"Two thousand sets of heavy cavalry armor?"

Hearing Mo Zizai's request, Tao Qiong was shocked. Among the troops of this era, heavy cavalry can be said to be a real killing weapon. When the people and horses are all wearing armor, ordinary chopping and bows and arrows can't do anything to them.

To be honest, if two thousand fully armed heavy cavalry soldiers could exert all their power, they would be enough to defeat the 50,000 army head-on.

It is no exaggeration to them to be called the king of land warfare in the cold weapon era.

But such a powerful army is not without a price.

First of all, the heavy cavalry has poor mobility. Although it is a cavalry with six legs, the heavy cavalry with armor weighs nearly 500 kilograms. With such a large weight, even horses in this world can't stand it.

Therefore, during general marching, the marching speed of heavy cavalry will not be much faster than that of infantry. Moreover, because of the slower speed, heavy cavalry is easily targeted by the enemy. Once it is ambushed on a terrain that cannot charge, the heavy cavalry is the target of riding on a horse.

Therefore, heavy cavalry relies extremely on the cooperation of troops, and a single two thousand heavy cavalry is useless.

And the cost.

First of all, the price of horses. The Great Zhou did not have much ranch, so most war horses were purchased from the Beiman side. However, although the people in the Beiman side had not yet been civilized, they were not bad at dealing with wild beasts all year round. The price of selling war horses to the Great Zhou side was extremely expensive.

The second is the price of armor. The armor of heavy cavalry is far more expensive than the price of armor of ordinary soldiers, whether in terms of material, thickness or workmanship.

In terms of cost, a set of heavy cavalry armor can create at least ten sets of infantry armor.

In addition to horses and armor, the most important thing is people. The armor of heavy cavalry is extremely heavy, and ordinary people cannot wear such armor at all, let alone use it for combat.

Therefore, the only ones that can afford this kind of armor and use it for combat are generally the elite physical cultivation in the army.

The construction is difficult, the scope of use is small, the requirements for knights are high, and the various shortcomings make it difficult for heavy cavalry to become popular. Even Mo Congyi and Tang Shuyu were only built with 300 heavy cavalry during their peak period in the East Realm.

Now Mo Zizai asks for two thousand sets, which immediately makes Tao Qiong feel that Mo Zizai must be crazy.

"Prince, this thing is average in practicality. What are you doing for this thing?"

"You don't have to worry about this, I have its own uses."

Mo Zizai didn't say much, but just reminded him, "By the way, the strength of the armor should be twice that of the normal armor."

"double……"

There were some things that Mo Zizai didn't want to say much, so Tao Qiong naturally didn't dare to ask again, but the double intensity that Mo Zizai asked for really made him feel embarrassed.

"The armor of the heavy cavalry is forged by cold forging. There are not many good materials on the way up, but the materials are too heavy. Even if the materials are made of the armor, most people cannot wear it."

"Secondly, those materials are too hard, and only a few people in our Military Weapons Bureau can fight those materials. If one or two weapons and armor are OK, they will be able to make two thousand sets at once, and they may not be able to fight even if they give them more than ten years."

"Too heavy?" Mo Zizai pondered for a moment and asked, "How heavy is it?"

"If you want to build in large quantities, the most suitable material is undoubtedly the iron."

Tao Qiong thought for a while, then continued: "The ink iron is more than twice the heavier than ordinary fine iron. It is usually used to build shields. If it is made into armor, it will probably weigh about 500 kilograms."

"If it is used in the army, I'm afraid only warriors in the refining realm can wear it and move freely."

"Is the essence refining realm?"

After hearing this answer, Mo Zizai seemed very satisfied. "If you can wear the essence refining realm, then use ink iron to create two thousand sets of heavy armor."

"As for the problem of the incoming iron, I can find some strong warriors to act as coolies for you. What kind of cultivation can forge incoming iron? You tell me that I will find you a thousand."

Seeing Mo Zizai's confidence-filled appearance, Tao Qiong couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Go back to the prince, creating Mo Tie requires the strength of the Youzhao Realm."

"Smile...smile???"

Mo Zizai's expression of confidence just now froze on his face.

