Chapter 438 Armor
Unlike the early days when there were only a few people in the entire department, after multiple expansions and an increase in labor, both the original equipment department and the forging department have become first-class departments within the Great Zhou.
Now that the two departments have merged, the scale has naturally become larger.
The armor production process is indeed relatively complicated, but with the proper allocation of manpower, it is not impossible to make samples in a short period of time.
Now that all the materials and manpower were in place, the first set of armor as a sample was quickly completed.
After receiving the news, Zhou Xu went directly to the equipment department's work area as quickly as possible.
Today's Equipment Department is undoubtedly still called the Equipment Department, but it has become a sub-department under the Ordnance Equipment Headquarters. In the future, as various tasks and technologies become clearer, there will be more and more sub-departments under it.
The work of the forging department is mainly to forge the armor plates and polish them appropriately. The subsequent assembly work is carried out by the equipment department.
Therefore, the sample armor that had just been completed naturally ended up in the equipment department.
The moment he saw the armor, Zhou Xu suddenly felt his eyes brighten. The style was really 70% similar to the armor worn by ancient Chinese generals.
When I was arguing with Wang Pengfei before, he boasted about scale armor and chain mail for a long time, and his words were very convincing.
But strictly speaking, Zhou Xu believes that the armor he designed cannot be simply classified as a single type of armor such as scale armor or chain mail. He prefers to call it composite armor.
The parts of a whole set of armor that need to be flexible are all designed with scale armor, connected in series with armor plates, and for the vital parts like the chest that are easily vulnerable to fatal attacks, he uses a whole piece of iron armor! Doing so will significantly increase the weight of the whole set of armor, but... How can this weight be more important than life? Under this premise, relatively fragile active parts such as elbows and knees adopt a combination of iron armor and scale armor.
While the elbows and knees are wrapped with one-piece iron armor, leather and partial scale armor are used in the parts that need to be bent to ensure that movement is not hindered to the greatest extent possible.
Apart from this, the rest of the body is mainly made of scales.
Looking at this set of armor as a sample, Zhou Xu's face showed some excitement and he planned to experience it himself.
According to Zhuang Mengdie, he'd better change his robe first. It was made of silk, which was considered a luxury item in the Great Zhou Dynasty. It was very likely to be damaged while wearing the armor.
After changing into a set of linen clothes worn by soldiers, two staff members began to help him put on the armor. During the whole process, Zhou Xu basically only needed to stand there and occasionally raise his hand to cooperate.
Perhaps because he was bored, he casually asked Zhuang Mengdie about the production process of this set of armor.
In response to this, Zhuang Mengdie thought about the armor she was wearing and answered casually...
"It's very simple. All we need to do is find a human-shaped mold, put a set of linen clothes on the mold, and then sew the armor plates onto the linen clothes."
"Of course, the armor would not be strong enough just like that, so after completing this stitching, we connected the armor plates together to ensure that all the armor plates were connected together."
It has to be said that as one of the few people in the Great Zhou whose intelligence has reached three stars, Zhuang Mengdie's brain works very quickly.
When many department members were still troubled by this problem, she had already thought of this clever solution.
While they were talking, two staff members had already skillfully put on the armor for him and handed him the helmet.
This helmet is worth mentioning.
According to Zhou Xu, vision is very important.
Wearing a helmet that is like an iron barrel can wrap your head tightly, but on the contrary, your flexibility and vision will be greatly affected, which is not the effect he wants.
At the beginning, he wanted to make the helmet in the style of a modern steel helmet. Although it was not very good-looking, at least the field of vision and flexibility could be guaranteed.
During this process, he thought of the rattan armor helmets used by the rattan armor soldiers. The design of this helmet is similar to that of a bamboo hat. It can block sunlight and rain without affecting vision and flexibility.
Zhou Xu thought this was a good idea, so he made some adjustments based on the steel helmet and added a brim. By accident, he created a flying saucer-like helmet.
This is a design that is more in line with his ideas.
Inside the helmet, a layer of leather was padded to take into account the dual issues of impact resistance and comfort. After putting it on, Zhou Xu casually turned his head and found that his vision and flexibility were not affected at all. He was very satisfied with the effect.
Of course, considering facial safety, they have equipped the UFO helmet with a simple visor that exposes half of the face.
It is said that half of their faces are exposed, but in fact, considering the obstructing part of the UFO helmet, when they wear the UFO helmet and the visor at the same time, only their eyes are exposed.
The visor is an independent accessory. In order to meet their king's requirement of "not affecting flexibility and vision", Zhuang Mengdie made multiple adjustments to the part of the visor close to the eyes, and also added some clever ideas to the wearing method.
It can be matched with the strap of the flying saucer helmet and can be worn without affecting flexibility, which took a lot of thought.
The effect obtained was undoubtedly quite good, which made Zhou Xu highly praise it.
"Mengdie, the visor you made is so ingenious that it completely exceeded my initial expectations!"
In response, Zhuang Mengdie just smiled.
"Your Majesty, you should try this armor right away."
"good."
While talking, Zhou Xu began to move around casually. Compared with the helmet and visor that satisfied him, although this armor looked good, many problems were exposed once he put it on and started moving around.
"The shoulder has limited movement. It can be lengthened to allow for more room. The underarm area is hurt by the nails. I think the inside of this area can be replaced with leather. Also, here..."
Judging from the current situation, there are still many places where the trick of sewing on the mold cannot be done well, and it needs to be adjusted little by little.
Zhou Xu, who had entered the working state, was not vague at all. During the activity, he expressed the problems he felt one by one, and also put forward some relatively specific adjustment methods according to his own ideas.
This is also the biggest difference between him and Wang Pengfei. He may not have read as many miscellaneous things as Wang Pengfei, but Wang Pengfei only knows how to read from the book. He lacks practical ability and problems arise in some links. If you ask him how to adjust or operate, he can't tell you at all.
But Zhou Xu is different. Compared with rigid written knowledge, he prefers practice to gain true knowledge. Therefore, his experience is basically accumulated through practice, and he is also good at applying it with his flexible thinking.
(End of this chapter)
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