Chapter 22: Take heart "I'm not worried about losing my way, I'm worried about not being able to respond in time when the shore arrives," Ding Dexing explained nonchalantly, his face turning slightly red.
"The people General Manager Zhu sent to disembark early are said to be several Mongolians.
Although they say they have nothing to do with the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, they are not of my race after all."
"Among the Mongolians, there are many heroes who are kind and righteous.
Among the Han people, there is no shortage of bad guys like Li Siqi."
Fu Youde smiled and explained helplessly.
When he first took over the mountain and became king, he also hated the Mongols who had been riding on everyone's heads and dominating them.
But after fighting countless battles in the Green Forest and Red Scarf Army for five or six years, he discovered that people's good and evil cannot be simply divided by ethnic groups.
People like Aslan and Yu Tonghai under Zhu Chongjiu's command, although they are foreigners, as long as you treat them as brothers, they will take out their intestines for you, and they don't care about the first or fourth class.
As for Li Siqi, who got caught in the artillery of the Xuzhou Army and defected to the imperial court, he refused to be a good red scarf general and preferred to be a dog for the Mongolian master.
It is impossible to regard him as the same kind.
But Fu Youde himself couldn't figure out what the truth was.
I always feel that these things cannot be explained clearly with the phrase "a good minister chooses his master and serves him".
But apart from this specious argument, other statements were further away from the facts he saw, and they couldn't explain what was happening around him.
"General Manager Zhu is a hero."
Ding Dexing thought for a while, and suddenly another sentence came out of his mouth.
"At least, Fu has never seen anyone more capable and ambitious than him."
Fu Youde agreed very much with this, nodded, and agreed with a smile.
The two were members of the Huai'an Army, and they instinctively felt close to each other.
The views are also very similar when looking at many issues.
So we don't feel bored when we talk.
While they were chatting lively, a gentle knock on the door suddenly came from outside the cabin.
Ding Dexing quickly stood up and opened the door, revealing Xu Hongsan's honest smiling face.
"General Ding, I have received orders from the General Manager to send you armor.
Please try to see if it fits you."
Xu Hongsan explained with a smile as he walked in holding a wooden tray.
His eyes accidentally glanced at Fu Youde, and he raised his hand to the latter, and continued to say with a smile: "And yours, General Fu, your armor has also been brought over.
I was about to give it to the general. , I’ll send it to you right away, or I’ll just bring it to you directly.”
"Thank you, General Xu."
Fu Youde returned the gift politely and agreed loudly.
They are all men in the military, and they are not that particular.
Xu Hongsan rushed to the door to say hello, and soon, someone brought Fu Youde's armor into the cabin.
However, when the two reached out to lift the cover on the tray, they were immediately startled by what they saw.
He was stunned for a moment, and his palms instantly froze in mid-air.
Golden silk armor, the legendary golden soft armor is completely woven from metal wires as thick as cotton threads.
The chest and lower abdomen are also covered with several pieces of fine steel protective plates to cover the vital parts densely.
Airtight.
What's even more rare is that whether it's the gold threads used to weave the armor or the fine steel guards that protect his vitals, they are all the color of dark clouds.
Whether you wear it during the day or at night, there will be no reflections.
Once blended into the crowd, it is difficult to distinguish it from the enemy's sharpshooters.
Thanks to the ever-increasing scale of Huaiyang Workshop, full-body plate armor is nothing new among the East Road Red Scarves.
Almost everyone who once held prominent positions like Fu Youde and Ding Dexing was equipped with a set of weapons.
But it was the first time in my life that I saw the soft gold armor made by skilled craftsmen in the Central and Western Regions, which had both protective power and flexibility.
No one can estimate its value.
"It was just developed by our Huaiyang Master Craftsman Institute.
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There are currently only ten sets in the entire army.
The general manager said that you two are new here and are afraid of mistakes on the battlefield.
I ordered the end of the army to send two sets specially."
For fear of Fu Youde and Ding Dexing were not excited enough, Xu Hongsan smiled and added calmly.
"This, this, how could Ding be so virtuous, dare, dare to be so favored by the chief executive?"
Immediately, Ding Dexing felt hot in his heart, and his eyes suddenly turned red.
No matter whether the soft armor in front of you is made of black gold or iron.
Weaving such a full-body armor would probably require at least dozens of feet of fine thread.
And it takes a lot of labor and time to make a piece of iron ingot into a thread.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an iron pestle to grind a needle.
Therefore, almost every piece of the legendary golden silk armor is priceless.
He is about to wear a priceless treasure on his body.
How can Ding's shoulders and heart not feel heavy?
"Please tell Manager Zhu that Fu will wear this armor tonight and follow you around."
Fu Youde had already made up his mind to sell his life to Zhu Chongjiu, so his performance was much calmer than that of Ding Dexing.
He first picked up the armor and bowed deeply to Xu Hongsan.
Then he quickly straightened up and peeled off his original military commander's robes to the ground.
It was the season when the autumn heat was still lingering, so everyone was wearing very thin clothes.
Therefore, after taking off his regular clothes, Fu Youde immediately revealed his gnarled tendons.
