Although the recurve bow has many advantages over the straight-pull bow, the two bows that Su Yan chose to make were both straight-pull bows for no other reason, it was just simple, making a simple straight-pull bow first, and then making a more complex recurve bow later.

How easy is it to make a straight draw?

Choose the bamboo, divide the bamboo, staggered the bamboo joints, cut off the length of four feet, cut and trim it, and the bow body of a bow will come out, and then tie a slightly thin twine to both ends of the bow, and a simple straight bow will be made.

When the bow is ready, there are still arrows, cut directly from the bamboo, the length is about two and a half feet, and after a little processing, more than a dozen arrows are baked.

Looking at the two straight-drawn bows in front of him and more than a dozen arrows, some memories of his previous life surfaced in Su Yan's mind.

Children like to dance knives and guns, and even make their own bows and arrows, Su Yan has also had this situation, holding branches and tying them at both ends of the branches with strings, a simple bow is made, and then by the way, choose some thin branches that look relatively straight as arrows.

Put the arrow on the bow, pull the bowstring hard, let go of the small hand, the arrow "fast" shoots out, and finally falls to the position of three zhang away, a little farther can exceed six zhang, if you choose a branch with large elasticity, you can even shoot the arrow out of ten zhang away.

The distance is there, the accuracy is completely absent, and it is impossible to shoot a fixed target at a long distance, and sometimes it will even accidentally hurt other friends.

At that time, Su Yan also had a question in his heart: Why do the bows and arrows seen on TV have feathers behind the arrows?

This question bothered Su Yan for a long time, and he was not embarrassed to ask adults, and it was only when he grew up that he roughly guessed the effect of the feathers behind those arrows.

The arrow is composed of three parts: the arrow, the shaft, and the feather.

Arrowhead, also known as arrowhead, copper or iron, with a sharp head and a rich bottom, with a trigobus, triangular, conical, etc., with a thin and sharp blade and a groove next to it; The shaft is made of wood or bamboo, embedded under the arrow, and the shaft is cylindrical and made of the end of the arrow; Arrow feathers are often made of bird feathers and clamped to the tail end of the shaft of the arrow, so that the arrow can hit the target smoothly in flight.

Now the two bows made by the dragon tribe are simple as if Su Yan played with them when he was a child in his previous life, Su Yan picked up a bow and an arrow, put the arrow on the bow, pulled the bowstring, and the bow arm kept being complete and let go.

Sou!

The arrow came out of his hand, traveled a distance of more than ten zhang in the blink of an eye, and finally fell to the ground with exhaustive energy.

Su Yan was not surprised by this situation, bamboo is the worst material in making a bow, and the range of the bamboo bow is difficult to exceed 30 zhang, even if the straight draw bow is very huge.

Now the bamboo bow in Su Yan's hand is even more rudimentary, and it is far to be able to shoot a distance of twenty zhang, and it is not an accident to shoot a distance of more than ten zhang.

Two bamboo bows, Su Yan each used them to shoot a few arrows, and the distance was not more than twenty zhang.

These two bamboo bows can be regarded as the beginning of the dragon tribe's bow and arrow production, and then their role is to use as toys for minors in the tribe.

Well, archery should be cultivated from children, and Su Yan plans to let a few carpenters make more simple bamboo bows and use them as toys for minors in the tribe.

The next step is to make a straight draw bow, but it should be made more carefully, at least the normal range should reach more than 20 zhang, if it is less than 15 zhang, it is better to continue to throw a short spear.

Using bamboo to make a straight draw bow is just the beginning, and the material of the bow body will change in the future, even using composite materials, and the recurve bow must be used, and Su Yan also wants to make that kind of English longbow.

The longbow is generally about seven feet long, the back of the bow is bent from a whole piece of wood, the best bow is made of yew wood, which is hard and elastic, and hard materials such as elm, ash, and oak are also available alternatives, but the performance is always worse.

The longbow has a range of more than 100 zhang, and it can penetrate leather, padded armor and fabric, or penetrate chain mail at distances of 70 to 80 zhang; At a distance of sixty zhang, plate armor or fish scale armor can resist its penetration; And a frontal hit within thirty zhang could not resist even plate armor; At the range of twenty zhang, the longbow and arrow can be said to be indestructible.

The longbow has very high requirements for the user, tall stature, and strong arm strength, but these requirements are not a problem for primitive people at all, the average height of adult males over twenty years old in the dragon tribe is six feet, and the strength is much stronger than that of modern people, and it is easy to shoot with a longbow.

If both sides are equipped with a large number of bows and arrows, the range is the last word, imagine that the enemy is advancing towards us, but we draw the bow and shoot, the enemy desperately advances but still does not reach the range of their bow and arrows, and finally is crushed by our arrow rain.

Longbows should be necessary, recurve bows should not be missing, in the jungle or riding archery, wide longbows are not suitable, at this time you need to use a petite recurve bow.

Of course, these ideas are all in Su Yan's mind, and now the Dragon Tribe has not even done a good job of the bamboo straight draw bow, and the longbow, recurve bow or something will have to wait for a long time.

The next day, two carpenters made two new bamboo bows, these two bamboo bows were made according to the sketches left by Su Yan, after careful carving, they have begun to take on the appearance of bows, and the two bows that were made before are like children's toys, the appearance can be said to be earth-shattering.

The arrow has also changed from a monotonous bamboo strip to a regular arrow composed of three parts: a copper arrowhead, a bamboo arrow shaft, and an arrow feather made of brocade feathers.

Su Yan picked up the bamboo bow and arrows, put the arrows on the bamboo bow, and used three points of strength, and the bamboo bow was about to be pulled into a full moon.

Sou!

The arrow flew straight out, flew a distance of more than 20 zhang and fell to the ground.

"Okay." Feeling the bow and the arrows that were shot, Su Yan made an evaluation.

This kind of bamboo bow Su Yan can only use three points of strength, and a little more strength will almost break this bamboo bow, Su Yan is already nineteen years old, practicing martial arts every day, Su Yan's strength can almost rank in the top ten in the dragon tribe.

No matter how good the bamboo straight bow is, it is not much better than the bamboo bow in Su Yan's hand, the straight draw bow is such a simple structure, if you want to improve the range and power of the bow and arrow, you have to start with the material of the bow body, the carpenter's skill is not enough, it is better to continue to make bamboo bows and accumulate experience.

In the evening, Su Yan brought home two bamboo bows and ten arrows.

"Brother, what's in your hand?" Xiao Yue saw the bow and arrow in Su Yan's hand and asked curiously.

"Bows, arrows, a weapon that was later used in place of a short spear." Saying that, Su Yan also pulled the bow away and gave Xiaoyue a demonstration.

Satsuki didn't know what a bow and arrow was, but she knew that a short spear was a throwing weapon, so for example, Satsuki understood that a bow and arrow were a ranged weapon similar to a short spear.

Xiao Yue took the bow and arrow from Su Yan's hand, and curiously pulled the bow like Su Yan, Xiao Yue also practiced martial arts, and there was no need to worry about Xiao Yue not being able to pull the bamboo bow.