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Then Shen Bing discovered that one hundred catties was not enough.

The reason is that what he can't afford is time. Other things such as raw materials and manpower are actually insignificant: raw materials don't cost money, and the entire manpower can be dispatched. This is the time spent in soaking Akato.

So he simply sent another team to transport a few batches of Akato back for production.

The production method is simple, just soak in a few big buckets and change the water frequently.

During this period, Shen Bing also went to Xia Yang Duanhe specially.

Shen Bing arched his hands:

"General!"

"Our army has no armor available. I asked people to take some old vines to make armor. Isn't it illegal?"

Yang Duanhe couldn't help being stunned after hearing this, and then laughed:

"Not illegal."

"This is because it is not illegal for you to wait for self-control."

"It's just this old vine... can it also make armor?"

"Can it be used in combat if it has made armor?"

Shen Bing also sold miserably by the way:

"Oh, the general doesn't know anything."

"Something is better than nothing!"

"I can't wait to fight the enemy with only brown clothes?"

"You can make some armor out of old vines to make it look bold!"

At this time, you should pretend to be pitiful, otherwise Yang Duanhe yelled after understanding what was going on:

"There are such good things?"

"The navy will be equipped later, let the infantry cavalry try first!"

Where will Shen Bing complain?

At this moment, Yang Duanhe could only laugh bitterly when he heard Shen Bing's words, and then he forgot it as a trivial matter.

With Yang Duanhe's words, Shen Bing was relieved.

He first made someone weave a cane shield with old cane...

This old vine is ready-made on the mountain. It has been fibrillated after it dies. The disadvantage is that it is not soaked in water, so it has insufficient toughness. It will break with a "pop" just by folding it.

And if it is repeatedly soaked in water and then dried, the rattan after treatment will be very tough and cannot be broken.

Shen Bing wanted to test whether it could block arrows first, so he tried with the old vine first.

The result was beyond Shen Bing's expectation... even with Qin Jun's strong crossbow, it was difficult to penetrate this rattan shield.

Only then did Wei Wei, who tested it, understand what Shen Bing used to collect so many Chiteng.

He sighed:

"Does the school lieutenant want to use this rattan shield?"

"That's a good idea."

"The rattan shield can block arrows and has a light weight. It is indeed suitable for naval forces."

This is mainly because the navy of this era mostly used small warships, that is, small boats that could only carry 25 people.

The warship is small and requires speed, so the weight must be reduced as much as possible.

How did Wei Wei know that Shen Bing not only wanted it to make a shield, but also used it to make armor.

Shen Bing thought about it for a while, and he simply designed it by himself...This is what he learned.

The shield must be large, just like the Roman square shield.

This is due to the light weight of the rattan. The larger the shield area under the same weight requirement, the better its protection.

In addition, the shield has to be made into a double layer, with several layers of brown leaf and brown silk covering the middle, and the surrounding edges are recessed... This shield becomes a small boat for single riders.

The helmet should be shaped like a hat, just like the hats popular in the Song and Ming dynasties.

The characteristic of the hat helmet is that the brim is relatively long, which can cope with the threat to the neck posed by arrows shot from the air at an angle...

In ancient times, the protection of armor on the face and neck was always weak.

Because it is very inconvenient to strengthen the protection here when the upper layer of armor is fighting, and the movement may even hurt yourself.

But a rain of arrows from the enemy is not fatal when it hits other places. The vital parts such as the head, chest, abdomen, and even arms have armor.

Only this face and neck... They are both vital and unable to be armored.

Under this circumstance, the wide-edge "flying saucer helmet", also known as the "li helmet", was born.

If the arrow strikes from the direction of the enemy camp, the soldier wearing this "hat helmet" only needs to lower his head slightly and lean forward to protect his face and neck well.

Since water battles are mostly bow and crossbow battles, Shen Bing, of course, will not let go of the broad-edge "hat helmet" used to block the angle of the arrow.

Of course, it should have some additional effects.

For example, there is also a double layer with brown leaves in the middle, which not only increases protection, but also serves as a windproof hat, and it can also be used to scoop the water leaking into the boat when necessary.

To know that Chu Country is located in the south is a rainy and humid area, these considerations are of course necessary.

Needless to say, the armor is made according to Qin Jun's armor.

It's just that the armor of ordinary soldiers has no armor. On the one hand, it is difficult to make the armor. On the other hand, its weight will limit combat.

Of course, there is also the problem of insufficient batch equipment resources, so often only officers with the status of nobles are allocated.

Shen Bing added it directly.

No reason, the bronze armor may restrict combat, but the weight of the rattan armor is not worth mentioning, it is a fool if it is not added.

Shen Bing even designed a mask.

The mask is very important for protection in crossbow and arrow operations, especially in close-range crossbow and arrow operations, because the face is the enemy's primary target at this time...

The characteristic of close-range crossbow combat is that the trajectory of the arrow shot is straighter and more precise.

Attacking other armored parts has little effect.

Only a single arrow from the face can make it lose its combat effectiveness.

The reason why most Chinese battles did not use facial protective gear in ancient times was because it was often a chicken rib:

If the mask is light, it won't work at all, and an arrow shot through it will be fatal.

It will affect the head movement and make the agility decline in stages.

There are also eye sight problems and mouth, nose and breathing problems.

In addition, the positions of the eyes and the nose and mouth of each soldier are not the same, so mass production is not possible...So the production time and labor costs have increased in stages.

These problems do not exist in the vine armor mask.

It basically does not need to consider mouth and nose ventilation, because it is very ventilated.

If you want to think about it, don't make the snout and nose so dense.

Then leave two large holes in the eyes for observation.

If it still blocks the line of sight, just pry off a few rattans and make the observation hole larger.

So masks can also be mass-produced in a standard format, so why not use it?

In this way, this cane armor protects almost all vital parts.

The rattan armor anti-sword gun made in a short time may not be enough, but the anti-arrows are more than enough.

At this time, Shen Bing understood why Tengjiabing was called "invulnerable" in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

In fact, no armor is invulnerable, and rattan armor is no exception.

The problem is that it can guard all parts of the body as much as possible with a smaller weight, and it has almost no weakness, so it has a great advantage when fighting against enemies with obvious weaknesses such as faceless armor.

Of course, these are just designs.

Specifically, we need to wait for the rattan to be soaked in the sun for one or two cycles before making it and then see the situation.