Lord of Rot

Chapter 128 The first set of armor is ready

In the simple red brick walled factory, hydraulic forging hammers beat non-stop.

A young man with cheeks flushed by the flames used iron tongs to rummage through the fire to find a red-hot iron ingot. After picking up the iron ingot, both hands exerted force together. The veins on his arms popped up. In a low tone, he trotted all the way back to his station.

The red iron block was clamped and placed on the forging table.

Bang!
The hydraulic forging hammer is raised and then smashed down.

After testing, the big hammer that can push the iron ball out of the depression in an instant, hit the red-hot iron ingot, splashing out a sea of ​​Mars, the young man seemed to fall into the fiery red lake in an instant, but in the blink of an eye , the sparks extinguished and disappeared, leaving only some red spots on his skin.

Bang!
The second time came again.

The young man was not afraid of being scalded, he let the sparks hit him like raindrops, and just gritted his teeth and squinted at the forging table.

A piece of red iron quickly deformed during the beating.

When the red light faded, the young man breathed a sigh of relief, and returned to the stove with the iron in his arms, and buried the iron in it.

The blacksmith factory is in initial operation.

After eating early in the morning, the blacksmiths would come here to beat and clang for a day. Of course, when they couldn’t bear it, they would change shifts and go out to rest for a while, but most of them would grit their teeth and persevere.

It is said to be a factory, but in fact, it is simply a small courtyard with red bricks piled up, enclosing the area, and building a shed on top of it, which will be rebuilt in the future. Naturally, everything is kept simple at present.

It relies on the water here, and when people are hot, they can go in and take a dip to cool down and save heatstroke.

The factory's apprentice blacksmith workers are extremely satisfied with this hard but well-paid job.

Thinking about it, before this, he also worked as a coolie, and at most he could earn five or six copper stars a day. The work was no easier than this.

Going forward, when Li Qi's father, Leed, was a baron, he would not provide jobs for ordinary civilians at all. People were often hungry, and they could eat half full when the harvest was good, and they could only eat grass when the harvest was poor. .

A silver moon does not require them to build any armor, but only needs to complete the work in their hands.

You can complete your own set of work in a few days with quick hands and feet, and earn one silver month. After you are proficient, it is not difficult to earn 3 or 4 silver months a month.

The factory's first set of armor was quickly completed under the blessing of the assembly line.

Among them, the mature blacksmiths put in a lot of effort, because the apprentices didn't have much experience working on the assembly line, and what they made was completely waste semi-finished products, which could only be modified by the blacksmiths. Thinking that they only made so little money, they had to clean up these It was a mess, the blacksmiths were in a bad mood, but they thought that as long as they taught this group of idiots, they could lie down and collect money, and they felt that they could be patient and teach them again.

Everyone only does one or two steps of work, so it is naturally much easier to learn, but experience needs to be accumulated.

After the first full set of heavy armor on the assembly line was completed, Li Qi rushed over immediately, and he also specially brought two knights who were training.

Little Joel is no longer tall, half a head taller than Li Qi, with a very strong body.

When he learned that he was going to try on the armor, little Joel was very excited. He was very greedy when he saw the shiny armor worn by the veterans. Unfortunately, he never had a chance to have a set of his own, so that he could make money for himself. Buying, but I don’t know when to save money.

He took off his clothes, and with the help of Carrot, he quickly changed into his armor.

After putting on the whole set of armor, little Joel happily moved here and there.

"Not bad." Li Qi nodded.

Although it is not as exquisite and beautiful as the heavy armor of the soldiers before the porcupine collar, it is not too bad in terms of practicality. The main reason is that there is no craftsman's fine carving and polishing, a full set of silver heavy armor of metal color, with a nose guard package The armored helmet has a much higher defense than ordinary armored armor.

At this time, little Joel is completely a wrapped iron man.

"Luoba, try with a sword." Li Qi grabbed an unpolished sword and threw it to Luobo.

Radish has a relatively thin body and focuses on flexible routes.

Little Joel patted his chest and grinned at his friend: "Come on!"

He will not stand still and be beaten obediently, and if he catches a carrot, he will not politely give him a punch.

"Be careful." Carrot said to the doctor, and then he took a sword and slashed at it. Little Joel subconsciously stretched out his hand to grab it, but it was in vain.

The bulky armor made it difficult for him to grab the turnip, but with a clang, the sword slashed against the heavily armored young Joel, and the sword bounced away.

The armor style of the porcupine collar: the inside is chain armor, and the outside is iron sheet armor, which is heavy and not lacking in flexibility.

This sword also left a mark on the armor.

But hearing Little Joel cry out in pain, the blacksmiths looked at him nervously, and then heard Little Joel laugh loudly: "It doesn't hurt at all."

"Today you are punished not to drink beer while eating." Li Qi said with a dark face.

"Ah?" Little Joel hurriedly took off his helmet: "My lord, I just wanted to make a joke."

Daily high-intensity training, if you can't let him drink, it must be more uncomfortable than killing him, but unfortunately the lord ignored him, little Joel made a bitter face and promised from the bottom of his heart that he would never joke around again in the future!
With the help of radish, little Joel reluctantly took off the heavy armor.

Next, Li Qi will hire some peasant women with good skills to weave smocks for the armor, make soft armor, and soft top hats for wearing helmets. This part of the expenditure will not be too high.

Infantry generally equipped with shields, hammers, flails and other weapons, the shield material is wood, iron edge, can play some role in the face of arrows and cavalry charge.

There is still a lot of work to be done in the follow-up, and the production of a set of armor is obviously not something that can be done with a stroke of the head.

The blacksmith factory is truly in operation.

Just now he also noticed that this set of armor didn't fit perfectly, especially when he was taking off his clothes, he noticed that some places on Xiao Qiao's body were crowded and red, and most of the soldier's armor was not close-fitting.Because they will stuff underwear inside, wear leather armor and soft armor, etc., so they are generally relatively large, and in this case, the wearer will be injured. It can only be said that there is a problem with the shape of the armor.

Infantry generally don't wear full plate armor. Even the porcupine collar that pays attention to storming and heavy armor is absolutely impossible to build a few iron cans that are difficult to walk. Only noble knights wear plate armor and gallop on horses.

"You can find a carpenter to make a batch of wooden figures, and then make armor according to the wooden figures." Li Qi said to the blacksmiths: "Let the carpenters measure the approximate height and weight of the porcupine collar soldiers, and then separate out several different models. , medium size, large size, plus size, etc., as long as people of similar body shape can wear it, and then compare it with the wooden figure for production.”

Li Qi should be the first person in the world who proposed to make clothing by model.

In Lurea Continent, no matter the poor or the rich, if they want a new set of clothes, they will definitely ask a tailor to make them for them.

But in Li Qi's opinion, this is a waste of manpower and time. Each piece is tailor-made, which may be more comfortable and fit, but it will also be more wasteful.

When you can eat and drink enough, think about exquisite beauty.

Porcupine collar currently has no plans to transform into a handicraft industry, and he does not plan to build a workshop assembly line to make clothes, but he can first figure out the rules for the size of the clothes, so that people of similar stature can wear them, at least it is very convenient for armor manufacturers.

(End of this chapter)