After the equipment battalion, the production of cotton armour of Zhejiang army can be described as a rapid progress, the smith of the equipment battalion needless to say, even the apprentice is much more skilled than the blacksmiths that the Zhejiang army had hired from the neighbourhood before.
On the third day after the equipment battalion joined, one hundred sets of composite cotton armour had already been made and assembled.
Master smith Liu Jin purposely asked Zhu Pingan to accept the cotton armour of the first one hundred pieces produced.
“One hundred pieces of cotton armour were assembled so quickly, it wouldn’t be for the sake of pursuing speed that the requirements for quality were lowered, right?”
Zhu Pingan asked uneasily as he was pleasantly surprised.
“Please rest assured, my lord, every piece of armour and every piece of armour has an exclusive mark of the craftsman, the quality is never a problem. We have also all carried out preliminary verification, the quality is never a problem, they are all fine cotton armour.”
Master Artisan Liu Jin packed his bags, very confident in the quality of the cotton armour, as they had already preliminarily verified it.
“Good! Take me to see your results.”Zhu Pingan exulted.
“Please, my lord, follow me.”
Liu Jin smith was excitedly leading the way in front, and could not wait to show their results. These days they were treated very well in the Zhejiang Army, the smiths enjoyed the treatment of battalion commanders, and the apprentices all enjoyed the treatment of post commanders.
Many of the generals had opinions, although last time Zhu Pingan gave them a platform to speak, the generals’ opinions were a lot less, but they were still there.
Their master craftsmen and apprentices all gathered their breath, wanting to make convincing achievements and speak with their results.
Zhu Pingan followed Liu Jin’s master craftsman all the way to the equipment camp and saw a hundred pairs of assembled cotton armour on a hundred straw men. A pair of cotton armour glistened under the sunlight and looked formidable.
Cotton armour did look more stylish and photogenic than iron armour!
Helmet is the uniform style of the Ming army, above the tip of the helmet with a short tip, helmet tip under a layer of red tassels, helmet brim is convex iron brim, when it rains to block the rain, but also can block some of the loss of the helmet body is also a composite of cotton and iron, helmet under the ear protection, neck protection, neck protection, than the iron armour shielding the area of the majority of the time, you can see the ear protection and neck protection and neck protection inside the hidden iron armour piece, because it is covered with copper nails.
According to Zhu Pingan’s design, the cotton armour was divided into seven main parts: body armour, shoulders, armour sleeves, front gear, left gear, armour skirt and heart mirror.
The whole body of the armour was densely covered with copper nails, glittering in the sunlight, and looked formidable and extraordinary.
The colour of the whole cotton armour is black iron colour, it looks similar to the colour of the cotton armour of the big brother played by Jet Li in the cast.
“Not bad, it’s just like the style I imagined.”Zhu Pingan went up and touched the cotton armour, and was satisfied with the outside style, as for the quality, Zhu Pingan turned his head and said to Liu Dazhou who followed him, “Dazhou, try the cotton armour’s protective power.”
“Good le.”
Liu Dazhou grinned and drew out his belt knife, first used his usual strength and swung a knife hard towards the cotton armour.
To be honest, he was curious about the cotton armour not for a day or two, from Zhu Pingan let him buy a lot of cotton, he was skeptical about the protection of cotton armour made from cotton, although there is a lining iron sheet in the inner sandwich, but how thick is the iron sheet, a pair of iron armour can melt four or five pairs of cotton armour lining iron sheet.
Two layers of compacted cotton, a layer of lining iron, this cotton armour protection can have how much, Liu Dazhou feel that his knife can cut through the cotton armour.
Clang!
After a dull sound, Liu Dazhu opened his mouth wide in surprise, staring incredulously, his own knife went down but only left a knife mark on the cotton armour, even the outermost cotton armour did not cut through, the lining iron sheet did not touch. Although he only used ordinary strength, but even only left a knife mark, this cotton armour protection than their own imagination is too high.
