Plate armor appeared in Europe in the 14th century, and it was the emergence of this kind that led to the rapid advancement of hot weapons. The reason is very simple. Cold weapons have almost no way to deal with this armor, and only the later combs can be used to hang up this armor. Finally, the stage of history was launched.

Although there are many things to say about this, no matter what, the role of plate armor can be seen from this point of view. The most attractive thing is that the simple production of this armor is, and the blast furnace steelmaking method and water conservancy forging machine that appeared almost in the same era have also become the most favorable support for this equipment.

Now Zhang Shun has developed the blast furnace steelmaking method, and only the water conservancy forging machine is left. How should this kind of thing be made? Zhang Shun has never made a movie about this thing. The main reason is that this thing has hardly appeared in Chinese history, so Zhang Shun is very unfamiliar with it, but he just knows a name, but he doesn't understand what to do.

But Zhang Shun still hopes that he can have such things. After all, he only has so many craftsmen now, and it is very difficult to satisfy the equipment of so many soldiers as soon as possible. He must speed up.

"Polu, please prepare first, tell Gao Xu to bring all the prisoners I brought back as soon as possible, and then start building a pool nearby, which is the methods of growing food I mentioned before. And a larger dam must be built up the upper reaches of this small river. Do you know what a dam is?" Seeing Guo Polu nodding, Zhang Shun continued, "You know that's great. I'm going to build one upstream of this river."

"What are you doing to build that thing?" Although Guo Polu returned to what the function of the dam was, he did not know what the purpose of building this was.

"I'm going to use hydraulic power to make some machines. Now we have too many things to do, but these things are imminent. We don't have much time to waste, so we have to take advantage of the time now and there is still someone who has to speed up."

"Hydraulic power? How to use it?" Chen Qi, who had been thinking all the time, suddenly opened his mouth and asked.

Zhang Shun knew that Chen Qi was also a tech crazier. When he heard such things, he would immediately immerse himself in it. He still remembered the simple machine tools he had come up with, so he immediately said to him, "I want to make a machine that can borrow water power to make equipment. Look, if we can make a huge hammer, then pour the steel into the mold, and use this hammer to make it. You must know that if we can have such things, it can save a lot of manpower and material resources and accelerate the speed." Zhang Shun introduced it tirelessly. At this time, Gao Laowu, Gao Jian and many craftsmen were listening carefully. What they were thinking about in their minds at this time was also such a magical machine, but no one could think of how to do it.

Chen Qi thought for a while and finally shook his head, "I haven't thought about where to start yet, and now I really can't find it." He suddenly stopped talking.

Zhang Shun said at this time, "It doesn't matter. It's okay if you can't remember for a while. Let's do it first, think about it while doing it. Maybe you don't know when you can get inspiration."

Zhang Shun was a little confused when he said this. He thought that as long as he returned here, he could start preparing for the world. However, he didn't expect that he had no idea how to do it. Everything seemed to be right in front of him, but he didn't know where to start. It seemed that he should not be in a hurry, and he had to do it slowly a little bit.

For example, if you want to make a plate armor, you must limit the use of a water hammer. The water hammer is also the most important thing in making cannons. Otherwise, it will be done slowly by hand. Not to mention that the cannons produced will have various problems and will definitely not be able to achieve the same specifications. Then the shells can only be manufactured according to the actual situation, which will add a lot of trouble to yourself and delay more time. Therefore, the water hammer is something that must appear.

The emergence of water hammers requires existing reservoirs or dams, so the first thing to do now is infrastructure construction. Without these hardware measures, he can only fight in the simplest way. Then the real advantage cannot be reflected. He never thought that he could dominate the world with these tens of thousands of people, and the Song army in other places, to be honest, Zhang

If you keep going, you won’t believe them.

And so on, there are many things that are the same. They seem to be very simple, but they are stuck at the beginning, and those things are what Zhang Shun really wants.

But at this moment, Gao Jian suddenly muttered, "If you make a long pole connected to the water wheel, the water flows over and it will make him move, just like the arms of those people in the shadow puppet. Do you think this is a water hammer?" While speaking, his hand still gestured in the air a few times, and it really felt like a character in the shadow puppet.

Someone laughed, but Zhang Shun and Chen Qi widened their eyes at the same time. Their eyes met and immediately saw what they wanted. They almost shouted "Get some paper and pen."

Everyone in his subordinates knew that Zhang Shun had this habit, so they immediately invited them into the house. At this time, paper and pen were already placed on the table. Then Zhang Shun and Chen Qi walked over to pick up a pen and began to draw on their own.

After a while, the two of them took out their own drawings and couldn't help laughing at each other. It turned out that although the things they drew were different, their main ideas came up together.

Due to the accumulation of thousands of years, Zhang Shun directly drew a water pressure bed, with the operating board below a press above it. As long as you put the things on the conveyor belt and send them over, armor will appear on the other side. However, Chen Qi's drawing was more like Gao Jian said, just like a large hammer, pounding the things below.

However, the two of them thought of the main core component, which is how this hydraulic press should operate. Zhang Shun knew that he had a lot of knowledge and imagination was well-documented, but he did not expect that Chen Qi could make such an imagination without knowing anything. He had to sigh again that he was a genius.

"General, you draw this one better." Chen Qi also praised Zhang Shun's ideas because he saw some future development directions from the final end.

But Zhang Shun smiled and patted his shoulder, "Chen Qi, you are really amazing. OK, I'll leave this thing to you."
Chapter completed!