Have you ever heard of "bright armor" and "dark armor"?
Mingjia means that the nail pieces are located in the open. Copper nails need to be polished from time to time, otherwise they will rust. Iron nails need to be polished from time to time, otherwise they will rust faster.
In Zhu Xia's nail-piercing style, the nail pieces are usually connected in series with ropes. If one of the pieces is rusty, you often need to untie a lot of nail pieces, and the process of re-stringing them together is very troublesome.
Zhishi equips iron armor in large quantities, mostly using breastplates, and other parts of the armor... such as neck guards, shoulder guards, waist guards, etc. are made of leather, which saves the need to dismantle a large number of pieces of armor to dismantle one page.
process.
However, to be honest, although the breastplate has good defense, it is difficult to bend down, which hinders some of the soldiers' swinging and dodging movements.
Zhuxia's weapons and combat skills are actually quite different from those of Baipi. One of them is the pursuit of flexibility, which makes Zhanjia popular.
Dark armor is a method of wearing armor with armor pieces hidden inside, and there are also styles where a layer of clothing is put on the outside of the armor, or simply the armor is wrapped in fabric.
A long time ago, Zhishi had many styles of armor. In addition to the more popular pierced armor styles in Zhuxia, Zhiyao also studied plate armor and ring plate armor. According to the actual situation, there was no large-scale installation of plate armor or ring plate armor.
It was just a batch of targeted installations, but they were quickly eliminated.
In fact, plate armor is not necessarily the type that has difficulty in mobility. There is still the kind of plate armor that does not affect the flexibility of the limbs at all, but the craftsmanship and design are very strict.
As for the ring armor? Less than twenty years after Rome developed it and used it, it completely eliminated it.
"It is nailed with rivets, preferably copper nails, and the willow leaves are connected together and sewn under the cloth." Gongshuban is holding the new armor developed by Zhishi, which in professional terms is dark armor.
, also called cloth armor.
This kind of armor actually existed in Jizhou, which is the so-called "armor training". The armor pieces are still hidden in the cloth, but the fixation and distribution of the armor pieces are not so particular.
Zhiyao also held a piece of cloth armor in her hand. By squeezing and touching it, she could distinguish the neatly arranged nail plates under the cloth.
He tried to dent it, and found that besides being unable to fold it completely, the armor could be dented to a sixty-degree angle, which meant that it did not hinder the soldier's flexible movements at all, including rolling and leaping.
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Zhishi's cloth armor has a relatively rough linen outer layer, and the inner lining is made of silk.
Nowadays, people basically wear several layers of clothing. Even if the lining of the cloth armor is linen, it will not abrade the skin.
However, the inner lining of the cloth armor is made of silk cloth, which will obviously increase the toughness and prevent it from wearing out quickly after repeated friction.
"If I remember correctly, cloth-faced armor was only widely used in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, right?" Zhiyao thought.
His memory was correct. Cloth-faced armor did not appear in large numbers until the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty. Before that, it was all armor with the armor plate on the outside.
In fact, with the development of armor in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's armor can be said to be ahead of the rest of the world in terms of defensive power and beauty. However, the more sophisticated the armor is, the more complicated the workmanship is and the man-hours and costs required are also surprisingly high.
This kind of dark armor from Chishi has rivets fixed on the nail plates, which means there is no need for the tedious steps of fixing the ropes. If there is a problem with any nail leaf, just pry open the rivets fixing that piece. There is no need to dismantle it again.
Big bunch of beetle leaves.
The armor plates hidden under the cloth are connected one after another, and there are rows and rows of armor plates stacked on top of each other like fish scales.
In current pierced armor, the nail pieces are not actually stacked in layers, that is, they are connected and fixed on the leather with ropes. There are still gaps between each other. The less exquisite the workmanship, the larger the gaps between the nail pieces will be.
With cloth armor, the consumption of leather will inevitably be greatly reduced. Don’t underestimate this. It saves a lot of man-hours and costs, and it can also reduce weight!
Another point is that a set of cloth-faced armor weighs about twenty-five kilograms. It can protect against arrows very well, and it also has good defense against slashing. As for stabbing with spears, let alone cloth-faced armor.
Even the armor's defense is just like that. Only plate armor or breastplate can use the smoothness of the metal or carved edges to slide the spear tip away.
Zhiyao personally tested the defensive power of the cloth mask.
Of course, it's not like letting people try it on, fix it on a wooden stake, or get half a fan of pork or something, so as to judge the killing effect after penetration.
Zhiyao's archery skills are extremely accurate, and because of his great strength, he has greater destructive power than other people's arrows.
"The eldest son is a very human being and cannot be treated with common sense." Gongshu Ban took apart the cloth armor that had been shot by Zhiyao several arrows, and looked at the armor pieces inside that were dented and even penetrated, his face was speechless.
Zhiyao was actually quite satisfied. If it were armor from other families or countries, using a four-stone bow and an armor-piercing triangular arrowhead would definitely penetrate the entire armor. At least the arrows could still be hung after being shot through the cloth-faced armor.
