Chapter 171 Rather be a peaceful dog, don't be chaotic and leave people (ask for full order~)

The furnace is built in a small mountain, half in the mountain, half underground, close to Weiming Lake, because the furnace needs to experiment with new iron-smelting technology, and every breakthrough represents an increase in ignition point, so close to the lake is the best location.

The furnace cave is completely built with iron, because the heat conduction of iron is fast, if it is not fixed with iron, it is easy to cause the stone to crack and collapse due to the high temperature, but the floor is paved with insulated tiles to avoid heat conduction burns.

Walking down the tile ladder, he obviously felt that the temperature was getting higher and higher, Wang Xu could only take off his coat, only wore his robe and walked inside, walking nearly 100 meters, feeling that his breathing was already not smooth, and the roar of the blacksmith from inside was getting louder and louder.

"Meet the Emperor!" The chief of the guard guarding the refining furnace was naked, with only a silk cloth around his waist to cover his shame, and he was obviously startled when he saw Wang Xu.

"Don't kneel, what's going on inside?" Wang Xu waved his hand.

"Not busy, not busy." Mo Chou hurriedly said.

"You're here to be stationed, not to soak in the soup." Mo Geng frowned, looked at Mo Chou, and said coldly: "Disheveled, if someone attacks, how should you defend it?" ”

"Big brother doesn't know, it's too hot in this refining furnace, even if there is an enemy attacking, you have to remove your armor and fight hand-to-hand when you come here." Mo Chou said with a smile.

"Poor mouth!" Mo Geng frowned and reprimanded, giving him a look.

"Alright, let's go in and have a look." Wang Xu smiled and waved his hand.

Mo Chou put on a dress and carried Wang Xu to the cave inside.

Bypassing a few holes, a scorching heat wave made Wang Xu's breath stagnant.

"The Emperor asks for this," Mo Chou took out a leather mask, which was a kind of heat-insulating mask that Tu Shan Niangzi had modified from Wang Xu's gas mask, and the blacksmith had his face and hair burned while working.

However, now the blacksmiths in the Lone Bamboo Country are all bald, which is easy to identify.

After Wang Xu put on the mask, he did feel better, and it was better than nothing.

A little further on, a huge underground building, with the eyes of the seeping red glow, hundreds of naked and bald heads screaming something, busy going back and forth in this building.

At the same time, next to the building are mountains of ore, and steel that has been refined but not crafted.

Wang Xu didn't let Mo Chou alarm others, and circled around this underground blast furnace, looking at the underground magma-like molten steel, there was a shocking feeling.

"The Emperor is still far away from this dangerous place." Mo Geng broke out in a cold sweat and held Wang Xu's probe to probe his brain.

Wang Xu waved his hand, went around in a circle, and finally went to another cave to find Tushan Niangzi.

The cave was cooler and cleaner, but there were iron scraps everywhere and some oddly shaped broken weapons.

Tu Shan Lady was pounding on something on the iron table in the cave.

After feeling that someone was coming, he frowned and was a little displeased, and dared to reprimand, but after finding out that it was Wang Xu, he hurriedly knelt down to say goodbye.

"No need to be polite." Wang Xu took off his mask, wiped the sweat on his face, walked to the iron table and picked up what she was drumming up, and chuckled, "Screws? ”

"Yes." Tu Shan Niangzi said with some embarrassment, "Since seeing the Emperor's divine blade, the minister has been studying this kind of screw you said, and the minister found that this is indeed a delicate and extreme object, used to fix weapons, which is harder than forging and casting, especially long soldiers, which can be fixed more steadily." ”

"But it doesn't seem to be effective." Wang Xu glanced at the screw residue on a table and smiled.

"The steel is not hard enough, and this little object is too brittle to make." Tu Shan sighed.

"Take your time, don't rush." Wang Xu smiled: "How is the output now?" ”

"When the ore is sufficient, the furnace is full of refining, and sixty swords can be produced in a day." Tu Shan replied, "The amount of steel is close to a thousand catties a day, but there is a shortage of blacksmiths, so most of the steel is used to pour the road or the house support." ”

A sword is about ten catties, an ordinary spear or a long ge is about seven catties, and higher-level equipment such as a heavy cavalry gun may weigh more than thirty catties, which is not only the demand for steel, but also requires a lot of manual tempering and forging.

Moreover, the time spent on a heavy riding spear of more than thirty pounds is definitely not as simple as three times that of a sword.

The armor consumption is more, and it may only produce one or two qualified heavy armors a day.

That is to say, the production of Guzhu National Steel is sufficient, but there is a shortage of blacksmiths.

It's not that Wang Xu is unwilling to expand the iron-smelting department, but now he doesn't need too many armament reserves, as long as he can ensure the supply of the army, he is more concerned about the quality and function of weapons and equipment.

Wang Xu screened the various weapons data of the West and China in the computer, and then handed it over to Tu Shan Niangzi for study, but the archaeological data can only tell you the structure, and cannot tell you the forging method and iron smelting formula completely, after all, it is not a professional weapon manufacturing data, so you can only rely on Tu Shan Niang to slowly experiment in order to perfectly copy those weapons, but this process is very slow.

Up to now, in addition to modifying the hook and sickle of the musket cavalry on the basis of Changge, Tushan Niangzi has not improved much in other weapons, and it is still the type of weapon in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the material has become steel and is harder.

And Wang Xu's pursuit is to be able to use advanced weapons, so that the soldiers of the Lone Bamboo Kingdom can completely defeat the other party on the battlefield.

For example, the Fire Phoenix Army that Wang Li envied before, they were configured by Wang Xu according to the prototype of the musket cavalry, the hook and sickle gun controlled the enemy, and then killed with a hand crossbow, so that whether it was facing the Central Plains cavalry or the infantry, they had strong mobility, after all, the hook and sickle spear that was more than two meters long and nearly three meters long had a lot of room to escape.

