Chapter 127 Observing the Range

Author: flying de lazy cat

Chapter 127 Observing the Range

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. After this beginning, Zhou Chongshan, who gradually gained the feel and experience, looked like a master archer holding a 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, 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.

When the direct shooting distance is extended to this point, the stability of the arrow has dropped significantly, and it is no longer a situation where good technique means you can definitely hit the target.

Thinking of this, just when Zhou Xu was about to speak out and bring this test to an end for the time being.

Zhou Chongshan, who had just missed the target with an arrow, lowered his head and thought for a moment before firing again. The arrow flew out from 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...

【lucky, 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, did not receive Zhou Xu's order. After seeing the arrow hit the target, he ran over habitually, held the target, walked ten steps more, and then ran away.

Zhou Chongshan, on the other hand, drew another arrow from the quiver on the side.

He bent the bow and nocked the arrow. Compared with before, he seemed to have thought about it for a second or two more, and 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 current distance has been stretched to 95 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? Is it possible to perform like this for the first time using this weapon? 】

As Zhou Xu's thoughts flew, 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.

Zhou Chongshan then tried two more arrows, but still didn't 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..."

At this point, Zhou Xu didn't say any more, but the meaning of his words was already very clear.

Zhou Chongshan nodded after hearing this.

"Yes, as the leader said, those two arrows were basically luck. If I try again, I can't guarantee that I will hit the target."

"Okay, I probably understand."

While speaking, Zhou Xu waved his hand, signaling Zhang Xiaoshan, who was standing far away, to move the target away.

"Chongshan, shoot three more arrows at that open space. We want to confirm the maximum range of these arrows."

"yes."

No nonsense, after Zhang Xiaoshan moved the target away, Zhou Chongshan 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 actually didn't particularly care whether the arrow's flight trajectory became stable after ninety meters.

After all, on the battlefield, not everyone is an expert archer. 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, firing his bow at full capacity and shooting three times.

This archer mainly uses 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 projectile, the bow is fired into the sky, 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 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 my '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.

He has never realized how valuable 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 has mastered some basic arithmetic under the guidance of Zhou Xu.

At this stage, using drawings and digital data is basically enough, and 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 available."

Zhuang Mengdie estimated and reported a number.

After all, this was not the first time Zhuang Mengdie had encountered something similar, so this time, she had sorted out the matter clearly before Zhou Xu asked her. Now that Zhou Xu asked, she naturally answered.

"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 leave the subsequent details to the polisher.

If I come, I can improve the efficiency a lot and increase the speed to less than ten days."

This answer obviously did 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 a bamboo bow will be greatly reduced. Even a bamboo bow bonded with glue will most likely not be as good as the one made by Mengdie by hand in terms of performance.

payment.】

[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. 】
Chapter completed!