After the horses arrived at the warehouse without any issue, Liu Mang was at a loss as to what to do about the armors and weapons. How do I purchase this stuff?! Weapons like blades and spears were all tightly controlled by the government. Only minor ethnic groups were able to obtain those.
Even buying regular kitchen knives requires identification. If Liu Mang went and purchase a couple thousand of those, he would certainly be arrested.
Armor? Although it wasn’t something that they limit purchases on, it was still something that requires time to make. Kaiyang could only hold Cao Cao back for three days. Liu Mang only had three days too! That’s why Liu Mang had a huge headache. Should Kaiyang be captured, according to Cao Cao’s character, everyone will certainly be killed.
Liu Mang didn’t know when he began to deeply worry about Boss Lu, Chen Gong and them.
“Boss, what are you thinking?!” Chen Yu had been following Liu Mang ever since. He had already decided to become Liu Mang’s lackey. Liu Mang also decided to have someone help him take care of and purchase things when he returned back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. Thus, he decided to take in Chen Yu.
“I want to purchase armor and cold weapons!” replied Liu Mang
“What’s the use of buying those things?!” Chen Yu didn’t understand why Liu Mang wanted to purchase those things. He figured Liu Mang wanted them as toys. “if it’s just one or two, can’t you custom order them?!”
“What I want isn’t just one or two of them. I want five thousand spears and five thousand armor!” The horses will be used to create cavalry units when he goes back. And the one very distinctive weapon of cavalry was the spear.
“Five thousand spears?! That many?!” Chen Yu was a bit speechless. If there really was a manufacturer that would make five thousand spears, that manufacturer was certainly trying to run itself into the ground. Five thousand armors, on the other hand, wasn’t a problem.
“I have some friends who want to role play the battles of the cold weapons era and reproduce its brilliance. The five thousand sets of weapons and armors was precisely prepared for them!” Liu Mang’s casual lying skills became even more profound.
“So rich!” Chen Yu simply did some calculations in his mind. Five thousand sets of armor and weapons will certainly cost tens of millions. What a bunch of wasteful rich kids!
“It’s them who have the money, I’m actually just a proxy for them!” Liu Mang created another fake identity.
“Although our country has weapons regulations, there’s no such thing abroad. You could purchase those weapons in another country!” suggested Chen Yu.
“It’s not that I didn’t want to go abroad, it’s just that I don’t have time for that! In another day and half, I have to turn in all that stuff! There’s not enough time at all!” Liu Mang was also very anxious.
“Spears. Spears?!” Chen Yu suddenly remembered. “Boss, although we cannot purchase spears, we could purchase the javelins that are used in sports!”
“Javelin?!” Liu Mang’s eyes also lit up.
“Yeah, Javelins! Nowadays, the javelins are all constructed from steel. Although the tip is made of rubber, we could have someone produce spearheads for them using steel pipes! If we do it like that, we wouldn’t violate the law and could still procure five thousand spears!” Chen Yu’s idea got Liu Mang totally excited.
“That’s it! How come I didn’t think of it?!” Liu Mang was once a javelin thrower. Javelins are just the modern adaptation of ancient spears. They can certainly replace the spears that he needs. In fact, the quality of modern javelins was certainly going to be better than the ancient spears.
Javelins ranged from 1.5 meters to 2.8 meters. This length was definitely good enough to make spears since the most suitable spears of cavalries was around three meters.
“What about the armors?!” Although they managed to procure the spears, the cavalry units also need armors. Other than light cavalry which wore leather armor, the rest were all heavy cavalry wearing metal armors.
If they didn’t have any armor, then winning against the Ferocious Cavalry that’s outside of Kaiyang wasn’t something that was certain anymore.
“Armor!” Chen Yu was also thinking. “Polishing is required for armor to be comfortable for the wearer. There’s also the need for engraving. There won’t be enough time for sure!”
“Polishing, be comfortable, engravings?!” Liu Mang froze for a bit. “No need, no need! Those friends of mine only wanted to recreate the scene of the cold weapons era! We don’t need some ornate armor, just ordinary whole body armor would do!”
“In that case, it’d be easy to handle. Boss, you just have to find a large lathe factory. There are turning lathes and turning mills everywhere, just have them press some steel for you. You don’t even have to bring your own tools, you’d just have to pay them! A lathe mill could make some tens of sets of armor in a day. If it’s a large lathe factory, five thousand armors in a day is something easy for them to make!” Chen Yu really knew a lot more about the world than Liu Mang. After all, before Liu Mang crossed through time, he was just an otaku type person.
“Chen Yu, Ah Yu, you helped me greatly!” Liu Mang’s two major problems were resolved by Chen Yu instantly.