However, a special army like the Fire Phoenix Army is equivalent to a live target in the face of infantry that can form formations and more mobile rangers.

Many people think that cavalry is born to restrain infantry, but this is not the case.

Any kind of long-pole soldier in the infantry, long ge, halberd soldier, pikeman, their weapon length is at least three meters or more, and some can even reach five meters long, the shield soldiers form a tortoiseshell formation outside, and the pikemen put their weapons outside, then the cavalry is basically helpless, especially the light cavalry.

Therefore, it is necessary to charge the battle with heavy horses, and the iron cavalry is the standard heavy cavalry set by Wang Xu, a moose with a weight and impact force several times higher than that of a war horse, with a heavy armor on the horse and a heavy cavalry spear of nearly fifty catties and a three-meter-long cone, which can theoretically tear apart any battle formation.

But the same weakness is also light cavalry, before Li Xin used four cavalry who were good at lassos to guerrilla kite iron horse, as long as the lasso hooked the moose horse's hooves, then the kite iron horse is a live target, will be hammered alive.

Therefore, to take the initiative to pursue the light cavalry, you can only rely on the crossbow soldiers or archers, so Wang Xu can match these two types of troops with chains or shackles, so that the light cavalry can be encircled into goats in the sheepfold by others in the array.

But if you want to build these weapons, it will definitely be difficult to achieve them in a short time with Tu Shan's personal ability, so Wang Xu will recruit her master, and Wang Xu now has enough strength to recruit the disciples and grandchildren of Ouye's disciples.

"What we lack is not a blacksmith, but a master blacksmith." Wang Xu shook his head with a smile and put down the screws in his hand.

Tu Shan raised her eyebrows slightly.

"I remember you said before that you have a senior brother in the Qi Kingdom, if I leave you behind, you will go to him?" Wang Xu asked with a smile.

"The grace of the emperor, the Tu Shan clan is unforgettable." Tu Shan Niangzi avoided the heavy and light, knelt on the ground and said.

"The destruction of the country is imminent." Wang Xu shook his head and smiled.

Tu Shan's body trembled, and she looked up at Wang Xu in surprise, "What?" ”

"Yesterday, the front-line scouts brought back news that the Yan State had actually surrendered to the Qin State, and the Qin army had been stationed in Liaoyang City to confront Donghu outside the city, and the Donghu combat power was already less than six layers, and there were more than 300,000 Donghu rangers, and there were less than 200,000 left at this time." Wang Xu sat on the rattan chair and said.

"Qi State, Qi State has an army of 600,000 troops, strong soldiers and strong horses, and the advantage of a strong city, it is impossible for the Qin army to conquer it easily." Tu Shan said in a deep voice.

"Meng Tian has been besieging Linzi for half a month." Wang Xu sighed lightly.

Tu Shan's lady raised her head suddenly, her face full of shock.

"And the King of Qi is mediocre, he is unwilling to fight against Qin, so what if he has more troops?" Wang Xu shook his head and said, "After the Qin army annihilates Donghu, the Qi country will surrender, and when the time comes, I don't know how your brother should deal with himself, he seems to be the key culprit of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin." ”

Tu Shan's face turned pale, and she kowtowed to the ground and said sadly, "Please ask the emperor for help!" ”

"Lonely bamboo to Qi land, more than thousands of miles, and if you want to enter Qi land, it will inevitably attract the attention of the Qi army, and the Tu Shan clan doesn't want to see my lonely bamboo warriors bloody Qi land." Wang Xu sighed deeply.

Tu Shan's eyes flashed with different colors, and she pursed her lips and said, "Tu Tan has a way to sneak into Qi Land quietly, as long as the emperor can help him pass through the blockade of the Qin army, General Wang Ben is Da Liangzao's father, and you are Da Liangzao's best friend and life-saving benefactor." ”

Wang Xu looked at Tu Shan's sincere face and raised her eyebrows slightly, "It seems that Tu Tan didn't tell you the truth about me sending him to see Wang Ben at that time." ”

Tu Shan's lady looked stunned again.

"Maybe it's for you guys." Wang Xu pretended to be sad and shook his head, "In this case, you can repair a letter to your brother or relative, and I will go and say hello to Wang Li, no matter what the situation is, I must give it a try." ”

"Thank you for the emperor's grace, from now on, the Tu Shan clan has nothing to repay, but is willing to go to the soup for the emperor, Zen heart, until death." After the Tu Shan lady kowtowed heavily, she lifted her sleeves, picked up the dagger on the table, and swore with blood.

Wang Xu stretched out his hand to dodge the dagger, and helped her up with a smile, "Tu Shan's clan is an important minister of the Lonely Bamboo Country, and the dumb child is now doing his best for the country, the family doesn't speak two words, I just want to ask you, can you live in the Lonely Bamboo Country safely." ”

Tu Shan's body trembled suddenly, looking at Wang Xu's strange heavy pupils, she didn't know what to say, so she could only nod heavily.

"It's good to be stable, and now I should believe that there is still some truth in obeying the dumb child's decision at the beginning." Wang Xu smiled and waved his hand, "Don't disturb your work, just let Mo Chou hand it to me after the letter is written." ”

"Congratulations to the Emperor." Tu Shan Lady came back to her senses and bowed down to see her off.

"Oh, yes." Wang Xu walked to the entrance of the cave and said with a smile again, "Stability, in this troubled world, is more important than anything else." Rather be a peace dog, don't be chaotic and leave people. ”

After hearing this, Tu Shan Niangzi fell into deep thought again.