Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 173 Mo Dao

Suixian City is close to the bank of Suishui River, leading Suishui River into the moat.During the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, Liu Wu led his troops to defend the Liang capital Suiyang (now Shangqiu, Henan) against the Wu-Chu coalition forces, and defended the capital Chang'an.This is not only the gateway to eastern Henan, but also the first nail for marching westward or northward.

The land here is flat and fertile, with moderate rainfall, convenient irrigation and rich products. It is an important town in eastern Henan.Looking at the majestic and tall city wall, Feng Lei's mood was gloomy.

Gao Jingzong didn't seem to think about whether Sui County could be captured. He ordered people to cut trees and plant piles on the banks of the Sui River in the southwest of Sui County, and built a small military fortress with [-] military tents, and arranged for soldiers to take turns. Watch the night.

Among Gao Jingzong's more than 320 soldiers and civilians, people who can read and write, except for important generals, count as one, but 320 seven "scholars" were selected.Among the 13 seven scholars, the oldest is over 320 years old, and the youngest is only [-] years old.Gao Jingzong had no choice but to hold the attitude of being taller than a dwarf, and ordered [-] seven scholars to enter the eighteen big tents to take the imperial examination.

It is not difficult to destroy, nor is it difficult to conquer. The most difficult thing in the world is construction and civilization.Attila, king of the Huns, and the Mongolian expedition to the west are nothing more than "yellow peril" in the eyes of Europeans. People fear him like wild animals, but absolutely no one will respect or admire a vicious beast.

In the history of China, whether it is the Wuhu chaos, Jurchen, or Mongol invasion, they all adopted brutal and brutal methods in an attempt to conquer China. However, although their butcher knives slaughtered tens of millions of Chinese people, they still did not completely conquer China. .However, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were different. They adopted two methods, hard and soft, to keep the hair but not the hair, and the shaving order to force the Chinese to change the customs and start from the civilization. Therefore, the Chinese nation was completely tragic, and it has been more than 200 years. Captive breeding not only successfully castrated the blood of the Chinese nation, but also successfully cultivated a large number of brain-dead fans.

Gao Jingzong was a giant standing on the shoulders of history, he fully realized the importance of establishing civilized order.If Li Zicheng had established a brand-new political system instead of resorting to brutal and brutal means of destruction, even if Li Zicheng was defeated in Shanhaiguan, he would still have a chance to stick to the Central Plains.

However, Li Zicheng, like other peasant uprising leaders, was bound to fail because of his narrow structure and short strategic vision.In fact, although Gao Jingzong was victorious at this time, and his army and territory expanded wildly, he was still a "rogue" army. As long as he experienced one failure, even a small one, this army would disappear in smoke. .

On September [-]th of the third year of Shengping, Gao Jingzong's first imperial examination in the south of Sui County officially kicked off.Gao Jingzong did not squat in the examination room, but came to the newly formed camp of generals.At this time, more than [-] craftsmen with various skills joined the general supervisor, and the most important work of the general supervisor is to quickly repair the broken armor and weapons captured on the battlefield in Feng County.

Because Gao Jingzong's Beifu soldiers and cavalry were weak, Gao Jingzong did not intend to form Yan's armored cavalry equipment, but planned to follow the example of the Tang army and establish a heavily armed Modao army.Compared with Zhanmajian, Modao is not only more powerful, but also stronger than Zhanmajian.

It is actually not difficult to restore the Mo Dao, the difficulty is how to make the Mo Dao as strong and sharp as the Tang Dynasty Mo Dao.Gao Jingzong didn't know how to forge weapons, but he knew metallurgy.Also understand heat treatment.The so-called heat treatment is a process in the processing of metal materials.Simply put, the metal workpiece is heated to an appropriate temperature and maintained for a period of time, and then immersed in a quenching medium for rapid cooling.After forging all kinds of ironware in folk blacksmith shops, the red ironware should be quickly immersed in water to cool it down. This is a way of quenching.

Processing processes such as quenching and tempering, annealing, and normalizing, collectively referred to as heat treatment processes, are important means for improving material properties.Through precise control of the medium, temperature, time and other factors in the heat treatment process, the toughness, strength, hardness, wear resistance, fatigue strength, etc. of the material can meet the specified requirements. The knowledge in this can be described as unfathomable.

All the armor (waistcoats) and broken armors, as well as various broken weapons seized from the battlefield in Feng County, were all sent to the prison workshop by Gao Jingzong.

At this time, nearly a hundred blacksmith furnaces have been built in the camp that will be used as a supervisory workshop.Gao Jingzong pointed out that the drawings of Modao were given to the blacksmiths, and the steel was first returned to the furnace for recasting. When the semi-melted steel was forged by the blacksmith, the Modao had been formed.Usually blacksmiths quench by directly immersing in cold water for cooling. This method is not wrong, but it is very limited.

"Slow!" Gao Jingzong saw a blacksmith about fifty years old who was about to dip the Mo Dao into the water, so he interrupted in time: "Not busy, not busy, don't rush to quench the fire for now."

When the old Zhangtou saw the arrival of the high governor, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground.Gao Jingzong hurriedly supported Lao Zhang's head and said: "Heat treatment is not that simple. You must first heat the metal to ac3, that is, the temperature at which free ferrite is completely transformed into austenite to produce solid solution strengthening, and then take it out. Slow cooling in air to refine grains and homogenize carbide distribution...

Not only Zhang Tou, but even all the blacksmiths present couldn't understand what Gao Jingzong said.

When Gao Jingzong saw this scene, he couldn't help laughing.Traditional Chinese crafts are passed on by word of mouth, and they have a strong sense of confidentiality. They usually don’t hand over theoretical things to their apprentices. Many skilled craftsmen don’t know how to teach their apprentices at all, and they are often ten students. , it would be nice to bring one out.

Gao Jingzong had no choice but to teach by example.He clamped Mo Dao with iron tongs, but he didn't put it directly into the water, but threw it into a pile of ashes next to it to keep it warm.This practice is called tempering, and it is also one of the several major processes of heat treatment.What he has to do is to integrate various processes such as normalizing, tempering, and quenching to achieve comprehensive heat treatment of the workpiece.

Gao Jingzong said at this time: "Is there any oil?"

Wei Dafu said: "Yes, yes, yes, I don't know how good the governor is?
Gao Jingzong said: "Bring as much as you have!"

In fact, when Gao Jingzong quenched, he not only added the tempering process, but also added the oil quenching method.Soon, Wei Dafu asked someone to bring a large wooden bucket of horse grease.War horses have a lot of muscle and very little fat, but not without it.There is usually a layer of fat on the belly of the horse, less than a finger thick.Thousands of horse carcasses only collect hundreds of catties.

Gao Jingzong took the cooled Mo Dao from the ashes and heated it again in the furnace. After it turned slightly red, he took it out and inserted it directly into the fat.

"Buzz!"

There was a crisp sound, and a stream of water vapor rose from the quenching barrel, and everyone present smelled an indescribably burnt smell.Gao Jingzong put the Mo Dao in the water and soaked it for a stick of incense, then took it out, threw it on the ground, and said to Lao Zhangtou: "Okay, let's try the blade."

　One thing needs to be stated, Lao Cheng is not from a professional background, this episode is just imagination, and the data party does not want personal attacks.

　　
　
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