infinite blood core

Chapter 39 Bow Making
Bang bang bang.

The sound of the axe slashing on the tree trunk came one after another.

The axe was swung vigorously, deeply embedded in the trunk of the tree, and after a burst of shattered small pieces of wood were aroused, the expedition team members shook the handle of the axe and pulled it out with force.

The trunk was chopped off big enough, and the whole tree started to crumble.

The logging team members shouted and issued a reminder, and then several people kicked on the tree trunk with all their strength.

The tree trunk creaked and fell to the ground.With the delicate sound of countless branches being broken, the leaves also flew in all directions.

Although the expedition team only brought a few axes, it greatly improved the efficiency and saved the physical energy consumption of the team members.

Next, the trunk is sawn into sections for easy transportation.

These trunks are rolled and transported to the camp, where they are finely processed.

The expedition did not carry a saw.

However, needle gold was lent to them.

The "saw" of the needle gold comes from the blade spider. The hind legs of the spider are slender and straight, and there is a row of tight spikes, which is a natural good saw.

The blade spider is a silver-level monster, and the expedition team members quickly realized the power of the silver-level monster from another angle.

Working in pairs, they saw through thick tree trunks with their blade spider legs, as easily as they were cutting white bread with a sharp table knife.

The old scholar Cang Xu has rich experience in leadership and command.

Because Zhen Jin was in charge, he divided the people in his hands into two groups.

One group of logging, one group peeling the bark, tearing the inside of the bark into strips of filaments.

Every once in a while, the two groups take turns to change the work content, so that the team members can save energy, rest, and maintain the progress of the work.

In one morning, the logging team overfulfilled the task.

A large amount of wood, rolled piece by piece, was transported to the camp one after another, and was temporarily stacked in the corner.

There are also filaments torn from the bark, which have been smeared with medicine.

Lunch was increased, and almost everyone was very hungry.

White buds and yellow algae also came back at meal time.

They didn't get much, just a few flying birds and a pheasant.This gain is obviously incomparable to the manpower and time spent, but at least they cleared the mountains and forests near the camp once again.

To everyone's surprise, Zhen Jin also ordered that there will be a short nap time after lunch.This has never happened before.

This is actually Cang Xu's suggestion that the lunch break can ensure the team's work efficiency in the afternoon.

Although the logging work is over, the workload that follows is still very large.

A large number of tree trunks were chopped down to form a piece of wood, which is the prototype of the short bow arm.

Therefore, the length and thickness of the board are required.

Even the original position of the board in the entire trunk, it is best to be the core.

This is the work of joinery.

It would be nice if there was a carpenter, but the expedition team members are all laymen, so the essence of laypeople is immediately revealed - many tree trunks have been destroyed, although many wooden boards have been chopped down, but after the white bud inspection, they are all unreliable. qualified.

Unqualified planks can be used to lay out hunter traps.

Even the most tattered wood can be used for fire.After the fire is burned, the charcoal and wood ash formed are also good resources and have high practical value.

The exploration team has reached this point, and it needs any resources.The resources that can be obtained will never be easily let go.

The progress of woodworking was quite slow, causing more and more anxiety and impatience in Zhenjin's heart.

Although he also knew that he couldn't be in a hurry.

To be honest, Zidi's medicine did help him a lot, which saved him the most crucial time.

Furthermore, Cang Xu's arrangement is also very reasonable and sufficient, and the old scholar has already estimated that he is unqualified.

After the members of the expedition team became familiar with the work, the loss of wood began to be greatly reduced.

One after another, qualified wooden boards were born, and more and more.

When the number of wooden boards rose to a certain level, Cang Xu directed everyone to start using wooden boards to make short bow arms.

The process is actually quite simple.

Just cut the board into thinner strips, forming a shape that is slightly thicker in the middle and slightly thinner at the ends, and cut notches at both ends to facilitate future bowstrings.

The short bow arms that have been made will be smeared with medicine after Bai Ya has checked and confirmed, and placed in a dark corner to dry.

After the job was over, many people shouted that they thought they could be bowsmiths.

More people are constantly moving their fingers, or kneading their arms, arms, thighs and other muscles.The pain and numbness made them grin.

Their bodies are nearing the limit, but there are other jobs waiting for them.

A lot of arrows need to be crafted.

There is generally a standard for the selection of arrow shafts. For the processing of wood that meets the standard, it is cut into a long cylinder, and then the surface is smoothed.

On the exploration team's side, of course, there is no mature processing link.

The main material for their arrows is branches, which are as straight as possible, close to the length and thickness of normal arrows.

Bai Ya instructed everyone to make arrows. First, he peeled off the skin of the branches to make arrow shafts, then carefully cut the feathers with a knife blade, and then pasted them with medicine to make arrow feathers.The last step is to bake the arrows a little, to carbonize the wood and harden it, and then sharpen it.

