In the era of cold weapons, people often use a hundred forged steel knives to describe how good a knife is.

So over time, people will think that it seems easy to forge steel, just like the sun monkey plucking the roots of the hair and exhaling, and a group of little monkeys will come out.

But what about the facts?

In fact, to understand this problem, just briefly say what kind of procedure is passed through to be forged steel can be called 100 forged steel, in fact, it is understood.

After a piece of steel is formed, it is folded and forged until it is completely fused together, which is a forging.

Hundred forging steel, that is, this procedure should be repeated at least a hundred times!

Even if the standard is a little looser, then at least this process must be repeated more than 80 times to be called 100 forging steel, right?

Therefore, to reach the level of 100 forged steel, the amount of work required is large - after all, this is steel, although the forging is softer, it will definitely not be as soft as mud!

All the steel must be re-forged into a whole every time, and the steel that comes out with a few hammers will have problems, so you can't steal it at all!

Therefore, any piece of steel that can be called a hundred forged steel, a few strong men do not round their arms and smash them for several days, sweating for several catties, it is impossible to get it.

The grenadier cannon barrel being forged in the blacksmith's workshop.

The difficulty of forging each cannon barrel is not lower than that of 100 forged steel, and it is even much higher!

First, the fine steel is folded and forged countless times, and then it is made into a spiral fit state according to the method Zhang Ran said, becoming an initial thin gun barrel model.

Then, following the same process, a second such thin barrel was created, with the only difference being that it was slightly larger than the first.

Then put two thin barrels together, and then burn them red in the furnace, and after countless forgings, the two barrels are melted into one!

Such a process has to be repeated four times, that is, four thin barrels are beaten one by one, and they have to be beaten to the size that fits the use - this is a lot of work, it is simply more than a hundred forged steel!

Now that the whole blacksmith's workshop had stopped all unnecessary forging work, twenty or thirty apprentices were all busy making such cannon barrels!

It's now close to December, and the water drips into ice outside!

The blacksmith workshop is not like the second workshop or the ammunition department, which is built directly in a cave, but except for some houses where materials and coke are placed, the entire building workshop is a large shed with only a roof and no walls, and the cold wind blows into the shed from all directions.

But even so, the workshop is still hot.

Four or five blast furnaces, three or four calciners surrounded this shed-like workshop, bringing a huge amount of temperature to the workshop, plus the temperature emitted by those red iron blocks and the like on the forging table, making the forging workshop in this cold winter full of scorching heat.

Dozens of apprentices and blacksmiths, bare-chested, sweating like rain in the workshop wielding sledgehammers and small hammers, coupled with the clanging percussion, made the workshop full of a hot atmosphere.

Zhang Ran wiped the hot sweat on his head, and saw that he was holding a small hammer and striking on a cannon barrel that was about to take shape, as if pointing the country.

With the striking of his small hammer, the apprentice on the side turned around and smashed the sledgehammer on the barrel of the cannon, and the cooperation was seamless.

Sweat dripped down the red barrel with the flying of the hammer, and evaporated in an instant along with the splashing iron flowers......

This is definitely a scene that shows the beauty of power to the fullest, but it's a pity that Zhang Ran is not in the mood to appreciate it at all - after all, although the grenadier cannon barrel made by this method can reach the level of a seamless steel pipe that is enough to be used in front of it, the efficiency is too low and too low!

"What's your expression?"

Taking advantage of the apprentice's effort to take the half-finished cannon barrel that was already a little insufficient in temperature to the furnace, Niu Da blamed Zhang Ran, obviously, he had noticed Zhang Ran's disgust, and said indignantly: "We can shoot a cannon barrel in three days - what else do you want?" ”

According to his idea, the blacksmith's workshop will shoot one cannon barrel in three days, and the detachment will be able to have ten more grenadiers in a month!

Not to mention, when these trainee blacksmiths are familiar with the process of building this cannon barrel, he is sure that he will increase this output to the point of building a grenadier in two days!

Therefore, Niu Da was doubly dissatisfied with Zhang Ran's dissatisfied expression!

In the past, the detachment didn't have a single grenadier, but now it's okay, in two or three days, the blacksmith workshop can give the detachment one more grenadier, why are you still not satisfied?

The human heart is not enough, the snake swallows the elephant, this is!

"I didn't say you were lazy, I'm not blind, I'm just ......"

Facing Niu Da carrying a hammer and asking imposingly, Zhang Ran didn't know how to speak for a while.

He wasn't worried about the annoyed Niu Da hammering his Heavenly Spirit Gai, he just couldn't bear to ask more of a group of guys who were working hard......

According to Niu Da's idea, indeed, he should be satisfied himself.