Zhu Pingan also went forward to watch, with a finger to touch the knife mark, knife mark is very shallow, in addition to the cotton armour itself is not low defence, cotton armour on the dense copper nails, Liu Dazhou this knife just hit the two copper nails, the copper nails to assist the cotton armour to share some of the chopping to withstand, so it only left a shallow knife mark.
“Big Dagger, try with your full strength.”Zhu Pingan said to Liu Dagger.
“Ok le sir, you stand a little farther away.”Liu Dagger nodded vigorously, asking Zhu Ping An to stand a little further away so that he could use his full strength.
Zhu Pingan followed good advice and took a few steps back.
Liu Dazhou shook his neck, making a crackling sound, then spat into his palms again, rubbed his hands together, his legs set in a good horse stance, took a deep breath, and then let out a loud shout, swinging his sword at the cotton armour with all his might.
Clang!
Dull and mixed with the sound of gold and iron clashing sounded.
Liu Dazhou’s mouth opened even wider, his eyes were almost glaring out, incredulously looking at the cotton armour in front of him. Cotton armour reveals a deep knife mark, much deeper than the knife mark just now, but that’s all, this knife also failed to cut through the cotton armour, and even failed to cut out the inner lining iron.
How much strength he has, he knows best, this knife down, is a bowl of small trees can be cut off.
“The defensive power of this cotton armour is not much worse than iron armour.”Liu Dazhou exclaimed, his face full of disbelief.
“Very good.”
Zhu Pingan once again stepped forward and touched the slash, this slash was a lot deeper, but the cotton armour’s defensive strength was really good.
“Big Dagger, try shooting an arrow at a distance of twenty paces.”Zhu Pingan said to Liu Dazhou, testing the cotton armour’s defence against the bow and arrow.
Liu Dazhou answered and took out a strong bow, stepped back twenty paces and slowly pulled back the bowstring, drawing the bow like a full moon.
Whoosh!
Fast, accurate and ruthless!
Liu Dazhu came from a hunting family, his archery skills were extremely excellent, after releasing his hand, with a whoosh, the feathered arrow flashed by like a meteor, and hit the cotton armour with a “thud”.
Then.
Snapped off.
Zhu Pingan and the others went forward to check, only to see that the cotton armour had a small hole, and after fiddling with it with his hand, he revealed the inner lining iron piece inside, which was just a little concave.
“My lord, I didn’t expect the cotton armour to have such a strong defensive power, not that I’m boasting, at a distance of twenty paces, leather armour I can easily shoot through, the defensive power of this cotton armour is far beyond that of leather armour, it is almost no longer lower than iron armour.”
Liu Dazhou exclaimed in admiration.
Zhu Pingan nodded, then added, “Try the cannon again.”
Liu Dazhou took a cannon, took out a small greaseproof paper packet of ammunition from the ammunition pot, bit an opening with his mouth, poured the gunpowder into the gunpowder pool, then fastened the lid, then stepped back twenty paces, lit the priming cord with a fire folding, placed the priming cord on the fire cord clip, aimed at the cotton armour in the distance, and pressed the trigger.
“Bang!”
With a gunshot, accompanied by smoke, the distant cotton armour was hit, and the scarecrows clad in cotton armour were all knocked backwards.
Zhu Pingan and the others went forward to check, Liu Dazhou sucked in a breath of cool air, only to see a projectile stuck in the cotton armour, using a dagger to pluck apart the projectile, he found that the first layer of the cotton layer had been broken, and the iron piece was deeply dented, but the inner layer of the cotton armour was intact.
“Sizzle, the defensive power of this cotton armour is really incredible, twenty paces away from the cannon is actually prevented, it is the iron armour that will be broken by the cannon, the defensive power of this cotton armour against the cannon is too much higher than the iron armour ……”
Liu Dabao sucked in a mouthful of cool air and exclaimed in shock.
