Chapter 16 Still Feeling Sick and Nauseous
"Ding, Ding, Ding......"
After a while, there was a thumping sound of iron at the forge.
At the No. 125 forging platform, Yang An held the handle of the wind drum with both hands, pushed and pulled hard to drum up a raging flame, and the fine iron on the stove was quickly burned red and deformed.
When the fine iron was completely heated and deformed, Yang Ning quickly clamped it, placed it on the forging table, pulled out a sharp and thin tool from the tool holder and slid it back and forth on the fine iron, dividing it into small pieces. This palm-sized piece of refined iron is of high purity, contains very few impurities, and is enough to create twenty or thirty arrowheads.
"Dingdingding......"
The hammer swung out a hammer shadow in Yang Ning's hand, accurately and evenly landing on each piece of fine iron, but in half an hour, dozens of black clusters of arrows had already been built.
Wu Xu and another forging master next to him swept their eyes over Yang Ning, secretly surprised in their hearts, they didn't expect Yang Ning's forging speed to be so fast, nearly twice as fast as them.
"Wow"
The hammer swept towards the forging table, and all the arrows swept into the sink filled with cold water, and another piece of reddish iron ping-pong was taken out of the furnace and continued to be forged. These formed arrows, after a little processing afterwards, can be used on the battlefield with the shaft of the arrow.
In this way, several hours passed, and when it was time to hand in the task every day, Yang Ning created 312 arrowheads, which was the largest number of arrows completed at the forging office, and the burly man with the deepest impression and beard also created 302, only second, with a difference of only ten.
"Hello! My name is Tang Xiong, I didn't expect you to be more powerful than me. In the future, we will communicate and learn more. ”
The burly man stared at Yang Ning with his eyes and introduced himself simply. The vision is sincere and full of fiery.
"Good! My name is Yang Ning, and we can communicate more in the future. ”
When Tang Xiong came over to talk to him, although Yang Ning was a little surprised, why the other forging masters had intentionally or unintentionally avoided Tang Xiong, but he still simply agreed.
"Good! Hahaha......"
Just as they wanted to communicate further, there were bursts of painful screams from outside the camp.
"Well, what's going on? Why is there a sound of pain outside, is someone hurt? Moreover, it seems that there is more than one, and there are quite a few of them. Could it be that anyone dares to commit murder in front of the forge camp? Brother Liu, Brother Tang, why don't we go out and have a look? ”
Yang Ning looked puzzled, during the war between the two countries, there were still people who dared to flout the law of the country and commit crimes in the city?
"Hey! Brother Yang, you don't know anything. Outside, there was no one committing an accident, passing by the wounded who had just been wounded from the battlefield and were carried back to the barracks for treatment. We were very close to the barracks, so every time the wounded returned to the barracks, they passed through here. ”
Liu Yanghe explained to Yang Ning with a heavy expression, with a layer of melancholy on his face. These days, more and more wounded people are coming down from the front line to receive treatment.
"So, can we take a look outside?"
Yang Ning still couldn't help the suddenness of the incident, and raised his head to ask Liu Yanghe.
"Yes, but ......"
Liu Yanghe didn't stop it, but it seemed that he still had something to remind Yang Ning, but in the end he didn't say it.
Yang Ning, father and son, and Wu Xu walked out of the camp, and they saw a team of wounded soldiers walking slowly.
I have never been in contact with war, and I don't know how bloody and cruel war is. When I saw many wounded people scarred, blood stained their robes red; Some severed hands and feet, blood-stained bones were exposed; I saw that some of the stomachs had been cut open and had not had time to be stitched up, and internal organs squirmed and slipped out of the palm covering the wound; There was even a miserable appearance of his head being broken, and the red and white undried liquid was spilled all over his face, Yang Ning's face was pale, and his stomach acid was like a river and a sea, and he almost wanted to squirt out of his mouth.
Yang An and Wu Xu were even worse, holding on to the wall, their bodies arched like boiled prawns, and gulps of pale yellow acid water sprayed down to the corner of the wall.
After these wounded men had passed for a long time, the three of them turned pale and their feet seemed to be filled with lead, and they slowly returned to the camp at the forging place with three trembling steps.
"Brother Yang, are you all right? This is the first time in my life that I have seen such a bloody and tragic scene, right? ”
Seeing the performance of Yang Ning and the others at the moment, Liu Yanghe and Tang Xiong asked forward with concern.
"Ahem, on the way to the county town, I have encountered bloody scenes of bandits robbing and slaughtering passing merchants, this is the second time I have seen such a terrible situation, but this time it seems to be more uncomfortable than the last time."
Yang Ning tried hard to crack his mouth, trying to hide his embarrassment with a smile. However, with his miserable white face, it looks extremely hideous.
"Hey. This has happened every day since the war between the two countries, and when you see more in the future, you will gradually stop feeling anything. ”
There was some sadness in his voice, and there was some helplessness, Liu Yanghe comforted Yang Ning softly, and his figure put away the arrow he built today and handed over the task to the forging office. If you look closely, you can see a deep sadness in his eyes.
"Heh, brother, although the wounded you saw were tragic, they were lucky, at least they picked up a life, but I don't know how many people were left without bones on the battlefield."
After Liu Yanghe left, Tang Xiong gently patted Yang Ning's shoulder and said with deep feeling.
"yes. I heard that Deacon Liu's cousin died on the battlefield, and in the end, his body was not even found. ”
Among the several forging masters not far from them, someone sighed and said something in a deep voice that Yang Ning didn't know, obviously some of the forging masters who had come to the county town earlier knew what had happened here.
This kind of tragic situation, Yang Ning and the others have seen it every day since they came to Nantu County, but the number of injured people is different every day. The more times they saw it, they gradually lost the feeling of nausea and wanted to vomit.
The forging office still has to build a large number of weapons needed for emergencies on the battlefield every day, and Yang Ning has been coming to the forging office for a month. After many days of familiarity, Yang Ning now knows every forging master in the forging department, and in the mutual communication with Tang Xiong and others, his forging skills have improved a lot. Especially when he came into contact with a large number of minerals in the treasury of Nantu County, the soil lumps in the dantian absorbed a large amount of spiritual power, and the meridians of Yang Ning's limbs were all connected unconsciously, and the Mixed Yuan Spirit Swallowing Technique could now operate on its own without any drive.
"Bang bang, ding-ding......"
Today is the end of the month, and the tasks that need to be turned in have already been completed, and Yang Ning wants to build a standard saber today.
The reddish ore is constantly deformed in the process of beating, and gradually the shape of a knife appears on the forging table. The back of the knife is thick, the blade is thin, and the handle is slightly long, so that it can be held with both hands, which is exactly the shape of the standard saber commonly used in the army.
The hammer hammered left and right, hammering the already formed knife embryo, as if there was no pattern. But at this time, the hammer continued to fall along a kind of Qiao trajectory, forming a rhythm with the knife embryo on the forging platform, and Yang Ning also seemed to fall into some special state of emptiness.
After half an hour of tempering and beating, a bright standard saber was finally forged. When the final hammer fell and the saber was successfully built, Yang Ning woke up from his special state.
"Wow"
The saber quenched the water, and a puff of white gas rose from the sink. Yang Ning picked up the saber with one hand, and a bright silver luster flowed from the hilt to the tip of the knife. The blade is sharp, exuding a formidable chill.
"The warden has arrived!"
A loud announcement came from the gate of the camp, and Ma Zhiqing, the county guard of Nantu County, walked into the camp at the forge with a gentle smile on his face. These days, the forgers in the forging department have been working day and night to create a large number of urgently needed weapons and materials, alleviating the needs of the army to fight.