Chapter 44: The Power of the Recurve Bow
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Roughly speaking, when the bear tells the other party's origin, the person suddenly breaks free from the guards. If the bear wants to keep his mouth alive, he will naturally not kill him. But no one expected that he took out a ball of grass from his clothes and swallowed it at once.
Although soon the bear's men subdued him again, soon the man began to convulse all over his body, spit filth in his mouth, and finally lay there like this.
"I've already sent someone to invite the stream, it should be there soon......" Before Xiong could finish his sentence, the stream followed the deer.
The brook was clear, and when she entered the door, she rushed to the man's side without saying a word, and she carefully checked the man's condition, and then picked up the remaining plant residues and looked at them.
Although the person was still convulsing, and it seemed that there was still a breath left, Xi still raised his head and shook his head at Long Qiupeng, indicating that he was already weak.
"Call someone to clean up......" Long Qiupeng sat on the seat and beckoned someone to clean up the scene. While cleaning up, he also said: "Xi, go back and take the bear to find another room to interrogate and detain the prisoner......"
He didn't want such an unfortunate thing to happen in the council chamber again.
Xiong said apologetically, "Chief, I didn't ask anything......"
Such a thing happened, in fact, it was also very unexpected to Long Qiupeng, he thought that suicide is a common principle of many religious beliefs, after all, if in a primitive society, if suicide is commonplace, then the survival of this tribe will become difficult. So probability-wise, it won't be so easy to come across a culture that allows suicide.
However, Long Qiupeng met him, and he was his neighbor. Long Qiupeng felt a sinking mood, this is not a good thing, a person who does not know how to cherish himself is difficult to really learn to be good to others.
Long Qiupeng knew these things himself, and he didn't plan to tell anyone else. He looked at the crowd very calmly, and then said, "It's okay, nine times out of ten, it's similar to what I guessed." β
After that, he told everyone about the situation he had inferred, and of course he would add fuel and vinegar during the period, saying that the hill tribe was ill-intentioned and had no evil intentions, and everyone was also indignant and dumbfounded when they heard it.
In the end, Long Qiupeng said lightly: "There's nothing to worry about and think about, the Long tribe has entered a state of preparation!" Ryujin, fight for dignity! β
"Dragonβ!" As soon as Long Qiupeng's words fell, the bear burst out with a roar, and the deer also raised his arms and shouted.
Long Qiupeng stood up, he was lucky, and shouted in a low voice: "Go!" Use your strength to prove who is the master of this land! β
Hearing this, Xiong rushed out of the council chamber as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and it was not in his temperament to be here for a long time to deal with various daily affairs.
Lu looked much more stable, since he came, he explained to Long Qiupeng about the situation of the handover with Xi, and explained to Long Qiupeng in detail about the barracks preparing to start training.
Long Qiupeng thought for a while, and said to the deer: "Arrange people to guard around the hill tribe, watch their movements, and if there is any movement, arrange for them to pass on the information as soon as possible, use smoke!" We must act before they ......"
"But if they use cigarettes, don't they know about it?" Deer asked.
However, Long Qiupeng is not worried about this problem. After all, one, the Qiutu tribe may not know the meaning of this smoke, just like the Furnace tribe at that time, and two, take 10,000 steps back and say, the other party knows the meaning of smoke, it doesn't matter, this war caused by stones, the moment Long Qiupeng captured the other party's intelligence officer, it was already an open secret of both sides.
On the contrary, Long Qiupeng was worried that the personnel would transmit the information, there were too many unknown coefficients in it, and the speed was too slow, so the information transmitted back would be cold, and I was afraid that the daylily would be cold.
He smiled at the deer and said, "I have my own arrangements, you don't have to worry about it." I'll be busy with you first, Dahu will bring me the bow and bow after lunch, and you and Yi will also have deer tendons and arrows at that time, and we'll see you in the square at noon. β
After the explanation was completed, everyone dispersed. Long Qiupeng was left alone in the council hall to study the map, while Yi stood there without saying a word. Unlike the bears who shuttle through the forest all the year round, and the poor deer who have little actual combat experience, Yi should have been to many places and experienced a lot of things, so Long Qiupeng asked Yi something about the frontal war between the tribes.