The arrows made in this way are far from comparable to regular military supplies.

First of all, the selection of arrow shafts is a little worse, and the selection of arrow feathers is not high-quality, it is completely shoddy, but you should not dislike it.

There are too few feathers in the exploration team, and most of them come from chicken feathers and bird feathers that Baiya hunts today, so every one should be cherished.

The only thing that is gratifying is the potion that Zidi has temporarily prepared - it is really sticky!

As for the arrows, that's downright shabby.

Not even an iron arrow.

If you really use it, it will be scrapped after a few times.

The lethality is naturally low, but it is still threatening to deal with ordinary beasts.

In addition to the production of arrows, there are other tasks.

For example, a large wooden shield is one person tall and relatively wide.It is assembled with tree trunks and rattan, and the pestle is placed on the ground to form an extremely simple and short curtain wall.

This is also called a shield.

A long time ago, when the Terran attacked the castle, there were such fortifications.

By now, this kind of fortification has long been eliminated.

Even if someone uses it, at least a layer of iron is covered on the surface.

In addition to the shield, there are also wooden spears.

Exploration team members can hold guns with both hands and assassinate Momonga within a certain safe distance.

But this tactic is better than nothing, because everyone knows that the mouse is very fast, can glide in mid-air, adjust its direction in the air with its tail, and its posture is very flexible.

What everyone is looking forward to is mainly the short bow.

In the evening, the torn bark had completely dried in the shade, and people began to rub the hemp rope while sighing at Zidi's means.

The technique of rubbing the rope was also learned from Bai Ya.

There are little tricks here.

The main thing is to first divide a filament into two bundles, and each bundle rotates counterclockwise. When the two bundles are combined, they rotate clockwise.In this way, the braided rope will be relatively tight and not easy to unravel.

Hemp rope is used as a bowstring, and each short bow is equipped with at least two bowstrings, one for common use and one for spare.

By the time it was time for dinner, the bowstring was basically made enough.

As with noon, dinner is also very rich.There is also wild game, which has become a rare flavor adjustment for everyone.

The next morning.

Zhen Jin and others all got up early because there was an important thing to do—

Try the bow.

After leaving it for one night, plus Zidi's medicine, the bow has dried.

Bai Ya tried to grab both ends of the bow arm with both hands and bent it hard. After seeing the bow arm bending a small arc, he grinned and said, "It's great. It's better than I thought."

Cang Xu pondered: "Zhangzao, I will give you a task. Break this bow arm, but you must use it slowly."

Huang Zao understood the meaning of Cang Xu, and immediately started. When the bow arm bent to its own limit, it immediately snapped into two pieces.

Everyone witnessed it with their own eyes, and immediately understood the limit of this simple bow arm.

Cang Xu estimated: "It seems that only a hemp rope can be used as a bowstring."

No one objected.

Sometimes, multiple hemp ropes are combined to form a bowstring.But after the test, it is more appropriate to use a hemp rope for the toughness and limit of this short bow arm.

Bai Ya tied the bowstring, and he played a live buckle, skillfully and firmly.

Immediately, the son of the hunter took the arrow, aimed at the target in the distance, and shot the arrow with a swish.

Everyone watched with wide eyes.

Obviously, the arrow that was originally facing the front flew directly to the upper left, and then landed tilted.

The range reaches more than 50 steps.

It's a long way from the target - I don't know where it's skewed.

But everyone did not show disappointment, and Zhen Jin even nodded slightly - he knew this was just the beginning.

The bow needs to be debugged.

The built bow arms are very rough, and it is necessary to continue to use props such as daggers to continue processing the bow arms.Also adjust the bowstrings and arrows.Along with this process, the target head of the short bow will become stable and the range will be greatly improved.

In the end, after the debugging of Bai Ya, the arrow successfully hit the target a hundred paces away, and the arrow shot into the depth of two fingers.

For this result, needle gold has been very satisfied.

On the one hand, this is not a compound bow, but a single bow. The bow arms and bow strings are made from local materials, not carefully selected.On the other hand, the arrows also do not have iron arrows, but they are sharpened after carbonization and very rough.

It's great to have such a performance.

Because needle gold does not require much.

They are now in the forest, not the vast and empty terrain of the grassland, and the longbow is not suitable.

The expedition team members are not good archers. Most of them are rushing ducks to the shelves. Don't expect them to be accurate at a hundred paces.

"Restricted by the environment and personnel, the effective range of the short bow can be [-] steps, which is enough."

"The key is to see how many arrows can we shoot in this hundred steps? If we can shoot more than three arrows and have a certain accuracy rate, then the plan of the short bow will be considered a success."

(End of this chapter)