Chapter 177: Crossbows and Steel

"My lord, the direct shooting distance of the truly first-class city defense vehicle crossbow can reach more than three hundred meters, and the accurate aiming error is no more than half a meter. In this way, it can pose a great threat to the enemy's Gongcheng equipment in the counterattack. During the pre-imperial period, Cleison V once proposed standardized regulations for the production of crossbows for defending the city, and every crossbow made during that period was a fine product. It's just that the system was lax later, and the city-defending crossbows made by the Imperial Ordnance could no longer reach that step. ”

Master Farin was introducing Lorist to some common knowledge about the crossbows of the city, and the clearing space around the area was filled with all kinds of crossbows currently in the possession of the Norton family's armed forces, and even two of the twelve small crossbows that the convoy had obtained from the arsenal of the Dawn Academy were also placed here.

"The real importance of the crossbow is the arm, in fact, we can reach a distance of 300 meters with any wood. The only downside is that it doesn't last. That is, the second arrow and the first arrow are extremely far apart. The reason for this is the difference in the elasticity and resilience of the wood. The material used to craft the crossbow arm must have excellent elasticity and the shortest time to recover, so that the next bolt can be fired at about the same level as the first arrow, and this alone obsolete most wood. ”

Master Farin and Lorist stopped in front of the two small crossbows: "My lord, these two crossbows can be regarded as the most sophisticated crossbows I have seen in the past ten years. They are half smaller than other city guard crossbows, easy to operate and aim, and can reach a direct range of 260 meters, which can be described as a high-quality product. I asked Doles. He said that these twelve small crossbows were made by the Dawn Academy to participate in the ordnance procurement of the city defense army. Due to the complexity of the operation, it was abandoned and fell into the hands of adults?"

Lorist nodded. He remembered that when he first saw the college's arsenal, the reason written on the registration form was that the operation was complicated and he was defeated.

Master Falin smiled: "Wrong, my lord, you think, the general city defense car crossbow needs at least five people to operate, but this small car crossbow only needs three people, how can it be considered complicated to operate? The real reason is that the price is expensive, and the inability to mass produce is the biggest weakness of this small car crossbow......

"Do you know what kind of material the crossbow arm of this small car crossbow is made of?" Master Fallin asked, pointing to the crossbow arms of the two small crossbows, which looked like gold but not gold, and wood but not wood.

Lorist shook his head.

"The material of this crossbow arm comes from the unique arrow dragon wood of the Ruins Islands, and it has such good elasticity and recovery after three soaks and three bubbles. It is documented. Arrow Dragon Wood is a plant specially transplanted from other dimensional worlds when magicians made magic bows and crossbows in the legendary era of magical civilization, and it takes at least a hundred years to grow so big. It should have taken a lot of effort for Dawn Academy to get so many arrow dragon woods, but later people didn't know the goods, so they were abandoned. ”

Master Falin gently stroked the black and faint crossbow arm and sighed: "From the perspective of making crossbows, Arrow Dragon Wood is indeed the most suitable crossbow arm for making crossbows, but the materials are scarce and expensive, and the process takes a long time, like three soaks and three bubbles, it requires six different ingredient potions, and it takes seven years. As ordnance. The most important thing is that it is cheap and can be mass-produced. And replace the accessories at any time, which often leads to a significant reduction in the efficiency of the instrument, and it is really difficult to find the best of both worlds. ”

"I have carefully calculated the crossbow designed by the adult, and from the design drawing, it can be called a earth-shaking innovation in the history of the crossbow if it can be completed, but I don't know if I can find or make the elastic steel that the adult envisioned, without this steel plate as a crossbow arm, the adult's idea of using the crossbow to deal with large monsters cannot be completed. "Master Farin also knew Lorlist's idea, but what he was good at was only making crossbows from wood, which was time-consuming and laborious, and he could not make large-scale crossbows to equip his troops at once.

"In this case, Master Falin, why don't you go with me to the Blade Mountains tomorrow, where the family has built a dark iron smeltery, let's go and see if we can let Master Hiro forge a suitable steel sheet for us to make a crossbow arm. Lorist said.

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Leaving the crossbow workshop, Lorist returned to his second-floor office at Rock Castle.

As soon as he entered, he found Miss Tresti lying on his desk smiling breathlessly.

"What's wrong with you, dear?" Lorist wondered.

"Locke, didn't you ask all the family knights and officials under them to think about how to deal with the Warcraft? Now that these letters have been received, you see, haha, the idea on this letter is to open a road directly to the seaside of the Blade Mountains, and then when the Warcraft tide comes, they will go straight to the sea along this road....... haha, it's so funny. ”

Lorist also smiled, during this time, the family knights and civilian officials under his command were forced by him to come up with an idea to deal with the tide of Warcraft, and many people couldn't think of it, so their brains were opened, and all kinds of unreliable nonsense were handed over.

