Time passed day by day, and three days passed quickly. Although with the help of coke, the stubbornness of meteorite was obviously beyond everyone's imagination. Three days later, Leng Yun came to see Wen Yuan with a frustrated face. Wen Yuan didn't need to say anything. You can tell what the result will be from Leng Yun's expression.
"What is the reason why the meteorite cannot be melted away?" Wen Yuan was also very anxious. In order to get a good weapon, he had stayed in Linzi for more than ten days, but he knew that Leng Yun had tried his best, and indeed there was no Nothing to blame.
Wen Yuan looked at Yue Xi, hoping that the latter could give him the answer, but this nine-foot-tall man was indeed not a blacksmith. He was addicted to fighting with Zhao Yun recently.
Seeing Yue Xi giving an embarrassed wry smile, Wen Yuan also scratched his head. Is it really so difficult for him to obtain a peerless magic weapon?
"It should be a problem with the blast," Leng Yun thought about it for the past few days, and one night he looked through the classics given to him by Yue Xi. He made everything according to the ancestral weapon refining method passed down by the Yue family. If there is anything different from the classics, If it doesn't match, it can only be a problem with the blower.
Because meteorites are inherently small, the container used to smelt them should not be too large, and only five or six ladles can be used to blow air and collect heat.
Wenyuan has seen a blower before. This kind of blowing tool made of several wooden rings wrapped with cowhide is not only huge, but also very inefficient. It often requires several strong laborers to move it. The efficiency is higher than that in Wenyuan's previous life. It is far inferior to the earthen bellows I saw at home when I was a child.
"If it's a problem with the blower equipment..." Wen Yuan pondered for a while, trying to recall the shape and composition of the wind direction he had seen in his previous life.
In Wen Yuan's memory, it should be easy to make this kind of thing, because I remember that it was something that every household had in the previous life. Although I don't know its internal structure, I think it is the same as the principle.
Wen Yuan inspected the structure of the raft and immediately ordered the craftsmen to start building it. Linzi is a big city in Qingzhou with many skilled craftsmen, and Wen Yuan was on hand to guide him. It didn't take two days for Wen Yuan to actually build it. The bellows would not appear until hundreds of years later.
This is actually a simple and practical invention. All the parts together only include a wooden box, a piston, and a valve. The outer layer is a wooden box no more than four feet high and about two feet wide. The inner wall is inlaid with A soft piece or feather that lubricates and blocks air. There is an air valve at each end of the box: when the piston is pulled out, air is sucked in from the far end; when it is pushed in, air is sucked in from the near side. During the two strokes inward and outward, air is sucked into the air box on one side of the valve; where it is ejected through the exhaust port.
After the bellows was made, Wen Yuan didn't know how effective it was. Unexpectedly, he gave it to Leng Yun to try. Leng Yun was immediately excited and insisted that the efficiency of the bellows was at least three or four times that of the lug.
With the help of the bellows, the iron-smelting work that had been interrupted could be resumed. As Wen Yuan saw, under the instigation of the bellows, the fire in the stove was more intense than before. Wen Yuan was eagerly looking forward to it, he had already I can't wait to see the scene where the meteorite melts into molten iron and is then turned into a weapon.
I don't know how much time had passed, but Wen Yuan was anxiously anticipating when he suddenly heard Leng Yun shouting with joy.
Wen Yuan looked closely and saw a stream of fiery red liquid flowing out along the official road and into the prepared mold.
"Haha, it's done." Seeing that the most difficult stage of smelting meteorites has passed, Leng Yun's eyes filled with excitement. Wen Yuan and others were also excited and cheered.
The meteoric iron melts into viscous molten iron. The next step is to wait for it to solidify and harden repeatedly and beat it evenly. This stage still takes a long time, but the most difficult process has passed, and the remaining Just leave it to Leng Yun to complete it.
Wen Yuan was about to leave when Yue Xi suddenly ran over and said: "My lord, my lord, there is still a lot of meteorite material left. How about making a weapon for the general?"
Wen Yuan looked at Yue Xi's eager eyes and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart. Yue Xi's martial arts was not weak. He and Zhao Yun could not win or lose in several battles. Wen Yuan felt like he had found a treasure. Fighting on the battlefield, maybe Zhao Yun could use the Qinghong Sword. The sharpness is better than that of Yue Xi, but if Yue Xi has weapons made of meteorite, he will have one more tiger general who has reached the level of Zhao Yun under his command.
Moreover, Yue Xi's family tradition of forging the iron weapon also had a share of the credit for being able to forge the meteorite weapon. Yue Xi deserved this meteorite weapon due to circumstances and reasons.
Seeing Wen Yuan readily agreeing, Yue Xi was overjoyed. He held his hands and bowed in gratitude, and suddenly became very close to Wen Yuan.
The other generals looked at Yue Xi with envy that could not be concealed. This person must be another of the lord's most beloved generals in the future...
Ten days later, Wen Yuan was discussing the political affairs of Qingzhou with Zhang Zha and Xi Xi, when suddenly a member of the Leng family came to report that the weapons had been forged.
Wen Yuan felt excited and rushed to the Leng family workshop. Before he entered the door, Wen Yuan heard Yue Xi's joyous shouts in the courtyard.
Wen Yuan walked in and saw Yue Xi in the spacious yard, waving a halberd with a whirring sound. His whole body seemed to be shrouded in a layer of black light, and the strong wind was surging within a few feet. The power was simply Unstoppable.
Seeing Wen Yuan enter the door, Yue Xi put away his halberd, ran to Wen Yuan's side in three steps and two steps at a time, and said with a smile: "My lord, take a look, this is the Sky Splitting Halberd that Lao Leng made for me."
"It's such a heavy halberd." Wen Yuan took the halberd with one hand. He felt it dropped and almost lost his grip. He weighed the weight of the halberd, which weighed at least seventy or eighty kilograms. Swinging such a heavy halberd was really impressive. Knocked to death and bruised, who can stop me?
After ten days, Yue Xi was also disgraced. In order to get a handy weapon, he stayed in Leng Yun's blacksmith shop for ten days to help. However, although he looked embarrassed at this time, his eyes were full of energy. The Lord got a magical weapon. Bing, he also got a halberd that was not inferior to him. How could he not let Yue Xi, who is obsessed with martial arts, be ecstatic?
Wen Yuan looked at it carefully. The halberd was one foot and three feet long. The body of the halberd was made of fine tough wood. The head of the halberd was made of meteorite. The tip of the halberd was polished to a slightly sharp point. There were blunt crescent twigs on both sides. , it’s no wonder that meteorite is the hardest thing in the world. Just polishing the tip of the halberd probably kept Leng Yun busy. Fortunately, Yue Xi’s physical strength is amazing. , even if he can’t be chopped to death, he will be smashed to death. With this trident, I don’t know how many people will die in his hands in the future.
Yue Xi was also happy and inexplicably excited. Sometimes he held the halberd and played with it carefully. Sometimes he walked around Wen Yuan and thanked him. He was as excited as a child.