"It's ready. Cui Qing replied with red eyes, these days, he hadn't slept a full night, looking at the previous batch of weapons, he couldn't sleep at all.

"Open the furnace and cast the mold. Renault gave the order.

Today's mold is very different from the beginning, after seeing the mold here, Renault keeps putting forward suggestions for improvement, although it is troublesome, but now the mold is much better.

The mold is divided into three rows, with a large Chu halberd head, a horizontal knife, and a horn knife.

Renault can't do such a loser thing as casting a halberd rod with alloy, and it is not easy to add an iron rod after that.

The coolies carefully lifted the furnace out of the furnace, which was too hot and needed to be carried with iron bars. Another group of coolies poured up, and attached iron hooks and iron cables to the buckles under the furnace gall, this work was not easy, tired but not tired, but the temperature was too high, the body had to be draped in linen, drenched with cold water, the movement should be steady and fast, and a few more breaths could kill people.

In a few breaths, the returning coolie was already steaming, surrounded by mist, one coolie had a bucket of water at his head, two coolies tore off the sackcloth, and two buckets of water poured on the coolie, even so, the coolie sat on the ground, panting wildly.

The coolies cooperated, under the command of the head of the craftsman, walked to the edge of the mold, found a good distance, and gave an order, pulled the iron cable, slowly tilted the furnace gall, aligned the mold, and injected molten iron into the mold.

The furnace looks not small, but there is not much molten iron in it, five big Chu halberd heads, five horizontal knives, and the rest of the molten iron, only three horn knives are cast, which is less than the previous calculation.

When the molten iron cooled and solidified to a certain extent, the coolies surrounded him again, clamped the iron embryo out of the mold with iron clamps, and put it into the urine, and the steaming urine and strange smell forced Renault to retreat again and again.

In this era, if you want to build a good weapon, the earthlings can't imagine. Although Renault knew the whole process before, imagining it and seeing it with his own eyes are far away.

After the fire is completed, the small furnace has been perfected, several blacksmiths with apprentices, clamp the iron embryo with iron tongs, put it into the small furnace and heat it again, and after the iron embryo is red, the small hammer guides the sledgehammer and keeps beating.

In the past, this process was forging, folding while forging, repeating countless times to knock out the impurities in the embryo until the blacksmith was satisfied, and then the shape of the weapon was formed.

This time it was different, according to Renault's request, the blacksmiths only needed to trim the shape, and they did not need to forge it. This is much easier, the mold is already good, slightly trimmed, hit the blade, and then according to Renault's requirements, groove on both sides of the horizontal knife and it will be done.

Even though it was countless times simpler, the blacksmiths were sweating and working until the afternoon to finish their work. The women had already prepared their meals, and when they saw that the men were done, they first poured water on them, and then dried them with sackcloth, and then brought the meal.

Renault had already eaten, and the lunch at the princess's house was packed in a food box and sent directly to the back garden, which was requested by Renault, and watched the blacksmiths work until they were finished.

Don't look at the tiring work here, let alone the blacksmith, even the coolies here are happy. Usually they have two meals a day, but after being transferred here, Renault asked for three meals a day, and the food they needed was naturally brought over. In Renault's view, this is pure manual work, can nutrition not keep up?

A few steps forward, he reached out and lifted a horizontal knife, and checked it in his hand, which was similar to an ordinary horizontal knife. The blacksmith has already trimmed it, the blade has not yet been opened, the blade is not sharp, the blade is thick, and the material is very sufficient.

This is the common feature of Da Chu's weapons, originally Renault thought that it was the manpower here that was strong, so it had to be thickened and aggravated. Now that I've reacted, it's not like that at all.

Anyone who has ever played with swords knows that you can carry fifty catties or even one hundred catties with one hand, but the sword you can use is only a few catties.

There are also people on earth who play with swords, not for war, but for fitness. This kind of sword usually weighs only two to three pounds.

And the horizontal knives here, the lightest are more than ten catties, wielding a sword and carrying a sword are completely different things.

"Bring me a horizontal knife. Renault said that he doesn't know weapons, and the most intuitive way is to try, whether it's a mule or a horse, just pull it out and know it, no matter how beautiful the data is, it's not as real as chopping it.

A Dingxi soldier was drawing a horizontal knife, the flesh on his face was pumping, and he was about to finish playing again.

"This won't work, Cui Qing went to get the horizontal knife that was built two days ago. Renault said that the team's horizontal knife is wrought iron, and the experiment with it will not be effective.

"Yes. Cui Qing ordered someone to fetch it, those horizontal knives had already been put away by him as if they were treasures, and he didn't even give Huya what he wanted, saying that he had to have Mr.'s permission, and let Huya ask Mr. for it.

Renault flipped the blade of the knife, and the blade that did not open rushed forward: "Huya, cut." ”

"Howler. "Huya is the most obedient, snatching the horizontal knife that has already opened the front, holding the knife with both sides, jumping up and slashing down with all his might.

There was a crisp sound of the 'bell', and half of the blade fell to the ground, and Huya stared blankly at the half of the blade in his hand, unable to believe his eyes.

