Chapter 127 Observing the Range
As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. After this beginning, Zhou Zhongshan, who gradually gained the feel and experience, was like a master archer holding the bamboo bow.
However, this sharp archer has not hit the bullseye once so far. He has shot several arrows in succession, and almost all of them wandered around the outer circle...
Even when they were thinking this way, The target was moved to about ninety meters and an arrow missed the target.
Of course, this cannot be blamed on Zhou Chongshan’s ability.
So far, Zhou Chongshan's performance has been worthy of the word "genius".
Although Zhuang Mengdie's latest bamboo bow development, his design has avoided many problems that may have existed in the early stages of bows and arrows.
But even this can't change the fact that their tribe's bows and arrows still have a lot of room for improvement.
As the direct shooting distance has been extended to this extent, the stability of the arrow has dropped significantly. It is no longer a case of good technique, which will definitely hit the target.
Thinking of this, just when Zhou Xu was about to speak out and bring this test to a temporary end.
Zhou Chongshan, who had just missed the target with an arrow, bowed his head and thought for a moment before firing again. The arrow flew out of the string as usual, but what was different from before was that this time the arrow successfully hit the target, although the position was still the same. It's in the outer circle...
This situation made Zhou Xu and Li Ce look at each other frequently...
[Luck, right? 】
This was the first thought that flashed through Zhou Xu’s mind at that time.
During this period, Zhang Xiaoshan, who was in charge of moving the archery target on the other side, did not receive Zhou Xu’s order. After seeing the arrow hit the target, he ran over habitually, holding the target and walked for ten more step, then run away.
Zhou Chongshan, on the other hand, drew another arrow from the quiver on the side.
Bending the bow and setting an arrow, he seemed to be thinking about it for a second or two more than before. He didn't know what he was thinking about. The next second, the sharp arrow flew out from the string.
【Eye of Insight! 】
In order to find out, Zhou Xu opened the ‘Eye of Insight’ to capture the trajectory of the arrow without saying anything.
After a distance of eighty meters, the stability of the arrow obviously began to decline. By the time it reached ninety meters, its stability was no longer visible.
Not to mention that the distance now has been stretched to ninety-five meters...
However, what surprised Zhou Xu was that Zhou Chongshan's arrow hit the target again!
[Is the talent of this weapon master really so abnormal? It's the first time I use this weapon, can I perform like this? 】
As Zhou Xu's thoughts were whirling, the target had been moved to a position of one hundred meters.
Unfortunately, Zhou Chongshan failed to break the record this time. One arrow flew away and completely missed the target.
Afterwards, Zhou Chongshan tried two more arrows, but none of them hit the target, so he stopped.
"Chongshan, how did you hit the arrow targets at 90 meters and 95 meters just now? I can see clearly that the stability of the arrows is very poor..."
Speaking of this, Zhou Xu did not say any more, but the meaning of his words was already clear.
Hearing this, Zhou Chongshan nodded.
“Yes, just like what you said, leader, those two arrows are basically luck. If I try again, I have no way to guarantee that I will be able to hit the target.”
"Okay, I probably understand."
While speaking, Zhou Xu waved his hand and motioned to Zhang Xiaoshan, who was standing far away, to move the target away.
"Chongshan, shoot three more arrows at the open space. We want to confirm the maximum range of these arrows." "Yes."
No Nonsense, after Zhang Xiaoshan moved the target away, Zhou Zhongshan shot three arrows one after another.
During this process, Zhou Xu used his 'eye of insight' to observe the arrows throughout the process. The purpose was to confirm how far the power of the arrows could be maintained.
Zhou Xu didn’t really care about the stability of the arrow’s flight path after it passed ninety meters.
After all, on the battlefield, not everyone is a sharp archer. The troops rely on volleys to fight. Who really expects those archers to kill his targets one by one?
Under this premise, as long as the power can be guaranteed within the maximum effective range, it will be fine.
After waiting for the three arrows to hit the ground, Zhou Xu took action himself and fired three shots at full range.
This archer mainly has two attack methods on the battlefield, namely direct shooting and projectile shooting.
Direct shooting is simply a straight shot, which is more powerful.
As for the projectile, the bow is fired upward, the arrow draws an arc, and falls straight from above the enemy's square array, launching a covering range attack on the enemy. The attack distance is farther, and the attack area is also smaller. Wider.
The last sentence summarizes it as using projectiles against distant enemies and direct fire against nearby enemies.
After the three projectiles landed, Zhou Xu began to take steps to measure the range.
Combined with the entire observation of his 'Eye of Insight', while ensuring the power of the arrow, the maximum effective range of a direct shot should be 121 meters.
The projectile method can expand the attack distance to 249 meters in one breath!
This undoubtedly greatly enhances the value of archers on this battlefield.
The current test results can be said to be far beyond Zhou Xu’s expectations.
There has never been a moment when he realized how huge the value of a talent is as clearly as he does now!
[This is the value of talent! But this bamboo bow may not be easy to make...]
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu turned to look at Zhuang Mengdie who was spreading out a piece of animal skin paper and busy recording data on it.
Although the people in their tribe are not literate at the moment, they are all literate in numbers due to the corona instrument. Due to the nature of their work, Zhuang Mengdie is still able to master numeracy under the guidance of Zhou Xu. Learned some basic arithmetic.
At this stage, using drawings and digital data is basically enough. She can understand it anyway.
“Mengdie, how long does it take to make such a bamboo bow?”
"Twelve days if all the required materials are ready."
Zhuang Mengdie estimated a number.
After all, this was not the first time Zhuang Mengdie had encountered similar things, so this time, she had already sorted things out clearly before Zhou Xu asked her. Now that Zhou Xu asked, she naturally It also comes as soon as you open your mouth.
“The main trouble is polishing those combined structures. If I want to make them as tight as this, I have to do it myself. However, I have considered it. I can ask my assistant to help me polish an outline first, and then If you leave the details to me, you can improve the efficiency a lot and increase the speed to less than ten days."
This answer obviously does not satisfy Zhou Xu.
The main reason is that the production of this bamboo bow is too difficult. As Zhuang Mengdie said, she has to do many aspects personally, which means that this bamboo bow cannot be mass-produced.
[It seems that glue still has to be made. With glue, the difficulty of making bamboo bows will be greatly reduced. Even bamboo bows bonded with glue will most likely not be as good as Mengdie in terms of performance. This one is purely handmade. 】
【But it doesn’t matter, it should be more than enough for ordinary soldiers. Such a time-consuming and labor-intensive bamboo bow can be made by Mengdie specially for masters like Chongshan. 】
(End of this chapter)