Chapter 133 Weapons Development

Author: flying de lazy cat

Chapter 133 Weapons Development

Because the copper ore needed to be screened, although the transport team received the order to set off urgently that day, it waited until noon the next day before successfully returning to the Black Moon Camp with the screened copper ore.

This batch basically brought back all the copper ore dug out there.

At the same time, the original quarry was transformed into a mine, and its value skyrocketed.

Although as a result, the quarry he specially built is gone, the mine itself has incidental stone output.

There was not enough space before because the coal mine was in a cracked cave with limited space. Even if he directly arranged for a hundred people to go there, only a dozen or twenty people could work in the mine at the same time.

To a certain extent, this limits their mining efficiency. The output of stone as a by-product has also been significantly affected, and this problem cannot be effectively solved for the time being.

But the copper mine is different. This is a typical open-pit mine.

In other words, as long as he has people within the scope of the mine, he can send as many people as he wants to dig.

While improving mining efficiency, a large amount of stone is produced as a by-product.

With the addition of mines on both sides, the stone materials used for daily construction of their tribe are basically enough.

Here at Black Moon Camp, once this batch of copper ore arrives, the forging department will undoubtedly be able to officially start work.

The steps are already very clear. Anyway, just crush the ore first, then smelt it, remove impurities, and then pour the molten metal into the mold.

Before this batch of copper ore was delivered, they were not idle and started making molds first.

However, this mold is not made of any weapon, but the tools that blacksmiths need to use for their work.

There is a forging hammer, but in addition to the forging hammer, they will undoubtedly need pliers and a suitable forging table.

If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools!

At this time, Zhou Xu was not in a hurry and was very patient in arranging equipment for the members of the forging department.

After the first batch was made, Zhou Xu ignored the production of the subsequent batches of utensils and left them all to these newly employed 'blacksmiths' to practice their skills and gain experience.

After making these utensils, Zhou Xu has already given instructions on what to do next, which is to make copper picks.

The mining efficiency of the stone pickaxe is too low, and it is easily damaged, which also increases the workload of the equipment department.

But as soon as a more durable copper pickaxe is made, the equipment department will no longer need to write a manuscript. While reducing the work pressure of the equipment department, it can also effectively improve mining efficiency and allow him to obtain more copper ores.

, and then use these copper ores to refine metal and forge weapons!

As for what weapons to forge?

At this moment, Zhou Xu was laying out the animal skin paper on his desk at his residence and drawing the design drawings seriously.

During this period, the newly established forging department was also very busy.

Melt the metal, pour it into the mold, cool it, and then simply polish it with a forging hammer.

As long as you don't make any excessive demands, the matter itself is not difficult.

After equipping myself with tools, the first batch of copper pickaxes was quickly produced and sent to the mine.

While he was finishing the fuss here, Zhou Xu had also drawn the weapon design drawings and asked people from the equipment department to help him make the molds.

After the latest batch of copper ore was delivered, the blacksmiths who were already somewhat familiar with their skills started to open the furnace.

This casting method is equivalent to the general assembly line method, and there is basically no difficulty.

The moment they came off the mold, these first weapons were officially unveiled.

It has a sharp gun head. With the gun head down, along the gun blade, you can quickly see that there is still a metal structure underneath, with a crescent-like blade extending from one side.

At this moment, the first metal weapon Zhou Xu designed for their tribe was none other than the Crescent Halberd!

Different from a simple spear, because it also has a crescent blade on one side, the crescent halberd can stab, pick, and chop, making it a more comprehensive attack method.

However, relatively more materials are used.

Basically, the materials used to cast a crescent halberd can be used to make two spearheads.

But after careful consideration, Zhou Xu decided to make the crescent halberd.

After all, he himself planned to take the route of elite soldiers. Since he was already planning to build elite soldiers, would he still worry about using this material?

At this stage, the crescent halberd that comes out of the mold can only be regarded as basically in shape, but it needs to be polished and edged before it is completely completed.

To be honest, grinding and sharpening is a laborious and time-consuming task.

After that, I don't know if good things come in pairs, but good news came from Zhuang Mengdie of the Equipment Department. The new bamboo bow has been made.

The new bamboo bow greatly simplifies the mortise and tenon structure, and only uses simple combinations in some key parts of the image structure strength.

This approach not only ensures the strength and durability of the bamboo bow to the greatest extent, but also clearly improves the production efficiency compared to pure combination bows, and to a certain extent, meets the requirements for mass production.

Needless to say, Zhou Xu immediately asked the equipment department to mass-produce bamboo bows.

During this period, she did not forget to tell Zhuang Mengdie another thing...

"By the way, Mengdie, take the time to make an arrowhead mold yourself. Now that we have discovered copper ore, we can use better materials to make arrowheads."

To be honest, Zhou Xu really didn't expect that the stone arrowheads just polished by their equipment department would be eliminated so quickly.

Fortunately, since the bamboo bow needed to be modified, Zhuang Mengdie was busy researching and had no time to polish it.

As for the other people in the equipment department, their skills are not yet good enough to polish such exquisite stone arrowheads, so it does not constitute much loss at this time.

After all, it is much more difficult to polish an exquisite stone arrowhead than to cast a copper arrowhead.

This is also the main reason why their leader transferred many people to the Blacksmithing Department, but it did not have much impact on the work of the Equipment Department.

Under the department greenhouse, Zhou Xu was talking to Zhuang Mengdie about mass-producing bamboo bows and making arrowhead molds, but Zhuang Mengdie seemed a little absent-minded.

Seeing this scene in his eyes, Zhou Xu immediately asked...

"Mengdie, what's the matter?"

Facing Zhou Xu's question, Zhuang Mengdie hesitated for a moment and then slowly spoke...

"Actually, leader, while I was researching how to improve the bamboo bow, I suddenly thought of a new weapon."

Zhou Xu raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

"New weapon? Have you drawn a picture? Take it out and take a look?"

Regarding this, Zhuang Mengdie didn't show any pretense and neatly unfolded the roll of animal skin paper at hand.

The design drawings above are very sloppy, but they are still understandable.

It was a huge bow, mounted on a wooden cart.

Looking at this drawing, Zhou Xu gasped on the spot, and then glanced at Zhuang Mengdie, who had a distressed look on his face.

[Good guy, she wants to build a bed crossbow?!]

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