Chapter 9: Making a Bow and Arrow
As soon as Ye Feng made a sound, he shocked the four seats, and the people were not lightly shaken, they didn't think that people could make a sound like this, and it was so good, people were excited, and the stars surrounded him like the moon, cheering and shouting, just like the concerts of later generations,
The Xingyue tribe spent the night in this joyful atmosphere, and the next morning, Duoye took people out hunting, Ye Feng didn't follow, Duoye didn't force it, and took people away.
Ye Feng didn't go hunting, of course, he wasn't lazy, because he wanted to make a long-range weapon-bow.
Bows and arrows have long been available in this era, and later generations found a 28,000-year-old arrow cluster in a Paleolithic civilization site, although the bow at that time may be a simple tree branch and rattan, but it also indicates that people have learned how to use mechanical stored energy, which is a great progress in human technology.
Limited to the reason of materials and tools, Ye Feng planned to make a simple bow, not to be able to shoot the prey with an arrow, but to shoot the wounded so that people could come forward to hunt.
The selection of the bow is very important, not a casual wooden stick can make a bow, generally speaking, to make a simple bow, with hard wood such as willow, hickory, oak, elm, birch, yew and other wood is the best, bamboo is second.
Yesterday I saw a lot of birch trees during the hunt, and I don't know if there are any near the tribe, and the women who often gather near the tribe must know this best.
He found a woman and asked, this woman was five big and three thick, and she would be a standard man in the next generation. The woman didn't understand what a birch tree was at first, but Ye Feng explained in detail what a birch tree looked like, and the woman finally understood.
Happily, there is not only a large area of birch timber near the tribe, but according to the woman, not far from the southwest of the tribe.
Ye Feng brought a stone axe and let the woman lead the way, and sure enough, he saw a birch forest.
Ye Feng searched for a long time, and finally found a small birch tree with thick arms, without saying a word, picked up the axe and chopped it, the woman looked at Ye Feng's actions curiously, what Ye Feng had in his hand was not so much an axe, but a stone hammer, Ye Feng cut for a long time, only cut out a small gap, and his two arms were sore and weak, and he couldn't lift the stone axe.
Seeing Ye Feng like this, the woman next to her really couldn't stand it, snatched the stone axe in Ye Feng's hand, and slashed it at the trunk, and after a while, a big hole was cut.
After a while, the little birch tree only had a little trunk left uncut down, and the woman put away the axe, raised her right foot, and kicked the trunk, only to see the branches and leaves of the little birch tree tremble, and fell down with a "click".
Ye Feng's eyelids twitched, and he thought to himself that this primitive man was really violent, and the female men of later generations were just like that, you must know that this is such a blunt stone axe, is this still a woman? What about being reserved? Well, this primitive man will never understand this.
Ye Feng returned to the tribe and split the birch in half with a stone axe, of course, this tree was carried back by the woman, don't say that he is not a gentleman enough, because this tree really can't carry it, before crossing he was an abandoned house, the heaviest weight he has carried is the computer host, the fastest speed is that he was suffocated by urine and rushed from the bedroom to the toilet, so he has not exercised at all, then he is carrying the trunk that he just cut down, it is better to kill him.
The production of bows and arrows is complicated and complex, and it depends on the type of production. Ye Feng thinned the two ends of the split birch with hard stone chips, making it a shape that was thick in the middle and thin at both ends, and polished smooth with rough stone.
The wood of the English longbow is hard, not easy to bend, and can only grow in length, so that its biggest feature is that the bow body is very long, about 1.5, and some even up to 1.8~2.2 meters, the production process is very simple, and a skilled British technician can make it in only two hours.
The most important thing in making a bow is to bend it, and it is not possible to bend it directly, which will destroy the fibers in the material and lose a lot of elasticity. Although the British longbow is simple to make, it is as difficult to build as a high-precision fighter for the poor and white Xingyue tribe.
Tempering with fire is the most effective method of bending, and it also protects the fibers of the material, but it takes away the tension of the bow and weakens the power.
But Ye Feng didn't come for power, so he chose to use fire to make it, he put the bow body on the fire to roast it, and gently pressed the bow body while it was hot, and the hard birch bow body was easily bent down, and then connected the two ends with a straw rope to fix it, waiting for it to bend.
Of course, he didn't use straw rope as a bowstring, which had to be made separately. The bowstring must be tough, he peeled off the outer skin of the vine that he had found before the root, pulled out the wooden vine core, smashed it again and again, obtained the vine fiber, and kneaded it into a thin thread, Ye Feng pulled it hard, and it was quite strong, and Ye Feng used it as a bowstring.
The next step is to make an arrow, find a finger-thick and straight branch, peel off the bark, use a rough stone to smooth the protrusion, sharpen the arrow, and burn it in the fire to make the arrow hard and increase its lethality.
At the end of the arrow, a small slit of six or seven centimeters long is split with a stone chip, and the remaining feathers of the pheasant caught yesterday are cut off from the feather stalk, and the small slit is sandwiched in the tail of the arrow, and the small slit is tied tightly with the remaining vine fibers.
Ye Feng made more than a dozen arrows, and found that the bow was almost there, he untied the straw rope, and the bow only bounced back a little, he carved a groove at both ends, and tied it into the groove at both ends with a thin rope, and in this way, the first bow of the Xingyue tribe was born.
Ye Feng pulled the bowstring, very energetic, picked up an arrow, and shot an arrow at the open space.
With a "whoosh", the arrow flew out, Ye Feng saw that the arrow flew about twenty meters and stopped, he was very satisfied with this result, the existing technology could not make the kind of bow that could shoot seventy or eighty far, so he could only retreat to the second.
Time passed little by little, and when the sun went down, the returning men saw such a scene: Ye Feng was holding a strange bent wooden stick, gesturing there, and smirking. Seeing this, people looked at each other, not knowing what Ye Feng was crazy about.
When Ye Feng saw the people returning, he hurriedly beckoned: "Hurry up, let's see what good things I have made." ”
People didn't know what to do, and looked at what he had come up with, only to see that Ye Feng had nothing in his hand except a wooden stick, and everyone thought disapprovingly: Isn't it just a wooden stick, there are some in the forest, and it is more curved than yours.
Ye Feng didn't know what everyone was thinking, so he took out an arrow and aimed it at a tree in a dashing manner, firing his bow and firing arrows—he thought of himself, the arrow swooped and pierced into the trunk of the tree.
People were dumbfounded, staring blankly at the bow in Ye Feng's hand, as for Ye Feng actually aiming at a tree next to him, he was going to bring it into the coffin, and he would not say it for the rest of his life.