"Well, it's much more reliable than last time to build a wall from Rock Castle to Maple Grove Villa to defend Fengle Yuan, at least he also gave the Demon Beast Tide a way out and defected to the ......Angry Sea," Lorist commented.

Last time, who came up with the idea of building a city wall to prevent the tide of demonic beasts from entering Fengle Yuan, but he didn't want to think about the distance of hundreds of miles from the rock castle to the maple forest villa, and he didn't know how much manpower and material resources it would take to build a city wall that could defend against the tide of demonic beasts, and there was still time. This reminded Lorist of the Great Wall in his previous life, so he was deeply impressed.

Miss Dressy was happy again: "Locke, remember last time a knight didn't have an idea, saying that it was to mobilize everyone and dig a big trap on the way to the tide of Warcraft and let all the Warcraft fall into it, and everything would be fine?" I specially wrote a reply to ask him what to do with the soil and rocks dug up by digging a big trap, and he replied this time, saying that he could bury all those earth and stones by digging another pit next to it, haha......"

Lorist smiled bitterly and shook his head, many family knights are martial artists who don't like to use their brains, and it is indeed difficult for them to think of how to deal with the Warcraft tide.

I took a few letters from the table and read them, the first letter said that all the lichen moss in Fengle Yuan would be cleaned up, and the monster would naturally not come back if it had nothing to eat. Alas. Why don't you want to think about how old Feng Leyuan is. Let's talk about lichen moss and other things. Have you finished cleaning it up, this side has just been removed, and a large patch has grown every few days, no brains......

The second letter is even more unreliable, asking for a large-scale poison to be scattered on the lichen moss of Fengle Yuan, and it is good to wait for the demonic beasts to come and poison them to death. Brother, tell me how to make such a poison that can be stored in the open for a long time without losing its medicinal effect. As a first-class pharmacist, Lorist felt that whoever invented such a poison potion would definitely win the Pharmacists' Association's Fortune Research Award, and the prize money of 200,000 gold merdes was shining in gold waiting for him to get it.

The third letter said that there was an isthmus about ten miles away from Maple Grove Villa. That place is huge, and if you find a way to lure those large demonic beasts such as the Demon Bull Demon Elephant over when the Demonic Beast tide comes, as long as you trap these demonic beasts in the isthmus, then the remaining small herbivorous demonic beasts will be much easier to deal with.

That's a good idea, Lorist looked at the name of the letter writer, Tagger. It's a little familiar, as if I've heard it somewhere. But is there a knight in the family named Tagger?

Pulling the summoning bell, Reddy enters.

"Reddy, get this guy. Lorist said.

Soon there was a knock on the door, but it was Shi Fatzi who came in.

"Your Excellency. The knight of Ovicis sent someone to report that the second prince had sent us a poster. You are invited to attend the Northland Nobles' Fellowship on May 15 in Gildusk, the capital of the Grand Duke. Do you think we're going to participate?"

"The bullshit noble fraternity, after all, isn't it a change of way to scrape money from the nobles of the territory, why should he do it? Lorist said impatiently.

"Alright, I'll send someone to inform the knight of Ovikis and tell the messenger of the second prince to get out. Shi Fatzi said.

"By the way, fat man, accompany me to the Xuantie Smelting Ground on the other side of the Blade Mountains tomorrow, I have something to discuss with Master Sid. By the way, let's see how the weapons production base you planned is doing. Lorist said.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you tomorrow. "Fat Shi went back.

Reddy didn't find Targer until late evening and brought him to Lorlist.

"Is that you?" Lorist smiled, "No wonder I always think I've heard your name somewhere, sorry, it's so much that I've forgotten you." ”

Standing in front of Lorist was none other than Targer, the head of the Forced Labor Battalion when the northbound convoy captured the city of Gordos. This five-year-old man was occasionally discovered by Lorlist's delicate and thoughtful style of doing things that was very different from his appearance, and for a moment he fell in love with his talents, and despite Tagger's own objections, he forcibly let the convoy go north with his family. Then Lorist forgot about it and ran back to the family domain to inherit the title.

Along the way north, the Tagger family did suffer a lot, which can be seen from the fact that Targer looked at Lorist without speaking and was very aggrieved.

"Alright, Tagger, I apologize again for letting your family go north and forgetting to take care of you. Well, whatever you're doing now, come and be with me first. By the way, Reddy, you go and register a house for the Tagger family, settle his family first, and then give him ten goldfords as compensation for me. Lorist instructed Reddy.

"Locke, who is he, you value him a lot. Miss Theresti asked as she waited for Reddy and Tugger to step away.

