Chapter 85

A set of plate armor has many parts. With the help of craftsmen, Lufei successfully put on the plate armor.

Put on the helmet, now Luffy is like a steel monster. He walks around excitedly in plate armor.

"Yes, it's flexible." Lu Fei said excitedly: "I just don't know if this armor can resist the sword."

"It's not easy, Zhao Hu. Go and give him a knife." Xiao Ming said.

The cold sweat on Zhao Hu's forehead immediately left, "Your Highness, this..."

"What are you afraid of? You can come as soon as you want. Are you my soldier?" Lu Fei scolded.

Zhao Hu's face turned black when he heard the words. He pulled out the steel knife on his waist and pointed it at Lufei. The knife was chopping on Lufei's abdomen. He only heard the sound of metal rubbing. There was only a shallow mark on the plate armour. Although Lufei stepped back a few steps, he didn't get hurt or even cry.

"Your Highness, I have nothing to do. Come and give me a few more knives." Luffy excited.

Zhao Hu was also surprised. At this time, he felt relieved and bold. He took a knife to cut Lu Fei.

Lu Fei stepped back again and again, but it was the same as the first knife. After cutting for a long time, he just felt slight pain.

Zhao Hu is interested, a knife after a knife, a non-stop, until Lu Fei a foot to kick him down, he just stopped.

"Smelly boy, look at my precious armor. It's all knife marks." Lu Fei said bitterly, then said to Xiao Ming with salivation: "Your Highness, give me another set. You see this set is cut by this boy."

Xiao Ming curled his lips. "It costs at least thirty taels of silver to produce this set of plate armour. How dare you say that?"

"Thirty liang?" Luffy said in surprise, "this is my salary for one year."

Xiao Ming naturally scares Lu Fei and wants him to treasure it. However, if the plate armor is forged in the past, it can't be forged without 30 Liang. But now, because of the hydraulic hammer, slaves are free of charge. In fact, the price of this plate armor is about the same as that of a farm cow.

"It's still rare. Your armor is a general's armor. It's different in thickness and pattern." Xiao Ming said.

Lu Fei's intestines were blue with regret. He looked at Zhao Hu fiercely and said, "you compensate!"

Zhao Hu was wronged and said, "you asked me to chop it. Besides, I don't have any silver."

Seeing Lu Fei's pain, Xiao Ming no longer teased him. Instead, he said, "well, for the sake of Cangzhou, I'll give you three sets of armor."

"Thank you, your highness." Lu Fei is very happy.

He felt his armor like a baby, and Lufei said, "Your Highness, this armor is really powerful. It's almost invulnerable. Now you give me ten thousand soldiers who are equipped with plate armor. Are we still afraid of barbarians?"

"That's not to be said." Xiao Ming looks serious, in order to avoid Lu Fei arrogance, he said: "plate armor is strong, but it will also reduce a little flexibility."

Lu Fei moved for a while and said, "it's a little bit, but it doesn't affect much. It's mainly about whether the bow and arrow can pierce the armor."

"Ordinary cast iron arrows can't do it." Xiao Ming said frankly that the forging technology used in his plate armour is basically equivalent to the modern 17th and 18th centuries. Without the corresponding special arrow, the damage to plate armour will not be great.

In fact, even in the early days, the muskets could not penetrate the plate armour. It was not until the power of the firearms increased that the plate armour was eliminated.

Xiao Ming now equips his army with plate armour just to cope with the situation in Dayu. Moreover, for the technology he has mastered, the production of plate armour is much faster than that of scale armour, and the cost is much lower.

That's why he chose plate armour.

"Is it?" Lu Fei's mouth was bigger, and he wanted to wear plate armour to fight immediately.

"At present, it's just speculation, and the specific way can only be tested by war." Xiao Ming said that this is his truth. Only after going through war can any equipment be distinguished.

Lu Fei was fascinated by Jingliang now. He didn't know if he heard Xiao Ming's words. He said, "Your Highness, I've taken these three hundred sets of plate armor back to the barracks."

"Wait, what's your hurry? There's something else here." Xiao Ming waved, and the craftsman took a weapon with a long handle and blade.

"Your Highness, is this the Modao you said?" said Lu Fei.

Last time Xiao Ming said to take him to see Modao, he always remembered it.

"Yes, this is the Modao, which is specially used to deal with the heavy cavalry of the barbarians." Xiao Ming said.

Today's Grassland Manchu are mostly light cavalry, but there are also many heavy cavalry, which are the elite of the barbarians. Generally speaking, the barbarians use the tactics of light cavalry attacking on both wings and heavy cavalry pushing in the middle.

There is basically no solution for defeating the army of Dayu state in this way.

Lu Fei picked up the Mo Dao and said in surprise: "Your Highness, this Mo Dao is not light. It takes 20 jin."

"Therefore, if this kind of strange knife is wielded, it will be enough to kill people and horses." Xiao Ming said that the Mo Dao is made of fine steel. The handle is very long, similar to the head of a gun, but it's long and wide, and very sharp.Lu Fei rubs the sword in his hand and cooperates with the plate armour. If the sword fights against the cavalry, it will be a nightmare for the cavalry.

In addition to Modao, the iron and steel workshop also built many weapons for the army, such as spears and swords. In terms of long-range weapons, he chose crossbows.

Although the manufacturing cost of crossbow is high and the launching speed is low, for Xiao Ming, a qualified Archer needs at least three years of training, which is too long.

In a war, soldiers are consumables. That's why they can become an army faster than anyone else. That's why muskets became the mainstream of the war. After three months, a number of soldiers died.

It's the same with this crossbow. Compared with bows and arrows, soldiers don't need much rigorous training to use crossbows, which is also suitable for the current situation of fiefdoms.

In general, the reason why crossbows are not as good as bows and arrows is because of the filling speed of kengdai. Even the initial firearms were blasted by bows and arrows.

In ancient times, the crossbow was basically called foot crossbow, that is to say, it can be used with both hands and feet, but Xiao Ming applied the pulley principle to the crossbow.

This means that soldiers need less strength to operate the crossbow flexibly.

At present, this kind of pulley crossbow is under development and production, but it has not been produced in the iron and steel workshop. However, modern mature technology has proved that it is feasible, and the production is only a matter of time.

Take Lufei to see the equipment in the army, Lufei immediately sent people to transport the weapons and equipment in the steel workshop back to the barracks.

Now the new army is basically wearing their own clothes, which is no different from ordinary people. Taking these equipment back can give the soldiers hope.

Chen Wenlong and Xiao Ming helplessly look at Lu Fei's busy figure. This is just the beginning. With the maturity of the steel workshop, the production speed of plate armor will be faster and faster, and his soldiers will never be embarrassed to have no weapon armor.

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