Rise of Rurik Chapter 1369

The hammers are constantly forging, and the state-run metallurgical complex in New Roseburg, no matter how cold the wind is howling outside, the heat inside it forces the workers to go shirtless, as if winter does not exist for them.

In the southeast area of ​​New Roseburg, there are no ordinary residential buildings in this area, but a dense hot pot matrix.

The kingdom's large blast furnaces are all located in the north, and Roseburg's hometown still has her unique and powerful vitality in the new era - the smelting center.

The people who are still staying in Roseburg in the north are basically engaged in industrial work related to mining and smelting.

They used the pre-modern technology to dig stones from the archaic iron veins in the Scandinavian mountains, and after breaking them, they used earth blast furnaces to make pig iron.

A large amount of pig iron ingots, Roseburg, could not be digested by itself, so they were shipped to the navy's transport ship at the port, and under the **** and supervision of naval ships, they were transported to the capital city of New Roseburg in the depths of the Gulf of Finland.

The two large mines in the north and the corresponding metallurgical city provided a steady stream of crude iron to the capital, as well as transporting a large amount of by-products.

Glauber's salt, lime, and quartz sand, these mineral products are related to other industrial categories in Ross. New Roseburg has the largest industrial population in Ross, and only they can properly absorb and utilize these products.

Among the many minerals transported, even **** is used as waste.

The **** was smashed into pieces, and finally became a substitute for high-quality river sand, which became the key raw material for cement preparation. The cost of the cement produced in this way has come down, giving Ross the foundation to make Portland cement aggressively, and the price is the current situation.

Those cement roads that have been built are repaired and will be repaired year after year.

Because the dimension of New Roseburg is still too high, people who have limited knowledge of this kind of **** cement are amazed that they have created "vast and flat rocks" with human power, but they don't know that it is not resistant to freezing and has a large shrinkage. In New Roseburg, where the temperature varies greatly throughout the year, a large number of cracks have been created due to the shrinkage of the sheets over the past few years, and the natural wind erosion has turned into dust, and the surface has gradually become pitted and needs to be repaired.

Such repairs are perfectly acceptable.

There are four big cities at the core of Ross: Fort Ross, Fort Ailon Olava, New Rose Fort, and Novgorod.

The progress of the paving of cement roads and squares in the four cities is uneven, but the main roads in the cities have long been hard and flat roads that are easy to dry, and the people have reached a consensus.

This kind of urban road system is not seen in other cities of Ross, and it is even more unbelievable in cities outside the region.

Those pig iron ingots transported to the capital will eventually be turned into weapons, armor, and production tools that are most in demand in the hands of a large number of well-equipped and paid masters.

Here, a tower-like decoration stands in front of a fireplace.

He had a bushy beard, braided on the left and right sides of his chin.

A piece of sackcloth was wrapped around his forehead with fists and circles, so that the baotou was wet with sweat so that he would not sting his eyes.

He didn't wear a jacket in essence, but he was actually wearing a pair of leather overalls. On the front, a piece of hard bearskin protected his entire torso, so as to avoid accidental burns during forging. However, his originally furry arms have become smooth and watery, because the hair follicles are all

Scorched to death from long work, his smooth arms were dripping with sweat, which contrasted sharply with his thick tan chest hair.

He was none other than Rurik's first male slave—Camnier from White Tree Manor.

A boy whose parents were killed by a bear finally became the most trustworthy blacksmith in the hands of Rurik.

Those news caused the whole city to discuss. Kamne, who has been waiting in the capital for the king's appearance, is very clear about his task, which is to deliver to the king the fruits of the labor of the entire metallurgical group in the past half a year, declaring that he has actually exceeded the task. .

Even, a gift that will surprise and ecstasy the king.

"Come here! Take out our baby! Help me get dressed!"

Those young blacksmiths were all Rurik's iron slaves in terms of attributes. But as slaves under the direct control of the king, they don't have to worry about food and drink, they still have salaries, they have a stable income, and they are all young people. Over the years, almost all of them have married wives and had children. With family concerns, they are even more owned by the king. Fan also hopes that his children will continue to serve the king in order to continue to receive stable money and food.

