According to the same statistical method, the same amount of water is poured into the three iron cylinders, and then the armor pieces are put into them.

Just like the previous process, no matter how subtle the difference is, after a sufficient amount is accumulated, the small difference can be clearly revealed.

This time, the most efficient method is to forge the front side of the armor piece for half an hour, and conversely, the most efficient way is to forge the back side for another half hour.

My guess is correct. If both sides of the front are forged, the thickness of the nail will be reduced more than if only one side is forged. According to the technical process of cold forging, cold forging will eventually forge the nail to one-third of its original thickness.

, the faster the thickness decreases, the higher the forging efficiency is.

The last step of the forging strategy is the fourth step. It is known that the nail plate is rectangular, so whether the nail plate is placed horizontally for faster hitting, or vertically placed for faster hitting, or it is hit diagonally.

Very fast.

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The same three hundred craftsmen were divided into three batches. The first hundred people pressed the armor plates horizontally in front of themselves, and then hit them horizontally with hammers. The other hundred people placed the armor plates vertically in front of them.

Then the hammer jing-ding-ding is struck vertically, and the third type is struck diagonally.

Two days later, the craftsmen handed over the forged armor pieces and put the same number of armor pieces into the water barrel. This time, the difference was very obvious.

In all the previous measurements, the difference in water volume between different forging methods was only half a bowl, but this time, the difference was more than a bowl of water.

Excluding the possibility of errors, it is only possible that there is a forging method that is very efficient.

Li Mengxi compared the data and found that holding the armor piece horizontally in front of him, pressing it with one hand, and holding a hammer in the other hand to forge it horizontally was much more efficient than striking it vertically or diagonally. But, why is this?

, Li Mengxi was puzzled as to why the efficiency was so outstanding.

He went to the camp and asked the blacksmith to demonstrate the horizontal beating method.

The craftsman stood in front of the iron pier, which was as high as his waist. The craftsman held a pair of pliers in his left hand and held one end of the nail plate tightly. He held a small hammer in his right hand and pressed it against the nail plate. The craftsman made a very rapid ding, ding, ding.

of falling hammer.

Li Mengxi observed carefully. He looked at the large beads of sweat sliding down the blacksmith's forehead. His eyes fell on the blacksmith's shoulders, then on the blacksmith's arms, elbows, and finally, on the wrists, and kept moving from left to right in the blacksmith's hands.

A hammer hammering rapidly back and forth from right to left.

Gradually and suddenly, Li Mengxi suddenly discovered that the way the craftsman's hands moved when forging was similar to writing.

The same goes for writing, one line goes from left to right, then back to the right, then left to right again...

When he thought of writing, Li Mengxi suddenly realized something. He remembered that he had done a test and found that when writing horizontally on paper, he rotated left and right with his elbow as the axis, and his writing speed was twice that of writing vertically, because the vertical movement

When writing, you have to keep moving your elbow down, and you have to move it once to write a word. However, when you write horizontally, you don't need to move your elbow anymore. You only need to move your elbow when writing several lines.

Then carefully observing the forging movements of the craftsmen, Li Mengxi discovered that because cold forging of armor pieces was different from ordinary forging, the hammer was raised high, so it moved vertically with the shoulder as the axis, while cold forging, the movement

It is very small, and more of a left-right movement of the wrist. The wrist movement takes the elbow as the axis. This movement pattern is similar to writing. Therefore, when the nail plate is placed horizontally, the "writing" speed is fast.

When it comes to writing, writing horizontally is twice as efficient as writing vertically, and the same is true for cold forging.

Li Mengxi clearly understood this, and he understood the best way to place the cold-forged armor pieces. The best way to place them was to place them horizontally in front of the body, and slap the wrist back and forth horizontally.

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It took craftsmen a year and a half to figure out the method. Li Mengxi spent half a month testing the entire cold forging technique and cracking the cold forging technique.

During cold forging, the best strategy for cold forging is to first make the nail piece wider and then make the nail piece longer, that is, make it wider first and then make it longer, and then use an alternating method to make the nail piece horizontally.

Strike it once, once vertically, and then strike both the front and back sides. After finishing the front side, strike the back side. In the last step, place the nail plate horizontally in front of you and use the writing method to strike.

Li Mengxi estimates that with this optimal forging strategy, the cold forging efficiency can be doubled, or even more than that.
Chapter completed!