At night, Guangling City, Beifu Bingshuai Mansion.
In the courtyard, sergeants with orders kept coming in a hurry, while people like clerks were holding a bunch of official documents, or holding bamboo slips and silk, and walked away quickly. Groups of patrol sergeants,
Walking with a strong will, there is a sentry every three steps and a post every five steps. The atmosphere is not ordinary serious.
In a side room, Liu Muzhi was devouring a bowl of water shield and chicken shredded soup. He took the last bite, licked the remaining residue on the bowl, closed his eyes, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
, as if he was reminiscing about the beauty on his tongue just now.
Liu Yu sat next to him and curled up his lips: "Damn fat man, you've eaten up a month's worth of my military pay with this meal. Okay, it's time to talk about it."
Liu Muzhi opened his eyes and sighed with unfinished thoughts: "It would be great if I could eat this water shield soup every day."
Liu Yu said with a smile: "If you have made meritorious service in the war, been promoted, or been awarded a title, are you still afraid that you will have nothing to eat? Sometimes I think you are very smart, but sometimes I think you are stupider than imagined."
Liu Muzhi shook his head: "I'm just a small soldier. There are two to three hundred people of my rank in the Chinese Army. I'm not a Chinese soldier like Wang Mi who joined the army. I'm afraid I won't be able to offer advice."
Come to me."
Liu Yu frowned: "Why, Marshal Xuan transferred you here and didn't let you offer any good advice?"
Liu Muzhi sighed: "Now that there is no war, what good strategies can we offer? Since our army suddenly dispatched five days ago, which frightened the Qin army to retreat fifty miles, and after breaking the siege of San'a, General Tian's troops followed the south
Withdraw, even the soldiers and civilians in Pengcheng have withdrawn. Now that the Qin army has occupied the entire Huaibei, the war has entered a stalemate stage, and no one dares to act rashly. What other strategies can I offer?"
Liu Yu smiled slightly: "Isn't this the strategy you and I discussed that day? Since Commander Xuan has used this, he will use it again in our future strategies."
Liu Muzhi wiped his mouth and said sternly: "Jinnu, this suggestion depends on the timing. Last time our army suffered a new defeat, Commander Xuan needed to open up his voice and listen to many opinions, and those other aristocratic families did not
Dare to contain it at this time. However, this time the crisis has been temporarily alleviated. Families such as the King of Kuaiji and the Wang family have begun to gesticulate again. Those with higher official positions joining the army are mostly children of aristocratic families. They are talking nonsense at this time.
Ba Tongue, if you want to show your role, I'm afraid it won't be easy for you and me to speak like we did last time."
Liu Yu sneered and said: "Even if I can't make a speech, I can still see a real sign on the battlefield. The next step is nothing more than training for several months, and after fighting with elite soldiers and sharp armor, I will destroy this Qin army. Today, I am doing this.
Come on, okay, no more talk, just tell me how to make this sword."
Liu Muzhi put away his smile and said seriously: "Slave slave, I really can't help you with this matter. Armor plates can be mass-produced by casting money, but weapons cannot. This is not the same method.
It’s not a problem, it’s a problem of resources.”
Liu Yu frowned: "Does it mean that the quantity of fine steel and Baiyang Steel is insufficient?"
Liu Muzhi nodded: "Yes, what you want to use is a knife, not a spear. This knife is made as a whole. It's not like a spear that just needs to be replaced with a sharp tip. And what Kong Jing said is right, even if
Made in one piece, the blade is too hard and easy to break. Therefore, swords have always been extremely expensive. Even Prince Gongsun only has one or two. It's not that I don't want to help you, but that I really can't help you."
Liu Yu was speechless for a long time. Today he came with full of hope and wanted to get the answer from Liu Muzhi, but he did not expect this result. He sighed: "If you didn't know earlier, you fat guy, you would have cost me money."
so much."
Liu Muzhi laughed: "Didn't you already spend money to buy these food before you came to me? If you don't give me food, you can eat it yourself. Anyway, you don't have any requirements for food, so why not be my good friend?
Already."
Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "It doesn't matter if I give it to you, but it's really hard for me to explain that it can't be done. I only made fine armor, but no sharp blades. I'm always unwilling to be unable to sweep thousands of troops on the battlefield."
where."
At this point, the corner of his mouth curled up: "If the wrought iron is very soft, can you find a way to only use wrought iron on the edge of the blade, but use wrought iron on the back of the blade?"
Liu Muzhi sighed: "Someone has thought of this method for a long time, but no one has been able to do it for hundreds of years, because wrought iron is too soft. Although it is said to be hard and easy to break, it is not as soft as wrought iron.
practical."
Liu Yu nodded thoughtfully: "Since steel is formed by continuously adding carbon powder to the wrought iron, can we also add carbon powder to the wrought iron to make it hard?"
Liu Muzhi said with a smile: "This is a good idea, but you can't control the temperature accurately. And if you want to pour steel into the wrought iron, when you add charcoal powder to the wrought iron, it's equivalent to...
Adding it to Bailiang Steel will soften the hard Bailiang Steel. After all, the various additives in Bailiang Steel cannot be changed casually. Once changed, it will become pig iron."
Liu Yu sighed: "I didn't expect this matter to be so troublesome, and even you can't do anything about it!"
Liu Muzhi nodded: "But you can give your idea a try. Although wrought iron is soft, there is a lot of carbon powder in Bailiang Steel. Maybe if the control is good, some of the charcoal in Bailiang Steel can be removed.
The powder slowly seeps into the wrought iron."
Liu Yu's eyes lit up and he quickly said: "Seep into the wrought iron? Do you mean, mix the two kinds of steel juice together?"
Liu Muzhi shook his head: "No, they can't be simply mixed together. What you need is a blade made of Baili steel, and the blade and back of the blade are wrought iron with charcoal powder added, not a whole handful of Baili steel mixed together.
The knives made of wrought iron, whether they are hard or soft, are no different from knives made of ordinary pig iron, which is definitely not what you want. Therefore, you need to master the timing of quenching. In the process of steelmaking, the softness will be the same.
When the wrought iron has just been infiltrated with charcoal powder and hardened before it becomes soft, it is quenched all at once. Only in this way can you get the knife you want."
Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "So, I'm the only one who keeps trying?"
Liu Muzhi stretched himself and burped: "Jinnu, of all the things in this world, between thinking about it and getting it, there must be one thing that can be done. The knife you want has been around for thousands of years.
All the skilled craftsmen want to make it, but there is always a slight difference in the heat. You are not a professional blacksmith, but you can think of so many things after only working on the iron for a few days. Maybe God will really favor you and let you invent it.
What about this precious knife that can cut iron like clay?"
Liu Yu stood up, turned around and left: "Then I'll leave it to you, I'll do it now."
Liu Muzhi's voice suddenly sounded from behind: "Wait a minute, there is something else."
This chapter has been completed!