Throne of Vientiane Civilization

After forging the iron block flat enough, Li Gan used iron pliers and a hammer to fold it over. After completely folding it together, he continued to forge it repeatedly.

Looking at this forging technique, Zhou Xu suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but ask.

"What is this forging technique?"

"Li Gan figured it out himself. He said that this forging method can forge steel more stably."

In front of Zhou Xu, the forging minister did not dare to take the credit for himself.

"For normal iron weapons, after hammering them flat, the preliminary form of the weapon has been forged, so every time he folds it, the energy he needs to expend is equivalent to forging one more iron weapon. And he has to perform folding like this fifty or sixty times!"

Speaking of the latter part, the forging director himself couldn't help but sigh.

This is equivalent to using the time and effort to forge fifty or sixty iron weapons to forge one weapon!

While they were talking, a member of the project team had already presented the only finished forged weapon in front of Zhou Xu with excitement on his face.

After taking a look at Li Gan, who was still concentrating on the forging work, Zhou Xu had no intention of disturbing him.

"Come on, let's go to the testing ground."

As a department that forges weapons, the Forging Department undoubtedly has an internal venue dedicated to testing weapons.

Holding the hilt of the sword, Zhou Xu exerted a little force, and a cold light suddenly flashed before his eyes, and a sharp blade was unsheathed, exposed to the cold winter sunshine.

On the blade of the sword, special lines loomed in the sunlight, creating a unique charm that even Zhou Xu couldn't help but gasp.

"Good guy, this is no ordinary steel!"

Within a few words, Zhou Xu's mouth could not help but grin, and the joy on his face had already reached a level that could not be concealed.

Steel with special patterns like this has different names in different places. Europeans call it Damascus steel, Lao Maozi calls it Brat steel, but in China, they call it all. For pattern steel!

The patterns on this pattern steel are formed during the process of continuous folding and forging.

Iron is refined over time to become steel, steel is refined over time to become soft and pure, and then refined into green.

This ‘green’ refers to patterned steel!

During this period, Silk and the others who were following them looked at the sword with a hint of brilliance in their eyes. It was obvious that no enchanting method had been used, but this sword shone with a cold light in the sun. Show off your edge!

In this testing ground, there was naturally no shortage of weapons for testing. According to Zhou Xu's wishes, he directly took an iron sword and chopped it with it.

After one blow, a visible gap was cut out on the iron sword's blade. On the other hand, there was basically no damage to the blade of the sword.

Zhou Xu was overjoyed when he saw this, but at the same time, he felt a little bad in his heart.

"Silk, how about trying it with your silver steel sword?"

Hearing this, Hilke subconsciously hid the silver steel sword behind his back, and looked at Zhou Xu's eyes with a hint of vigilance.

"It's better not to."

Zhou Xu just laughed evilly when he saw this. He didn't really intend to try the silver steel sword.

The raw material of the silver steel sword is mithril steel as a special alloy, and mithril steel is smelted from mithril and steel.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about the steel used in the silver steel sword, Zhou Xu felt that there was a high probability that it could not compare with the patterned steel.

After all, the silver steel sword was a standard weapon for elf knights in the old civilization, and it was probably produced in large quantities at that time.

In the era of cold weapons, when craftsmen relied solely on their own strength, skills and experience for forging, it was undoubtedly unrealistic to mass-produce or even equip large-scale pattern steel.

Of course, out of caution, Zhou Xu still asked...

"Have any other craftsmen in the forging department tried using this forging method?"

Faced with this question, the forging minister's face clearly showed a hint of embarrassment.

"Many craftsmen have tried it. According to Li Gan's forging method, the failure rate of others is very high."

During the entire folding and forging process, no problems occurred. In fact, when forging weapons, accidents occur frequently during the quenching and tempering stages.

At this stage, the weapons they forged using this method were cracking at will, and even the forging director himself was no exception.

In response to this question, I asked Li Gan, and Li Gan didn't know what to say.

After all, from Li Gan's perspective, following his own forging method, it was a success. If you hit and break it every time, he would be very surprised.

In this regard, Zhou Xu, who understood the situation, could only say, 'Forging master, you are awesome! ’

Sure enough, blacksmithing also depends on talent. Li Gan's existence undoubtedly allowed the craftsmen in the blacksmithing department to experience first-hand what it means to be a genius.

Probably wanting to save the face of their forging department as much as possible, the forging director spoke up again...

"However, leaving aside the folding and forging techniques, we just adopted the method of repeated forging, and the success rate has improved a lot. After some attempts, we have also forged two weapons. After simple testing, both are stronger than the original ones. Iron weapons."

While talking, the members on the side presented two sharp swords to Zhou Xu.

Pulling the sword out of its sheath, compared to the sword forged from patterned steel, these two sharp swords are very obvious, and the sword body does not have any patterns.

But according to the test results, these two sharp swords have most likely been forged into steel swords.

Under this premise, Zhou Xu can generally understand the reason why Li Gan adopted folding forging.

Because they had never seen steel before, they could not be sure whether the iron was forged in place.

Under this premise, Li Gan gave a standard, that is, if it is directly folded and forged fifty or sixty times, then it is 100% steel!

This genius' method is really simple and crude.

If he had never seen the patterned steel sword, Zhou Xu would undoubtedly be very satisfied when these two steel swords were placed in front of him.

But now that there are patterned steel beads and jade in front, looking at these two steel swords, they feel a bit inadequate.

However, those who should be encouraged should still be encouraged, and Zhou Xu would naturally not be vague about the rewards that should be given.

"For this steel sword, you can optimize it again, including weapon strength, success rate, and forging cost, to find the one that is the most stable and cost-effective."

Weapons like this that require large-scale manufacturing cannot simply pursue strength in a crazy way. Stable mass production and sufficient cost performance are the key.

Otherwise, who can afford to give every soldier a weapon made of patterned steel?

Even if the funds allow it, the arm that Li dares to wield the forging hammer may not allow it!

In the case of purely manual forging, the folding and forging of this pattern steel is extremely labor-intensive. Every time Li Gan completes a round of forging, he has to slow down for a while, otherwise he will not be able to lift his hand the next day.

Although this also has an impact on his current physical fitness, it is not difficult to see from it that forging patterned steel weapons is by no means an easy task.