Riding and chopping: Overlord of the Han and Hungarians

Chapter 238 236. Water Forging Stamping
"Your Majesty!"

"Sister Hu Ling."

Hu Jiu and 13 greeted Zhang Qi at the gate of the water forging workshop.

The two became husband and wife a few years ago, and it was Zhang Qi's own testimony. Now the child is almost three years old.

Zhang Qi hummed and smiled.

Hu Ling also nodded.

Hu Jiu led the way sideways, and led Zhang Qi and the others into the water forging workshop.

This is the periphery of the water forging workshop. The site is flat and is used to stack materials.

The core area has to go further, beside the river.

Along the river for a mile or two, the river surface has been repaired into more than a dozen steps. The flood control slope made of concrete locks the water flow inside without any overflow. The region forms a turbulent zone.

Flowing through the area of ​​the water forging workshop, hundreds of forging hammers are successively built on the concrete floor by the river. The water flow drives the waterwheel, and the waterwheel drives the connector, pressing down the end of the forging hammer to lift the forging hammer high. As soon as the force exerted by the waterwheel on the connector disappears, the forging hammer will slam down downwards.

boom--

The voice was dull, and it seemed to be full of strength.

The skilled craftsman clamped out the already formed half breastplate on the anvil, and the apprentices following him kept trimming it with small hammers.

The armor is extremely fast.

Zhang Qi followed Hu Jiu to visit, nodding in approval from time to time.

When you reach the end of the water forging workshop.

Zhang Qi was surprised to find that they were already trying the simplest stamping.

The size and height of the last two forging hammers are two or three times that of the front, and even the water wheel is oversized.

This is just a different style of forging hammer here.

The striking surface of the forging hammer is not flat and curved, but looks like a breastplate.

And the landing point of the forging hammer is no longer an anvil, but also a pair of breastplate molds that are consistent with the striking surface of the forging hammer.

There is also a furnace here, and the flake iron in the furnace is burning red.

The craftsman smeared grease on the striking surface of the static forging hammer and the mold below, and the two worked together to clamp the red iron piece and put it on the mold.

Release the buckle of the forging hammer, and with a bang, the forging hammer fell directly, smashing the iron piece into the mold.

Kakaka.

The falling forging hammer was driven up by the water wheel and the connector, and the craftsman standing beside it waited for the forging hammer to reach a certain height and then stuck the buckle in, and then others stepped forward to check.

On the outside, Hu Jiu explained: "Before, a craftsman stepped forward to check the buckle without waiting for it to be secure, but something happened. Later, we established this rule."

Zhang Qi nodded. There will be various accidents in the production process, and it should be discovered in time and corrected in time.

He also stepped forward.

"how?"

The question is whether the breastplate is formed.

He could tell that this was still a testing area, and everyone was moving very slowly.

One is that there is uncertainty, so I have to think every time, and the other is that practice makes perfect.

"director."

The craftsmen all saluted Hu Jiu and Shisan, but they didn't know Zhang Qi.

Hu Jiu was taken aback and introduced quickly.

"This is Your Majesty."

"I have seen Your Majesty!"

The craftsmen were also taken aback, and all knelt down to salute.

Zhang Qi helped them up with a smile, and said: "There is no need to have so many red tapes on this occasion. Keep everything simple and focus on the work at hand. How about the armor? Has it formed?"

Being supported by Zhang Qi, the craftsmen were still a little trembling.

They are all Han people who fled or were rescued here in recent years. Although they have known for a long time that the officials here are not like the officials of the Han Dynasty, the officials are officials. Zhang Qi's existence here is analogous to the emperor's status.

When had they seen such a big figure before.

At this time, the master craftsman among these people spoke out, with a cautious tone.

"Reporting to your lord, there is still no way to use it as an armor. Although the shape has been formed, the upper part of the armor."

As he spoke, he called two people to pop out the breastplate from the mold.

I saw that the center of the iron plate that was square before had been sunken to form a breastplate, and only the edges needed to be trimmed and polished off.

"Your Majesty, this armor looks fine at first glance, but there are cracks all over it, and it still can't compare to the hammered breastplates in front."

The master said so.

Zhang Qi also took a closer look.

The heat was blowing, and we got closer. The situation was exactly as the master said. There were a few obvious cracks on the armor. Although the speed of this method was ten times faster than that of the previous ones, the technology was still immature.

Fortunately, Zhang Qi was not disappointed. Instead, he smiled and encouraged these craftsmen: "If the technology is not mature, try more experiments, and you can always get it out. In addition to looking for problems with the forging hammer, you can also find problems with the materials."

Zhang Qi said one by one.

It is worth affirming that the water forging workshop can have the momentum of self-research. Anyway, there is nothing wasted on the left and right, and at most it is just to pay some labor.

These are broken, and the shapeless breastplate is dragged to the smelting blast furnace, where it is melted into molten iron and then turned into steel, but it is not unusable.

After talking with the craftsmen here for a while, Zhang Qi also left with Hu Jiu and the others.

The water forging workshop will become his important armor production base in the future, and he still attaches great importance to this place, whether it is breast armor or used to mass-produce armor pieces, it can be competent here.

Just the simplest stamping forging hammer that Zhang Qi saw just now, it is actually very difficult to use it to form the breastplate, because it needs to be concave, which is a great test for the extensibility of the metal. On the contrary, if it is used to make For armor pieces, that kind of forging hammer is better.

Although the plate armor technology has not been perfected yet, even if the plate armor is perfected in the future and the canned master can be produced, piercing armor will still become one of Zhang Qi's large-scale use options.

Plate armor has the advantages of plate armor, flexibility, and high defense. As long as it does not encounter attacks such as firearms, ballistas, and heavy object throwing, the plate armor is invincible. Even if it is a shield attack, the plate armor can withstand many hits .

However, the advantages of Zhajia are also obvious. Zhajia is different from the large parts of plate armor. Zhajia is made up of countless pieces of armor. If it is broken, it can be dismantled and replaced directly. This is not comparable to plate armor.

As far as defense is concerned, the defensive power of Zhajia has been tested and trusted for thousands of years, and the pressure on logistics is far less than that of plate armor on logistics.

And the most important thing is that the binding of plate armor is too high. If the same plate armor is to be suitable for many people, then their body shapes should not deviate too much. Sway up.

But there is no worry about this aspect of armor. If you are fatter, you can loosen the rope buckle, and if you are thinner, you can tighten it. It is flexible and multi-purpose.

In addition to plate armor, pierced armor, Zhang Qi is also considering cloth face armor. Compared with pierced armor, this kind of armor, which is more flexible and hides the armor in the cotton layer, also has its characteristics.

(End of this chapter)