"Hehe, don't look at this guy, he looks five big and three thick, but his mind is very delicate, and he can notice details that ordinary people don't pay attention to. I admired him, so I asked the convoy to go north with his family, and then I forgot about him and went back to the north first. If he hadn't written to me with ideas, I wouldn't have remembered him. Look at the letter he wrote, it's rare, so many people, he came up with a more reliable idea. Lorist handed her the letter.

"Well, Locke, you're going to the Blade Mountains tomorrow?"

"Yes, I may have to stay a little longer this time, and I'll inspect the construction of various districts in Fengle Yuan when it's over. You can discuss the matter with Knight Schrader here, and if you can't solve it, send me a messenger to deliver a letter. It's getting late, so let's go eat first. ”

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Blade Mountains.

The valley beneath where the mine was discovered has been transformed into a bustling smelting workshop.

"My lord, we have set up a total of seven refining furnaces, with a daily output of about 3,000 catties of iron ingots...... "Master Sid, as the general leader, is giving an introduction to the engineering of the refining plant to Lorist, Shi Fatzi and Master Falin who came to do it.

Lorist found that the so-called refining furnace was still primitive as a refining ground for dark iron ore. Unlike the blast furnaces of the previous life, the people here built the refining chamber underground, revealing only a high chimney. They put the iron ore into the underground furnace room, piled up charcoal next to it, lit it, and kept blowing air into it, and finally the temperature was raised and the ore was stoned into molten iron, which flowed into the mold, and a piece of iron ingot was completed.

"I seem to have seen in a book that there is a different refining method, and what comes out is directly steel ingots. Lorist drew a picture of the blast furnace of his previous life on the paper and handed it to Master Sid: "I remember that it seemed to be a black stone used for combustion, and it was very hot. ”

Master Sid looked at the piece of animal skin paper that looked like a blast furnace in his hand, and his expression was a little embarrassed: "My lord's strong knowledge is really admirable. It's just that we can't build a blast furnace like this......"

"Why?" asked Fat Shi.

"Because this kind of blast furnace has to make a very good kind of brick that can withstand very high temperatures, so that this kind of blast furnace will not burst. We don't make this kind of brick...... "Master Sid said.

Insider, Loris nodded, and Master Sid saw at a glance the key to making a blast furnace. It's just that Lorist doesn't know the manufacturing formula of refractory bricks, so he can only experiment slowly in the future.

"As for the kind of black burning stone that the adults say, I have seen it, and it is called black flint. The stone emits a very pungent smell when burned, and the iron ingots produced by refining iron ore from black flint are not of good quality and will be brittle......" Master Sid replied to the question of the burning black flint.

It turns out that in this world, coal is called black flint, but I can't remember what that coking is, as if coal has to be coking to become coke before it can be used as a raw material for the production of steel, otherwise it will be brittle when it is made of sulfur-rich coal.

"And how do you make steel?" Lorist asked.

"That's right, you see, sir, the biggest refining furnace over there is used to produce steel. We put the black iron ingots in, and according to the type of steel to be made, put in the ingredients, after combustion, stirring, and then pour the molten steel into the mold, after taking it out, after continuous forging, remove impurities, and finally get satisfactory steel. Master Sid explained.

"I see, then I have a drawing here, I need to use a kind of steel, Master, can you see if you can refine it?" Lorist opened the blueprint of the crossbow he had designed, and Master Farin stepped forward to introduce the characteristics and specifications of the steel sheet used as the crossbow arm to Master Sid.

After reading the drawings, Master Sid frowned and thought for a long time, and finally ordered someone to find an old man to come over.

"My lord, this is Master Yu Lian, he has worked in the Imperial Capital Refinery for most of his life, if he can't make the steel you want, then no one can refine it. Master Sid said.

Don't look at Master Yu Lian's appearance is not amazing, he looks honest. But after listening to Master Falin's explanation and requirements, he nodded: "It can be made, and the reeds under the carriage of His Majesty Emperor Christen VII back then were even higher than your requirements, I remember the recipe." It's just that it needs to be constantly forged and recycled, and in the end, it needs to be quenched with oil, which requires a lot of manpower. If the quantity is small, it can still be produced, but if the quantity is large, it is difficult to have so many experienced blacksmiths to forge it, and if the force is light, it is useless, but it will damage the refined steel. ”

Lorist laughed: "This is no problem, I can design a hydraulic forging machine for you, you see that the waterfall hanging on the mountain wall of this valley is flowing in vain is really wasteful, just use it for forging, I will draw it for you to see......"

Soon a sketch of a hydraulic forging machine appeared in front of everyone, which is a very simple kind of hydraulic forging machine, that is, the use of hydraulic impact pulp wheel to drive the gear, so that the hammer hits the iron chisel up and down. The composition is self-explanatory.

Master Yu Lian was overjoyed: "My lord, you are really a genius, with this, I can make you as much steel as you want......

...... (To be continued.) )