Xu Hongsan glanced at it enviously, then stepped forward with a smile to help, "This set of soft armor is divided into three layers.
In addition to the outermost layer of black steel and soft silk, the inside is also lined with a layer of Lu silk and a layer of cotton.
It can be worn directly without a layer of clothing, and it is breathable and much cooler than plate armor.”
While explaining proudly, he moved his fingers up and down quickly.
In a moment, Fu Youde was dressed up.
As the saying goes, a man's clothes are like a horse's saddle.
As soon as he put on the new armor, Fu Youde immediately seemed to be reborn.
The whole person exudes heroism from the inside out, dazzling onlookers.
"There are also helmets, combat boots and combat knives."
Xu Hongsan took another tray from the guards and placed it at Fu Youde's feet.
"The sizes are all based on the measurements that General Fu left with our chief manager.
They should be just right."
The last time I received armor from Zhu Chongjiu was last autumn.
At that time, Fu Youde was ordered by Zhao Junyong to bring five thousand troops and horses to assist the Huai'an army in moving south.
He relied on his merit and felt that no matter what he took from Zhu Chongjiu's hand, he was justified, so he didn't regard the set of plate armor as anything valuable at all.
But he never expected that more than a year later, Manager Zhu still had the exact size of the items he selected in his hands.
Every item was exactly the same.
"It just so happens that Fu hasn't personally gone into battle to kill the enemy for a long time.
With this set of armor tonight, I'm going to kill the general and capture the flag for the general manager."
There are some words that you just need to know in your heart, and there is no need to say them openly.
Fu Youde simply put on his helmet and changed his boots, ready to fight with his sword at any time.
"Ding, I would like to go with General Fu tonight."
Ding Dexing also sniffed a few times quickly, and under the service of several other guards, he quickly took off the regular uniforms of the Suzhou Army and put on the soft armor of the Huai'an Army.
Compared with the plate armor I had before, the gold soft armor was at least 70% lighter in weight.
Moreover, the elbows, knees, waist, etc. can be easily bent at any angle, with minimal impact on flexibility, which is suitable for a skilled warrior like him.
Wearing it on the body, it is simply even more powerful.
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"Xu's skills are low.
I have to ask you two more for the safety of my general manager tonight."
Seeing that both Fu Youde and Ding Dexing had put on the costumes of the Huai'an Army, Xu Hongsan was not polite, cupped his hands, and asked in a low voice.
"Don't worry, General Xu.
Unless we both die in battle, no one will hurt the chief executive."
Fu and Ding nodded solemnly and answered in unison.
By this time, what the two of them were thinking about was no longer whether tonight's cross-sea surprise attack would be successful.
But no matter what the situation is, he will live up to Xu Hongsan's request and live up to the courtesy of a national scholar from Manager Zhu.
After all, there is no second Huai'an army in the world, and there is no second hero who dares to give his life to his own hero after meeting him a few times.
"Then Xu will stop talking nonsense."
Xu Hongsan looked at the two of them up and down, then nodded with a smile.
"The ship is moving a bit fast today.
In about half an hour, we will be able to enter Jiaozhou Bay.
By then, fifteen warships will rush to the beach together.
Please be prepared, two generals."
After saying that, he raised his right hand to his forehead and made a strange salute to Fu and Ding.
Then he turned around and led the guards away quickly.
Only old clothes and boots were left on the ground, one piece here and one piece here and there, messily placed in front of the two of them, as if they were in the same mood before.
"This soft gold silk armor is very comfortable to wear."
Fu Youde was silent for a moment, then bent down to pick up his old clothes and boots one by one, and carefully placed them on the wooden tray left by Xu Hongsan.
No matter how many regrets and brilliance he had in the Xuzhou Army in the past, from now on, like these old clothes and boots, they will have nothing to do with him, Fu Youde.
Now he is not an abandoned general of the Suzhou Army, but a pawn of the General Manager of Huaiyang.
As long as the General Manager's flag points, he will move forward bravely and die without hesitation.
"This knife is not bad.
Ding is very good at using it."
Ding Dexing smiled, picked up the Qiushui Yanling knife left by Xu Hongsan, and wiped it slowly under the light.
Note 1 The knife is also brand new, using the unique cold forging technology of Huaiyang Workshop.
The blade is four feet long, the handle is seven minutes long, and the width of the knife body is evenly triangular in shape.
It is edged front and back, and four blood grooves are forged on it.
At first glance, it looks like a magic weapon that can cut through iron like clay.
On the lower part of the blade near the oval blade, four Chinese characters painted with silver hooks and iron are clearly engraved, "Give me back my rivers and mountains."
Note 1: In 1165 AD, the first year of Qiandao, the Military Armory Supervisor of the Southern Song Dynasty began to create a new type of knife weapon.
Because it was shaped like the feathers of a wild goose, it was named "Yan Ling Dao".
The knife is about 90cm long, 4cm wide, and curves upward from two-thirds of the blade.
The front side is fully bladed, and the back side is sharpened about fifteen inches from the head downward.
There are anywhere from two to four blood slots.
It is a weapon used by the military and its manufacture and sale by civilians is prohibited
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