Chapter 149: Go and Stay and New Guns
In order to repair the broken spear, Li Ming spent a day setting up a refining furnace, and at the same time ordered someone to bring the bones of the giant ape and the giant rat. There is no need to doubt that the bones of the demon beast are bone jade, no wonder the bone jade is so hard, it turns out that it is the skeleton of the demon beast, and it is indeed much harder than ordinary steel.
"Hu people are really extravagant!" After knowing that the demon beast skeleton was actually bone jade, Lu Bu couldn't help but sigh. There are only a few demon beasts, even if they are red beasts, they are just spirit beasts, and they actually use such precious things to polish them into weapons......
"The interesting part is here...... Li Ming has already entered the researcher mode, "Since the bone jade is the skeleton of the demon beast, you should also know that the calcination of bones will only turn into ashes, but the calcination of bone jade will actually soften, this is no longer a texture that only metal can have!" ”
"This ...... I don't know much about forging......" Lu Bu was a little embarrassed.
"To put it simply...... Li Ming thought for a moment, "from beasts to demon beasts, these beasts are constantly evolving. They became bigger and had more strength, so they had to need stronger bones to support their larger bodies and strength. It's just that I didn't expect that the bones of the demon beast have actually changed from calcareous to metallic, how strong do the bones of the legendary big demon be? ! ”
It is said that ants can lift things ten times as high, or fleas can rise thirty times as high. In fact, if their bodies were to be enlarged to the size of humans, they might be even worse than humans, just because their limbs could no longer support them to do all this. Unless, their limbs are also raised, and even bones appear.
"I still don't understand ......," Lu Bu said he didn't read much.
"Then if I didn't say it, maybe I'm also a research addict." Li Ming smiled, he needed to do something to pass the time during the long wait.
As time passed, the bones of the great ape and rat began to melt and then turn into liquid.
"Increase the temperature and further calcination!" Li Ming shouted, and the craftsmen below immediately pushed the blower to raise the temperature.
The liquid that the bone jade had turned into began to boil, and Lu Bu found that its total amount seemed to have decreased somewhat. Li Ming and the other craftsmen knew very well that the impurities in the bone jade were constantly decreasing.
"Lord, the meteor iron has melted!" On the other side, the craftsman of another furnace shouted.
This meteor iron is the reward that Li Ming received in the battle of Shouchun in the past, and this time he may have a heart and let the craftsman bring it over. The broken gun was assessed as unsuitable for repair, and was simply intended to be forged.
The large army also needs to rest for two days to recover from the casualties and psychological damage caused by the rat swarm. Even if they knew that the giant rat had been killed, and even saw Lu Bu and the others eating the meat of the giant rat, everyone still had lingering fears about the overwhelming rat.
The bodies of the rats that were killed were all cremated on the spot. Don't say whether this thing is delicious or not, it makes people sick to their stomachs when they see it, especially those with swollen abdomen, there is everything in it, and there is no mention of the flesh and blood of comrades.
"Li Ming is still smelting iron there?" Liu Ting asked Shen Ye beside him, he was already exhausted after this night, and at the same time, he couldn't understand why Li Ming had also fought all night, and he could still stay up all night to build a furnace to make iron.
"For warriors, weapons are one of the keys to survival on the battlefield. His broken spear was said to have almost broken last night in order to kill the demon beast. It just seems that he is not repairing, but rebuilding a spear," Shen Ye explained.
"It's not so easy to build a spear, it takes four or five days to say the least, and some famous craftsmen even spend one to several months to build a peerless divine weapon, do we all have to wait here?" Liu Ting frowned.
"It's okay to let the sons and daughters rest for a while, just go over now, I'm afraid that the enemy will approach, and they will panic." Shen Ye shook his head, "Many soldiers already have a resistance mentality, and if the persecution is too deep, it is estimated that it is possible to bomb the camp." ”
"If you want me to say, just go back! This place where birds don't poop, that is, Panyu is still a little interesting, and other places are not as good as a small county town in the Central Plains. We have already killed their two heavenly kings, and the crusade has come to fruition, so why continue to do such a thankless thing...... Haven't you thought about what would happen even if South Vietnam was destroyed? In this area of Jiaozhou, who wants to come over to be an official? Yuan Shao retreated.
"This is the territory of the Great Han, so naturally I am here to appoint officials! What does it matter to you whether others want to come or not? Liu Ting looked at Yuan Shao and said in a slightly dissatisfied tone.
"Hmph, you're appointing? Who can you appoint? When Li Ming wants to hand over the state, will he still let you send troops over? There are indeed no people here, but to the north can lead to Yizhou and Jingzhou, in the end, the south of the river is his territory, and others want to rule the river with the Han Dynasty, it is not impossible! Yuan Shu said intimidatingly on the side.
This is true, even Yuan Shao or Tao Qian, and even Gongsun Zhan and Cao Cao can't ignore it. Yangzhou and Jiaozhou are just wild places, even the four counties of Jingnan are dilapidated, that is, they have to take care of it in the name of the territory of the Han Dynasty.
