Chapter 465: Forging the Tang Sword (Requested)
Blacksmithing.
"Bang bell...... Bang ......"
Huang Chong held an iron tong in his left hand, holding a reddish sword embryo, placed it on a large iron pier, holding a black hammer in his right hand, constantly beating the sword embryo, sparks flew everywhere, Huang Chong relied on his experience, and kept turning the sword embryo.
The sword embryo was not far from being formed, and Huang Chong was sweating profusely, but he still did not change his concentration.
There are only two sources of sword weapons in the world.
The first is to cast a sword, melt the material, pour it into a mold, and then condense it into a sword embryo, and then polish it to have a sharp edge.
The second is sword forging, which is made easy to forge with a furnace, and then hammered out the sword embryo bit by bit, and then the blade is polished.
Huang Chong's sword was built by the method of forging, and by now, the sword embryo has been formed, but there is still only the word "rough" in the eye.
Or, instead of being called a "sword", it should be called a "knife".
No, if in the Tang Dynasty, this was a sword, and it was also a knife.
Yes, what Huang Chong wants to create is the famous Tang Dao.
Tang knife, the blade is straight, if it is included in the sheath, there is no difference with the sword, so there is a Tang generation, there is a sword without a sword, and the name "sword" at that time is actually a Tang knife.
As everyone knows, the four periods of the strongest military power in ancient China were clearly the Violent Qin, the Qiang Han, the Tang Dynasty and the Mengyuan Dynasty.
Until the 21st century, the pride of the Han and Tang dynasties has been circulating in everyone's hearts, endlessly, and even gradually deified, because these two dynasties are too longing, whether it is cultural governance and martial arts, they are the first in the world.
Wenzhi will not mention it for the time being, and in terms of martial arts, the most important thing is military strength, it may be an exaggeration to say that sweeping the world, after all, it has not been tried, and it is not easy to make a conclusion, but sweeping Southeast Asia is the easiest, and it is a fact that has been completed.
In ancient times, it was a cold weapon war, and if you want to make great achievements, in addition to the commander's bravery and strategy, the quality of equipment is also something that cannot be ignored.
There are four swords in the Tang Dynasty, one is called the Yi knife, the second is the obstacle knife, the third is the horizontal knife, and the fourth is the Mo knife, no matter what the shape is, the quality is very good, both in technology and in art have reached a very high achievement, which can be said to be the pinnacle of the history of Chinese swords.
Even in the martial arts world, there is a special internal force metal, this is still a fact, the weapon created by the Tang knife forging method is still the best among similar weapons, the Tang knife, representing an insurmountable peak.
The Tang knife originated from the ring head knife of the Han Dynasty, but the casting process has been greatly improved, using the steel technology, so that the Tang knife is the outside and soft on the inside, and has extremely strong toughness, which makes the Tang knife have a qualitative leap over the Han knife, and can split any armor and equipment.
Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the casting technology of the Tang knife was introduced to Dongying, and it is said that because the process of Dongying is not up to par, the straight Tang knife cannot be cast, so the modern Dongying katana with a meniscus arc has been formed, but the custom of using a knife as a sword has been retained, so Huang Chong's "Yanagi Sword Method" can also be called "Yanagi Sword Method".
Sadly, the casting process of the Tang knife blossomed everywhere in Dongying, and after thousands of years of development, it became one of the three famous knives in the world.
Later generations of forging masters in accordance with the ancient law, re-forging the Tang knife, but only its shape, completely without the Tang Dynasty period of the mighty domineering, lack of charm, compared with the real Tang knife, the difference is very big.
However, for Huang Chong, none of this is a problem.
Detective Di Renjie, Huang Chong was born in a chivalrous background, and he had a natural preference for weapons, and after becoming the emperor, he studied the method of forging Tang knives for a period of time, and tried to build a Tang knife by himself, but he was dissuaded by the ministers.
Later, Huang Chong also got a very complete Song Dynasty forging process, which should be from the memory inheritance of the Xiaoyao School, in the first face in the world, Huang Chong lived in Dongying for a long time, and got a variety of katana forging methods of different schools in Dongying, in order to meet the needs of the war, Huang Chong spent a lot of money, absorbing the world's skilled craftsmen, and spent five years before and after, refining the art of forging, which really allowed Huang Chong to get a complete set of efficient forging techniques.
In order to commemorate the Tang Dynasty and his first plane, Huang Chong did not change his name, and still called the sword created by this forging method "Tang Knife".
The style of the new Tang knife is almost exactly the same as the traditional Tang knife, of course, it is also divided into different levels, and it is not easy to create a peerless divine weapon.
As a martial artist, no one will refuse a peerless divine weapon, but now, resources, environment, time and other conditions do not allow, Huang Chong can only retreat to the next best thing, only to forge a convenient weapon.
The matching swords of the three brothers and sisters Ye Guhong, Ye Xue, and Ye Ling, the knife of the sword-wielding man Du Tiexin, the mourning stick and the soul chasing hook of the soul envoy, were all taken away by Huang Chong, and the real purpose was to forge weapons for himself, and after twenty days of hard work, he finally became the sword embryo in front of him.
Fortunately, Huang Chong had a complete set of advanced technology, otherwise it would never be possible to forge this sword embryo that was about to take shape in just twenty days.
Zizi ......
After a beating, the fiery red sword embryo gradually cooled, Huang Chong used iron tongs to put all the sword embryos into the bright red liquid on the side, the hot iron made the liquid emit a burst of green smoke, and at the same time there was a strong smell of blood.
These red liquids, mainly blood, the blood of tigers, wolves, and cows, plus some mixtures of Chinese herbs, belong to the secret quenching liquid.
Ordinary swordsmiths quench, generally use water or animal urine, fat, etc., do not use blood at all, it's not that no one has tried it, but the quenching effect is not as good as water, so it was eliminated.
If it weren't for the secret recipe of quenching with blood in the forging process of the Song Dynasty in his memory, Huang Chong would not have chosen this method, after quenching with this secret quenching liquid, the weapon was not only hard, but also tough, but it took Huang Chong a lot of time, when the quenching liquid no longer smelled bloody, then the sword embryo was completed.
After quenching, Huang Chong put the sword embryo back into the furnace for calcination.
In order to provide the temperature, the fuel used in the furnace is the coal mined by Huang Chong himself, which can provide a higher temperature for the furnace, and on one side of the stove is a bellows, after Huang Chong's transformation, the bellows are pushed by hydraulic power, borrowing a flowing stream next to it, providing power for the bellows, and the wind enters the furnace, and the flames in the furnace jump straight up, burning the sword blank.
Huang Chong turned his head to look at the corner of the blacksmith's shop, and happened to meet a pair of vicious eyes.