69novels Chapter 291 Yew Longbow, the strongest bow!
Chapter 291 Yew Longbow, the strongest bow!
Chapter 291 Yew Longbow, the strongest bow!
This girl has a head of short black hair, with the roots sticking out, which looks particularly prickly. It is Mo Shengnan who has been following Qian Fei'er and the others.
Mo Shengnan looked at Qian Fei'er suspiciously.
"Qianfei'er, what's the matter with you?"
Qian Fei'er smiled lightly, opened the folding fan in her hand, and fanned it lightly.
"It's nothing serious, I want you to help me test the new weapon."
"Oh? Weapon, what weapon?" Mo Shengnan asked.
A mysterious look appeared on Qian Fei'er's face, and she made a gesture.
"Shh, you'll know when you come here."
"What are you doing, it's so late at night." Mo Shengnan said dissatisfiedly, but he walked out of the room and closed the door instead.
She had lost to Qian Feier's cousin before, that is Qian Liuli, and based on the principle that the winner is king and the loser warms the bed, she would do most of the orders Qian Feier gave.
Qian Fei'er gave Mo Shengnan a satisfied look, then turned around and walked in a direction inside the Qibao Glazed Tile School, followed by Mo Shengnan.
The two walked through several corridors, and then through several halls, and came to a large open space.
Standing in the open space, Qian Fei'er took out a cylindrical piece of wood from her soul guide and placed it on the ground.
This piece of wood is several meters long and about [-] centimeters wide. There are many growth rings on the cross-section, and the whole is a little bit purple.
Qian Fei'er took out a sharp short knife from her soul guide bracelet, peeled off the bark of the yew tree with a few movements, and then took the straight part in the middle of the trunk, with even texture and no or as few knots as possible.
She cut off most of the sapwood of the log to obtain a material with a cross-section of [-] inches (about [-] centimeters) and a length of about two meters. From the perspective of the cross-section, this is the middle part, half of which is wood. Heart, half of which is sapwood.
The wood core is relatively soft and resistant to compression, Qianfeier is placed on the inside, and the hard and tensile sapwood is placed on the outside.
By cutting one side of the wood core, Qianfeier trims the material to be thicker in the middle and slightly thinner at both ends, and then narrows the two ends slightly from the two sides, slightly like a pole.
She took out a plane from her soul tool, and used the plane at both ends of the wood to trim the cross-section into an octagon.In trimming, she carefully measures with a tape measure to ensure a flat surface, symmetrical ends, and consistent thickness.
After cutting out the shape, Qianfeier used the bending test to check whether the elasticity of each section of the wood is uniform.
Because the natural growth of wood is difficult to be completely uniform, some places may be harder, and some places may be softer. Just because the shape is uniform, the strength may not be the same.
Therefore, Qian Feier made corrections through observation, and thinned the hard part a little bit.
With the wood roughly adjusted, she files the string grooves two inches apart at each end, the wood being deeper on the outside and slightly shallower on the inside.
"Bowman, knead the wood and use the string to shoot the arrow", Qian Fei'er said casually, stating the purpose of tonight.
It turned out to be a bow!
Mo Shengnan knew that among all the people, she was the only one who used bows and arrows as her martial soul. Presumably, Qian Feier asked her to come here to test the new bows and arrows.
Looking at Qian Fei'er in the field, Mo Shengnan thought to himself, this should be about to bend the wood and make it into a bow, right?
The most important process of making a bow is to bend it, and Qian Fei'er is doing this step, this step is also called "bow taming".
The bows and arrows made by Qian Fei'er are in a simple arc shape, without the complicated curved shape of Mo Shengnan's Tianqi White Bow Wuhun, and they don't need to be roasted, which will reduce the tension of the bow.
You can't bend it in place all at once. In that case, even if the arched back is not broken, it will cause internal injuries and lose its elasticity. The busy work just now will be in vain.
The process of "bow taming" is to let the bow gradually adapt to the bending.
In order to do this, Qian Fei'er also found a special bracket from her soul tool bracelet.The bracket is made of hardwood, and a groove is dug vertically at one end to support the bowed back, and the other end is fixed vertically on the ground.
On the side of the bracket, eight to ten string grooves are engraved at an equidistant distance of [-] inches (about [-] cm) from top to bottom, and the first string groove is [-] inches (about [-] cm) from the head of the bracket. ten centimeters).
In the relaxed state of the bow back, Qian Feier tied the ropes to both ends, put the center of the bow back on the groove of the bracket, pulled the string evenly and slowly, and hung it in the first string groove, and the bow back was lifted. slightly bent.
At this time, she carefully checked whether the curve of the arched back was smooth and even, marked out the places that were too rigid, and then trimmed and fine-tuned the arched back until she was satisfied.
Then she pulled the rope apart, gradually increasing the opening to the downward hanging groove, and constantly trimmed the arch until it formed a uniform arc that satisfied Qian Feier herself.
Every time the opening of the string groove is increased by three or four, she tightens the rope more.
She is not in a hurry during this process, especially before increasing the opening every time, she will let the arched back "rest" for 10-[-] minutes, so as to release the internal stress and avoid wood damage.
