Chapter 89: Three Great Mountains

Shen Huanwen stood up and said, "I've drunk the tea, and I've rested enough, why don't you hurry up and take us to see your baby?"

"You...... Bandits!" Huangfu Jiang looked at the arrogant Shen Huanwen, and said with disdain: "Xiucai meets soldiers, you can't explain it, you are really ......"

Shen Huanwen laughed, directly pulled up Huangfu Jiang, and interrupted: "What are you doing crookedly? In fact, I have long wanted to show off your baby in my heart, can I help you say it?"

Huangfu Jiang was really speechless and said: "For the sake of Brother Su's face, I won't bother with you today, please!"

Everyone took the elevator to the basement floor, and the moment the door opened, Su Yuan was very shocked, and his eyes were full of colors, and the light of thousands of swords was dazzling and shining.

Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period, Qin and Han Dynasties, Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song and Yuan Dynasties, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Republic of China......

Looking at it all the way, it is like wandering in the long river of history, cruising in 5,000 years of civilization, which is fascinating.

Huangfu Jiang looked at the expressions of the three of them proudly, this is the proudest achievement in this life, especially Su Yuan, who is a top master, everyone rarely got together, and began to discuss the process technology with great interest, and the atmosphere became more and more harmonious.

Su Yuan took a brief look at it and nodded secretly, Huangfu Jiang is worthy of being a top collector, with a very high level, and it is basically a rare boutique on the market.

There are at least hundreds of Yellow Light Swords, most of which are of the same quality as the Flowing Water Sword, and there are twenty or thirty that are even better, and they have already reached the realm of the Seven Star Sword.

"This is ......" Everyone came to a row of display cases, Su Yuan's eyes lit up, picked up a scimitar, and studied it carefully.

"There are three mountains pressed on the head of the traditional sword, namely: *** ethnic groups, including India, Iran, Afghanistan, Bukhara, Turkey and other countries of Damascus plane pattern blade, commonly known as Damascus knife. ”

"The island country's flat fragmented complex dark light pattern blade, that is, the katana, originated from the horizontal knife of the Tang Dynasty, but after thousands of years of development, it has become a complete system, and even evolved into the spiritual symbol of the entire nation. ”

"There are also the classic Western swords of the European Middle Ages, and the saber that is now mass-produced with high technology, which is popular all over the world and has a wide range of uses, which is the most profitable business. ”

Huang Fujiang couldn't help but sigh: "Since ancient times, the casting technology of pattern blades has been extremely complex and difficult, and the sword caster has kept it secret, and only a few people can be lucky enough to get it, which is extremely precious. The royal families and nobles of all countries in the world are proud to have received the best blades. The casting technique of the patterned blade also varies depending on the region and the difference in the person who holds the blade. ”

Uzi Steel!

Scenes flashed in Su Yuan's eyes, and the blade of the knife was covered with various patterns, like flowing water, which was wonderful and abnormal. The unique smelting technique and forging method have always been a technical secret of the Persians, hidden from the outside world.

He said with a smile: "The smelted pattern steel blade produced in Persia has a vein like a silk weave and is dazzling; the pattern steel blade produced in India often has a horizontal vein in the shape of dozens of layers of cloud trapezoids, that is, the so-called Muhammad ladder, which is a strange and precious thing; and the pattern of the Turkish knife is a roll shape, and its veins are like an agate." ”

Napoleon led the cavalry to conquer the world, and no one was beatable, but later met the enemy cavalry wearing the Uzi steel scimitar and returned defeated. Historical records: The damage inflicted on our troops can be described as very staggering, the enemy simply stretched his sword forward, relying on the momentum of the horse and the strength of the wrist to cut the blade into the body of our cavalry, or pulled the blade horizontally, with relative speed to inflict terrible wounds.

After the encounter between the 7th Light Cavalry Regiment and the enemy, some soldiers were even cut into two pieces at the waist, and after the battle, many cavalrymen, many of them had different heads, and even their bodies were cut in two, and the injuries were extremely serious, and the backs of their hands and wrists were all cut off, and the situation was very miserable.

