Liu Yan was studying several sets of armor that had been rushed back from the starry night from the front line.
Those armors were the dragon guards captured in the Zhao Kingdom of Shijie, and they were divided into four layers.
The first layer is a barreled iron deck armor cast in iron sheets, with a distinctly Central Asian character.
The second layer is the iron armor perforated by iron armor pieces and then connected by iron wires, which tends to be the stage of piercing armor and scale armor.
The third layer is a chain mail made of countless iron rings connected together.
The fourth layer consists of five silk underwear.
It should be noted that at present, whether it is Central Asia or Europa, barreled iron armor has not yet appeared, and the iron armor pierced and threaded by armor pieces in the world is still the mainstream.
Plate armor was first prevalent in the Greek city-states, and was later acquired by Rome.
However, Central Asia is still a kind of armor similar to the armor, for example, the Parthian mounted cavalry is the scale armor of men and horses.
Liu Yan's knowledge of history is limited, and he is obviously mistaken in thinking that the iron bucket armor that only appeared in Europa and Central Asia in the Middle Ages has been made.
Scale armor has actually appeared in Chinese civilization for a long time, but the manufacturing process is incomparably many and complex, only some families with heritage will create some, and the official is still a mass production of armor.
Chain mail has appeared in Central Asia, and it was the standard armor of Parthia.
What is Parthia In the records of Chinese civilization, Parthia is actually the Empire of Rest.
The Resting Empire had fallen, having fought wars with the Roman Empire for more than two hundred years before being replaced by the Sassanid Empire.
The Sassanid Empire, which replaced the Sabbath Empire, is currently the absolute overlord of Central Asia.
"Silk" Liu Yan looked at the silk clothes that were laid out one by one, and he was under the impression that silk was found to be able to prevent arrows, wasn't it in the period of the rise of Mongolia I have to say that Liu Yan's impression was wrong again, silk can prevent arrows as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Han army generals in the Western Han Dynasty who did not wear several silk underwear to battle, but it was not used on a large scale in the Mongolian period.
In the archaeological discoveries of later generations, the corpses of nobles basically wore several pieces of silk underwear, especially the tombs of military generals, and silk was almost as important as military armor.
In fact, since the opening of the Silk Road in the Western Han Dynasty, silk spread to Central Asia, and then to distant Rome, the role of silk was soon discovered, and the Central Asians and Europa people pursued silk not only because silk was comfortable and gorgeous to wear, but also because silk could prevent arrows, so that silk soon became popular.
"Dragon Guard, heavy cavalry in the true sense of the word" Liu Yan said that there is a reason, the armor of the dragon guards alone is more than 130 catties, the vest is also 50 catties, and even the front half of the horse is covered with silk and silk clothes.
In the battle with the Dragon Guards, the Han army fired more than 10,000 arrows, and the result was that only about 100 cavalry were shot, and it took about 150 arrows to solve a heavy cavalry.
In the end, the Dragon Guardian was shot like a hedgehog, but it was still alive.
It was a crossbow, not a bow, and it wasn't a bow Liu Yan flipped through the combat record again, and whispered: "Within thirty steps, a salvo shot over more than fifty horsemen." ” The penetration of the strong crossbow within thirty steps can even shoot through the steel plate, and a salvo is seven hundred crossbow arrows, considering the hit rate, the data seems to be normal.
In fact, that's really the case, it's not that every arrow you shoot will definitely hit the target, and it's not bad to be able to hit three out of ten shots on the battlefield.
In other words, the crossbow could shoot through the armored cavalry with four layers of protection at a distance of thirty paces.
"Is there silk production under silk?"
Liu Yan remembered that there seemed to be no silk production under his rule, and his emphasis on silk at this moment was the same as that of Xu Zheng, Ji Chang and others who were on the front line.
It was a memory loophole before, and I knew that there was such a thing, but there was no event that touched the memory, so naturally I didn't think of anything.
Now that he knows such a thing, Liu Yan will definitely attach importance to silk.
You must know one thing, the Han Department has a heavy cavalry, which is the Tiger Army, but the equipment of the Tiger Army is a bit simple compared to the Dragon Guard.
The outside of the Tiger Ben Army is a layer of bright light armor, the inside is a set of chain mail, and the inside is a layer of linen robes, and the underwear is silk.
In fact, the Mingguang armor is also made of a mixture of iron armor and leather, and the armor pieces are not the style of the armor pieces sewn into cloth or leather, but the style of fish scales stacked on top of each other, part of the structure is a layer of leather, and there are two heart guards on the chest.
Fish scale armor is actually extremely good at defending against arrows and slashing, slashing, and stabbing, but the manufacturing process is too many and complicated, but it is more flexible than plate armor, that is, it will not have much impact when only doing actions such as twisting and bending.
I have to say that the fish scale armor is heavier than the plate armor because of the different braiding and stacking area.
Liu Yanyou personally weighed it, the weight of the plate armor of the Dragon Guardian was sixty catties, and the Mingguang armor of the Tiger Ben Army was seventy catties.