You don't tighten too much at a time, just an inch at a time.When she reached the full bow opening that she felt was suitable for Mo Shengnan, she stopped.
After a long time, Qian Feier removed the bracket, and brushed several layers of linseed oil on the back of the arch as a moisture-proof protective layer.When the oil dries up, the strings begin to hang.
The bowstring that Qian Fei'er took out from her soul tool was tanned with sheep intestines and tendons, and it was very elastic and tenacious.
The fixed opening when she hangs the strings is controlled by the distance between the bowstring and the center of the bow back to reach fist height. Fist height is a term in archery, which is equivalent to the height of a clenched fist and a thumbs up, about fifteen centimeters.
When tying the bowstring, Qian Feier tied a special "archer's knot" to prevent it from slipping.
The figure 8 knot is simple but effective, and the more you pull it, the tighter it is.
In the end, after more than three hours of continuous efforts, the bow was made.
Qian Fei'er held the bow in her left hand, wiped the sweat from her forehead with her right hand, then turned her head and smiled softly at Mo Shengnan.
"Katsuo, come and try."
Mo Shengnan nodded, walked to Qian Feier's side, and took the bow with his left hand.
She held the bowstring with her right hand, and then pulled it back hard.
The bow string was slowly tightened, and the bow arm was slowly deformed. After a while, Mo Shengnan pulled the bow to its fullest. At this moment, she only felt that the bow's pulling force was very huge, stronger than her own Apocalypse White Bow Martial Soul. For one thing, if the soul power is not stimulated, the power of the White Bow of Apocalypse may be far inferior to it.
"What kind of bow is this?" Mo Shengnan asked.
Qian Fei'er chuckled and replied, "Yew longbow."
The yew longbow is the most powerful bow in the history of cold weapons. If the god arm crossbow is the apex of crossbow weapons, the yew longbow is the pinnacle of all bow weapons!
As the most famous bow and arrow in history, the yew longbow has a maximum range of 300 meters, which is far lower than the 420 meters of the recurve compound bow.
However, because of the parabolic attack route and stronger pulling force, the yew longbow can still cause effective damage to unarmored targets and lightly armored targets even at the maximum range.
Compared with the same period, the maximum range of 420 meters of the recurve compound bow is at the end of the crossbow and does not pose any threat.
In terms of armor-piercing distance, the standard armor-piercing range of the yew longbow is 220 meters. Except for the heavy armor of the Iron Buddha and some plate armor with a thickness of more than one centimeter, the rest of the armor cannot withstand the elevation angle projection of the yew longbow.
And if it gets closer to within 20 meters, the yew longbow's high elevation angle projectile close to the vertical angle will pierce the gold and break the armor, and it will be unfavorable!
According to historical records, during the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, the heavy arrows shot by the British with a yew longbow at close range once shot through the gates of the French!
Such a proud record is unique among all bow weapons.
As for the killing of soldiers, it is even more terrifying.From the [-]th to the [-]th centuries, the British yew longbow has been a lingering nightmare for the French. It was once recorded that a French heavy armored cavalry was shot by a yew longbow.
A ninety-centimeter long arrow that weighed more than one tael pierced his front armor, thigh armor, and then his thigh, which was about six inches in diameter, and then shot through the heavy armor below his thigh. Wearing a saddle covered with leather and wood under the crotch, it finally sank into the horse's belly before stopping.
The terrifying penetrating power of the yew longbow is simply terrifying!
In the open space, Qian Fei'er took out an arrow from her soul guide bracelet, handed it to Mo Shengnan, then walked to a distance, and laid a shield on the ground.
She stepped back a little, pointing at the shield.
"Katsuo, try shooting."
Putting the shield flat and asking me to shoot, do I need to throw it at an angle of elevation?
Mo Shengnan took a look and made a decision in his mind.
The distance between the shield and Mo Shengnan was only more than ten meters. Mo Shengnan took a look, estimated the distance, and raised the bow to the sky with an angle close to vertical.
At a distance of more than ten meters, if the arrow is not shot directly with a slight depression angle, it must be projected at a large elevation angle, so that the arrow can be accelerated by gravity when it falls, increasing the attack power.
Mo Shengnan looked down at the position of the shield, and after confirming that he could hit it accurately, he let go of the bowstring with his right hand.
"Boom!"
A strong force shot out from the bowstring, and it went straight to Mo Shengnan's left arm. Fortunately, her martial soul is a bow and arrow, and she had expected it every day when she drew the bow, so her left hand cleverly moved to the left to avoid it.
On the other side, the arrow shot out from the yew longbow in Mo Shengnan's hand, with a sharp whistling sound, piercing the eardrums of people with pain, and at the same time, it shot straight into the sky, as if it was about to break through the sky.
After a while, the maximum distance is reached, the arrow is down, the arrow turns, and the downward dive accelerates.
Under the blessing of gravity, the arrows shot by the yew longbow pierced the sky, pierced the space, let out a whimpering sound, and stabbed fiercely at the shield.
"Boom--!"
The arrow hit, and the violent impact shook the whole ground, including Mo Shengnan himself. The dust and pebbles on the ground jumped up, and fell a full two or three inches.
(End of this chapter)