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Chapter 86 Preparations for War (Part 2)

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Murphy finished placing the troops sent by the human city-states.

Starting tomorrow, they will be trained by the priests of the Temple of War. Six teams of Greek heavy infantry with a total of 480 people will cooperate with the priests of the God of War to supervise their training. The spearmen dispatched by the human city-states had mediocre combat effectiveness. To make them useful, they had to be trained to be familiar with the fighting style of the Greek spear phalanx. As for the 2000 archers, they will be taught and trained by Cretan longbowmen.

As soon as he returned to the territory, Murphy saw General Marcus Kane rushing over excitedly.

The expression on his face was full of uncontrollable excitement, which should not appear on the face of a resolute and stable general.

"Your Excellency the Governor! Your Excellency the Governor! Look at this!" General Marcus Kane handed over to Murphy a long sword that had just been tempered and forged without the hilt attached, his face full of excitement.

clang!

Murphy looked at the long sword that had just been forged in front of him, raised his hand and flicked it with his fingers!

There was a crisp sound, and the blade trembled slightly.

this voice...

Murphy's expression moved, and his face couldn't help being slightly surprised.

He pulled out the long sword at his waist, swung the newly forged long sword and chopped it on his saber!

clang!

There was a gap in Murphy's original saber, but the long sword that had just been forged was intact!

Murphy was speechless for a long time, and finally murmured a word.

--"steel!"

It turned out to be steel!

Have any blacksmiths in the territory figured out how to forge steel?

Murphy is a history buff and a cold weapon hunter. He still knows a little bit about the difference between steel and iron. The key difference between the two is the amount of carbon, and iron alloys with a carbon content between 0.02% and 2.04% by mass are steel. The forging process of steel is relatively complicated, and it became popular around the end of the Iron Age, but the earliest steel appeared at the end of the Bronze Age.

Looking at the steel sword in his hand, which was obviously still at the original level of craftsmanship, Murphy couldn't help but think of some fragments that were dusty in his memory long, long ago.

In college, Murphy reported liberal arts.

At that time, going to college was quite a boring thing, either playing games or picking up girls. Murphy's hobbies are a bit special. He likes to wander around and dabble in some miscellaneous things. Occasionally read some historical information.

It was also after entering university that he finally understood the dynasties in Chinese history.

During the idle time in college, Murphy once had an unfriendly discussion with others on the level of civilization in BC and weapon forging technology in a post bar. In order to overwhelm the opponent, Murphy consulted a lot of information at the time in the battle of young people's spirits.

Although these things were gradually forgotten after he came out to work, some fragments of knowledge could not help but resurfaced in Murphy's mind at this moment.

BC, that is, the period at the end of the Bronze Age.

Western ironware is ahead of Middle-earth in an all-round way. There are many reasons for this, such as the high-quality and rich iron ore in the West, and the higher sulfur content in Middle-earth iron ore. In addition, the bronze forging process at the peak of Middle-earth was far stronger than the original iron sword, so the promotion of iron in Middle-earth was far behind the west. It is precisely because of the poor quality of iron ore that Zhongtu overtook the West in forging technology in the middle of the Han Dynasty! That is to say, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the "Yalt Iron Official Camp" began to appear, and with the emergence of more excellent forging techniques, ironware began to spread slowly.

However, this speed is not fast. It was not until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Jin Dynasty that the bronze wares were completely eliminated.

Far slower than the West by hundreds of years!

A big reason for the slow popularization of iron ware is that the development of bronze ware to the peak level has delayed the promotion of iron ware!

As we all know, bronze wares are wear-resistant and rust-resistant, but the quality of iron wares at the initial level is not worth mentioning.

On the one hand, there are bronze wares that have reached the peak level, and on the other hand, iron wares that have just begun to develop at a very low level. Ordinary people will choose which side, you have no idea in your heart.

Although it is the end of the Bronze Age, the popularity level of the era and the peak forging technology at that time are not the same.

At the end of the bronze period, a large number of iron wares began to appear, but it took a long time to completely popularize and eliminate bronze wares. It is not to say that bronze ware is necessarily inferior to iron ware. In fact, bronze ware that has been multiplied to the peak level in the East and West is far better than iron ware at the beginning.

Popularity and emergence are two completely different things.

When he was in college, in order to refute the opponent, Murphy even found out a relatively ancient forging method.

That is the forging process of cast iron carburized steel.

