Please ask me to be the emperor

"Ha, ha!" Li Jiyu, wearing the plate armor sent by Wang Zheng, vigorously waved the ax in his hand, doing a series of actions such as chopping, chopping, smashing, hugging, and intercepting.

He even played a three-flower cover, using only the big ax in his hand to dance like a tiger.

"How's it going?" Seeing Li Jiyu dancing for a long time without losing his breath, Zhang Shun couldn't help but look at him with admiration.

It turned out that Zhang Shun had such powerful generals as Wukong, Wang Jinyi, Chen Changzhen, Cao Bianjiao, and Wei Congyi, but he ignored Li Jiyu, not realizing that he had such ability.

It turns out that Li Jiyu used a six-foot-long axe. One side of the ax was bladed, and the other side was a back with a sharp edge. This was the typical shape of a long Ke ax since the Tang Dynasty.

The ax weighs ten kilograms, and the handle alone weighs twelve kilograms.

In terms of weight, not to mention Wukong's 36-pound golden cudgel, it is much lighter than Zhang's 320-pound three-pointed two-edged sword, but Zhang Shun still dare not underestimate him. .

He was born in the construction industry in his previous life and had used a ten-pound sledgehammer. Of course he knew how heavy this thing was.

What's more, the handle of the hammer in the previous life was only three feet long, but Li Jiyu's handle was six feet long.

According to the principle of leverage, it can be seen that compared with the former, it consumes more than twice the effort.

"Okay, what a strong hand!" Li Jiyu put away the heavy ax in his hand and couldn't help but said, "It doesn't affect my ability to wield the ax at all."

"It's just that this armor is not very comfortable. It's not as convenient as light armor or dark armor."

"Is that so?" Zhang Shun was quite surprised when he heard this.

He originally thought that the part of the body where the plate armor would have the greatest impact on flexibility would be the arms, but he never expected that the breastplate would actually affect the ability to exert force.

Zhang Shun didn't give up, so he quickly selected a few people with similar figures to himself and let them test it separately, but the results were similar.

"King Shun!" Wang Zheng couldn't help but feel a little ashamed when he saw this. The armor I had worked so hard to find, but I didn't expect it to have any advantages.

"It doesn't matter." Zhang Shun waved his hand and said, "A ruler is long and an inch is short."

"This method of connecting iron arms and hands is quite exquisite, and it can be used as a reference for the rebels to learn from each other's strengths."

"Is the quality still being tested?" Li Jiyu looked at the bright-looking "plate armor" in front of him and couldn't help but feel a little reluctant.

"Try, why don't you try?" Zhang Shun asked strangely, "Do you want to be hit by the enemy on the battlefield with one shot and two holes, and the front and back will be transparent?"

Li Jiyu stopped talking after hearing this. No matter how beautiful the armor is, it will be useless if the quality is of concern.

"Here, try this!" Zhang Shun smiled and took out his newly designed rifle and handed it to Li Jiyu.

The two firecrackers, one long and one short, were originally used as samples to be produced on a large scale by Wang Yishi, but now they were just used for experiments.

"Bang!" Only a loud noise was heard, and Li Jiyu's body was shaken by the powerful recoil of the new fire gun.

"What a great energy!" Li Jiyu couldn't help but be surprised.

"King Shun is really talented and possesses the essentials of Far Western weapons. He can actually design Far Western guns on his own!" Wang Zheng couldn't help but admire him.

He had never seen a Spanish heavy matchlock gun, so he was quite surprised by the power of this firegun.

"Go and see how that armor is doing!" At Zhang Shun's position, he had never heard any flattering words and was too lazy to respond.

Li Jiyu hurriedly ran over after hearing this. After a while, he exclaimed and asked his soldiers to help him run back with two pairs of armors.

"King Shun, look at it!" Li Jiyu couldn't help but pointed at the two pairs of armors.

Zhang Shun saw that the "plate armor" was dented, and the projectile was embedded in the deepest part of the dent. Even if it did not penetrate, it would not be far away.