The physical condition of the young people is very similar to that of Kaminie. They eat well and drink well, and do physical labor every day. These muscular men who have been passively trained to be strong by blacksmithing gathered around their boss with all kinds of equipment.

"Brother! I have brought all the things, do you want to do it?" A strong foreman asked.

Kamne took a deep breath, opened his thick arms, and roared: "Come on! Imagine me as a berserker! Put on my armor!"

"Okay. But boss, you should wear a lining, just because these armors

Clothes wear on your body. "

"It doesn't matter." Kamne raised his chin and clenched his arms outstretched. "Anyway, it's just to show our achievements. May the gods bless our work with complete success."

Therefore, with the help of your trusted friends, Kamne, as the general manager of armor manufacturing, personally verified the major achievements of this winter.

It is not a common lock ring chain mail, it is not a riveted chain mail, and it is not a mass-produced plate armor.

It is a high-defense "monster" made of a mixture of overall plate armor and plate armor.

The overall breastplate hangs from the shoulders, followed by the plate armor. Considering the stretching and comfort of the back and spine, the armor on the back is still plate armor, and the front is the integral breastplate with a curved bulge that has been continuously hammered!

Compared with the overall breastplate made in the past, it has a larger arc, and a shallow central ridge is made, so that in the melee, the enemy's various weapons will be bounced aside.

It adds shoulder pads on both sides, crafted from plate armor pieces. The arm guards that were supposed to be prepared by the soldiers themselves were produced in batches by Kamne's side. One large and one small pieces were smashed into curved carbon steel sheets, and after quenching, they became the hardest arm guards.

Matching armor suits are skirt armor and crotch protectors. Since Ross's pig iron raw materials are already in surplus, Kamne has received a large order of 500 sets of armor suits. This is a dead order that he must complete no matter what. Now that the original task has been completed, I have played more tricks on the finished product, which can be called flattery to the king, or confession to myself.

The skirt armor is the whole plate armor riveted on the leather lining, and the crotch guard is a piece of slightly curved

High-strength plate armor to meet the special needs of male warriors.

In principle, with the protection of the skirt armor on the thighs, there is no need to attach armor clothing to prevent the warrior's foot plate from being unstable.

At the calf, the front of the greaves is a curved plate armor, and the rear end is a rope to facilitate binding it to the high-top combat boots commonly used by Ross's army.

In the traditional Nordic iron helmet, the frame is first knocked out with iron bars and riveted, and then the gaps are filled with iron sheets by riveting. In the past era, due to various reasons, the northern world guarded the large mine veins and was short of iron. Not many people could have iron helmets with comprehensive defenses, so that many helmets were leather helmets without the iron bars and frames.

On the basis of the original craftsmanship, this new batch of iron helmets has added another whole piece of riveted low-carbon steel forehead on the front. There is also a hanging buckle on the helmet, so that the plate armor neck guard can be folded into a circle. In addition to protecting the warrior's neck, it also protects most of the face. Only the eyes can look straight ahead.

It is a kind of super-heavy armor, only the physical fitness of elite fighters can accept it. The defensive nature of this armor has already competed with the main force of the Eastern Roman Empire, and its cost is naturally high.

But Ross does not lack iron, and the cost of smelting is still decreasing. However, for as many as 500 sets of armor, the Kingdom of Ross still spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and the cost of fuel alone was a huge expense.

What's more, these armors have also undergone special treatment.

The zinc ingots of the trophy were called "bright lead," and Kamner had never seen such a lead-like metal. He had studied the "Periodic Table of Elements" bestowed by Rurik, and it is estimated that this is one of the elements.

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The blue fox who came originally quoted the locals as "schoe". Using the method of exclusion and intuition to estimate, it was believed that this thing was the element Zinc marked on the so-called "form taken from Odin".

