Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 137 Reasons for the slow development of armor

  After finishing the arrow test, Fei Qian understood that this should be the most authentic data of the Han Dynasty.

  Fei Qian said to Huang Zhong: "Does Han Sheng know how many steps the archers in the army can shoot?"

  Ordinary archers are definitely not as sharp as Comrade Huang, but a large number will still cause headaches.

   "In the army, archers with fifty paces need to hit ten arrows, and one hundred paces need nine hits. They are good at shooting beyond a hundred paces." Huang Zhong is quite clear about this matter.

Fei Qian asked Huang Zhong again, "If I start shooting, I don't know if it is possible?" Fei Qian asked this question mainly to know whether it would be difficult for ordinary people to become archers. It is also necessary to understand.

   What's more, Fei Qian also wants to know whether he is suitable for learning bow and arrow shooting. It would be good if he can learn a half-stroke from Huang Zhong.

  Of course, generally speaking, it is true that you can shoot arrows with just a bow and an arrow, but you have to shoot as accurately as Huang Zhong. This, hehe, I don’t think you can do it without some practice and know-how...

  Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng looked at Fei Qian and said, "If Ziyuan wants to learn it, it is not difficult to shoot the salute, but in the army... I am afraid that it is not enough."

   One of the main factors for the literati in the Han Dynasty to learn archery was that among the six arts of a gentleman, there was archery ceremony.

The shooting ceremony can also be regarded as a large-scale social gathering. Through certain procedures and ceremonies, it emphasizes moral integrity, harmony of etiquette and music, and the shooting is a fixed target. Therefore, Huang Zhong said that if Fei Qian learns, he will participate in this kind of shooting. The ritual activity is probably not too difficult, but if it is placed in the army, the target is the target of the activity, so the difficulty will be different...

No wonder the Cai family trained a hundred archers for themselves, and when the Huang family said it to Huang Chengyan, they would also feel that they accepted it. The root cause should be here. What will happen there?

   What's more, if you don't practice bow and arrow properly, you can easily hurt your wrists and fingers.

Fei Qian looked at Huang Zhong in front of him. Although he knew in his heart that he was a super talented person, but it was not easy to talk to each other when they met for the first time, so he said to Huang Chengyan: "Master Yuezhang, it is a great honor for Hansheng to test arrows this time. .The cost of making arrows should be counted on my son-in-law.”

  Huang Chengyan laughed and said, "It should be so!"

  Huang Zhong refused again and again, saying some trivial matters, which were not worth mentioning, refused to accept such an arrangement, and insisted that he still had to pay for it himself.

   Fei Qian said: "In the future, Qian will recruit a hundred new archers. If Han Sheng has time, he can take the time to give some advice. A little arrow making fee is not enough to be a teacher."

  After saying this, Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng accepted it, and Fang took the prepared arrows and bid farewell to Huang Chengyan and Fei Qian.

   Fei Qian looked at Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng who had gone away, and couldn't help sighing in his heart...

   Seeing Huang Chengyan on the side still smiling, Fei Qian stepped forward and thanked his father-in-law for his cooperation just now. If Huang Hansheng hadn't spoken out as the head of the Huang family, Huang Hansheng might not have given himself this face.

  Huang Chengyan waved his hand and said: "The family doesn't need to say some polite words. The son-in-law just asked Huang Hansheng to test the arrow, but do you see what is coming?"

  Fei Qian actually noticed something when he read Huang Chengyan's Bingjiawei three volumes. Now that he saw the lethal demonstration of Huang Hansheng's bow and arrow, he felt that the current protection measures of soldiers in the Han Dynasty were obviously not as good as the attack methods.

Normally speaking, under normal circumstances, what kind of attack method will produce what kind of protective measures, but in the situation just now, even if Huang Hansheng's power is discounted, the range is reduced from 150 steps to Within a hundred steps of ordinary archers, archers like those in the army will also cause terrible damage to unarmored or even thinly armored units.

Fei Qian went to take off the fish scale armor tied to the tree trunk, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and found that it was not only different from Zhajia in style, but also in material. too cruel...

