In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 66 Reinforced Armor
"Ah...what is that?"

"This this…"

Looking at the huge snowballs rolling towards the camp from the hillside, all the Tatars looked horrified and started shouting.

And as the snowballs, with unstoppable power, directly smashed into the one-meter-high snow wall, and rolled towards the camp, all the Tatars fled in all directions and became a mess. .

When the snowball rolled down to the bottom of the mountain, it was already as high as a person, and its speed reached its peak. No matter whether it was a tent, carriage, or humans or animals, it could not stop it.

The carriage was knocked to pieces and disintegrated together with the snowball. The large tent was knocked down, and the small tent was directly run over. The livestock in the stable were severely injured and were buried by the scattered snow.

For a time, the entire Tatar camp was filled with screams and howls.

Although nearly half of the snowballs rolled away, the remaining more than 100 still caused huge damage and casualties to the Tatar camp, especially causing psychological fear and panic.

The Lin family troops in front of the camp looked at this scene and all of them opened their mouths in shock.

Especially Namuzhong and the more than 200 Mongolian teenagers looked at Lin Rui with a hint of inexplicable admiration in their eyes in addition to the previous awe.

The Mongols indeed worship the strong, but they also worship the wise.

"Brothers, follow me and kill!" Lin Rui shouted violently and charged forward with his army.

At this time, the Tatars have fallen into chaos. If they don't take advantage of the situation to attack, how long will they wait?
This time, the two hundred Mongolian youths also dismounted and followed with swords drawn. Even Namuzhong drew his machete and chased after him. Obviously, vases do not exist on the Mongolian grasslands.

The first ones to enter the Tatar camp were not Lin Rui and others, but Huang Ben and others on the hillside. After rolling down the snowballs, the 200 people slipped directly down, catching the Tatars by surprise.

Originally, the Tatars were stunned by the sudden snowball. Before they could calm down, they were attacked from both sides. It was difficult to see the beginning and the end. The outcome was predictable. It was a one-sided massacre. Their resistance was not as strong as that of the Aruk tribe. .

The Mongolian teenagers would still hesitate when faced with women and children, but the Khans would not care so much. The men would all be killed, and women who had weapons in their hands, no matter how big or small, would be served with swords and guns.

This time, the killing was really crazy. Even Lin Rui became red-eyed and chased the Tatars and slashed them, let alone the others.

In the end, the two hundred Mongolian teenagers captured more than 200 women, and dug out more than 100 boys and girls from the collapsed tents. Almost all the remaining Tatars fell in a pool of blood, and of course some were killed by snowballs. .

"Master Qi, our army's casualties have been clearly counted. A total of 25 people were killed, three of them were Mongolians, and 93 people were injured, of which [-] were Mongolians."

Lin Rui was sitting on a broken carriage, the blood on his body had frozen into ice slag. After listening to Huang Ben's report, he stood up and said loudly: "Okay, a big victory!"

"The son is mighty!"

"The Lin family army is victorious!"

The people who were cleaning the battlefield and searching for the remnants of the enemy also stopped and cheered, holding their swords high.

Even those Mongolian teenagers are no exception.

And Na Muzhong also walked over excitedly, with a pretty face that was white and red from the cold. She looked at Lin Rui and couldn't help but said: "Han family, you are so smart. You are the wisest leader I have ever seen. Now I really believe that you can help me defeat the Jurchens and unify all Mongolian tribes."

At this moment, she really believed that Lin Rui was sent by Changshengtian to help her. Whether it was a sled or a snowball attack on the enemy, it was very simple, but they, the Mongols, had never thought of it.

"Of course, I said that I will make you the most noble woman on this grassland in the future, and I will never break my promise!"

Lin Rui also took the opportunity to hug her over and coax her. "Rui Lang, I want to give you a child, and let him be Chahar's khan in the future."

Na Muzhong whispered in his ear, and even changed the title. She secretly heard Zhang Xiuying call Lin Rui this way, and thought it was pretty good. It was just that she couldn't let go of her identity as Queen Khan before.

Obviously Namuzhong is not stupid. She understands that even if Lin Rui defeats the Jurchens and unifies all the Mongolian tribes in the future, she will not let her son Ezhe inherit the throne, but it doesn't matter, she will just give Lin Rui another child.

"it is good!"

Lin Rui naturally would not refuse, this was exactly what he wanted.

Because the camp was severely destroyed by the snowball, it took everyone three days to clean it up, and then they summarized and appreciated their achievements.

Of the more than 200 women captured this time, more than 100 were adults, and almost all were rewarded by Lin Rui. Although most of them were divided among the Han people, the Mongolian teenagers were also divided into thirty or forty.

The total number of those who were underage was more than 100, but these women had no share. Lin Rui planned to keep them first and then reward them to the soldiers when they grow up.

"Rui Lang, aren't we going back?"

"The weather is too cold. There's not much we can do when we go back. We can just spend the winter here, and we can go back together in the spring next year."

Originally, Lin Rui planned to leave the wounded here, but it had snowed heavily in the past few days, so he simply was too lazy to leave. Anyway, he had told Zhang Xiuying and Sister Niu when he came.

"That's okay, after all, it's easy to get lost in such heavy snow, and there's no shortage of food and cooking here." Namuzhong nodded, obviously not wanting to suffer from the cold anymore.

In this way, more than 1000 people stayed in the Tatar camp. After free time, Lin Rui had to teach everyone to read. He trained every morning, learned to read in the afternoon, and made leather armor in the evening. The days were quite fulfilling.

After two visits, a large amount of leather and iron tools were seized, and several blacksmiths were rescued. In addition, there were still a few months until spring, so Lin Rui planned to re-tread everyone's leather armor to increase their protection.

These two hand-to-hand battles made him realize the importance of armor.

In fact, it is very simple. First, the helmet is cast directly from pig iron, and then a layer of leather is wrapped inside.

The breastplate and armor skirt are all made of four layers of cowhide, and then fixed with iron rivets. The chest and abdomen are inlaid with three small breast protectors, the back is inlaid with a large breast protector, and the shoulders on both sides are also inlaid with an iron rivet. shoulder pads.

The leggings and wristbands are only made of two layers of cowhide and are also fixed with rivets.

This kind of armor with cowhide, rivets, and an iron helmet weighs just over 30 kilograms in one set. It is not only light, but also very protective.

It can be said that it is no worse than the armor of the Jurchens, and it is more than a little bit better than the Ming army's cotton armor and Yuanyang battle coat.

Thirty paces away, a cavalry bow cannot penetrate the leather armor at all. Twenty paces away, the shot does not penetrate deeply into the flesh, and does not affect the battle at all.

And this is shot directly on the cowhide. If it is shot on the rivets and breast shields, it will be like scratching an itch.

Not only is it highly resistant to arrows, the densely packed rivets and iron shoulder helmet also have a great dampening effect on chopping with long knives.

The spear can easily pierce four layers of cowhide. As for the fire blunderbuss, although I haven't tried it, I think it will probably be quite tough, but Lin Rui is already very satisfied.

After all, their enemies are the Jurchens and the Mongols. Their main weapons are bows and arrows and scimitars, especially bows and arrows, which are accurate and fast.

(End of this chapter)