For Kamne, Rurik regards this kid as a little brother, and he has taught him everything he has ever had. As for whether the kid understands it depends on his luck. It relieved my own boredom and gave me a sense of accomplishment as a teacher.

Some things Kamner heard, he only knew that the unheard of Zinc is said to be a shiny metal.

These "bright leads" may be Zinc, but it doesn't matter, they must be used as a special plating of armor to provide special momentum to the army.

Because in this era, Europe often found lead-zinc ore by luck when digging lead ore. Zinc ingots and lead ingots were separated based on their different melting points. Overall, zinc is precious.

Kamne treated them as a pile of lead ingots, melted them, and used the most traditional and brutal fire dipping method to gold-plate each armor piece. After continuous fire immersion, all armors completed their homework, and the results were surprising.

Kamne, who was like an iron tower, finally put on the full set of iron armor he organized. I have to say that only strong people can bear this set of armor.

He finally put down the neck guard, and finally exposed only a pair of hands and a pair of piercing eyes.

Seeing the new attitude of the boss, the young blacksmiths all felt chilling!

"Boss!" Someone's mouth trembled: "You seem to be a legendary figure."

"Oh? I'm mighty?"

"It seems

A warrior unique to Asgard. " Another person sighed.

All the young blacksmiths expressed similar admiration, and they were definitely not flattering, because the parts of this armor suit were made by everyone in groups, and everyone's painstaking efforts were poured into this armor suit.

The state-run iron-smelting complex, whose estimates had forced it to carry out internal refinement. Although it does not have the name of Taylor system, it is already using Taylor system in many ways. All iron slaves have been divided into multiple workshops, and a workshop is subdivided into multiple teams, and each team performs its own duties.

The young blacksmiths joked: "Our formation is like a flag team."

Here, Kamne is indeed doing militarized management, so that the "combination" that has expanded to a behemoth of more than 500 people has the strength to monopolize the Russian military's weapons industry.

Kamne walked around wearing heavy armor, feeling the weight of the armor firsthand. He also beat himself with a hammer, and found helplessly that some of the zinc coating on the surface had peeled off due to the impact. This does not affect the unprecedented bright color highlighted by the armor.

That is not an ordinary metallic color, it is not a bright white, but a lot of bright whites that are slanting turquoise.

Ordinary ironware is prone to dullness, and the handaxes of the Ross Army are mostly black bumps, and even the normal steel swords will quickly become darker if they are not oiled and maintained.

This armor is too shiny, unnaturally bright, but it is actually showing up in the capital.

And such a full set of armor is enough to equip a flag team.

Kamne's armor was first highly recognized by his own people, so he should organize his subordinates to wear it to show off in the capital, especially to show off to Governor Konusson Jr.

"Bros!"

He roared all over his body: "Organize the strongest men in your hands! Their blacksmithing work is suspended! Each group will hand in a total of 100 people to form a centurion. Tomorrow, put on our armor and bring the sword we made, Carry our flag and go to the gate of the Governor's Mansion to show off."

The "combination" has been actively preparing for the battle since the autumn harvest last year, and it has been preparing for the battle for eight months at the beginning of May.

It has never been a secret that many blacksmiths are making ordnance and armor for the king. A large number of people in Fort New Rose continue to make a fortune by providing raw materials for weapons for "special needs in wartime".

It is precisely because the work of the "combination" is so complicated that their work of making armor is ignored by the public.

Manufacture of armor is not a rare thing at all. What era is it? It's not like in the past. Soldiers jumping from a ship and making a surprise attack have to go into battle shirtless. That is an act of bandits and pirates. Today's Ross Army can't afford to lose this man. If they want to fight, they will be fully armed and crush their opponents.

The people in the capital are mainly immigrants from the north. In the past, they claimed to be well-informed in the Baltic Sea. However, this morning, the strange army came out of the "combination" in the southeast corner of the city.

"What is that? The iron ingot is moving?!"

"Stupid. That's a bunch of fighters."

"Could it be that the king's army has arrived? It doesn't look like it. What happened to this army, when did it enter the city?"

