Release that Witch - Chapter 437

[Chapter 430 “Steel Star”]

After Lucia became an adult, Border Town also entered the last month of winter.

But for Moon of Demons, the end of winter does not mean the end. The heavy snow often lasts until the next spring. As for when it will subside, it is completely left to fate.

According to past experience, the evil month ends in the first half of the first month of spring, which is a rather difficult day; when it ends in the second half of the first month, it is a very difficult day; After a few months, it became difficult to even survive.

But that’s just what happened to the townspeople.

This year’s situation has changed a lot. Even if the evil moon lasts until the end of the second month of spring, there is enough wheat stored in the granary to fill everyone’s stomachs.

Naturally, Roland would not be satisfied with the passing line where everyone would not starve to death or freeze to death. These days, he has been squatting at his desk with great enthusiasm, drawing drawings one after another, and conceiving his next stage of mass production plan.

The whole plan is divided into two aspects: military and civilian. The former includes plans to build new weapons factories, bicycle factories, docks, and shallow-water heavy artillery ships. The latter is mainly for water, heating, and electricity in residential areas. Popularization of agricultural tools.

It was Lucia White who motivated him—after testing her new abilities in detail, Roland clearly realized that the last limitation of mass production had also been resolved, and the productivity of the town would increase with the population growth. Usher in a new peak.

The limit is the supply of materials.

Modern smelting is a very complicated subject, and steel output is also one of the most important parameters to measure an industrial country.

But Roland didn’t know much about this, so the town’s iron-making capacity was still very backward, not to mention that the technology hadn’t surpassed this era, and the scale was not comparable to the private smelters of some mining businessmen.

When the iron ore is smelted into pig iron in the brick blast furnace, the high-quality ones are sent to make steam engines, and the poor-quality ones are handed over to Anna for further smelting into steel.

And this process is completely uncontrollable, and the carbon content is also high and low. Sometimes, the available materials can only fill two or three carriages after a busy day, which greatly limits the production capacity of the steam engine factory.

Although Anna’s special furnace can convert low-quality pig iron into steel with controllable quality, the output is only enough for military factories.

In autumn, it can basically meet the needs of the town, but after winter comes, the army has been expanded twice, and with the development of new firearms and artillery, the steel is a bit stretched.

Lucia’s evolution can be described as a shot in the arm. The targeted separation ability can easily remove the bad components in the material, and it can also adjust the ratio of each element during the smelting stage, so that each furnace of molten steel can maintain the same performance.

It can be said that with Anna and Lucia, Border Town’s smelting level can be improved several levels in an instant.

For this reason, Roland has asked Anna to put down other work at hand and concentrate on making a new generation of super large melting pot.

Compared with the special furnace designed for her before, the volume of the new furnace has increased by more than ten times. The length extends to 50 meters, the width is 10 meters, and the height is nearly 4 meters. At first glance, it looks like a slender swimming pool.

It is essentially the same as the previous generation special furnace, it is still an iron box, without heating equipment, it is smelted entirely by Anna’s black fire.

However, it was buried in the ground, relying on the soil to support the pressure of the molten iron on the four walls, and there was a walkway in the center, just enough for Anna to heat the iron ingots on both sides at the same time.

It has only one advantage, that is, its volume is large enough – if it is smelted according to the previous method, the amount of limestone used to remove impurities will be a large amount, and it will take a lot of effort to clean up the generated impurities, and it will also be a big problem to add materials and stir. Trouble, so it must not be too big.

But now, these concerns are completely gone, as long as the pig iron is put in to melt it, and then Lucia removes the harmful components such as phosphorus and sulfur.

Roland plans to build a new batch of kilns, together with the old blast furnace and old shaft furnace, only responsible for the initial smelting, not caring about the quality of the finished product, as long as it can melt the ore and turn it into square iron ingots.

Then put all these iron ingots into the new furnace for secondary refining, and the formed molten steel flows through the gate into the lower formwork, directly forming materials that can be processed – after that, the steam engine factory will also switch to steel production. It can bring a stronger source of power to the town.

Roland dubbed the new furnace the “Steel Star”.

Once Anna is finished and the Star of Steel is put into production, the town’s steel production will increase by more than ten times.

It can be said that the new mass production plan is built on this foundation.

In addition, the development of new light weapons has also reached conclusions.

Roland found that his original idea was not appropriate. He designed several prototype weapons by referring to the principles of later generations of gas-operated automatic rifles. In simple terms, automatic weapons use part of the high-pressure gas when the bullet is fired to complete the ejection. , Loading action, so as to realize the process of reloading.

This work lasted for about half a month. It is hard to say how difficult it is, but it is necessary to repeatedly test whether each component can work normally.

He doesn’t need to memorize the specific structure of a certain rifle, as long as he knows how it works, he can always piece together a usable weapon after a few more tries.

That’s where the problem lies.

The prototype weapon that was spelled out was just stupid, big, black and thick, with nearly a hundred parts, each of which was processed by Anna herself, especially gadgets such as springs, firing pins, and gas pistons. The level of machine tools is still difficult to mass-produce.

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Not only is this a huge burden on Anna, but the gun processing equipment that has already been put into production will also cause waste.

In addition, if all soldiers are equipped with automatic weapons, their ammunition consumption is undoubtedly astronomical.

Roland didn’t pay much attention to this at first, thinking that it could be solved by increasing the number of people in production, but he soon discovered that once the new weapon was scaled up, it could easily swallow all the output of the acid factory.

As for small problems such as jamming and firing failures that often occur during test firing, they are not important.

After repeated weighing, he finally dismissed the idea of refitting automatic weapons on a large scale, but improving the army’s firepower output is an urgent need, and he set his sights on another burst weapon.

That is a heavy machine gun.

Twenty to fifty people are allocated a heavy machine gun, so the number of weapons is also greatly reduced, and the two most difficult problems can be solved easily.

It can also be self-loaded by means of air guidance. The structure is similar to the prototype weapon of the trial production. It can be put into a principle test after being modified. In addition, it can be made larger, and the parts do not need to be designed to be cobweb-like. In itself, it is equivalent to reducing the difficulty.

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