Family Ascension: Starting as a Grandfather
Chapter 617

Menghe Mountain Pass

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"They're all martial artists?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"Of course. Two thousand heavy-armored infantry, all the fiercest warriors in my camp. Every one of them has cultivation at the Strength Refining level, and the squad leaders among them are all Post-Heaven Martial Artists!" Yang Chengxu said, his face full of pride.

This kid was getting a little carried away, but he did have the right to be.

It wasn't that Da Rong had no heavy-armored infantry, but their numbers were very small. Among the Twelve Camps of the Imperial Guard and the Sixteen Guards of the Imperial Personal Guard, there were iron-armored heavy cavalry and heavy-armored infantry, but all told, they numbered only a little over ten thousand.

As for the Nine Great Frontier Towns, it was likely that only Chongshan Town had the financial power to form iron-armored heavy cavalry and heavy-armored infantry like this.

In the other frontier towns, the armor used by most Soldiers was mainly Cloth Armor and Leather Armor. Those who could wear Iron Armor were already considered elites.

Cloth Armor had iron plates on the inner layer, while Leather Armor had iron plates inlaid on the outer layer. Both possessed a certain defensive ability, while also blocking wind and warding off cold, making them the most suitable for use in Da Rong's northern frontier towns.

Thus, in the past, most of Chongshan Town's Soldiers had been equipped with Cloth Armor and Leather Armor.

But now the Zhenbiao Five Battalions mainly used Iron Armor. Even if they were not iron-armored heavy cavalry or heavy-armored infantry, the armor on their bodies was iron-made Mountain Pattern Armor.

The Zhenbiao Five Battalions also had light-armored cavalry, clad in blue Cloth Armor, but they were scouts and messengers in the army.

Yang Zhengshan Looked At them and discovered that the

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