Chen Lang watched the training of the army for a while, then left the barracks and went to the armory. The official in charge of the Ordnance Yard was an old blacksmith among the Jinfan Thieves. His name was Tiecheng. He was a middle-aged man who was not tall but had a physique like a rock. His beard was like steel needles, and his face was full of ravines. A sense of vicissitudes.

Hearing that the lord was coming, Tie Chengyi hurried out to greet him, and when he saw Chen Lang, he immediately worshipped; "The villain pays respect to the lord!"

Chen Lang smiled and said, "Old Tie, is there anything interesting?"

Tiecheng grinned and said, "There is something new to show the lord! lord please come with me!" Tiecheng led Chen Lang and his party to a huge production workshop. As soon as I entered the door, I saw hundreds of large desks neatly arranged in a huge workshop. Nearly a thousand craftsmen were joining iron armor pieces into iron armor. The whole workshop was full of rustling noises. All the workers Attentive appearance. This is the main place for the production of heavy iron armor for the Eagle and Yang army. Most of these heavy iron armor will be used to equip the heavy infantry, and a small part will be the equipment prepared for the future heavy cavalry. The work flow in the workshop is not at all like the workshop of this era, but rather like a production line in a labor-intensive enterprise in the twentieth century. By the way, the Yingyang Army’s ordnance field has established many production lines under Chen Lang’s suggestion to produce all kinds of equipment needed by the Yingyang Army, from iron armor to wallets, from large tanks to soldiers’ hands. Knives, guns, crossbows, all weapons and armor are produced in the assembly line.

Tiecheng led Chen Lang and his party through the entire workshop to a small workshop inside the workshop. Several craftsmen were beating in it, and the sound of ping-pong-pong was endless.

The few craftsmen saw Tiecheng leading the lord in, and quickly put aside their work, stood up and saw him: "Lord!"

Chen Lang glanced in front of them and saw that in front of them there were subway plates of different shapes and sizes. They were like parts on the plate armor? Chen Lang's heart moved and asked Tiecheng, "Old Tie, has the problem of making the plate armor been solved?" Tiecheng nodded, walked quickly to a large wooden box inside, and opened the wooden box with great effort. He took out a piece of armor and showed it in front of Chen Lang and the others, saying, "Lord, please see!"

Chen Lang and others saw that the armor in front of them was completely different from the usual iron armor made of pieces of iron. The most striking thing about the entire armor was the breastplate that protected the entire chest and part of the abdomen. It was the whole piece. The main body of the armor is obviously forged from a whole piece of iron plate, giving people an indestructible feeling. The breastplate is embroidered with a spreading eagle, which is majestic and majestic; the shoulder part of the armor is made up of three large iron sheets overlapped. Curved, the skirt armor is made by connecting ordinary iron armor pieces, and the various parts of the armor are connected by chain armor to form a whole. Obviously, the protective power of this unprecedented new type of armor far exceeds the ordinary heavy iron armor before!

When Chen Lang and the others saw such a set of armor, they couldn't help but marvel at them. Guan Yu couldn't help but praised: "Good fellow! This kind of armor is much stronger than ordinary iron armor at first sight!" Zhao Yun laughed and said, "It's much more beautiful too!" Guan Yu Waiters glanced at Zhao Yun strangely.

The iron armor was so heavy that Tiecheng couldn’t hold it for a long time, so he hung it on a human-shaped wooden stake aside, and then took out from the wooden box arm guards and foot guards made of iron sheets and other accessory protective gears. When he reached the side of the armor, he said, "All these together make a complete set of heavy armor!"

Guan Yu asked, "Is this General A?"

Tiecheng shook his head and said, "No. According to the lord's request, this is the equipment for ordinary heavy infantry and future heavy cavalry. It is to replace the current iron armor!"

Everyone was surprised, and Guan Yu said excitedly: "If the soldiers of the Dadao Battalion are equipped with this kind of armor, the combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly improved!" Now the Dadao Battalion is equipped with ordinary iron armor, and although the defense power is far superior to ordinary infantry, it is right. When armed with heavy enemy infantry and cavalry, the defensive effect is not good. For example, in the previous confrontation with the flying bear army, the big sword camp has suffered a lot of losses.

Tie Chengdao: "The defense power of this iron armor is far superior to ordinary iron armor. We have tried several times. Generally, it is impossible to cut off the eagle-wing iron armor if you can cut off the ordinary iron armor!"

Guan Yu asked, "Yingyang Iron Armor?"

Tie Cheng clasped his fist towards Chen Lang and said, "This is the name that his subordinates temporarily gave to this kind of iron armor. You have to ask the lord to announce what it is really called!"

Chen Lang waved his hand and smiled: "Just call it this name." Tiecheng was very happy, and said, "Thank you, Lord!"

Zhao Yun frowned and said, "Although this kind of iron armor has strong protection, I'm afraid the cost is quite amazing, right?"

auzw.com Tie Chengdao: "This type of armor mainly uses far more iron than ordinary iron armor, and the production process is simpler. The cost is about three times that of ordinary iron armor!"

Guan Yu didn't say anything, "Good guys, we probably can't equip them on a large scale with such a high cost!"