At the end of the battle, Napoleon tested his knife with a piece of captured trophie, and each time he could easily cut off the goat at the waist with a single sword, without resistance, and the blood flowed down the blood trough.

It is said that an Ottoman general once cut a cow in two with a single sword!

Huang Fujiang looked at the scimitar and fell into recollection: "I have traveled to Iran and the Middle East many times in search of the most authentic Damascus knife. ”

"I've seen the locals practice the knife technique, where the practitioner has to stand up and raise the scimitar above his head, quickly slash diagonally, and practice this movement over and over again until he is very proficient. ”

The two of them each grabbed the two corners of a wide and gentle gauze scarf, swung up and down until the whole scarf was full of wind, and then let go of their hands when swinging upward, and the scarf floated softly in the air, at this time the practitioner quickly raised the knife over his head, and cut it from the diagonal to the scarf, if the person was indeed skilled, the scarf was split into two pieces in the air and gently floated to the ground. ”

Su Yuan touched the scimitar in his hand, the gauntlet was silver gilded, the handle was black buffalo horn, and the inside of the scabbard was made of hardwood, wrapped in cowhide, and sewn with gold, silver, and copper thread.

The sheath and the sheath are carved with precious metals such as gold and silver, and the handle and scabbard are inlaid with red coral, turquoise, red sapphire and other treasures, and the knife body is also engraved with the name of the knife maker and the Quranic proverb with the wrong gold and silver craftsmanship, which is gorgeous and abnormal.

Flashing with a rich yellow light, with the faint wonderful pattern of the blade, it is worthy of the top type of cold weapon.

In fact, in the 13th century, Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulegu led two large armies to invade the west, and Damascus and many surrounding cities were severely damaged. The Mongol army ordered the city to be slaughtered, and only skilled craftsmen could save their lives, but they had to follow the Mongol army back to Beijing.

A large number of skilled craftsmen were taken back to the capital, and the Yuan Dynasty ordered the construction of a city about 300 miles south of the capital, named Baoding, which means to defend the capital and stabilize the world.

Many artisans taken from Damascus, organized as artisans, were arranged in Baoding to create luxury goods for the royal nobles of the capital and to make weapons for the army.

Artisan households are subsidized by the government, but they must be passed down from father to son, and they must be craftsmen from generation to generation. The production process of Damascus steel was thus introduced to China and began to take root.

As far as the process is concerned, under the high-power microscope, the so-called unique pattern is actually composed of countless small sawtooth teeth that are difficult to see with the naked eye, and two materials with different properties, the bright place is snow carbon iron, the hardness is greater than that of glass, and the structure of the dark place belongs to Vostian iron and Bollaite iron.

In ancient warfare, many direct blades were fed with poison, resulting in the black blades of many Damascus steels, and there were shiny snow charcoal iron distributed on the black blades, no wonder some people described it as like stars in the night sky.

Su Yuan put down the scimitar, inspected it, and directly picked up the brightest one, the golden light flashed in the yellow light, Huangfu Jiang couldn't help but secretly admire, twenty or thirty can see the most powerful Maass knife at a glance, and it really lives up to its reputation.

Various scenes flashed in his eyes, and the quenching work had to be started before the sun rose, so as to avoid the sunlight affecting the observation of the radiant fire color of the sword after it was heated.

The heating before quenching is entirely controlled by the knifesmith's experience, and when the radiant fire color of the knife turns a strawberry-like bright red, it is quickly extracted and placed in a wooden trough filled with quenching solution.

The quenching fluid is made from a mixture of sesame oil, lanolin, pure wax and asphalt, etc., and Uzi steel has a high carbon content, which may cause fracture if quenched with water.

The knife is cooled in the quenching solution for ten seconds and then withdrawn and quickly rubbed over a charcoal fire that has not been completely cooled to remove residual grease and at the same time to temper.

The next step is grinding, first using lime and grass ash water to remove oil stains from the blade, then using a piece of wood dipped in oil and steel stone powder to continuously sharpen the sword, and using hematite powder to polish the sword finely.

Then the sword is smeared with a weakly acidic solution, and under the cleaning of the weak acid, the unique pattern of Uzi steel is clearly presented, and finally the sword is wiped clean, and it is stainless for a hundred years.