Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

　　 Chapter 177 Crossbow and Steel

"My lord, the direct firing range of a truly first-class garrison crossbow can reach more than 300 meters, and the accuracy of the aiming error is less than half a meter. Only in this way can it pose a great threat to the enemy's Gongcheng equipment in the counterattack. In the pre-empire period, King Christen V once put forward standardized regulations on the production of garrison crossbows. Every garrison crossbow made at that time was a fine product. But the system was slack and the garrison crossbow made by Emperor Weapon was no longer available. Not that far."

Master Farin is introducing some common sense about the city guard crossbow to Lorist. The surrounding open space is full of various crossbows currently owned by the Norton family. The Lien Chan motorcade is regarded as a treasure by Dolles. From the Arsenal of Dawn Academy The twelve small crossbows obtained are also placed here.

"The really important part of the garrison crossbow is the crossbow arm. In fact, we can use any wood to reach a distance of three hundred meters. The only drawback is that it cannot last. That is, the second arrow and the first arrow The arrows are very different. The reason is the difference in the elasticity and recovery ability of the wood. The material used to make the crossbow arm must have excellent elasticity and the shortest recovery ability, so that the next crossbow arrow will remain roughly the same as the first arrow. This level alone eliminated most of the wood."

Master Farin took Lorist to stop in front of the two small crossbows: "My lord, these two crossbows can be regarded as the most sophisticated crossbows I have seen in the past ten years. They are better than others. The city’s garrison crossbow is half smaller, it is easy to operate and aim, and its direct shooting distance can reach 260 meters. It is a fine product. I asked Dolles, he said that these twelve small crossbows were made by the Chenxi Academy. The procurement of ordnance of the city defense army fell into the hands of the adults after being rejected and abandoned due to complicated operations?"

　　 Lorist nodded. He remembered that the reason he had seen it written on the academy’s arsenal registration form was because of the complexity of the operation.

Master Farin laughed: "That's wrong, you think, my lord, the average city garrison crossbow requires at least five people to operate, but this small crossbow only requires three people. How can it be considered complicated to operate? Really The reason is the high price. The inability to mass produce is the biggest weakness of this small crossbow..."

　　 "Sir, do you know what material the crossbow arms of this small crossbow are made of?" Master Faring pointed to the two small crossbows that looked like gold and not gold, and asked whether they looked like wood or wood.

　　 Lorist shook his head.

"The material of this crossbow arm comes from the arrow dragon wood unique to the relics. It has such good elasticity and resilience after three soaks and three bubbles. According to records, the arrow dragon wood is the magic of the magical civilization era. A kind of plant that the bow and crossbow purposely transplanted from other planes and worlds. It takes at least a hundred years to grow so big. It should have taken a lot of effort to get so many arrow dragon woods in Chenxi Academy, but later people didn’t Knowing the goods, it's just discarded."

Master Farin gently stroked the black faint crossbow arm and exclaimed: "From the perspective of making crossbows, arrow dragon wood is indeed the most suitable crossbow arm for crossbows, but the materials are scarce and expensive. The process takes a long time. Like three dips and three bubbles, six different ingredients are needed, and it takes seven years. As an ordnance, the most important thing is that it is cheap, can be mass-produced, and can be replaced at any time, and this often brings equipment efficiency It’s really hard to find a way to get the best of both worlds."

"I have carefully calculated the crossbow designed by the adult. From the design drawing, if it can be completed, it can be said to be an earth-shaking innovation in the history of the crossbow, but I don't know if I can find or make the one that the adult imagined. This kind of elastic steel, without this kind of steel sheet to make the crossbow arms, the adults would not be able to complete the idea of ​​using crossbows to deal with large monsters." Master Farin also knows Lorist’s idea, but what he is good at is only making crossbows out of wood. , It takes time and effort to use wood, and it is impossible to make a large-scale crossbow to equip the troops.

"Well, Master Farin, why don't you go to the Blade's Edge Mountains with me tomorrow, where the family built a mysterious iron refinery. Let's see if we can let Master Shiro forge suitable steel plates for us. Make a crossbow." Lorist said.

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　　 Leaving the crossbow workshop, Lorist returned to the office on the second floor of Rock Castle.

　　 As soon as he walked in, she found Miss Tresti lying on his desk and laughing out of breath.

　　 "My dear. What's wrong with you?" Lorist was curious.

"Locke, didn't you ask all the family knights and officials under you to think about how to deal with monsters? Now these letters have been received, you see, haha, the idea in this letter is to open the way directly It leads to the seaside of the Blade's Edge Mountains, and then when the tide of monsters comes, they follow this path and rush directly into the sea... Haha. It's so funny."

Lorist also smiled. During this period of time, his family knights and civilian officials were forced to come up with an idea to deal with the monster wave. Many people couldn't figure it out, so they had a big brain, all kinds of unreliable thinking. They are all handed up.

