After testing the strong bow and armor with ten arrows, Guan Yu took the big yellow crossbow and tried it again. Ten steps away, the crossbow machine made a bang sound, and the all-iron short crossbow hit the breastplate of the infantryman with a pop.

Once it was pierced, the crossbow arrow got stuck in the armor plate, and the tip of the arrow went as deep as half a knuckle.

Li Mengxi was surprised. The powerful crossbow was able to shoot through the infantry armor. It seemed that the infantry armor's defense was not as strong as imagined.

Li Mengxi was a little disappointed.

Unexpectedly, Liu Bei and Guan Yu looked at the crossbow arrow stuck in the armor plate and were very satisfied with it, saying that the armor plate was good.

This surprised Li Mengxi so much that his armor was shot through, which was not bad.

"Xi'er, the big yellow crossbow was fired at close range. Although the iron arrow penetrated the armor, the tip of the arrow only penetrated half a knuckle."

"Look," Guan Yu pulled out the iron arrow and pointed to a small hole in the breastplate of the soldier's armor. He pointed it out to Li Mengxi, "the arrow penetrates only half a knuckle. The clothes inside are thicker.

There is a gap between the armor and the body, so whether the arrow can hurt the flesh or not is a matter of debate."

"When it comes to battle, wear a human armor on top of your coat, and a layer of leather armor on the inside, and fire your arrows at ten steps. I'm afraid the crossbow won't be able to hurt anyone at all."

Guan Yu explained this.

Li Mengxi suddenly understood.

It turns out that in actual combat, if the armor successfully defends against an attack, it does not mean that the armor is not penetrated, which means the defense is successful. If the armor is penetrated, it means that the defense fails.

In actual combat, even if the armor plate is shot through, as long as the arrow does not penetrate deeply, the damage caused to people will be limited.

Even if this arrow shoots directly to the heart, even if the heart is an extremely dangerous vital point, it is still one or two centimeters away from the skin of the chest.

In addition, the thickness of the armor, the thickness of the clothing, and the gaps between them.

After an iron arrow penetrates the armor, the penetration depth will not reach more than one centimeter, and it will not cause significant harm to the human body.

The crossbow did indeed penetrate the armor's armor, causing some skin-breaking damage to the armor. In actual combat, for the armor, it was naturally a successful defense.

Li Mengxi was greatly taught. It turns out that the standard for judging the success of armor defense is not whether the attack penetrates the armor.

To be precise, as long as the attack does not penetrate the armor and cause a penetration depth of more than one centimeter, the defense is successful.

No wonder, in some movies and TV dramas, some generals are like hedgehogs shot by arrows, with blood flowing all over their bodies, and they are still as brave as normal people.

This probably means that although the enemy's arrows shot him like a hedgehog, after the arrows penetrated the armor, they did not penetrate deeply and only caused a little skin trauma. So it looked scary, but in fact, his whole body was covered with skin trauma.

Nothing happened at all.

Guan Yu also said that a big yellow crossbow with eight stones and ten steps could not penetrate the infantry armor, but in battle, the infantry armor was invincible.

Bu Renjia is indeed invincible.

The big yellow crossbow can indeed cause fatal damage to infantry armor when fired directly at close range.

But here's the problem. In actual combat, at a distance of ten steps, no idiot commander can get as close as this and still not withdraw his crossbow.

If you don't withdraw your crossbows in time, just ten steps later, the foot soldiers will rush in and kill the people in the crossbow team. The defeated crossbow team will roll back the spear formation behind them. Okay, no need to fight.

, it was all a mess, and it was immediately cold.

Therefore, in actual combat, placing the infantry within ten steps before firing with a strong crossbow is indeed a method that can cause huge damage to the infantry. However, infantry soldiers will rarely encounter such a situation.

Condition.

What infantry soldiers encounter will be long-range shooting with crossbows at a distance of forty or fifty paces, mid-range shooting with crossbows at about thirty paces, and then spears and bayonets in close combat.

