When Qin Qier expressed that she wanted to find someone to teach her hunting skills, the response was enthusiastic.
Everyone anticipates what will happen in the coming days.
You will have to live a life without enough food.
If you can learn to hunt, you will have one more way to obtain food.
No one wants to die, as long as they see a chance to live, they will grab it.
The response from the villagers was enthusiastic, but Qin Qi'er didn't just use anyone. She had requirements, and the people she selected were the most worthy of training.
Pei Yun will be responsible for building the crossbow, but it will not be endless.
Conditions do not allow it. Even if the whole village is mobilized, the materials for making a crossbow cannot appear out of thin air.
Pei Yun doesn't have that much time, he still needs to go to other places.
It is impossible to let everyone go hunting, hunting will be saturated.
Furthermore, soldiers are more valuable than better soldiers.
When selecting candidates, Qin Qier also talked through what needed to be done next.
When they heard that it was to prevent the bandits from attacking Nanshan Village again, the villagers not only did not flinch, but they were all indignant, especially those who had lost men in their families.
Seriously, the number of useful men left in Nanshan Village can be counted on two hands.
There were few men available, so Qin Qier chose the candidate among women. As a girl, she was more suitable to teach women.
The selected women are all healthy and able to bear hardships and stand hard work.
A total of eight people were selected.
These eight people plan to work two shifts.
Among the eight people, there were older ones and younger ones, some were already married women, and some were unmarried girls. The ratio of the number of people was exactly four to four.
For various reasons, Pei Yun's plan is to build four more crossbows and let eight people take turns using them.
The next step comes to building a crossbow.
Pei Yun didn't do it all by himself, he found two helpers, one old and one young.
The old one is an old carpenter, but his legs are not flexible anymore.
What was missing was his apprenticeship. Pei Yun tested him and found that he was a talented person who could become a carpenter.
One old man and one young man are responsible for the main part of the crossbow.
The core components, such as the hanging road and the hook... are all made by Pei Yun himself.
The core components require higher craftsmanship, and ordinary people cannot do it well. There is also selfishness in it. Pei Yun does not want the secret to be leaked, unless it can make him fancy, and the old and the young are obviously not, at least not for the time being.
Someone shared the responsibility of building the main part of the crossbow, so Pei Yun had much less work to do.
When the four crossbows appeared, it heralded the formal establishment of the Qin Detachment of Women.
With eight men in hand and four crossbows, Qin Qi'er began to head towards Nanshan. In addition to hunting, the real purpose was to clear out a safe area for coal mining.
On the other side, Sun Yaozu held a village mobilization meeting.
The process is very straightforward.
Let the villagers put away their sorrow. The dead have become the past and they need to cheer up. The living are the most important and they need to consider how to live.
Let us put the cruel fact in front of everyone. If we don't do something, everyone will face the situation of being without food and starving to death.
Tell the villagers that they have hope, and hope is in the mountains, but it requires everyone to be united.
The villagers were simple and honest, and they listened to everything Sun Yaozu said.
They were originally in a frightened situation, but now that someone steps up to lead them, they will naturally follow.
Except for the black sheep like Li Gou Sheng, the villagers are actually cute.
As long as they can see the hope of living, they can endure no matter how hard or how hard they work.
For them, as long as it is not death, hardship and labor are nothing, they just grit their teeth and get through it.
After Sun Yaozu's village mobilization meeting, the villagers took action.
Those who build rafts build rafts, and those who weave bamboo baskets.
Another group of villagers built an oven with soil and stones.
Regarding this part of the work, Pei Yun personally came to the scene to direct
The oven plays a big role and is used to make iron.
Pei Yun specially selected the location and planned the appearance.
With Pei Yun's participation, the oven construction was completed.
It has a tall chimney for better ventilation.
Needless to say, the important task of blacksmithing falls on Pei Yun, who will personally carry out the blacksmithing.
The fuel for the oven is coal mined from the mountains.
This part of the coal is open-pit and is relatively easy to mine. Even though there is a lack of tools, it can still be mined with the unremitting efforts of the villagers.
The existence of coal became a key to blacksmithing.
If you use dead branches and firewood as fuel, it will be difficult to make good iron.
The heat generated by burning dry wood is completely inferior compared to coal.
If you want to make good iron, heat temperature is an essential factor.
Removing impurities is an essential part of ironmaking. The fewer impurities, the better the iron will be.
When the oven is raised, the heat is so hot that a normal person would feel uncomfortable even standing outside the house.
As the person in charge of this blacksmithing, Pei Yun was the one who suffered the most.
It was uncomfortable for others to get close to him, but he needed to plunge into the room that was integrated with the oven.
Compared with the villagers, it is not an exaggeration to describe Pei Yun with a tender skin.
But this delicate young man in the eyes of the villagers endured the heat of the oven without hesitation.
Pei Yun is not alone, he also has an assistant.
