Hearing Great General Li Xin's promise.
Ying Mu couldn't help but smile.
He waved his hand and had someone take out a set of armor from the carriage.
This set of armor was vastly different from the armor worn by Great Qin's soldiers.
Because it wasn't copper armor or iron armor.
Instead, it was a rattan armor woven from rattan.
Ying Mu had his men place this rattan armor on the table in the main tent of the central army. After that, he said,"Generals, please take a look. This armor is Mu's third gift to you, the Red Vine Armor!”
"This armor is woven from rattan. Not only is it light to wear, but it can also block sword and sword attacks. It is fearless of water and fire. It is definitely the best defensive equipment for the army to conquer the Bai Yue.”
That's right!
The original form of this Red Vine Armor was the rattan armor from Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times and burned the rattan armor soldiers.
However, Luo Guanzhong was only a scholar and did not understand the real situation of rattan armor. Otherwise, he would not have thought of the plot of " Burning Vine Armor Soldiers ".
The real rattan armor was first recorded in the Ming Dynasty's Military Records.
The manufacturing method of this kind of armor was similar to the processing method of rattan armor in the Three Kingdoms.
Its raw material was red vine. When red vine was used to weave armor, it could not be used directly. It had to be soaked for half a month, then taken out to be dried for three days. After that, it would be soaked again. This cycle repeated for three months before it could be used to weave rattan armor.
Then, the rattan armor was soaked in tung oil, dried and soaked.
However, Ying Mu was still in Xianyang City when he made the rattan armor sample, so he couldn't find any red vines. He could only use willow vines as a substitute.
When many people saw that the rattan armor had tung oil, they would think that the rattan armor was too fragile and could be broken with fire, just like Luo Guanzhong.
The truth was that the rattan armor was not afraid of water and fire attacks.
In other words, as long as you didn't throw the rattan armor into the flames, there wouldn't be any problems.
The reason was simple.
Because the ignition point of tung oil was 400 degrees, it was not that easy to burn.
If he explained it this way, everyone might not have a specific concept.
Let's put it this way.
The ignition point of the wood was about 200 degrees.
The ignition point of ordinary coal, depending on the type of coal, was about 300 to 700 degrees.
In other words, the difficulty of igniting a rattan armor soaked in tung oil was no less than igniting a piece of coal.
Therefore, it was impossible to ignite the rattan armor by touching it.
He was really going to be burned by the flames.
No matter what armor he wore, it would probably be useless.
This was also why in the Ming Dynasty's " Military Records ", it was mentioned many times that rattan armor was not afraid of water and fire.
"How is this possible?"
"It's just an armor made of branches. How can it not be afraid of flames?”
"This is definitely impossible."
“.......”
Even though Ying Mu had already brought many surprises to the generals in the camp.
However, when he mentioned that the rattan armor was not afraid of water and fire, many generals still did not believe him.
On the contrary, when Li Xin heard this, he picked up the rattan armor on the table. After carefully observing it for a moment, he couldn't help but be enlightened,"Is this rattan armor soaked in tung oil?”
As a master of the art of war, Li Xin naturally had some understanding of tung oil.
In other words, as early as the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, tung oil had been widely used in war and became a weapon to defend the city.
Of course, it was not only tung oil, but also other vegetable and animal oil.
However, this kind of usage was not for burning.
Instead, it was boiled and poured over to defend the city.
As a master of military tactics, Li Xin was naturally not unfamiliar with tung oil. He also knew that tung oil was resistant to high temperatures and was not easy to ignite.
Thus, when he saw that the entire rattan armor had been soaked in tung oil, he already knew why Ying Mu said that the rattan armor was immune to fire and water.
It wasn't the rattan armor that was unafraid of fire, but the tung oil.
"General Li is indeed a master of the art of war. I knew this little trick wouldn't be able to fool you.”
"Then in your opinion, can this rattan armor be used on a large scale?”
When Ying Mu saw that Li Xin was able to see through the secrets of the rattan armor so quickly, he was extremely surprised.
As expected, a master of military strategy who could leave his name in history was not to be underestimated.
From this, one could see why Zhou Yan was inferior to the other party.
One must know.
He had taken out the rattan armor to ask Zhou Yan before.
In the end, his performance was similar to that of the other generals in the tent. He did not believe it at all.
Hearing Ying Mu's question, Li Xin carefully observed the rattan armor. When he broke open a rattan and saw that the inside of the rattan had been completely soaked in tung oil, he nodded.
"The inside and outside of this rattan armor has already been soaked in tung oil. Even the rainstorm can't wash it off completely, so it can completely be immune to water and fire.”
"Furthermore, after the rattan is processed with tung oil, it is extremely tough and can completely withstand attacks from knives, spears, and swords.”
"Therefore, it can be manufactured on a large scale for ordinary soldiers to wear.”
Li Xin spoke in a deep voice, expressing his approval of the rattan armor.
However, he was experienced enough to not only see the advantages of the rattan armor, but also its disadvantages.
That was that it was easily damaged.
Although rattan armor had many advantages.
However, it was made of rattan.
The essence was there.
Even if it could block the sword and saber, it could only block it a few times. If it was really used too many times, it would definitely be damaged.
Especially when it was attacked by a crossbow, it would be damaged even faster.
In other words, a rattan armor could only last one or two battles at most.
