Just so happened that since the army of the Duchy of Gedes and the Saxon coalition started fighting, Gedes' army no longer purchased French plate armor and helmets from the hydraulic forging center in Lair County, Marin.
So Marin ordered that the construction continue to start, and the production of chest plate armor and helmets were changed to the style of Maximi armor. This raised chest plate has excellent attributes to resist the damage of musket bullets.
You should know that when an ordinary close-fitting plate armor is hit by a lead bullet weighing dozens of grams, the shock wave will directly damage the human body. Moreover, under the powerful impact force, the plate armor may cause depression.
However, the old-fashioned plate armor is worn close to the body. Once the depression occurs, it will directly impact the human body. If the depression occurs in the soft part of the human body, the problem is not very serious. If the depression occurs in the bone part, it will be done. The fracture is light and the bone is broken by the impact force, which is also very common.
Therefore, muskets pose such a great threat to the knights wearing plate armor. If the convex design is adopted, the bullet will not only cause refraction and bounce, but even if the protruding part is sunk by the lead bullet, it will only be smashed from the protrusion and not bulging, making it difficult to directly impact the human body. Even if it is powerful kinetic energy, it will still cause some damage, but it is not a tragic situation where the bones are broken at any time.
Therefore, Maximilian armor is a very suitable armor for resisting spherical lead bullets. Of course, it can only be said that this kind of armor is more suitable for resisting lead bullets than old-fashioned armor, rather than being able to resist. If you are lucky, you may be fine when hitting an unimportant bulge. If you are not lucky, you will also be injured. However, you will not be shot like the old-fashioned close-fitting armor.
With Maximi's armored breastplate and an iron helmet with a movable mask, Marin was able to let his soldiers, according to the set idea, use wooden sticks wrapped in linen on their heads to conduct poking each other.
Marin decided to use the wooden stick for training that was about the same length as the spear. In this way, the soldiers were no different from using the spear.
In fact, using a spear is nothing more than old-fashioned methods of using it. However, don’t underestimate these three basic tricks. If you use it proficiently, you can stab your opponent to death on the battlefield and make yourself survive.
Moreover, later studies have shown that pricks are much more harmful than slashing. Generally speaking, if you are cut by a knife, as long as you are not cut into vital parts such as the arteries and neck, you will probably survive even if you go to the hospital.
However, if you are stabbed, especially if you are stabbed in the heart and other parts, it is basically impossible for gods to save you. Therefore, later gangsters cut people with knives, but the victims are injured and fewer die. However, killers often stabbed targets with daggers, which are fast and accurate, and directly stabbed the dagger into the target's heart.
Moreover, this was also reflected in the later bayonets. During World War II, dagger-type bayonets were more popular, which could be stabbed and chopped. However, after World War II, when designing the five and six half rifles, the bayonet blades were directly abandoned and replaced with triangular military stings. Because the triangular military stings had a particularly lethality. Later, the actual rifles used foldable military stings. Only the rifles of the guards of honor used dagger-type bayonets. Because dagger-type bayonets looked good...
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Therefore, Marin has strict regulations on how soldiers trained to pierce the spear into the enemy's body first, and that they needed to pierce the key parts.
During training, after the black cloth covered with the breastplate was stabbed by the enemy's "gun tip" with lime powder, not only the soldier had to withdraw from the group fight, but the referee also scored the soldiers who successfully "killed the enemy" according to the stabbed part. The closer they got to the heart, the higher the score.
Moreover, during combat, soldiers can also make a judgment on their own. For example, if the enemy stabs the part that is very far away from the heart, it is allowed to continue fighting for a short period of time. If the center of the brain is stabbed, they must withdraw from the battle immediately, otherwise they will be punished.
After the scoring mechanism and with certain reward and punishment measures, Marin believes that when those spearmen use spears to stab the enemy, they will be faster and more accurate.
