Westerners of this era traveled across the ocean from Europe to Nanyang. To put it bluntly, it was to make money and to be charming golden cute.

As for whether Simosen was ashamed of his resignation to Zhu Hongyu, a Chinese?

Haha, Simosen said that if you don’t make money, you won’t make money from anyone?

Zhu Hongyu nodded and agreed.

"As long as you can make a water conservancy forging hammer, gold and silver are not a problem!"

"If you build a water conservancy forging hammer, I will give you fifty silver coins. If you teach a Chinese craftsman to make a water conservancy forging hammer, I will give you fifty gold coins, and I will give you nothing but a good person!"

"If you can make contributions, it will not be a problem for me to win you an official title in the future!"

"Although you are prisoners of war, as long as you can show your value, your life safety will be guaranteed to the greatest extent!"

"You can also get everything you want!"

When Simosen heard Zhu Hongyu's words, his eyes flashed with the luster of silver coins.

He was motivated to order several craftsmen who were good at carpenter work, and he started to make water conservancy forging hammers with full motivation.

Zhu Hongyu was thinking about putting armor on the Restoration Army.

If a hydraulic forging hammer can be made, the output of the armor will not be a problem.

The traditional Chinese armor such as cotton armor, fish scale armor, and mountain culture armor are complicated in technology and cannot be made.

However, European plate armor can be directly forged and pressed with a water conservancy forging hammer!

In terms of defense, plate armor is definitely the pinnacle of the cold weapon era!

If a thick plate armor is worn on a person, it is just a can of iron, and even a sword, bow and crossbow are useless. Even a spear may not be able to break the armor.

If you want to kill an iron can, you must use a blunt weapon to cold weapons. If you have a musket, you must shoot with your face, so that lead bullets can break the armor.

The advantages of plate armor are obvious, but the disadvantages are also obvious!

That's really too heavy!

The plate armor originated from Europe, but the only ones in Europe who can wear plate armor to fight were tall and big, and who had delicious food and drinks since childhood.

Europeans of this era have worse physical fitness than those of the Ming people!

Not everyone can wear mobile plate armor!

Although most of the soldiers of the Restoration Army were tall and strong miners, only a small number of them were able to wear plate armor to fight on the battlefield.

Of course, Zhu Hongyu was not prepared to equip the upper and lower parts of the Restoration Army with full body armor!

If the Restoration Army is equipped with full body armor, the process will be too complicated.

The main part of the plate armor can indeed be directly forged and molded, but the connection and joint parts are not simpler than traditional Chinese armor.

Also, even if it is made, I am afraid that not many people can wear it.

So, he planned to equip the Liberation Army with a single-faced breastplate.

In this way, the process will be simple.

Just use a water conservancy forging hammer to beat the steel plate into shape, and the back part can be connected and fixed with rattan strips.

Anyway, when you are facing the enemy in war, you are running away when facing the enemy behind you!

A single-sided breastplate can provide certain protection capabilities for the front, which is enough.

To think about it, such a single-faced breastplate can also reduce the possibility of desertion to a certain extent.

After all, if you don’t escape, there is a steel plate on your chest for protection. If you run away, you will expose your unprotected back to the enemy.

And because the steel plate is a single-sided breastplate, there is only the chest, even if the breastplate is thickened, it will be thickened to the extent that it can protect the fire of a musket at medium and long distances.

This weight is not a problem for most Restoration soldiers.

Of course, close-range muskets will definitely not be stopped!

Unlike Chinese muskets that develop in the direction of accuracy, muskets are so accurate that they can kill birds.

The Spanish's mesh rope guns are all heavy-duty mesh rope guns with large caliber!

The accuracy is bad, but the power is indeed amazing.

If you are shot at close range, no matter how thick the plate armor is, it cannot withstand it. Even if the plate armor can withstand it, the recoil force is enough to break the ribs and kill the soldier who was hit by the lead bullet!

Zhu Hongyu told Lao Liu about his idea of ​​a one-sided breastplate and asked him to take someone to try it out.

And also proposed the concept of fixed-loading bullets in paper shells!

Compared with a flintlock gun, the rate of fire cannot be significantly increased, but the inconspicuous gadget of fixed-loaded paper-shell bullets is OK.

Pack the lead bullets and gunpowder in advance according to a certain proportion, and then directly tear the bullet's paper shell during wartime and then fill it.

By eliminating the process of pouring gunpowder and packing lead bullets, the firing rate of the musket can be significantly improved!

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Six or seven days passed, and with the efforts of hundreds of Restoration soldiers, the construction of the river valley had begun to show results.

In the valley, everyone is busy.

Pieces of fertile fields were reclaimed, continuous shacks were set up, and a second small iron-smelting blast furnace rose from the ground.

Next to the river, a water conservancy forging hammer was gradually taking shape, and many craftsmen were busy.

At the entrances on both sides of the valley, where the fortress is to be built, the foundation has also been dug.

Just wait until the stones used for construction are mined and the cement required is ready to be built at any time.

The road from the river valley to the coal-iron production was also opened, and the grass and trees on the road were flattened, and a relatively straight and flat road appeared in the mountains and forests.

On this day, Zhu Hongyu and the soldiers of the Guangfu Army were fishing in the river and preparing to give their brothers some extra meals to the evening.

Li Guangyuan came back with the families of the soldiers of the Restoration Army!

The arrival of two or three thousand families made the valley camp more lively.

The family reunited, hugged each other and cried bitterly, and for a moment, bursts of crying sounded in the valley.

Li Guangyuan came to Zhu Hongyu with an urgent look on his face and spoke.

"General, something happened!"

Zhu Hongyu smiled and nodded at Li Guangyuan's mother, his younger brother and sister, and then turned to ask Li Guangyuan.

"What happened?"

Li Guangyuan said with an urgent look on his face.

"When Company Commander Wang and I left the stream with our brothers' families, we were targeted by the Spaniards!"

"The Spanish sent people to chase us into the mountain. We tried to circle around the mountain, but failed to get rid of the pursuers."

"In order to allow me to successfully evacuate with my family, Commander Wang led his men to block the pursuers and then led the Spaniards to the mine."

"I don't know what's going on now!"

"We have to go and reinforce Company Commander Wang and the others!"

Zhu Hongyu's body suddenly became extremely cautious and said.

"Tell me carefully, what's going on?"

"How did the Spaniards find you? How many people are chasing you? Are they chasing you very tightly?"

He felt something was wrong. This was the intuition of a soldier who had been wandering on the line of life and death several times.

Li Guangyuan spoke.

"We were not discovered at the beginning, so we took people out of the stream very smoothly!"

"After all, people come in and out or leave every day in the stream. Although there are a little more people, it is not particularly noticeable to leave in batches."

"But after we entered the mountain meeting and the brothers who were watching behind the team said that a large number of Spaniards were following!"

"We accelerated our way, but the pursuit was getting tighter and tighter. In order to protect our family, Company Commander Wang decided to lead people to block the Spaniards, and then lead the pursuit troops to the large army..."

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