Want to be truly invulnerable?
That was impossible.
Otherwise, rattan armor would have been common in ancient wars.
It was troublesome to make, had a long production cycle, consumed a lot of tung oil, and was easily damaged in a big battle.
This was the reason why rattan armor could not be used in large numbers in ancient wars.
Of course, this weakness was nothing to the Qin army.
This was because the villagers of the Baiyue Land did not have any crossbows.
It was already good enough to have one or two Green-Copper items.
After all, there was a record in the Chu Annals: " The Yue people wore their hair in a bun, wore their clothes, and chiseled their teeth. Cut off hair tattoo, chicken divination; Eat more snakes and clams, live in nests and build balustrades. He is good at making boats and fighting on the water. He is good at casting bronze ware, head-hunting, cannibalism, men and women bathing together, like cockfighting, dragon, frog totem worship.”
Alright then!
According to this description.
If it weren't for the fact that the Yue people knew how to forge bronze, they would have been able to forge bronze.
Ying Mu even thought that they were living in a primitive society.
Therefore, even though the rattan armor had a huge weakness, it was still not enough.
However, it was definitely enough to deal with the villagers of the Hundred Yue Mountain.
At least in this hot and humid Baiyue Land, it was better to wear rattan armor than leather armor and bronze armor.
That was something that could kill.
After solving the problem of the armor of Great Qin's soldiers, Ying Mu talked about the invasion of South Yue.
"I wonder if Your Highness has any good suggestions for this?”
Li Xin humbly asked.
He had gone through saltpeter, tortoise tea leaves, miasma treatment, acclimatized problems, red vine armor, and a series of other things.
Even Li Xin, the Great Qin General, did not dare to underestimate Ying Mu anymore.
Li Xin and the others even felt that Ying Mu must have had a deep understanding of the South Yue strategy.
It was no wonder that they would think so.
According to Ying Mu's preparation and performance, he had been able to defeat the enemy.
This King of Yue's research on South Yue was too deep.
It was so deep that even the revived King of Yue, Gou Jian, did not know as much as Ying Mu.
Under such circumstances.
It would be strange if Li Xin and the others underestimated Ying Mu.
Ying Mu didn't show any courtesy towards Li Xin's question.
He walked to the table in the tent and took out a map from his pocket. Then, he pointed at a point on the map and said in a clear voice,"I believe that if General wants to quickly occupy South Yue, the first step is to occupy this place!”
"This is Mount Zhong?"
Li Xin looked at the place Ying Mu pointed at and pondered.
Ying Mu nodded and continued," That's right, it's Mount Zhong. This place is less than 300 miles away from Yan County. There are no South Yue tribes along the way, so it's easy for the army to occupy this place.”
"There is a river on Mount Zhong that connects to the West River and Xun River in the south. The West River flows through the river and can directly reach Minyue.”
"Xun River is connected to Yu River and Red River, and the Red River is connected to Huangni River and Wu River to the west. It runs through the entire South Yue and can enter Yelang and Shen Land.”
"In this way, we only need to build a batch of large ships to solve the transportation logistics problem. With the advantage of shipping, we can quickly conquer the entire South Vietnam.”
Ying Mu explained to everyone while pointing at the rough silk map.
The map of South Yue in his hands was not detailed.
There were many places that were roughly described.
There were also no residences or territories of the various tribes of the Bai Yue.
However, this didn't stop Ying Mu from speaking.
Especially the ink lines representing rivers on the map, they crisscrossed and almost covered the entire South Yue.
This map once again shocked Great Qin's generals.
Even though this map was very rough in Ying Mu's eyes, it was still very simple.
In fact, he had intentionally blurred out many places.
However, to Great Qin's generals, this was something that was difficult to exchange for.
Because this map was much more detailed than the one they had.
Especially at the intersection of many rivers.
It gave them a feeling of enlightenment.
Of course, this didn't mean that Ying Mu couldn't produce a more detailed map of South Yue.
It was because the maps of the future did not apply to Great Qin from 2,000 years ago.
Otherwise, he would have drawn the world map of the future long ago.
When he thought about the online novels in his previous life, many transmigrators directly offered the globe and world map to the First Emperor.
Ying Mu couldn't help but curse in his heart.
This was really daring.
One had to know that the map 2,000 years later was completely different from the map 2,000 years ago.
Not to mention that in these two thousand years, the world had changed, and many rivers had dried up and changed their course.
Just talking about the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal dug by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and the spiritual canal dug in the later period of the Qin Dynasty, there was no way to explain it.
If Great Qin's Generals really used that map to attack the Yue…
He could only watch the Xiang River and Li River stomp their feet and curse.
Ying Mu looked at Great Qin's Generals, who were deep in thought, and he couldn't help but smile as he said,""Of course, South Yue has a radius of a thousand miles. With just the twenty thousand people in Mu's territory and the fifty thousand soldiers under the general's command, it will definitely be difficult to occupy it.”
"Thus, Mu has never thought of completely occupying South Yue.”
Ying Mu smiled.
Finally, he pointed at the southernmost region of the map and said seriously,""Actually, this is the place where this king really wants to establish a country. All you need to do is help this king occupy this place.”
Hearing this, Li Xin and the others all looked towards the direction Ying Mu was pointing at.
Because of his sensitivity, the commander of the Yue Royal Guards was named Zhao Ting.
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