The Julu Army outside the city and the Jicheng defenders were both busy. The city defenders were in charge, and the Julu Army outside the city was in charge. Obviously there were fewer things going on in the city and more people, but the speed was greater than the Julu Army.

Thanks to the high efficiency of the Julu Army, the battlefield was initially cleared and the materials were roughly put together.

There were everything left over from the battlefield, including siege equipment, firewood, chariots and horse tents, grain and fodder, weapons and armor, flags, golden drums, etc. There were mountains of all kinds of materials, and Li Mengxi took a fancy to some of them.

One item of armor.

The main force of the Julu Army currently has more than 10,000 troops. In addition to some soldiers with excellent armor and stomach, there are also a large number of recruited rural soldiers and "white armored soldiers" who rushed over from Julu. The rural soldiers have enough swords and guns.

Bows and crossbows have almost no stomach. The white-armored soldiers coming for reinforcements from Julu are protected by paper armor and are in much better condition. However, the defense of the paper armor can only be said to be barely adequate. They would not let it go if they could have a better armor.

The Julu Army's excellent mobility brought unexpected little trouble. It was precisely because the Julu Army did things so well and arranged everything clearly that the supplies looked particularly impressive and scattered.

, if you don’t see a lot of it, others won’t care if you take it away. When things gather together, it’s dazzling, and others won’t be willing to give them.

Li Mengxi stood in front of the weapons pile and thought about how to get these weapons and armor for his own use. Should he buy them, ask for them directly, or rob them...

A general who was close to Liu Yu saw that the supplies had been sorted out. He was afraid that the Julu Army would swallow up the supplies, so he hurried to inform Liu Yu.

The ideas of little people are often different from those of big people. After listening to the general's report, Liu Bei and Liu Yu immediately set off to take a look, but neither of them thought about embezzling supplies at all. Both of them thought that Li Mengxi was busy.

After a long time, I wanted to call him back to take a rest before working again.

When Liu Yu and Liu Bei arrived together, Li Mengxi was still thinking about how to get the things. Hearing footsteps approaching behind him, he turned around and saw Liu Yu. Li Mengxi immediately pointed to the large piles of soldiers in front of him and said, "

The pile on the left is for you, and the armor-piercing pile on the right is for me and the Julu Army."

Li Mengxi once again made the mistake of overshadowing the host. To be honest, strictly speaking, in the entire city defense battle, although the Julu Army indirectly took over the siege of Jicheng, not a single soldier of the Julu Army was engaged on the battlefield.

The supplies gathered on the battlefield should all belong to Liu Yu. It was too much for Li Mengxi to take other people's things and say that they should be divided into half.

Liu Bei immediately realized that there was something wrong with Li Mengxi's words. He came to the rescue in time. Liu Bei glanced at the two large piles of armor stomachs on the ground. The two piles of armor stomachs were clearly distinguished. The left pile was of good quality and was generally complete.

, arranged neatly; the pile on the right was full of broken armor that had to be repaired. Following Li Mengxi's words, Liu Bei pointed to the pile of good armor and smiled at Liu Yu, "Our army has sorted out the armor's stomach. Shangguan can

Taken back.

As for the remaining armor, if Shangguan is willing, our army is willing to buy it at 100% price. There are many people in our army who lack armor..."

Before Liu Bei finished speaking, Liu Yu waved his hand to stop any further words.

Liu Yu said boldly, "Why bother buying it? I'll give it to you!"

The Julu Army rushed to help at the critical moment. Due to both emotions and reasons, Liu Yu should have made some gestures. It happened that Liu Bei wanted armor, so Liu Yu decided on the spot to donate all the good armor and bad armor to the Julu Army as a favor.

.

A great thing happened to them. Li Mengxi and Liu Bei had the same idea. Although Liu Yu gave it away, neither of them wanted to accept it.

Liu Bei refused and refused to accept the gift from Liu Yu. He was not very interested in the good armor and stomach, and was only willing to accept the broken armor.

Liu Yu took a look at the pile of armor remnants. He saw that a lot of armors were tattered and dirty. It was really hard to see. Liu Yu himself felt that he couldn't get the things. Since Liu Bei insisted on wanting it, Liu Yu simply offered it for nothing.

Sell ​​all the remaining armor to the Julu Army for the free price.

The armor was successfully obtained.

By using retreat as an opportunity to advance, the Julu Army inadvertently took advantage of it.

Purchasing urgently needed armor supplies from Liu Yu is only part of the negotiation between the two parties. There will inevitably be more material exchanges between the two parties in the future.

