Chapter 137 Reasons for the slow development of armor
After testing the arrow, Fei Qian understood that this should be the most authentic data representation of the Han Dynasty.
Fei Qian said to Huang Zhong: "Does Han Sheng know how many steps the archers in the army can shoot?"
??Ordinary archers are definitely not as sharp as Comrade Lao Huang, but if there are too many archers, it will still cause a headache.
“An archer in the army needs to hit the target ten times at fifty paces, and nine times at one hundred paces. Anyone who takes more than a hundred steps can be said to be good at shooting.” Huang Zhong is quite clear about this matter.
Fei Qian asked Huang Zhongdao again: "Is it okay if I just start shooting?" Fei Qian asked this question mainly because he wanted to know whether it would be difficult for ordinary people to change jobs and become archers. After all, archers are an important part of the army. It is also necessary to understand it.
What''s more, Fei Qian also wants to know if he is suitable for learning bow and arrow shooting. It would be good if he could learn one and a half moves from Huang Zhong.
Of course, generally speaking, it is right to just pick up a bow and put an arrow on it and you can shoot. But if you want to shoot as accurately as Huang Zhong, haha, you probably can’t do it without some practice and know-how...
Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng looked at Fei Qian and said, "If Ziyuan wants to learn it, it is not difficult to shoot the salute, but in the army... I''m sorry to be honest, but I''m afraid it''s not enough."
One of the main reasons why literati in the Han Dynasty learned archery was that among the six arts of the gentleman, archery was one of them.
The shooting ceremony can also be regarded as a large-scale social gathering. Through certain procedures and rituals, it emphasizes the establishment of moral integrity, the harmony of etiquette and music, and the shooting is a fixed target, so Huang Zhong said that if Fei Qian wanted to learn, he would participate in this kind of shooting. Ceremony activities are probably not too difficult, but if you put them in the military and you have to shoot at moving targets, then the difficulty will naturally be different...
No wonder the Cai family trained a hundred archers for them, and when the Huang family told Huang Chengyan that they would appreciate it, the fundamental reason should be here. If ordinary people trained by themselves with bows and arrows, they would not have to train hard for three or four months. What would be accomplished there?
What''s more, if you practice bow and arrow incorrectly, you can easily injure your wrists and fingers.
Fei Qian looked at Huang Zhong in front of him. Although he knew in his heart that this was a super talented person, it was difficult to get along with him for the first time, so he said to Huang Chengyan: "Master Yuezhang, I am very grateful to you for your time to test the arrows for the Han Dynasty." . The cost of making arrows should not be borne by my son-in-law."
?Huang Chengyan laughed and said, "That should be the reason!"
Huang Zhong declined repeatedly, saying that it was a trivial matter and not worth mentioning. He refused to accept such an arrangement and insisted on paying for it himself.
Fei Qian then said: "Qian will recruit hundreds of new archers someday. If the Han Dynasty has time, just take the time to give them some pointers. The cost of making arrows is not enough to teach them."
With this said, Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng accepted it, then took the prepared arrows and said goodbye to Huang Chengyan and Fei Qian.
?Fei Qian looked at Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng walking away, and couldn''t help but sigh in his heart...
Seeing Huang Chengyan on the side, he was still smiling. Fei Qian stepped forward to thank his father-in-law for his cooperation. If he had not spoken out as the head of the Huang family, Huang Hansheng might not have given him this face.
Huang Chengyan waved his hand and said, "There is no need to say polite words to the whole family. The wise son-in-law just asked Huang Hansheng to test the arrows, but do you see what''s going on?"
In fact, Fei Qian had some awareness when he read the three volumes of Huang Chengyan''s Arms and Armor. Now after watching the demonstration of the lethality of Huang Hansheng''s bow and arrow, he feels more and more that the protective measures of this soldier in the Han Dynasty are obviously not up to par with the attack methods.
Normally, under normal circumstances, what kind of attack means will produce what kind of protective measures. As for the situation just now, even if Huang Hansheng''s power is reduced, the range is reduced from one hundred and fifty steps to Within a hundred steps of an ordinary archer, an organized archer like the one in the army will also cause terrible damage to units without armor or even thin armor. Fei Qian went to take off the fish scale armor tied to the tree trunk, took it in his hand and took a closer look, and found that not only were the styles different from Zha Armor, but the materials were also different. He couldn''t help but have some vague thoughts in his heart, but he also felt that this idea was unavoidable. It''s a little too cruel...
