Chapter 30 Prelude
After the iron sand was found in the Jinshui River, although the biggest problem was solved, the rest of the work was not so simple.
The problem of raw materials has been solved. Yang Yu is good at forging and also knows how the ancients smelt steel and how to forge it. Although he does not really smelt steel himself, he is also confident that he can smelt iron sand into iron blocks, but if he wants to make the smelted products into weapons, he is involved in another problem. That's the tool.
The simplest ancient smelting method that Yang Yu is familiar with is ironmaking. It can easily make iron sand into iron ingots, but it is necessary to make ironmaking into a blade. There is no hammer, no anvil, and no pliers. Even if there is a block of ironmaking Yang Yu, it can't be used. As for better performance, it can be handled. Yang Yu can't use the more complicated method of steel filling and stir-frying steel.
If there is no weapon to build weapons, then naturally, if there are no tools, it is necessary to find a way to build tools. The first thing Yang Yu thought of is to find a way to cast a hammer and anvil. With these two things, a piece of ironmaking can be Forged into a weapon with excellent performance. However, after thinking of casting, Yang Yu intends to simply go straight Casting weapons instead of forging.
The difficulty of casting is that the temperature of the furnace fire is very high, but after having coal, Yang Yu does not need to worry about this problem. In addition, what he needs to cast is crucibles and molds. Yang Yu can waste some strength at most to make bellows or air bags, which is much less than forging. It is said that casting is much more labor-saving than forging. If a piece of ironmaking is made into a usable weapon, it requires repeated folding and forging. At the same time, it also needs to be carburizing. These processes are indispensable, which are time-consuming and laborious. It is tiring to rely on Yang Yu alone.
Whether it is this world or the earth, the first metal weapons used by human beings are cast, but the human beings on the earth are cast bronzes. After the large-scale application of iron, bronzes have been eliminated by history, but the world is different. From the beginning, it is not bronze, but gold that Yang Yu did not know. The performance of the cast weapon is not weaker than Yang Yu's well-known refined steel, so the casting method has always been popular, but if Yang Yu wants to cast weapons with iron, he can't expect it to have the same performance as the mainstream weapons in the world.
Yang Yu can now find iron sand, but what is cast directly from iron sand is biochemical. Although it is extremely hard, it is also extremely brittle. Once it is hit hard, it will break. However, after decarbonization and heat treatment, white-core tough cast iron can be obtained, or graphite heat treatment can be obtained black-core tough cast iron. These two methods are early. It was applied in the Warring States Period of China. If the weapon is cast first and then dealt with it like this, although the final weapon may be easy to jump, it will not be broken, and may not be too sharp. If it is used to kill people, there will be no problem at all. If it is made into something like spearheads and axes. The difficulty of small pieces will be further reduced.
Whether it is a sinner or an orc struggling to survive in the desert, it is a big deal to solve the problem. As long as there is, it is a good thing. As for the quality problem, it is not a problem at all. Otherwise, Sun Shoude and others will not be happy to get a spear cut into a wooden stick, and if Yang Yu can cast a weapon Although it is indeed not as good as the mainstream weapons in the world, it is absolutely enough, so once Yang Yu has made up his mind, he immediately began to make people busy in order to cast weapons.
It has been two months since Lin Shan and his party came back. In the past two months, Yang Yu has been busy casting weapons for all the sinners.
There are still too few people in the village. Except for Sun Shoude and other eight young men, the rest are either old and weak or sick. What's more, they have to go out to look for food for their livelihood. In order to keep secrets, Langqing and others dare not reveal the news. There are too few available, whether it is iron sand or The soil for building the furnace and making molds must go far to the Jinshui River. It has been at least five days, and the slow progress can be imagined. In order to reverse this situation, after discussing with Yang Yu, Sun Shoude, who obtained Yang Yu's consent, called all the young men in the sinners.
There are still nearly 500 sinners left, but after digging out Sun Shoude and eight others, there are only 75 young and strong people in total. After Sun Shoude quietly went to the oasis where other sinners live, except for four particularly timid and afraid of death, the remaining 71 people came. After the robbery of Yu Village, although there were a large number of werewolves, Langqing could casually pull dozens or hundreds of them, but Yang Yu did not let Langqing do the same.
