Qin'er looks soft and weak, but her strength is much greater than that of Jin Feng.
Boom!
With a loud noise, the wooden frame supporting the armor was smashed directly by Qin'er's knife.
The various parts of the plate armor were scattered on the ground.
Qin'er reached out to pick up the breastplate and found that there was only a shallow knife mark on the breastplate and it was not broken.
"This is too strong!" Qin'er stood up and said, "Your Highness, this armor is very strong and can be said to be invulnerable!"
"Does that mean if you put on this armor, you don't have to worry about being killed and can just kill the enemy?"
Princess Ninth's eyes flashed with excitement.
"Yes," Qin'er nodded: "Moreover, this set of armor is made entirely of hundred-refined steel. It's not very heavy, so it shouldn't be particularly laborious to wear."
"Made by Bailian Steel?"
The Ninth Princess, who had always been calm and composed, couldn't help but look surprised.
The so-called "hundred-year steelmaking" is to repeatedly fold and beat a piece of soft iron until no impurities can be removed by beating and the weight is no longer reduced, then it is considered successful.
During the beating process, the iron block will harden as it cools down, and needs to be reheated to soften it before continuing to beat.
This process may take nearly a hundred times.
The steel produced through this method is called Baishou Steel.
Refined steel is hard and light, but it is labor-intensive and time-consuming, so it is generally used to make swords.
It was the first time that the Ninth Princess saw Jin Feng being used so extravagantly to make armor.
"Sir, are the rest of the armors also made by Baiyang Steel?"
The Ninth Princess held back her excitement and asked tentatively.
"Yes, the remaining three hundred or so sets of armor are all like this!"
Jin Feng nodded slightly.
For ordinary craftsmen in Dakang, steelmaking may be time-consuming and laborious.
But for Jin Feng, it is really nothing.
First, he improved the steel-making furnace, so that the steel produced had far fewer impurities.
And made a simple forging machine.
The other blacksmiths were working extremely hard with their sledgehammers, and it was very impressive to be able to hammer twenty times in one minute.
Most of the time, I hit lightly, not hard every time.
The forging machine made by Jin Feng is driven by a windmill when there is wind, and by oxen and horses when there is no wind. It can forge nearly a hundred times a minute, and the force of each strike is heavier than that of a blacksmith swinging a hammer.
The female apprentices under Mancang only need to hold the iron block with pliers and keep turning it.
The work efficiency is countless times higher than other blacksmiths.
"More than three hundred sets of armor made of hundreds of steel..."
The Ninth Princess's mind changed quickly and she wanted to maximize the effectiveness of this batch of armors.
Jin Feng did not bother, and took Da Liu and a few personal guards to take out the remaining armor from the warehouse, as well as heavy crossbows and catapults with a longer range, and load them onto carts.
I was busy until mid-afternoon.
Jin Feng locked the warehouse again, and when he came out, he found Zhang Liang waiting in the open space at the door of the warehouse.
"Sir, everything has been arranged."
Zhang Liang said: "This time we will lead 600 male soldiers and 400 female soldiers. According to your request, there will be 400 veterans among the 600 male soldiers and 200 new soldiers."
"Are there enough people left at home?" Jin Feng asked.
"That's enough, but we have taken away so many male soldiers, and the ones left at home are mainly female soldiers."
Zhang Liang said: "I have notified Tie Chui and Zhou Hai, asking them to bring people back from the capital and Jiangnan as soon as possible to help Lao Zheng."
"Okay," Jin Feng nodded.
There is no way he would leave his hometown alone just for the sake of business in the capital and Jiangnan.
"Has Lao Zheng arrived?" Jin Feng asked again.
"We arrived in the morning and have now taken over the defense."
Zhang Liang said: "But it will take another hour for the new recruits from Maomao Mountain to arrive."
"Let new soldiers guard the outer circle of defense, and veterans and female soldiers from the village should be used in the inner circle."
There are now three lines of defense in Xihewan.
The first one is the fortress beside the mountain roads in the periphery. Once blocked, Xihewan will become an iron barrel for more than ten miles.
The second road is around the village. Fortresses are also built on all roads entering the village, and there are male and female bodyguards patrolling day and night.
The last one is Jinfeng's courtyard, and the textile factory and smelting workshop next to it.
At the beginning of construction, Jin Feng took defense needs into consideration and set up defense points in many places around the courtyard and the two factories.
If someone really invades Xihewan, the people in the village can gather and hide in the textile factory, and then rely on fortifications to resist.
If Xihewan is compared to Bianjing City, the first line of defense is the outer city, the second line of defense is the inner city, and the third line of defense is the imperial city.
Every line of defense is very important.
Recently, due to the large-scale recruitment of veterans, the review conditions have been relaxed a lot, and Jin Feng cannot guarantee whether there are people with ulterior motives among them.
The second line of defense is the life and death line of the village, and Jin Feng must be handed over to someone he trusts.
Even if these people are female soldiers with relatively weak combat effectiveness.
"Don't worry, sir, I have already explained all this to Lao Zheng." Zhang Liang said.
"Have arrangements been made for the Changxin Army and the Qingyuan Army?"
Zhang Liang had been leading these two teams to suppress the bandits before, but now that Zhang Liang was called back by him, Qing Mulan had been following the Ninth Princess again, and the leaders of these two teams were gone.
"On the day I came back, they also received the order from Lord Zhou Mu and headed back to camp."
"That's okay," Jin Feng patted Zhang Liang on the shoulder, "I'm going to Xichuan this time. I don't know when I can come back, and I don't know if I can catch up with Sister Fang's delivery date. Brother Liang, since you have made all the arrangements,
Then go back and stay with Sister Yunfang."
Lin Yunfang has been pregnant for several months, and seeing that she will give birth to a baby in a month or two, Zhang Liang wants to follow him to Xichuan again.
This made Jin Feng feel a little guilty.
But it’s impossible without Zhang Liang.
Among his bodyguards, only Zhang Liang showed good commanding and combat capabilities, and he also had high prestige among veterans and could hold the situation together.
If it had been anyone else, Jin Feng would have been really unsure.
"What's there to do with a woman?"
Zhang Liang waved his hand very domineeringly: "The Tubo people chopped off one of my arms, and I want them to repay it a hundred times!"
"We don't know where the Tubo people are now. Go back." Jin Feng pushed Zhang Liang: "This is an order!"
"Then... okay." Zhang Liang nodded when he saw that Jin Feng had reached this point, "If anything happens, sir, just send someone to call me."
He sounded domineering, but in fact he still missed Lin Yunfang very much.
I am also very grateful that Lin Yunfang did not dislike the two disabled people in their family.
Many men in the village took concubines, even Mancang married another one, but Zhang Liang never took a concubine.
Before marrying Tang Xiaobei, Lin Yunfang and Guan Xiaorou would talk together about how to prove that they were not jealous women.
Later, they got together and murmured about how they could conceive a child.
Thinking of Guan Xiaorou, Jin Feng saw that everything was alright at the camp and went back.
As soon as he entered the house, he was pulled into the back room by Guan Xiaorou...