Is it because there are too many people in the Central Plains that it doesn’t matter how many people die, or does the superiors simply not regard ordinary soldiers as human beings? Or maybe both?
Look at the fish scale armor. It is basically distributed to general-level figures. The protection is indeed good, but ordinary soldiers do not get such good treatment. Even Zhang Zhao, who sent Fei to Xiangyang to sneak into Xiangyang, seems to be wearing one. It’s just a piece of armor, not to mention some of the soldiers don’t even have leather armor...
?Fei Qian told Huang Chengyan his guess, hoping to get a negative answer from him, but Huang Chengyan pondered for a while, but nodded silently and said nothing.
Who would give cannon fodder top-notch equipment?
The only role of cannon fodder is to consume the opponent''s armaments. These ordinary soldiers are actually slightly better than cannon fodder, so they can have a simple leather armor, or even better, a large vest style. Zhajia is already a relatively good piece of equipment.
well…
What''s more, Zhajia has a very big advantage, that is, it is very recyclable, since they are all pieces of iron anyway. After the battle, just scrape off the dead body, return the broken iron pieces to the furnace, replace them with new ones, and then you can immediately give them to the next cannon fodder for use. It is simple, convenient, and efficient...
?Besides, the current superiors are eager to turn all the iron into spear heads to kill people. There is still excess molten iron to make armor...
?This is the most fundamental obstacle that prevented armor from progressing until the end of the Han Dynasty...
??But Fei Qian knew that this concept was flawed. An army composed of low-defense troops had a fatal flaw, that is, the survival rate of soldiers was low.
The low survival rate of soldiers means that the proportion of veterans in the entire army is very small, which means that various values ??will be low, the most obvious of which is insufficient toughness.
A battle formation composed purely of veterans can withstand battle losses of up to 30% or even 50% without collapsing, while a team composed of ordinary recruits can withstand 100% battle damage without panicking. It''s called a strong army.
Moreover, veterans have better cooperation. Under the same equipment conditions, an ordinary veteran can probably defeat two or three recruits, but if there are 10,000 veterans, they are likely to defeat five or even ten times the number of recruits. Crying for father and mother...
Because the fighting area is so large, once the front line collapses, it will easily cause panic in the rear line troops. At that time, the recruits will only think about escaping one step before others. Once the panic spreads, if one is not controlled well, the whole line will collapse.
Therefore, for the sake of one''s own life, the armor must be improved no matter what. Even the helmet, oh, it should be called Doudun in the Han Dynasty, and adding an iron mask is also good. At least this way, there is a risk of being one-eyed like Xiahou Dun. The coefficient has been reduced a lot...
After all, from south to north, from east to west, in this war, there will basically be small fights every day, and big fights, who knows if the arrows will fly over...
The armor of the Han Dynasty was made of iron sheets, not steel sheets, and the thickness was about 1.2-1.7MM, so it was not really that thick... Some people say that it was because white people were taller and could bear the heavier weight of armor, but yellow people could not, so there was no Develop heavy plate armor, but the infantry armor of the Song Dynasty weighed about 30KG, and no one at that time disliked it.
In the fourth year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty (1134), it was stipulated that Buren armor consisted of 1825 armor leaves, with a total weight of 29KG. At the same time, the protective power could be improved by increasing the number of armor leaves, but the weight would further increase. For this reason, the emperor personally issued an order stipulating that infantry armor should be limited to 29.8KG. After that, the armor weight of spearmen was set at 32-35KG; because archers were often involved in melee combat, their armor was set at 28-33KG; and the armor of crossbow shooters was set at 22-27KG. At the same time, the armor type of European infantry cavalry was mainly chain mail, which did not reach such a weight.
So the weight is not the main reason, it is still more of a "practical" factor... If there is a hole in the plate armor, it will have to be repaired for a long time. The armor can be replaced with an iron plate. As for the person who wears it... haha... On the first day of the new year, spend more time chatting with your family, especially your parents. Don’t think they are nagging. Sometimes it’s just that they don’t know how to express their love...
(End of this chapter)