There is no essential difference between the hydraulic forging hammer and the water hammer in terms of structure. They both use water power to drive the hammer to repeatedly hammer the target object.
However, Shuidi has evolved from grain shelling to the previous development to cover pulp, spices, ore crushing and other operations, but it has not been applied to metal forging. It is definitely not that no craftsman has considered this for hundreds of years.
Xu Huai, Shen Yue, Yu Chengzhen and others have analyzed that the main reason is that iron-making methods such as stir-frying and irrigation are quite mature in the Central Plains. The iron produced can be directly cast into ordinary farm tools, and the quality is enough, without the need for repeated forging.
High-quality knives, guns, and spears that require repeated forging require extremely high accuracy in the impact point of the hammer, and the heavy water hammer cannot handle it. Another key reason is that the hammering frequency of the traditional water hammer is too low. , Di Zhan Cha can only be forged a dozen times, so it is better to use human power.
At the same time, traditional water dams need to be built next to rivers with fast currents, and the site is too restrictive.
The current generation of iron armor is mainly based on fish scale armor and piercing armor. Each armor leaf is relatively narrow, and it is also not suitable for heavy traditional water hammers for forging.
Chushan uses the cold forging method to make armor. Because the number of repeated forgings of the armor leaves is much higher than that of traditional armor, and Chushan is extremely short of young and strong labor, a part of the armor workshop was built next to the stream. Improved water hammer for forging work.
However, even though Chushan had attached great importance to hydraulic equipment early on and built large-scale overflow weirs and dams in Tongbai Mountain, they could only prepare one or two hundred sets of wart armor every year at first, despite all their efforts.
Later, due to the shortage of manpower, the Ordnance Supervisor even had to reduce the production of Xia Zijia and mainly made traditional Zha armor.
The new hydraulic turbine adopts a variable speed gear structure. First of all, it is greatly freed from the constraints of the site. It no longer requires the rapid water flow of steep terrain. It only needs a large hydraulic turbine to slowly push the water flow of the appropriate slope, and the operating frequency of the working components is completely Achieved through variable speed gears.
And because the weight of today's working components is extremely limited, there is no need to worry about insufficient work due to slow water flow.
The requirements for water flow have been greatly reduced, which means that in a relatively flat site, a large number of hydraulic equipment can be deployed on both sides of each river channel. Multiple river channels can also be dug under a pond or weir to divert water, expanding the depth of the factory.
The new iron-making furnace in Longtanling can use four sets of water wheel bellows for blasting at the same time. The main method is to dig an arc-shaped water diversion culvert on one side of the furnace body, and arrange the four water turbines densely in an arc on one side of the iron-making furnace—— This is absolutely impossible to achieve with traditional water drainage.
The use of variable speed gears not only makes the forging hammer strike frequency much higher than before, but also allows the working parts to be manufactured accurately enough. At the same time, forging hammers weighing more than one to two hundred kilograms or even three to four hundred kilograms can be used, and the forging intensity is high. It is far beyond the comparison of human power - and the uniformity of forging is beyond the comparison of skilled craftsmen.
However, the so-called "fast" gears of the current world and the high-speed gears of later generations are completely different concepts. In terms of rotational speed alone, the difference is probably two orders of magnitude. Even cast iron can be used to make qualified transmission gears. There is no need at all. I am worried that the performance of the fine iron gears currently manufactured by Jingxiang (Chushan) cannot meet the requirements. At this point, the hydraulic forging hammer is far beyond the reach of manpower.
Accompanied by Han Gui, Xu Wuqi and others, Xu Huai walked into the armor-making workshop on the south side of the iron yard.
This workshop has just completed its initial construction, which is mainly for preliminary verification of the use of hydraulic forging hammers. In addition to storage, offices and craftsmen's dormitories, a workshop has been built.
However, sixteen hydraulic forging hammers are currently in use, specifically responsible for the preparation of cold-forged armor leaves.
Since Jingxiang (Chushan) has been using the traditional water-powered forging hammer to prepare nail leaves, it has long cultivated a group of mature armor-making craftsmen. Now a group of skilled craftsmen have been initially recruited to use the new water-powered forging hammer, completely
There is nothing uncomfortable.
The hydraulic forging hammer is also specially designed with a simple clutch device to control the disengagement and overlap of the transmission gear components to realize the start and stop of the hydraulic forging hammer, making the operation more convenient.
The armor-making workshop built in the early stage alone has forged hundreds of sets of war armor in the past six months, which is more than double the output elsewhere.
The engineers of the Ordnance Supervision have also long noticed that the use of hydraulic forging hammers is suitable for forging larger area armor parts.
Traditional scale armor, scale armor, and scaly armor are also a type of scale armor. They are all made of small armor leaves attached to clothing. On the battlefield, the protective power is still flawed. Breast shields are usually used to strengthen the protection of key parts of the chest and back.
protection.
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Using a water-powered forging hammer to forge the shoulder, chest and other armor parts, the increased protection brought by it is enough to cheer up the marching generals.
What Han Gui, Cheng Yi, Xu Wuliang, Yu Chengzhen, Shen Yue, Zhuang Shouxin, Zhuang Yong, Xu Sheng and others saw was another, more exciting picture.
