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Chapter 97: One Hundred Thousand Golden Army Prisoners Youzhou, Chai Zi Daqi Town Great Wall! [First change, ask for subscription].

At this moment, Chai Hao looked at the cloth armor presented by Tang Long, which looked similar to what he expected, and his face was undisguised with joy.

In his eyes, this cloth armor can be worth 100,000 male soldiers! As the name suggests, cloth armor is cloth-faced armor.

But this cloth is not an ordinary cloth, but a thick cotton cloth that has been carefully pounded one by one! Then, inside the thick cotton cloth, the nail plates are inlaid with studs.

Unlike the traditional armor of this era, which has more than 2,000 nail leaves at every turn, cloth armor only needs about 600 slightly larger nail leaves because it uses inlaid inner nail leaves.

The production process and time consumption are much simpler than a piece of armor. But the protective effect is not weaker than the armor, or even more so!

Originally, cloth armor appeared in the Mengyuan period and began to be widely promoted in the Ming Dynasty.

Because at that time, with the development of the era of firearms, the traditional armor can no longer prevent fire, but cloth armor can protect against firearms to a certain extent.

Even firearms can be defended, so in the face of bows and arrows, the protective power of cloth armor can be imagined to be higher than that of armor. Moreover, cloth armor weighs much less than armor.

In this era, a well-protected full-body armor is about sixty pounds.

Whether it is a armored pawn or an iron horse, wearing sixty pounds of armor to fight, the burden is heavy, and the consumption of combat power is fast. And cloth cotton armor, because it is more economical nail leaves, so the weight is only about thirty pounds 09, only half the weight of the armor.

Reducing the weight by half, without affecting the defensive performance, it is enhanced, which can improve the combat time and endurance of the soldier. Moreover, cloth armor does not need to be put on and taken off by others, and a person can directly wear it like clothes, which is much less trouble-saving than the wrapped armor that needs the help of auxiliary soldiers to wear!

Critical moments, such as in the face of a surprise attack, put one set on the body to fight.

And the armor such as the wrapped armor often does not have time to finish the draping, and the enemy army kills it. Throughout the ages, I have thought that how many armies have lost in this kind of raid that is too late to put on armor.

But cotton armor, you don’t have to worry about this problem at all.

Another point is maintenance, and the armor is made of more than 2,000 fine nail leaves pressed with cowhide rope against each other.

There are one or two armor leaves on the battlefield that are damaged, and when repairing, it is often necessary to replace a large piece of armor leaf around, which is time-consuming, laborious and costly.

However, the cloth armor is where the nail leaf is broken, directly remove it and replace it with a new one, and then fix it with rivets, which is simple to repair and saves money and effort.

Finally, the warmth is the performance.

Cotton nails are extremely thick cotton cloth as the surface, and the middle can also be made into a sandwich, and then sandwiched into the cotton, so it is extremely protective. Even in the cold winter, it can maintain the combat effectiveness of the warrior to the greatest extent.

And the traditional iron armor, when winter comes, is a sin for the soldiers. The general’s horned bow is uncontrollable, and it is difficult to protect the iron suit!

Wear cold iron armor to fight in winter, and before the battle starts, you are frozen and lose most of your combat power!

Even, in history, because of the battle in the cold weather, before the enemy army made a move, his own soldiers froze to death and frostbite countless times, and almost the entire army was wiped out, not a few things!

Especially in the land of Youyan, which is colder than the Central Plains since ancient times, the appearance of cotton armor can allow the soldiers under Chai Hao to minimize the casualties and impact caused by the cold and retain their combat power to the greatest extent.

Therefore, Chai Hao said that this cloth cotton armor can reach an army of 100,000, which is not an exaggeration at all!

Imagine, when the time comes to fight the Jin army, the Youzhou soldiers wear relatively warm cotton armor, and their combat power is almost unaffected.

And Jin Jun wore cold iron armor, at most a mink hat on his head, even if the Jurchens could withstand the bitter cold, their combat power would have to go a lot.

Under the trade-off, even if the iron horses of the two sides confront each other, the Jurchen iron horses will only have to suffer a big loss!

“Shhh! This cloth armor is easy to wear, one person can put on and take off, and the weight is more than half that of iron armor! If you can wear this armor to fight, it will really save effort! ”

“Especially in winter, you can also keep warm, and you don’t need to grin in iron armor anymore!”

