Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 59 This is the power of iron!
In one day, Yuanye spent the annual income of six or seven local samurai. He borrowed more than two hundred kan to pull an ox cart to Atsuta, and when he pulled it back, it had turned into armor, weapons and horses. Aman also changed from driving the ox cart dejectedly to coming back happily singing a little song.

When she saw Ah Qing, she jumped off the ox cart and patted the "Bao Xiaozha Bandouwan" on her body, which made a series of "bang bang" sounds and she was grinning with joy - Bao Xiaozha is a kind of armor with perforated armor plates strung together with leather ropes, then wrapped in horsehide and painted. It is a kind of armor that focuses on flexibility and has good resistance to arrows. In addition, her armor has a plate-shaped breastplate on her chest, which also has good defensive capabilities against piercing and slashing.

She happily finished patting her doma, and then adjusted the "peach-shaped bag" she was wearing. Her eyebrows jumped, and she smiled proudly at Ah Qing: "How is it, is it impressive? Do you look like a big shot?"

All the money was spent by Yuanye, which made her very reluctant. However, she got a set of armor, which made her feel very fresh and her mood became good again. She had been wanting to show off for a long time, so she did it as soon as she came back.

Ah Qing gave her a cold look and didn't answer. Ah Man saw that she was unwilling to join in the fun, so he immediately turned to Yayoi and asked again: "Yayoi, isn't it impressive?"

Yayoi didn't dare to provoke her, and said honestly: "It's very majestic, Sister Aman."

She was speaking the truth. A'man wore a peach-shaped helmet made of two iron plates, with a high pointed "hem (top of the helmet)". If she used it to hit someone on the head, Wu Jia might die. Moreover, her torso was brand new and shiny, gleaming in the firelight. In addition, she had a short-handled axe hanging on her waist and a ferocious iron cannon on her back. It made people feel a little scared - the power of iron, in this era, iron is power, it's terrifying!

Ah Man was finally satisfied after being flattered. He touched the breasts lovingly and said with a sigh, "Of course it's impressive. This is 41 kan of silver. I can buy ten of you!"

She couldn't help but sigh. Her suit was a high-end product from "Atsuta Jyouryuya". It was made of top-grade iron, the kind that took ten pounds of pig iron and was hammered by manpower, leaving less than three pounds of top-grade iron after it was hammered. Then it was made into armor plates, holes were drilled, and thick breast plate armor plates were woven together with leather. It took several people a month to make it. It was definitely not the rubbish armor used by ordinary young men, which was made of more leather and cotton than iron. It was not shameful for high-level samurai to use it.

This kind of armor, with some small accessories such as shields and arm guards, would be passed down for three generations in an average samurai family. If you really calculate its value, it would be more than enough to buy ten Yayois - a little girl like Yayoi could probably be exchanged for two donkeys, about four kan and a bit of money, at current prices, and a donkey would not last for three generations.

In fact, Aman didn't expect Yuanye to be willing to spend this money on her. After all, she had only thought about being a "big boss" for Yuanye and working for him for a long time, but she had never told him. Theoretically, she could leave whenever she wanted. But Yuanye didn't care at all. He spent nearly one hundred of the more than two hundred strings of money on her and Aqing. He was really generous.

Anyway, if it were her, she would definitely not be willing to do so. She would never be able to be so generous!

When she looked at Yuanye now, she felt that he seemed to have some qualities of a wise leader again.

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"Move the things in first and then we can talk!" Yuanye was still busy moving boxes and was very hungry. Seeing them huddled together without working, he hurriedly urged them to work.

This time he bought a lot of things. He bought himself a set of "contemporary armor", which includes a vest, a torso armor, and sleeve armor, as well as a gauntlet, a shield, and arm guards. He spent ninety-five strings of cash and five hundred coins to complete a set of armor.

Now that he had it, he also bought a set of top-quality Tortoise Armor for A-man and A-qing, each of which could protect the head, chest, abdomen, and shoulders. He spent another 82 strings of cash, and 16 strings of cash to buy a set of "Leather Tortoise Armor" for each of the Taojing brothers, which meant that only the vital parts had iron plates, and most of the armor was made of nitrated horsehide and deerskin.

This is not biased, it's just that the two of them have never learned martial arts and have little fighting ability. If they really get into trouble, just poke them a few times with a gun from the outside. Don't expect them to fight in hand-to-hand combat, so the protective gear is just to ensure that they won't be shot to death easily.

In addition, he also bought a three-foot-long "Kokarasuma Tanka" for Aqing and Yayoi, with a reduced curvature suitable for stabbing, and spent another five kan and two hundred wen - Aqing seemed to have no melee weapon, so he gave her one so that she could use it for self-defense in daily life, and Yayoi was afraid that she would think too much. After all, he bought things for everyone except her, which was not appropriate.

After all, she is also a veteran employee, so she must have some feelings to consider.

After all this, he had spent most of his money. He wanted to buy several horses but failed. He just picked out a relatively cheap and docile mare and brought her back.

It can only be said that fighting a war is a money-burning thing. Even though he is a time traveler, it would take six or seven years for ordinary local warriors and retainers to go without food or water to get such a truckload of equipment. It is not easy.

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He bought so many things, all of them bulky, that it took him a while just to move them around the house, and then he hurried to have dinner with A-man.

It was very exciting and tiring for him and Aman to pull a cart full of money and go back quickly. They didn't dare to eat much on the way and now they were very hungry and ate voraciously.

Yayoi was helping them add food, and from time to time she lovingly stroked the "small Karasuma" that Yuanye had given her, with a look of joy on her face, while Qing was also trying on the domaru assigned to her, moving it a little from time to time to see how much it affected her flexibility, with a rare look of curiosity on her face. Although the Taojing brothers were assigned leather armor, they were also very excited, helping each other put it on, and seemed eager to try it out, looking like they wanted to put on the armor and go into battle to stab the two men.

