Chapter 62 Mo Daojun (Part 1)

In ancient times, generals all wanted to have a loyal, reliable and well-equipped army. Yuchi Gong was no exception. Chen Ying had no plans to train the soldiers led by the left and right guards of the East Palace, but with the arrival of Wei Meng, Chen Ying immediately had an idea.

As early as in Shuozhou, Chen Yingfeng offered his Modao Wei Meng to him as the Iron Fang Order of Lingzhou. Originally, Wei Meng also took his son and apprentice to Lingzhou to take his post happily.

Just one and a half months ago, Chen Ying was named Minister of Works. At the same time, he was removed from the position of General Manager of Lingzhou, and Li Daozong was appointed as General Manager of Lingzhou. As the saying goes, the emperor and the minister of Emperor Daozong, as Li Daozong took office, he stopped Chen Ying's General Manager of Lingzhou.

More than 2,000 craftsmen including Wei Meng, Jiafang Order Yan Shihu, and more than 2,000 craftsmen were stopped by Li Daozong. Without the subsidies for Lingzhou, Chen Ying, the private department of Lingzhou Order, was also abolished. Yan Shihu, Wei Meng, Lin Chuanfu and others came from Lingzhou to Chang'an to join Chen Ying.

Chen Yingzheng was worried that there was not enough staff to build the Chen Qinglin Liwu Fort, so he accepted the more than 2,000 craftsmen and his family. It can also be said that Chen Ying contracted the Lingzhou supervisor to private person.

With the addition of these craftsmen, the progress of Chen's docks suddenly accelerated. Wei Meng and his apprentice built an iron furnace on the banks of Jieyu River in the east of Chenyingwu Castle and began to test iron making. At this time, the Iron Floor Office under Wei Meng had more than 350 blacksmiths. Some were brave and quarreling steel, some were proficient in steel filling, and some were proficient in crucible steel, but more were proficient in steel making. The so-called steel making is to repeatedly forge a piece of pig iron, and squeeze out the impurities in the iron through the blow to form low-carbon steel.

Chen Ying found that someone knew crucible steel and was overjoyed. As long as he knew how to use crucible steel, he could make alloy steel. As Chen Ying followed Wei Meng into the temporary warehouse, he found many good things in the warehouse, including golden pyrite, black iron ore sand, gray-white phosphate ore...

Wei Meng grabbed a handful of black iron ore sand and beat Chen Yingxianbao: "Ming Gong, this ore sand is good, so you can definitely make good iron."

Chen Ying said angrily: "What I want is steel, steel, steel. I will say important things three times. What do I want iron?"

Wei Meng was beaten by Chen Ying and smiled embarrassedly.

Suddenly, Chen Ying saw brown particles in a large pile of ores. Chen Ying held it in his palm and observed it carefully. He suddenly shouted excitedly: "Damn it, is it actually a strong sand or a good strong sand? Where did this come from?"

In fact, these manganese ore sands are carbonate compounds and are the companion ores of Lingzhou Salt Mine. When refining salt, the residue left was not large, about two or three hundred kilograms. It was because when they came to Chang'an, they accidentally loaded the wrong car and transported it by mistake.

Chen Ying rushed to Wei Meng and said, "The person comes, he calls 100 kilograms of black iron ore sand, and then 15 kilograms of manganese ore sand at a ratio of 15%..."

Wei Meng was confused and didn't know what Chen Ying was trying to do.

What surprised Chen Ying even more was that Wei Meng had basically prepared the blacksmith workshop in just three days. In fact, this was Ge Tong's credit. Ge Tong not only built a small iron workshop on the banks of Jieyu River, but also used Chen Ying's explanation to extract a large amount of coke.

However, things were not satisfactory. The blacksmith, who claimed to be the best at refining crucible steel, was named Huang Facai. The largest crucible in his hand was only fifteen kilograms.

Chen Ying picked up an iron shovel and sent the coke into the furnace while explaining to the craftsmen: "The iron ore in our country is very fucking. No iron ore is a good iron ore, but the sulfur content is surprisingly high, and the quality of the iron refined is also ridiculously poor. In order to make good steel, it can only reduce the sulfur content..."

Wei Meng said stubbornly: "General Chen, you know so much, although I don't understand... I feel so powerful."

