Chapter 206: Equipment
Although you can see the inside from the city gate, after Zhou Zhongmou walked in, he found that the city was really small and dirty. A dusty road, lined with stone houses, and carts of hay and other materials. There were not many people in the city, and as far as Zhou Zhongmou could see, there were only a few dozen people, and perhaps there would be hundreds of people in the houses? The only two houses that could be seen on the main road were clean and neat -- a house that looked like a church, and a large house that seemed to be a combination of the local town hall and the aristocratic lord.
At best, the city was a bazaar, but flour shops, bakeries, grocers, and blacksmith shops were all available, and the blacksmith shops here were hung with swords that seemed to be the norm in this area. Zhou Zhongmou looked at the blacksmith who was working in the blacksmith shop, and saw that this guy was pounding a piece of iron hard, "It's almost the material level of the big blade repeatedly folded and forged, and it can be regarded as folding steel." Zhou Zhongmou thought so, it seemed that the blacksmith's craftsmanship was average, and the weapons hanging on the wall were some one-handed swords and single-edged knives and the like, and Zhou Zhongmou could see that the center of gravity of these weapons had a small deviation just by looking at them, and they had not been carefully adjusted - although it didn't affect the use of it much, it would make people more tired when using it.
Zhou Zhongmou used to be a very good craftsman, and he was also a good hand at forging weapons - a thousand years ago. It's just that he's not interested in building weapons at all, and the steel mouth of the sapper shovel he can get out now is much sharper and more durable than this folding steel weapon. "Just forget it, let's give it a try. "Although the interest is not high. But after thinking about it for a while, Zhou Zhongmou still walked in front of the blacksmith. Gave him a handful of silver coins, bought a large piece of pig iron, and said to borrow his tools for a while. In order to facilitate camouflage on the road behind. Forget about the strange shape of the sapper shovel, and it's not bad to follow the local customs and take a sword or something.
As a former weaponsmith, Zhou Zhongmou had enough strength to forge this piece of pig iron, and he repeatedly heated and forged the iron, stuffing it into burning charcoal to burn it red and then forging it. With great strength and precise control, the iron was quickly forged into an even sheet of steel. Zhou Zhongmou repeatedly folded and forged steel sheets, and he did not want to use the complicated technique of clamping or cladding steel to build a weapon, because this was really a bit more troublesome. Zhou Zhongmou was ready to fold it repeatedly, and then simply do a surface carburizing and hardening treatment, and it would be over. Although I haven't built a cold weapon for many years, as an outstanding goldfinger weapon master. He is naturally able to control the center of gravity of his weapon very accurately—the center of gravity that best suits him. The weapon he had created was a simple two-handed sword, and he didn't want it to be ornately forged, with its straight body and graceful curved tip, as well as a slightly protruding triangular blade in the middle of the blade, and finally an I-shaped spine, which was much more beautiful than the sword in the blacksmith's shop. The length of this sword is about one meter four, and the length of the hilt is about thirty centimeters, Zhou Zhongmou carefully cut out the grip with special cork and put it on the hilt, and at the same time, the unfolded gauntlet also used excess materials to create a simple slotted glove with a small hook on the sword. After cutting the blade with a grinding wheel and then quenching and annealing, the great sword was finely polished and polished with a grinding stone by Zhou Zhongmou to reveal a beautiful moire pattern—a pattern formed after many folds and forging. This proves that this two-handed sword is a rare weapon. The blacksmith on one side was already stunned
Zhou Zhongmou ignored him either, and he found the necessary hard leather in the blacksmith shop. A special scabbard was made with rivets, and then carefully wound around the hilt with soft leather, and finally Zhou Zhongmou was satisfied with hanging the two-handed sword, which she thought was as "shoddy" as a toy—as a man about 1.85 meters tall, Zhou Zhongmou didn't seem to see anyone taller than himself in this city. For someone who can forge such a sharp weapon in just half a day, this ordinary blacksmith can't see through it at all, and he doesn't dare to mess with it, anyway, Zhou Zhongmou has already given enough money to make him not ask anything and say nothing.
Zhou Zhongmou, who turned up his cloak, had a big sword hanging from his waist, and walked straight to the already promising shop, where there was chain mail, which looked much stronger than the chain mail in the blacksmith shop, which was not even from side to side and was completely uneven in size. Again, there are no legal restrictions on this kind of chain mail and half-length armor in this world, but in terms of money, it has made it impossible for most civilians to fantasize about buying a chain mail or anything - such a chain mail that is only waist-length can be sold for fifteen gold coins, which is a huge sum compared to the forty silver coins that cost only four hundred silver coins to buy pig iron and rent blacksmith tools. Of course, if Zhou Zhongmou took the two-handed greatsword he had just built and sold it, because it was a beautiful patterned greatsword, this kind of fine work would at least cost more than thirty gold coins
If there is gold, Zhou Zhongmou is not lacking. After all, the size of the so-called Teller gold coin is the same as a one-yuan coin on the earth, and Zhou Zhongmou directly offset the account with a piece of gold with such a weight. Putting on chain mail in the cloak, Zhou Zhongmou found a little bit of role-playing fun - in fact, this guy doesn't need this kind of chain mail at all, his muscles are estimated to be much higher than this armor, because this guy is tall, and the chain mail that can be worn to the thighs, knees and wrists is also the waist and elbow part in Zhou Zhongmou's opinion, which is a full-body armor for others, and it is a half-body armor for him. Zhou Zhongmou bought this useless chain mail purely out of a desire to play, "Since the armor and sword are available, what is missing? Oh! by the way, the helmet is still missing." ”
Since they all suddenly have the interest of acting, Zhou Zhongmou never minds playing a little more like. He looked at the appearance of his inner chain mail and cloak on the outside, and decided to use a simple leather helmet to solve the problem. Leather helmets are actually quite easy to buy, and there are places that sell chain mail. After Zhou Zhongmou chose a suitable helmet, he still had a question: "It looks like it's not a small number of people of my size, or the heads of people in this world are relatively large in proportion" Helmets made of leather, the smell is not very good, but Zhou Zhongmou has a way - anyway, there is leather cleaner looted from the supermarket in his space, and this thing smells very good
It was only half a day, and a freshly baked medieval ordinary two-handed sword mercenary was baked. "As a cosplayer, it looks like I need a head of transportation. Ready to role-play to keep himself from boredom and relaxed, Zhou Zhongmou still let his mind focus on transportation - he had no interest in walking.
And as far as the Middle Ages is concerned, there are actually quite a lot of horses in this world. Although there are a lot of them, but in fact, the price is not cheap, a three-year-old stallion, if you can see it, the price is at least ten gold coins - if you change your outfit like this, in fact, from the perspective of mercenaries alone, there will be a mercenary like Zhou Zhongmou full of incongruity - the chain mail and two-handed sword mercenaries with fifty-five gold coins on their bodies are usually equipped with these things, and the two-handed sword mercenaries usually spend the same amount of money to buy a piece of land to live a good life (to be continued......