The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 39 One-sided Breastplate
Westerners in this era traveled across the ocean from Europa to Nanyang. To put it bluntly, they just wanted to make money, and for the charming golden cutie.

As for whether Simerson would be ashamed of taking refuge in Zhu Hongyu, a Chinese?
Hehe, Simerson said, it’s not easy to make money, where is it not from?
Zhu Hongyu nodded in agreement.

"As long as you can make a hydraulic forging hammer, gold and silver are not a problem!"

"If you build a hydraulic forging hammer, I'll give you fifty silver coins. If you teach a Chinese craftsman to make a hydraulic forging hammer, I'll give you fifty gold coins. You'll be fine!"

"If you can make contributions, in the future, it will not be a problem for this general to confer titles on you!"

"Although you are prisoners of war, as long as you can show your worth, your life safety will be guaranteed to the greatest extent!"

"You can get everything you want too!"

When Simerson heard Zhu Hongyu's words, the luster of dead silver coins shone in his eyes.

He mobilized several craftsmen who could do carpentry work, and started to make hydraulic forging hammers with full motivation.

Zhu Hongyu thought about putting armor on the recovery army.

If hydraulic forging hammers can be made, the output of armor will not be a problem.

Traditional Chinese armor such as cotton armor, fish scale armor, and Shanwen armor are complicated in craftsmanship and cannot be made.

But the European-style plate armor can be forged directly with a hydraulic forging hammer!
In terms of defensive power, plate armor is definitely the pinnacle of the cold weapon era!
The thick plate armor worn on a person is like an iron can. Swords, bows and crossbows are useless, and even spears may not be able to break through the armor.

If you want to kill an iron can, you have to use a blunt weapon for a cold weapon, and you have to shoot a musket close to the face, and the lead bullet can break through the armor.

The advantages of plate armor are obvious, but the disadvantages are equally obvious!

That is just too heavy!
Plate armor originated in Europe, but the only people in Europe who can wear plate armor to fight are those noble knights who are tall and strong, and who eat and drink well since childhood.

The average physical fitness of Europeans in this era is not as good as that of Ming people!
Not everyone can wear moving plate armor!

Although most of the soldiers of the Restoration Army were tall and strong miners, only a small part of them could wear plate armor to fight on the battlefield.

Of course, Zhu Hongyu didn't plan to equip the Liberation Army with full-body plate armor either!
If it is to equip the Liberation Army with full body armor, the process will be too complicated.

The main part of the plate armor can indeed be directly forged and formed, but the joints and joints are not as simple to manufacture as traditional Chinese armor.

What's more, even if it is made, I'm afraid not many people can wear it.

Therefore, he prepared to equip the Liberation Army with a single-sided breastplate.

In this case, the process is simple.

The steel plate can be directly hammered into shape with a water forging hammer, and the back part can be connected and fixed with rattan or cloth strips.

Anyway, in wartime, you are facing the enemy frontally, and you are running away if you are facing the enemy behind you!

A single-sided breastplate can provide a certain amount of protection to the front, which is enough.

Thinking darkly, such a single-sided breastplate can also reduce the possibility of desertion to a certain extent.

After all, if you don't escape, there is still a steel plate on your chest for protection. If you escape, you will expose your unprotected back to the enemy.

And because the steel plate is a single-sided breastplate, only the chest, even if the breastplate is thickened, it is thickened to the extent that it can protect against musket shooting at medium and long distances.

This weight is not a problem for most Liberation Army soldiers.

Of course, close-range firearms will definitely be unstoppable!
Unlike Chinese muskets, which are developing in the direction of precision, muskets are so accurate that they can shoot birds.

The Spaniards' matchlock guns are all large-caliber heavy matchlock guns!
A horse with poor accuracy, but its power is indeed amazing.

If shot at close range, no matter how thick the plate armor can hold it, even if the plate armor can hold it, the shock force is enough to shatter the ribs and kill the soldier who was hit by the buckshot!
Zhu Hongyu told Old Liu Tou his idea of ​​the one-sided breastplate, and asked him to take someone to try it.

And also put forward the concept of fixed bullets in paper shells!
Compared with the matchlock gun, the flintlock gun cannot significantly increase the rate of fire, but the humble gadget of fixed paper shell bullets can.

The lead bullets and gunpowder are divided into packages according to a certain ratio in advance, and the paper shells of the bullets can be directly torn off in wartime before loading.

The process of pouring gunpowder and subloading lead bullets is omitted, and the rate of fire of the musket can be significantly improved!

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After six or seven days, with the efforts of hundreds of soldiers of the Liberation Army, the construction of the valley has achieved initial results.

In the valley, everyone is busy.

Pieces of fertile fields were reclaimed, contiguous shacks were set up, and a second small blast furnace for ironmaking was erected.

Beside the river, a hydraulic forging hammer gradually took shape, and many craftsmen were busy in front and back.

At the entrances on both sides of the valley, where the fort was to be built, the foundations had already been dug.

As soon as the stones for construction are mined and the cement needed is fired, construction can start at any time.

The road from the river valley to the coal and iron production line was also opened, the vegetation on the road was leveled, and a fairly straight and flat road appeared in the forest.

On this day, when Zhu Hongyu was fishing in the river with the soldiers of the Restoration Army and was preparing to give the brothers extra meals at night.

Li Guangyuan came back with the family members of the soldiers of the Restoration Army!
The arrival of two or three thousand family members made the Hegu camp even more lively.

The family members were reunited, hugging each other and weeping bitterly. For a while, there were bursts of crying in the valley.

Li Guangyuan came to Zhu Hongyu's side with an urgent expression, and said.

"General, something has happened!"

Zhu Hongyu smiled and nodded at Li Guangyuan's mother and his younger siblings, then turned to ask Li Guangyuan.

"What happened?"

Li Guangyuan said urgently.

"When Company Commander Wang and I left Jiannei with our brothers' families, we were targeted by the Spaniards!"

"The Spaniards sent people to pursue us and chased us into the mountains. We tried to circle the mountains, but we couldn't get rid of the pursuers."

"In order for me to successfully evacuate with my family, Company Commander Wang led people to stop the pursuers, and then led the Spaniards to the mine."

"I don't know what's going on now!"

"We have to hurry up to reinforce Company Commander Wang and the others!"

Zhu Hongyu's body suddenly became extremely cautious, and he spoke.

"Tell me carefully, what is going on?"

"How did the Spaniards find you? How many people are chasing you? Are they chasing you closely?"

He felt that something was wrong. This was the intuition of a veteran of more than ten years who had been on the line of life and death several times.

Li Guangyuan said.

"We were not discovered at the beginning, and we led people out of Jiannei very smoothly!"

"After all, there are people coming and going in and out of Jiannei every day. Although there are a little more people, it's not particularly noticeable to go in batches."

"But after we entered the mountain for the meeting, the brothers standing guard at the back of the line said that a large number of Spaniards followed!"

"We speeded up, but the pursuit was getting tighter and tighter. In order to protect the family, Company Commander Wang decided that he would lead people to stop the Spaniards, and then lead the pursuers away for the large army..."

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It has been ten days since the trial, and only three hundred collections.

Today’s recommendation effect is not obvious, I’m afraid I’m going to rush...

Cool!

This is already the fourth update today, the author has already rolled it up like this, readers have to roll it up too, give me some support!

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