This is the strongest armor Kamne made for Ross, and it is a great improvement over the plate armor made two years ago.

He talked with Blue Fox in detail, and this time he knew the extreme performance of the standing army infantry's first banner team in the whole plate armor fighting in the Frankish world. His victory over the heavy armored banner team

I know it well, and humbly accept some improvement suggestions mentioned by Blue Fox.

For example, Blue Fox mentioned that although the warrior is heavily armored, the clever Frankish warrior discovered the weak point of defense—the neck.

The new armor made up for this shortcoming. Kamni estimated that with this armor, no soldier would die in a sneak attack.

With such armor, is it necessary to carry a round shield? Wooden shields were standard equipment for the Ross Army, and even became a symbol of honor.

These heavily armored warriors carried it on their backs, each with a saber hanging from their armed belts, as well as hand axes and daggers.

Their faces were all covered by huge neck guards, led by Kamne, leading the brothers in two neat columns and walking towards the Harvest Square.

They were extremely eye-catching along the way, and the onlookers pointed their fingers at the unheard-of military products, but no one noticed that the leader of the team was actually Kamne, the boss of the "State-run Iron Smelting Complex".

The morning sun in early summer shone on these galvanized armors. In line with the principle that where the metal is exposed, the plating must be shiny, and all the ostentatious people in the sun seemed to be shining.

According to legend, God Frey rode a luminous golden boar, the great **** of wealth, and did this army also get the blessing of God Frey?

So a large number of curious people gathered behind this army, and the news spread from ten to ten, that Harvest Plaza was doing cement repair work, and the sudden intrusion of the crowd made the construction workers raise long wooden poles to drive away those strays. But they're also drawn to those "glowing iron men."

The loud noise made the governor's mansion restless!

It also made High Priest Rumia a fleet of kings arrive, especially

He intended to change clothes and walked out of the Great Temple, only to see a group of citizens intensely watching a group of luminous beings.

Here, only a few people know what's going on.

The blue fox mixed in the crowd, pinching his beard and stroking his round chin. He was very satisfied with what he saw, and sighed secretly: "Kamne, it seems that you have overfulfilled the task that the king gave you. You brought me back The bright lead used in the right place is good."

As for the Governor Konusson Jr., he was almost kept in the dark.

Without any hesitation, he thought that the King's expeditionary force had finally arrived in Hong Kong, and immediately organized people to walk out of the Governor's Mansion intending to go to the pier to greet them. Just after they left, they saw a group of monsters lined up at the gate.

"You guys?! Who are you? Where did the berserkers come from?!" Little Konusson was stunned for a while, and his voice became louder.

At this moment, the leading iron man calmly gathered up the neck guard, and finally hung it on the helmet with a rope, thus exposing the warrior's face.

"Kamne? Is that you? What the **** are you doing?"

"Hey, just to show you our results? How about it? This is the armor your majesty wants. Now let's show it to the people in the city. Especially you! Governor, what do you think?"

Excited? There is. But little Konusson is now more in awe. After all, he is also qualified to succeed his father as the governor because of his achievements on the battlefield~www.mtlnovel.com~ He is a man who knows soldiers, seeing that these people will shine warrior, awe soon turned to fear.

No one wants to fight this kind of person on the battlefield, because they will definitely not be able to fight.

In the end, the young Konusson had no choice but to suppress the panic in his heart, pretending to be calm on the surface, and praised: "Very good. This will

It was a surprise for the king. Ross's expedition will be a great success. "

Kamne didn't bother to listen to such words, and yelled maliciously: "My lord, you must have been frightened."

"Scared? It's not enough. By the way, what do you call yourself now. Berserker?"

"We are all wearing white armor, and it will be equipping the entire flag team. White armor berserkers, will be our strongest force." As he said, the confident Kamne punched his chest, knocking the galvanized chest to pieces. Armor knocked loudly.

This is beyond the comprehension of little Konusson, and now he can only cover it up with an awkward smile.

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