He even specially wore the plate armor of the Dragon Guard, and he could find that once he put it on, it was difficult to bend over, and even twisting his body left and right would have a strong sense of restraint.
The fish scale armor is composed of scales, and there is a kind of shrinkage and squeezing space, which does not appear too stiff when moving, which is very worthy of criticism in the process.
Originally, Liu Yan was considering studying plate armor, which was the kind of cuirassiform cavalry, but the results of the first battle in Taishan County came back, and it was obvious that he should continue to develop heavy fish scale armor.
Indeed, each era has its own characteristics, and products suitable for a certain era may not be able to adapt to the next, so the term "aging" has appeared.
The first battle of Taishan County was more than a victory for Liu Yan, according to the rule of rewarding 200 system heavy cavalry for every 10,000 annihilated, he had another 200 new system heavy cavalry.
The heavy cavalry of the system is a system in which both men and horses wear fish scale armor, Liu Yan specially checked the literature and found that the heavy cavalry of the system is very similar to Cao Wei's tiger and leopard cavalry, but it is only similar.
Cao Wei's tiger and leopard cavalry is a kind of cavalry with both men and horses wearing heavy armor, equipped with a horse chopping knife with a length of about one zhang and eight zhang, the pole is one zhang and four feet long, and the rest is the back blade.
In addition to Zhangba's horse chopping knife, there are two short halberds of one meter two on the back box, and there is a ring-headed knife at the waist.
The weapons of the system heavy cavalry are the same as those of Cao Wei's tiger and leopard cavalry, but there are differences in armor, and if you want to identify them carefully, you will find that they are more similar to the iron floating slaughter or iron harrier of the Western Xia in the Song and Song dynasties.
Liu Yan was still studying the heavy cavalry, thinking about the development of the heavy cavalry in the headquarters, and Cai You came to tell him that there was a new envoy from the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The envoy of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is called Miyazawa, and he is the guy who fooled Feiyan into attacking Yanzhou.
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"I think it's a matter of the king lighting up the Han flag."
Cai You said with some concern: "The small imperial court did everything it could to destroy Shijie and go south, and we showed the Han flag."
Yes, Liu Yan's order to show the Han flag played an encouraging role, but the side effects were actually ready-made, such as the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that originally needed to tie up the Han Department could be arrogant.
Liu Yan didn't plan to see Miyazawa in person, and he had no interest in knowing if Miyazawa was a pseudonym, or anything else.
He asked Cai You, "Oh, don't you think it's appropriate to show your banner now?"
How to say it, it depends on what you need, or whether you have the strength.
There is no doubt that for the current situation, it is appropriate to say that it is appropriate, but it is also inappropriate to say that it is not appropriate.
No matter whether Shi Hu wants to go south or not, he can't get around the Han Department that occupies Qingzhou, so no matter whether he shows his banner or not, war will always break out.
That is, Liu Yan showed the Han flag, which would cause Shi Hu's attention to the Han Department to soar.
If the Han flag is not displayed, the first target of Shijie Zhao will be the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but if Liu Yan shows the Han flag, the Han Department will "take over" and become the first-class target of Shijie Zhao.
Not only did the Shijie Zhao Kingdom do its best to conquer the Han Dynasty, but the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty would also turn hostile, and it could even be said that the rest of the Hu people would have the same attitude.
"A big war is bound to break out, and we need cohesion."
Liu Yan said with a smile: "No force can become stronger without being tested, and any group will completely gain a firm foothold after a test."
There's no better time than now. ” Cai You was silent.
If you calculate the strength of the Han Department, it is definitely at the top of the production force, and the number of elite troops is actually not too far from a few powerful races, or the available combat power of the second level is seriously insufficient.
"Shi Hu is determined to clean the Jin people," Liu Yan said with a sigh: "There should be a bright light in the dark, and we are the bright light." ” Cai Weitou, it is for this reason that they feel the danger and still agree to show the Han flag.
In the past, only a very small number of Jin people in the entire Central Plains were okay, and the rest were basically bullied.
Since last year, Shi Hu has suddenly gone crazy, it is not just bullying, he just shouts it publicly, but in terms of action, he already wants to exterminate the Jin people.
At present, Shi Hu is playing in different ways, resulting in many Jin people who can't survive in Shijie Zhao Guo.
And these Jin people didn't choose to break out, but to find a tree to hang themselves "Population is our shortcoming."
Liu Yan said solemnly: "We need a population, a large population" Cai You had a smile on his face: "In just seventeen days, we have taken in more than 3,000 people who came to defect, only a few are old and weak, and the rest are young and strong.
He waved his arm and continued: "Those young and strong people are extremely enthusiastic about joining the army, and they are a good source of soldiers."
Cruel things will happen, and only a group of young and strong people will be able to escape into the area controlled by the Han Ministry, which is the premise that the degree of physical health is determined.
But this version of history has at least one Han department that can provide shelter for the Jin people, and in the history without Liu Yan, the Jin people need to get to Ran Min to make that cry out in despair.
Liu Yan didn't know what he was thinking, sighed, and said slowly: "It's always been a coexistence of crisis and opportunity, isn't it":