Rise From the Humble

With the establishment of the equipment camp, the Zhejiang Army's cotton armor production can be described as leaps and bounds. Not to mention the craftsmen in the equipment camp, even the apprentices are much more skilled and skilled than the blacksmiths the Zhejiang Army hired from nearby.

On the third day after the equipment battalion joined, one hundred sets of composite cotton armor had been produced and assembled.

Craftsman Liu Jin specially asked Zhu Pingan to accept the 100 pieces of cotton armor produced in advance.

"Assembling a hundred pieces of cotton armor so quickly, wouldn't you lower the quality requirements in pursuit of speed?"

Zhu Pingan was surprised and asked worriedly.

"Please rest assured, sir. Every piece of armor and every piece of armor has the exclusive mark of the craftsman. There is no problem with the quality. We have also conducted preliminary verification. There is no problem with the quality. They are all high-quality cotton armor."

Craftsman Liu Jin vouched that he was very confident about the quality of the cotton armor because they had preliminarily verified it.

"Okay! Take me to see your results." Zhu Pingan said happily.

"Please come with me, sir."

Master Liu Jin led the way excitedly, eager to show off their results. These days, their treatment in the Zhejiang Army is very high. Craftsmen enjoy the treatment of battalion commanders, and apprentices enjoy the treatment of sentry commanders.

Many soldiers have opinions. Although the last time Zhu Pingan gave them a platform to speak, the opinions of the soldiers were much less, but they still existed.

The craftsmen and apprentices all took a breath and wanted to produce convincing results and let the results speak for themselves.

Zhu Ping'an followed Craftsman Liu Jin all the way. When he arrived at the equipment camp, he saw a hundred pairs of assembled cotton armor put on a hundred straw men. A pair of cotton armor sparkled in the sunlight, looking majestic.

Cotton armor does look more stylish and photogenic than iron armor!

The helmet is a uniform style of the Ming army. It has a short pointed peak and a layer of red tassel under the helmet. The front brim of the helmet is a protruding iron brim. When it rains, it can keep out the rain and some water loss. The body is also made of cotton and iron. There are ear protection, neck protection, and neck protection under the helmet, which cover a much larger area than the armor. It can be seen that the ear protection, neck protection, and neck protection have hidden iron armor pieces inside because they are covered with copper nails.

According to Zhu Ping'an's design, the cotton armor is divided into seven parts: body armor, shawl, armor sleeves, front rail, left rail, armor skirt, and breast shield.

The entire body of the armor is densely covered with copper nails, shining brightly in the sunlight, and looks extremely majestic.

The color of the entire cotton armor is black iron, which looks similar to the color of the eldest brother played by Jet Li in "The Movie".

"Yes, the style is exactly the same as what I imagined." Zhu Pingan stepped forward and touched the cotton armor. He was very satisfied with the outer style. As for the quality, Zhu Pingan turned to Liu Dadao who was following him and said, "Dadao, try the cotton armor." How protective is A?”

"okay."

Liu Dadao grinned and drew out his waist knife. First, he used his normal strength and swung the knife hard at the cotton armor.

To be honest, he has been curious about cotton armor for a day or two. Ever since Zhu Ping'an asked him to buy a large amount of cotton, he has been skeptical about the protective power of cotton armor made of cotton. Although it is lined with iron sheets inside, But the iron sheet is only so thick. One pair of iron armor can smelt the lining iron sheets of four or five pairs of cotton armor.

Two layers of compacted cotton and one layer lined with iron sheets. How much protection could this cotton armor have? Liu Dadao felt that he could cut through the cotton armor with this knife.

Keng!

After a dull sound, Liu Dadao opened his mouth in surprise and his eyes widened in disbelief. His sword attack only left a mark on the cotton armor, not even cutting through the outermost cotton armor. The iron lining pieces were not touched. Although he only used ordinary strength, he only left a knife mark. The protective power of this cotton armor was much higher than he thought.

Zhu Ping'an also stepped forward to watch and touched the knife mark with his finger. The knife mark was very shallow. In addition to the cotton armor itself, which was not low in defense, there were densely packed copper nails on the cotton armor. Liu Dadao's knife happened to hit two copper nails. , the copper nails helped the cotton armor bear part of the chop, so only a shallow knife mark was left.

"Dadao, try it with all your strength." Zhu Pingan said to Liu Dadao.

"Okay, young master, please stand a little further away." Liu Dadao nodded vigorously and asked Zhu Pingan to stand further away so that he could use his full strength.

Zhu Pingan followed the good advice and took a few steps back.

Liu Dadao shook his neck, making a crackling sound, then spit into the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands, braced his legs in a horse stance, took a deep breath, then shouted loudly, and swung the knife at the cotton armor with all his strength.

Keng!

There was a dull sound mixed with the clash of gold and iron.

Liu Dadao's mouth opened even wider, his eyes almost popped out, and he looked at the cotton armor in front of him in disbelief. The cotton armor revealed a deep knife mark, much deeper than the previous knife mark, but that was all. This knife failed to cut through the cotton armor, and it even failed to cut out the iron lining inside.

He knows best how strong he is. With one strike of the knife, he can chop down even a small tree at the edge of a bowl.

"The defensive power of this cotton armor is not much worse than that of iron armor." Liu Dadao exclaimed with disbelief on his face.

"very good."

Zhu Ping'an stepped forward again and touched the knife mark. This time the knife was much deeper, but the defensive power of the cotton armor was really good.

"Dadao, try shooting an arrow from a distance of twenty steps." Zhu Pingan said to Liu Dadao, testing the defensive power of the cotton armor against bows and arrows.

Liu Dadao accepted the order, took out a strong bow, stepped back twenty steps, and slowly pulled out the bow string, drawing the bow like a full moon.

Whoosh!

Quick and accurate!

Liu Dadao was born as an Orion, and his archery skills were extremely good. After letting go of his hand, the arrow flashed past like a meteor, and hit the cotton armor with a "dong" sound.

Then.

It fell down with a clack.

Zhu Pingan and others came forward to check and saw a small hole in the cotton armor. After fidgeting with it with their hands, they revealed the iron lining inside, which was only slightly concave.

"Sir, I didn't expect the defensive power of cotton armor to be so strong. I'm not bragging. I can easily shoot through leather armor from a distance of twenty steps. The defensive power of cotton armor far exceeds that of leather armor, and is almost no less than iron armor. "

Liu Dadao praised.

Zhu Pingan nodded, and then said, "Try the fire gun again."

Liu Dadao took a firecracker, took out a small oil paper package of ammunition from the ammunition pot, bit a hole with his mouth, poured the gunpowder into the gunpowder pool, then fastened the lid, then stepped back twenty steps and lit it with a fire stick Lift the fuse, place the fuse on the matchlock clip, aim at the cotton armor in the distance, and press the trigger.

"boom!"

There was a gunshot, accompanied by gunpowder smoke, and the cotton armor in the distance was hit, and the scarecrow wearing cotton armor was knocked backwards.

Zhu Ping'an and others came forward to check. Liu Dadao took a breath and saw a projectile stuck on the cotton armor. He used a dagger to remove the projectile and found that the first layer of cotton had been broken and the iron sheet was deeply dented. However, The inner cotton armor is intact.

"Hey, the defensive power of this cotton armor is really unbelievable. It can actually defend against fire cannons at a distance of twenty steps. Even iron armor can be broken by fire cannons. The defensive power of this cotton armor against fire cannons is much higher than that of iron armor. "

Liu Dadao took a breath and exclaimed.