Chapter 28: Improving Weapons

Primitive people hunted, generally mainly small and medium-sized animals. In the face of large animals or ferocious carnivores, as long as there is no conflict, they will back down. The truth in this is similar to what later generations think: just for a bite to eat, there is no need to fight for your life.

It is said that the wolves of the Youda tribe like to hunt wolves back to the tribe at every turn. Although such a person is brave, in the hearts of most men, he may be regarded as a fool.

Lin Ji hopes to change this concept of these men in a short period of time, so that everyone can learn like a wolf.

One is to enhance the blood nature of these men. The second is to make the territory where you live a little safer. The third is to expand the sources of food.

Of course, the ultimate goal of improving the blood of these men and ensuring the source of food is to change the men's voice in the tribe, so as to leverage the custom of respecting women in the whole society.

There is no way to change the customs directly, and the institutional constraints are not forcefully enforced, and the forest traces can only be carried out in this roundabout way.

In the same way, it is useless to get men to change their hunting habits. Lin Ji decided to improve their weapons first, change their hunting ideas, and finally turn them into unpleasant warriors who can't hunt large prey.

I have drunk the soup of Lin Ji, and I am all my own people. Lin Ji squeezed into the circle with the eagle, and the men seemed quite close.

Lin Ji said: "We go downstream to fish, and now we have come to the position of the elbow pond, the fish are getting less and less, and then we have to rely on everyone to hunt to win each other, and in the future, we will eat meat or drink soup, it will depend on everyone's efforts." ”

Let everyone feel the pressure first, this is a small skill for the grassroots management city in the future. The men bowed their heads and said nothing, and some patted their chests as reassurances.

"You all know better than I know how to hunt. When I was fishing these days, I thought of a few hunting gadgets and let's see if they worked. ”

As he spoke, Lin Ji took out a few things. Let's show them one by one.

The first is nunchuck-like stuff. In fact, it is also a nunchuck, but the rope tied in the middle is more than a meter long, and the stick is relatively short and thick.

"I call this a footrope, or a zipline. These two things are best made of stone, but I can't polish them, so I'll use wood first. I'm going to show you how. Lin Ji stood up with a flying rope, and not far away, the vermilion monkey pretended to grill fish, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to take one, he sneaked back.

"Vermilion Monkey!" Lin Ji shouted, and the red monkey ran away.

Lin Ji took the opportunity to throw the zipline out. The zipline happened to be wrapped around the feet of the red monkey, and the red monkey stumbled to the ground.

A half-roasted fish fell out and landed right at Daihime's feet.

Da Ji grabbed a branch and slapped it twice, and the red monkey looked at the forest traces with a resentful face, and reluctantly stretched out his palm to Da Ji. The men laughed.

Lin Ji explained with a smile: "When the animal runs, it throws it on its feet, and then we take the spear and pounce on it like Daji......

"Hahahaha." The men burst into laughter again.

"The second piece." That's a net. It is a net knotted with rope, the mesh is the size of a palm, about three meters in diameter, and it is also tied with stones as a pendant.

"This is a method I came up with when I was fishing, and it works the same as the one just now, if you throw it out, the animal's feet will stumble in it, and it will fall. Let's take our spears and rush forward......"

"Haha......" this time it was a chuckle. Because the red monkey also came back with a black face.

This net was still made during the night of the slaughter, and Lin Ji's reason at that time was to let him practice netting. Po Tu thought that Lin Ji really let him practice, but he didn't expect that there would be such an effect.

"The third piece is a rope sleeve."

Rope sleeves are divided into large rope sleeves and small rope sleeves. Large rope nooses can be used to catch wild beasts and make traps, while small rope nooses can generally only be used to catch birds and birds.

The principle of this thing is simple, a rope, tie a looper, and then you can use it however you want. But it's also the most complex. Because it works any way.

After Lin Ji taught them how to tie a rope in a slipknot, he focused on telling them how to use a rope noose to make a trap. It's the kind of way you hang people up with a whoosh on TV.

To do this, the simple principle is to tie a small stake or tie a knot to make a jam point in addition to the slipknot of the rope. Bend down the elastic branch as a power, snap the stuck point at the trigger position, and then open the slipknot and spread it at the trigger point.

As for whether to pull the head or the foot, it depends on how the trigger device is set.

