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Chapter 62: The Modao Army (I)

In ancient times, generals wanted to have a loyal, reliable, and well-equipped army. Wei Chigong is naturally no exception. Chen Ying originally didn't have a plan about how to train the soldiers of the East Palace's left and right guards, but with the arrival of Wei Meng, Chen Ying suddenly had an idea.

As early as in Shuozhou, Chen Yingfeng presented Wei Meng, who presented a Mo knife to him, as the Lingzhou Iron Workshop Order. Originally, Wei Meng also took his son and apprentice to Lingzhou happily.

Just a month and a half ago, Chen Ying was appointed as the squire of the Ministry of Works, and at the same time, he was relieved of the post of governor of Lingzhou, and Li Daozong was appointed as the governor of Lingzhou. As the so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier, with Li Daozong taking office, he stopped Chen Ying's Lingzhou general as a prisoner.

More than 2,000 craftsmen, including Wei Meng, the commander of the iron workshop, Yan Shihu, the commander of the Jiafang, and Lin Chuanfu, the general supervisor, were stopped by Li Daozong. Without Lingzhou's money and grain subsidies, Lingzhou's private department of Chen Ying was also canceled, and Yan Shihu, Wei Meng, Lin Chuanfu and others came to Chang'an from Lingzhou to defect to Chen Ying.

Chen Yingzheng was worried that there was not enough manpower to build Chen's Qinglin Liwu Fort, so he accepted more than 2,000 craftsmen and their families. It can also be said that Chen Ying contracted the Lingzhou general as a prisoner to a private person.

With the addition of these craftsmen, the progress of Chen's Dock Fort accelerated dramatically. Wei Meng took his apprentices to build an iron furnace on the bank of the Jieyu River in the east of Chen Yingwu Fort and began to experiment with iron-making. At this time, Wei Meng's Iron Mill Department had more than 350 blacksmiths, some of whom were brave and noisy, some were proficient in steel filling, and some were proficient in crucible steel, but more were proficient in 100 steelmaking, the so-called 100 steel, that is, a piece of pig iron was repeatedly forged, and the impurities in the iron were squeezed out to form low-carbon steel by beating.

Chen Ying was overjoyed when he found that someone could crucible steel. As long as you can use crucible steel, then you can make alloy steel, as Chen Ying entered the temporary warehouse with Wei Meng, he found a lot of good things in the warehouse, golden yellow pyrite, jet-black iron ore, gray-white phosphate ore......

Wei Meng grabbed a handful of jet-black iron ore and rushed to Chen Ying: "Ming Gong, this ore is good, it can definitely smelt good iron." ”

Chen Ying said angrily: "What I want is steel, it's steel, it's steel, it's steel, say important things three times, what does Lao Tzu want iron?" ”

Wei Meng was scolded by Chen Ying, and he smiled wryly.

Suddenly, Chen Ying saw a large pile of ore with brown particles, Chen Ying took it in the palm of his hand and observed it carefully, and suddenly shouted excitedly: "Damn, is it actually fierce sand, or is it good fierce sand?" Where did this come from? ”

In fact, these manganese ores belong to carbonate compounds, which are the associated ores of Lingzhou salt mines, and when refining salt, the residues left behind are not much, about two or three hundred catties, or because when they came to Chang'an, they unintentionally loaded the wrong car and transported it by mistake.

Chen Yingchong Wei Meng said: "Come on, weigh 100 catties of black iron ore, and according to the proportion of 15 percent, weigh 15 catties of manganese ore......"

Wei Meng was confused, not knowing what Chen Ying's intentions were.

What surprised Chen Ying even more was that Wei Meng had basically prepared the blacksmith workshop in just three days, in fact, this was the credit of Ge Tong, who not only built a small iron workshop on the bank of the Jieyu River, but also used the method explained by Chen Ying to refine a large amount of coke.

However, things are not as good as they should be. The blacksmith who is known as the best at refining crucible steel is called Huang Facai, and the largest crucible in his hand has a capacity of only fifteen catties.

Chen Ying picked up an iron shovel and explained to the craftsmen while feeding the coke into the furnace: "The iron ore in our country is very fucked, no iron ore is a good iron ore, but the sulfur content is surprisingly high, and the quality of the iron smelted is ridiculously poor, in order to make good steel, the sulfur content can only be reduced......

Wei Meng seemed to understand and said: "General Chen, you know so much, although I didn't understand it...... It feels so powerful. ”

"Isn't it amazing? It's common sense, right? Chen Ying suddenly remembered that this is not the next generation, these are only junior high school students who understand common sense in the later generations, in the early days of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention ordinary people, I am afraid that professional technicians, there may not be a few people who will understand.

