There is a mountain in the south of Lingzhou, and there is water next to the mountain, but because it is isolated from the outside world, it is completely uninhabited for hundreds of miles. But a month ago, a few houses were suddenly built here, and it became a small village, bustling with activity.

In the back yard of the village, there is a very large shack, which is divided into ten rooms, and a large stove is placed in the middle of each room, and a bellows is set up by the hearth, and when the bellows is pulled, the wind enters the stove, and the flames in the hearth rush straight up. In addition to the blacksmith furnace,

There are also iron clamps (used to hold hot iron billets), anvils (platforms for blacksmiths to strike iron), hammers, grinding stones, etc.

Bai Yan, who had disappeared from Lianzhou, was outside the house at this time, and standing in front of her were thirty strong women, all of whom came from all over the world, all of whom had been engaged in iron-making.

"Everyone is a good player, and I will only briefly introduce the method of striking iron here. The iron we want to forge is first burned red in the furnace, and then moved to the large iron pier, where the master is in charge of the hammer and the lower hand holds the sledgehammer for forging. Hold a small hammer in the right hand and iron tongs in the left hand, and in the process of forging, the upper hand should constantly turn the iron material by visual inspection, so that it can beat the square iron into a round iron rod or the thick iron rod into a slender iron rod. After the first room is forged, it will be handed over to the second room, and so on. ”

She paused, her tone sank, and then she continued, "As the old saying goes, you have to be tough before you strike iron!" What I need here is good iron! If you want to hit a good iron, you must first have a good body, you can't strike iron without strength, and the heavy sledgehammer takes turns to rise and fall, and what you need is strength and endurance.

A good blacksmith needs to constantly accumulate experience. So every morning when we get up, we all have to participate in the morning exercise, work four hours a day, and if we want to rush work, we will notify you separately. Here, your wages will be allocated by the Imperial Court and settled monthly. Eat and live, there are steamed buns in the morning, two meat and one vegetarian at noon and evening, enough to be full! But there's only one requirement! That is, you must be completely cut off from the outside world, and you must not reveal anything about your situation here to anyone! Otherwise, it's all a trivial matter to kill the head! ”

These requirements were already stated when they were recruited into the blacksmith team, and each of them had a clear family background. Again, just in case.

"The rooms are not allowed to communicate with each other about the things in the iron shop, and once discovered, half a month's silver will be deducted. You only need to be responsible for one thing, and that is to strike iron! Whatever you are asked to do, you will do it, and if you do it well, the silver will roll in naturally. If you don't do it well, you give me the effort to do it well! Do you understand?! ”

Bai Yan asked, and suddenly a rushing cry responded to her: "Yes!" ”

Xu Han came in with Zhao Yan's horse team.

The mountain roads are rugged and the roads have not yet been repaired, so they cannot be opened to traffic, so they can only be ridden. Immediately carrying bags of iron raw materials, these things are extremely heavy, and a horse can only be a little hunched, so after Zhao Yan received the secret order of the imperial court, he stepped up the time to arrange the horses. Unfortunately, it didn't take long for the materials delivered each time to be consumed by the iron-striking team.

"Sister Bai Yan is really getting more and more courageous to lead!" After everyone dispersed, Xu Han walked out from under the woods, along with Zhao Yan.

"Miss Xu, don't make fun of me!" Bai Yan smiled stupidly, stretched out his hand to the two of them, "Let's sit in the room first!" ”

This village has a total of three circles of defense, and the general defense is named Luo Yang, who was trained from the Odd Corps and is very good at hiding. When she received the order, she did not know that the imperial court had built a small village here to build weapons. Now the village is named Shanyin Village, and she has been sent to patrol the village general.

The outer ring of the three circles of defense is on the top of the eight sides of the village, and each hill has a patrol point, and there are people on duty at 12 o'clock a day. The patrol point on the top of the hill allows you to see everything that is close to you. So when Xu Han and them came over, someone had sent the news over an hour ago.

The central defensive ring is located at the foot of the mountain, and it is in a circle to protect the villages in the valley. The defensive points at the foot of the mountain are very hidden, and it is extremely difficult to find the location of these patrol officers and soldiers unless they have been professionally trained.

The inner ring is around the village.

There is only one way to enter the village, and behind the village is a cliff that is extremely steep. But the captain of the inner circle patrol still sent people to guard under the cliff, just in case.

With such a tight defense, you can count a bird in and out.

In the general setting of the state city, Bai Yan is responsible for the refining of weapons, and Luo Yang is responsible for the village defense of the village.

"This is the drawing of the whole village, at present our raw materials can only be transported by this line, but this line can only be transported by horse, and the materials transported at one time are extremely limited, if there are other routes." Zhao Yan spread out the map in his hand, pointed to a winding red line on the drawing, and said to the two.

Bai Yan put his hand against his forehead, with a helpless expression: "This place is indeed hidden, but what should I do on this road?" Without raw materials, at this rate, it is impossible to complete the quantity of 10,000 in a month! ”

Xu Han leaned forward and looked at the map, and suddenly asked: "I heard that there is a cliff behind this mountain, and from the cliff down, go east along this valley for about seven or eight hundred miles, and then you will come out of the mountain." ”

When Zhao Yan on the side heard this, he immediately understood what she meant, and shook his head: "This hanging bank is too high, even if you don't bring anything, you have to be agile to climb up, this method won't work!" ”

"Then if you don't climb, what if you just transport the raw materials up?"

Don't say that Zhao Yan looked weird, even Bai Yan denied it: "How can this be lucky?" Those raw materials are so heavy that they can't climb on their own, how can they be transported? ”

Xu Han raised his eyebrows: "How do you know if you don't try?" ”

"How much higher is the cliff?" Xu Han asked as he drew on the table next to him.

"Twelve." Bai Yan replied.

Xu Han listened, and calculated on the paper, and there were words in his mouth: "Twelve zhang is about forty meters, and the iron cable required is at least forty-three meters......"

Bai Yan and Zhao Yan, who were standing next to her, were stunned, unable to understand what she was saying, but when they saw her writing and drawing quickly with the brush in her hand, they all quieted down.

It didn't take long for her to draw a set of extremely strange drawings on the paper, and the thing at the top went down to the bottom of the mountain, and a string of strange symbols was written next to it, and there was a tablet drawn at the bottom, and the size was also indicated on the side.

"This is ......" Zhao Yan has been in the Ministry of Industry for so many years, and the more she looks at it, the more interesting she feels.

Just when the second monk of Bai Yan was confused, he only heard Zhao Yan slap the table, laughed and said, "What an artifact!" With this thing, what are you afraid of that cliff for? ”