The rattan armor in Han Cheng's hand was quite heavy, weighing about twenty kilograms.
Han Cheng is not worried about this.
This is not because the people in the tribe are very strong and can still be incredibly vigorous even when carrying a weight of 20 kilograms, but because the vine armor will become lighter after a period of time.
Such magical changes certainly do not occur because Bo has a pair of magical hands, nor because Han Cheng has any superpowers. After all, he is not Balala the Fairies.
The reason for this is very simple. This freshly-made and somewhat crude rattan armor is woven with wet tree branches. After a period of time, when the moisture is gone, it will naturally become lighter.
Well, this is an explanation that sounds like it might make someone want to hit someone, just like the idea that you should never drink freshly boiled water directly, you need to leave it for a while before drinking it.
After Han Cheng held the rattan armor and looked at it for a while, he began to put it on himself.
It is certainly not easy to put on something as hard as rattan armor, which has no elasticity at all.
However, this situation had already been taken into consideration when Han Cheng was drawing the picture, so the situation of not being able to wear the clothes would naturally not occur.
Below the shoulder of the vine armor, corresponding to the position of the armpit, there is an opening on both sides.
Han Cheng put the rattan armor on his body, put his head out from the hole on the armor, and stretched out his two arms from the holes.
Then he came over to help tie the leather ropes on the edges of the two cuts together.
After a while, Han Cheng's upper body was completely wrapped in the rattan armor.
Han Cheng looked a little strange at this moment. The rattan armor on his body looked a bit like a chicken cover used to cage chickens.
However, despite its strange shape, Han Cheng was able to take it seriously, and was very serious in feeling the various aspects of the vine armor.
The newly woven rattan armor had the green smell of rattan and felt a bit heavy when put on.
Han Cheng shook his head, then stretched and curled his arms. The edge of the rattan armor rubbed his neck and arms.
This is normal, after all, this rattan armor is woven with rattan.
Wait a minute, just wrap some linen around the edges and this problem can be solved perfectly.
Apart from this flaw, everything else is pretty good.
Looking at the reflection in the water tank, Han Cheng nodded with satisfaction.
However, the incident of Prime Minister Zhuge burning the Rattan Armor Army always popped up in his mind from time to time.
Armor is not easy to put on, and correspondingly, it is not easy to take off either.
Imagining that the thing he was wearing caught on fire and turned into a human-shaped torch, Han Cheng couldn't help but shudder.
This thing is really too scary.
After worrying for a while, Han Cheng gradually calmed down.
Because this era is not the era of the Three Kingdoms, and not everyone likes to set fires like Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, and not everyone sets each fire with such precision.
Moreover, in future battles, even if some clever guy thought of using arson to deal with the rattan armor soldiers of his tribe, it would be impossible to create the same terrifying effect as Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.
Because it was not easy for most tribes at that time to make a fire, it took a lot of effort. This amount of time was basically enough for the tribal army to defeat them.
Even if some people in some tribes were able to make a fire in advance, it would still not be easy to burn the rattan armor army of their own tribe.
They didn't know about rockets, so it was extremely difficult for them to throw fire that far.
Moreover, people of this era basically have a deep fear of fire. Even if someone could come up with a strategy like fire attack, it would be very difficult to put it into action.
With these, and Han Cheng's deliberate avoidance, the Green Bird Vine Armor Army will basically not follow the fate of the Nanman Vine Armor Army.
Han Cheng jumped around for a while in the rattan armor that looked a bit strange, and pointed out several uncomfortable places that needed improvement. The next thing to verify was the defensive ability of the rattan armor.
After all, this is the most fundamental function of the rattan armor, and whether it looks good or not is secondary.
Looking at the wooden spear that had been sharpened, burned and polished, Han Cheng cleverly asked the lame general to take off the rattan armor he was wearing.
This protective gear was still in the experimental stage, and he didn't have the courage to wear it and conduct experiments directly.
