Chapter 817 The Unexpected (Additional update for those who accumulate 600 monthly votes)
Men always have a certain innate love for weapons such as swords, and even Zhou Xu is no exception.
At this moment, holding the sword in his hand, Zhou Xu already felt that he couldn't put it down.
But he also knew that there were two other swords waiting for him to see.
“Which crystal iron has diamond added to it?”
Upon hearing the question, Li Gan quickly presented the sword with both hands.
Taking the sword, Zhou Xu exerted his strength, only to hear a 'zheng' buzz, and the blade with a slightly special color suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.
I don’t know if it is because of the addition of diamond, but the entire blade actually shows a subtle color that is half black and not gray, hazy.
On the contrary, the pattern formed by folding and forging on the blade looks much deeper.
However, this pattern is much sparser than the first patterned steel sword.
"There are fewer patterns on this knife because it has been folded and forged less often?"
"Yes."
Li Gan nodded quickly.
“For this diamond, Weichen has conducted long-term research and testing and found that it will be very difficult to forge it after it is smelted with crystal iron.”
“ Adding this diamond can indeed effectively increase the hardness of the metal, but it will also become more brittle and difficult to forge. If you are not careful, it will be cracked during the folding and forging process. "
“With this in mind, Weichen reduced the number of folding and forging operations before successfully proceeding to the next step.”
“But even so, during the quenching stage, the knife still has a high risk of breakage. ”
“And, if the forging is successful, the time and energy required to forge this knife is basically twice that of the previous pattern steel sword.”
From Li Gan's words, it is not difficult for Zhou Xu to feel the difficulty.
“What about the performance? How does the performance of this knife compare with the pattern steel combat knife?”
"As of now, although the hardness of swords with diamonds has been increased, because they are folded and forged less often, they cannot be compared with pattern steel swords in terms of toughness."
"At the same time, because of the hardness Due to the improvement, the brittleness has also increased. When tested against a pattern steel sword, the blade will soon chip or even break."
"..."
This. As a result, Zhou Xu couldn't help but fall into silence.
You can’t say that the diamonds he got through one operation turned out to be of no use, right?
Or is the existence of diamond just superfluous to their original crystal iron weapons? Forcibly adding it in, not only did it not have any positive effect, but it also added a negative BUFF to the weapon that was easy to break?
This result is undoubtedly a bit disturbing.
Of course, Zhou Xu is not desperate yet. As a special ore, diamond should have the same enchanting ability as sharp crystal.
The thought flashed through his mind, and Zhou Xu directly performed the enchanting operation on it.
[Basic Weapon Blessing]
After adding diamonds, if the enchantment effect becomes better, that can be considered a gain.
But it turns out that he thought too much. There may be a slight improvement in the effect of enchantment, but at least the improvement is not to the point where he can clearly feel it.
Feeling His Majesty’s disappointment, Li Gan spoke after a moment’s hesitation…
“Your Majesty, maybe we can try to find some with higher toughness in the future. The metal is smelted, thereby changing the properties of the alloy, ensuring that the diamond is as tough as possible while increasing its hardness.”
This idea came to Li Gan as early as when he was conducting research.
Smelting alloys is itself a means of changing or improving the properties of metals by adding other suitable metals.
But so far, he has not found a suitable metal. The toughness of steel is already very high, but the effect after smelting obviously did not meet their expectations.
After hearing this, Zhou Xu unconsciously turned his head and looked at Silk beside him.
At that moment, Hilke, who clearly felt something, immediately took a step back and put the silver steel sword in his hand behind him.
Although looking at the patterned steel sword just now made him feel that the silver steel sword in his hand was no longer fragrant, after all, the silver steel sword was the knight's sword passed down from generation to generation by the prairie elves, so in their hearts, the silver steel sword had a special meaning.
Zhou Xu, who saw this scene in his eyes, simply didn’t say anything more.
What he just thought was actually very simple. Speaking of toughness, silver has very good toughness. Under this premise, Hilke and his silver steel swords are forged by melting mithril and steel. .
Can I try the mithril in it?
But Silk and the others are unwilling, so forget it. Anyway, that little bit of mithril can't arm any troops. At most, it can only verify some speculations.
This method of adding special metals, smelting them into alloys, and then forging them into patterned steel to cast weapons represents the pinnacle of their Da Zhou weapon forging skills at this stage.
At this level of weapons, ordinary soldiers don’t even have to think about it, and basically they can only be equipped with a few generals.
In the era of cold weapons, from the perspective of a war, the weapons in the hands of soldiers are the most used and have the greatest impact on the outcome of the war.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu also corrected his mentality and stopped forcing it.
And his eyes fell on the last sword on the tray.
"This one should be the one without folding forging?"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Among the three knives, this is the only one that is not folded forging. knife.
The sword was taken out of its sheath. Compared with the previous sword, there were no patterns on the blade, and the entire blade showed a silvery gray color.
The positioning of this knife is also very simple. It is to be used by soldiers of elite troops and even ordinary troops.
Not folding and forging, although the strength is reduced, can ensure the forging efficiency, which is very important.
During this period, Li Gan's mood obviously improved slightly when he talked about this knife.
“This is an alloy with diamond added. It performs quite well without folding and forging. Adding an appropriate amount can effectively increase the hardness of the sword, and the increase in hardness can make the knife sharper. The important thing is that it is simple and efficient. From the perspective of batch forging, it is a good way to improve the strength of the sword."
Zhou Xu obviously did not expect that it would have such unexpected benefits.
Li Gan used the folding forging method to forge Baili Steel, pursuing the ultimate.
But on the other hand, if you lower your requirements and don’t pursue any extreme, but only require forging a weapon with stable performance, investment cost and forging efficiency can be guaranteed, and can be mass-produced, you will find that this knife is completely Meet your requirements.
(End of this chapter)