Later, they simply used crossbows to conduct experiments. They tested again and again from 20 meters, 30 meters, 40 meters... 100 meters. Within 30 meters, they would definitely not be able to defend against powerful crossbows, but beyond 100 meters, there would be no protection at all.
Destructive power.
Subsequently, weapons such as war swords, spears, axes, axes, sticks, swords, knives, guns, etc. were tested again and again. Facts have proved that cloth armor is not omnipotent and has the best ability to defend against long-range. As for melee weapons and piercing armor, only
I can talk about half a catty.
Take the stabbing with a spear as an example. Cloth armor cannot prevent you from being stabbed. In fact, the armor cannot prevent you from being stabbed by it either.
When it comes to defending against enemies, cloth-faced armor and piercing armor have the same effect, meaning they cannot be defended.
If you want to defend against weapons like spears, plate armor is actually the most effective, but there is still the same problem. Zhishi's craftsmanship cannot make plate armor that can move flexibly.
Zhiyao said: "Nowadays, my family only wants to save man-hours and eliminate maintenance procedures, but does not strive for perfection."
No kind of armor is perfect, right? To pursue one kind of armor, you must give up more others.
Furthermore, the armor that needs to be installed in large quantities is actually based on the pursuit of cheapness, beauty and simple maintenance.
The Gongshu squad was greatly relieved. What they were afraid of was that Zhiyao wanted a perfect armor. Let alone the Gongshu clan, they really didn't believe that anyone could research it.
"In this case, we will hand it over to Ye City for large-scale production?" Gongshu Ban asked.
Zhiyao was slightly hesitant. It wasn't that he didn't like the cloth armor. He could even say that he was quite satisfied with the cloth armor. It was just that the metal drawing technology had been developed. Is it possible to improve the cloth armor or lock it?
Where is Zijia?
If a layer of chain mail could be added to the inner lining of the cloth face armor, would it be able to compensate for the defensive power against weapons such as spears? In that case, the two defensive effects would be added together and there would inevitably be a stronger defensive effect.
"I knew little about the defensive power of armor before, and thought that ring-shaped chain armor was for defense against arrows, but later I found out that was not the case." Zhiyao has experimented with chain armor before, but has not yet mass-produced it.
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Chain armor is not used to protect against arrows? This knowledge has been repeatedly tested by modern people and concluded that it can protect against arrows. However, the long bow of Wales, various crossbows of Zhuxia, the bows of Central Asia, and the Tatar bow,
Manchu bows, etc. can still penetrate chain mail.
After listening to Zhiyao's story, the public transportation team thought for a while and said, "Maybe we can give it a try?"
However, the combination of the two armors will increase the weight from twenty-five kilograms to at least thirty-five kilograms.
Zhiyao said: "If it's difficult to lose weight, wear cloth face armor."
Again, nothing is perfect, and cheap and beautiful things are the most preferable.
In the current era, no family or country can surpass the Zhi family in terms of the popularity of armor.
Let’s put it this way, the popularity of armor in Zhu Xia was the highest during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Some scholars have repeatedly studied various documents and found that the armor wearing rate during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was ridiculously high, and even conducted research on the skeletons of various types of people.
, and found that people at that time were also taller than in other eras.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the armor-wearing rate of the Han army could reach 80% for ordinary troops, and the elite armor reserves could reach 102%.
The Zhi family's traditional army armor rate is about 70%, the standing army can reach 100%, and it is still wealthy.
For example, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Qimen Army and Yulin Army also had a 100% armor-wearing rate. Anything over 100% was an additional reserve.
"The most feared thing on the battlefield is actually arrows. The armor penetration rate determines the survival rate under the coverage of long-range weapons. Defense against melee weapon attacks is actually incidental." Zhiyao must understand this.
In other words, in addition to being able to defend against arrows, it is best to have defense against melee weapons. In fact, if you don't have it, you shouldn't deliberately force it. It sounds very fucked up, but it is a fact.
Zhishi's craftsmanship is ahead of the current era. After Zhiyao pursues the first rate, she should focus on food.
So, if an ethnic group has a long enough history, it has that kind of benefit. If you don’t know the answer, you can’t imitate it... or learn from it?
The current situation of the Zhi family is very similar to that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the middle period. Smelting and various crafts are on the rise, and they have also obtained a large number of livestock.
According to later archaeologists' research on the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty, they concluded that the average height of men in the Western Han Dynasty reached 1.72 meters.
It's just that the average height is generally around 1.72 meters, so there must be people who are shorter or taller.
Chi's average height twenty years ago was about 1.65 meters. Over the past 20 years, the average height has reached 1.68 meters, which is a steady increase.
Those data only prove one thing. Under Zhiyao's operation, at least the nutrition of Zhishi's food is better than before.
What is all this about? Zhiyao’s understanding is that a force is strengthening the “farming” process in all aspects. It doesn’t look too grand, but it is the part that a force needs most!
"With force, we have been promoting literacy. The next step is to give them spirit."
This is Zhiyao's cyclical and gradual process. First, provide materials, and then pursue spiritual construction after having material guarantees!
I've been checking the information recently, and I can't help myself from all kinds of addictive literature. If you don't want to read it, the author Jun Jun apologizes first and will mention it later. Sorry!
