Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 105 Chapter [-]
In the year 94 of the imperial calendar, the first snow in Shuangfeng Ridge came earlier than before.

——Actually, it couldn’t be earlier.

——Because the day it snowed was New Year's Day in nine hundred and ninety-four.

When the crystal-clear snowflakes were blown by the strong wind and swayed from the eastern Dragon Bone Peak, the residents of Phoenix Terrace ushered in a brand new year amidst the military songs of the temporary militiamen.

Xia Houyan woke up very early, as usual, he led the leaders to conduct military training together with the guards and instructors.

After a period of physical training, this group of militiamen have already started the saber combat training session with the simple saber made by Master Kobe, and they can be regarded as serious Dolan.

There were many difficulties in the production of the first batch of armaments in Shuangfengling.

The model of the whole batch of swords is made of Shuangfengling clay based on a demon saber found from Yueshen Village as a template:
Compared with the imperial officer's swords, which are longer in length, have a slightly curved blade, and place more emphasis on beauty and elegance than practicality, these demon-style sabers selected by Shuangfengling as the target of the cottage have wider blades and a more coordinated center of gravity. Ease of use and actual combat effects are much stronger.

——This is partly due to the fact that under the current empire's troop formation strategy dominated by crossbowmen and heavy cavalry, close-range infantry hand-to-hand combat has become increasingly despised by the military.

Xia Houyan learned from Master Kobe that, in fact, the best saber on the mainland is the arc-bladed cavalry sword of the Federation Orc Wolf Cavalry——

——This kind of long knife with a heavy weight and an extremely sharp blade can only be described as terrifying in its destructive power under the blessing of speed. It has harvested the heads of countless good men from the empire!
It's just that Shuangfengling can't get the wolf cavalry sword as a template after all.

After making the cast knife model, the lord took a few capable people and made a special trip to Rock Creek City. He took the huge risk of being discovered by the Duke of Houston, and bought and sold a batch of crucibles and anvils at a high price. Casting tools were secretly transported back to Phoenix Terrace.

——Professional equipment like this, if you don't go to the imperial metropolis, you can't find it in a few dilapidated towns on the south bank of the Lion Heart River.

And the lack of resources is what impressed Xia Houyan the most on this wasteland during these days.

There is no iron ore in Shuangfengling under the rule, and even the raw materials used to cast these sabers are several large boxes of iron ingots snatched from the Moon God Village—and its original owner is undoubtedly some unlucky wilderness Caravan.

Therefore, every saber made by Master Kobe with his apprentices is actually consuming the non-renewable metal resources of Shuangfengling. Iron and steel resource reserves are really used a little less!

A few days ago, when training saber martial arts, a few militiamen accidentally broke their swords, which directly distressed the official Xiahou so much that he couldn't sleep all night, and scolded his mother for an hour in the next day's meeting.

The only good news is that the quality of this batch of sabers is at least good.

Although due to limited conditions, Shuangfengling cannot use forging technology to manufacture knives, but can only use mold casting to shape and then polish. The strength of the knives is naturally limited, but the quality of the final product is actually very close to the limit of the current production capacity. .

——A major contributor to this matter is "Jifeng Jianhao".

It is extremely puzzling to the officials of Xiahou that in these days, there are several "Spine Arrows" one after another, and they don't know which corner of the land of cracking souls, and they go straight to the Phoenix Terrace The fortifications collided.

And after Master Donald was criticized by Mayor Joel, he obviously realized his shame and was courageous. The reinforced fence wall firmly blocked the impact of these magical creatures, even after eating the low-level magic spewed from the mouth of "Spine Arrow". After the "Wind Blade", it was not completely destroyed.

When the lord took two elite fighters to make troubles in the Moon God Village, Shuangfeng Ridge's defense force could handle a magic porcupine. Now it is even easier to deal with these beasts who have thrown themselves into the net.

Even Xia Houyan let the militiamen who were being trained take part in the battle to encircle and suppress the porcupines, as actual combat practice.

In the vast ocean of the People's War, these beasts were quickly put under the law and imposed a dictatorship.

However, in the process of disembowelling the "Jifeng Arrowman", Master Kobe pointed out that since we have no plan to prepare archers on a large scale according to the military development strategy of the territory, the "Jifeng Arrowman" is full of heroism. The thorns, rather than being made into arrows, might as well be used for other purposes.

This so-called use is exactly "polishing a saber"!
Since the cast rather than forged Shuangfengling knives have natural defects in the strength of the blade, the requirements for sharpness of the blade will only be higher;

According to the tradition of the imperial military industry, the tools used to polish the blades of weapons are often abrasive tools made of natural high-hardness materials such as cold bone diamond and Tanaria corundum, or some special magic metals with extremely high hardness.

As for Frost Maple Ridge, it is obviously impossible to obtain these precious materials, or to manufacture them under the conditions of magic metallurgy similar to that of primitive tribes.

However, the poor also have their own ways.

Master Kobe pointedly pointed out that the thorns on the back of "Jifeng Jianhao" are extremely hard, even slightly surpassing steel, and they are perfect for sharpening the edge of a saber!

As it turns out, this is a terrific idea.

With the help of the remaining rune magic power on the wreckage of the "Thrace Annihilation Arrow" picked up from Luna Village, Master Laurie used superb magic manipulation skills to crush the thorns of Jianfeng Jianhao into powder, and then crushed them into powder. Combined with clay, it makes for some pretty tough sanding wheels!
Master Kobe even asserted that the quality of this batch of grinding wheels is not inferior to the professional tools of the Imperial military base "Molten Valley"!

——Warcraft is not a local specialty of the empire after all. Even the craftsmen of the military department have obviously never thought of making abrasive tools with materials from monsters.

The Frost Maple Ridge Saber polished with a porcupine grinding wheel has reached the first-class level on the Haven Continent only in terms of sharpness!
It's just that due to the performance of the material itself, their durability is a question mark.

From this point of view, these few spine-mounted arrows who bumped into it inexplicably seemed to be merciful by a certain god, and rewarded the novice bag for this reckless territory—the leather armor made of the first porcupine pigskin, all of which had already disappeared. The tanning is almost finished, and the quality is strong visible to the naked eye.

In addition to the production of sabers, the production of slings has also gone smoothly.

This very primitive long-range weapon doesn't even need a craftsman team to make it, just that Katarina brings some women with tailoring skills to make it independently.

Although these ropes with leather pockets look so primitive that they can be put into an archaeological documentary, their actual combat effectiveness has indeed been tested in the history of the earth and the Haiwen continent.

Not to mention the history of the earth, even before the development of the crossbow manufacturing industry, the imperial army has always maintained the establishment of catapult soldiers;

The small pebbles that don't look amazing, after being endowed with kinetic energy under high-speed rotation, the damage they cause is actually far beyond ordinary people's imagination!
What's more, who said that throwing a "stone" can only throw a "stone"?

The elite slingers of ancient Greece and Rome threw heavy and sharp lead bullets with ropes!

Generally speaking, this weapon has limited lethality against enemies wearing heavy armor;

But on the Phoenix Terrace, there is still a magic safe made of "Babylon dense grain steel"!

Xia Houyan felt that if the Shuangfengling militiamen threw ammunition made of magic metal with slings, then even if they were called "magic slingers", no one would object, right?

(End of this chapter)