System: Build My Own Territory-Chapter 782 - 256: Can’t You Be a Little Gentler? (10,000 Words)
Lynn nodded, "I know this."
When he previously asked Scholar Clive to make design modifications, he had already explained this issue to him.
Composite Armor consists of stitched armor plates and cast Standard Chest Armor along with Iron Helmets.
The Iron Butcher’s Heavy Padded Armor and Horse Armor can completely use the current dimensions of the armor plates as prototypes.
Design a corresponding stitching plan.
This can significantly reduce the laborious process of remelting and reconstructing the armor.
Lynn’s gaze looked at the thirty Blacksmith Apprentices arduously forging parts for Heavy Padded Armor ahead.
He asked Ehrelo, "Given their current forging efficiency, how many days will it take to forge a set of Iron Butcher?"
Ehrelo heard this and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.
He hesitated a bit and said, "Master, if calculated based on forging a complete set of Iron Butcher under Scholar Clive’s guidance..."
"It would take at least a month!"
Soon after.
Ehrelo changed his tone.
"But if we use the armor plates we forge, and they are only responsible for forging special components."
"It would take at most a week to forge a complete set of Iron Butcher, Heavy Padded Armor, and Horse Armor plates!"
"As for how long it takes for Foreman Yimini to stitch them into shape, it depends on their stitching efficiency."
Lynn pondered again.
If it requires a reduction in the production of Composite Armor as a cost.
He would rather delay the production of Heavy Padded Armor and Horse Armor.
The Heavy Padded Armor and Horse Armor of the Iron Butcher are naturally extremely important for the heavy cavalry.
However.
Getting all soldiers equipped with armor is more important.
Only by wearing armor can the soldiers survive better on the battlefield.
Lynn nodded again.
"The forging focus of the Blacksmith Workshop remains on Composite Armor."
"Report back to me once the Composite Armor required by the soldiers is fully forged."
Ehrelo said, "Yes, master."
After inspecting the six Blacksmith Workshops, Lynn stood in front of one of the iron-smelting high furnaces.
He sent Ehrelo away to continue busying himself.
Looking at the iron-smelting high furnace before him, Lynn began to ponder.
Compared to the previous earth kilns for iron burning, the production efficiency of the iron-smelting high furnaces is greatly improved.
As long as there is a sufficient amount of iron ore and fuel, the furnace can produce iron continuously, obtaining iron blocks.
Moreover, the iron-smelting high furnace is highly adaptable.
It can handle various grades of iron ore, suitable for large-scale pig iron production.
This is also why, after finding and mining iron ore, he led the townsmen to construct the iron-smelting high furnaces.
He needs a large amount of iron ore to forge and produce iron farming tools and weapons and armor.
For production, for arming the soldiers and guards in the territory, and for ensuring the safety of the territory.
However, while the iron-smelting high furnace has its advantages, it also has its drawbacks.
Currently, these six iron-smelting high furnaces turn iron ore into molten iron, which cools and solidifies into pig iron.
The high carbon content and relatively more impurities.
Although it increases the hardness of the pig iron blocks, the toughness and ductility are poor, making it brittle and hard.
Therefore, if one wants to use pig iron to forge weapons and armor.
It must undergo heating and repeated hammer forging.
To refine out the carbon and impurities, so it can be shaped into the required armor and weapon forms.
It requires wasting a lot of manpower and resources, as well as forging time.
However.
If he can optimize these six iron-smelting high furnaces.
Allowing the iron ore in the furnace to burn fully, he could produce high-quality steel!
Compared to pig iron, steel has a lower carbon content, usually less than a percent.
If he can further find some other metal elements, like chromium, nickel, molybdenum, and so on.
He can significantly improve the performance of steel.
Steel also has good toughness, ductility, and strength.
Through various different methods, such as quenching and tempering processes, steel can achieve high strength and good toughness.
Not only for forging the armor worn by soldiers but can be widely used in various fields.
Construction, machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding, etc.
Even for various mechanical parts, pipe fittings...
The most crucial point is.
The matchlock guns and cannons he plans to develop in the future all require steel!
Therefore.
For him, the optimization of the iron-smelting high furnace is imperative.
But how to optimize the nearly ten-meter-high iron-smelting high furnace before him...
Soon.
An idea surfaced in Lynn’s mind — the steel-making process known as "stirring steel method"!
The stirring steel method is basically the same as the previously used "stirring iron method".
Both are processes for turning pig iron into steel or wrought iron by using a blowing and stirring method.
When building the stirring iron furnace previously, the corresponding construction technology and knowledge had already fused in his mind.
What he now needs to consider is which stirring steel process to use.
The stirring steel processes in his mind come in three varieties.
Namely, single-chamber stirring, reverberatory furnace stirring, and tandem stirring.
First, there is the single-chamber stirring, where metal smelting and combustion occur in the same furnace chamber.
During operation, first, put the furnace charge in the chamber, then ignite, blow air, and seal the entry.
As the workers continually stir, the carbon content constantly decreases, the melting point of the metal rises until it finally forms a spongy solid block.
Then use the forging process to eliminate impurities and obtain a certain amount of steel.
The single-chamber stirring’s advantage is simple equipment.
But its disadvantage is also apparent.
The amount of steel produced is not much.
The iron ore and fuel directly contact each other, resulting in many impurities.
