"Please look at King Shun. This is the Ming armor, armor, helmet, iron arm and iron shoes worn by my generals, weighing a total of 45 kilograms." Du Hongyu couldn't help but offer a complete set of armor and helmets.

"Isn't it a zither?" Zhang Shun grabbed a corner of the armor and opened it to see that there was a cotton cloth behind the armor, and he was stunned.

"This is the bright armor!" Du Hongyu quickly explained, "Unlike the dark armor, this armor removes the cloth surface to prevent craftsmen from using inferior products as good products and thin products as thick products, so as to prevent soldiers from being lazy and allowing them to rust."

Zhang Shun looked through it for a long time before he realized that although the armor was dazzling, it was actually cotton armor without cloth.

The linking method of the arbor is not like the arbors that are worn together with cooked cowhide, but is nailed to the cloth with copper foam nails.

One advantage of this is that the nail sheet can be made larger, reducing the overlap of the nail sheets and achieving the same defense effect with a lighter weight.

For example, the Song Dynasty used 1,825 pieces of armor, which weighed as high as a terrible 58 kilograms, which seriously affected the mobility of soldiers.

Tang Shunzhi of the middle Ming Dynasty also mentioned the Ming army with zither armor as the main equipment: "The soldiers on each side weighed 45 kilograms in battle body, combat skirt, arm covering equipment, etc., a total of 45 kilograms of helmets and brain zithers, and a neck and heart zither zithers and lids were five kilograms." A total of 57 kilograms were collected.

Wang Ding's set of armor, iron arm, iron shoes and helmet were only forty-five pounds, which was really convenient.

"These iron shoes..." Zhang Shun looked at the pair of worn cotton boots in front of him. How could it be made of fine iron?

"Oh, it's quite heavy!" He grabbed it and was about to look at it carefully. He couldn't help but the shoes were so heavy, "Is it a clamp?"

"Yes!" Du Hongyu couldn't help but smile, "Don't look at it like ordinary cotton boots, but in fact it's like cotton armor inside, with fine iron pieces in it, and the sword will not be broken!"

"Can you defend against a firearm?" Zhang Shun nodded, feeling a little satisfied.

"When encountering a three-qian bird gun, you will not break until twenty steps; when encountering a Lumi gun, you only need to wear a battle jacket, which is enough to block it!" Du Hongyu couldn't help but smile.

"When encountering ordinary swords, guns and arrows, you are not afraid at all. Only Western cannons, big axes, and iron hammers can be broken!"

"Not bad!" Zhang Shun nodded, feeling that this armor is not bad, and it can basically satisfy the rebels' fight in the town.

It turned out that after Li Jiyu raised three questions, the latter two were easier to solve, but the only problem of heavy armor was a bit troublesome.

Although it has entered the age of firearms, close combat is still the key factor in the decisive victory between the two armies.

In fact, let alone this era, even if it comes to the Korean battlefield in later generations, the heroic volunteers sometimes need to fight with the US military to decide the outcome.

Hands-to-hand combat is the last bottom line of an army, and it is also the most critical blow to determine the outcome of a war in this era.

In this era, wars are always at a two-dimensional level, so no matter how both sides deploy troops, an inevitable problem is "occupying positions", or "seizing positions".

No matter what you call it, it will eventually require contact between both parties, and one party drives the other party out of its original position.

As long as it is an opponent with a little fighting will, it is impossible to surrender or disperse, then the two sides will inevitably encounter close combat situations, which is "hand-to-hand combat".

It is not human nature to love death but hate life. It is human nature to seek profit and avoid harm.

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It turns out that according to the technical level of this era, it is difficult to perform complex heat treatment on large pieces of metal.

Therefore, in addition to a small number of gorgeous and exquisite full-body armor customized by aristocrats, the quality of the breastplate worn by ordinary soldiers is not very outstanding.

Even early breastplate was mostly made of iron, and the defensive effect could only be increased by the pile thickness.

Later, with the advancement of iron smelting technology, middle and low-level officers could also afford the low-carbon steel half-body armor, and the situation was slightly better.

However, compared with the quality of refined small pieces of nails, it is still worse.
Chapter completed!