But the problem is that Zhang Ran wants more than that!

What he wanted, not only did the blacksmith workshop play out some grenadiers to equip the detachment and enrich the detachment's means of attack, but also wanted more grenadiers.

Not only grenadiers, but also rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and even artillery fire!

In the future, if any of the brother troops does not have enough guns, or the guns are too poor, they will carry a few boxes and smash them over!

If any of the troops were beaten by the little devil's artillery fire, the crying father and mother could only spit on the little devil's position, and he also got a few cannons to smash it......

If you want to achieve this, just rely on Niu Da and them to smash with a hammer like this, Zhang Ran suspects that they can't smash it from Niu Da to Niu Sun Tzu, and they can't be smashed until 2018!

Because whether it is the barrel of a rifle, a machine gun, or a gun, it has to be a seamless steel pipe!

So, you have to find a way!

The reason why the current European and American powers have so many good guns is because they have mature equipment, which can use centrifugal furnaces and other equipment to produce seamless steel pipes and seamless barrels.

These equipment, the detachment simply could not have.

If he made it himself, Zhang Ran said that he really didn't pay attention to these things when he was on the Internet, so he couldn't make them if he wanted to!

Therefore, after just confirming that he had traveled to this era and it seemed that there was no possibility of wearing it back for the time being, Zhang Ran regretted that he had not been able to remember more useful knowledge from the almost omnipotent Internet.

Now, for example, if he remembered how to make a seamless steel pipe machine, he probably wouldn't have to worry so much.

Of course, if Zhang Ran had known that he would travel back to this era, he would never have remembered any seamless steel pipes or labor.

He swore that he would try to learn how to build an atomic bomb and a hydrogen bomb.

First throw ten or eight of them on the main island of the little devil's house, and send the little devil's hometown directly into the trench of the Pacific Ocean before thinking about anything else.

European and American powers?

Whoever dares to disagree will be rewarded with a few!

When the time comes, it will definitely be easy to establish the status of the Chinese nation as the heavenly kingdom, and it will be a dream to realize the glory of the ancestors once again.

If you don't go to court, you will be rewarded!

In this era when the truth is only within the range of the barrel of a cannon, there is no problem that cannot be solved by an atomic bomb!

One won't work, another one!

There are three in the sky, and it is estimated that in the world, there will be no one who dares to disagree!

But the crux of the matter is that there is no regret medicine to sell these days!

So Zhang Ran could only pull his hair hard now and continue to think about how to improve the efficiency of the blacksmith workshop, and he ran away like a dog in a few seconds.

"Fortunately, he ran fast, otherwise Lao Tzu would have beaten him!"

Niu Da Niu coaxed Zhang Ran's back and bragged to the blacksmith apprentices under him: "What, we are all playing with our lives, and he is still talking nonsense - the landlord and the old rich man are not so attractive...... You say don't you? ”

A group of apprentice blacksmiths hummed with a proud face, cooperating with the ox to pretend to be forced.

"Alright, alright, keep working!"

Niu Da was full of shouting that everyone should continue to work, and they should seize the time and strive to increase the time of firing a grenadier cannon barrel from three days to two and a half days in the shortest possible time......

Of course, let everyone hurry up not because he was afraid of Zhang Ran, but in order to be worthy of the detachment, considering the hard work of the blacksmith workshop, now the blacksmith workshop enjoys the treatment of a chicken every day!

Anyway, in this blacksmith workshop, Niu Da felt that it was the king of heaven who was coming, and he was not afraid.

Listening to the sound of Niu Da pretending to be forced behind him, Zhang Ran scolded a few MMPs in his heart, saying that he was a large number of adults, so he didn't bother with this guy first, and then got into the second workshop.

Cheng Dongshan glared at Zhang Ran angrily.

This guy has a small heart, and of course it may have something to do with the fact that it is not big in some aspects.

After being stripped naked by Zhang Ran using treachery to parade the streets of the village as a punishment, Niu Da suddenly became very favored by those little daughters-in-law.

Once Niu Da goes down the mountain, you can always see some little daughters-in-law flirting with Niu Da and scolding each other.

Cheng Dongshan's side is a lot miserable, every time he goes down the mountain, he can see those little daughters-in-law snickering at the law, and then they are struggling behind their backs, and Cheng Dongshan is now like a group of people poking their backbones in the back every time they go down the mountain, and they are uncomfortable.

"A great man once said, if people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, but if people offend me, I'll not be done with him!"

Zhang Ran glared back at Cheng Dongshan with his eyes full of threat, until Cheng Dongshan was willing to bow down and flee, then he proudly squatted in front of the stamping machine that had passed the test and had been installed to start stamping some metal parts such as warheads.