Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 133 Weapon Development

Because the copper ore needs to be screened, although the transportation team received an order to set off urgently that day, they did not return to the Black Moon camp with the screened copper ore until noon the next day.

This batch basically brought back all the copper ore dug out there.

At the same time, the original quarry has also transformed into a mine, and its value has skyrocketed.

Although in this way, the quarry he specially built is gone, but the mine itself has an accompanying stone output.

It was not enough before because the coal mine was in a cave with limited space inside. Even if he directly arranged a hundred people to go there, at the same time, only a dozen or 20 people could work in the mine.

To a certain extent, this limits their mining efficiency, and the output of stones as a by-product is also significantly affected, and this problem cannot be effectively solved for the time being.

But the copper mine is different here. This is a typical open-pit mine.

In other words, as long as he has people within the scope of the mine, he can send as many people to dig as he wants.

While improving the mining efficiency, as a by-product of stone, its output quantity is also quite large.

With the addition of mines on both sides, the stone materials used by their tribe for daily construction are basically enough.

In the Black Moon camp, once this batch of copper ore arrives, the forging department can undoubtedly start work.

The steps are already very clear. Anyway, the ore is broken first, then smelted, impurities are removed, and the molten metal is poured into the mold.

And before this batch of copper ore was delivered, they were not idle, and started making molds one step ahead.

However, this mold is not made of any weapon, but the tools that blacksmiths need to work.

There was a forging hammer, but in addition to the forging hammer, they would undoubtedly need pliers, and a suitable forging table.

If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools!
At this moment, Zhou Xu was not in a hurry, and patiently arranged equipment for the members of the forging department.

After the first batch was made, Zhou Xu didn't care about the production of the following batches of utensils, and handed them all over to these newly employed 'blacksmiths' to practice and accumulate experience for them.

And after finishing these utensils, Zhou Xu has already ordered what to do in the next batch, which is to make copper picks.

The mining efficiency of stone pickaxes is too low, and it is easy to be damaged, which also increases the workload of the equipment department.

But as long as the stronger and more durable copper pickaxe is made, the equipment department will not need to make manuscripts directly. While reducing the work pressure of the equipment department, it can also effectively improve mining efficiency and allow him to obtain more copper ore. , and then use these copper ores to refine metals and forge weapons!
As for what weapon to forge?
At this moment, Zhou Xu is laying out the animal skin paper on the desk in his residence, drawing the design drawing seriously.

During this period, the newly established forging department was also very busy.

The metal is smelted, then poured into molds to cool, and briefly ground with a forging hammer.

As long as you don't make any excessive demands, the matter itself is not difficult.

After preparing the tools for himself, the first batch of copper picks were quickly released and sent to the mine.

While tossing and tossing here, Zhou Xu has also drawn the weapon design and asked the people from the equipment department to help him finish the mold.

After the latest batch of copper ore was delivered, the blacksmiths who were already acquainted with that technique started the furnace one after another.

This casting method is equivalent to the general method of assembly line, and there is basically no difficulty.

The moment it comes out of the mould, the first weapons make their official debut.

It has a sharp gun head, the gun head goes down, and along the blade, you can quickly see that there is still a section of metal structure underneath, and a crescent-like blade extends from one side.

At this moment, the first metal weapon Zhou Xu designed for their tribe was nothing but the crescent halberd!
Unlike a simple long spear, because it also has a crescent blade on one side, the crescent halberd can stab, pick, and chop, and it has a more comprehensive attack method.

However, relatively more materials are used.

Basically, the material used to cast a crescent halberd can almost make two gun heads.

But Zhou Xu decided to make the crescent halberd after weighing the matter.

After all, he himself intends to take the route of elite soldiers. Since he is already going to be an elite soldier, will he still be entangled in the use of materials?
At this stage, the crescent halberd coming out of the mold can only be regarded as a basic shape, but it needs to be polished and sharpened to be fully completed.

To be honest, sharpening the edge is laborious and time-consuming.

After that, I don't know if good things come in pairs. Zhuang Mengdie from the equipment department also sent good news that the new bamboo bow has been made.

The new bamboo bow greatly simplifies the mortise and tenon structure, and only uses simple combinations in some key parts of the structural strength of the image.

This method not only ensures the strength and durability of the bamboo bow to the greatest extent, but also clearly improves the production efficiency compared with the pure composite bow, and to a certain extent, meets the requirements of mass production.

Needless to say, Zhou Xu naturally asked the equipment department to mass-produce the bamboo bow.

During the period, I did not forget to tell Zhuang Mengdie another thing...

"By the way, Mengdie, take the time to make an arrowhead mold yourself. Now that we have discovered copper mines, we can use better materials to make arrowheads."

To be honest, Zhou Xu really didn't expect that the stone arrowheads just polished by their equipment department would be eliminated so quickly.

Fortunately, because the bamboo bow needed to be changed, Zhuang Mengdie was busy with research and had no time to polish it.

As for the other people in the equipment department, their skills are not good enough to polish such exquisite stone arrowheads, so it doesn't constitute any loss at the moment.

After all, to be honest, polishing a delicate stone arrowhead is much more difficult than pouring a copper arrowhead.

This is also the main reason why their leader transferred a lot of people to the forging department, but it didn't have much impact on the work of the equipment department.

Under the greenhouse of the department, Zhou Xu was talking to Zhuang Mengdie about the mass production of bamboo bows and the making of arrowhead molds, but Zhuang Mengdie seemed a little absent-minded.

Seeing this scene in his eyes, Zhou Xu suddenly asked aloud...

"Mengdie, what's the matter?"

Facing Zhou Xu's question, Zhuang Mengdie spoke slowly after hesitating for a while...

"Actually, leader, I suddenly thought of a new weapon while I was researching and improving the bamboo bow."

Zhou Xu frowned when he heard this.

"New weapon? Have you drawn a picture? Take it out and have a look?"

Regarding this, Zhuang Mengdie was not pretentious, and quickly spread out the roll of animal skin paper at hand.

The above design drawing is very scribbled, but it can still be understood temporarily.

It was a huge bow, which was mounted on a wooden cart.

Looking at this blueprint, Zhou Xu gasped on the spot, then glanced at Zhuang Mengdie who was looking distressed.

【Good guy, does she want to make a bed crossbow? ! 】

　The update is here, thanks to the book friend 'Lonely Hong' for the reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)