Southern Wilderness, Vine Tribe, Feiyu Hedong.
"Chi chi chi..."
In the smelting workshop, Jiang Xuan poured a jar of liquid bronze into a large and long pottery model. He did not fill it up, but stopped when it reached a certain level and placed the jar on the ground.
The clay pot for smelting liquid bronze has been improved several times and its appearance has become very strange.
It looks like a large jade purification bottle.
The upper part of the bottle is divided into two parts, with the larger half bent upward to make a very tall handle, and a small piece bent downward to make a leaf-shaped spout.
In this way, after the bronze liquid is smelted, you only need to wrap the upper handle with animal skin, lift the entire pot, and then pour the bronze liquid into the pottery mold through the blade-shaped spout.
After Jiang Xuan poured the first jar, he waited for a while until the bronze liquid in the Tao Fan gradually solidified, but before it completely solidified, a soldier took out a jar of bronze liquid from another smelting furnace and handed it to Jiang Xuan.
Jiang Xuan continued to pour it into the very long pottery fan until it was full.
"Okay, let's wait and see whether two different proportions of bronze can make what I want."
Jiang Xuan and the two warriors waited patiently for the bronze in Tao Fan to slowly solidify and cool down.
When it was almost cool, Jiang Xuan picked up a hammer and smashed Tao Fan piece by piece.
"Pa bang bang..."
Tao Fan continued to break into pieces, and a golden bronze war spear gradually revealed its true face!
"Dang!"
Jiang Xuan used a bronze hammer to hit the war spear, making a crisp metal collision sound.
"Not bad!"
Jiang Xuan picked up the bronze war spear and waved it casually twice. It felt that it was easier to use than the stone spear or the bone spear.
"Congratulations, chief!"
"Chief, this spear is so beautiful."
The two warriors congratulated Jiang Xuan one after another, because this weapon was tailor-made for him by Jiang Xuan.
In order to cast this bronze war spear, Jiang Xuan tried two different ratios of copper and tin, which was the first time for the Teng tribe.
The spear head part, in order to ensure its sharpness, uses four parts copper and one part tin. In order to ensure sufficient toughness and a certain hardness, the spear shaft part uses three parts copper and one part tin.
Because of this, after he poured the spear head, he needed to wait for a moment to allow the bronze liquid in the spear head to solidify, but it could not solidify completely, otherwise it would be disconnected from the spear shaft.
Jiang Xuan waved it a few times, and then carefully observed the connection between the spear head and the spear shaft. He saw that the spear head and spear shaft were integrated and integrated very well.
"Yes, it will be better if we go back and sharpen the spearhead."
Jiang Xuan wrapped the bronze war spear with a piece of animal skin, and then patted the two warriors on the shoulders.
"Thank you for your hard work. If it hadn't been for your help, this bronze war spear wouldn't have been so easy to cast."
The two soldiers hurriedly said: "Chief, this is what we should do."
"I'll go back first, and I'll treat you to something good the next time I come over."
"Thank you, chief."
Jiang Xuan left the smelting workshop with the bronze war spear wrapped in animal skin, crossed the river by boat, and returned to his yard.
After returning, he couldn't wait to polish the tail of the bronze war spear smooth, because this place was the entrance when pouring, and some burrs would be left after pouring.
Then, he found two more whetstones, first sharpened the edge of the spearhead with the rough whetstone, and then sharpened it again with the fine whetstone.
This bronze war spear is made of pottery molded by the lost wax method. The blade of the spearhead is actually very thin. After sharpening it twice, it is even more sharp.
Jiang Xuan also polished the spear shaft carefully to make it smoother.
"Give it a try."
With excitement, he held the bladed bronze war spear in his hand and walked to a large log leaning against the wall next to the house.
"Zheng!"
Jiang Xuan shook suddenly, and the bronze war spear made a crisp metallic trembling sound.
Then, he stabbed the big log hard.
"Dah!"
With the help of Jiang Xuan's huge strength and extremely fast speed, the spearhead of the bronze war spear penetrated deeply into the big wood.
Then, he supported the wood with his feet and pulled out the bronze war spear. The blade of the spearhead was intact.
"What a weapon!"
Jiang Xuan was like a child getting a new toy, he couldn't help but be happy.
"Click!"
He wielded his bronze war spear and cut off the branches of a small tree in the yard, causing the leaves to fall to the ground.
In the bamboo shed, Tang Yuan raised his head and glanced at Jiang Xuan. He was not interested in the shining golden spear and continued to eat meat.
On the other side, Yue Ya slowly chewed the grass and calmly watched Jiang Xuan slash and poke everywhere with his bronze war spear, his eyes very gentle.
After playing with it for a long time, Jiang Xuan was very satisfied with the sharpness of the spearhead and the toughness of the spear shaft. He believed that this bronze war spear would shine in hunting and fighting in the future.
However, he soon became worried again.
"The bronze war spear is good, but this shining golden one is too conspicuous."
Jiang Xuan doesn't want to expose things like bronze weapons just yet, otherwise it will definitely cause endless trouble.
Therefore, although the bronze war spear was successfully cast, many people will definitely notice such a conspicuous thing once it is taken out.
This gave him a headache. Could it be that he had cast a bronze war spear, but could only hide it at home and continue to use the bone spear that he didn't like?
Jiang Xuan sat on the threshold, thought for a long time, and said, "Can you camouflage it so that it doesn't look so conspicuous?"
Jiang Xuan thought about it for a while and tried to apply some grass juice on the spear shaft.
Soon, the luster of the bronze became much duller in the areas where the grass juice was applied, but compared with the stone spears and bone spears, it was still very conspicuous.
However, this attempt gave Jiang Xuan hope. There must be a way to disguise the bronze war spear.
"Maybe my sister is more professional in this kind of thing!"
Jiang Xuan immediately stood up, wrapped the bronze war spear with animal skin, and then walked towards Chi Shao's yard.
At this time, Chi Shao was taking two girls to clean the freshly picked herbs.
When Chi Shao saw Jiang Xuan coming over, he washed the mud off the herbs and asked, "Chief, is something wrong?"
"I really have something to do with you."
After Jiang Xuan finished speaking, he glanced at the two girls.
Chi Shao is a very smart and perceptive person. She immediately said to the two girls: "I will discuss something with the leader. You can go back first."
"Yes."
The two girls put down the herbs and left the yard together.
Chi Shao also put down the herbs, washed her hands, and asked, "What do you want from me?"
Jiang Xuan glanced around, then opened the animal skin, revealing the golden bronze war spear.
Chi Shao looked at the bronze war spear that was taller than a man, and was surprised and said: "What a beautiful spear. Is this a bronze weapon?"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said: "Yes, I have tried this bronze war spear just now. It is very sharp and hard, and the blade is not easy to damage."
"However, the bronze war spear is good, but it is too dazzling. If you take it out and use it, others will be able to tell that something is wrong at a glance, which will cause a lot of trouble."
Chi Shao said: "Then what do you want to do?"
Jiang Xuan showed Chi Shao the part of the bronze war spear that had been painted with grass juice: "I just painted this area with grass juice. Do you think it's less conspicuous?"
Chi Shao nodded and said: "It's really not that conspicuous, but even if it is coated with grass juice, it will at most dim the light of this spear."
"I think so too, so I want to ask my sister if there is a kind of paint that does not fade and can completely cover up the light of the bronze war spear and make it look more ordinary."
"Let me think."
Chi Shao looked at the bronze war spear and thought about the properties of various pigments.
To be continued...