"Awesome? Is this common sense good?" Chen Ying suddenly remembered that this was not later generations. In later generations, only junior high school students knew common sense. In the early Tang Dynasty, not to mention ordinary people, I am afraid that professional technicians might not understand it.

Ge Tong, Wei Meng, Yan Shihu bulged the wind and burned the fire in the furnace. Looking at the fire, Chen Ying felt very satisfied, but steelmaking is a job of strength. Ge Tong and Wei Meng are both older and their physical strength is not as strong as before. In just half an hour, the two of them took turns.

As the temperature in the furnace became higher and higher, the iron ore sand gradually began to melt. Waiting for the crucible to turn into iron, Chen Ying said: "Find an iron rod and pour in one and a half pounds of manganese ore sand."

Ge Tong hurriedly poured manganese sand into the crucible, and Chen Ying stirred the crucible with an iron rod. Chen Ying actually knew some theory, and he had never really refined steel. He felt that it was almost done, so he said, "Prepare the mold quickly!"

Huang Facai and others hurriedly found a mold specifically used to condense steel. Because Huang Facai used to build iron hammers, he only had four types of octane iron hammer molds, including eight kilograms, ten kilograms, twelve kilograms, and sixteen kilograms. In desperation, Chen Ying had to ask them to pour the steel into a mold of twelve kilograms of iron hammers.

While the billet was cooling, Wei Meng asked Chen Ying: "I know that Modao was made of molten iron with toner added."

Chen Ying said: "If you add toner, you can only make high-carbon steel. The hardness of high-carbon steel is enough, but it is too brittle. Modao will easily break. If you add tin into the molten iron, you will get tinplate, which is also a white tin sheet..."

The steel hammer slowly cooled down, dark and shiny, and a bit dazzling. Wei Meng is a blacksmith who is proficient in steelmaking. It is easy to distinguish the quality of steel. He sincerely exclaimed: "Good steel, it's really good steel. I learned to make steel with Yeye since I was a child, but I have never seen such good steel!"

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "In this kind of crucible, one pot of steel can be used to make a modao's modao. Just a little polishing and dipping fire can be used to get an excellent modao."

Chen Ying pointed at Yan Shihu and said, "Actually, your armor can do this too!"

The craftsmen nodded repeatedly.

Under Chen Ying's guidance, the craftsmen began to make a crazy steelmaking process. They also sent people to convey the message to Lingzhou Salt Mine that they must preserve this manganese ore sand, which is a good thing.

In fact, Chen Yinglian's steel is not high-carbon steel. Although the hardness of high-carbon steel is too brittle, it is also very brittle. Therefore, the losses of the Modao in the Tang Dynasty during the battle were also amazing. Often, after a war, the Modao lost nearly one-third. However, the Modao made of high-manganese steel is completely different.

After working hours, when four deputy commanders, including Yuchi Gong, Gao Yunquan and He Yuejing, led ten Zhe Chongmao to report to Chen Ying, Chen Ying took out the newly-made high-manganese steel bright light armor and high-manganese steel modao.

Yuchi Gong originally didn't use a knife, but when he looked at Mo Dao's domineering look, he immediately fell in love with this magic weapon.

Chen Ying asked a soldier to hang the bright light armor made of manganese steel on a wooden stake as thick as a bowl, and then asked the generals to chop with knives, spears, or arrows. The generals worked hard and cut off three handles with a horizontal knife. This bright light armor made of high manganese steel left no trace.

As for Modao, it is originally the king of swords. What's more, Modao made of high manganese steel?

When a pine wood with a diameter of more than three feet was cut into two pieces by Yuchi Gong, the generals looked at Mo Dao and Mingguang armor, just like an old virgin who had not seen a woman in twenty years. When they saw the best beauty, their eyes fell on it and could no longer move.

Chen Ying rushed to the generals and said, "This armor weighs 36 kilograms. Apart from thirty steps, it can prevent three stones of strong bows, and can ignore the crossbow below one stone and break the armor. No warriors in the army are allowed to wear this armor!"

The generals were like chickens chatting rice.

Chen Ying said: "The Mo knife weighs 33 kilograms. If one knife is used, the people and horses will be broken."

The generals' eyes were as wide as cow's eyes.

Chen Ying said: "Three thousand sets of armor, three thousand Mo swords, and three Zhechong Mansions. In the next period of time, we will select the warriors by digging soil and paving the roads. The top three thousand warriors will change their clothes immediately!"
Chapter completed!