   Is it because there are too many people in the Central Plains, it doesn’t matter how many people die, or is it because the superiors don’t treat ordinary soldiers as human beings at all? Or maybe both?

Look at the fish-scale armor, basically they are distributed to general-level characters, the protection is really good, but ordinary soldiers are not treated so well, even Zhang Zhao, who sent Fei Qian to Xiangyang back then, seems to be wearing a suit It's just armor, not to mention that some miscellaneous soldiers don't even have leather armor...

   Fei Qian told Huang Chengyan his guess, hoping to get a negative answer from him, but Huang Chengyan pondered for a while, but nodded silently and did not speak.

  Who will give cannon fodder top-level equipment?

The only function of cannon fodder is to consume the opponent's armaments. These ordinary soldiers are actually a little bit stronger than cannon fodder, so they can have a simple leather armor, or even better, a large vest style Zhajia is already a relatively good equipment.

Ugh…

   What's more, Zhajia has a very big advantage, that is, it is very recyclable, and it is all pieces of iron anyway. After the battle, you can scrape off the body of the dead, return the broken iron piece to the furnace, replace it with a new one, and you can immediately use it for the next cannon fodder. It is simple, convenient, and efficient...

  Besides, the current superiors are eager to cast all the iron into gun heads to kill people. There is still excess molten iron to make armor...

   This is the most fundamental obstacle to the slow progress of armor until the end of the Han Dynasty...

   But Fei Qian knows that this concept is flawed. An army composed of under-protection forces has a fatal shortcoming, which is the low survival rate of soldiers.

  The low survival rate of soldiers leads to a small proportion of veterans in the entire army, which means that various values ​​will be low, the most obvious being the lack of toughness.

A battle formation composed purely of veterans can endure up to 30% or even 50% of the battle damage without collapsing, while a team composed of ordinary recruits can withstand 10% of the battle damage without being panicked. Call it a strong army.

Moreover, veterans have better cooperation. Under the same equipment conditions, an ordinary veteran can probably beat two or three recruits, but if there are 10,000 veterans, they are likely to beat five or even ten times as many recruits. crying father and mother...

  Because the battle area is so large, once the front line collapses, it is easy to cause panic in the rear line troops. At that time, the recruits will only want to escape one step before others. Once the panic spreads, if one is not well controlled, the whole line will collapse.

Therefore, for the sake of my own life, the armor should be improved anyway, even if it is the helmet, oh, it should be called Douhou in the Han Dynasty, and it would be good to add an iron mask, at least in this way, there is a risk of one-eyed like Xiahou Dun The coefficient is reduced a lot...

  After all, from south to north, from east to west, this war will basically happen every day for small fights and big fights. Who knows if that arrow will fly over without eyes...

The armor of the Han Dynasty is made of iron, not steel. The thickness is about 1.2-1.7MM, so it is not that thick... Some people say that it is because the white people are tall and can bear the weight of the armor, but the yellow people can't, so there is no Developed heavy plate armor, but the infantry armor of the Song Dynasty weighed about 30KG, and no one at that time disliked it

   According to the regulations in the fourth year of Song Shaoxing (1134), the stepper armor is composed of 1825 nail leaves, with a total weight of 29KG. At the same time, the protection can be improved by increasing the number of nail leaves, but the weight will increase further. For this reason, the emperor personally ordered that the infantry armor should be limited to 29.8KG. Since then, the armor weight of the spearman was set at 32-35KG; since the archer was often involved in melee combat, the armor was set at 28-33KG; and the armor of the crossbow shooter was set at 22-27KG. The armor type of European cavalry in the same period was mainly chain mail, which did not reach such a weight.

So the weight is not the main reason, more is still the "practical" factor... A hole in the plate armor needs to be returned to the furnace for a long time to repair, and the armor can be replaced with an iron plate. As for the person wearing it... Hehe... On the first day of the Lunar New Year, spend more time with your family members, especially your parents. Don’t think they are wordy. Sometimes it’s better because they don’t know how to express their love...

  (end of this chapter)