Chapter 472: 471. Winged Cavalry (5)

According to Li Du's inquiries, the estimated value of this set of silver armor is about 500,000 US dollars.

Five hundred thousand dollars is quite a lot. He is not a rich man yet, but it doesn't do much for him.

Because he didn't buy a house or land in the United States, he bought a few cars and supported two employees. He didn't spend much money, and he had plenty of money.

Relatively speaking, if you donate this armor, you will gain more.

After donating to the local museum, he can gain fame first, and the museum will honor him. In this way, if he wants to immigrate or what he wants to do in the future, the museum can help him prove his official favorability.

Second, it can be tax deductible. It has been Fu Boss who has been helping to pay taxes on behalf of them. In terms of their income, the amount of tax paid is really terrifying, which is really distressing!

Li Du mainly focused on these two gains, as long as they were obtained, the plan could be said to be complete.

As soon as Sophie heard that he was going to donate something to the museum, she immediately became interested and asked, "What do you want to donate?"

Li Du said: "A set of armor should be of some value, I have a chance to see your father."

Sophie asked curiously, but Li Du didn't hide much from her, and told some of the truth. He didn't talk about his grievances with Pol York and others, nor where the liar got the armor. He only said that he got the armor by killing a wave of liars.

After listening, the female doctor admired: "You are too good. You identified the liars and punished them. This is so cool."

Li Du smiled and said: "They did it to themselves, this time is also lucky, otherwise I might be fooled."

Sophie nodded approvingly: "I've met liars before, they are so hateful, they cheated us of a batch of equipment donated to the community hospital, and caused us to lose tens of thousands of dollars!"

Talking about the liars I have encountered in life, they talked about this armor.

Sophie said: "You made the right choice to donate to the museum. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to call on people to donate their things to the museum, but it's dangerous to keep this armor in your hands."

Li Du had the same idea as her, obviously, everyone was not stupid.

On the way, Sophie called her parents and learned that Li Du would donate a silver armor with cultural relic value. Martin and his wife became interested and drove to Sophie's residence.

Li Du took out the armor and put it in the living room. Sophie was wiping it with a dry rag to clean out all the dust and stains in the joints of the armor.

Pushing open the door and seeing this set of armor, the little old man walked over quickly to look it over.

After roughly looking at it, he judged the identity of the armor: "Very good, this is the hussars armor of the Grand Duchy of Poland. It is plated with silver on the outside and has the family emblem on it. Obviously it is a noble hussars armor. "

Li Du asked: "How long is it about? What is Hussars? Are they cavalry with wings?"

Mr. Martin said: "Let me answer your second question first. If you understand the second question, then you also understand the first question."

After a pause, he licked his lips. Li Du put on a posture of listening carefully, but he said, "Sophie, my dear girl, everyone is going to have a history seminar, and you don't even have coffee?"

The female doctor who was teasing Ah Ao raised her head and made a face at him, walked into the kitchen, and soon brought out steaming coffee and snacks.

"What a good girl." Mr. Martin said with a grin. He took a sip of his coffee and began to explain.

"As I said, this armor belongs to the Principality of Poland, which is in Eastern Europe, and cavalry has always played an extremely important role in the armies of Eastern European countries."

"However, Poland's cavalry equipment is somewhat different from other countries, because they need to participate in European Catholic affairs, so as an Eastern European country, their equipment has absorbed some technologies brought about by the military development of Western European countries."

"Next, I'm going to introduce Lithuania's military power. Be prepared, this hussar armor involves a long history."

Li Du asked, "Is it still related to Lithuania?"

"Yes, Poland and Lithuania have been united many times in history, and this armor is a product of the union. At that time, with the increasing threat to Poland from the Ottoman Empire and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Poland and Lithuania were united."

Mr. Martin said: "Afterwards, Stephen Bathory, the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, will face a huge problem, that is, how to combine the important existing cavalry units of Poland and Lithuania into one that can adapt to the battlefields of western and eastern Europe. The cavalry on board."

"The solution given by Stephen Bathory is to bring the hussar fashion from Hungary and some cavalry combat systems from the Ottoman Empire into the Federation to form a hussar army."

"In the past, the military nobles of Poland and Lithuania were integrated into a new cavalry regiment. During this period, plate armor, lobster armor, and plate chain armor appeared. This is the one you see now."

As he spoke, he patted the silver armor on the ground.

Hearing this, Sophie, who was holding Ah Ao, turned her head curiously: "This is a breastplate? Isn't this a chain mail?"

Mr. Martin smiled and said, "No, it doesn't completely belong to the breastplate, nor does it completely belong to the chain mail. It can be regarded as a new armor combining the two."

"In addition to the armor, there are also weapons to be redesigned. In order to improve the mobility of the cavalry, the heavy but powerful Western European cavalry in the past disappeared from the Polish-Lithuanian hussars and replaced it with a long hollow cavalry. gun."

Li Du picked up the silver spear divided into sections on the ground and said, "This is it?"

"Yes, it is this kind of lance. It is a weapon used by the Poles. They are longer than the heavy lances in Western Europe, but at the same time they are much slender than the heavy lances. They are both deterrent and powerful. Lethal."

"So far, our theme has come out. The combined cavalry army has become a new type of effective lethal force on the European battlefield. The new Polish-Lithuanian hussars will soon become an invincible sword for the Federation on the battlefield."

"Although the new armor and weapons are effective in actual combat, the nobles are not satisfied with their monotonous appearance. Some hussars gradually began to wear decorations assembled from feathers."

Mr. Martin picked up the armor and turned it over, exposing the back part.

There are clips on the back of this set of armor. Li Du didn't notice it before, but after seeing it now, he suddenly asked, "Is this where the feather decorations are inserted?"

"Yes and no," Mr. Martin said, "This place is used to insert wooden bars, and the feather decorations are inserted on the wooden bars, and do not directly contact the armor."

"After the feathers are inserted on the wooden bars, they spread out to both sides, which looks like two wings. Therefore, the hussars were also called hussars later, and this kind of armor was also called hussars armor."