In the carpenter's workshop, all the carpenters, including Miao Yuan, stared at Zhao Xin tightly, Zhao Xin simply stopped looking for it, and asked directly, "Is there any elm?" ”

"The young master asked the elm, if the elm is there!"

Miao Yuan clearly noticed that the surrounding carpenters had a playful expression in their eyes, he felt as if he had made a mistake, but out of the position of the owner, he held back his anger, swept everyone, and finally the target fell on the biggest craftsman, and said: "Wang Yuanqing, elm, tell the son if there is one!" ”

Looking at Miao Yuan's style, Wang Yuanqing was also a little helpless, and asked the carpenter if he had elm, what a stupid question, it is very common in workshops in the southern capital, let alone in the north. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Elm is a common tree species in northern China, is a kind of hard material, but not the hardest hard material, it is moderately soft and hard, the price is cheap, it is the first choice for surrounding farmers to make furniture or tools, and it is also the shaft of the vehicle, control and other important parts, it is widely used here in Miaojiazhuang, and it is the largest storage capacity of the whole woodworking workshop.

Knowing that Miao Yuan was already angry, Wang Yuanqing didn't dare to show any expression, and replied, "Yes!" ”

Zhao Xin ignored the subtle communication between them, and said directly: "Very good, find it out for me, the wood that is more straight, don't have long knots, have a width of three fingers, and a length of more than 2 meters, the longer the better!" ”

Looking at the excitement of your son, Wang Yuanqing couldn't help muttering in his heart, this is not the most common elm, in addition to the width and length are not very high, such elm can only be regarded as the simplest elm, and the finished elm will not be able to become mature until more than 50 years, this is not a board, not suitable for furniture, at most it is the support of a pole or something, don't get something to play.

Instructed a few small workers, and after a while, a large pile of wood was brought, all in accordance with Zhao Xin's requirements, looking for a relatively young elm, this kind of elm, in the whole carpenter workshop is relatively rare, only some hardness requirements are not very high support, will choose such wood.

Zhao Xin looked at these woods and was very satisfied, they were all selected according to his requirements, there were almost more than 100 sticks, and the longest one reached 2.9 meters.

The battle for the throne is dark, in order to protect himself, Zhao Xin must have stronger weapons, and when he was in Nanle, he was lucky to copy the weapons of the forbidden army, which is a full set of weapons of the forbidden army, including the most powerful armored infantry armor.

It's just that, for the time being, he has not yet been promoted to the second level, which is not far off, and in the near future, even if he buys it with money, he will be able to upgrade in a short time with the existing funds.

Level 1 cards, providing the most basic things, just ordinary minerals and simple weapons, when you reach level 2, super weapons such as step armor can be manifested, and even jasper bows, and even moon bows can be mass-produced.

These weapons can never be held on the bright side, as long as they are used for a long time, in case they are reported by people with ill intentions, a hidden ordnance is enough for him to walk around without eating, especially crossbows, even first-level infantry crossbows, can not be possessed casually, let alone second-level bed crossbows, this thing is very big, and it can't even be hidden.

Renzong's distance is thousands of miles away, the other party has a formal reason, iron-hearted operation, and is entangled in a part of the army that does not know the truth, even if he has strong strength, it is impossible to resist the army of the entire Song State, and come to 2000 regular forbidden troops, a master like Sun Ji has to take a detour, which is no longer something that can be solved by personal martial arts.

From the top of the canal to Miaojiazhuang, after the biggest level, there is a respite, this respite is not long, he must seize all the time to develop, in this case,

So what you want to make is that it doesn't look too eye-catching on the surface, not like a weapon, similar to a toy weapon, this kind of weapon is simply the use of wood, as for the bowstring, you can directly use silk thread, not exquisite, any flax fiber can be.

That's right, what Zhao Xin wants to make is a weapon that has never appeared in China, but in the history of cold weapons, it is an important weapon, in this field of bows, in Europe, crushed an era, for centuries, European countries even began to ban the export of wood, to England longbow power.

The English longbow, as the only superior weapon that England fought with the European powers before the birth of the musket, had a huge position in the whole of Europe, and was a unique arm of the British army, and even influenced the entire European continent.