The reason why he was so cowardly was because he remembered a piece of news he had read in his later life.
A foreign friend was wearing a bulletproof vest and shot himself in the stomach, but the bulletproof vest did not block the bullet, and then the guy died.
After reading this news, Han Cheng not only felt that he finally understood why there are so few foreigners, but also gained a new understanding of bulletproof vests.
With this news, he naturally would not do this again when he first started the experiment.
After all, he has always attached great importance to his life, and he has no intention of becoming famous by committing suicide in any fancy way.
The rattan armor was put on a thick tree stump. At Han Cheng's signal, Bo took the sharpened wooden spear and stabbed at the rattan armor...
As the rattan armor swayed, Bo retracted the wooden spear, and Han Cheng went over to check.
Some of the skin of the vine fell off where it was pierced by the wooden spear, but other than that there was no damage.
Han Cheng nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Bo to continue stabbing with the wooden spear.
After stabbing it for more than ten times, Han Cheng took the vine armor off the tree stump and looked at it carefully.
After suffering more than ten consecutive attacks, the front of the rattan armor appeared to be somewhat scarred.
However, most of the time, it was just the skin on the vines that was pierced off, and the actual damage was not great. Only one thinner vine was pierced and broke in the middle.
This defensive capability is already very good.
After looking at it, Han Cheng continued to hang it on the tree stump and called his second senior brother who was very strong to hit it with a stone.
The second brother was always passionate about throwing stones. After he understood what Han Cheng wanted him to do, he picked up the slingshot and started to work.
Han Cheng quickly stopped him and asked him to attack the vine armor with just the stone in his hand.
The second brother felt a little regretful that he couldn't use the slingshot, but he soon became excited again.
As a person who likes throwing stones, you can't just like one thing. You also have to like and master other methods of throwing stones.
Only in this way can it be called true love.
Looking at his second senior brother who seemed very excited holding the stone, Han Cheng couldn't help but quietly move back a step.
He was worried that he was too close to the vine armor, and the stone would bounce back and hurt him after hitting the vine armor.
After taking two steps, the second senior brother waved his arms and the stone in his hand suddenly flew out.
Just as Han Cheng expected, the stone hit the rattan armor and bounced up, but it didn't bounce too far.
Han Cheng did not immediately go over to check the damage caused by the stones to the vine armor, but instead signaled his second senior brother to stand about ten meters away and continue to hit the vine armor with stones.
The second brother’s skills were naturally impeccable. He hit the target every time out of seven or eight attempts.
After calling a halt to the throwing, Han Cheng walked over, untied the rattan armor on the wooden stake, and then continued to check.
With the second brother's violent attack with stones in his hands, more marks were left on the vine armor.
Not only had the skin fallen off in many places, but there were also some relatively fine stone chips left on some of the vines.
However, although this vine armor looked particularly miserable, in fact, Second Senior Brother's powerful attack did not break the defense of the vine armor.
Even the damage caused to the wooden stake behind the rattan armor was not as serious as that caused by the lame wooden stick.
This is mainly because stones are not sharp objects and can be easily blocked by rattan armor, while sharpened wooden spears can concentrate force on one point and sometimes can even drill into the gaps between the vines.
It is also because of this that the vine armor can provide better defense when facing stones.
The second senior brother was obviously not satisfied that the stone he threw only caused this much damage to the vine armor.
He untied the slingshot wrapped around his waist and pounded his chest to indicate that he could use the slingshot to smash the rattan armor into pieces.
Han Cheng stopped him with a smile.
The reason why the second senior brother was not allowed to use the slingshot was actually the same as why Han Cheng only let Bo use a sharpened wooden stick instead of the sharper bronze spear in the tribe in the previous experiment.
Things like rattan armor are used to defend against enemies. According to Han Cheng's current understanding of the tribes outside, there are not many tribes like his own that possess weapons such as slingshots and sharp long spears. When conducting experiments at this time, he naturally has to compare the combat power levels of other tribes.