"Well, compared to the last time it was said that the construction of a wall from Rock Castle to Fenglin Mountain Villa to defend Fengleyuan is much more reliable, at least he also gave Warcraft Chao a way out and went to the angry sea..." Lorist commented .

The last time the idea was to build a city wall to prevent the tide of monsters from entering Fengleyuan, but didn't want to think about the distance of hundreds of miles from the rock castle to the Fenglin Mountain Villa. It would take a lot of manpower to build a wall that could defend against the tide of monsters. And material resources, there is still time. This reminded Lorist of the Great Wall in his previous life, so he was deeply impressed.

Miss Teresti was happy again: "Locke, remember that last time a knight didn’t come up with an idea, saying that it was to mobilize everyone and dig a big trap on the way to the monster wave and let all the monsters fall in. Did I write a letter specifically to ask him what to do with the soil and rocks dug up by digging the big trap. He wrote back this time, saying that by digging a hole next to it, all the rocks and rocks can be buried, haha..."

　　 Lorist smiled bitterly and shook his head. Many family knights are martial artists who don't like to use their brains. It is indeed difficult for them to make them think about dealing with the monster tide.

　　 took a few letters from the table and read them. The first letter said that all the lichens and moss in Fengleyuan should be cleaned up. Naturally, the Warcraft will not come again if there is no favorite food. Alas, why don’t you think about how big Fengleyuan is, and let’s talk about lichens and moss. Have you finished cleaning up? A large piece of it has just been removed here after a few days.

　　 The second letter said that it was even more unreliable, requiring the production of large-scale poisons to be scattered on the lichen moss in Fengleyuan, and it would be fine when the monsters came to poison all. brothers. Tell me how to make such a poison that can be stored in the open for a long time without losing its efficacy. As a first-level pharmacist, Lorist felt that anyone who invented such a poison would definitely win the Ford Research Award of the Association of Pharmacists. The 200,000 Golden Ford prize was shining golden light waiting for him to get it.

　　 The third letter said that there was an isthmus about ten miles away from Fenglin Villa. The place was huge. If you find a way to lure large monsters such as demon cows and monsters into the isthmus when the tide of monsters arrives, the remaining small herbivorous monsters will be much easier to deal with.

Huh? That's a good idea. Lorist looked at the writer's name, Tagle. A bit familiar. Seems to have heard it somewhere. But is there anyone in the family knights called Tagore? In Lorester's impression, it should not be.

　　 pulled the summoning bell, and Reddy came in.

　　 "Reddy, find this man." Lorist said.

　　 Soon there was a knock on the door, but it was Fatty Shi who came in.

"My lord, the Knight of Owiss sent someone to report that the second prince sent us an invitation to invite you to participate in the Northland Nobles Association held on May 15 in the city of Gildusk, the capital of the Grand Duchy. You See if we go to participate?"

　　 "The **** aristocratic sorority, after all, hasn't changed the way to scrape money from the domain aristocrats, why do you care about him? I directly refused, we have no time to play aristocratic games with the second prince." Lorist said impatiently.

　　 "That's good. I'll send someone to inform the Knight of Owis, let the messenger of the second prince get out." said Fatty Shi.

"By the way, fat man, accompany me to the mysterious iron refinery on the side of the Blade's Edge Mountains tomorrow. I have something to discuss with Master Sid. By the way, see how the weapon production base you plan is doing." Lorist Say.

　　 "Okay, then I will wait for you tomorrow." Fatty Shi went back.

　　 Reddy didn't find Tagger until the evening and brought him to see Lorist.

　　 "Is it you?" Lorist smiled: "No wonder I always think that you have heard the name somewhere. Sorry, there are so many things that you have forgotten."

　　 Standing in front of Lorist was Tagor, the head of the hard labor camp when the northbound convoy captured Geldous City. The five-and-three-thin man was occasionally discovered by Lorist that his delicate and thoughtful style of doing things was quite different from his appearance, and he became interested in talent for a while. Regardless of how Tagger himself objected, he forced the team to take his family northward. Then Lorist forgot about it and ran back to the family territory to inherit the title.

　　 Going this way north, the Tagle family really suffered a lot. This can be seen from the fact that Tagel has been silent and very aggrieved looking at Lorist.

"Well, Tagore, I apologize to you again, I made your family go north and forgot to take care of you. Well, no matter what you are doing now, come to me and be a follower. That's right. .Reddy, you go to register a house for the Tagle family next to you, settle his family first, and then give him ten goldfords as compensation for me." Lorist told Reddy.

　　 "Rock, who is he, you really value him." Miss Teresti asked Reddy and Tagle after they stepped back.