In the fifth year of Tianxuan, Wang Zhen entered Tongbai Mountain under the escort of Lu Xiong. That year, the Tongbai Mountain bandits were in chaos. However, it was also that year that Xu Huai and the Chushan people started to build a weir dam in Tongbai Mountain, and it was still
Multi-stage overflow dam—Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang, Liu Qiong'er, Xu Guanshan, Xu Sheng and others were responsible for organizing manpower, money and food to supervise the operation throughout the entire process.
The purpose at that time was to cultivate an additional three to four thousand acres of grain fields in the valley between Xu's Dazhai and Shituoling, and to connect Xu's Dazhai and Shituoling, where Xinzhai is located, to strengthen defense against foreign enemies.
power, but at the same time it also opened the door for people in Chushan to consciously promote the use of hydraulic equipment in Tongbai Mountain.
In the year when the Chihu people invaded the south for the first time, Xu Huai led his troops back from Shuozhou and established a county in Chushan. In order to solve the problem of lack of cultivated land and low grain output in Tongbai Mountain, he launched a large-scale construction of ponds and weirs in Tongbai Mountain.
, the climax of reclamation of slope terraces - in order to strengthen the resource production capacity of Tongbai Mountain, the production scale of Shibaliwu Iron Field was greatly expanded, and the smelting, casting and forging technology was improved.
However, at that time, Tongbai Mountain lost a large number of young and strong laborers due to banditry, and on the other hand, it was necessary to recruit a large number of strong men into the army to resist the barbarians. In order to solve the conflict of manpower, the already built weirs and dams were used, and Pitang provided
Stable water flow, build a large number of hydraulic equipment, used for tung oil pressing, ore crushing, grain shelling, grinding and other operations.
As Yu Chengzhen, Zhuang Shouxin and other great craftsmen brought their disciples south, in addition to the preparation of soldiers and armors, the manufacturing level of hydraulic equipment in Chushan was also increasing day by day - hydraulic equipment was also used in the forging of soldiers and armors.
However, traditional hydraulic machines must rely on the rapid water flow in steep terrain. As a result, thousands of hydraulic machines that have been built and put into use in Chushan over the years are scattered among the vast mountains.
Although the output of iron materials in Chushan and the large-scale use of hydraulic equipment in recent years allowed Xu Huai to use the narrow and densely populated Tongbai Mountain to explode into astonishing strength. In the end, it was like the Great Steel Wall lying across the south of Ruying, blocking the iron hoof of the Red Guards from going south.
pace, but this cannot be said to be of epoch-making significance.
In recent years, Chushan has used its refined organizational capabilities to maximize the potential of traditional production methods.
A large number of hydraulic equipment are scattered across the vast mountains, which not only greatly aggravates the difficulty of manpower organization and management, but also offsets part of the convenience brought by hydraulic power in transporting materials to and from rugged areas.
However, with the introduction of new hydraulic turbines, the centralized use of hydraulic equipment for large-scale production operations has become a reality within reach.
In addition to the preliminary construction and production in Longtanling, the company has currently built six medium-sized water storage ponds on both sides of the Dongzhao River in the northern area of Xiangcheng County, preparing for the subsequent large-scale construction.
?????Lay the foundation for using hydraulic equipment for production operations.
In addition to the specialized water turbine and corresponding equipment manufacturing workshops such as forging hammers, cutting machines, bellows, wire drawing machines and other equipment, the Ordnance Supervision also plans to transfer the main armor and equipment manufacturing bases to Longtanling, leaving the Ordnance Supervision's original location
In order to facilitate the use of water power, the workshops and factories scattered in Tongbai Mountain were gradually handed over to local governments.
As iron-making furnaces equipped with new hydraulic fans continue to be built, the demand for young and strong labor in iron ore mining will surge - in addition to the three new iron-making furnaces that will be built soon, eight original iron-making furnaces will also be transformed
, the coal and iron supervision plan strives to make Longtanling's iron output exceed 40 million kilograms that was unimaginable before the end of the year.
Initially, in order to form an annual production scale of 10 million kilograms of iron and 500,000 pieces of porcelain in Longtanling, Xu Huai recruited more than 10,000 craftsmen and their families and 2,000 troops from all over the country to carry out closed operations. Currently, people live near Longtanling.
The population has exceeded 20,000.
However, in order to ensure the supply of raw and cooked coal and iron ore, the miners and charcoal burners alone will have to add nearly 20,000 young workers.
The production department estimates that the population in the area north of Xiangcheng, including family members, will reach 120,000 by the end of the year.
This is also the key to Shi Zhen and Han Guili's plan to seize Jingxiang. If Nanyang, Xiangyang, Jingbei County and Nancai County are not captured, even if the imperial court pays millions of dollars in food and grain every year, let alone soldiers, it will be like this
How to solve the huge young labor gap?
At this time, Beijing and Xiangzhou had a population of four million. In addition to the young middle- and lower-class farmers in various places, as garrison troops, the production department had as many as 400,000 young men who could be directly mobilized.
Only in this way can Jingxiang be able to build an industrial town ahead of its time directly at the southern foot of Funiu Mountain based on the foundation accumulated in the past years to support the subsequent war against the Chihu people...
Of course, all of this is inseparable from cheap and sufficient food supply - if the skyrocketing food prices continue to be the same as before, and there are an additional 100, 200,000 craftsmen and small families who are separated from agricultural production in Beijing and Xiangzhou, the food supply will be reduced.