The traditional English longbow uses purple longbow, the purple tree belongs to the yew family, there are very few in China, its elasticity is very good, it is the most excellent material for making longbows, the best English longbow made of purple shirt wood, the power is at least 3 times stronger than the general longbow, but the bow power is also quite strong, just like a powerful archer like Sun Ji, for ordinary archers.

There is no purple shirt wood in China, but the longbow is only a species, his strength, and the purple shirt wood has some relationship, but it is not the biggest relationship, that is, when the European war, the extreme requirements, China has many kinds of wood, in later generations of bow and arrow lovers, found its alternatives, the most common of which is the elm tree that is widely planted throughout China

Elm is a common wood, moderate hardness and elasticity, and even good plasticity, can be used to make furniture, near Miaojiazhuang, there are a lot of elm trees, when Zhao Xin came, he knew that there must be elm wood here by a professional carpentry workshop, so long.

Wang Yuanqing looked at Zhao Xin a little bewildered, he didn't know what the use of these sticks was still new materials, and he didn't even know what Zhao Xin was going to do, let alone how to start.

Zhao Xin is not a lover of bows and arrows, from some reading and the relationship between this profession, he has also YY, in ancient China, what would happen if you had an English longbow, which is a fallacy for historians, just like Guan Gong and Qin Qiong, these are two people who are completely out of bounds, but they have appeared in the novel, out of curiosity, he has seen a video on the Internet, and he has seen the manufacture of the entire English longbow.

I thought that the production of this magical weapon would be very complicated, as far as China's most outstanding composite bow is concerned, it may take at least a few years to prepare the materials from the beginning of the preparation of the bow to the completion of the bow, and some key materials must be prepared and compounded into a bowstring through a certain amount of gelatin, and it will take two or three years to use.

I thought that this is the same as the Chinese short bow compound bow, and it will be very complicated to achieve the ultimate long bow in the field of short bow, but I didn't expect that the whole manufacturing process is quite simple, and Zhao Xin, who has seen the video, thinks that this is a toy bow production.

A piece of wood with moderate elasticity and hardness, and then a bowstring is fine, much like when boys played with that kind of bamboo bow when they were children, and they took a hemp rope and used it as a bow and arrow with an ordinary wooden stick.

Of course, it just looks like a toy, but the whole bow manufacturing process, quite rigorous, compared to the Chinese composite bow, the material is extremely easy to find, and can be quickly formed, as long as there is elm, there is no need to consider others, the only thing to note is that the length of the entire bow, to exceed 1.5 meters, preferably 1.6 meters, at least more than 2 meters of wood.

This is also Zhao Xin's request, Wang Yuanqing basically came according to his requirements, the shortest is also more than 2.2 meters, the length is about 3 meters, such materials are either truncated and used, or they are abandoned, the long bow above 3 meters, and the length of the final longbow will exceed 2.4 meters, a strong man like Sun Ji can easily pull him away, but he can't use it, even if he stands on a high platform, it is not very suitable.

It is impossible for a person to hold a longbow that exceeds his height too much, the general longbow is between 1.5 meters and 1.7 meters, and it is simply adjusted according to the height, and the maximum is 1.9 meters for a person, holding a 1.85 meter longbow, which is already the limit, if it is too long, it exceeds the length of the human body, and even if it can shoot out, the accuracy and speed will be affected.

The people in the north of the Northern Song Dynasty are already quite tall, and they can't be said to be compared with Sun Ji or the forbidden army, but in the village of more than 2,400 people, Zhao Xin saw at least dozens of people who were more than 1.7 meters tall, and these people became natural candidates for archers, so the first batch of English longbows would choose about 1.6 meters, not too long, not too short.

Of course, it will take into account that Sun Ji and others will also make a few more than 1.8 meters of practitioners, and the left and right woods have reached and exceeded, and there are so many carpenter masters, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, at most until later, around the afternoon, a big killing weapon will be born in such a simple, even some seemingly dilapidated workshop, and even at this moment, the people who make it have not yet realized that a terrible weapon will be born in their hands.