Chapter 1033 The Value of the New Sword
Borrowing the training ground of the imperial guards in the palace, Zhou Xu planned to see what the actual effect of this newly forged sword was.
At this stage, this sword with the addition of fire crystal has been enchanted with the "basic weapon blessing" and is a real enchanted weapon.
Zhou Xu found a soldier from the Imperial Guard to do the specific testing work.
After all, what he wants to test is the weapon. If Silk comes, the impact on his individual strength will be too great.
Under this premise, his Imperial Guards are a good choice. Each of them is an elite soldier and can represent the level of their Great Zhou soldiers to a certain extent.
The first target for testing the knife was a wooden stake as thick as a bowl.
The guard soldier held the sword in his hand, took a deep breath, and then swung it down fiercely.
During that process , the blade rubbed violently against the air, and Zhou Xu clearly saw a string of sparks bursting out from the blade!
With one strike of the knife, the wooden stake in front of him, as thick as a bowl, was cut off on the spot.
Zhou Xu quickly stepped forward to confirm the cut of the wooden stake.
The edges of the wooden stakes were slightly blackened, as if they had been burned by fire.
Reaching out and touching the cut, I found it was extremely smooth, which was enough to show how sharp the sword was.
At the same time, at this moment, Li Gan also made some explanations at the right time.
"In terms of chopping wood, the sharpness of this sword is basically the same as our current mass-produced crystal iron swords."
However, Li Gan also knows that maintaining basically the same level is not enough.
Because fire crystal has to be added during forging, in order to ensure that the fire crystal can be completely melted in, the workload of the knife forger increases significantly.
If the final actual effect is the same, it would be better to continue forging the original crystal iron sword. After all, the forging efficiency is higher.
Without any delay, upon receiving Zhou Xu's signal, the guards holding swords quickly walked to the second wooden stake.
The thickness of the second wooden stake is basically the same as the previous one. The difference is that the surface of this wooden stake is covered with a layer of scale armor, which simulates the state of a soldier wearing armor.
Without further ado, he swung his sword again.
The blade rubbed against the metal scales, making a slightly harsh sound.
The scales covering the surface were directly cut open, and the entire cut went deep into the wooden stake behind it.
So far, the results of the two tests are basically consistent with the mass-produced version of the crystal iron sword.
In fact, before the sword was officially presented, it had already been tested within the forging department.
So Li Gan had a basic idea of the result.
The reason why they are doing it again now, to put it bluntly, is to let His Majesty confirm it with his own eyes.
But even so, from the perspective of mass production, the new sword has no advantages over the crystal iron sword.
After all, without forging new swords, their forging department's forging efficiency will be higher, and the demand for fire crystals will also drop significantly.
In this way, the mining pressure on the fire crystal vein will also decrease, freeing up a large amount of labor for other projects.
But this new sword apparently has another advantage.
As they were talking, according to Li Gan's instructions, they took out a brand new sword and started to fight against the equally brand new crystal iron sword.
There is no need to cut it down completely. After four or five cuts, you can basically see the result.
Soon, two swords appeared in front of Zhou Xu at the same time.
"Your Majesty, please look. This is the current crystal iron sword. This is the new sword. The crystal iron sword is obviously bent and broken, but the new sword has less damage to its blade."
After a brief explanation, Li Gan gave a conclusion.
"The new sword not only maintains its sharpness, but also has higher toughness than the current crystal iron sword!"
This conclusion was a little beyond Zhou Xu's expectations.
"What's going on? Can the Fire Crystal Stone improve the toughness of the weapon?"
Zhou Xu was thinking about the introduction of the fire crystal stone, and it didn't mention that it could also improve toughness.
As the director of the forging department, Li Gan has obviously studied this issue seriously.
"Your Majesty, according to my current research, this is probably due to the flame energy contained in the fire crystal."
"Tell me more about it."
"This is just my speculation..."
Li Gan first got a dose of vaccination.
"Your Majesty, you also know that before a piece of alloy can be cast into a weapon, it must first be repeatedly forged. During this process, the alloy also needs to be continuously sent to the forging furnace for heating."
Li Gan was not a man who was particularly eloquent. Although he had thought about this matter for a long time after discovering it, he still had a feeling that he couldn't explain it clearly when he appeared in front of their Majesty.
In response to this, Zhou Xu signaled Li Gan not to be anxious and to sort out his thoughts first.
"What I want to say is that the alloy that has been blended with fire crystals will absorb the energy of the flames when it is sent to the forging furnace for burning, and it will release the energy of the flames when it is taken out for forging!"
"The flame energy it releases will temper the alloy being forged more thoroughly. After repeating this process several times, the alloy will be tempered more perfectly and its toughness will increase due to the tempering effect formed by the continuous release and absorption of flame energy!"
Listening to Li Gan's analysis, Zhou Xu blinked.
Although this was all Li Gan's speculation, Zhou Xu had to admit that there was indeed some basis for it.
Don't forget that forging work itself is closely related to "fire".
When he discovered the fire crystal before, he only thought about weapons with flame energy, but he didn't expect that this flame energy could also play such a miraculous effect in improving the toughness of weapons.
This can be said to be a pleasant surprise, or even the biggest surprise that the Fire Crystal Stone brought him! Compared with the effect of improving toughness, the little flame attack that came with it, which had little lethality, was not worth mentioning at all! If before this, Zhou Xu felt that the comprehensive value of the new sword at this stage was completely inferior to the Crystal Iron Sword, then when these two swords were put together and he was asked to decide which one to mass-produce, he would not have to worry about it at all.
Now, he began to struggle...
Based on this advantage of toughness alone, the overall value of the new sword is already clearly greater than that of the crystal iron sword.
But it is also true that forging a new sword takes more time, and there is no doubt that the fire crystals required make the manufacturing cost higher.
As a standard weapon for the troops, cost and production efficiency are also very critical issues.
Zhou Xu pondered over these questions for less than half a minute.
"How about this, the new swords will be provided to the Xianzhen Camp first, and as for the ordinary troops, they will still mainly use crystal iron swords for the time being. We will see the specific situation later."
Having said this, Zhou Xu paused.
"As for the name of the new sword, let's call it 'Red Flame Sword'."
"yes!"
(End of this chapter)
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