At sunset, when it was getting dark, Li Mengxi, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei went to the Carpenter Camp to see how the armaments production was going.

The so-called armaments production is nothing more than wood, guns and wood armor.

When we arrived at the carpenter's camp, there were piles of sticks and sticks all over the ground.

When we arrived, the carpenters were still busy, but they were no longer busy with wooden guns, but were busy making wooden armor.

Lu Li, the adjutant of the craftsman camp, came over and Li Mengxi asked, "How much can the wooden gun be made?"

"More than 20,000 yuan," Lu Li said.

There is a big difference between a little over 20,000 yuan and whether it is more than 21,000 yuan or a little over 20,000 yuan.

Twenty thousand wooden guns are a pretty good number, and the number of new recruits is only over thirty thousand and nearly forty thousand.

Beside, Liu, Guan, and Zhang were testing wooden spears. Li Mengxi came over to take a look, and found that each of Liu, Guan, and Zhang was holding a wooden spear in his hand.

The wooden gun in Liu Bei's hand is slightly shorter, reaching chest length. The wooden gun in Zhang Fei's hand is slightly longer, as tall as a person. However, the wooden gun is not round. It looks like a long wooden stick broken from a tree. The handle of the gun is triangular.

In Guan Yu's hand, there is an arc-shaped bamboo spear.

By chance, each of the three people had a kind of wooden gun in their hands.

The same thing about the guns in the hands of the three people is that the heads of the guns are all sharpened and roasted with fire, making them black in color.

Li Mengxi was good at experimenting, attacking and defending the city. He insisted on actually testing whether the flag was easy to use. He also wanted to test how to hit the siege spine and the best angle to hit the door.

This was Li Mengxi's habit. I don't know when Liu, Guan, and Zhang were affected, and they became accustomed to going for tests when they were indecisive.

Liu Bei drew another wooden spear, one in each hand, saying that the situation was tense, "Come on, let's find a place to try?"

Everyone followed happily.

I randomly found a corner.

When arranging the target, Li Mengxi scratched his head and thought for a while. He felt that if it was suitable for actual combat, the target would have to be: no armor or clothing, no armor and clothing, armor and clothing, or a shield, at least these four situations.

There is no armor and no clothes, but the wooden spear directly pierces the enemy's body, such as the face, or pierces the enemy's stomach along the gaps in the clothes. This is a situation.

There is no armor but clothing, but the spear pierces the enemy's clothes. It is still unknown whether the wooden spear can pierce the linen clothes.

The third type is armor and clothing, the wooden spear stabs again, and the wooden spear collides with the armor.

The fourth type is special. The wooden gun collides with the enemy's shield. At this time, it is different from the human body, clothing, and armor.

When four kinds of targets were arranged, only the target without armor or clothing was the most difficult for Li Mengxi. The best thing was to find a piece of pork. But although there were still pigs in the army, the pigs were not killed and there was no pork.

As for capturing a prisoner and trying it with a real person, Li Mengxi didn't want to because it would be too cruel.

If there were dead bodies, they could be used, but the rebels were too efficient. They were stationed in Nanluan City for only two days. All the corpses inside and outside the city were collected and buried. No one was left, so it was useless.

Furthermore, even if there were dead bodies available, Liu Xuande or Guan Yu would definitely say that the dead were the most important and would not be allowed to be used.

Li Mengxi suddenly realized a problem. Ballistic gel is needed to test the performance of firearms, because ballistic gel is very close to the human body. Similarly, if there is ballistic gel, it is suitable for testing the performance of swords.

We cannot always use pork when developing and testing military equipment in the future.

Needing to find a suitable method to test weapons, Li Mengxi remembered some related methods. It seemed to be a wooden stick as thick as an egg wrapped around a straw mat. It was said to be close to the composition of an arm, that is, a knife.

If you can cut off a straw mat and a wooden stick with one knife, then you can cut off a person's arm with one knife.

There are many more similar.

Li Mengxi made a note of this [weapon testing method and extremely specialized testing tool] and prepared to start research and development in the future.

Then, the target is prepared and the test begins.

The wooden spears brought by Liu Bei and the other two men were of various lengths and thicknesses. Since they were spears, they could be used in roughly the same way.

Liu Bei first took a chest-high wooden spear, which looked like a wooden spear cut out of a hoe handle, and stabbed at the first target. The first target was a piece of horsehide tied to it.

With one stab, the wooden spear pierced a hole in the horse's hide.

After stabbing, look at the wooden gun. The tip of the charcoal-grilled wooden gun is still intact.

According to the difficulty gradient, it should be bare armor, with clothing for defense, with armor and clothing, and finally with a shield.

After testing the horsehide, Liu Bei poked the straw man wrapped in linen with his gun. I don't know if it was because the straw man was too scattered and had no way to use it, or something else. He poked the wooden gun to the end and pierced the stake. He put away the gun and looked at the linen cloth.

Punctured successfully.

Looking at the wooden gun again, the tip has been broken off.

The gun has been damaged. Naturally, if you poke the armor or shield later, you won't be able to achieve any merit.

This was the first gun, and each subsequent gun was tested one round in succession. Li Mengxi found that no matter whether it was thick or thin, or made of wood or bamboo, all wooden guns could pass the first two tests, that is, all wooden guns could pierce.

Horse hides can also pierce clothes, which clearly shows that wooden guns can produce enough lethality against war horses and can also produce sufficient lethality against unarmored units.

As for the enemy's armored units, the armored units in the cold weapon era did not have a very large defensive area. There were flaws in the face, armpits, and everywhere. The wooden gun danced against the face and door, but it was still fierce.

