Next, try their protection against blunt weapons. Bring in two pigs, bind their limbs, put cotton armour on one and iron armour on the other. Two more men on horseback with wolf tooth sticks, greet them.”
At Zhu Pingan’s command, the two big fat pigs were pulled by their ears and tugged by their forelegs, wailing and pulling them to the schoolyard, and before they could even react, they were tied up, with one head being put on cotton armour, and one head being put on iron armour.
Then, the two burly zhejiang soldiers rolled over on the horse, dragged the wolf tooth stick in the back hand, clamped the belly of the horse with a foot, and began to drive the horse to run, in order to improve the horse’s speed, they first ran around the schoolyard, and after the horse’s speed came up in the second circle, they swung the wolf tooth stick in their hands with force, and swung it fiercely to the fat pig that was covered with the armour.
High speed running horse, heavy wolf tooth stick, two fat pig’s fate can be imagined……
A crowd of Zhejiang army generals couldn’t help but shed tears of sympathy from the corners of their mouths, hey, you can have an extra meal.
Boom!Boom!
After two dull hammering sounds rang out, an ear-piercing wailing pig squeal rang out continuously.
“I go, no way, the pig with iron armour died in a single blow, and the pig with cotton armour wasn’t even hammered to death on the spot?!”
The crowd of Zhejiang Army generals had their mouths wide open in disbelief, staring daggers at the two fat pigs on the school field.
The iron armoured fat pig had blood coming out of its mouth and nose, and was paralyzed on the ground, motionless, its soul having long since returned to the west to become an ingredient.
Although the cotton armoured pig was also bleeding from its mouth, nose and ears, the whole pig squealed in pain and struggled wildly to kick back.
The pig had not been killed and had not even lost its ability to move.
Zhu Pingan let the cotton armour pig untie the rope, this pig wearing cotton armour like a gust of wind, wailing and escaping from the scene, at first also with a drunken like seven twisted, fell several times in a row, but soon mastered the balance, and then rode the dust, fast speed is not like a pig, leaving behind a dusty, swiftly without a trace.
“No way, the pig with cotton armour not only didn’t die on the spot, but even survived, can you believe this?!If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t even dare to believe it.”
“Cotton armour’s protection against blunt weapons is so much stronger than iron armour, also, so much cotton, cushioning a lot of force.”
“In the battlefield wearing iron armour, was round so a wolf tooth stick, surely organs are cracked, even if not dead on the spot, surely also waste; but if wearing cotton armour, maybe there is the power to fight back. Although the fat pig is thicker than our skin and flesh resistance to beat some, but also see a spot.”
A group of Zhejiang army generals saw this scene, and couldn’t help but appreciate the performance of cotton armour in defending against blunt weapons.
“Next, try these two types of armour’s ability to protect against the cannons. In addition to the sharpness of the Japanese swords, the cannons are also a great weapon for them, which the Japanese call iron cannons. In the future, when we fight against the Japanese, we will have to face the cannons of the Japanese.
The cannon we are using now is the same as the one used by the Japanese. The cannons we are using now are almost the same as the iron cannons of the Japanese. Now try to see if they can be defended against.”
Zhu Pingan said to a group of Zhejiang army generals, testing the protection performance of cotton and iron armour against the fire mirror.
Since the cannons were mostly more powerful than the bow energy, in order to save costs, a pair of cotton armour and a pair of iron armour were used for the test this time.
Soon, one hundred zhejiang soldiers who were good at shooting the cannon were selected and made to fire the cannon from twenty paces away.
The range of Ming Dynasty’s cannons was around one hundred metres, but the effective range was within fifty metres, and the range of those with armour-piercing ability was within thirty metres, a distance of twenty paces could ensure the best power of the cannons.
“Ready!”
Liu Dazhou acted as the commander and raised his hand and shouted.
As soon as the words of Liu Dazhou fell, one hundred Zhejiang army cannoneers skilfully took out a small packet of gunpowder from the ammo pot, asked for an opening with their mouths, poured the gunpowder into the gunpowder pool, fastened the lid of the gunpowder pool, and then skilfully loaded the projectiles.
Then, lighting the fire rope and placing it on the fire rope clip, he lifted the cannon and steadily aimed at the ten sets of cotton and ten sets of iron armour in the distance. As ordered, five men aimed at one armour.
This set of actions, they had trained countless times during this period of time, and were too skilled to be proficient.
“Release!”Liu Dacai waved his hand with force.
After Liu Yicai gave the order with a single word, one hundred cannonsmen immediately pulled the trigger. “Bang bang comment ……”
A burst of gunfire, confirmed smoke filled the air, and the choking smell of gunpowder began to drift.
Although the accuracy of the cannon in this era is not high, but the distance is high and close ah, a hundred cannonmen almost all hit the target, each pair of armour hit at least four shots, without exception.
“Quickly see how it is, can it defend against the cannons?”
The generals of the Zhejiang army were too eager to see the state of the twenty pairs of armour, each one of them stretched their necks.
Seeing this, Zhu Pingnu smiled faintly and waved her hand for the crowd to come closer to watch.
A crowd of Zhejiang army generals had long been eager to crowd forward.
“Sizzle, this cannon is powerful enough, the iron armour was shot out several holes, front and back are penetrated, if this is worn by a person, it shall not be four or five transparent holes ah.”
“d(ŐдŐ๑) Oh my god, this cotton armour was not even shot through, the projectile got stuck on the iron sheet.”
“This too, this projectile penetrated the first cotton layer, although the iron sheet also rotted an eye, but it was blocked along with the second face layer, this cotton armour competes against firearms.”
“This iron armour blocked two projectiles, but rotted three holes eyes, still did not prevent ……”
“Good guy ah, don’t know without looking, a look shocked, this cannon power is really big. Every pair of iron armour has been smashed at least two or three holes ron eyes …… but the cotton armour is surprisingly all defended, except for one pair of cotton armour that was rotted with one hole ron eye, the other cotton armour has not been pierced.”
A group of Zhejiang army generals were stunned by the power of the cannons and the protective properties of the cotton armour, not expecting the cannons to be so powerful.
The cotton armour was thought to be a look-alike, but it was not expected to be more reliable than iron armour.
“This cotton armour is made of cotton, if it rains, won’t it get wet?”
Someone suddenly thought of a problem, which then instantly triggered a resonance, and the crowd of generals couldn’t help but worry.
“Fetch water.”
Zhu Pinghui smiled and ordered.
A bucket of water was soon brought in, and Zhu Pingan used a ladle to hold out a scoop of water and splashed it towards a set of cotton armour.
One dipper and another dipper, a pouring rain was nothing more than that.
Zhu Ping An splashed three ladles in a row, and then changed one set of cotton armour and splashed three ladles again, splashing five sets of cotton armour in a row.
When the water was splashed onto the cotton armour, it clattered down as if it was splashed onto the linoleum.
“Surprisingly rainproof?”
A group of Zhejiang army generals went up to check and found that the cotton armour was barely wet, and they couldn’t help but open their mouths wide in surprise.
“This cotton armour is a treasure.”
The crowd of Zhejiang troops were all amazed by the excellent protective properties of the cotton armour and looked at the hundred sets of cotton armour with red eyes, wanting to own a pair.
“This kind of cotton armour is the standard for our Zhejiang army, everyone has a set.”
Zhu Pingan’s words drew cheers from the crowd of Zhejiang Army generals, each with a happy face.