"Hehe, don't you look at this guy who is five big and three rough, but he has a very delicate mind and he can notice details that ordinary people don't pay attention. Let the team force his family to go north together, and then I forgot him and went back to the north. If he hadn't written to me for ideas, I would really not remember him. Look at his letter, it’s rare Ah, so many people, he came up with a more reliable idea." Lorist handed her the letter to read.

　　 "Well, Locke, are you going to Blade's Edge Mountains tomorrow?"

"Yeah, this time I may stay a little longer. When I'm done over there, I will inspect the construction of various districts in Fengleyuan. You can discuss this matter with the Knight Shredder. If you really can't solve it, send me a messenger. Deliver the letter. It's getting late, let's go eat first."

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　　 Blade's Edge Mountains.

　　 discovered that the valley below the Xuan Iron Mine has become a lively and extraordinary smelting workshop.

"My lord, we have set up a total of seven refining furnaces, with a daily production of iron ingots of about 3,000 catties..." Master Sid, as the general manager, is making refining for the coming Lorist, Fatty Shi and Master Farin. Project introduction of the field.

　　Lorist discovered that the so-called refining furnace is still very primitive as a refining site for mysterious iron ore. Different from the blast furnace in the previous life, the people here built the refining room underground, only revealing a tall chimney. They put the black iron ore into the basement furnace, piled up charcoal next to it, and kept blowing in the air after it was ignited. Finally, the temperature increased and the ore turned into molten iron, which flowed into the mold, and a black iron ingot was completed.

"I seem to see in a book that there is a different method of extraction, and the result is a fine steel ingot." Lorist drew a blast furnace in the previous life on the paper and handed it to Master Sid: "I remember well. The elephant used for burning is a black stone with a high temperature."

　　Master Sid looked at the blast furnace-like animal skin paper he was holding, with an embarrassed expression: "It's really admirable for adults to learn about Hokuji. But we can't make a blast furnace like this..."

　　 "Why?" Fatty Shi asked.

"Because this kind of blast furnace needs to make a kind of bricks that can withstand very high temperatures, so that this kind of blast furnace will not burst. We will not make this kind of bricks..." Sid Said the master.

　　 Insider, Lorist nodded, Master Sid saw the key to making a blast furnace at a glance. It's just that Lorester doesn't know the recipe for making refractory bricks, so he can only experiment slowly later.

"As for the black flammable stone that the adults said, I have seen it called black flint. That kind of stone emits a pungent smell when it burns, and it is produced by extracting iron ore from black flint. The quality of the iron ingot is not very good, it will be very brittle..." Master Sid answered the question of the burning black flint.

It turns out that coal is called black flint in this world, but I can’t remember what the coking is like. It seems that coal has to be coked into coke before it can be used as raw material for steel production. Otherwise, it would be sulphur-rich coal. It will be very crisp when produced.

　　 "Then how do you make steel?" Lorist asked.

"That's it, you see, my lord, the biggest refining furnace over there is used to produce steel. We put the black iron ingots in, and add ingredients according to the type of steel to be made, after burning, stirring, and then molten steel Pour it into the mold, take it out and go through continuous forging to remove impurities, and finally you can get satisfactory steel." Master Sid explained.

"That's it, then I have a drawing here, and I need a kind of steel. Master, can you see if it can be refined?" Lorist opened the crossbow drawing he designed, and Master Farin stepped forward to Master Sid. Introduce the characteristics and specifications of the steel used as crossbow arms~www.readwn.com~ After reading the drawings, Master Sid frowned and thought for a long time, and finally ordered an old man to come over.

　　 "My lord, this is Master Julian. He has worked in the imperial refining plant for most of his life. If he can't make the steel you want, no one can make it." Master Sid introduced.

　　 Don't look at Master Yu Lian's unbelievable appearance, but a simple and honest look. But after listening to Master Farin’s instructions and requirements, he nodded: “It can be produced. The reed under the carriage of King Christen VII back then was even more demanding than yours. I remember the formula. It just needs Forging and returning to the furnace continuously, and finally quenching with oil, it requires a lot of manpower. If the number is small, it can be produced. If the number is large, it is difficult to have so many experienced blacksmiths for forging. If the force is light, it is useless. Yes, it will destroy the refined steel."

Lorist laughed: "This is okay. I can design a hydraulic forging machine for you. You see that the waterfall hanging on the wall of this valley is flowing so innocently, it is too wasteful, just use it. Forging, I will show you..."

　　 Soon a sketch of a hydraulic forging machine appeared in front of everyone. This is a very rudimentary hydraulic forging machine that uses a hydraulic impact paddle wheel to drive a gear to make a hammer hit the iron chisel up and down. The composition is clear at a glance.

　　 Mr. Yulian was overjoyed: "My lord, you are really a genius. With this, I can make you how much steel you need..."

　　……(To be continued.)