Chapter 39, oily leather armor

After stopping in Ji County, Zu Zhao asked 300 cavalry to start training. This time, it seemed to beat the whole yellow scarf army in Ji County, but Zu Zhao very well understood that this was because Cheng Zhiyuan underestimated himself, but if his 300 cavalry was really on the battlefield, he could not fight against a thousand yellow scarf army. Of!

The battlefield is always ruthless, and the victory or defeat is impermanent. Only when you have your own long combat strength can you have enough confidence.

Three hundred riders captured 50 bows and arrows in the first-line battle, this time equipped with children who are good at riding and shooting. At this moment, they are training hard on the horse farm.

"Son, that's the nearest test site for wooden spears!" Zu Ping introduced to Zu Zhao.

The training ground of the wooden spear has a very large field, which is full of grass people. The distance of this grass man is about 70 meters, and the distribution is not very even. What can be exercised is the right head after throwing the wooden spear.

Zu Zhao looked over and found that a teenager's projection of wooden spears was extremely accurate, and almost every blow could pierce the grass man's chest. It was very surprising.

"Call that son to come here!" Zu Zhao pointed to the teenager who projected a wooden spear.

"Come here, the eldest son calls you!" Zu Ping shouted at the teenager.

The teenager was black and extremely rough, but he took the name of a daughter. The only thing that interests Zu Zhao was that the teenager's eyes were extremely bright.

"The granddaughter has met the eldest son. I don't know what orders the eldest son has?" The teenager came forward to meet Zu Zhao respectfully.

Zui Zhao pointed to the grass man in the distance, "Why did you shoot so accurately?"

Zu Anu hurriedly said, "When I returned to the eldest son, I used to play by the wild river. I often sharpened my branches and then inserted fish. Over time, I got used to it. Those grass people in the distance are the same as the fish in the water!"

Zu Anu said and signaled the essentials of her movements. She heard Zu Zhao nodded repeatedly. What Zu Anu said was very simple, which was to maintain the balance of her body. Using the moment of turning her waist, she threw the wooden spear out with her waist, and then used the balance of her body to control the aim of the wooden spear. At the sign of Zu Anu, Zu Zhao also came down to practice, and then Zu Ping and other teenagers also came together. The wooden spear trial field was lively for a while.

Zu Zhao threw out a wooden spear. One afternoon, there were blue veins on his arm and blood bubbles in his hand. The target head of the wooden spear also came out initially. It can shoot a distance of 70 meters to 80 meters, and it has a nine out of nine points. Compared with bow and arrow shooting, the wooden spear shooting is simpler and more lethal. Extremely, throwing a wooden spear on a war horse is itself with the flying inertia of a war horse, and it is possible to directly pierce the enemy in front of it. This is the instinctive difference between a wooden spear and bow and arrow.

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In the evening, Zu Zhao was called out of the barracks by Zu Ping, a sweaty man, saying that the old man who sold tung oil refused to leave and insisted on following Zu Zhao to be a cow and a horse, with a helpless face.

"The old man who sells tung oil?" Zu Zhao was stunned and remembered that when the sky was burning, he crawled away and leaked the wind, so he asked the two ancestral disciples to take care of all the old man's caravan. Later, when the front-line sky won, Zu Zhao ordered the old man to let the old man and the caravan go, and took out a large amount of money as a comfort.

"The old man met the general, and the old man begged the general to take us in! Our oil family has been starting from oil for generations, relying on craftsmanship to survive. Now that the world is in chaos, I'm afraid we craftsmen have no way to live. I hope the general can take us in and give us a way to live!" The old man knelt down as soon as he finished speaking.

Zuzu Zhao was stunned. This one is thick-skinned enough to stay here now after the money and goods have been cleared?

Zu Ping next to him saw that Zu Zhao's face was a little unhappy. He kicked the old man away and said, "You old man, do you want to see that my eldest son is easy to talk? Are you lying here? Where can you be presumptuous in this barracks?

Zi Zhao waved his hand and signaled Zu Ping not to do it again. After all, the old man was meritorious to them.

"I don't know what your oil family can do for me? How can I give you a way to live?" Zu Zhao asked that he had never underestimated these craftsmen. The lower the person, the more intelligent he was. If he hadn't met this pair of father and sons who bought tung oil, he might still be fighting hard on the front line.

"The old man knows the process of making leather armor, which can make leather armor for generals and generals, and can also oil the leather armor, which can make leather armor and armor generally difficult for sharp arrows to pierce!"

Hearing this, Zu Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up. He has been thinking about making iron armor and wearing his own armor, but this armor is the same as iron. The design is extremely unreasonable, and the level of technology is also very poor, and the weight is very heavy. Now because of iron, it is still Due to the manufacturing process, there is no way to equip 300 horsemen on a large scale, but if the leather armor is still OK.