From this, Li Mengxi realized the practical use of wooden spears. After all, wooden spears are not as hard as iron, and they are not as strong as iron spears in penetrating ability. Iron spears with full strength can completely penetrate the enemy's armor and injure the enemy. However,

Wooden guns are unlikely to penetrate armor.

Therefore, when using a wooden gun on the battlefield, the method of using it should be to focus on attacking the enemy's unarmored parts, such as the face, armpits, tilting the wooden gun away from the enemy's armor, etc.

On the contrary, they also acquired the military skills to fight against the peasant uprising army.

Because most of the peasant uprising weapons are insufficient, if the peasant uprising army mostly uses wooden guns, then our army does not have to worry about attacks with iron lances that can penetrate armor. With iron armor on their bodies, the wooden lances of the peasant uprising army cannot penetrate armor, so the iron armor is

At this time, it was extremely stable, and the only flaws were the face and armpits.

Therefore, when fighting the peasant uprising army, if we order the soldiers to hold shields, whether the spearmen or the shield soldiers, all hold shields to cover their faces and move forward with the shields, then our army's casualties can be greatly reduced.

From the perspective of the peasant rebels, the wooden guns in their hands were ineffective against armor. They could only attack unprotected areas such as the armpits of doors to effectively kill people.

Because our army adopted targeted tactics and focused on defense on the face and armpits, it was able to restrain the peasant rebels.

Just this tactical change, Li Mengxi felt, could reduce casualties by one-fifth.

In the past, Li Mengxi felt that the coordination of spear, shield and gun shield was a bit awkward. Two spears and shields could not defeat two two-handed gunmen, and two spears and shields could not defeat two shield soldiers.

But now when testing the wooden gun, Li Mengxi realized that the awkward combination of gun and shield had its advantages.

After testing the wooden gun, Li Mengxi went to check it carefully, and he made an unexpected discovery.

After a round of testing of the wooden gun, the tips of the guns were all broken, but the bamboo gun turned out to be in the best condition.

Li Mengxi guessed that it might be due to hardness. Bamboo is harder than ordinary wood.

From this, Li Mengxi learned another piece of knowledge about making weapons. If making wooden spears, bamboo spears are the best.

Bamboo spears have three advantages. First, bamboo is easy to obtain. Second, bamboo poles are just the right thickness to be used as spears. They don't have to be like wood and have to be processed, so there are fewer steps. Third, bamboo is hard and better than most ordinary trees.

Seeing that the carpenters' camp was full of ready-made wooden guns, Li Mengxi sent people to the Yellow Turban camp to see how many of the wooden guns the Yellow Turban carpenters had helped make.

Lu Li, the adjutant of the Craftsman Battalion, came over with a white armor in his arms and stood beside him, laughing and saying nothing.

Li Mengxi was explaining things to the soldiers and didn't see Lu Li for a while.

When Liu Bei saw Lu Li coming, he waved for Lu Li to come over.

After Li Mengxi finished explaining, he turned around and saw Liu Bei holding an extremely awesome bone armor in his hand.

Li Mengxi's eyes suddenly lit up. Why was it said to be so awesome? It was because this set of bone armor was made up by someone unknown. It was rough and barbaric, and it was very similar to the exaggerated armors in online games that Li Mengxi had remembered.

Armor is made of bones. As for the bones, Li Mengxi didn't recognize them. This exaggerated set of armor and the breastplate were made of bones tied together one by one to form a tightly fitting rib armor.

What makes Li Mengxi feel awesome is that ordinary wooden armor can protect the chest, but this set of bone armor also uses small short bones to make the shoulder armor, and there is also a short length of thin bones.

A piece of armor sleeve, the back of this armor also has protection.

What was even more exaggerated was that Li Mengxi saw that in addition to the rib breastplate, there was also a huge animal skull.

Liu Bei didn't know what the skull was for, so he held the animal's skull in both hands and turned it over and over with confusion on his face.

When he saw the skull in Liu Bei's hand, Li Mengxi immediately thought that many primitive races would stick skulls on their heads as helmets.

Both in reality and in games.

Li Mengxi became playful and asked Liu Bei if he wanted to cross the skull, hold it, and put it on his head.

"Is it appropriate?" Li Mengxi tapped his skull, raised his head, and looked at Liu Bei through the eyes of his skull.

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Li Mengxi with a big skull on his head, and Liu Bei laughed happily.

"Not bad, not bad." Liu Bei looked at Li Mengxi from left to right, smiling brightly, "It's perfect."

Using the skull as a helmet is not only suitable, it is extremely suitable.

First of all, it is difficult to make a one-piece helmet using iron or leather. It must be spliced ​​here and there. It is not as good as a skull, which is a dome of hard bones.

Secondly, the entire shape of the skull is very close to a spherical structure. The cranium of the skull is round and bulging. The entire structure of the skull is like a motorcycle helmet. The top, bottom, left and right are all spherical. The strength of the structure itself is extremely outstanding.

In terms of structure and appearance alone, the skull is stronger than all ancient iron helmets and bronze helmets. Only in modern times have there been egg-shaped helmets with stronger structures.

In terms of strength, the bone strength is quite good, and the skull is one of the hardest parts of the human body. Using the skull as a helmet, its defensive power is not even inferior to that of thin iron.

Seeing that Zhang Jiaobu used wood to make armor, Li Mengxi was inspired by this, and thought that the rebels could also use wood to make armor. To expand, Li Mengxi also thought of the Japanese bamboo mat armor, wood chip armor, etc., and thought of, not only

Limited to wood and bamboo, bones and the like can also be used to make armor, so he casually told the carpenter that he could use wood, bamboo and the like to make armor. If he could find bones, it would actually be good to use bones to make armor.

If this happened elsewhere, the superior officer would casually explain that the people working below would not take it seriously.
To be continued...