Yu Meng has been practicing archery since he was a child, and he is very proficient in bow and arrow training, including when he returned from the sacrifice at Xun Mountain last year. If he had not had the power of the totem, Yu Meng would have been able to shoot You Hong's sentry. Death, how could he be forced to that point?
Bows and arrows have become an indispensable weapon in the hands of warriors since they were invented. However, the birth of this weapon is not clear. There are several people who can be called the ancestors of bows and arrows, such as Shaohao's son "Ban" , it is also said to be "Zhang Hui", the grandson of Shaohao. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" quotes "Shiben" as saying, "Mou Yi makes an arrow and wields it as a bow."
But no matter who created and invented this thing, bows and arrows accompanied the human race through the distant era of ignorance. The darkness in ancient times was pierced by bows and arrows like meteors. , lighting up the way forward for the human race.
The emergence of bows and arrows gave the human race a long-range means of killing. They no longer had to fear the eagles in the sky, nor did they have to confront ferocious beasts head-on.
But the use of bows and arrows has great requirements. The better and bigger the bow, the greater the force required to draw it.
But when Yumeng tried out the bed crossbow, he knew something.
The progress of bows and arrows is far from stopping.
Although the crossbow itself is a two-way shooter like the bow and arrow, although the range of this bed crossbow is not ideal, and although Wu is a little worried about it, Yumeng has a kind of mysterious confidence.
This bed crossbow will definitely play a big role.
A carpenter can't figure out a structure. If ten people think about it together, ten people are not enough. There is also Ahong from Danxia Mountain.
A Hong has great abilities in carpentry equipment. Ever since he was "initiated" by Hu Zai, it was like the two channels of Ren and Du were suddenly opened. It was really a flash of inspiration that never stopped. Although A Hong has been working on it for the past six months. He makes farming and manual production tools, but that doesn't mean he can't make such killing weapons.
There is a very powerful tribe of craftsmen in the Central Plains. Whether they are carpenters, stone workers, bone carvers, or pottery makers, you can find masters in this tribe.
This tribe is the "Xuanyu clan" who followed Gonggong, Chong Bogun and others to control floods and help build the city.
Among the central officials, the Xuan Yu family highly respected the craftsmanship of Gongshi Qiaochui, which is why they tried their best to help the central government.
Danzhu also studied at the Xuanyu family for a period of time. Although Di Fangxun thought it was simply not doing his job properly, and he soon started playing Go in the hope that Danzhu would give up carpentry, but Di Fangxun never expected that Danzhu was born with a natural talent. The chess master, after understanding the rules, knocked Di Fangxun off the table in three games.
As the saying goes, "Yao played Go and Dan Zhu was good at it."
At the foot of Xun Mountain, near Jindu.
This place has been developed into a gathering point for the accumulation of materials, and their imperfect bed crossbows have been placed here.
Danzhu asked Xunshan to issue an order to summon carpenters from all tribes to come to this location.
So, we waited for another ten days.
Carpenters from various tribes gathered at this place.
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Chaogan is a carpenter from the Chaoyu clan who lives in the Iris Lake area in the southern wilds.
Chaoan was summoned by Xunshan and came to the material transfer point near Xunshan, a place called "Mangmanzhiye".
This is just a small mountain field, full of awns. Mang refers to rice awns and full refers to warehouses. Therefore, the name of this mountain field is very straightforward. Let me tell you, this is our transfer station for storing food and supplies.
It's like a large warehouse on the front line.
Since the beginning of last summer, the Akagata family has led the entire southern field to expel archers, explore water veins, and change some river courses. At that time, Chaogan had seen the Akafata family's cart and the straight and curved double plow. My first impression is that they are a tribe that is good at hydrogeology and woodworking equipment.
Later, the Akakata family started to establish a rural cooperative. The tribes of the Acorus Lake were far away, so the road has not been dug yet, but the three mountains and four fields have been connected to the Acorus Lake, and the road passed through Zhuyu The mountain and Jinqiu are almost repaired.
When he was in the rural cooperative, Chaogishan also got a lot of new agricultural production tools from the Akagata clan. The wizards in the tribe highly praised the tools of the Akakata clan, and there were great harvests from the tiller buds, Jinghua and other clans. As an example, everyone is looking forward to the harvest in the coming year.
Flood disasters were solved, grain production increased, animal husbandry was developed, and pottery and handicrafts flourished.
This is the first big step that Nanbu Moroye will take after establishing the cooperative. .
Therefore, when Chaogan saw the strange carpenter's murder weapon, he did not show any surprise. Instead, he was full of a strong spirit of exploration and research towards this instrument!
The Akakata family is famous for the production of woodworking instruments...
But Chaogishi waited for a while, but did not get the instruction manual for this thing.
Because Tao Tang’s envoy was in front, telling these carpenters:
"This is an imperfect attack device called a bed crossbow. The current range is only thirty steps. It is obviously useless. Therefore, the main purpose of calling you here is to 'brainstorm'... Ah, this word means everyone Let’s figure it out together…”
"Who can increase the attack range of this bed crossbow to more than 300 steps..."
Danzhu looked at Ji Chi and then at Yu Zai.
Ji Chi coughed and said solemnly: "If it can be built, the range will reach 300 steps. In the coming year, tribute will be exempted and Xunshan will grant protection as usual."
Wow!
This news is simply shocking, and Chao'an did not expect this "reward". Tribute grains are used to worship mountain gods. In Xunshan, they are handed over to the great wizard. According to the size of the tribe's population, the amount is handed over. The tribute is also different. Generally speaking, it is paid according to one-tenth of the population....
Waiver of food tribute means that for small and medium-sized tribes, which have not had much food in the past few years, they will have at least half a month more food at once, just like they have been given an extra thousand yuan for overtime work this month. Could it be that with your monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, you would tell your boss that you don’t want this reward?
No one complains about too much money, and no one complains about too much food. And the most important thing is that the annual tribute grain here in Nanshan requires the best "fine grain", that is, carefully selected high-grade grain. It is a good material for making seeds!
It seems that the grain tribute for one year has been waived, but in fact, it has added a lot of high-quality seeds for the coming year!
"Three hundred steps? It's not a big problem!"
Some people were eager to try and looked excited, but Yuzai was named by Ji Chi at this time.
"The wizard of the Akakata clan also has something to say to everyone!"
Ji Chi looked at the little wizard Zuzai. The Southern Wilderness was originally in the same shabby state as in previous years, but since the Akafang clan came, the Southern Wilderness began to be different.
Although the Akakata clan often made some annoying requests, Ji Ji thought about it carefully and said that those changes were indeed beneficial to the south.
"Everyone, I am the wizard of the Akagata clan, Suzai."
Yu Zai came up and went straight to the topic: "The situation of this Sanmiao attack is by no means optimistic. When I, the Akafang clan, was making wooden tools, I made a prototype based on the grass-bone stone crossbow that was independently developed during the last attack on the Yu clan. This weapon is called the 'Bed Crossbow'."
"But after we tested this thing, we found that the range was not as accurate as the design and calculation...and we racked our brains and couldn't find the reason. In order to help the southern wilds, we now hope Carpenters from various tribes came to assist us.”
"This will be the key to our victory over Sanmiao!"
