Li Chengzhi was vaguely excited: "If all the three hundred strong men in the family were put on full armor, how strong would they be in combat?"
"That's three hundred soldiers!"
Li Bai thought for a while and said with certainty: "If we have enough bows and arrows, we can protect more than 200 households in my Li Family Fort from evacuating Jingzhou safely."
"What if it's a heavy cavalry with three hundred men and horses?" Li Chengzhi asked again.
"Three hundred heavy cavalry? Haha..."
Li Bai couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Don't say 10,000 rioters, even if 10,000 more come, my servants can break them..."
Three hundred to twenty thousand?
Li Chengzhi was about to say that Li Bai was bragging, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly remembered an allusion.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin seemed to have defeated Dou Jiande's 100,000 infantry and cavalry mixed army with a thousand Xuanjia troops...
Do you want to make a few pairs?
If the weather gets hot and the ice wall melts, but the chaos has not subsided, how can the safety of more than a thousand people in Lijiabao be ensured?
Even if you can’t evacuate, you must at least be able to hold on!
So let alone an extra pair of armor, even if you can make one more arrow, you can also have a little more hope...
Even what Li Bai said, "It can ensure that more than 200 households in Lijiabao can evacuate Jingzhou safely" must be made.
Technically, there is basically no problem. Although I can’t forge armor, I can make steel.
As long as there is steel, the remaining processes, such as thinning, cutting, connecting, etc., can be completed by just a few blacksmiths and strong men.
The only thing you need to worry about is where the ingredients come from.
After much deliberation, it seems that the only way left is to mobilize all the villagers in Lijiabao to donate ironware.
There are more than 200 rural households, and every household has a hoe, a shovel, a sickle, and even an iron pot and a kitchen knife. It is no problem to scrape together four to five thousand kilograms of raw and wrought iron.
Then the rest depends on what kind of armor you want to make.
The requirements for fish scale armor are too high, the process is too complicated, and it takes a lot of iron materials, so it is definitely unrealistic.
It would be very simple if you change it to a Zhajia type, or make the nail leaves larger, but the problem of the nail seams and knots being exposed is difficult to solve.
Well, it’s not impossible to solve it. You can cover the outside of the nail with a layer of cowhide. At least the seams between the nails will not be exposed, and the enemy will not be able to look at the seams and dig in.
But cowhide has become a big problem again. We can’t kill all the cattle in Lijiabao. What will happen to the land in the future?
What about changing to sheepskin?
If it doesn't work, just replace it with linen or thin felt. I remember the cotton armor in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it seems to be made like this...
Li Chengzhi was suddenly startled, as if a light flashed through his mind.
How to make pierced nails? How about making cotton nails directly?
It uses less materials and the process is simple. You don’t even need to wear leather strings, which can also solve the problem of exposed nail seams...
The only disadvantage is that it is too soft and has poor anti-gravity hitting effect.
But they are just a group of rioters. They only have a good spear and gun. Most of them probably have pitchforks and manure shovels. Where do they get the heavy weapons?
That's it, let's build this...
……
Such a big thing as building armor is definitely not something Li Chengzhi can do just by talking.
If he can't convince Li Song, he won't even be able to collect the iron materials.
Hearing that Li Song had returned, Li Chengzhi quickly chased after him.
Seeing Li Chengzhi, Li Song frowned sharply: "Why is Langjun wearing Zha armor and Erlang's full armor?"
"Give it to Li Zhang, I don't have to charge into battle..." Li Chengzhi replied casually.
Li Song's face suddenly darkened.
In his mind, even if Li Zhang and Li Xianquan died in battle, nothing could happen to Li Chengzhi.
If this concept had not been deeply ingrained, he and Li Bai would not be the only ones left among the six brothers...
Just as he was about to give some advice, Li Song suddenly thought that the husband in front of him was no longer the husband of the past, and he could no longer train him as a fool.
What's more, the significance of him letting Li Chengzhi go up to the wall to supervise the battle today is of great significance: Li Chengzhi is the coach, and he who is responsible for the specific command is at most the deputy coach...
The purpose is of course to help Li Chengzhi establish his prestige, but before this prestige is established, he, the deputy, first doubts the coach's decision...
Momentarily embarrassed, Li Song didn't know what to say.
Seeing the tangled look on his face, Li Chengzhi laughed secretly in his heart, and his tone became more relaxed: "Wearing such bright armor, do you want me to stand on the wall as a target?"
Li Song was a little dumbfounded.
It was obviously an act of kindness and kindness, but when it came out of Lang Jun's mouth, it was as if he was harboring evil intentions and deliberately letting Li Zhang die.
If you don't want to wear it, don't wear it. At most, the prince will stand on the wall of the village and watch the battle, and he will never be affected by the war.
Besides, with him here and so many shield soldiers, how could it be possible for a few rogues who couldn't even fire a bow to hurt Lang Jun?
Li Song was both moved and nodded helplessly.
"Well, I have something to tell you..."
Li Chengzhi took him two steps away: "I want to make armor..."
Armor?
Li Song's face changed slightly.
Why does Lang Jun think that everything is coming out?
Building armor is not about building an ice wall. You can use local materials and teach them casually, and everyone can learn it.
Otherwise, a pair of Zhajia would not cost as much as three years' interest on a hundred acres of fertile land.
"How to make it?" Li Song looked at him suspiciously.
"Here we go again, what did I tell you two days ago?" Li Chengzhi looked at Li Song with a sullen face, "Of course it is made of iron, how else can it be made?"
It's not that he doesn't want to explain, but this can't be explained clearly in one or two sentences.
If there is enough time, he can also proceed step by step and use the methods of frying steel and pouring steel that are already available in this era to make steel.
But it only takes more than a month to make a full plan. There are only a few blacksmiths in Lijiabao. The weather is hot and the ice is melting. Let alone hundreds of pairs of armors, whether he can make ten pairs of armors depends on whether God will give him face.<
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So Li Chengzhi decided to do it in one step: use a crucible to directly turn the iron into molten steel...
This is completely a dimensionality reduction attack. I guess Li Chengzhi talked about it all day and night, and Li Song couldn't figure it out.
And he couldn't explain where he learned it.
The surgery can be left to Hua Tuo, the ice wall can be left to Cao Cao, but who can the steelmaking be left to?
I guess I can’t find an excuse even if I read "Three Kingdoms" to pieces.
Anyway, ever since Hu Baozong was treated, his fox tail can no longer be hidden. If he has more debts, he won’t have to worry about it, and this time is not bad...
Li Chengzhi lowered his voice: "I have a way to make armor quickly. If I'm lucky, it's not impossible to make dozens or hundreds of armors in a month, but the premise is that you have to help me!" p>
Can hundreds of armors be made in one month?
Li Song's heart suddenly shrank and he took a breath of cold air: "How can I help?"
Li Chengzhi replied: "First of all, we need to collect iron materials, whether it is pig iron, wrought iron, iron pots or kitchen knives, as much as we can collect...The second thing is people. I only have one pair of hands, so I definitely need helpers, but you don't need me to remind you.
Clearly, based on our current conditions, what is the concept of making hundreds of armors in one month, so we must keep it as secret as possible, and the people assigned to me must be as loyal as possible..."