Ge Tong, Wei Meng, and Yan Shihu puffed up the wind and burned the fire in the hearth vigorously, looking at the fire, Chen Ying felt very satisfied, but steelmaking is a hard work. Ge Tong and Wei Meng are both old, and their physical strength is not as good as before, only half an hour younger, and the two of them have changed their turns.

Iron ore and manganese ore gradually begin to melt as the temperature inside the furnace gets higher and higher. Waiting for all the crucibles to turn into molten iron, Chen Ying said: "Find an iron rod, and then pour one and a half catties of manganese ore into it." ”

Ge Tong hurriedly poured the manganese sand into the crucible, and Chen Ying stirred it in the crucible with an iron rod. Chen Ying actually knows a little bit of theory, and he hasn't really made steel, so he feels almost the same, so he said: "Prepare the mold quickly!" ”

Huang Facai and the others hurriedly found a mold specially used to condense molten steel, because Huang Facai used to build iron hammers, and there were only four kinds of eight-sided iron hammer molds in his hands, such as eight catties, ten catties, twelve catties, and sixteen catties.

Taking advantage of the cooling process of the billet, Wei Meng asked Chen Ying: "Add toner powder to the molten iron, I know that the Mo knife is made of molten iron with toner." ”

Chen Yingdao: "Add toner, you can only make high-carbon steel, high-carbon steel hardness is enough, but too brittle, Mo knife will be easy to break, add tin to the molten iron, you will get tinplate, yes is also white iron sheet." ……”

The steel hammer slowly cooled, dark and shiny, and the black was a little dazzling. Wei Meng is a blacksmith who is proficient in steelmaking, and it is easy to distinguish the quality of steel, he sincerely admired: "Good steel, really good steel, I have learned to make steel with Yeye since I was a child, but I have never seen such a good steel!" ”

Chen Ying smiled slightly: "With such a pot of crucibles, one pot can make a Mo knife of molten steel, and you only need to polish it a little and dip it in the fire to get a fine Mo knife." ”

Chen Ying pointed at Yan Shihu and said, "Actually, your armor can do the same!" ”

The craftsmen nodded their heads one after another.

Under Chen Ying's guidance, the craftsmen began a crazy steelmaking. And send someone to deliver the news to the Lingzhou Salt Mine that this manganese ore must be preserved, which is a good thing.

In fact, Chen Yinglian's steel is not high-carbon steel, although the hardness of high-carbon steel is there, it is too brittle, so the losses of Datang's Mo knife in the battle process are also very amazing. Often a war is fought, and the loss of Modao is nearly one-third. But the Mo knife made of high manganese steel is completely different.

After working overtime, when Wei Chigong, Gao Yunquan and He Yuejing and other four deputy leaders led ten Zhichong Lieutenants to report to Chen Ying, Chen Ying took out the freshly made high-manganese steel Mingguang armor and high-manganese steel Mo knife.

Yu Chigong didn't use a knife originally, but looking at Modao's domineering appearance, he immediately fell in love with this divine weapon.

Chen Ying asked a soldier to hang the Mingguang armor made of manganese steel on a wooden stake with a thick bowl, and then asked the generals to cut with knives, spears, or arrows.

As for the Mo knife, it was originally the king of knives. What's more, it's a Mo knife made of high-manganese steel?

When a pine wood with a diameter of more than three feet was cut into two pieces by Wei Chigong, the generals looked at the Modao and Mingguang armor, just like an old virgin who had not seen a woman for twenty years, and when they saw the best beauty, their eyes fell on it, and they couldn't move it anymore.

Chen Ying said to the generals: "This armor weighs thirty-six catties, thirty steps away, it can prevent a three-stone strong bow, and you can ignore the bow and crossbow below one stone to break the armor arrow, if you are not a warrior in the army, you are not allowed to wear this armor!" ”

The generals are like chickens.

Chen Yingdao: "The Mo knife weighs thirty-three catties, and if you go down with a knife, everyone will be broken." ”

The generals' eyes widened like bull's eyes.

Chen Yingdao: "Three thousand sets of armor, three thousand Mo knives, equipped with three folding mansions, in the next period of time, select warriors by digging and paving roads, and the first three thousand warriors will immediately change their clothes!" ”

Well, Chen Ying used this way to motivate more than 12,000 generals on the left and right guards like howling wolves.