"Tpeak and listen!"

Zui Zhao looked at the old man in front of him.

"The old man once stayed in the imperial horse prison, worked as a handyman in the military headquarters, and worked as a master craftsman in a weapons workshop. Later, he was retired because of disability. When he returned home, he wrote down the making of leather armor for future generations. Among them, the house of making tung oil was separated from many methods in the weapons workshop. !"

"Big son, this old man is proud, but who has seen him make leather armor? I'm afraid he is a brag old man. Don't believe him!"

Zuping said, he felt that this old man was not so magical. A low-level businessman selling oil had the ability to make leather armor? That is the level of a master craftsman, who is regarded as a guest by various families and local tyrants.

Zu Zhao waved his hand and motioned him not to talk, but asked slowly, "You said you can make leather armor, so what materials can you make?"

This is part of the school entrance examination.

"The leather armor can be made of rhinoceros cowhide and whale skin. The best thing should be whale skin from the East China Sea. There are often whales at the seaside. There is a brave man who thrusts a spear into the whale's body and then drags the whale up with a sailboat. The whale meat can be eaten, and the whale skin can be made strong. Leather armor, and this whale skin can be repeatedly concocted to block the attack of sharp arrows!"

Zu Zhao couldn't help but be disappointed when he heard about whale skin and rhinoceros cowhide. At present, there is a lot of war. Where are people to kill whale skin and rhinoceros cowhide? It's still a matter of looking at the moon in the water.

"Old man has a batch of whale skins here, and these whale skins have been accumulated for a long time!" The oil seller saw the change of Zu Zhao's face and quickly explained why he had whale skin in his hand. It turned out that the oil seller often went to the seaside to buy the whale. The whale seemed to be very big, but it didn't taste good, so the price was ridiculously cheap, and the oil seller directly brought the whale back to refine the oil and mixed it with this tung oil, although There is a suspicion of fraud, but the price is half that of others, so it has always been very popular, and these whale skins are not useless, because there is a layer of oil on it that can be used as firewood.

He did not dare to hide it in front of Zu Zhao. At present, he told his business tips, which made Zu Zhao stunned. It seems that there were profiteers in the Three Kingdoms era, and they were so treacherous that they could mix whale oil with tung oil. No wonder that the two were particularly burning on the front line. Burst, so it is.

"If you can offer this method of leather armor, I can let you go to my ancestral land. Where there are peaceful days, you can follow my ancestral family. As long as my ancestral family is there, there will be a day when you will be rich!" Zu Zhao spoke with a smile.

The oil seller asked his middle-aged son to hand in hand and asked all the members of the caravan to take out the whale skin to make leather armor. In fact, the production of leather armor is very simple. Zu Zhao can almost understand it at a glance. The most important thing is the treatment of tung oil, because the old man's tung oil is made by mixing tung oil and whale oil. , so the leather armor is made and sun-bubbled three times, and finally made into a bright leather armor. The weight of the leather armor is extremely light, but it is extremely flexible.

"Go and put this armor on the grass man. I'll try to shoot an arrow!"

Z Zhao ordered.

A long time ago, Zu's daughter took the leather armor and put it on the grass man.

Wh!

An arrow was shot, and there was a white spot on the leather armor, but it was not shot through.

The oil seller and his middle-aged son couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but they put their hopes on the leather armor.

"Good!" Zu Zhao laughed and the problem that had plagued him for a long time was actually completed by two oil sellers, and he was happy for a while.

"Reward thousands of taels of silver! I hope you can make the whole leather armor, and then we can equip it!" Zu Zhao laughed and casually motioned Zu Ping to take out the silver and reward him again. The so-called three cobblers competed with Zhuge Liang, and the people really had great wisdom.

The oil seller father and son smiled with the reward of 1,000 taels of silver, and were secretly glad that they had made a bet. The young general was indeed a noble man. Since then, the life and future of the father and son have been connected with the young general.

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For seven days in a row, Zu Zhao led 300 Youqi secret training. In Zu Zhao's heart, it is necessary to make 300 Youqi come and go like fire. The most fundamental purpose is to kill the yellow scarf military fart. In this troubled world, these 300 Youqi are the foundation of his foothold and the last guarantee of the ancestor family. The gains and losses.

The soldiers and horses are strong, and the bows and horses are invincible are also the targets that Zu Zhao has been pursuing. With the baptism of war, Zu Zhao hopes that these 300 riders will become a real invincible division.

In this troubled world, maybe one day his ancestors will step on the world. Although he has always hidden this ambition in his heart and does not know what the future will be like, it does not prevent him from having such ambition.