"Wonderful, senior brother, why didn't I think of it." Zhang Hao said with a hippie smile.

"Don't pat me on the back." Tong Fei glared at him.

"Hehe, senior brother, there is another thing, called stirrups, which is a pair of pedals hung on both sides of the saddle for the rider to step on when he gets on the horse and when he rides.

"The role of the stirrup is not only to help people get on the horse, but also to support the feet of the cavalry when riding, so as to maximize the advantages of riding, and at the same time effectively protect the safety of the cavalry and further free the hands of the rider."

"Zihan, this is an artifact, in this case, a cavalry with the same combat power, equipped with a saddle stirrup, can fight two that are not equipped." Tong Fei is not calm.

If one side has these equipment, the side that does not have it is even a little stronger, and it is not the opponent of the equipped side.

Just like two people with the same strength, one holding a branch and the other holding a sword, as long as the difference in strength is not particularly large, it must be a victory with a sword.

"Senior brother, don't be impatient, I haven't finished yet." Zhang Hao smiled, Tong Fei rarely lost his temper.

"And? Say it quickly, say it quickly. ”

"The last piece is called a horseshoe, which is cast with iron into such a crescent shape and nailed to the horse's hooves, which not only protects the horse's hooves, but also makes the horse's hooves grip the ground more firmly, which is very beneficial for riding." Zhang Hao said while painting.

This horseshoe is said to have appeared only in the Yuan Dynasty, and as for the saddle stirrup, it seems that it appeared among the nomads two or three hundred years later.

"Don't waste time, get someone to make it, I'll have to put this horseshoe on my bone-piercing dragon." Tong Fei urged Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao shook his head, turned around and walked towards the blacksmith shop, wondering if the two masters had settled down.

"What is the difference between the weapon you have made in this way and the agricultural equipment, no, no, no."

"You're so time-consuming, it's going to take a lot of effort and when'll be able to equip it."

Before Zhang Hao arrived at the door, he heard the voices of the two, as if they were arguing about something, Zhang Hao walked to the door and looked inside.

I saw that Tie Chun and Guo Da were arguing, while the other blacksmiths were standing aside, looking at the two, and no one could interject.

Zhang Hao smiled bitterly and shook his head, he didn't expect these two to be so active, they just started working here, but they didn't know why they quarreled.

"Why are you arguing here?" Zhang Hao walked in and asked.

When the two "adults" saw Zhang Hao coming in, they stopped arguing and wanted Zhang Hao to give up.

"My lord, Tiande is not kind, and he wants to make shoddy things and confuse you." Tie Chun said with a glare.

"My lord Mingjian, how can you fool adults below." Guo Da hurriedly explained.

"Tiande, I believe in you, sincerely, you should also be a little restless." Zhang Hao smiled bitterly and mediated.

After some inquiry, it turned out that the two had a difference of opinion, so they quarreled.

Tie Chun advocates that the wrought iron should be repeatedly folded and forged into steel, but at least 100 times should be forged, one forged and one weighed and one light, until the catties are not reduced, that is, hundreds of steel.

Each of these weapons made of 100 steels can be called divine weapons, but it takes a lot of effort and effort, and it is impossible for a powerful blacksmith like Tie Chun to create multiple weapons in a short period of time.

Guo Da, on the other hand, wants to use "fried steel" to build, this method is to heat pig iron to a liquid or semi-liquid state, use air blast or sprinkle concentrate powder and then stir continuously to reduce the carbon content to the range of steel.

Frying steel can quickly build equipment and can be mass-produced, but the quality is much worse, so it is said to be shoddy by Tie Chun.

In Tie Chun's eyes, this fried steel is just a semi-finished product of 100 steel, how can he directly build weapons.

"Chengzhi, you misunderstood Tiande, he just wants to build the weapon quickly." Zhang Hao smiled and comforted the puffing Tie Chun.

"Then you can't rush it and fool people with those half-finished products." Tie Chun muttered.

"You really can't rush it, let me think about it." Zhang Hao said and pondered.

Zhang Hao was going to equip these private soldiers with the best weapons and armor, but according to Tie Chun's method, he couldn't equip a team in a year.

"Chengzhi, you first find a few people in Zhangjiang and use your hundred steels to create a handy weapon for a few of them." Zhang Hao thought for a while and said to Tie Chun.

"Okay, I'll go." Tie Chun heard this and ran out.

"Tiande, you can help me take a look at this ...... first" Zhang Hao talked to Guo Da about the horseshoe again.

"This horseshoe is not difficult, any blacksmith can make it, but no one thought of it before." Guo Da said with some surprise.

"Tiande, find a few blacksmiths to build this horseshoe, the sooner the better."

Zhang Hao decided to punch out the horseshoe first, and then talk about it after the saddle stirrup and other weapons were built.

"No problem, I don't know what the Lord wants about this weapon." Guo Da asked.

"I have a method here, which can be forged in large quantities, although it is not as good as 100 steel, but it is also much stronger than frying steel, but I only know a little bit of skin, and I still need Tiande to lead people to test and improve." Zhang Hao said.

"Your Excellency still knows how to forge forges?" Guo Da asked in surprise.

"It's just that I've heard people say this method, I don't understand, as for whether it's feasible or not, it depends on Tiande you." Zhang Hao said with some embarrassment.

"I want to hear about it."

"This method uses wrought iron as the raw iron, placed in the furnace, and the pig iron plate is placed at the furnace mouth, when the pig iron plate begins to melt, the pig iron plate is clamped with tongs to move left and right, and the material iron is constantly turned over, so that the material iron is evenly poured into the pig iron liquid."

"This method is very magical, but whether you can get good steel has to be tested." Guo Da said, and took people to the test.

After some experiments, Guo Da found Zhang Hao, holding a steel plate in his hand.

"My lord, it's done." Seeing Zhang Hao, Guo Da called excitedly.

"Show me." Zhang Hao also wanted to see how the steel forged by this method was.

Zhang Hao took the steel plate and looked at it carefully, it was indeed much better than frying steel, but it was much worse than 100 steel.

"My lord, this is only forged from wood, if it can be forged from graphite, it must not be much worse than a hundred steels." Guo Da said.

"Graphite...... Ah, why don't Tiande use graphite forging? At first, Zhang Hao didn't think about what graphite was, but then he remembered that this graphite was coal, and the people at this time were called graphite.

"My lord, the price of this graphite is extremely high," Guo Da said weakly......

At this time, graphite was still a rare thing, and ordinary people had never heard of it, and Guo Daneng knew it because he had heard it mentioned when he was learning forging.

"No problem, you go and prepare for mass production, I'll take care of the graphite." Zhang Hao said.

"By the way, before the graphite arrives, let's cast the horseshoe with all our might."

"Yes, sir."