Chapter Twenty-Six: Building the Fang Tian Painting Halberd
Lu Bu moved a basket of iron to the door of the blacksmith's shop, and joked to Zhang Liao and the others on the side: "Okay, it seems that I will have to rely on you to support me in the future!" β
Everyone: "......"
Gao Shun frowned, "Isn't it just a weapon, why is it so expensive, and you actually have to fight it yourself?" I think that old man is a parallel import, and he took the opportunity to slander people when he heard that we were going to build a good weapon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info" Guo Fan and Tu Jing nodded in agreement.
Zhang Liao shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, maybe we have met a master." β
Yesterday, Lu Bu decided to give himself a weapon, so he took everyone to the streets to look for good ones in Jinyang City
The blacksmith was finally led to a modest house.
The blacksmith shop is not big, there is a shed in front of the door, all kinds of iron materials are placed in the house, and there are three big characters written on charcoal in front of the shed: iron house.
As soon as Lu Bu and the others entered the door, a muddy old voice immediately remembered: "Do you want to use kitchen knives or farm tools?" β
"We're here to fight weapons." Gao Shun shouted with a big grin.
"Oh?" The old blacksmith raised his head and looked the people in front of him up and down seriously, "You are all the ones who lead the troops?" The barracks themselves are equipped with weapons, so why build them yourself? β
Lu Bu said: "If you don't take advantage of the weapon, you have to redo the weight and style." β
"Then I can't fight." The old blacksmith immediately decided.
"Ahh
"If you give it to my old man, I can give it to you, according to your meaning, this weapon is not simple, you have to forge it yourself."
"Huh?"
"Don't do it, next time you bring the iron materials and drawings to me, it costs 100 gold, and I will teach you to fight."
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When the old blacksmith saw Lu Bu coming with a basket of iron, he asked for the drawings, and after a while, he called Lu Bu and said to him, "Do you want this weapon to be used like an arm?"
Lu Bu said: "This is natural!"
"Originally, it wasn't impossible for me to fight the old man myself, but since you said so, then this weapon, Fang Tian's halberd, you have to forge it yourself."
"Why?"
"The artifact has a spirit, if you don't forge it with your own hands, how can you make it close to you?"
"So what should I do?"
"See that sledgehammer? Take it and follow me. β
The old blacksmith took out a piece of iron from the basket, walked to the shed outside the house, took the charcoal and threw it into the furnace to ignite, a scorching breath immediately emanated, and in an instant the temperature of the whole greenhouse increased a lot, as if every place was in this furnace, the old blacksmith used an iron clip to burn red in the furnace, put it on the anvil, and then pulled out a small hammer on the side, and then said to Lu Bu in his hoarse voice.
"Strength and accuracy are fine, right?" Lu Bu shook his head and said that it was no problem, "Wherever my little hammer hits, you will smash it!" β
After speaking, he immediately tapped it in the middle of the iron block, and Lu Bu immediately smashed it with a hammer.
The small hammer is tinkling, the sledgehammer is constantly dangling, and every hammer is full of sparks.
Lu Bu and the old craftsman were busy in the shed, while the other people watched, learning from the experience so that they could build weapons in the future, and under Lu Bu's influence, they had decided that each of them would build a weapon for themselves.
The iron on the anvil soon turned yellow, and the impurities in the iron could be clearly seen in the middle, and seeing that it was about to be melted by the high temperature, the old blacksmith immediately poured water on the iron, and then sprinkled a handful of black powder, and folded the iron in half with an iron clamp, and then continued to forge.
Whenever the shape of the iron was beaten smaller, the old blacksmith immediately turned around and took a new piece of iron, and continued to use a small hammer to guide Lu Bu to beat.
This dozen seemed to have no end, Zhang Liao and the others waited on the side, and slowly all the iron was put on the anvil, and the whole body was translucent without a trace of impurities, thinking that it should be almost over, but I heard the old blacksmith shouting to Lu Bu: "It's just the beginning!" Remember that I have been folding these irons, each folding is called one forging, and we will finish it today after beating a hundred forgings. β
"Ahh It's just the beginning, I'm almost asleep! Gao Shun's screams immediately sounded, "I came to fight early in the morning, and now it's noon, don't you eat?" β
At this time, Lu Bu had already stripped off his upper clothes, his body containing great strength was covered with sweat, and the firelight reflected on his body was shining.
"It's fine." Lu Bu looked at the iron block on the anvil with a resolute face, although he had been beating the iron block continuously for a whole morning, and his physical strength was approaching, he still said to the old blacksmith, "Go on." β
Then he continued to smash the iron block with a hammer.
"Ding", "Dang", "Ding", "Dang......
Lu Bu just kept knocking and knocking, ten forging...... Twenty forging ...... After noon, he just had no strength, fortunately, hunger could make him conscious, but fatigue made it extremely difficult for Lu Bu to raise his arm every time, he picked up the sledgehammer, found the position of the old blacksmith and smashed it hard, every time he completed this set of actions, Lu Bu had to collapse once, and the fiery feeling from his lungs seemed to swallow the burning charcoal in the furnace.
Before Lu Bu's consciousness was about to dissipate, he somehow suddenly remembered the dream he had on the grassland that year, in which he was besieged by one after another generals wearing strong armor, three layers inside and three layers outside, and the cold air of the blades in everyone's hands forced Lu Bu to suffocate, and suddenly seemed to be in it again, and he was so shocked that he was able to continue to persevere.