Chen Lang said: "This kind of equipment has always been equipped to sharp-sword troops, and it is naturally impossible to equip them generally. What's more, most of the occasions are actually not suitable for heavy troops to attack." The general nodded.

Tiecheng took out a set of lock armor from another large wooden box and placed it next to Yingyang’s iron armor, and said, “When we used the lock armor to connect the various parts, Xiao Lizi asked whether the lock armor is soft and can be worn on Yingyang. The inner side of the armor is to strengthen the defense. We tried it and found that it is indeed possible, and it can further enhance the protection of the Eagle's armor!"

Everyone was overjoyed, and Chen Lang smiled and said, "Okay! In this way, we almost have indestructible defenses!"

Tiecheng seriously said: "I am afraid it is difficult to be indestructible! Although the Eagle Yang armor is excellent in protection, it can't resist the shooting of a strong crossbow at a close distance. In addition, in the face of the horse-cutting long knife and the armor-piercing long spear. In the case of heavy weapons, the defense is not very good, especially the Eagle Armor, although the chest defense is strong, but the back, abdomen and other protections are much weaker, which is a weakness!"

Chen Lang patted Tiecheng on the shoulder and smiled: "Old Tie, it is very rare to be able to do this step!" Tiecheng grinned.

Chen Lang said: "I told you about the cavalry crossbow before, how are you doing?"

Tiecheng hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "I'm about to report to the lord! Lord, please come with me!" Then he led Chen Lang and his party out of the heavy armor workshop and came to the Qiangnu workshop not far away. In the small workshop in the huge workshop, Tiecheng took out his newly-made cavalry crossbow, and showed Chen Lang with both hands.

Chen Lang took the cavalry crossbow and started with a heavy one. Only two or three gear-like things were installed on the crossbow arm. Chen Lang was born as a special soldier. As soon as he saw such a mechanism, he immediately understood the purpose of those gears. It must be. Relying on the principle of levers and pulleys to reduce the effort required to string the crossbow. Chen Lang tried to wind, the gear turned, and the wind was completed very easily. Chen Lang took out a crossbow arrow from the quiver on the table and installed it on the crossbow arm. He squeezed the trigger at the human-shaped wooden stake ten meters away. With a bang of the bowstring, the crossbow arrow turned into a black shadow and flew away. Nailed into the wooden man with a puff. Everyone hurried up to check the depth of the crossbow arrow's penetration into the wood, and it turned out to be more than an inch into the wood.

Chen Lang praised: "Good guy, the winding is light, but the strength is not small!" Then he threw the cavalry crossbow to Zhao Yun, "Zilong, what do you think?"

Zhao Yun took the cavalry crossbow, tried it, and nodded with satisfaction: "Very good! Although its power is much weaker than ordinary infantry crossbows, it is very easy to wind, and it is suitable for cavalry use! He weighs a little bit heavier. It would be better if it could be more portable!" Tiecheng nodded thoughtfully.

Zhao Yun asked: "I don't know how much the cost of this kind of crossbow is? If it is too expensive, I am afraid it is not conducive to large-scale equipment!" Guan Yu couldn't help but smile: "Zilong, you are good at everything! It's because of this personality. When I was not like a man, like a woman, so careful!" Everyone laughed, Zhao Yun looked rather embarrassed.

Chen Lang roundly said: "Zilong's concerns are also very reasonable, even if a piece of equipment is good, but if it is too expensive, I am afraid it has no use value!" Everyone converged their smiles and nodded.

Tiecheng clasped his fist and said: "Master, because this kind of crossbow does not require too much strength, it just needs to install some gears on the crossbow to reduce the effort. The cost is actually lower than that of ordinary infantry crossbows."

Zhao Yunxi said: "That's good!"

Chen Lang laughed and said: "Zilong just said that the volley skill of our army's war cavalry is not small compared to that of nomadic cavalry and Xiliang Youzhou cavalry. Now that we have this kind of cavalry crossbow, I believe this gap will be greatly reduced. Even disappeared!" Chen Lang said that is reasonable. In the past, if the Han cavalry did not imitate the nomadic cavalry's use of bows and arrows, they used ordinary infantry crossbows to improve their use. In the former, it is impossible to train their riding and shooting skills anyway. To contend with the nomadic cavalry, the latter uses a strong crossbow, although it has the power and accuracy, but the cavalry is difficult to wind on the horse, so the efficiency is very low. Therefore, in the past, the horse and shooting force of the Han army can only be said to be reduced to that of the Huns The gap has never been equalized. The so-called shooting skills are mainly two aspects, one is the rate of fire, the other is the accuracy. In the past, the Han cavalry used bows and arrows to be less accurate than the Huns cavalry, and when using the crossbow, the shooting speed was not as good as the Huns cavalry. Now the advent of this new type of cavalry crossbow can be said to solve the problem in these two aspects.

Zhao Yun held his fist towards Chen Lang and said, "Master, I hope I can equip the tiger and iron cavalry with this cavalry crossbow as soon as possible!"

Chen Lang asked Tiecheng: "Is there a problem?" Tiecheng clasped his fist and said, "As long as the lord gives the order, there will be no problem!" "Very good. Then mobilize one-third of the production capacity to produce cavalry crossbows!" "Yes! "