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Chapter 749: Wind-blasting Pilu (tuo)(2/2)

Li Mengxi was very confused when he heard this. He didn't understand why the inhalation could be completed by pumping, and why the air was inhaled from the outside instead of sucking the air out of the iron-making furnace. He asked the carpenter to find out the principle.

The carpenter hesitated for a long time and couldn't understand it.

Li Mengxi realized that the carpenter knew how to do it, but he couldn't explain it clearly.

Li Mengxi thought that it would be better to wait for the carpenter to finish the tuo, then take it apart and take a look at it to understand the truth.

Leather is needed to make tuo, and Li Mengxi remembered that since the troops were sent out from Zhuozhou, the horses and livestock killed in battle along the way, plus the seizures, meant that the army had accumulated a lot of leather.

I took the carpenter to the Zichong warehouse, where I rummaged for a long time and found a lot of leather that had not even been shaved.

Leather has been stored for a long time and smells bad.

Li Mengxi's men carried out a large bundle of leather, and he asked the carpenter, "How much leather is needed to make this pitcher?"

The carpenter was still counting, but Li Mengxi waved his hand, "Forget it, I'll give you five, take them and ask for them from me after you're done."

Five pieces of leather, three pieces of cowhide, and two pieces of horse skin. Each piece weighs more than twenty kilograms, and five pieces weighs a hundred kilograms.

The craftsman picked up the extremely heavy leather and returned to the camp with the leather.

After the carpenter left, Li Mengxi kicked the leather that was almost moldy. He touched his chin and wondered how the leather was kneaded and how the leather armor was made. There were at least several hundred furs stored in the army.

Go ahead, a few hundred skins can probably make a thousand leather armors.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi decided to go to the leather craftsman to see if the leather could be processed.

Let’s talk about the carpenter who carried the leather and left. The carpenter returned to the camp with a large bundle of leather. After putting the leather on the ground, he untied the rope, picked up a piece of leather, shook it open and looked at it. It was a big cowhide, very complete.

, there are few holes.

At this time, colleagues came over and asked curiously, "Where did you get so much leather?"

The colleague glanced at the leather and praised, "This leather is good."

The carpenter also praised the quality of the leather, "The military advisor gave it to me." The carpenter shook the leather and folded it. He said to his colleagues, "The military advisor asked me to make twenty leather skewers, but I can't make one.

Who has time to help?"

When I heard it was military service, a bunch of people immediately came over to say they were free.

Among carpenters, many people can make leather rafts. However, when making them, they usually sew them up with scraps of leather. A whole piece of good leather is too expensive, and no one is willing to use it to make it.

The several pieces of leather allocated were of good quality, which many carpenters felt was a pity.

Here again, the rebels' strong logistical capabilities came into play.

Among the camps in the army, the first was the Carpenter's Camp, followed by the Blacksmith's Camp, the Butcher's Camp, the Fishing Camp, etc., among which the Butcher's Camp was built very early.

The reason why the Butcher Camp was established at that time was that it rained heavily one night and the rain killed two old cows. When the weather cleared and we wanted to march, we found that the dead cows were difficult to transport. Therefore, we had to slaughter the dead cows to make them easier to carry.

, but when slaughtering, I found that there was a shortage of slaughtering equipment and slaughtering hands.

Considering that during the battle, many war horses and livestock will be killed or wounded, therefore, it is necessary to quickly deal with the dead and wounded livestock.

With this in mind, the Butcher Camp was established.

When the butcher battalion was established at that time, the most experienced butchers were selected from the entire army. Each of these butchers was an extremely experienced veteran. Because of this, the skins peeled off by these skilled butchers were complete and clean.

If the butcher battalion had not been set up early at that time, then ordinary soldiers would have to deal with wounded and dead horses on the battlefield, and what would be in the warehouse now would be tattered, low-quality leather full of knife edges.
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