Zhu Wentian came back, but the bow was still in his hand and he was holding the arrow. He knew that ordinary people don't need to think about this bow. The key is that when there is no auxiliary equipment, the hand must hang the string.
The arrow's tail is stuck on the string, and the strength of holding the arrow with your fingers is different from that of stretching the chest and pulling it flatly.
Of course, people who shoot strong bows will not aim with the string fully drawn, but will put the arrow on the string. When they need to attack, they can pull it out in an instant and shoot out. This is explosive power.
Let such a person hold the bow to full draw without moving and aiming, and all the strength will be used to maintain the force of the bowstring.
The power of a strong bow is always instantaneous, and after a few shots, the muscles can no longer bear it.
It's like putting a few hundred kilograms of something on the ground, giving it a rope, and pulling the rope to make it move. Many people can do it. With a bit of gritting their teeth and a struggle, the thing will move.
Another way is to ask someone to drag this thing out for ten steps, and it cannot be a meal in between. It must be at a balanced speed. Those who could pull it before will kneel down.
The same is true for bows and arrows. Shooting a strong bow is an explosive force. Who can maintain that power and aim back and forth?
Zhu Wentian had to rely on explosive power to pull the five-stone bow, otherwise he would strain his muscles if he could hold it for even a short while.
However, the range of this bow and arrow definitely exceeds that of a modified fire blunderbuss and a normal flintlock gun. The opponent cannot dodge as long as he shoots accurately under non-moving conditions.
From where I stood, I saw an arrow flying towards me. It was actually a small dot, a dot in the sky. By the time I looked at the dot, it would be too late to realize that this was an arrow.
"Hanhan knows how to shoot arrows?" Zhu Biao felt relieved when he saw Hanhan.
"Bow, gift, no good, eh! Shoot..." Zhu Wentian had to explain the situation. You gave me your bow. It was the same one you used before. The broken thing is just a toy.
I just used it to train my hands. Watch me cum next to you... Hu Weiyong?
All right! Shoot the tree.
So Zhu Wentian looked at a tree on the other side of the river. There was no target on the tree. He squinted to see where the branches were connected and found a few.
In an instant, he drew his bow and nocked an arrow. The bow string buzzed, and four arrows flew out. Four small branches of the tree on the other side rotated and fell with the branches.
"A good archery skill, a good shot of arrows, someone can die, but you can't stop his momentum."
Zhou Zong also holds a bow with two stones, and he also has to guard His Majesty.
Why not use a flintlock gun? Because it's not accurate enough.
He saw Hanhan's archery skills and the distance and strength of the arrow's flight, and admitted that he was not good at it.
If you can't fight, you can die. If you are willing to block the arrow and die, you can't fight back.
Zhu Wentian put the bow on his body and rubbed his right arm with his left hand. He was also hurt by the explosive arrows.
"Shooting a halberd at the gate?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly said four words.
Zhu Wentian curled his lips, "We have never met Lu Bu. Anyway, my body cannot withstand the continuous explosive power of the five-stone bow. The key strength is not fully used every time."
The distance between that tree and the five-stone bow does not need to be fully drawn.
"Hanhan, you can't shoot arrows like this casually from now on!" Queen Ma felt distressed and patted her son at the same time. She shouldn't have said that.
But she also knew that Hanhan could use a five-stone bow. It didn't matter whether he could draw it to full or not, the five-stone bow was compatible with the others below.
"Emperor Physician, come here and give us a squeeze." Zhu Yuanzhang also felt distressed and was also shocked. The arrows were shooting out from so far away.
The imperial doctor came over to rub Zhu Wentian's arms, while other people repaired the bridge, installed wedges, and nailed extra wood to the unstable parts of the structure.
Two quarters of an hour passed and the team was on the road again.
"Don't let us find someone who can bring explosives over and blow us up!"
Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth. He understood that this was just to sow discord. If he fell, he would not be killed. He was very short.
With so many carriages and horses coming and going, if anyone has a problem crossing the bridge, they must suspect Xiaqiu Village.
This is sowing thorns! At the critical moment, Hanhan could find that the bridge was wrong, so he stopped the car.
If Hanhan can't see the sway, if the car falls off the bridge, why should he collect dew?
Does anyone know that we are going out to pick mugwort today? The bridge must be sawed early.
The team passed and continued to move forward. Someone immediately behind them repaired the bridge.
A small bridge four feet wide, made of wood, which is twelve meters wide, is difficult for an individual to build. When the emperor travels, the craftsmen will follow a group.
For example, if the car breaks down or the road collapses, craftsmen must solve it immediately.
Now it is just a matter of plugging up the damaged area of a small wooden bridge, and then adding other pieces of wood to hold it in place using a triangular stabilization method.
Additional supports are added at other locations. When the team comes back, even if the bridge is demolished and a new one is built, it will only take a few days.
"Oh, oh, oh!"
The two horses immediately turned around. A little further on, the carriage could not pass. There was a trail in front of them, surrounded by mugwort and goldenrod.
The chief came over on horseback again, got off his horse and said, "Your Majesty, Queen, and His Royal Highness, this is it. The road has not been repaired yet, so we can only walk across it."
"Okay! Come on down and let's go. Are Hanhan's arms still sore?" In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang has always been very practical, and his first concern is Hanhan.
Hanhan is the guarantee of force. With Hanhan around, it will be much easier.
"No, um!" Zhu Wentian shook his head and recovered, but he did not let go of the five-stone bow and arrows and took them with him.
He always knew that this was not needed, but he had to show some situations.
Everyone got off the car, and the children also got off their horses, and gathered around. Some people immediately went to look for wild vegetables around them, such as folate, which is edible and has a good sour taste.
The wild ones are not the so-called A. nantii introduced from South America.
Wild vegetables in the mountains are one of the ways children get fruits, including small, sweet mountain watermelons with different names, which are actually only as big as broad beans.
In the 1970s and 1980s, including Zhu Wentian's time, rural children looked for food in the mountains. They knew all the wild vegetables and could identify mushrooms.
This uninhabited place with peat is familiar to the children of Xiaqiu Village. Some of them have already started to dig for medicinal materials, and they don’t just see mugwort.
Zhu Yuanzhang held the telescope, but did not put it in front of his eyes. He just held it and glanced at it several times: "It is really not easy to live here."
"Yes!" Queen Ma agreed: "They are all hills, big and small. If you want to farm, you have to either build terraces or level the hills.
No matter how you look at it, it is not cost-effective. Just like the place where we are digging iron ore, no one wanted to go there before.
Who would have thought that open-pit mining of iron ore could be possible in that mountain cave? It's actually not that far between here and there.
There is no human habitation, but it is the place where Xiaqiu Village grows things. It would be nice to give it to them. Look at the mugwort. It grows so tall that you can smell it from a distance. "
Zhu Yuanzhang shamelessly stretched out his hand to hold Queen Ma's hand: "We were also on the Dragon Boat Festival at that time, and we went up the mountain to pick mugwort! We even encountered a snake! That snake... yes, that's it, silly, okay!"
Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma finally found an opportunity to show off their affection, and other courtiers suffered from facial dysfunction.
As a result, a flower-necked snake jumped out and was pinned down by Zhu Wentian with a stick.
He didn't know what the situation was like with the snake Zhu Yuanzhang encountered at that time. Anyway, this one now was a venomous snake.
The flower neck is the flower feather neck, also called the silver krait.
It’s the fifth update today. I’m missing one, so I’ll make it up tomorrow! Uh-huh! The farmer bowed!
(End of chapter)
