Chapter 75 The backbone that Da Song lacks is actually iron
When Zhao Huan looked at this invulnerable Guo Jing, the first thing he doubted was not his values and worldview for more than 20 years.
This world is material, this is the core value and an unquestionable dialectical materialist value.
So how did this guy do it?
He thought of the unarmored soldiers on the city wall, stuffing bricks and cowhide into their clothes. Without armor, he stuffed bricks into their clothes to stop the Jin soldiers from chopping. It was a cheap armor.
This is because the armor-wearing rate of Song Dynasty is really very low. Only the elites have armor in full-fitting armor, and many people wear water jackets to the battlefield, and they will be frozen to death even if they don’t die.
"Chen Zong, chop his neck." Zhao Huan said. If he didn't die, it wouldn't be too late to start denying his values again.
Guo Jing was extremely shocked. Since he went down the mountain, he has been performing smoothly. Why did it not work when he arrived at the emperor?
He received countless applause, countless applause, and countless copper coins. He originally thought that the emperor would be able to do everything, after all, the previous emperor was the leader Dao Zun!
I thought I could get a lot of rewards from the emperor, but I didn't expect that I could get the knife in the neck.
"Yes." Chen Cong was also very curious about how this guy was invulnerable to swords and guns.
If I had such skill, how could I be so embarrassed if I was attacked this time?
"Your Majesty, please spare me!" Guo Jing knelt on the ground without hesitation.
He kowtowed a few times in a row. If he had stabbed his neck, he would have to meet the Three Qing Daozu.
It’s not okay to admit defeat, admit defeat, admit defeat, let’s not cut it. Please don’t cut it.
"Take it out." Zhao Huan felt very calm. This world is material. It will not change just because this person is wearing a Taoist robe.
Guo Jing took off his Taoist robe tremblingly, and everyone saw soft armor and cowhide lining.
The steel rings, which were buckled and then buckled, were laid flat on his body, and looked a bit like a chain mail, but it was not very similar to the mountain-patterned chain mail in the Central Plains.
"Your Majesty is a soft golden armor. It is my master's famous work. Please spare your life." Guo Jing was frightened.
The rumor is that the new emperor is tyrannical and agile, and it is true. He chops his neck when he comes up. Who can withstand this?
"Zhao Ying, go to the side hall to peel off the soft armor for me." Zhao Huan said with a smile. The crime of deceiving the king was a death sentence, but he was not very interested in cutting off Guo Jing's head.
He was very interested in this soft armor!
This is a steel ring, each ring is buckled with the other four rings, and it is a chain mail that looks like a mesh lock!
He was not interested in the craftsmanship of this chain mail. The mountain pattern armors of Buren armor, Iron Harrier, and Tiefutu were actually all the Xuan armor of the Xuanjia Army of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the mountain pattern chain mail.
These armors are upgraded versions of chain mail, with double-layer cold-forged armor, which is much more powerful than chain mail.
He wanted to know more about how Guo Jing found the steel needed for the chain mail! This is the key!
The Song Dynasty is a specialty for salt and iron! He can get one for no reason? Why? The Song Dynasty armor is very clear, and it will not be too much out of thin air or less out of thin air.
He felt keenly that there was something big inside!
"Call Li Gang here!" Zhao Huan asked Chen Cong to run errands. Li Gang was the young supervisor of the military weapon supervisor. He must be clear about the matter here.
Zhao Ying came in with Li Gang. Zhao Ying was cleaning up the rust of the chain mail, of course, not washing it with water, but grinding it with sand, and then sent it to Wende Hall and presented it to the official house. The rusty looks so miserable.
"See the official family." Li Gang saw the chain mail made of steel rings at the first time, and his eyes could not leave it.
"Li Shaoqing, take a look at the steel used in this chain mail. Is it produced in the Song Dynasty?" Zhao Huan asked Li Gang to take a look.
The Song Dynasty was not without iron. He judged from the tax on salt and iron that the Song Dynasty had a production of at least 100,000 tons of pig iron a year. But pig iron was not steel. The Song Dynasty lacked steel and steel that could forge armor!
However, whether this steel was produced in the Song Dynasty needs to be confirmed from Li Gang.
Even the elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty were lacking armor and were extremely lacking. Zhao Huan had studied this issue with Li Gang for a long time.
The conclusion was that the iron materials of the Song Dynasty were too poor, either hot or cold. Zhao Huan knew that it was because the two elements of sulfur and phosphorus were at work.
"This is the steel of hundreds of refinings! The official family! The steel of hundreds of refinings! The iron of the iron of the Song Dynasty! The official family! The revival of the Song Dynasty is expected!" Li Gang said this sincerely, and he was already a little incoherent.
The Song army's armor-wearing rate is very low. It is already very good that the two thousand soldiers have a complete set of armor with 500 pieces.
In fact, these five hundred pieces of armor need to be questioned.
There is no iron in the Song Dynasty!
Can't make armor be forged 100,000 tons of pig iron a year?
Because it's too difficult to forge.
Now forging Dasong Bu people armor, horse harnesses and even weapons are all made of raw rice, made of pig iron and cooked iron. However, the iron and stone in the Central Plains are extremely barren. Not only that, they are either hot or cold and brittle, and cannot be forged at all.
Elite soldiers, such as personal servants, marriage officers, and Western Army used two pieces of iron inside and two pieces of pig iron outside, and were tempered for thousands of times, and were square.
During the grinding process, fracture and peeling may occur, and cracks may occur during quenching. For about one ton of scales used to produce a ton of armor, thousands of kilograms of iron is required, and the Great Song Dynasty armor is hard to find.
The most distressing thing is that the nail plates made in the past few days crack when quenched, and the scales and armor leaves have to be re-forged.
Hot, crispy, cold, crispy, iron and iron and stone are too poor, which has become a big trouble for Li Gang!
And for some reason, the hot-forged armor leaves in the Song Dynasty were all good. The armor like the rice-like armor of the cast iron and cooked iron were broken as soon as it was touched.
It’s the same with armor or not, but it’s still very burdensome.
Why is this? Li Gang has been looking for the answer for a long time, and the Song Dynasty has also searched for more than 180 years but has not found any results.
"There are iron kids in the Western Xia, the remaining Liao, and the Iron Lin army in the Jin people, and the Iron Futu. The Buren armor in the Song Dynasty was ranked at the end. The armor could not defend against the arrows of bows and crossbows, and even swords and axes!"
"Even the small Qingtang has wart armor, and I, the Song Dynasty, have searched through all the territory. I can't even find an iron mountain that can forge armor! The official family, this golden silk soft armor! It comes from the Song Dynasty, and this technique is the method of forging armor in the Song Dynasty!"
Zhao Huan's face was even more surprised! I don't know if it was Guo Jing's master who improved the craftsmanship or found a new mine?
"What Li Shaoqing said is true! The Song Dynasty is really hopeful for revival." Zhao Huan sighed.
Chapter completed!