Chapter 422: Bed Crossbow
"Brother Yong, Brother Yong~ Are you up?"
When the anxious call of six fingers sounded outside the window of the No. 1 wooden house, Song Yong quickly woke up.
After glancing at Gardenia, who was still asleep, he whispered in his mouth: "Got it, I'll come out immediately, don't keep calling." ”
After finishing speaking, Song Yong began to get up and put on his coat.
At the end of last night's meeting, I watched Six Fingers in a state of excitement like chicken blood.
Song Yong's heart was a little sure, in such a large number of nights, there was still a great possibility that Six Fingers would make a ballista.
Therefore, in order to fulfill my promise, I can have a good mental outlook in today's teaching.
He even put down his long-term insistence on staying up all night to cultivate magical power, and after returning to the wooden house, he hurriedly washed up, and fell asleep with his head in his arms.
Sure enough, when Song Yong yawned and walked out of the door.
Only then did I discover that the sky on the horizon was just misty and shining.
And even in such a very poor visibility, the bloodshot eyes of the little old man Six-Finger were still shining.
"The ballista is ready, it's pretty fast. Facing the six fingers, Song Yong praised him by the way.
However, in the mouth of the six fingers, Song Yong heard an answer that surprised him quite unexpectedly:
"It's been a while since the ballista was ready, isn't it worried about disturbing your rest, Brother Yong! I've been outside the window of your house, and I didn't dare to call you until now. ”
When he said this, Song Yong could even hear the grievances in it.
It's a pity that Song Yong, the gray rabbit lord, directly ignored such a point.
He thinks that the natives under his command, after such a training by himself, have the ability to think about others.
So, accompanied by Six Fingers, he walked towards the artisan area......
In a room that was several times larger than the standard wooden house he lived in, Song Yong saw the results of Liuzhi and several craftsmen under him, who had been busy for most of the night:
A ballista in the ancient style of China, known as a bed ballista.
In fact, in the drawings given by Song Yong to the six fingers, in addition to bed crossbows and frame crossbows that appeared in the history of China, there were also several Western-style ballistas.
But in the end, Six Fingers and others still chose this bed crossbow as the first trial ballista style.
The so-called bed crossbow is naturally very similar to the bed frame in shape.
In the center of the room, there was a bed frame with four thick wooden legs.
Unlike the queen bed, there are no slats on top of the bed frame, and there are soft hay and animal skins.
In its place, there was a huge crossbow bolt.
Moreover, on top of this crossbow arrow, there are three bow arms made of strong and elastic purple shirt, which are connected together by thick ox tendon ropes.
In other words, when the three bows are full, the arrows shot out have the power of madness.
Of course, if you want to fill up such three giant bows, you also need amazing arm strength, and it is estimated that it is difficult for a veteran totem warrior like a spear to do this.
However, the ancestors of ancient China have long been aware of such a problem.
At the back of the bed frame, they also designed a wooden winch, and the cow tendon rope on the winch was connected to the bowstring.
Just let one or two ordinary hunters, not so laboriously turn the winch, to pull the bed crossbow to the full.
According to the operation process, at this time, it is natural to load the arrows of the ballista.
Then, after the arrow is aimed at the target through subtle adjustment, the winch is completely released, and the arrow on the bed crossbow can be fired.
Similarly, this kind of bed crossbow with a length of more than three meters, with the use of arrows on it, is naturally not the kind that is small and exquisite.
To put it bluntly, it was a two-meter-long, bowl-thick straight trunk with a large iron arrowhead.
Even the ballista arrow placed on the side of the bed crossbow at this moment, the thick arrow on it was urgently created last night, and because it has not yet been polished, it still looks very dull.
However, looking at such a thick crossbow arrow.
Song Yong believed very much in his heart that even if he didn't have to polish the arrows, after such a big guy shot those mammoths, he could make the other party suffer serious damage......
"It looks like it's doing pretty well, but whether it's good or not, let's go out and have a shot to find out. ”
After carefully inspecting this bed crossbow made by the six fingers and others, Song Yong made such an evaluation and suggestion in his mouth.
As soon as he heard this, the six fingers that had been prepared for a long time waved his hand.
With the joint efforts of two craftsmen, they lifted this big guy of at least a few hundred pounds and walked out of the gate effortlessly.
Suddenly, for a heavy instrument such as a bed crossbow, it can be exerted in the hands of primitive people and natives, which is simply unscientific mobility.
Song Yong had a sober understanding immediately.
In the experimental site of the ballista, Song Yong didn't bother to toss around, but just took the craftsmen carrying the ballista, and they came to the square area.
By this time, the sky was also brightening.
It was also time for the primitive people and natives to get up and wash.
It's just that today's situation is a little different, after seeing the strangely styled bed crossbow, the buns don't know where they are, this is their noble Brother Yong, and the craftsmen tossed something rare.
So let's not talk about washing up or anything for the time being, it's only right to take a good look at the excitement first.
Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of natives who had just gotten up, Song Yong found a fairly flat position in the square area and asked the craftsmen to put down the bed crossbow.
The target of the bed crossbow was the large solid stone wall to the left of the cave entrance, which was about a hundred paces apart.
On this piece of stone wall, Song Yong drew a large circle with a piece of charcoal, which was regarded as a target for test firing.
Song Yong estimated that he still needed to smash a pit of ten centimeters in the stone wall, so that he could actually pose a threat to those mammoths with such power.
At the same time, not to mention how accurate the trajectory of this thing is, it can't be too evil.
Soon, the winch that Six Fingers personally turned was equipped with the bowstring, and the arrows were loaded, so that the ballista could be fired at any time.
It's just that before the actual launch, Brother Yong still needs to do a good job of clearing the site.
Good guys! These lively buns are watching in the back, and they are guarding in front of the ballista fire, isn't that the birthday boy hanged himself and thought his life was long?
God knows how far this thing will drift when it's launched.
"Fuck off, you little cubs don't want to die!" Song Yong scolded loudly as he kept kicking out of his legs.
drove a bunch of people who had been blocked in front of the ballista firing boundary one after another.
After everyone was driven away, Six Fingers signaled that he had completed his aiming, and finally gave the order of 'go you', and Song Yong's mouth shouted.
In Song Yong's shouting, the six-finger trigger dropped the switch that stuck the winch.
'Tension~' in the loud vibration, the thick crossbow arrow with the thick mouth of the bowl was shot out like lightning.
Under a burst of exclamations, blunt-headed arrows shot into the stone wall one after another, directly stuck on it and penetrated to a depth of dozens of centimeters, and the power was far greater than Song Yong imagined.
It's a pity that it's a little worse on the quasi-head.
It's not that he is completely out of the target, but with an interval of a hundred steps, he only hits the edge of the big target on the table, which makes Song Yong a little disappointed.
Undoubtedly, this brings up a fatal problem in practical application.
In order to increase the accuracy, how far does the target enter before this thing fires? Do you have to put the mammoth fifty paces before firing it, isn't that the legendary 'bayonet on the cannon'!
For a while, Song Yong also hesitated.