The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 191 New Threat
Although the tragic result was finally ushered in, relying on the experience of building a blast furnace this time, Ickert already has a basic understanding of the technology of blast furnace ironmaking.

This can help him better improve the production process.

First of all, a major disadvantage of this ancient method of ironmaking lies in the temperature of the furnace. The temperature of the furnace is too low so that only a piece of iron can be produced, not to mention, even the furnace that has been worked so hard will be smashed!

Moreover, although charcoal can be prepared, it is inferior to coke that can be directly dug out and can be prepared on a large scale. However, this aspect cannot be improved now, and Ickert can only postpone it.

Ickert does not need to use a knife for the entire ironmaking process, he just needs to create a more reasonable ironmaking blast furnace.

"My lord, this is the iron we smelted."

From the shattered blast furnace, Hammer took out a few kilograms of iron with pliers.

For this output, Ickert is naturally quite disgusted.

"Hammerhead, throw away that ugly piece of iron. If we want to smelt, we need to smelt more! Good smelting!"

"But, my lord, this is really a pity."

Although Hammer was quite reluctant, he honestly threw away a piece of smelting iron.

"I'm going to design a magic blast furnace. We will use better furnaces to produce all the steel in the future!"

Ickert already has a prototype in his mind, using magic materials to make the furnace base, which is convenient for engraving cooling circles on it to improve the heat resistance of the boiler.

Then the boiler should be further sealed, leaving only the carbon dioxide gas outlet to reduce heat loss.

Redesign the bottom of the furnace, set more tuyeres, use the wind array to complete the internal oxygen supply, and the temperature is provided by the array, and the charcoal is only used as a reducing agent and an auxiliary heat source.

Since molten iron is produced at high temperature, the slag outlet should be set above the molten iron inlet, and then it is only necessary to continuously pour in the mixed ironmaking raw materials (crushed iron ore, charcoal, limestone) from the feed inlet, You can get a steady stream of molten iron from the outlet!
The feeding port needs to be sealed to a certain extent. Of course, this will not trouble a senior mechanical dog, and there is no shortage of magic materials on the basis of such seizures in the territory.

The first step does not need to be too big. Ickert only intends to build a three-meter-high "low furnace" first, and then seek improvements in the future.

Anyway, he won't admit it, the main reason is the lack of iron in the territory, no matter how big it is, the iron is really useless.

The waste and iron filings produced by the Ministry of Industry must be swept away and re-smelted.

The specific design of the blast furnace requires Ickert to go back to the hard liver, and the connection method is still the same as riveting. Only the parts that need frequent maintenance will use industrial screws.

As for the ore problem, this is much easier to solve than the blast furnace. The 200 newly arrived squirrels were put into the love education camp, and as many as [-] squirrels were uniformly dragged to the Iron Tribe site to participate in labor. remodel.

Even the mines of the Iron Skin Tribe still belonged to the category of open-pit mines, and there was almost no difficulty in mining them. They only needed to be beaten by rats, and this happened to be their job.

At present, ore mining is still dominated by rat power. Even if machines can be built, the Ministry of Industry has no production capacity for them.

After all the work was arranged, the production of the territory suddenly flourished, and agriculture, industry, metallurgy, and various industries were booming.

Everywhere is full of vitality and beautiful scenery of all things competing.

Under the high-intensity overtime work of the workers for 14 hours a day, the territory is producing firearm parts at a rate of four to five per day, and then assembling them at an extremely fast speed.

By the end of the iron ore mining and blast furnace experiments, the Guards Jaegering Battalion had been fully equipped with magic guns.

It is matched with the territory's homemade leather water bottle, food bag and ammunition leather bag.

For the consideration of the field battle, the hunters also got the quilts purchased from Ross Sodol, and Iker specially ordered the tailor to change them into sleeping bags.

Ammo pouches consist of a Warpstone ammo pouch with lead plate inside, a shotgun ammo pouch, and a solid ammo belt.

On the left side of the waist, the hunters are also equipped with melee weapons, usually hanging knives and hanging swords.

The reason for this is that the production speed of bayonets is actually more laborious than firearms.

For every three firearms produced, the Ministry of Industry can grind out one bayonet.

On the blue star, such as the Hanyang Arsenal, the output of bayonets could not keep up with firearms at first.

Ickert almost wanted to simplify production and engage in iron thorns.

However, due to various reasons, the actual performance of the iron spike is lower than that of the three-edged bayonet, so it was abandoned.

If you want to equip enough bayonets, you have to save up.

But the good news is that the artillery discs have been distributed to troops, and the chasseurs that Ickert values ​​are already able to ride jackal mounts.

Saddles and pedals are good technologies, but it is impossible to say that without these, you cannot ride and fight. Many problems can be solved with skills.

It's just that with better technological equipment, training cavalry will become easier.

Well, Ickert admits he's under-produced and doesn't have time for this.

And as if to test the military achievements of the territory, a group of orc cavalry looked at this flourishing land in the distance.

A village on the outskirts of Rossodor is currently being ravaged by orcs.

"Don't run! Don't run! Take up arms and defend the village! You are all hired by me!"

The village head picked up the broom and swept it towards the fleeing adventurers.

Behind him, a band of dismounted orcs was slaughtering a line of militiamen and old farmers.

A spear thrust out suddenly, stabbing straight at the hairy orc warrior in front of him, but was blocked by the opponent's hard muscles.

Many of these orcs who went south were elite. Although they were lightly armed, there were many extraordinary people among them.

The hairy orc easily pulled out the spear and pulled it back violently!
The human militiamen refused to give up the spears in their hands, so they were pulled into the hairy orc's line.

Several tomahawks slashed down one after another, chopping it into pieces of meat.

On the flank, a wolf cavalry relied on its mobility to circle around the flank of the human line and charged.

"I heard that the human generals think that the light cavalry has no impact, let them see how powerful the worg boys are today!"

The warg under the crotch charged with the orc. The warg was lighter in weight and less impactful, but this level of charging was still a disaster for the old farmer.

If they didn't know that they had no way out, these villagers wouldn't have persisted for so long.

"Come back quickly! Everyone in the village is going to die! Don't you have a conscience?"

The village chief was still chasing the adventurer. At this moment, the soldiers in the team finally couldn't bear it anymore and ended up killing the village chief who prevented them from escaping.

"Bullshit villagers! The reward of ten gold coins is worthy of our desperation?"

"Captain, I haven't received the reward, let's go to the village to search for some."

"That's right, Captain! It is said that adventurers never return empty-handed! If we don't snatch it, we will be snatched away by the orcs!"

Others persuaded the murderous captain that, as a qualified adventurer, he immediately made the most correct decision.

One of the thieves was sent out to loot the property, while the others lurked into the forest to respond.

And the orcs who defeated the villagers also began to think about their next goal.

"Dawuxia, this place is too close to Rosesodol Town, we need to avoid it and go to the old place to rest for a day."

"Of course."

The property looted by the orcs needs to be transported back to the north through some special channels to ensure the mobility of the cavalry.

Rossodol's summoned beast troops also need to evade, and they must not love to fight. The orcs need to recover their strength.

And the old place they talked about was the Windsor Territory, whose strength had been weakening for a long time.

There, the orc warriors can still be lawless.

(End of this chapter)