However, these shortcomings are not impossible to improve.
The reason why the plate armor is thick and heavy, like canned food, to put it bluntly, is that the toughness and strength of the steel in this era are not enough, if it is not thicker, the role of the plate armor will be gone.
However, if you use alloy steel with higher strength, then it can be made more lightweight.
The most important thing is that the advantage of plate armor is that it can be molded in one piece, and if you can find a way to construct a simple milling machine or stamping machine, it means that it can be produced on a large scale.
This is the main disadvantage of chain mail and scale armor, think about it, a scale armor, need hundreds of iron pieces, need to string them one by one, if you want to mass production, this needs to be how much labor Those armors are obviously just toys for aristocratic masters, although Ye Chunqiu wants to create elite soldiers at a high cost, but he will not let a few craftsmen spend a few days wearing beads to do such a meaningless thing.
So what about weapons, what is the best weapon to use In addition to that, there are boots, helmets, and even water bottles, and so on.
Ye Chunqiu did not rush to design first, but started with stamping machine tools and milling machines, stamping machine tools can only use simple versions, everything in this era is rough, it will be enough.
In fact, it's not too difficult, but the fundamental problem lies in the problem of power, there is no electric energy in this era, the only thing that can be used, I'm afraid there is only wind and water power, hydraulic stamping seems to be more stable, hydraulic forging machine has appeared in Europe in a hundred years, but it is too simple, but it is just the original version, Ye Chunqiu is interested in some kind of improved forging machine in the eighteenth century.
At that time, the forging machine dedicated to plate armor stamping has become extinct, the fundamental reason is the development of muskets, so that this well-made plate armor has no use, fortunately in France at that time, but maintained the tradition of manufacturing plate armor, of course, mainly for the honor guard to use, the French love face, like to pretend to be thirteen.
The structure of the forging machine was very simple, and there was no steam engine, which gave Ye Chunqiu room to imitate, he carefully drew the drawing, and the next morning, he handed it to Sun Qi and asked him to find a craftsman to find a way to make it.
Then there is the choice of alloy steel, these are not difficult, the basic material, is impossible to achieve overnight, this is like the master of the stir-fry salt, at the beginning, may not be able to master, need to accumulate over time, and finally find the trick, the development of materials science in Europe is roughly the same, are in the stumbling and difficult to move forward, how to make the steel stronger, tougher, need countless experiments, record data again and again, may be three years, five years, or even ten years, twenty years, in order to find the most suitable way to match.
And these, in Ye Chunqiu's place, have become completely redundant, he only needs to find the easiest and lowest cost optimal plan for mining in this era, and the various proportions are clear at a glance.
In the past two days, Ye Chunqiu did not go to the camp of the new army of Zhenguo, but lived in this newly built workshop, and most of the craftsmen recruited were skilled blacksmiths, but for Ye Chunqiu's new gadgets, they still maintained a sense of awe, just like the forging machine, they tried to produce it many times, and finally failed, if Ye Chunqiu did not supervise, I am afraid that without a few months of hard work, it will be difficult to make any progress.
And the smelting craftsman, today the furnace fire, watching the fire in the furnace under the action of the blower bag burning, a piece of ore into the furnace, after a while, there will be golden molten iron natural flow out of the groove, this is pure steel, at the same time, in another trench, wait until the molten iron flows into a special mold, someone is familiar with the iron tongs to pull the mold away, replace it with a new mold, wait until the molten steel in the mold gradually cools, but close to it, you can still feel the heat wave like fire, in this winter, The temperature in the workshop was extremely high, and Ye Chunqiu's whole person was already drenched in sweat.
When the molten steel was completely cooled and formed, a craftsman carefully slowly pulled out the steel plate, and a piece of alloy steel fell into Ye Chunqiu's eyes.
Compared with the previous steelmaking, the speed of steel manufacturing that directly melts at high temperatures to form molten steel can almost be described as amazing.
For example, if it was the previous process, if ten craftsmen could make 30 catties of iron a day, then here, with the help of high-temperature furnaces, the same people can train a ton of steel, and such steel has fewer impurities, does not need to be forged, and is directly formed in the mold, there are no bubbles in it, and the quality is better.
In fact, the explosion of steel production began after the Industrial Revolution with the advent of high-temperature furnaces, and in the previous era, steel was almost synonymous with luxury, because the output was so small that even in the Ming Dynasty, which was relatively wealthy compared to the states of the world, many farmers could only use stone tools for farming.
And now watching the boiling golden liquid flow out, flow into the mold, and finally cool, Ye Chunqiu finally knew that with this high-temperature furnace alone, this era could take a small step forward.
This is the alloy steel that Ye Chunqiu needs, the first piece of alloy steel in front of Ye Chunqiu's eyes, it looks very inconspicuous, and it does not have the luster of the steel metal of later generations, uh, Ye Chunqiu thought to himself, this is okay, it will be done, it is good to be practical, Ye Chunqiu ordered someone to send the steel plate to the room on the side, and then put out the ordinary steel plate first, and took out the Japanese knife he brought, this Japanese knife has been used for a period of time, it is particularly sharp, the texture is excellent, and it is definitely one of the first-class blades in the world.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Chunqiu swung his knife fiercely and slashed at this ordinary steel plate.
With a sonorous sound, the steel plate was actually split into two, but there were also a few gaps in the sword.
In other words, ordinary steel plates, under Ye Chunqiu's full strength, still can't withstand the slash of the sword.
Ye Chunqiu was a little disappointed, and then put his hope on taking an alloy steel plate.
Ye Chunqiu looked at the craftsman Nunu, the craftsman put the alloy steel plate on the pad, the thickness of the alloy steel plate is obviously much thinner than the ordinary steel plate of Fang Cai, Ye Chunqiu held the sword, rested for a moment, and then took a deep breath, raised the knife with both hands, and slashed it fiercely.
His strength is more than a hundred catties.
A silver arc streaked through the void, and then sparks flew around.
Qiang The steel plate only cracked a slash mark, and at this time, the entire sword was already curled.
Ye Chunqiu smiled with satisfaction. aa2705221: