After Zhu Pingan confirmed the quality of the cotton armour, he had the soldiers pull one hundred pairs of cotton armour onto the school ground in between drills, and then he had the soldiers pull one hundred pairs of iron armour, all of which were put on the scarecrows.
One hundred pairs of cotton armour as well as one hundred pairs of iron armour stood in front of the generals, glittering in the sunlight.
“That’s the cotton armour developed by our Zhejiang army, helmet, neck protector, heart protector, arm protector, hey, even the crotch of the trousers are protected, covered with copper nails, even the seams are not there, than the iron armour protects the whole ah, looks more than the iron armour, ah.”
“Cotton armour is not useful, I heard that our border army has a lot of cotton armour, but after all, cotton armour is made of cotton, surely there is no doubt about the warmth, but the protection is not as good as iron armour, right.”
“Our lord pulled so many cotton armour and iron armour is to do ah, is not to reward us, hey, I drill seriously these days, the sentry even praised me, maybe I can also mix a set of it. Well, it’s better to reward me with a pair of iron armour, the protection of cotton armour is always a bit unsettling.”
Looking at the two hundred pairs of armour placed in front of them, a group of Zhejiang army generals were unsure, and could not help but lower their heads and mutter in whispers.
“Generals, the two hundred pairs of armour in front of us, one hundred pairs of them are cotton armour, from the hands of our army’s equipment battalion, and one hundred pairs of them are iron armour, which is our army’s new armour from the Ministry of War.”
Zhu Pingan pointed to the armours laid out in front of the crowd and introduced them to the group of Zhejiang army generals.
“Sir, what is the purpose of laying out these armours, is it to reward us?”Someone asked.
“The reason why I put out these armours is to verify the protective ability of the cotton armour together in front of everyone. As the saying goes, if it’s a mule or a horse, pull it out and sneak around. Today, let’s just slip and see.”
Zhu Pingan smiled faintly and did not play dumb with the crowd, directly stating the purpose and revealing the answer.
“How to verify?”
The crowd of generals were curious.
“First of all, push one person out from each of the ranks and spread out to stand in front of these two hundred pairs of armour.”Zhu Pingan ordered.
Soon enough, each of the Ngocs pushed out one person and scattered to stand in front of the armour, and since the number of people was not enough for two hundred, there was still a difference of ten, so Zhu Pingan randomly selected another ten people from the generals and each stood in front of a pair of armour.
“Good, now draw your sabres and use your greatest strength to slash at the armour in front of you.”
Zhu Pingan ordered.
“Obey!”The two hundred men drew their sabers in response and swung hard at the armour in front of them, using all their milk strength.
Bang Bang Bang ……A muffled clash sounded, and then there was a burst of surprised voices, a crowd of generals incredulously looked at the cotton armour in front of them, the iron armour prevented no surprise, the cotton armour actually also all prevented.
“Alright, all the generals can come forward to have a look.”Zhu Pingan said.
A crowd of generals could no longer hold back their curiosity, they all came forward to take a closer look, and then a burst of surprise followed.
“Aigoo, this cotton armour is not even broken ……Swinging the sword with so much strength only left a mark on the cotton armour.”
“It’s no surprise that iron armour can prevent knife chops, but I didn’t expect that cotton armour could also prevent knife chops.”
The crowd of Zhejiang army generals saw that the one hundred pairs of cotton armour all defended against the sword slashes, and they couldn’t help but open their mouths wide in surprise.
“Good, all generals please return. Next, come out five hundred good archers and aim arrows at these two hundred pairs of armour from twenty paces away. Each person will release three arrows, shoot straight, parry, whatever you want, and see if these armours can block the bows and arrows.”
Zhu Pingan ordered again.
Soon, five hundred generals stepped out, stepped back twenty paces, and began to release arrows at the armour in front of them.
Swish swish swish ……
A thousand feathered arrows whistled and saved, regardless of whether they were cotton or iron armour, they were all covered by the feathered arrows.
Fixed target and no interference, the soldiers’ archery skills all played well, fifteen hundred arrows overwhelmingly hit the target, almost every armour hit five or six arrows.
“Alright, all of you generals go up and take a look, see how the iron armour and also the cotton armour perform against arrows?”
Zhu Pingan said with a smile.
A crowd of generals came forward, shuttling in front of one piece of armour, carefully looking at the condition of the armour under the feathered arrows.
Iron armour is sturdy, the feather arrow did not shoot through, shoot bad iron armour, at most to ten or so pairs of iron armour left a deep pit, but the scarecrow under the iron armour is quite a lot of arrows, the face of the arrow in the door, not to mention, there are more than a dozen scarecrows wearing iron armour neck arrows, there are seven or eight crotch arrow in the crotch, and there are a few scarecrows locking armour gap in the arrows of the ……There was no way, the iron armour protection area was insufficient, and the gaps between the combined parts of the iron armour were inevitable, these gaps gave the feather arrows an opportunity to take advantage of.
Comparatively speaking, the sturdiness of the cotton armour was slightly inferior to that of the iron armour, and almost all of the hundred pairs of cotton armour were not intact.
There are many cotton armour were feather arrow shot out an eye, but that’s all, although the feather arrow in the cotton armour left an eye, and did not penetrate the cotton armour, with a hand poke, some just the first layer of cotton layer broken, revealing the inner lining iron, lining iron some concave look only, some even the first layer of cotton layer are not broken.
However, none of the arrows penetrated the cotton armour.
Also, the scarecrows under the cotton armour were much safer compared to those under the iron armour. A hundred pairs of scarecrows under the cotton armour, apart from those who got an arrow in the face, not a single one got an arrow in the neck, nor did they get an arrow in the crotch.
As for the cotton armour seams, the cotton armour was much tighter together, there were almost no exposed seams, so there were also no scarecrows that had been hit by arrows in the cotton armour seams.
“Aigoo, to say, this cotton armour anti-arrow ability is even stronger than the iron armour, cotton armour protection surface is large, neck, crotch and so on are protected, there is no gap, wearing iron armour scarecrow and throat, crotch, thigh in the arrow, but wearing cotton armour scarecrow there is not a throat, crotch, thigh in the arrow.”
“It seems that this cotton armour is not like goods ah, the knife can not break, arrows can not penetrate, protection is also tight, wear such a set of cotton armour to the battlefield, you do not have to be afraid of the knife and arrows, that is not more than a few lives ah.”
“I weighed and weighed, this cotton armour than iron armour at least half lighter than, wear cotton armour than wear iron armour lightweight and save strength, cotton armour than iron armour soft portable much, also than iron armour flexible much, in the battlefield can fight big cheap.”
“So it seems, this cotton armour is not only good-looking but also useful, no wonder the adults bought so much cotton some time ago.”
A group of zhejiang army generals witnessed, personally verified, compared the cotton armour and iron armour anti-arrow performance, the view of the cotton armour can be described by the word “impressed”, from the beginning of the cotton armour to the cotton armour.
