According to Li Chengzhi's idea, if the Tang Army was equipped with heavy steps, each person would have thirty kilograms of steel. If it were replaced with crude iron, it would still cost fifty kilograms to refine it. One thousand people would be fifty thousand kilograms.
, five hundred catties of colored copper.
Each person adds a set of bows and arrows, and a thousand catties of colored copper.
There are two thousand kilograms of copper left, just enough to buy five hundred horses.
In the early stage, you can ride for heavy infantry. After riding for a long time, you will naturally become a medium cavalry...
It’s a windfall, and you don’t feel too bad about spending it.
With the decision made in his heart, Li Chengzhi immediately returned to the school and wrote a letter to Li Song and Hu Baozong each.
He didn't play any tricks. He listed the things he needed according to what he had in mind. He also told Hu Baozong that if his Hu family's reputation could be worth a few cents in Gaoping Town, he would ask Lu Gong for some more or borrow some carriages on credit.
Come back with the horse and the tail feathers for making arrows.
He also gave special instructions that no weapons other than bows and arrows were needed, only iron materials.
Just one sentence written to Li Song: Watch Hu Baozong to death!
As for the food that is still in short supply, we can only wait for Hu Baozong to come back and take the remaining two thousand kilograms of copper left for emergency use to go to Liangzhou or Qinzhou.
After sending the messenger, Li Chengzhi quickly set off for the mountain.
It occurred to him that since the iron bought by Hu Baozong and Li Song could arm these thousand soldiers almost to the teeth, doesn't it mean that there are still more than 10,000 kilograms of steel plates left?
Originally, there was only more than 6,000 kilograms left, but Li Chengzhi never forgot that the one hundred people Li Song took away were still wearing the old armor of Li's old soldiers.
In addition to the nearly 40 pairs that were snatched away from the Song family by the monks and seized by Li Chengzhi, there are 150 pairs. This adds up to nearly 5,000 kilograms of iron materials and 4,000 kilograms of steel plates... p>
If you want to replace the long gun, the gun head will definitely need to be remade, and the gun head will also need to be weighted. However, the original gun head can be refurbished, which can save part of it. One thousand guns and three thousand kilograms of steel are enough. There are seven thousand catties left...
After thinking about it, Li Chengzhi found that there seemed to be nothing left to build except horse armor...
No wonder he has always been obsessed with cavalry, because in this era, heavy cavalry with both men and horses is just like the tanks of later generations...
Li Chengzhi did the math. If he could make two hundred pairs and distribute them to one hundred Li's old pawns, this would be a hundred heavy cavalry with two horses...
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It is almost dark, and the men and women at the foot of the mountain have finished their work, but the work on the mountain is still in full swing.
Standing at the foot of the mountain, you can hear the sound of blacksmithing.
Strong men in their fifties worked in two shifts, forging helmets all night long.
This thing is a little more complicated, so it's a bit slow to forge. In addition, Li Chengzhi required a hat brim and a mask, so I played for five or six days and still had less than 200 pairs.
The armors had already been laid long ago. When Li Bai left, he took away a hundred pairs and another two hundred pairs, which were neatly locked in the monk's village next to the school grounds.
Li Chengzhi waved and called several blacksmiths.
"How many steel plates are left?"
The old blacksmith calculated: "There are almost 1,200 kilograms left!"
Li Chengzhi nodded noncommittally and put down the horse armor: "Stop the helmet first and try to hit this... The thickness is still half a minute (1.5 mm). There is no need to cut the horse's chest and belly. You can try to forge it into a plate.
A..."
This is Hu Baozong's horse armor. The method of making it is similar to that of Zha armor: the iron pieces are connected side by side in series.
Because it is mixed with raw and cooked food, it is not strong enough, so it is relatively thick, at least three millimeters, and weighs a hundred pounds.
The steel Li Chengzhi is now making is almost as strong as carbon spring steel, and it is no problem to reduce the thickness by half.
Plate armor?
The old blacksmith understood instantly and asked doubtfully: "Lang Jun, why don't human armors be forged with plate armor?"
Humanoid plate armor?
Li Chengzhi did not explain, but just smiled: "When Li Song comes back, there will be more iron. If you have some time to spare, you can make a pair and try it on yourself..."
Let’s not talk about whether there are many parts or whether the process is complicated, but let’s talk about flexibility.
The heaviest armor of the Li family is Li Shixian's full armor, which weighs eighty kilograms and can only be worn by Li Songsan, his son and Li Chengzhi.
The word "able to wear and move" here refers to the ability to wear and fight.
If an ordinary soldier were to pierce it, although it would be very heavy, at least the limbs would still be able to move forward and backward, turn left and right, thrust with a spear, and trot at a slow trot.
It's just that I can't do big movements like slashing, and it's not easy to draw a bow, let alone mount a horse on flat ground.
It can be replaced with plate armor. Whether it is thirty kilograms or eighty kilograms, the flexibility is the same: like a patient who has suffered an external wind all over his body...
After exchanging a few words and leaving his horse with the blacksmith as a model, Li Chengzhi went to the front yard again.
After walking a few steps, his stomach suddenly growled twice, and Li Chengzhi remembered that he had not had any water for seven or eight hours since he went to the school grounds...