Looking at the Mingjia again, the armor on the chest was also dented, but the projectile had already flown to nowhere and had not penetrated.

It turns out that this cold-forged armor piece is of good quality and hardness, and it actually withstood the fire of the new type of gun.

"That...that, actually, this breastplate can be made thicker..." Wang Xi couldn't help but defend in a low voice.

"No need!" Zhang Shun waved his hand, mentally calculating that this armor was not far from being eliminated.

It turned out that the test distance this time was seventy paces. Although both pairs of armors barely resisted the penetration of projectiles, it also showed that within thirty paces, no matter which one was within thirty paces, they would be unable to do their job.

"Let's do this!" Zhang Shun pondered for a moment and couldn't help but say, "This new type of heavy armor is mainly in the style of open armor, all nailed with bubble nails."

"The joints of the iron arms, hands, and leg armor are all made to imitate plate armor, so they must be covered tightly."

"Every piece of armor must be hammered for thousands of times. Once it is strong, it should be carburized and carburized, and it should be cold-forged and cold-forged. The final result is that it makes a solid sound."

"After the armor pieces are made, they are immediately selected and tested. If they can be penetrated, they will be deemed unqualified. The craftsmen will be traced back to the crime and the punishment will be determined according to the seriousness!"

"The anterior chest nail should be thick, and it must reach one point. The remaining parts should be slightly thinner, ranging from seven centimeters to five centimeters, depending on the location."

Zhang Shun's so-called "one point", "seven centimeters" and "five centimeters" are all thickness standards. One cent is equivalent to 3.2 millimeters in later generations, seven centimeters is equivalent to 2.2 millimeters in later generations, and five centimeters is equivalent to 1.6 millimeters in later generations. .

In this era, the normal thickness of nail plates is about one millimeter. Zhang Shun opened his mouth and set a high standard for Wang Yi, which almost made him cry.

"His Royal Highness King Shun, if that's the case, I'm afraid the armor won't weigh more than sixty pounds!" Wang Xi couldn't help but remind him.

"Is it so heavy?" Zhang Shun was stunned, and couldn't help but frowned and said, "Well, on the premise that the armor plate can meet the requirements of carburizing, cold forging and other processing methods, it can be made larger appropriately."

"The thickness of non-critical parts can be reduced to five centimeters to try to reduce some weight."

"Then...okay!" In fact, Wang Xi is not afraid of forging. He now has thirty or fifty hydraulic forging hammers in his hands, all of which are set up in the mountains north of Xi'an, which can fully meet the purpose of forging.

"The battle jacket and cotton armor are also indispensable!" After Zhang Shun arranged for Wang Xi, he turned around and said to Li Jiyu.

In the Ming Dynasty, in addition to hard bulletproof means, there was also soft rebound armor.

Typical representatives are cotton armor and war coat, both of which are made of cotton and soaked in water to make them solid.

When charging into battle, you can wear it outside the armor to enhance defense against fire guns.

Among them, the war jacket is a special short-sleeved cotton coat. This style was even made and used in North Korea until the 19th century.

Later, after being captured by the Americans, it became one of the sources of the concept of body armor.

Mianjia, also known as cotton armor, was originally made in the same way as a war jacket.

But later, as the firearms became more and more sharp, the cotton armor was no longer enough, so iron sheets were added inside, and it became the classic cotton armor style of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

However, in addition to this, sometimes the attacking team will also deliberately wear a layer of pure cotton armor outside the armor to enhance the bulletproof effect.

In fact, Zhang Shun had the same idea. Since pure iron armor couldn't stop the projectiles, I simply added a layer of soft cotton armor on the outside to form a buffer to solve the problem.

In the 17th century, at the point where armor was being phased out by firecrackers, both the East and the West came up with armor enhancements aimed at firecrackers. In the West, plate armor uses a dome structure, thickened to a terrifying 3-6mm, to withstand fire cannons.

Dongfang used a combination of soft and hard methods to solve the problem. Of course, in the end, the armor could not match the evolution speed of the fire gun, so both the East and the West gave up treatment. They simply canceled the armor and put on military uniforms until...