However, that feeling of suffocation, the same as what Lu Bu is experiencing now, such a familiar feeling of suffocation is getting stronger and stronger, I'm afraid it's not just because of the fatigue of the body, what is the oppression of this terrifying sharp qi, is it the iron that is gradually getting stronger under the blacksmith and Lu Bu?
Forging over and over again, the texture of the iron was improved over and over again, and the seventy forged ...... Eighty forging ...... Although the appearance is still the shape of ordinary iron, the essence of this iron has changed. Forging again and again adds an irreproducible texture to the blurred shape of the iron in front of you, and the texture is gorgeous but sharper. This piece of iron already had the potential to forge a divine weapon that would dominate the world, so the sharp aura was revealed, making Lu Bu feel the familiar feeling of suffocation.
But that's not enough, ninety forges...... Ninety-one forging ...... Lu Bu felt that the sharp breath from this iron gradually disappeared, this breath not only hid into itself, but also melted into Lu Bu's body, Lu Bu, who was originally exhausted and endured the oppression from this piece of iron, suddenly felt that he had been resisting his own breath began to open his arms as if he opened his arms, and merged with himself, this indescribable mysterious feeling, the divine soldier has a spirit, the divine iron has a spirit, it turns out that the old blacksmith means this.
So in the eyes of everyone watching outside, they were very surprised to see that Lu Bu, who had already reached the limit of his body, suddenly became comfortable again, but after a while, they also forged their own weapons with their own hands, and they understood.
As if he had broken through the shackles and been promoted, Lu Bu became more and more relaxed, and the more he fought, the more energetic he became.
Ninety-Eight ...... Ninety-nine...... One hundred forgings!
The old blacksmith stopped beating, let go of the clamp, took a few steps back and looked at the piece of iron in front of him, and exhaled a sigh of relaxation.
The moment Lu Bu put down the sledgehammer, although the surrounding temperature was still scorching his skin by the stove, Lu Bu, who was finally able to stop, still had pores wide open all over his body, and a refreshing and comfortable feeling spread to every corner of his body.
The old blacksmith clapped his hands: "Okay, this iron is extraordinary, the most important process is over, the next few days will be to forge it, it doesn't matter if you come or not." β
Lu Bu thanked the old blacksmith and left with Zhang Liao.
Although the old blacksmith said that it didn't matter whether the process came or not, Lu Bu still went to help forge it every day.
The iron block is burned soft and beaten into the shape of a halberd painted on the drawing, the water of the mountain spring is selected to quench, the thousand-year-old poplar wood is trimmed to make the shape of a long pole, and it is poured with molten iron under the halberd head, and finally cooled in the cold ice and calcined in the fire.
In the process of this weapon gradually taking shape, every time Lu Bu sees and touches it, he will feel a sense of intimacy through history from this unformed halberd, as if he is resurrecting a pet that has been raised for many years.
Until the final weapon was cast, the old blacksmith signaled Lu Bu to take it out personally, as soon as his right hand was put on, the feeling of blood connection made Lu Bu's heart flutter, he walked out of the blacksmith shop, and a set of halberd methods that he had not used himself naturally used, without any deliberate control, as long as the mind moved, this halberd appeared in any position as if it was automatically controlled.
The old blacksmith pointed to Lu Bu towards a stone pillar standing next to the shop: "Try it on that test stone!" β
"Drink!" Lu Bu was just when he made the halberd handy, and with a wave of the halberd, the thick test stone that was hugged immediately shattered.
The old blacksmith immediately stood solemnly, "Thank you for the indemnity of ten silver." β
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Lu Bu asked the old blacksmith: "I heard that the magic craftsman of Sili has a prevalent casting method, which is to burn the iron into molten iron and stir it repeatedly to remove impurities, and then pour it into the mold, and after cooling, the weapon will be completed. β
The old blacksmith looked at Lu Bu: "I've heard of it, and I've tried it." Indeed, if you use that method to refine this halberd, the effect will be no different from what it is now," said the old blacksmith who sighed lightly, "It's just that you must know that this iron-striking is a skill that has been passed down from our ancestors for four or five hundred years, but don't just make it its purpose to make weapons with high strength, sharpness, and sturdiness." The halberd you smash out with a hammer is always different from the halberd you make by pouring steel. Although you ask others to divide it, no one can tell it, because the strength of these two halberds is indeed the same in all aspects. However, if someone else asks you to tell the difference, you can see it with your eyes closed. β
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In less than three months, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Guo Fan, Tu Jing and others all forged their own weapons with their own hands.
Lu Bu's Fang Tian painted halberd, there are crescents on both sides of the spear head, the halberd head is covered with hundreds of forged exquisite patterns, and the barrel of the gun is carved with a spiral dragon pattern to prevent slipping. Gao Shun made a broken spear, the whole body was jet black, and it looked like a bloodthirsty fangs from a distance, Zhang Liao made a halberd to rush into battle, and the crescent of the original Fang Tian halberd was changed to a vertical side branch, Guo Fan made a mixed yuan hammer, and Tu Jing made a bright silver spear.
The people who cast weapons often gather in the courtyard of Lu Bu and the three of them in their leisure time to compete, and gradually spread among the military attachΓ©s in Bingzhou, first Wei Xu Song Xian, and then Zhang Yang and others, almost all the generals under Ding Yuan's account have come here to play, or uninvited, or invited by friends, it just so happens that Lu Bu has more leisure as the main book, and almost all the martial arts characters under Ding Yuan's command have been recognized.