Qin Ming’s nature was as anxious as fire, and he tried it on first, looking at the sample of this cloth armor on his body, his eyes glowing with golden light. All the generals present are generals, and naturally as soon as you get started, you can experience the difference and beauty of cloth armor.

And after trying it on, you can feel it better.

“Hey! Although I am wearing this cloth armor, it still does not affect the protection, and the protective places, the nail leaves inside are protected. ”

“Unlike that armor, almost only tailored to the figure, the height and fat do not match, wearing it will have a big gap, expose the essentials, the same as not wearing!”

Immediately, Lin Chong also went up to try it on.

Qin Ming was burly and strong, with a huge belly, and was a standard martial general’s body. He tried on the cloth visor, so to speak, just right.

Lin Chong, on the other hand, was more well-proportioned, so he was obviously thinner than Qin, and he was wearing the same set of armor at the moment, although it looked a little big, but it did not affect the key points of protection.

Just like wearing clothes, suitable clothing can cover the body, and fat clothes can also cover the body.

Immediately afterwards, the generals stepped forward to experience the benefits of this cloth armor, and then everyone looked shocked, followed by ecstasy!

Obviously, they are all aware of the overbearing nature of this cloth armor! Lightweight, warm, simple to put on and take off, and the defense is not inferior to the armor.

If you have more strength, or a pioneer elite who wants to fight a hard battle, you can also wear another piece of chain mail in this cloth armor, or directly wear two layers of cloth armor!

Then the protection is invincible!

Even if you are hit with a heavy hammer and a heavy axe, you can resist one or two blows!

“Money Leopard Tanglong, I haven’t shown up much for most of the year, I saw you tinkering around in the workshop all day, but I didn’t expect that you had done such a good thing and created such a good thing!”

Lu Zhishen laughed boldly, patting Tang Long’s shoulder and praised.

“Where did I make this, I just followed the drawings given by the lord, according to the drawings!”

“The production method of this cloth armor is all the whimsy of the lord, and the talent of the lord can be called unpredictable and ingenious!”

Tang Long did not dare to take credit, and answered truthfully.

When the generals heard this, they couldn’t help but admire Chai Hao more and more, feeling that their lord was simply like a god and could do everything

“If you can create it, it is your Tanglong’s great achievement!”

“Where in the world is there a lord who competes with his subordinates?”

Chai Hao waved his hand and smiled, and then said to Tang Long: “Next, mobilize the strength of the craftsman battalion, go all out, make this kind of cloth cotton armor, manpower, material and financial resources, I will give you full support!” ”

327 In August last year, we defeated Yan Zongwang, causing him heavy losses, and this time we took 30,000 horses of Jin Guoliang, and the Jin people are bound to not rest.

This May the weather turned hot, and the golden people were hardy of cold and heat, and would not send troops.

“But at the latest, when the weather turns cooler, the Jin army will definitely attack!” At that time, it was also the time when the soldiers needed warm cloth armor. Therefore, this cloth armor can be made as much as it can! ”

Listening to Chai Hao’s order, Tang Long saluted solemnly: “The last general will obey the order, and he will go all out!” ”

Although cotton in the Song Dynasty was not officially popularized, Chai Hao had long begun to consciously let Chai’s family plant it, and let Chai’s caravan purchase a large number of subtropical countries such as Qiongzhou in the south and even Annan.

Moreover, a lot of cotton has long been hammered into thick cotton cloth and stored.

Therefore, there is no shortage of materials, as long as Tang Long, a weapon expert, supervises the manufacture and turns these materials into finished products that can pass the quality.

So in the next few months, the entire Youzhou was under Chai Hao’s seat, preparing to deal with the big war with the Jin Kingdom this autumn.

Tang Long led the artisan battalion and went all out to create cloth armor. The officers and men of all armies seriously trained their battle formations and killing skills.

Some affairs such as clearing the field and trapping defense lines are also arranged in an orderly manner. In a flash, it was September.

Sure enough, as Chai Hao expected, when the weather became colder, Jin Guo ordered 30,000 Jurchen iron horses, 70,000 servants, a total of 100,000 troops, and began to move south!

And the first time he got the news, Chai Hao’s chai character banner appeared on the Great Wall!.