Compared with Pei Yunli, this assistant is more powerful than others. He is also one of the only men in the village who can work. However, he has a flaw: his brain is not very good.
The standard brain grows into muscles.
His name is Niu Lili, and he is as strong as the big black bull.
Pei Yun asked him to be his assistant because he liked his strength.
Blacksmithing is a labor of strength, and you cannot do it by yourself alone. You need the help of a strong person.
Before you start blacksmithing.
"Young master, I've made you tired. If you feel unwell, remember to call me. I'll be waiting outside the house." Qin Qier said, her words full of concern.
"It's okay. I'm the most careful about propriety. I just feel a little uncomfortable and it will pass. Just wait for the good news from me." Pei Yundao said.
the other side.
Sun Yaozu was talking to Niu Lili, "You will do whatever the young master asks you to do later. You know, be smart. If you make a mistake, I won't slap you."
The tone of speaking is the same as teaching a child.
But in fact, in terms of body size, one cow is as powerful as two Sun Yaozu.
But the picture is completely opposite to the body shape.
In front of Sun Yaozu, Niu Lili was better behaved than a child.
Only Sun Yaozu could give Niu Lili such treatment.
After all, without Sun Yaozu, there would be no Niu Lili.
Judging from the body shape, you can know that Niu Lili is a loser.
He has strength, but his brain is not working well, which makes him unable to make ends meet.
He even ruined his family.
His parents have both passed away.
If Sun Yaozu hadn't given him a helping hand, given his situation, he would have been reunited with his parents long ago.
In Niu Lili's eyes, Sun Yaozu is the closest person to him besides his parents.
Even if Sun Yaozu wanted him to die, he would not even frown.
Listening to Sun Yaozu's scolding, Niu Lili didn't dare to say a word, only nodded.
After explaining Niu Liwei, Sun Yaozu said to Pei Yun: "Young master, you don't need to be polite to him. He has thick skin and thick flesh. If you need any heavy work, just do it for him. I have already told him that he will listen to the master's orders. He listens to me the most."
That’s it.”
"Okay, let's go inside."
Pei Yun didn't waste any time and walked into the oven-like room.
When it came to getting down to business, Pei Yun was not sloppy at all. As soon as he entered the house, he said: "Wait a minute and listen to my instructions. If I ask you to pull the blower, you can pull it."
"A Niu understands." Niu Lili responded.
The materials used for blacksmithing are the weapons of the bricklayers.
Pei Yun will rebuild these weapons.
"Now, pull the blower."
Upon hearing Pei Yun's order, Niu Lili pulled up the blower hard.
A whistling sound sounded.
Niu Lili is indeed powerful. In his hands, the blower is like a toy.
As soon as the blower is pulled, the flames in the furnace burn violently, and the heat temperature in the room rises suddenly.
In this short moment, Pei Yun's clothes were soaked with sweat all over his body.
My body felt uncomfortable, but all I cared about in my heart was the iron on the oven.
The iron material to be forged gradually burns red in the oven.
When it was red enough, Pei Yun immediately used iron pliers to move the iron material to the anvil.
"Take a sledgehammer and hammer it to my rhythm."
Pei Yun told Niu Lili to pick up the sledgehammer, while he held a small hammer.
The left hand holds the iron pliers to turn the iron material, and the right hand holds the small hammer to beat it.
Jingle, clang, clang.
There is a unique rhythm in this.
It is under such a unique rhythm that the powerful sledgehammer is guided to fall.
During this process, Pei Yun used iron pliers to adjust the position of the iron material, while using a small hammer to modify key positions.
In Pei Yun's hands, the iron material can change into any shape he wants, whether it is square, round, long, flat or pointed.
And what Pei Yun did was not just that.
After beating a piece of iron, he attached another piece of iron to the piece of iron, and then beat the two different pieces of iron into one piece.
Such a method is called folding forging.
Folding forging is to forge two or more iron materials with different components, such as hardness and other properties, into strips, and then stack them together for forging, thereby obtaining iron with high hardness and low brittleness.
Looking at the current situation, folding forging is epoch-making, and the current ironmaking process does not have the concept of folding forging.
Not to mention folding and forging.
As far as Pei Yun has seen Qin Qi'er's hunting knife, and then to the Wa bandit's weapons, they only have the appearance of iron weapons.
Even basic repeated forging to remove impurities is not enough.
In Pei Yun's eyes, no matter hunting knives or weapons, they are at best better than scrap metal.
And folded and forged.
During the folding and forging process, the same piece of iron will form patterns due to repeated folding. This is a treasure that combines craftsmanship and art.
In addition to folding and forging, there is also a twisting method, which is to heat the iron bar red and fix one end, twist the bar in one direction at the other end, and twist the iron like a twist to obtain a lamellar structure, and then continue to heat
, and then forged.
Just keep folding it in half, heating it, forging it, folding it in half again, and forging it again.