So, assuming that Liu Yu's gift was easily accepted this time, the Julu Army obtained a large number of armors at once, which was a big advantage, but it should be noted that the price of everything was unintentionally marked. If the Julu Army felt at ease,

He accepted a large number of armors from Liu Yuxiang. Here, Liu Yu would definitely feel that a large number of armors had been given to the Julu Army. This military resource was considered to be very heavy. Liu Yu would definitely feel that he had given it to the Julu Army.

This batch of armors is equivalent to thanking the Julu Army for their support. Then, Liu Yu's material support to the Julu Army will not be so generous.

On the contrary, Liu Bei did not have good armor, but only shabby and broken armor. This step was a step forward and a retreat. Liu Yu not only gave up supplies, but also felt that he owed the Julu Army even more.

The cleverness of the psychological effect lies in this. Suppose Liu Yu owes the Julu Army a hundred favors, and Liu Yu gives away the excellent armor and stomach. If the Julu Army accepts it, the favor will be reduced to zero; and now, the Julu Army

In exchange for a pile of rags, Liu Yu obviously gave away the pile of rags, but Liu Yu felt very sorry. He felt that he owed the Julu Army even more, and his favor changed from a hundred to a hundred and one.

In other words, Liu Yu not only gave away a lot of things, but also owed favors after giving away things.

The reason why Li Mengxi gave up the good armor and favored the broken armor was due to technical considerations. The difference between good armor and broken armor is that the good armor is complete, while the broken armor is damaged. There is only a difference in status between the two, not necessarily in quality.

difference on.

Most of the armor of the Han Dynasty is made of iron-plated armor. The characteristic of this type of armor is that it is extremely easy to repair. If a set of armor has 50% of the armor pieces damaged, it cannot be broken again, and there is nothing that can be done about it.

But looking at it the other way around, even if a set of armor is damaged and tattered, half or even more of the armor pieces are still intact. If the armor pieces are disassembled and braided again, a set of broken armor will instantly become half a new set of armor.

.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Although the remaining half of the broken armor pieces can no longer be reused, they are still precious iron materials. Put them into the furnace and smelt them.

The iron materials obtained can be used to create a large number of weapons.

A good pair of iron armor weighs twenty kilograms of iron, and weapons are far lighter than iron armor. A spear head weighs only two taels, and a short knife weighs less than three kilograms. In other words, a pair of iron armor is worth ten weapons.

.

Even if the broken armor is sold for iron, it can be sold for a lot of money. Liu Yu's selling price is that a cart of broken armor can be paid for 10,000 yuan. After careful calculation, it is not even worth the price of iron. That's it, Liu Yu

He also felt that he owed something to his allies in Julu.

Li Mengxi bought a large amount of broken armor from Liu Yu at a price that was cheaper than the price of cabbage. Assuming that there were a thousand pieces of broken armor and all the pieces of broken armor were dismantled, the total of all intact pieces of armor would equal at least 500 pieces of 100% new armor.

Very good armor.

Li Mengxi, who had taken advantage of it, went to rummage through the junk pile excitedly. He wanted to check the quality of these scraps of armor.

After a busy period, Li Mengxi took the armor pieces removed from no less than a hundred pieces of broken armor and took a look at them. Unexpectedly, he found that the quality of these armor pieces was above the average, that is, these armor pieces were in tatters.

The remaining nails are generally those of good quality.

This is interesting. This is different from what I had guessed in advance. I thought that inferior armor is naturally more likely to be damaged and broken. Therefore, the majority of the damaged armor must be of inferior quality, and the average quality must be low.

However, the opposite is true. The average quality of the remaining armor is actually quite good.

This is probably the so-called survivor bias. The original story of survivor bias is that scientists counted the distribution of bomb hits on fighter planes and found that most of the hits were on the wings, so they thought the wings should be strengthened. Some people objected, saying,

Not only is the wing not a critical position, it is precisely a less important position. The fact that the wing can still fly back after being hit by so many bullets proves that the damage to the wing has a relatively small impact on the aircraft, but the aircraft whose real vital points were attacked cannot fly.

came back.

By the same token, under what circumstances is armor most likely to be damaged? Naturally, it is easily damaged in fierce battles. The more intense the fighting, the more serious the damage.

This is it. The more sophisticated the armor is, the easier it is to fall into a fierce fight, and the more likely it is to be seriously damaged. It is probably difficult for those low-quality armor to survive the fierce fighting stage.

The inferior armor received an arrow, and the arrow directly penetrated the armor's stomach. The soldier died, and the armor's stomach was disconnected along with the dead body. At this time, the entire inferior armor's stomach had only one arrow hole, and the damaged armor pieces were nothing more.

Several pieces.

Those excellent armored stomachs were shot with an arrow. The arrow failed and could not penetrate the armor. With one arrow, only a few pieces of the armor were deformed. The soldiers were saved. Then, the soldiers continued to fight. Because the armor was good, they were stabbed.

