Release that Witch

430. Chapter 430 “Iron Star”

    After Lucia adulthood, Border Town also entered the last month of winter.

    For Months of Demon, the end of winter does not mean the end, the heavy snow often lasts until the spring of the next year, as to when the specific time will be settled, it is completely resigned.

    According to past experience, Months of Demon ended in the first half of the first month of the spring, which is a very difficult day; in the second half of the first month, it is a very difficult day; if it continues to the first In two months, it became a difficult day to live.

    But this is just the situation that the small town residents have encountered.

    This year’s situation has changed a lot, even if the Months of Demon lasted until the end of the second month of spring, the wheat stored in the granary is enough for everyone to fill their stomachs.

    Roland is naturally not satisfied with the death of everyone who is not starving to death, then it will be alright, For several days, he has been eagerly squatting at his desk, drawing a picture and conceiving his next stage. Large production plan. The whole plan is divided into military and civilian aspects. The former includes the construction of new weapons factory, Bicycle Factory, dockyard, and shallow water heavy gunship. The latter is mainly for water, warm and electric tees in residential areas, and iron. The popularization of agricultural tools.

    It was Lucia White who was motivated by him. After thoroughly testing her new abilities, Roland clearly realized that the last limitation of mass production was also solved, and the productivity of small town will usher in population growth. A new peak.

    This limitation is the supply of materials.

    Modern smelting is a very complex discipline, and steel production is one of the most important parameters for measuring an industrial country. Roland didn’t know much about it, and even the small town’s ironmaking capacity is still very backward. The technology is not beyond this era, and the scale is not comparable to the private smelters of some mining businessmen. When iron ore was smelted into a pig iron in a brick blast furnace, the good quality was sent to the steam engine, and the poor quality was handed over to Anna for further smelting into steel. This process is completely uncontrollable, and the carbon content is high and low. The materials that can be used can only be filled with two or three carriages during a busy day, which greatly limits the production capacity of the Steam engine factory.

    While Anna’s special furnace can transform inferior qualifying pig iron into quality controllable steel, the output is only enough for military factories. When it is in the fall, it can basically meet the needs of small town. After the arrival of winter, the army has been expanded twice, and with the development of new firearms and cannon, this steel is somewhat stretched.

    Lucia’s evolution can be described as a shot intensive agent, the targeted separation ability can easily remove the bad components in the material, and can regulate the proportion of each element in the melting stage, so that each furnace steel is maintained at a performance.

    It can be said that with Anna and Lucia, Border Town’s smelting level is enough to instantly improve several grades.

    To this end, Roland has let Anna put down the rest of the work and concentrate on making a new generation of extra melting furnaces.

    Compared to the special furnace designed for her, the new furnace has more than ten times the size, the length is extended to 50 meters, the width is ten meters, and the height is nearly four meters. It looks like a slender swimming pool. It is essentially the same as the previous generation of special furnaces, still an iron box, no heating equipment, all rely on Anna’s black fire smelting. However, it is buried in the ground, relying on the soil to support the pressure of the molten iron on the four walls, and there is a walkway in the center, which allows Anna to simultaneously heat the iron ingots on both sides.

    Its advantage is only one, that is, the volume is large enough – if it is smelted according to the previous method, the limestone used for removing impurities is a large number, and it takes a lot of effort to clean up the generated impurities, and the feeding and stirring are also large. Trouble, so it must not be done too much. Now, there is no such concern at all. Just put in pig iron to dissolve, and then Lucia can remove harmful components such as phosphorus and sulfur.

    Roland intends to build a new batch of furnace, together with the old blast furnace and the old shaft furnace, only responsible for the first smelting, regardless of the quality of the finished product, as long as the ore can be melted and become a square iron ingot it will be alright. The iron ingots are then placed in a new furnace for secondary refining, and the formed molten steel flows through the gates into the lower-profile formwork to directly form the materials that can be processed – and then the Steam Engine Factory will be converted to steel. Will inevitably bring a stronger source of power to small town.

    Roland called the new furnace “Iron Star.”

    Once the manufacture of Anna is completed and the Iron Star is put into production, the steel production of small town can be increased by ten times.

    It can be said that the new large production plan is based on this foundation.

    In addition, the development of the new light weapon has also reached a conclusion.

    Roland found that his original idea was not appropriate. He designed several model weapons by referring to the principles of the later-generation air-assisted automatic rifle. In simple terms, the automatic weapon is a part of the high-pressure gas used to launch the bullet. And loading actions to achieve the process of refilling.

    This work lasted for about half a month, and it was not difficult to say that it was only necessary to test repeatedly whether each component was working properly. He doesn’t need the specific structure of a certain rifle. Just know how it works, and try several times to piece together a usable weapon.

    The problem is here.

    The model weapon spelled out is stupid and black, and its parts are nearly one hundred, each of which is hand-crafted by Anna, especially for springs, needles, gas pistons, etc. The level of the machine tool is also difficult to mass produce. If you want to replace all the revolving rifles in the hands of soldiers into automatic weapons, not only will the burden on Anna be enormous, but the gun processing equipment that has already been put into production will also be wasted.

    In addition, if all soldiers are equipped with automatic weapons, the ammunition consumption is undoubtedly an astronomical figure. Roland didn’t care too much about this at first, and felt that it could be solved by increasing the number of people produced, but he soon discovered that once the new weapon was formed, it could easily swallow up the entire output of the acid plant.

    As for the small problems such as jamming and firing failure that often occur during test shooting, it is not important.

    After repeated trade-offs, he eventually dismissed the idea of ​​mass-changing automatic weapons. However, it is an urgent need to improve the military’s firepower output. He has set his sights on another burst of weapons.

    That is the heavy machine gun.

    Twenty to fifty people are assigned a heavy machine gun, so that the number of weapons is greatly reduced, and the two most difficult problems can be solved. It can also be auto-filled by air-guided method. The structure is similar to the model weapon of the prototype. If you change it, you can put it into the principle test. Plus, you can make it bigger, and the parts don’t need to be designed to be tight. For yourself, it is equivalent to reducing the difficulty.

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