Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Unlike in the early years, when there were only a few people in the entire department, after many expansions of personnel and an increase in the labor force, both the original equipment department and the forging department have become the first-class department within Dazhou. department.

Now that the two departments have merged, the scale has naturally become even larger.

The armor production process is indeed relatively cumbersome, but with the appropriate deployment of manpower, it is not impossible to produce samples in a short time.

No, with all the materials and staff in place, the first set of armor as a sample was quickly completed.

After receiving the news, Zhou Xu came directly to the work area of ​​the equipment department as quickly as possible.

Today's Equipment Department is undoubtedly still called the Equipment Department, but it has just become a sub-department under the Ordnance and Equipment Headquarters. In the future, as various tasks and technologies are clarified, there will be more and more sub-departments under this.

The work of the forging department is mainly to forge the armor pieces and polish them appropriately. The subsequent assembly work is all carried out in the equipment department.

Therefore, the sample armor that had just been completed was naturally found in the equipment department.

The moment he saw the armor, Zhou Xu suddenly had a bright feeling. It was very similar to the armor of their ancient Chinese generals.

When he was arguing with Wang Pengfei before, even though he was wearing scales and chain mail, he talked for a long time, but his words were clear and logical.

But strictly speaking, Zhou Xu believed that the armor he designed could not be simply classified into a single armor such as scale armor or chain armor. He preferred to call it composite armor.

A whole set of armor, the parts that need to be flexible, are all designed with scales, connected in series with pieces of armor. For vital parts like the chest that are easily vulnerable to fatal attacks, he uses a whole piece of iron armor. !

Doing this will significantly increase the weight of the entire set of armor, but why is this weight so important?

Under this premise, relatively fragile moving parts such as elbows and knees adopt a combined structure of iron armor and scale armor.

While using integrated iron armor to wrap the elbows and knees, a leather and partial scale armor structure is used in the parts that need to be bent to ensure that movement is not hindered to the greatest extent.

Apart from this, the other parts are mainly made of scale armor.

Looking at this set of armor as a sample, Zhou Xu had a bit of excitement on his face and planned to feel it for himself.

According to Zhuang Mengdie's opinion, he had better change the robe first. It was made of silk. For now, it was considered a luxury item in Dazhou, and it was likely to be damaged while wearing the armor.

After changing into the linen clothes worn by soldiers, two staff members began to help him put on the armor. During the whole process, Zhou Xu basically only had to stand there, occasionally raising his hand to cooperate.

He was probably bored during this period, so he casually asked Zhuang Mengdie about the production process of this set of armor.

In response to this, Zhuang Mengdie looked at the armor he was wearing and thought about it, while answering casually...

"It's very simple. Just find a human-shaped mold, put a set of linen clothes on the mold, and then sew the armor pieces onto the linen clothes."

"Of course, just like that, the firmness of the scales is not enough. So after completing this sewing, we connected the armor pieces in series to ensure that all the armor pieces were connected. Connected.”

It has to be said that as one of the few people in Dazhou whose intelligence has reached three stars, Zhuang Mengdie's mind is still very fast.

At that time, when many department members were still having headaches about this problem, she had already thought of this trick.

While talking, the two staff members had already put on the armor for him relatively skillfully and handed him the helmet.

This helmet is worth mentioning.

According to Zhou Xu, vision is very important.

Wearing a helmet like an iron bucket can wrap your head tightly, but the flexibility and vision will be greatly affected. This is not the effect he wants.

At the beginning, he wanted to make the helmet into the style of a modern steel helmet. Although it didn't look very good, at least his vision and flexibility could be guaranteed.

In the process, he thought of the rattan armor of the rattan soldiers. It was designed like a bamboo hat. It did not affect the vision and flexibility, but also blocked the sun and rain.

Zhou Xu thought this was a good point, so he made adjustments based on the steel helmet and added a brim. By some mistake, he came up with the style of a flying saucer helmet.

This is a design that is more in line with his ideas.

The inside of the helmet was padded with a layer of leather to consider both impact resistance and comfort. After putting it on, Zhou Xu turned his head casually, and his vision and flexibility were not affected at all. He was very satisfied with the effect.

Of course, considering facial safety, they temporarily equipped the flying saucer helmet with a simple visor that exposed half of the face.

It is said that half of their face is exposed, but in fact, considering the shielding part of the flying saucer helmet, when they wear the flying saucer helmet and the visor at the same time, only one pair of their eyes is exposed.

The visor is considered an independent accessory. In order to meet their king's requirement of not affecting flexibility and vision, Zhuang Mengdie made many adjustments to the design of the visor close to the eyes. At the same time, he also wore it. Added some ingenuity.

It can be matched with the tether of the flying saucer helmet and can be worn without affecting the flexibility. It took a lot of thought.

The results obtained were undoubtedly quite good, which Zhou Xu greatly appreciated.

"Mengdie, your skill in making this mask completely exceeded my initial expectations!"

In response, Zhuang Mengdie just smiled.

"Your Majesty, it's better to try this armor quickly."

"good."

While talking, Zhou Xu began to move around at will. Compared with the helmet and visor that satisfied him, the armor looked good, but once it was put on and moved around, many problems were exposed.

"On the shoulders, the movement is a bit limited. This side can be lengthened a little to leave some room for movement. There are also armpits that will be scratched by nails. I think this area can be replaced with leather on the inside. , and here..."

Judging from the current situation, there are still many things that cannot be done properly when sewing on the mold, and need to be adjusted bit by bit.

Zhou Xu, who entered the working state, was not ambiguous at all. During the activity, he stated the problems he felt one by one. At the same time, he also stated some relatively specific adjustment methods according to his own ideas.

This is also the biggest difference between him and Wang Pengfei. He may not see as much miscellaneous things as Wang Pengfei, but Wang Pengfei only knows how to follow the script. While he lacks practical ability, if there are problems in some links, you ask him how to adjust and operate. He couldn't tell at all.

But Zhou Xu is different. Compared with rigid written knowledge, he prefers practice to gain true knowledge. Therefore, his experience is basically accumulated through practice, and he is also good at applying it with his flexible thinking.