The ironware I made shines

Chapter 347
Kudo family forging studio.

Ge Xiaohua and Kudo Ryoken entered the arena, and the media reporters also arrived. They began to adjust the equipment. The elders and patriarchs of the Kudo family were all listed, and only Ge Xiaohua was present. The disadvantage of the away game is obvious, but for Ge Xiaohua, these are not problems , Forging is not like a traditional competitive event. The noise from the surrounding crowd before forging is loud. I am used to working in a high-decibel beating environment, and the surrounding voices seem insignificant.

Ge Xiaohua, who closed his eyes, adjusted his mentality, ignoring the people from the Kudou family who were chattering there. They understood the basic rules. They were just talking nonsense, and they couldn’t understand it. It’s better to use this time to calm down , better forged state.

When Kudo Liangjian started, Ge Xiaohua recovered from the stage of closing his eyes and resting his mind. The moment he opened his eyes, he seemed refreshed.

"Kudo Yoshitake is proficient in kendo, and he will definitely create a samurai sword, and it will be more aggressive in actual combat than the previous black samurai." Exquisite things are not very useful at all, and they must be built on the basis of actual combat.

"Hey, you can guess the style of the weapon made by Yoshitake Kudo, but it goes in a different direction, and you will pay more attention to the sharpness and sturdiness of the samurai sword. In this case, there is no need for Ge Xiaohua to follow his routine.

"To build samurai swords, Tang swords and the like, to compete with Kudo Yoshitake in kendo is undoubtedly to die, so we need to surprise and create some uncommon weapons." Ge Xiaohua originally wanted to make maces, but after thinking about it, although maces can certainly Suppresses the samurai sword to a certain extent, but Kudo Liangjian knows that Ge Xiaohua has such a skill. If he does not confront you head-on, he will not even touch the samurai sword. With Kudo Liangjian's agility, it is still very troublesome to walk with Ge Xiaohua .

"Taiping Knife!" Ge Xiaohua chose the type of weapon to build. Many people may not know the Taiping Knife, but it should be a kind of simple knife. Xunjiang County belonged to the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in ancient times. This kind of Pu Dao was the most widely used among them, and it was called Taiping Dao in their army.

A Taiping knife is a weapon between a broadsword and a single knife, commonly known as a two-handed belt; it is a weapon with a long and wide steel knife on a wooden handle.When using it, hold the handle with both hands, and use the weight of the blade and the knife itself to chop and kill the enemy like a big knife.

Ge Xiaohua had seen this kind of Taiping knife in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum in Xunjiang County. The craftsmanship was extremely rough, rusty, and had no artistic and cultural value at all.

However, judging from the degree of the gap and curling of the blade above, the Taiping Dao is a real killing weapon. It was indeed able to cut the enemy at that time, and it had a strong actual combat effect.

"The Taiping knife was popular in the Taiping army because of the simple forging process and mass production, and even if the blade of this type of knife is not sharp, it can still chop the enemy and the so-called well-equipped Qing army with the force generated by the blade and blade. arms.

Facing the samurai sword, as long as it can carry out close combat, the Taiping sword must have an advantage, even if it is hacked, it can break the samurai sword.

The Taiping knife made by Ge Xiaohua is guaranteed in terms of natural quality. In order to enhance the rigidity and flexibility of the blade, Ge Xiaohua selected a steel block with stronger hardness, and then used forging to remove the internal impurities, and then used an air hammer It is forged into the basic shape of the blade, and then shaped with a hammer, and the method of pouring is resolutely unnecessary.

The quality of the blade of the hand-forged Taiping knife will be improved by several levels. Even when chopping stones, the blade will not curl. In order to increase the weight of the blade, Ge Xiaohua uses more materials, so the forging should be assisted by an air hammer. The forging studio of the Kudo family still has complete machinery. Although it is not as high-tech as Andre's, there are still basic ones.

After the blade is made, quenching is the key. Ge Xiaohua does not make many Taiping knives of this type, and he is a bit confused about the temperature for quenching. Once the attempt fails, the blade cannot meet the requirements, and it will take a long time to go back to the furnace to make it.

Ge Xiaohua, who was highly focused, put the blade into the furnace to heat up, prepared the quenched spring water, and was not afraid of high temperature burning, and carefully observed the changes of the blade, not only relying on his eyesight, but also relying on his own temperature control .

Ge Xiaohua forges iron for a long time, and has a certain immunity to high temperature, so he can forge for a long time. This kind of pain, like being in a sauna all the time, is unbearable for ordinary people.

"Okay!" Ge Xiaohua carefully observed the change of the blade. The red-burning blade was pulled out instantly without any hesitation. After the hand was slow, the blade cooled down. The difference between one degree will also cause a gap in the quality of the blade, and dead iron cannot pass through it. Quenching to become live iron, then its durability will be much worse.

"It's dangerous. If you slow down, the quenching will fail." Ge Xiaohua looked at the blade after it was successfully quenched, and was extremely fortunate. Under such circumstances, it is still very rare to be able to successfully quench it once, and it has basically never been forged. A new type of peace knife.

After the blade was made, Ge Xiaohua had trouble with the handle. The handle of the Taiping knife is very long, which is also a feature of this kind of knife. The blade of 60cm, the handle should reach between 60cm, forming a length of about 1.2 meters. , so the handle of the knife is extremely critical, and in the Kudo family, there are basically no ready-made knife handles, all of which are small pieces of wood, which are used to make katana handles, which do not meet Ge Xiaohua's requirements for making Taiping knife handles.

"The hilt is so long, it must be able to withstand the attack of the samurai sword. Ordinary wood is easy to be cut off." Ge Xiaohua saw a lot of wooden samurai swords beside him, which are props for practicing kendo. Ge Xiaohua saw It looks more suitable for making knife handles, and the length is enough.

Ge Xiaohua communicated with the staff outside the arena, and after getting permission, he took a wooden sword and planned to convert it into a hilt of a Taiping knife.

"This is Dumu. Although its hardness is good, it cannot be compared with oak, mahogany, etc., even the blue light wood in my house. This kind of wood is used to make knife handles. When encountering a sharp samurai sword, it is easy to It was cut off." When Ge Xiaohua was processing the hilt, he found that the material of this wooden sword was dun wood. Although it was imported dun wood, according to the material properties of dun wood, it was good for carving, and the hardness was not suitable for actual combat. However, there is a lot of wood in the Kudo family at the moment, and none of the finished wood is over 60cm, so Ge ​​Xiaohua can only make do with wooden swords.

(End of this chapter)