Xinchou Timeline (plot point No. 3344) The "login point" of cause and effect on the upper reaches of the zombie tide plane, the Ming time point.

On Penghu Island, in the waves, rows of strips with paddles are arranged like circles of thin wires around the island chain. This tidal power station provides energy to the island and maintains the space-time gate.

Lots of equipment.

Nowadays, people who come to the Kentuo Society have completed the "benign transformation of viruses" on the aura plane, that is, first using the "Kang Yang Fire" potion (biochemical virus) to stimulate their body's potential, and then stimulating the true energy (protein magnetization) in the body to complete the process.

Martial arts foundation.

In the plot line of the revival of spiritual energy, when the spiritual energy condenses, bullets will be difficult to kill.

Of course, in the "extraordinary plane" of the Ming Dynasty, the true energy is not so bad that it can directly deflect bullets. Individual bravery is still unable to withstand a hit from a matchlock gun!

Wei Keng in Jilonggang Steel Plant: But forged steel armor can withstand lead bullets.

At this time, in the school grounds on Taiyuan Island, a group of soldiers were practicing "ha", "ha" and "drinking" with their spears, blocking, and firing while crawling.

The sixteenth century was an era of large-scale advancement in plate armor technology.

In the current Ming Dynasty, if they can get enough meat, eggs, and milk to provide soldiers with muscle training and strength, and at the same time can privately make iron armor. Well, that means they have the capital of the ancestors, and they are dancing on the red line of the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Keng: But as a time traveler, what is the "red line" of power on your timeline?

Now in the sixteenth century, due to the development of geometry and physiology, armor is making rapid progress.

In the 21st century, the West always talks about the slow development of science in the East, but in fact the source is the loss of classics after the Qing Dynasty.

During the Gengzi national crisis alone, the first step for Japan was to seize the storage warehouse for important historical materials and classics.

After a series of forces collided with these classics in the late 21st century, descendants from the East took back the documents plundered by the colonists. Only then did this part of historical data come to light. At that time, the Chinese finally knew the true development of science and technology during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

At present, the space-time development team is purchasing a large number of books and classics in the Jiangnan area, including various extremely advanced scientific and technological materials at this time.

These craftsmen's codes include the experience and technology of casting large bells and adding metal supports to the stones of large arch bridges.

Wei Keng: It’s just that Confucianism’s “Principles” restrict social class too seriously, just like North American financial lawyers squeezing engineers’ economic and social status in the 21st century.

At present, after the joint shells of Western plate armor are forged, they can be tightly connected together with screws. Then, like the crayfish armor, the armor at the elbow position can overlap and shrink like playing cards, forming a complete coverage without blind spots.

At present, the Ming Dynasty still uses mountain pattern armor, Mingguang armor, or lightweight cotton armor. In the East, all generals will give priority to equipping better plate armor if they have it.

In terms of the technical element of armor exclusively for nobles, Europe has left behind the Ming Dynasty.

However, the backwardness in this aspect can be quickly caught up at this time. The core reason for the backwardness is "the low status of craftsmen and the lack of capital accumulation and inheritance."

The pragmatic scholars transformed Confucianism into Confucianism, which severely suppressed the innovation enthusiasm of front-line workers such as craftsmen.

Even if Confucian factions such as Xu Guangqi were more willing to open their eyes to the world than conservatives in the Qing Dynasty, it did not help.

Similarly, the chip crisis in modern times also proved that "technical problems" cannot be solved by how open-minded your upper-level vision is, but whether the rights system cedes the right to speak to "this field".

Openness means widening your horizons. You are unwilling to take off your aristocratic robes, and you are unwilling to move your hands when your eyes are open. The spiritual Brahman is good at talking to the world, but he is also unable to develop advanced technology.

The entire plate armor technology implemented two policies after the Reclamation Council made its decision.

1: The overall treatment of craftsmen has been improved, and the food canteens have been benchmarked against military food standards.

2: The resource allocation of the workshop has a high degree of independence and is not subject to the control of local civil affairs officials. That is, the administrative level of the relevant "work" department is at the same level as the local "yamen" boss.

These Jilong Port craftsmen felt the importance, and in almost a year the armor caught up with the world's advanced level.

This catching up is not part of future technology, but the armor design completed by Akito craftsmen under the new organization.

Subjective initiative, sometimes like magic, can turn a team from decay into magic.

The group of carpenters and blacksmiths recruited by the industrial department of the Reclamation Society made great contributions.

When the time travelers recruit them, they only conduct a public review and assessment of their shengmo skills, and then teach them geometry and other standardized techniques.

After the Reclamation and Development Association was reorganized, the association brought "big craftsmen" to the top positions in high-level meetings, and asked them to provide opinions at every meeting, and sent clerks to record them item by item.

Craftsman) review.

These master craftsmen and the apprentices they led felt valued as never before. In particular, meals and wages were guaranteed by rules and regulations after the "professional title" assessment. These were valued because of their craftsmanship, and they were determined to use the skills of the craftsmen to pay off.

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No, it was decided to start an "armor project", and the craftsmen began to discuss how to industrialize every part of the armor.

In the Jilong Port, steam hammers hit the red-hot armor plates one after another. The old craftsmen wore glass sunglasses masks to operate. This mask also allowed the novice blacksmiths to closely observe the process and know-how of forging steel and iron blocks. Then the assembly line

Ordinary workers recruited from above assemble and sew the armor pieces.

In the Reclamation Society, due to the large-scale use of machinery, secondary low-tech assembly work was handed over to the assembly line.

Carpenters and blacksmiths were liberated from tedious manual labor and physical labor, and this was the first generation of engineers.

Since forging armor privately is a matter of rebellion, it may still cause psychological discomfort to the craftsmen within the Reclamation Society.