After verifying that they can effectively reduce the common attacks of this era, they will gradually start to raise the requirements and move towards the attack power standards of their own tribe.
Moreover, based on the previous experience of making rattan shields, their defensive capabilities will be improved after these rattan armors are dry.
So at this time, Han Cheng naturally would not directly use the highest attack power of his tribe to conduct experiments.
After gaining a certain degree of understanding of the defensive power of the rattan armor through the attack test, Han Cheng began to let the eldest brother, Shang and other people who had returned from sowing seeds try on the rattan armor that looked scarred one by one, and then asked them to say what they felt uncomfortable about.
He stood aside, taking a pen and paper to write them down. These would be the areas that needed to be improved after becoming lame, in addition to defense.
Shang kept looking at the miserable looking rattan armor, and only when he was sure that he could kill the man wearing the rattan armor with the spear in his hand did he feel somewhat relieved...
After getting the result of this test, Bo continued to work hard to improve the vine armor that had been damaged beyond recognition. Two days later, Sister Bai Xue also made the leather armor.
There is no shortage of leather in the Greenbird Tribe, but not many are suitable for making leather armor.
Han Cheng carefully searched his few memories about leather armor and knew that the most suitable leather for making leather armor was cowhide.
However, the largest livestock in the tribe now is the donkey, and there is no trace of cows at all. Therefore, it is a bit difficult to make leather armor.
Because during manufacturing, in order to increase the defense capability, these plain leather sheets need to be made into two or three layers. This is a troublesome thing.
In fact, the tribe is not short of good leather suitable for making leather armor. Most of the skin of the dead rhinoceros in the Tengshe tribe is still stored in the tribe.
However, before the technology for making armor in the tribe matures, Han Cheng is not planning to use the limited amount of good leather.
He was also thinking about getting himself a set of rhinoceros armor to wear when the time came, so of course he was reluctant to waste it now.
Sister Bai Xue's craftsmanship was as good as ever. Although it was the first time for her to make leather armor, and the tools and materials she used were not very familiar with, she still made the leather armor, and it looked quite realistic, much better looking than the rattan armor woven by Lame.
After Han Cheng touched Bai Xuemei's head with his hand, he continued with the defense experiment. The procedure was the same as when he trained the rattan armor two days ago.
First wooden spears, then stones.
Seeing Shang holding a wooden spear and constantly stabbing the leather armor that she had made with great difficulty, Sister Bai Xue felt so distressed.
If this order had not been given by Brother Cheng, Sister Bai Xue might have gone to retrieve the leather armor from the tree stump right now.
After being stabbed by Shang's wooden spear, Han Cheng carefully examined the leather armor.
There were many small holes on the leather armor, but because most of this leather armor was made up of three layers of leather, only the front two layers were pierced, and the back layer was still intact, so it could not be said that the defense was broken.
From this point of view, when facing a spear attack, the defense of leather armor is greater than that of rattan armor.
After trying the wooden spear, the next thing is the stone.
Han Cheng's face couldn't help but twitch when he heard the "thump thump" sound of the stone thrown by his second senior brother hitting the leather armor and then the wooden stake behind.
From the sound, you can tell how painful it would be for a person wearing leather armor to be attacked by stones from the enemy.
It seems that when facing attacks from blunt objects such as stones, the defense of rattan armor is better than that of leather armor.
Because the rattan armor is hard, when attacked by a blunt object such as stone, it will not sink like leather armor. Instead, it will perfectly transfer the force from the stone to the person behind the leather armor.
After coming to this conclusion, Han Cheng easily fell into the dilemma of whether to make more rattan armor or more leather armor.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages, and it is not easy to make a choice.
This dilemma lasted until the evening, and Han Chengcai finally made a decision.
The decision was to first produce a batch of rattan armor and equip the team.
The reason for this choice, in addition to the relatively low cost of rattan armor, there is another important reason.
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