Everyone present actually focused on the Central Plains, at most Yizhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou and Youzhou, and other counties such as the four counties of Jingnan, Yunnan, Jiaozhou and Yangzhou in addition to Jiujiang and Lujiang counties are really not eye-catching.
It is not linked to their interests, and even if they take it back, they will not get benefits. On the contrary, staying can also give Jingzhou and Yizhou, and even the imperial court a headache. Not to mention Fujian County, which is adjacent to Nanhai County, which also belongs to Huiji County and belongs to Liu Ting's sphere of influence, with the Nanyue State to contain Li Ming, the latter has no way to rest assured of the Northern Expedition.
If you can only be bound to Jiangdong for the rest of your life, then even if you occupy the south of the Yangtze River, the war potential is not comparable to that of a super-state that unified the Central Plains, and in the end it will only be a hundred years of freedom and annihilation.
Yuan Shao's proposal did make Liu Pan and Liu Zhang quite recognized, and the others were also thoughtful, obviously also moved.
"This question has been discussed with Shen Ye before!" Liu Ting looked at everyone, "For a while, I really planned to give up the Nanyue Kingdom first. However, Shen Ye disagreed, the reason for this is that you may understand that Nanyue is not a country established by humans, and their lord is a snake, a demon beast-level snake! ”
After a pause, Liu Ting said in a more serious tone: "The most important thing is that ordinary demon beasts, after leaving Lingshan, will continue to weaken, but why...... Why is this snake still a demon beast? Since one demon beast can be created, can a second, third, and countless demon beasts be created one after another? The longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable the situation becomes for us, and it is precisely because of the peculiarities of the South Vietnamese that we must exterminate them before they become completely strong! ”
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh and said slowly: "Otherwise, it will inevitably be a disaster for Jiangdong and even the entire Huaxia human race in the future." As Han Chinese, as members of the Chinese nation, will you allow that day to come? ”
Speaking of which, even Yuan Shao obediently shut up. For a guy like Nanyue who advocates the law of the jungle and ignores etiquette and morality, it is true that he cannot be looked at from the eyes of ordinary forces. At the very least, there is absolutely no psychological pressure on them to eat people.
"It's really a loss-making deal...... Gongsun Chan took the lead in speaking, without saying anything clearly, and his attitude was already very clear.
"Alright then!" Yuan Shao sighed, "Go ahead!" End early, I'm going back to Hebei! As for what happens to Jiaozhou in the end, that's a headache for you, right? Your Majesty! ”
"I'll take care of it!" Liu Ting nodded, knowing that there would be no benefit from laying down this area of Jiaozhou, but he could only be mentally prepared for this now.
After some discussion, the people's hearts are neat, and it doesn't matter what makes a name for themselves, and the crusade against South Vietnam cannot be delayed.
At the same time, on the side of the makeshift refining furnace, as the temperature continued to rise, the furnace of the bone jade was faintly showing signs of damage.
"Open the furnace!" Li Ming didn't have the slightest heartache, the stove was just set up temporarily, and it was one-time, not distressed.
Hot metal liquid flowed out along the pre-set trenches. At the same time, the Broken Spear had remelted, turning into a stream of liquid that also flowed out of another trench, and finally where the Meteor Iron was.
If you control the proportion, if you have more bone gold, the flexibility will decrease, but the hardness will increase. Meteor iron is more advanced than meteorite iron, and there are more trace elements in it, but what the specific characteristics are depends on the result of creation.
The last three converged into a groove, which was a cohesive spear mold. After the molten iron is gathered, the valve of the groove is immediately closed, the mold is immediately removed, and the subsequent processes such as quenching, forging and grinding are carried out. As for the rest of the materials, they are all separately flowed out and made into metal ingots, which are stored for the next use.
"It seems that the craftsmanship has not been left behind!" After more than half an hour, Li Ming finished quenching and forging, looked at the prototype of the spear in his hand, and nodded with satisfaction.
I haven't made iron for a long time, but fortunately, skills are skills, and as long as they are turned on, they can continue to be built. The only problem is that in the purely auto-crafted mode, the weapon may still be a little less spiritual.
"Well, I don't plan to become a master craftsman anyway!" Li Ming smiled bitterly and continued to forge his head.
Time passed day by day, and it took five days before Li Ming completed the forging and polishing, looking at the spear in his hand that became thicker, sharper, and more majestic, and his heart was as satisfied as he wanted.
"Continue to call you a broken military gun, it seems that they all look down on you......" Li Ming ** this spear, "I don't have more advanced materials, and I'm worried that you will be proud, so let's call you a tiger spear!" ”
It's amazing that when the spear heard the name, he shook slightly, and seemed to like the name very much. Open the personal panel again, check the weapon bar, and naturally there will be more data about this Die Hard military gun:
Die Hard Spear: +20 Brawn, +35% Break, +35% Critical Strike Chance, +20% Block Chance, 2000/2000 Durability.
"Good gun!" Li Ming ** wore a new broken military gun, and his love was unconcealed.