This knife has been tried many times before, and it has broken ten horizontal knives of the Dingxi Army in a row, and it is good to go back to the blacksmith to repair it.

This is he chopping, and the masters of using knives know that the same two knives have different skills in making force, and the results must be different. He chopped, Renault passively carried it, and Huya took advantage.

But...... The knife in his hand is broken!

"Bring another one. Renault stretched out his hand and slid over the blade, and the place where it was struck was slightly protruding, and the blade was the same, and it seemed that nothing was wrong.

The craftsmanship is still too trendy, and Renault has tried his best to do it, but the knife is still not as good as the kitchen knife in the souk.

At least, this knife is already a weapon, much stronger than the previous garbage.

The second time was Renault's chopping, Huya carried, Huya deliberately shook the blade lightly to unload the force, the result was no different, everything was broken, Renault easily split the steel knife in Huya's hand.

"Well, it's okay, it's called a weapon. ”

Is this called improvisation?

It's called improvisation!

"Don't stop the furnace, the craftsman who is free after eating will sharpen these weapons. Give General Zhu, General Yang Feng and General Luo Yi a halberd head each, with an iron rod and a horizontal knife. The rest of the given Western Army took the points. Renault said, this is obviously not enough, it seems that there are still a few more furnaces, trouble, this kind of repetitive work, I am very annoying.

It's a pity that smelting is different from papermaking, there is no analysis function of the God of Wealth, even Renault can't do it, this thing does not depend on experience, the ore of each furnace is different, and the added manganese and carbon also need to be temporarily adjusted.

In fact, the process of Renault smelting, it is not an ordinary layman, as long as you know a little about smelting, you will not do this.

Weapons are not cast directly, iron and manganese are first extracted separately, then iron is smelted into steel, and finally the process of alloying.

Renault didn't understand, and felt that it was too troublesome, it took too long to refine once, he was too lazy to wait, the result was a one-time smelting, all the ore into the furnace, and then let the craftsman first take the flying ox cut off the flow of iron, continue to smelt, and then remove the slag after turning it into molten iron, and then adjust the alloy ratio after removing the slag.

The disadvantages of this are too obvious, the slag removal is not clean, there is no forging, how good can the weapon be directly cast?

This is to bully Da Chu's smelting level is too low, if the same amount of alloy is used to build knives, the horizontal knives created by Renault are far worse than ordinary kitchen knives.

Until dark, after dinner, the stainless steel of the second furnace was baked, and this time there was no way to cast, so the blacksmiths could only have free time to slowly forge and shape.

Just watching people work, Renault was also very tired when he returned to the small courtyard, thinking to himself, no wonder the ancient steel production was so low, he was busy for a day, hundreds of people circled around him, a medium-sized furnace, the output was only more than 400 catties, which was too little.

The ninth princess didn't come today, Si Shan had already brought dinner, Renault rinsed it briefly, and sat down to eat with Huya.

Huya can already use chopsticks, under the temptation of food, he learns quickly, Renault does not allow him to use knives and forks, in order to eat more, Huya is also hard enough. Watching him skillfully use chopsticks, Renault is extremely proud, and the best way to deal with foodies is to eat.

After only two bites, there was a sound of fighting in the distance, the two stopped at the same time, and the tiger teeth 'swished' out, and the Yulin Army in the rooms on both sides also rushed out, opened the courtyard door, and looked into the distance.

"Sir, it's the shouting of killing from the east. ”

East?Renault's heart moved, it seems that someone is coming from there, and he is really bold, originally Renault thought that they would not come, so he also borrowed ten nine-grade masters from Yang Feng, and it seems that he did not wait in vain.

"Let's go, let's see. Renault said, leading the way to the stable.

More Yulin troops and personal guards arrived, and they all mounted their horses to protect Renault out of the mansion and rush to the secret spy department to the east. The corpse of the grandmaster who assassinated General Zhu was parked there.

On the roof of one of the tallest buildings of the Secret Spy Division, a strong man fifty miles away stood on one foot on top of the head of the tile beast, looked around, and found that the place was already surrounded by water. This made him wonder why he was already very careful when he came in, but he was still discovered, when did the Great Chu Secret Spy Division become so powerful.

It's not that the Great Chu secret spy can't do it, if it is changed to Shengjing Luo City, he will never dare to come, but this is Dingjun City, and the most heavily guarded one should be the Great General's Mansion. The secret spy department of Dingjun City is mainly external, and it is much more lax internally.

The body rotated, the arms waved, and the rain of arrows shot away, and then looked at the roof not far away, frowning, there are many good hands around, is the Great Chu Secret Spy Division so strong?

At a glance, there were at least five ninth-grade martial artists, and although he was not afraid, it was also troublesome. The Nine Rank Martial Artists are not terrible, and with more and more crossbowmen, the trouble will be big.

Flying a wave of arrow rain again, he knew that it would not work like this, so he suddenly raised his true breath and said: "The Hanging Temple of the Great Snow Mountain, Liu Jingming, the eldest disciple under the throne of the Wheel Ming, meet General Zhu." ”