mere 1,000 guan.

Fan Zheng introduced from the side: "The infantry armor of the Song Dynasty uses hot forging technology. The complete set of 1,180 armor pieces weighs 70 kilograms, while the cold forging method is less than 50 kilograms."

"Seriously?" Zhao Xu said in disbelief.

The Xixia Iron Kites were extremely powerful, but the Song Dynasty had never been able to form heavy armored cavalry to compete with them. The biggest reason was that the Song Dynasty's armor was too heavy! The war horse cannot bear such huge pressure! In the end I had to give up.

If the Song Dynasty had cold-forged armor, the weight of the armor would be greatly reduced, and it would not be difficult to form an elite heavy armored cavalry that could compete with the Iron Kites.

Mo Yue was already prepared for this. He immediately took out a scale and measured the weight of the cold forged armor himself.

"Forty-eight pounds!"

Zhao Xu's eyes narrowed. The foot armor weighed a full seventy kilograms, while the cold-forged armor lost a full twenty-two kilograms. For soldiers who were running long distances, the weight reduction of more than twenty kilograms was really huge. of the gospel.

"Although the weight of cold-forged armor has been reduced, its defensive power is still higher than that of human armor!" Fan Zheng said solemnly.

At the moment, Mo Yue put the cold forged armor and walking armor on the dummy in the martial arts arena.

"God's Arm Crossbow!"

Zhao Xu waved his hand. Ordinary bows and arrows were of little use against infantry armor and cold-forged armor. If you want to test the defensive power of cold-forged armor, you must use the divine arm crossbow!

Tong Guan immediately stepped forward and handed over the divine arm crossbow that had already been strung up.

"Buzz!"

Zhao Xu personally picked up the divine arm crossbow and took the lead in shooting at the Bu Renjia from a distance of twenty steps!

"Ding!"

There was a sound of gold and iron clashing, and the arrows were seen piercing deeply into the armor.

"One inch into the armor!" Mo Yue said loudly.

The divine arm crossbow is most powerful at a distance of twenty steps. The foot armor can block the strongest divine arm crossbow, and it only penetrates the armor by an inch, which is an incredible achievement.

But Fan Zheng shook his head. One inch was more than three centimeters long, and such a deep wound was enough to cause severe trauma to the human body.

At that moment, Tong Guan wound up the divine arm crossbow again and handed it to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu raised the divine arm crossbow, pointed it at the cold forged armor, and pulled the trigger.

"Ding!"

The sound of gold and iron clashes again.

This time, Zhao Xu missed his shot slightly. The cold-forged armor actually directly deflected the arrows of the divine arm crossbow, and the cold-forged armor only lost two pieces of armor.

"Come again!"

Zhao Xu was overjoyed when he saw this, and once again raised the divine arm crossbow to shoot at the cold forged armor.

"Ding!"

This time, the arrow of the divine arm crossbow did not miss, and it was nailed straight to the cold forged armor.

"Half an inch into the armor!" Mo Yue said excitedly.

"Half an inch!"

Zhao Xu said in surprise.

This is the most powerful divine arm crossbow in the Song Dynasty. The cold-forged armor can only resist the divine arm crossbow by half an inch.

Fan Zheng nodded slightly. Half an inch was less than two centimeters. Although the Divine Arm Crossbow still broke through armor, it was not fatal when wearing cold-forged armor. It was only a minor injury at most!

At that time, under Pingxia City, Xixia Iron Kites relied on the protection of cold-forged armor to charge up the city wall. If the Song army was not afraid of death and the thunderbolt blocked the reinforcements, Pingxia City would have been difficult to defend.

Zhao Xu stepped forward to verify it in person and found that it was only about half an inch into the armor.

Zhao Xu couldn't believe it. He raised the divine arm crossbow and fired several arrows, but the cold forged armor always blocked the divine arm crossbow without causing serious damage.

"Cold-forged armor is undoubtedly the strongest armor in the world. This divine armor is enough to create the iron-armored cavalry belonging to the Song Dynasty." Fan Zheng said solemnly.

At this moment, Fan Zheng came up with the idea of ​​establishing Tiefu Tu.

"Iron Pagoda!"

Zhao Xu couldn't help being shocked when he heard this. Pagoda means tower in Buddhist language, and Iron Pagoda means iron tower. A cavalryman and horse are all wearing cold forged armor, standing like an iron tower.

"Okay! The Song Dynasty will build an iron pagoda belonging to the Song Dynasty at any cost!" Zhao Xu solemnly said.

Although the Song Dynasty was not prosperous, it was still possible to find three thousand of the most elite war horses. Xixia had three thousand iron kites, and the Song Dynasty was bound to build three thousand iron pagodas to compete with them.

"The officials are wise!" Fan Zheng bowed and said,

"The iron pagoda is expensive to build and cannot be mass-produced. If the Song Dynasty wants to revitalize the cavalry, it needs the second type of armor that Weichen donated today, cotton armor!"

"Cotton armor? Can cotton be used as armor?" Zhao Xu frowned and looked at the armor in front of him that was covered with a layer of cotton.