For those outstanding soldiers who often quickly stab the "spearhead" in the heart of their opponents, Marin also allows certain commendations and rewards. The reward may not be many, but commendations will greatly satisfy the soldiers' vanity. Although it is a bit inappropriate to say that, it is better to say that the sense of honor is better. But in fact, the difference between the two is not very big. Marin remembers that when he was commended by the school in his previous life, he was very proud of himself when he was on stage with a certificate of award and was watched by a monkey...
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Marin did not treat Sakala unfairly, not only raised his annual salary, but also removed the word "agent" of "acting commander of the English Legion", making Sakala successfully become a senior general.
In addition, Marin also sent back the improved group fighting training method to Newcastle. Moreover, Marin also sent Sakara 2,000 sets of Maximilian-style breastplate and an iron helmet with a movable mask as props for the new group fighting training method.
After all, the new group fighting training method, if there are no protective gear, the training will cause a lot of casualties.
Of course, all of them use regular Maximilian-style breastplate and helmets, and the production capacity of the forging center cannot keep up. What should I do?
When Marin inspected the training of the Wolf Tooth Commando and the colonial army, he saw that the auxiliary troops of the colonial army were wearing wooden pieces that looked like "mahjong mats"...
If you don't wrap the iron sheets in this kind of wood chips, the cost is very low. And, the key is, this thing is quick to make...
After all, no matter what era, there were more carpenters than blacksmiths. Marin easily found enough carpenters to process large quantities of wood chips and drill holes for each mahjong-sized wood chip.
Afterwards, I found a skilled person to make the "mahjong wood chips" into zippers. This is a little troublesome, but Malin had someone to make a batch of zippers for the auxiliary troops of the colonial army before, and he was considered a skilled craftsman.
After testing, the soldier who put on a layer of "mahjong mat" wooden piece armor still felt very painful after being stabbed by a wooden stick. So Marin simply asked the soldiers to put on a double-layer "mahjong mat". Sure enough, the effect was much better.
As for the helmets, Marin also simplified them. He asked a group of carpenters to make a group of wooden helmets in the style of motorcycle helmets in later generations. Then, in the front part, he dug a large hole. Then, on the big hole, weave barbed wire as a protection...
In this way, training soldiers wearing double-layer "mahjong mats" wooden pieces and wooden "motorcycle helmets" have become a "beautiful" landscape in the military camp.
What surprised Marin the most was that the soldiers actually fell in love with the "mahjong mat" wooden piece armor and the wooden "motorcycle helmet" and refused to take it down...
Why? The total weight of the "mahjong mat" wooden piece armor and the wooden "motorcycle helmet" is much lighter than that of the Maximilian chest plate armor and the iron helmet with a movable mask, and it is comfortable to wear.
Moreover, most soldiers cannot afford breast plate armor and iron helmets. Moreover, their physical strength will not last long if they wear such heavy armor.
However, the "mahjong mat" wooden piece armor is different from the wooden "motorcycle helmet". Even if you wear two layers of "mahjong mats" and wear a wooden motorcycle helmet, ordinary soldiers can bear it.
Moreover, on the battlefield, if you do not wear armor and are touched by enemy weapons, you will definitely be either dead or injured.
Instead of this, it is better to wear double-layer "mahjong mats" wooden pieces and wear a wooden "motorcycle helmet" to fight the enemy.
Moreover, the protection of the double-layer "mahjong mat" wooden piece armor and the wooden "motorcycle helmet" is really good. At least, when assassinating with the enemy with cold weapons, the survival rate must be very high. Because, everyone has done an experiment before, the domestic pig who wore the double-layer "mahjong mat" wooden piece armor was almost half when the soldiers stabbed with spears and shot with bows and arrows... Especially when facing bows and arrows, the protection is excellent... Of course, when facing muskets, wooden armor has no protective ability...
Despite this, the soldiers fell in love with the "mahjong mat" and the wooden "motorcycle helmet". Later, this became the standard equipment for ordinary infantry... Moreover, the cost of this equipment is also very low and is convenient for mass production...
Chapter completed!