This problem is more complicated, Lin Jiguang has been talking about it for an hour, and at the same time, he has been making demonstrations.

Now it is different from the time when Lin Ji taught everyone to fire straight arrow shafts and make bone spears. At that time, Lin Ji was a little fart child who had no value, and everyone should fart what he said. Now the forest traces are poisonous, killing wolves, fishing nets and other successful cases in front, these men are their own people, so they all listen attentively and study carefully, even if some people don't understand, they only dare to hide behind and giggle and don't make trouble.

They still have to explore how to use this rope sleeve, and Lin Ji himself understands a theory, and he finished teaching it after almost trying a few times.

After talking about the rope trap, Lin Ji stretched his waist and took out the feather arrows in the old three.

The bone spear and the fire straight method men mentioned last time have been learned to some extent, and no one really cares about this thing, so I have to repeat it now.

This time, you can't just mess around with a picture.

Lin Ji took the bow and tried to shoot an arrow without feathers and an arrow with feathers, telling everyone the difference: "You see, an arrow without feathers, when it is shot, the body of the arrow is sometimes oblique, and it is easy to fly inaccurately. Feathered, it's easier to be in one direction, with both the arrow and the tail of the arrow pointing at the target. To put it mildly, it's because of air resistance. An arrow with feathers, because it is pulled by feathers, shoots straight...... I didn't say this paragraph. You try a little more first, I didn't lie to you. ”

"It's easy to do this. You break the middle of the tail of the arrow, don't break too much, two fingers long is enough. Tuck feathers on both sides. The fortress is even...... It's just as much on both sides. Then, we found a thin thread and wrapped the tail of the arrow around it and tied it tightly. Now the feather is clamped up, and it can't fall off, and the feather arrow is ready. ”

Lin Ji patiently taught the children to make dolls, taught these primitive people, and watched them do it one by one before giving up, feeling that it was too hard.

If they try this feather arrow a few times, they will know the benefits, so that they can learn how to make it, and they don't have to worry about not using it in the future.

The last thing I want to talk about is the bow.

Lin Ji didn't know much about the bow. In the era of cold weapons of the dynasty, the method of making bows was extremely complicated, and a good bow could take a good craftsman a year to make. This kind of craft is not something that a layman like Lin Ji can understand.

However, when he saw the monomeric bows of these men in the tribe, he still felt all kinds of toothaches. Although he didn't understand the complicated bow-making process, he learned a little about the fur of bows from the Internet, which still allowed him to throw off these primitive people a few streets in this regard.

The advantage of a monolithic bow is that it is convenient and easy to make. The disadvantages are also very obvious: low elasticity and easy fatigue. Another problem with the bows of the tribe that even has bark is that the force is uneven.

Such a bow is not bad against a bird, but it is estimated that it is better to use it as a stick against a beast.

Lin Ji took out a few pieces of sharpened bamboo and a few pieces of rope, and said: "There are a lot of bows, I have asked them to leave all the fish floats in the past two days, go back to get some glue and collect some other materials, and slowly teach everyone how to make the bow more elastic and better." There is also the practice of bowstrings when you go back. Today, let's talk about how to reshape our bow a little. Make it shoot more accurately and more powerfully. ”

Lin Ji picked up two pieces of bamboo, one long and one short: "Everyone bends the long bamboo to make a bow." Today we add a section. ”

Lin Ji measured it, inserted the short pieces of bamboo into the inside of the long bamboo, and then tied them up with a rope circle.

"I call this a bow tire. What's in it for that? By tying it in this way, the arrow can use part of its elastic force, that is, the arrow can shoot farther. With this part, the curvature of the bow is less affected by the hand grip on this part, and it is possible to shoot more accurately. ”

Lin Ji asked people to help the bow string, and bent a bamboo bow without a bow tire for everyone to compare. The bow with a tire is really much stronger when it is pulled up, and many people can't help but be amazed.

Such a small piece of bamboo, that is the revolution of the bow.

The bow is the biggest killing weapon in prehistory, and when this development reaches a lethal power fifty meters away, no tigers, leopards, bears and lions will want to run.

"Yours." After everyone looked around, Lin Ji took the bow back and threw it on the stone beak that he had been looking at earlier. The others did it themselves, and this was what Lin Xi promised to give to the stone beak. Hopefully, this half-sized boy can become a sharpshooter.