Yang Yu has a plan. For the sinners, their means of survival are really limited. At first, there were few orcs. The living environment is not as difficult as it is now, and it can also leave some living space for the sinners. However, with the increasing number of orcs, it is difficult to guarantee that the orcs will not rob the oasis on which the sinners finally rely on. There is no need to mention Yang Yu's feelings for Sun Shoude. Of course, he doesn't want to see this scene, and there are only about 500 people left in total. Naturally, he has to double their unity. Although he has no choice but to live in four oases, he usually watches and helps each other. He can really be as close as a family, love the house and under the dark. Yang Yu naturally favored the sinners.
Yang Yu's intention is to teach these sinners the skills of casting weapons. In this way, no matter whether he leaves or stays in the future, the sinners can have a skill, so that they can firmly occupy a place in the desert. If the sinners can provide the orcs with the most needed weapons, they can naturally become the guests of the orcs and never come back. The day of Baoxi.
Yang Yu did not hide his intention from Lang Qing, and since Lang Qing recognized Yang Yu as the leader, he would never have any objection to Yang Yu. What's more, he also knew that as long as he made a weapon, the first thing to give was his tribe, which was closest to the sinners and had a good relationship with each other. What's more, Lang Qing and Sun Shoude are still partners who are born and die together, and they will not leak the news.
And the sinners also soon learned of Yang Yu's good intentions. Although they had not succeeded, everyone could not add their gratitude to Yang Yu. They really regarded Yang Yu as their savior, willingly joined the mad gang and made a blood oath to recognize Yang Yu as the eldest brother. Now it is not only Sun Shou who was the first to know Yang Yu in Yu Village. Eight of them, if it were any other sinners, as long as Yang Yu gave a order, he would never hesitate even if he knew that he was going to die. For the sinners who struggled to survive, whether they lived or died, there was not much difference. No matter how miserable the cowardly people were, they would no longer pay attention to life and death. However, Yang Yu gave them a chance. Even if they stabbed the sky into a hole, they would never let the opportunity slip away in their hands.
Since all the sinners joined, Yang Yu divided all the sinners into seven teams in order to be more efficient, allowing his most familiar Sun Shoude and seven brothers to lead the action. Except for the youngest Qin Shouyi, Sun Shoude and Yang's big-mouthed seven brothers. Each person is responsible for taking ten people, and the division of labor is responsible for taking soil from the grassland and mining iron sand in the river. After there are more people, some people are responsible for taking soil, some people are responsible for cleaning the soil in the water and making it into mud billets. The iron miner is enough to concentrate on absorb iron sand with magnets in the river, and some people are responsible for transporting these back to the Yu Village, although Usually, when doing this, you should be prepared to be found by the passing caravan and often avoid it, but everyone has been working day and night for more than a month, and what Yang Yu needs is almost ready.
As for Gao Yongming's arrival with Yang Yu Village, he didn't have time to be idle. In addition to helping Yang Yu, as long as he had time, he had to find a way to make his golden leather ebony wood into a bow. Unfortunately, Gao Yongming couldn't break the wood, let alone make a bow. Although Gao Yongming was anxious, he could only wait, but he suffered Yang Yu. Gao Yongming, who was anxious, talked about his bow every day and begging Yang Yu to help him find a way to gather the materials. Although he knew that it was not possible for the time being, he still had the opportunity to talk about it twice. Yu is extremely annoyed, but in addition, Gao Yongming, who is also hungry, has no complaints. Although he is bitter, tired and hungry in the robbery of Yu Village, he is also happy to miss Shu. For him, as long as he can leave the old nest of horse bandits, everywhere is like a paradise.
In the past two months, Yang Yu has not been idle. Whether it is making the mud blank into a furnace or making a casting mold, it is inseparable from Yang Yu. In addition, he can't care about going to rob the Bai family's caravan on the commercial road. Although everyone tried his best to provide Yang Yu with food and let him eat, Yang Yu can't enjoy it at ease. After all, he is hungry. After two months, Yang Yu lost two laps of weight and was tanned. In addition, his hair and beard was long and dirty and messy. Except for being taller than others and have clothes and shoes under his feet, he can no longer distinguish him from the sinner. As long as he dares to appear in front of the caravan, he will definitely be arrested. The end of selling as slaves, but Yang Yu doesn't care about this. As long as he can arm the sinners and orcs and use muddy water to fish, just fight them out directly.
Although it has been extremely hard in the past two months, everything has been almost ready. Yang Yu has asked someone to inform the people in Jinshuihe to come back. As long as everyone comes back, the work will be officially started. As long as the weapons are really made at that time, it is worth it no matter how hard it is.