Chương 84: Forging Tower, Lathe, and Cutting Tools

Li Qinwu suggested to Iron-Orc that they use the Crimson Queen for smithing. Iron-Orc was shocked. A legendary creature like that, and you want to use her as a blacksmith? If you caught a Fire Dragon, would you use it as a furnace? But then he realized: It actually made sense. A cannon barrel is just a massive chunk of iron. An Ogre can't budge it, but the Crimson Queen? Her physique is more powerful than ten Ogres combined. She could definitely handle it.

"It might work, but... sir, she doesn't have hands to hold a hammer," Iron-Orc noted. Li Qinwu waved him off.

"She doesn't need to hold a hammer, dummy! We build two tall concrete towers with a massive hammer suspended between them. Tie a chain to the hammer and the other end to the Queen's leg. She pulls, the hammer rises; she lets go, it drops. Boom—giant mechanical drop hammer!" Iron-Orc's eyes lit up.

"Like a guillotine structure, but with a hammer instead of a blade!" Both were men of action, enjoying the thrill of solving technical hurdles with practical results. Over the next few days, they finalized the plan for the Super Drop Hammer. It featured a 15-meter tall pyramid-shaped tower made of reinforced concrete for maximum stability.

An Industrial Miracle Built on Brute Force Li Qinwu mobilized over 2, 000 workers: The Crimson Queen: Acted as a living soil compactor, flattening the ground until it was harder than steel. Ogres: Hauled multi-ton blocks of stone. Goblins: Mixed concrete day and night. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Li Qinwu: Used his "System Warehouse" to transport massive quantities of lime and materials between Iron City and Goblin Fort.

In less than a month, the Forging Tower was complete. Iron-Orc had also produced several multi-ton hammers and anvils by opening ten large blast furnaces simultaneously. Li Qinwu looked at this "industrial tumor" and sighed. Without any real technical foundation, he had managed to create a pseudo-ten-thousand-ton forging press using local methods.

"Go on, Little Red! Burn yourself for the Alliance's industrialization!" Li Qinwu ordered.

"Kuh! I don't want to burn for something so weird!!" the Queen grumbled, but she hooked her legs into the pulleys and pulled. The massive hammer, the size of half a car, rose effortlessly as if she were lifting a feather. Duang! The Birth of the Octagonal Barrel DUANG!! DUANG!! A glowing red iron cylinder was dragged under the hammer. The anvil and hammer were engraved with semi-octagonal grooves. Under the Queen's rhythmic pulling, the hammer slammed down, sending sparks flying everywhere.

A team of Goblins operated a gear system to rotate the barrel, ensuring it was hammered evenly. After ten minutes, the raw iron pipe had been forged into a straight, octagonal barrel.

"The equipment is functional. Now we need to standardize the process," Iron-Orc said. The first few would be experimental until they achieved the perfect "General Interoperability" Li Qinwu craved. The Ogre-Powered Lathe and the "Stat" Bits The forged barrel now needed boring and polishing. It had an octagonal interior that needed to be bored into a perfect circle. Power Source: No steam engine? No problem. Li Qinwu designed a series of gears for the Ogres to turn.

For the price of a bag of potatoes, an Ogre provided incredible torque and speed. The Core Difficulty: The Drill Bit. Without tungsten, boring through solid iron was nearly impossible. But Li Qinwu had a trump card: [Forging Skill: Durability/Hardness +10]! He spent days crafting ten high-carbon steel bits of increasing sizes. When the largest bit, enhanced with Hardness +10, spun into the interior of the barrel, the metal shavings flew like snow. The bit didn't chip or dull.

The inner wall was as smooth as glass, and the caliber was standardized across every unit. Li Qinwu looked at his standardized artillery and smiled. The era of Grand Artillery was about to begin.