Reborn as Murong Fu: This time I am the protagonist

Su Xinghe smiled and said: "If junior brother said this in front of those ignorant and corrupt scholars in the Song Dynasty, they would inevitably be criticized by them. But it is the truth. It is just a thousand words and ten thousand. What is junior brother going to do? "

Murong Fu smiled mysteriously: "Let's take it one step at a time. Anyway, we have real money now. If we can use money to clear the way, isn't it difficult to solve the problem?"

After Su Xinghe left with Xiao Lin Chaoying, Murong Fu returned to his disguised appearance.

Murong Fu walked to the back hall and knocked lightly on the wall of a room. The wall made regular and rhythmic sounds. The sound showed that it was obviously empty.

After a while, the partition wall parted on both sides, and a secret room appeared in front of Murong Fu.

The secret room was not big, and there was nothing else in it except something hanging on a shelf.

What was on the shelf was a pair of armor.

This set of armor is quite impressive in terms of shape, and is a typical Mingguang armor shape in the Tang Dynasty. On a lion belt, a huge beast head looks majestic, as if it is ready to explode and hurt people at any time. On the shoulder pads, one on the left and the other on the right, there are also two lion heads attached to the shoulders. The entire set of armor is divided into three layers, achieving the ultimate in protection. It is a typical heavy armor, but it weighs less than forty pounds, which is lighter than many medium armors. The thin nails reflected a chilling light under the candlelight.

Murong Fu flicked his index finger and shot out a weak sword energy. With a "stab" sound, the sword energy that could break gold and jade sliced ​​through the breastplate. It only broke a hole in the outermost armor surface, but the one inside There wasn't even a single scratch on the armor.

An ordinary sword would have been broken by this blow, but this seemingly very thin armor could block the blow of Shang Yang Sword!

This is the cold forged armor of Xixia.

The armor is much thinner than the armor of the Great Song Dynasty Bu, achieving stronger protective power. A single layer of armor can effectively resist the Song army's armor-piercing arrows from a distance of fifty steps.

As for the other standard equipment of the Song Army, such as straight knives, they cannot even break armor unless they are repeatedly struck at the same place on the armor surface. However, it is not easy to hit the opponent once on the battlefield. It is basically impossible to hit the same spot multiple times.

Different from the cold-forged armor worn by ordinary Xixia cavalry, whose armor plates were tied with twine, the armor in front of Murong Fu actually had extremely fine gold threads connecting the armor plates. While being luxurious, it also improves the armor's defensive power to a higher level.

Of course, the armor of ordinary Xixia cavalry cannot be so luxurious and finely made, but its defensive performance is far better than the standard armor of the Song Army.

From this point of view, the opening sentence of "The Theory of Six Kingdoms": The six kingdoms were destroyed not only because of the disadvantages of soldiers, but also because of the insufficiency of wars. It is somewhat wishful thinking. Regardless of the six countries, at least the Song Dynasty is really at a disadvantage and lacks fighting skills.

In the Battle of Song and Xia in the past, 20,000 Song infantry were rushed to pieces by Xixia heavy cavalry wearing cold-forged armor at Haoshuichuan, and the entire army was annihilated. The defeat in the Battle of Haoshuichuan caused Song Renzong to completely give up his plan to conquer Xixia. In the end, he paid for peace in exchange for Xixia's nominal removal of the title of emperor.

Murong Fu went all the way to Xixia to work for people. One of the important reasons was that he wanted to integrate into the Xixia army to acquire Xixia's unique cold-forged armor technology in this era.

This set of extremely luxurious cold-forged armor was a reward that Murong Fu received for his military exploits in the First Grade Hall. Murong Fu was ecstatic when he got this armor, thinking that he could use this armor to decipher the secrets of Xixia's cold-forged armor, and thereby create a heavy armored cavalry that could run rampant in the Song Dynasty.

Murong Fu even used his "money power" to poach a Xixia craftsman and returned to the Song Dynasty to imitate it using the same process.

However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. The cold-forged armor produced by the same process in the Song Dynasty became Jusheng Huaibei - the forged armor was not only thicker than the original armor, but also brittle, and its protective power was even worse than the Song Army's standard armor.

Murong Fu was puzzled at first, thinking that the craftsman was hiding something secret. The Western Xia craftsmen swore and swore to prove their loyalty to avoid suspicion. After some research, Murong Fu came to the conclusion that the source of all this was that the raw materials were not up to standard.

According to the view of later generations, there was a high-grade magnetite under the Helan Mountain in Xixia at this time. After refining this special iron ore, it was possible to obtain the highest quality pig iron in the world at that time. Although the overall output is not high, it is more than enough to supply a heavy armored cavalry force of several thousand people.

And this heavy armored cavalry that annihilated the Song army at Sanchuankou has a well-known name of "Iron Kites".

However, before Murong Fu could manage to transport the pig iron from Xixia to the Song Dynasty, a series of changes occurred, and Murong Fu's cold forged armor was completely gone.

Murong Fu stretched out his fingers, and his fingertips grazed the smooth nail surface, and a slight chill came through his fingertips. Looking at this majestic armor, a complicated look flashed in Murong Fu's eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After Murong Fu finished arresting him, a moment later, the handsome young man in brocade clothes disappeared. What was left behind was a tall, majestic general wearing armor. The cold armor and the zombie-like stiff face are intimidating.

From this moment on, Murong Fu completely assumed the role of Li Yanzong.

Murong Fu took out the sword from his waist and held it in his hand for a closer look: As for why he used the sword, it was naturally to cover up his martial arts skills, so as not to be seen by people who often used swords and reveal his identity.

After all preparations were completed, Murong Fu walked out of the secret room. At this time, a white dove just landed on the edge of the window and was flapping its wings.

There is a small bamboo tube tied to the pigeon's right foot.

Yipintang’s exclusive homing pigeon.

It seemed that Yipintang already knew that he was back because he had made such a big fuss before.

Murong Fu untied the letter from the pigeon's feet, took out a small handful of dried pine nuts and fed it to the pigeon. The pigeon rubbed its head affectionately on Murong Fu's hand a few times, happily ate the pine nuts, and then fluttered its wings and left.

Murong Fu unfolded the small piece of paper, and there was a line written on it in Xixia script: Come to the front of the palace to discuss matters.

There is no signature, just a simple line of text.

Murong Fu sneered: Helian Tieshu, I want to see what you, an old boy, want to do?

When Li Qiu Shui was in charge of the First Grade Hall, Helian Tieshu was only giving orders to the First Grade Hall as the highest official in name only, but in fact, he carried out Li Qiu Shui's will. Now that Li Qiushui is away, the situation of Helian Tieshu, a Huns who holds a high position in Xixia, has become a bit delicate.