Yuanye didn't care about them. After dinner, he just asked the Taojing brothers to feed the cows and return early tomorrow. Then he announced the disbandment and went back to play with his armor. As men, most of them would be interested in armor. Just like modern missiles are flying all over the sky, armor is useless. Yet there are still a group of people studying it every day, which shows that it is difficult for men to resist this thing.

He returned to his room, opened the "kitchen cabinet" given by his boss, and took out the three tripods. He was in a hurry before and did not look closely at them in the store. He just asked A-man to confirm that there was no problem and then bought them directly. Now he had the opportunity to take a closer look.

This set of armor is the latest model of "contemporary armor", which literally means "modern armor".

Japanese armor also has a development process. It first developed from the wooden short armor of the Yayoi period, to the copper armor of the Kofun period, to the cotton iron armor of the Nara and Heian periods, to the large armor of the Heian period, Kamakura period, and Muromachi Nanbokucho period, and then to the "Contemporary Armor" of the late Muromachi period.

Compared with the heavy armor, this type of armor focuses more on defending against melee weapons. After all, the war mode has changed.

In the Kamakura period and before, the main combatants were samurai, and the main method of fighting was archery on horseback, so the armor had to have a high level of defense against arrows. The left hand usually wore a large sleeve armor instead of a shield to block arrows, while the right hand only had a simple gauntlet with little protection to ensure flexibility so that they could shoot arrows and kill the enemy.

However, after the "Onin War", a large number of foot soldiers joined the main combat force. As their numbers increased, it was difficult to stop the enemy's swarm by archery alone. The way of fighting also changed accordingly. They began to fight in close combat and stab each other with long spears. Therefore, the "Dangse Guzoku" came into being and has become the current mainstream armor.

Yuanye has now bought such a set of "complete equipment for the present world".

The helmet was a "protruding helmet" made of eighteen trapezoidal pieces of fine iron, with a front brim. Originally, the front brim was inserted with a row of gold foil fan-shaped front spikes, shining brightly and eye-catching. It seemed as if it was making it easier for the enemy to aim and concentrate fire. He refused to take it, so he pulled it all off and returned it, saving one and a half coins.

The domaru is a "horizontal plate domaru". He has never learned any martial arts and he is tall and average in flexibility, so he simply maximizes his defense and directly uses a plate domaru, which is to connect horizontal fine iron sheets from top to bottom with rivets, and put the chest and abdomen into an "iron barrel". It doesn't matter if someone stabs him with a spear, which makes him feel at ease.

At the same time, there is a "receiving tube" embedded on the back of Domaru. The slot on it is called "Hedangli" and the base is called "Daishou". It can be used to insert small flags and other indicators to prevent the two dwarfs Aman and Aqing from losing sight of him in a melee.

Overall, this Domaru has a certain degree of defensive capability even against a cannon, and it feels very safe.

The sleeve armor is a "contemporary sleeve", a narrow sleeve armor made of iron hinges and iron plates. It mainly protects the arms without affecting the swinging of the sword. Unlike the sleeve armor of the great armor, the sleeve will fall over when the hand is raised over the shoulder, making it difficult to make big movements.

As for the caged hands, the shield, and the arm guards...

The caged hands are used to protect the forearms and hands; the shield is tied to the waist with a "waist thread" and hung down to protect the hips and thighs, and the arm guard is two long strips of armor strung together with hinges, used to protect the vital parts on both sides of the waist and abdomen.

In addition, because A-man is eloquent and extremely thick-skinned, he also brings back some small accessories for free, such as the "cheek guard" shaped like a mask to protect the face, the "Manchira" and "Suga" to protect the neck, the "rain belt" installed on the helmet to keep out the rain, the "armor foot hanging" to protect the instep, etc.

Yuanye fiddled with it in the house for a while and found that this thing was quite troublesome and not easy to wear by one person, but the fine iron gave him a sense of security. At least he was not fooled by some stereotypes on the Internet in later generations.

In later times, it was generally believed on the Internet that Japan lacked iron, and that people fought in bamboo armor and stabbed each other with bamboo poles, which was basically the same as a village fight. But as for his trip to Atsuta, he found that this was not the case at all.

Japan is a little short of iron. Iron is a bit expensive, but it is not that scarce, at least not in ancient times.

In modern industrial production, ships of thousands or tens of thousands of tons are launched into the sea, which is a bit difficult for Japan. However, Japan can still make swords of a few kilograms and armor of dozens of kilograms with the iron - in modern times, Japan still has iron ore reserves of 90 million tons. Although it is difficult to mine and cannot be used for large-scale industrial production, this reserve was already very large in ancient times, and it can also be imported from the Ming Dynasty. It is not too difficult to make some swords, guns and armor.

The reason for that stereotype is probably because the Japanese like to paint and oil their armor. After all, it is relatively humid here and iron products are prone to rust. In order to prevent moisture, they make the armor shiny. At first glance, the material does not look like heavy iron at all, but more like bamboo, so that stereotype is formed?
Yuanye thought about it for a while but couldn't figure it out, so he put it out of his mind and packed the equipment into the box again. Then he patted the box and became bolder. He started to wonder why the internal strife in Tan Zhengzhong's family hadn't started yet?
Maybe this is another version of "With a sharp knife in mind, the desire to kill arises". He has now wrapped himself up into a "tin man". He has tried so hard and does not believe that anyone can kill him. Instead, he is beginning to look forward to the medieval wars in Japan. He really wants to see the excitement and broaden his horizons.

(End of this chapter)