Release that Witch Chapter 430: “ Iron Star ”

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

For Months of Demons, the end of winter does not mean the end, the heavy snow often lasts until the spring of the next year. As for the specific time when it will calm down, it is totally up to the fate.

According to past experience, the end of Months of Demons in the first half of the first month of spring is a rather difficult day; the end of the second half of the first month is a very difficult day; if it continues until In the second month, it became difficult to survive.

But this is only the situation that small town residents once encountered.

This year's situation has changed a lot. Even if Months of Demons lasts until the end of the second month of spring, the wheat stored in the granary is enough for everyone to fill their stomachs.

Roland naturally will not be satisfied that everyone does not starve to death on the passing line of then it will be alright. for several days has always been lying at his desk with great interest, drawing a sheet of drawings to conceive his next large-scale production plan . The whole plan is divided into military and civilian aspects. The former includes the construction of new weapons factories, Bicycle Factory, shipyards, and shallow water heavy gunship, and the latter is mainly residential water, heating, and electricity tees, and iron farm tools. Popularization.

What made him motivated was Lucia White. After testing her new capabilities in detail, Roland clearly realized that the last limitation of mass production was also resolved. The productivity of small town will usher in a population growth. New peak.

This restriction is the supply of materials.

Modern smelting is a very complicated subject, and steel output is also one of the parameters that measure the most important in an industrial country. And Roland doesn't know much about it, even small town's ironmaking capacity is still very backward, the technology has not exceeded this era, let alone the scale is not as good as some private mining smelters. When iron ore is smelted into pig iron in a brick blast furnace, it is sent to steam engine with good quality, and it is sent to Anna for further smelting to steel. The process is completely uncontrollable, and the carbon content is also high or low. Sometimes, 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 manufacturing plant.

Although the special furnace of Anna can convert the inferior qualitative pig iron into steel with controllable quality, the output is only enough for military factories. When placed in autumn, it can basically meet the needs of small town. After the arrival of winter, the army has been expanded twice, coupled with the development of new firearms and cannon, which is a bit stretched.

The evolution of Lucia can be described as a needle-strengthening agent. The targeted separation ability can easily remove the bad components in the material, and the proportion of each element can be adjusted during the smelting stage, so that each furnace molten steel maintains a performance.

It can be said that with Anna and Lucia, the Border Town's smelting level is enough to improve several grades in an instant.

To this end, Roland has let Anna put aside other tasks at hand and concentrate on manufacturing a new generation of super-large furnace.

Compared with the special furnace designed for her before, the new furnace has more than ten times the volume, extending to 50 meters in length, 10 meters in width, and nearly 4 meters in height. It looks like an elongated swimming pool at first glance. It is essentially no different from the previous generation of special furnaces, it is still an iron box, no heating equipment, all rely on the black fire smelting of Anna. However, it is buried in the ground, relying on the soil to support the pressure of the molten iron on the four walls. There is a walkway in the center, which allows the Anna to heat the iron ingots on both sides at the same time.

Its only one advantage is that the volume is large enough. If it is smelted according to the previous method, the limestone used for impurity removal is a large number, and it takes a lot of work to clean up the generated impurities. Adding and stirring is also a problem. Big trouble, so it must not be done too much. But now these concerns are completely eliminated, as long as it is put into pig iron and melted, and then Lucia can remove phosphorus, sulfur and other harmful components.

Roland intends to build a new batch of furnace. Together with the old blast furnace and the old shaft furnace, it is only responsible for the first smelting. It does not care about the quality of the finished product, as long as it can melt the ore and turn it into a square iron then it will be alright. Then these iron ingots are all put into a new furnace for secondary refining. The formed molten steel flows into the lower-level template through sluice gate, and directly forms a material that can be processed. Steam Engine Factory will also be converted to steel production, which will definitely give small town. Bring a stronger source of power.

Roland refers to the new furnace as "Iron Star".

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

It can be said that the new large-scale 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. Based on the principles of later-generation air-guided automatic rifles, he designed a few model weapon. In simple terms, the automatic weapon uses a part of the high-pressure gas when the bullet is launched to complete the shell , loading action, so as to realize the process of refilling.

This work lasted about half a month, and it wasn't difficult. It was just a matter of repeatedly testing whether each component worked properly. He doesn't need the specific structure of a memory rifle. As long as he knows how it works, he can always try to make a workable weapon.

The problem is here.

The model weapon is as silly as it is black. It has almost a hundred parts, each of which is processed by Anna, especially springs, needles, and air pistons. At the current machine tool level, mass production is difficult. If you want to replace all revolving rifle in the hands of soldiers with automatic weapon, not only the burden on Anna is huge, but those firearm processing equipment that has been put into production will also cause waste.

In addition, if all soldiers are equipped with automatic weapon, their ammunition consumption is undoubtedly an astronomical figure. Roland didn't pay much attention to this at first, and felt that it could be solved by increasing the number of production, but he soon discovered that once the new weapon was formed, it could easily swallow the entire output of acid plant.

As for small problems such as jams and firing failures that often occur during test shots, it is not important.

After repeated weighing, he finally eliminated the idea of ​​a large-scale automatic weapon replacement, but increasing the firepower output of the army is an urgent need. He set his sights on another burst weapon.

That's heavy machine gun.

Twenty to fifty people allocate a heavy machine gun, so the number of weapon is also greatly reduced, and the two most difficult problems can be solved. It can also be automatically filled by air conduction. The structure is similar to the trial production of model weapon. If you change it, you can put it into a principle test. In addition, it can be made larger, and the parts do not need to be designed to be close to each other. It is equivalent to reducing the difficulty.

(To be continued.)