Chapter 198 Magical Grass Lacquer (Please vote, subscribe, comment, and like)
The leather armor in Luo Chong's hand is dark red all over. It is made of a whole piece of animal skin. It is rectangular, with a hole in the middle for the head to get in. The two sides are open, and you have to tie a rope around your waist when using it.
There is also a black totem pattern on the front of the body, which is round and looks like the sun. The hem of the leather armor is as long as the thigh. It is very hard. It is basically impossible to move when wearing it, or it is very uncomfortable.
This is a common problem of leather armor. If it is not hard, how can it block attacks? The only difference is that this is a whole piece, not a piece of armor cut into small pieces.
The material for making leather armor is generally thicker animal skin, and it is raw skin that has not been nitrated. Animal skin will become soft after being nitrated. It is okay to use it to make a bag or leather shoes, but it is not suitable for leather armor.
Dry the rawhide, cut it into small pieces, punch holes, apply more than 6 coats of natural lacquer, and then string them together with hemp ropes to make a piece of leather armor. The process is not complicated, but it requires a lot of natural lacquer, which is why Luo Chong has never made leather armor.
Moreover, leather armor is very heavy. Don't think that it is not metal and will be light. A full set of infantry leather armor is about 25 pounds, and it can't protect the arms. Without the weight of the helmet, the soldiers can't wear it all the time. It's too physically demanding. The armor of cavalry and heavy cavalry is heavier.
As for the large number of soldiers wearing armor that appear on TV, they are all deceptive. Soldiers will not wear armor until the last minute before the war.
In addition, when the battle is defeated, the soldiers usually throw away the armor first when they flee, otherwise it is too heavy to run fast, and they can only wait to be caught up and killed by the enemy, so later there was the idiom of throwing away the armor.
But Luo Chong's focus is obviously not on a piece of shoddy leather armor. What he cares about is the layer of natural lacquer on it.
The group did not stay outside the valley for long. Luo Chong led them back to the camping site in the valley. What surprised Luo Chong was that the people of the Qi tribe actually knew the refugees who had fled to the Han tribe before. However, after careful consideration, he understood that they were also tribes in the north and were attacked by cannibals in the past few days. This showed that they were very close to each other and it was normal for them to have intersections.
During dinner, Luo Chong asked the leader of the Qi tribe.
"Do you have many leather armors in your tribe? Where did the color on it come from?"
"Leather armor?" The Qi tribe member repeated in confusion.
"This is it. Do you have many in your tribe? What is the pattern on it painted with?" Luo Chong patted the leather armor placed aside.
"Oh, there is only one piece of this holy garment, which was worn by our leader. When the enemy attacked, he gave it to me and asked me to take my people and flee first. This holy garment can only be worn by leaders of all generations, and it can block the claws of wild beasts.
The pattern on it is painted with the juice of a kind of grass. There are many near our tribe. This thing can be used to draw very beautiful patterns."
When Luo Chong understood his explanation, he was shocked at the time, and then he was ecstatic.
"You said this is the juice of grass? What kind of grass? Isn't it a tree?" In order to confirm his thoughts, Luo Chong asked carefully again.
There was a reason for his excitement. Luo Chong in his previous life had heard of lacquer trees. It takes a tree over ten years old to cut lacquer, and it can only produce two or three hundred grams a year, less than one pound. The output is very rare. Only princes and nobles can afford the lacquerware made from it. It is a luxury item. It is also a strategic reserve material for making leather armor.
But if the lacquer here is collected from the juice of grass, then it is a different matter. That means the output must be much higher than tree lacquer, which can increase the popularity of using lacquer.
"Yes, it is grass, not tree. The grass can grow as high as a person's chest. The grass stem is as thick as a finger. If you scratch it with a bone knife, white juice will be left. The juice has a very special smell."
"White juice? But the color on your holy clothes is not white, did you add something else?" Luo Chong continued to ask.
"Nothing was added, the juice will change color after one night, and the lacquer grass has three colors, some are like the color of the sky, some are like the color of a newly hatched bird, and some are like clouds in the evening. They will bloom flowers of these three colors, and the juice will also turn into the same color as the flower, but it is all white when it is just collected."
Luo Chong: What kind of evil plant is this? Green, yellow, and red, the three primary colors of pigments are all matched, and you can mix them into various colors by mixing them together. Isn't it so magical?
"Then how far is your tribe from here? I want to take people to see it tomorrow." Luo Chong was very interested in this lacquer grass.
"It will take two days to get here by walking, but you have that kind of horned beast. I see that your warriors run very fast, so it should take less than a day to get here."
Luo Chong nodded, "Then we will go tomorrow. Can you lead the way for us?"
The man from the lacquer tribe did not answer directly, but scanned the hundreds of warriors around him and asked Luo Chong a question.
"Can you beat that monster? They are really powerful. Having more people may not be helpful. If you can't beat them, let's run away and don't go back." The man lowered his head and seemed to think of his dead tribesmen.
"Of course, we can definitely win. Going south is our tribe. We can't retreat. Even if we die, we have to stop the enemy here.
Besides, we can't lose. We have killed a monster like that before. They will die if they are injured. What are you afraid of? Don't you want to avenge your people?" Luo Chong said seriously.
"Of course I do. Then I will lead you. When the time comes, you also let me kill a monster like that. My women and children were killed by that monster. I want to avenge them with my own hands."
Luo Chong patted his shoulder and comforted him: "Don't worry, I will definitely let you stab it twice when the time comes."
The man nodded heavily after hearing this.
There was no conversation that night. Soldiers took turns to guard the valley. The enemy did not come here, and the wild beasts did not appear. It was very quiet.
The next morning, after everyone had breakfast, Luo Chong began to arrange the troops for each team.
After leaving the valley, there were continuous small mounds opposite the valley entrance. Luo Chong found a small basin with mounds on three sides, and then divided each team of soldiers into three parts, hiding on the reverse slope of the mounds.
300 lime bags were distributed in three directions, and the target was the small basin opposite the valley entrance. 50 bags were thrown in each direction at a time, and they were thrown in two times, so that the lime smoke could last longer.
The soldiers who were preparing to charge put on their hooded hats in advance. Seeing that everyone was ready, Luo Chong also took a few hats and distributed them to 10 cavalrymen and the lacquer tribe warrior who led the way. He himself used a masked scarf and a cloak sewn by Xiaodie.
"Put this on your head, and I will take you to avenge your people." Luo Chong handed a hat to the lacquer tribe guide who rode the gray mountain with him.
(End of this chapter)
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