Murphy had long forgotten what the specific craft requirements were, and he didn't bother to look at them at the time. After all, he was not a blacksmith. At that time, he mainly focused on one point, that is, cast iron carburized steel appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, which was the peak level of iron forging technology at that time. In the BC era, regardless of China or the West, all iron weapons that could reach the steel level were forged in this ancient way.

After the mid-Han Dynasty, the more famous "Hundreds of Steelmaking" was the achievement of the development of cast iron carburizing steel to a higher level.

The ancient arts and crafts are handed down from father to son, so the development is very slow, and it may even be lost.

Therefore, it will take quite a long time for a breakthrough forging process innovation to become popular.

Civilization has entered the steel age. Strictly speaking, it is already close to the end of the middle ages, which is the advent of the age of imperial firearms. However, civilization has entered the steel age, but there is no conflict with the time when steel appeared. It's like in the middle of the Han Dynasty, that is, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, some elite troops have been equipped with weapons made by the hundred-steel forging process.

Hundreds of steelmaking started in the Han Dynasty, and its heyday was in the Jin Dynasty, and it was gradually replaced by new technologies starting in the Tang Dynasty.

For these ancient forging techniques, Murphy only knows a theory. If he is really asked to study how to forge steel, he probably only knows that it is repeated many times. After that, he really didn't know at all.

Talking and doing are two completely different things. In the age of information explosion, many nerds have never even used a hammer, let alone blacksmithing.

Everyone has heard of Baotou Steel's clamping steel quenching, but how to do it and what to do at what time, I'm afraid few people really know the bottom line.

Murphy carefully looked at the long sword that had just been cast in his hand. Although he didn't know if the sword was forged from cast iron and carburized steel, Murphy was absolutely sure that it was definitely—steel!

Steel is enough for him!

"Bring that blacksmith over to see me, right now, right now!" Holding the steel sword of the original level of craftsmanship, Murphy couldn't help feeling a little excited in his heart.

But I don't know how long it will take to forge this kind of steel weapon. But even if it cannot be spread to the entire army, as long as a small part of the elite can be armed first, that will be a great help! At the end of the Bronze Age, if there is a small steel army, the advantage can be said to be very obvious.

Governor's Palace.

Murphy opened the auxiliary system of "Total War". On the blacksmith shop page of the system, the progress of the research and development of iron crafts in it has reached nearly 80%. It has been recognized by the auxiliary system of "Total War" as being able to ban bronze and enter the iron age.

"Your Excellency Governor, people have brought them here." General Marcus Kane led a tall, muscular, dark-skinned middle-aged man into the Governor's Mansion.

This middle-aged man's upper body was naked, his skin was dark, his body was muscular, as if made of steel, and there was a scar on his abdomen.

"Your Excellency." The middle-aged man slowly knelt down towards Murphy and said in a deep voice.

When the leaders formally received Murphy, most of them knelt on one knee, and not many knelt on both legs like him. Murphy took a closer look, but found that the middle-aged blacksmith's left leg seemed to be inconvenient.

"You used to be a warrior?" Murphy asked, staring at the middle-aged blacksmith in front of him.

There was a military aura about this man, very strong.

"Yes, Lord Governor." The middle-aged blacksmith stood up slowly and said in a deep voice, "I was injured in the battle in the old town. The priests said the injury was too serious, and the holy water could not heal it completely. My father He is an excellent blacksmith, so after the battle, I entered the blacksmith shop to work."

In ancient times, blacksmithing was definitely a high-paying profession.

Roughly like the current white-collar workers, but more tired.

In the battle in the old town, because they faced several times their own wolf man, coupled with the unusually tall elite wolf man, even the Spartan heavy infantry suffered more than half of the casualties, and the other soldiers naturally suffered a lot of casualties. It was a tragic war, and many soldiers who were seriously injured were left disabled, and they were all assigned to other posts in the town, just like the blacksmith in front of them.

Murphy stood up, walked in front of the middle-aged blacksmith, raised his hand to help him up, and said in a deep voice, "You are a warrior!"

"I'm from Sparta." The middle-aged blacksmith bowed slightly and said every word.

Murphy picked up the long sword that had just been forged, and asked, "How many weapons like this can you forge every day?"

"If there are enough people, about fifteen can be made in a week." The middle-aged blacksmith replied.

Only fifteen?

Or is the level of forging technology not enough?

Murphy frowned slightly when he heard that, the output was so low. It seems that we can only find a way to arm the Spartan conqueror first.