As a quasi-first-class warrior in this world, Youzhao Realm is not a cabbage. Not to mention anything else, just talk about the entire Tianjing City, whether it is squatting at home and locking up or the old one is about to die, one of these warriors is counted as one, and it would be nice to have one thousand of them in total.

As a result, Tao Qiong actually said that he wanted a warrior from the Youzhao Realm to come and imitate him, and Mo Zi found a thousand warriors from the Youzhao Realm to go there.

"Amistantor Tao, are you enjoying this king?"

Mo Zizai looked at Tao Qiong with some suspicion, "Your Military Weapon Bureau should have made weapons with ink iron before. Can you still have martial artists in the Youzhao Realm?"

"Also, you said you need to use the Youzhao Realm to attack Mo Tie. Wouldn't that say that even the Ningyuan Realm cannot break the defense of Mo Tie? What are you kidding?"

"The prince is clear, how dare the prince entertains the prince?"

Tao Qiong quickly explained, "If you want to break through the defense of Mo Tie alone, a martial artist in Qihai Realm can do it, and the Condensation Yuan Realm is no problem."

"But iron-smashing is a job of hard work. If you want to create a pair of ink iron heavy armor, if you are alone, it will take at least one month to go through it."

"If it is a martial artist from Qihai Realm and Ningyuan Realm, it can be created, but this..."

"I understand!"

After Tao Qiong said this, Mo Zizai immediately understood that although a warrior who cultivates true qi can strengthen his body when he cultivates true qi, his strongest is true qi.

And the true qi is strong, but the endurance is slightly weaker.

For example, if a martial artist in Qi Condensation Realm asks him to make all his strength to forge ink iron, he can fight for one morning at most and then have to rest for an afternoon. This efficiency is simply touching.

You should know that blacksmiths in this world do not have any labor rules. They usually start to punch irons at dawn in the morning and stop until dark.

In the words of Mo Zizai's previous life, the working hours of the blacksmiths here are at least twelve hours, while those martial artists in Qi Condensation Realm have a maximum of four hours.

Compared with the two, the efficiency of the warriors in the Condensation Yuan realm is simply weak, not even one-third of the people. No wonder Tao Qiong said it was not possible.

But Mo Zizai really can't solve the problem of the Youzhao Realm warrior. You have to know that he only has two Youzhao Realm warriors, Zhou Qi and Jia Fu, and now he needs a thousand. Where can Mo Zizai get him?

I originally thought that at most, it could be done by Qihai Realm, but he could be done by borrowing some people in the Yulin Army. This is two levels away, so how can I borrow it?

"So when your Military Weapon Bureau used to use ink iron to build weapons, they used light-sighted people in the Sioux Realm?"

"That's not."

Tao Qiong shook his head. The military weapon bureau was not as luxurious as that. "Our craftsmen forging soldiers are generally physically cultivated. There are several masters of bone forging craftsmen in the military weapon bureau. Usually, some people need to forge ink iron weapons, and they are all here to take action."

"It's the bone-forging realm."

Mo Zizai had a little headache. Even if he had an accelerator in his hand, the bone-making warrior would not be able to do it for a while. "Is physical cultivation in the essence refining realm okay? Two thousand?"

"Two thousand physical cultivation in the realm of refining essence?"

Tao Qiong was a little shocked, "There are two thousand physical cultivation students under the command of the prince?"

"No."

Mo Zizai deliberately misleads: "But it's enough to get together. Just say it's OK, right?"

"Come on?"

After hearing Mo Zizai's words, Tao Qiong was indeed wrong. He thought Mo Zizai wanted to transfer people from other troops, but no matter which army he was in, he was absolutely elite, so he was not that easy to get.

Although he thought Mo Zizai was whimsical, Tao Qiong didn't talk much. He thought for a while and said, "If it's a warrior in the essence refining realm, the two of them can work together to create it, but the speed may be slower."

"Since that's the case, then this matter is the case first. You can buy Mo Tie and wait until I find two thousand bone forging realms. As for the money to buy Mo Tie, don't leave the treasury account. I will ask Jia Fu to send you the silver he needs."
Chapter completed!