Judging from the strong defensive power of the infantry armor, long-range shooting from thirty steps away and spear and knife stabbing at close range are almost impossible to break through the defense.

The defensive power of infantry armor is not invincible, but in actual infantry combat, its defensive power is approximately invincible. This is the difference between actual combat and theory.

After trying the bow and the crossbow, naturally I also wanted to shoot weapons.

When Li Mengxi saw Guan Yu carrying the Qinglong Yanyue Sword, he immediately exclaimed that his armor was going to be cold.

Guan Yu held the knife with both hands, exhaled and shouted loudly, then the Qinglong Yanyue knife rounded and struck the breastplate with a clang sound.

Click!

The wooden stake on which the armor was hung was broken by the huge force, and it flew a few steps away with the armor.

When I got closer and looked again, I saw a huge depression across the breastplate of the walking man's armor, and the armor was bent, deformed and folded inward.

In the middle of the knife mark, the nail plates were cut into two halves. The cuts were neat, and the widest opening was two fingers wide.

According to Li Mengxi's new knowledge, as long as the penetration depth of the attack does not reach more than one centimeter, the person will be fine.

Judging from the appearance of the armor, after the Qinglong Yanyue Sword breaks through the armor, the penetration depth of the attack must be more than one centimeter.

In other words, Guan Yu can kill an infantry soldier with one strike.

Fierce, indeed fierce.

Then I thought about it, Guan Yu's weapons are not ordinary knives. The Qinglong Dao weighs sixty-four kilograms. It is a knife and a heavy weapon. Not to mention cutting with the blade, the knife is flat and hits people. If it is struck with the knife, it will be an iron lump.

, it was also flattened in one fell swoop.

This is still flat ground, and there is no borrowed horse power. If you rely on the speed of the horse, the horse is fast and the knife is sharp. If the sword weighing 64 kilograms is struck with one strike, the footman's armor will be no different from paper.

It seems that infantry soldiers are indeed of great use when used on ordinary soldiers. However, it is far from enough to use a set of armor to fight against a fierce man like Guan Yu who is rare to find in the world.

Li Mengxi was surprised by Guan Yu's terrifying destructive power when he chopped off the armor with one sword and chopped the armor to pieces. Guan Yu stood with his sword, brushing his long beard with his hand, with a confused look on his face. Why couldn't he cut the armor into two with one strike?

What about half?

The test of the infantry armor has been completed. With this armor, you can charge into battle unstoppable and can be counted as ten.

However, if encountering heavy troops, it is difficult for infantry armor to completely defend.

After this test, the breastplate needs to be repaired again.

Fortunately, it is easy to pierce and repair the nails. The only thing that is broken is the breastplate. Once the broken nail pieces are removed, it can be repaired in less than two nights.

Seeing with his own eyes how the infantry armor was penetrated by the rhubarb crossbow at close range, Li Mengxi felt sad for it. He decided that no matter what, as long as conditions allowed, he would use cold-forged armor pieces to weave the infantry armor.

Ordinary wrought iron armor will be penetrated by a crossbow at a distance of ten steps, but if cold-forged armor is used, the armor will probably not be penetrated by a crossbow at a distance of ten steps.

This is still an iron armor piece. If the performance of the steel made by the steel pouring method is good, then using carbon steel armor pieces and then cold forging can improve the armor's defense to another level.

Li Mengxi and the other two were very practical and tested the defensive limits of Bu Renjia.

Another person, the military doctor Tian Bu, also had a very research spirit and went to inquire about the old man who drank the Artemisia annua juice yesterday. He found the old man and inquired about his condition.

According to the old man, after drinking Artemisia annua, he felt neither cold nor hot from last night to now.

Tian Bu was surprised that the medicine really cured the disease.

How difficult it is to treat malaria, but now it can be cured with just one treatment of Artemisia annua on the roadside. The contrast is so stark.
Chapter completed!