, is not injured, takes a shot, and is still not dead. The better the armor, the more times it can withstand attacks. In the end, the better the armor will become, the more tattered it will be.

When the battlefield was cleaned after the war, the inferior armor was pierced by an arrow, but the overall armor was intact, with only a few pieces of armor damaged. The excellent armor was shot by arrows, slashed with knives, and chopped with spears and axes. After experiencing many attacks, it was inevitable in the end.

It became tattered like garbage.

This is the difference between the survivors of armored stomachs. Most of the remaining armored armors are excellent armored armored armors, and those inferior armored armors cannot survive the fierce fighting.

Li Mengxi knew that he had found a treasure. He had picked up a huge number of high-quality nails, which meant that a large number of new nails of excellent quality would soon be born.

Without any delay, Li Mengxi immediately mobilized the manpower in the army to dismantle all the residual armor for later use. The advantage of having a large number of manpower was fully exerted at this moment. There were sufficient manpower in the army, and a set of residual armor was given to each person. The soldiers had

Use scissors if you have scissors, use knives if you don't have scissors, or even bite with your teeth. The piles of residual armor are quickly processed into scattered pieces.

After baskets of nail pieces of varying sizes are delivered, the second process begins. After a simple manual sorting of the nail pieces, it can basically ensure that the sizes of the nail pieces are consistent. For those with a loose structure and plenty of margin,

For A, as long as the size difference between pieces A is not too big, it will not affect the organization.

The Julu Army has a unique soft tie method, which can be used to form an infantry armor that covers a large area and has good mobility. Li Mengxi is ready to form all the armor pieces into armor as quickly as possible. At this point,

He counted the number of armorers in the army, and they found only thirty.

Before this day, Ben had thought that bringing up to thirty armorers would be too much, because armorers are different from blacksmiths and carpenters. Blacksmiths and carpenters have a wide range of applications and are cost-effective, while armorers do not have such a wide range of applications.

The applicability is low, so the cost-effectiveness is low. The gain of carrying a large number of armorers outweighs the losses, so I only brought a small number of people. Now when things happened, I realized that it was completely wrong.

To sum up armament, the word "armor" means "armor", and "armor" means the stomach of the armor. The maintenance of weapons is simple. You only need to pay attention to rust prevention and polish them frequently. The maintenance of armor is difficult.

In a specific scenario, assuming that it takes one day to make hundreds of thousands of armor pieces into armor, how many armor craftsmen are needed? The advantage of armor is that it is very convenient to make and maintain, and each part of armor can be made separately. Craftsmen

Each person responsible for weaving one part can complete a set of armor in one day. Hundreds of thousands of armor pieces can be made into armor in one day, and the number of skilled armor craftsmen required is several hundred people.

Taking into account that the applicability of armorers is not high, it is not a good choice to carry a large number of armorers. Also, considering that the art of armor weaving is different from that of blacksmiths and carpenters, which requires many years of learning. The cost of learning armor weaving is low and the learning is fast. This makes it possible to

It is set as an auxiliary skill for soldiers, allowing each soldier to master basic armor-making skills. On weekdays, if the soldiers' armor is broken, they can do simple repairs by themselves. If the armor does not fit, they can be changed by themselves. In case of encounters like this time

In this way, when a large number of pieces of armor are captured, every soldier will be able to weave armor and have enough manpower available, so that a large number of armor pieces captured in one day can be made into battle armor.

It is feasible to cultivate soldiers' armor-making skills to replace a large number of full-time armor craftsmen.

There was another problem. Li Mengxi discovered that not only was he short of skilled armorers, he was also short of ropes.

Weaving armor requires thin and tough ropes. Most of the ropes stored in the army are thick and used for construction of river bridges. There are few thin ropes, especially the ultra-thin ropes used for weaving armor.

Without enough rope, trying to build thousands of armors in one day is just a fantasy.

Another item has to be added to the army's standing supplies. Soldiers need special thin ropes to repair armored stomachs on weekdays. Large-scale production of armored stomachs with the army also requires a large amount of rope. Fortunately, armored ropes are not much needed. A pair of iron armor, with rope

No more than one or two at most, a small reserve is enough to meet the needs of mass production.

Liu Yu still didn't know how valuable the tattered armors he threw away were. The armor pieces removed from these armor stomachs were enough for the Julu Army to make more than 700 sets of new armors, and the price paid by the Julu Army

It’s less than a fraction of the value of a stomach.

The more far-reaching impact of this is that through this incident, the Julu Army made up for the shortcomings in the armament production of the accompanying army. After that, only the armored stomach was captured on the battlefield, and its ability to digest and repair the armored stomach will be unprecedentedly powerful.

The more profound impact of strong digestion ability is that the Julu Army's ability to support war through war will also be enhanced.
Chapter completed!