Therefore, Kentuo will name its project as Daming Project No. 195. (Mr. Wei: I remember that this was the project to develop tanks in modern times)

The armor finally produced by the project team has a completely different style from Western plate armor.

Compared with Western armor, which often has a curved design that is comfortable for nobles to wear, Project 195 often adopts a blunt edge design, which looks like a "tortoiseshell" (turtle) in the ocean.

The chest has an obtuse angle, and the helmet also has an obtuse angle. To facilitate forging, the arm armor is also square.

The new students of the Ink Science Group of the Kentuo Club, after testing, found that no matter what the material is, even if the paper is folded neatly to form edges, it can withstand attacks better than a flat surface. Therefore, they designed the edges

Pays great attention to the face.

Therefore, the front breastplate, which is easily punctured by spears and spears, is designed with an obtuse slope to make it slippery for enemy attacks. However, on the arms and other places that are easily hit by knives, "thin metal armor with folded edges" is used instead.

Wei Keng: "During World War I, the Germans used this kind of folding edge to increase the strength of the wing surface in their late-stage aluminum alloy fighter wings."

As for how the most critical "joints" can move freely, the tight nesting of Western lobster nails is not used.

Wei Keng: That is a purely aristocratic way of playing, and the parts of a set of armor are exclusive.

The craftsmen referred to the "spring ring toy" (a common rainbow ring in modern times) and directly used this circle to ensure the freedom of joint movement. They sewed linen cloth on the outside and sewed iron sheets on it. This greatly saved costs.

According to statistics, the probability of fatal puncture injuries to the shoulder is less than that of slashing injuries.

The recruited martial artists also concluded during battlefield fights that if they could stab the side, they would not stab the shoulder but the waist.

It can be said that the biggest advantage of Design No. 195 is that this spring coil can be "universally equipped", and the spring can be bound to the docking port of the arm armor and breastplate in just ten minutes.

Relatively speaking, during the customization process of Western aristocratic armor, the joints of each set of armor are just precise, and the spring circles are flexible and adjustable. The outer layer is made of wire and linen and is very breathable.

In the fragile orbital area, in order to prevent stray arrows, a glass block is installed without hesitation. Of course, this glass block is removable like glasses.

A more detailed design is to open a small hole on the helmet facing the ground for ventilation and to prevent moisture from gathering in the eye sockets. It is not ruled out that this armor will be used in northern operations.

It is worth mentioning that before the forged steel barrel came out, the chamber pressure of the wrought iron gun was insufficient, and the steel armor had the upper hand...

The current Kentuo Society has bottom-blowing steelmaking technology, and the steel it can produce is used in armor manufacturing.

The main reason is that it is much more difficult to "drill" the barrel than to "forge" it. You must know that Tsarist Russia was seriously short of rifles in the European War in the early 20th century. At present, the Reclamation Association only processes steel pipes made of pig iron sandwiched with wrought iron.

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During the process of drilling a gun barrel, how to control the temperature of the drill bit and how to standardize the processing steps are problems that cannot be solved without an engineering team with more than ten years of experience in producing hundreds of thousands of tons of steel.

When the first batch of armors were forged, the time and space personnel of the Expansion Team commented: "It looks like a tin trash can." The words of the time traveler are full of modern people's ridicule of this "non-artistic" structure.

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This is because the armor has no curvature and is all forged at geometric angles. It feels cheap and looks like military equipment in the game. According to the current Western Renaissance aesthetics, your armor has curvature and even muscle patterns.

This is beauty!

Pragmatist Wei Keng: Flat forging processing steps are simple and the output is very large!

Direct assembly line mechanical forging is much simpler than bending, so the output is large.

The Chicken Cage No. 023 Assembly Factory was able to produce more than two hundred pieces of armor in just the first week of trial production.

These armors are divided into navy version and army version. The army version is made of pure steel and is slightly close to the body. The navy version is generally one size larger because a layer of "balsa wood" is affixed to the inside. This tree species is native to South America and West America.

Indies, but now time travelers have planted them directly here.

This thing grows very fast (it grows quickly in one year), and wood pieces were quickly cut out and attached to the inside of the navy version of the armor. Make sure that the navy version of the armor will not sink when immersed in water, similar to how plastic foam attached to iron sheets will not sink.

...Whether a set of weapons is useful depends on how it is used in actual combat.…

In the 43rd year of Jiajing's reign, settlement No. 4 reported that they were being invaded by natives on Dayuan Island. The affairs officer reported that zombies appeared among the natives.

Local residents discovered that these zombies suck blood and are invulnerable. Only kerosene rockets can burn them.

Xiao Dashan, a member of the local security team, was very brave and cut off one of the zombie's arms. The arm was then sealed in a glass box by military personnel wearing white coats and masks, and was immediately transferred to the Mohist Research Institute.

The young students of the "anti-plague group" determined that it was a slime mold substance after microscope observation and various petri dish experiments. The encyclopedia of biology brought by the Kentuo team is now the new encyclopedia of the Kentuo team.

Words, the Bible of young disciples who claim to be inherited by the Mohist family. These 17 or 18-year-old boys are in the second grade of middle school. They all study these biological knowledge with the attitude of "cultivation" and "fighting". The enemy is the earth.

Over there, Newton also began to study theology in his later years.

In particular, Wang Shan, a prisoner who converted to orthodox Buddhism on Dayuang Island, saw this object and claimed that it was an introduction to "refining the golden armor magic weapon", so the middle-class young people of the "Plague Prevention Group" called out "I

The trend of "people must punish evil spirits" has become more and more popular.

…In the Age of Discovery, who did not expand their territory without some religious fanaticism…

After determining the nature of this zombie, in the armor forging laboratory.
To be continued...