Yi traveled all the way, and sure enough, he saw and heard more than bears and deer. The battles between primitive tribes were divided into raid battles, positional battles, and confrontational battles. The first two are easy to understand, the first is the situation where Long Qiupeng attacked the Lu Clan, and the second is the situation that the Long Clan and the Qiu Tu Tribe will encounter now.
The most special is the third type, which can be said to be more unique to primitive tribes, because the production capacity is relatively low, the population is sparse, and the tribe will minimize the reduction of personnel and injuries regardless of whether the tribe wins or loses. So some tribes have a confrontation. The so-called battle is when the generals of the two sides go out, and the result of the battle represents the result of the battle between the two tribes.
Long Qiupeng doesn't know why there are such general rules, but it is reasonable to exist, and I heard that some indigenous people in the Amazon basin also have such customs. However, in Long Qiupeng's view, this may just be a delaying tactic for the survival of small tribes.
Because there was always a smell in the council hall, Long Qiupeng didn't notice the hunger and thirst in his stomach. It wasn't until Yi's stomach rumbled loudly that he realized that it was not too early, and it was time to eat.
Although there is an ancient Chinese saying that knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, there is also an ancient Chinese saying that people are not as good as heaven, so thinking too much may become a burden, so Long Qiupeng took a deep breath and said to Yi: "I don't want to, go to dinner, the big lake and the deer may already be waiting for us." β
When I arrived at the square, I found that I had been chatting with Yi for a long time, and most of the people had already eaten and drunk enough, and I may have heard that Long Qiupeng was going to try arrows in the altar square at noon today, so there were already a lot of people around here.
Dahu and Lu saw Long Qiupeng from a distance, so they rushed over, and they couldn't wait to hand Long Qiupeng all kinds of spare parts in their hands. Long Qiupeng skillfully followed the appearance in his mind, first holding a piece of leather in the grip to increase comfort and shock absorption. Then he said that the two pieces of the bow were pressed on both sides of the bow handle, and the bow pieces were linked with deer tendons, and a bow was displayed in front of everyone.
"Oh......" There was a small cry of surprise from the crowd, such a bow was unlike anything they had seen before, the end of its blade was bent and stretched in the opposite direction of the arc. And the bow body is more like a bird with wings spread than a full arc.
"It's so beautiful......" Long Qiupeng heard someone talking, but this beautiful bow was not just beautiful. He pulled his bow himself, and then gently put it away. This is a recurve bow, which has a greater charge than a normal bow, and it is easy to break the force on the string with nowhere to release when the empty bow is scattered.
He handed the bow to the deer, and about thirty meters away, someone set up a target.
The deer drew its bow and arrows as before, a little heavier than the usual bow, but nothing else seemed to be out of the ordinary. He glanced at Long Qiupeng, who didn't say anything, just nodded and motioned for him to give it a try. The deer took a deep breath, took aim at the target, and let go.
With a whoosh, the arrow flew towards the target, and the arrow flew to the target as expected, steadily. Although everyone was ready to cheer, everything was still within the expectations of the clansmen.
But in the blink of an eye, a miracle happened, the arrow hit the target, and then ...... Penetrated ......
Even the deer himself couldn't believe that he didn't use that much strength, or that he didn't have that much strength in the first place. The grass of these training sessions has shot him countless times, and today he did shoot through for the first time.
The layman looked at the excitement, the insider looked at the doorway, Yi who was hiding on the side at the beginning witnessed the whole process of the deer archery, and discovered the secret, the two eyes showed brilliance, he walked behind Long Qiupeng and glanced at Long Qiupeng.
Long Qiupeng saw Yi's thoughts, so he said: "Go ahead......"
Yi walked to the side of the deer and took the arrow, and someone in the distance was about to lift the arrow target, but Yi took a horse step, pulled the bow, and shouted: "Dodge!" β
Seeing that Yi had already made a good posture, the person who was holding the arrow target hurriedly threw down the arrow target that had not yet been lifted up, and dodged to both sides. Then Yi's eyes widened, his hands loosened, and the arrow flew out with a whoosh, skimming over the place where he had landed just now, and flying straight towards a house on the edge of the altar square. Before I could see what was going on, the window of the house clicked shut.
The people over there hurried into the house to take a look, and the arrows were tied to the wooden sticks of the window and nailed to the wall on the other side. People sent the arrows pulled out of the wall to Long Qiupeng, and Xiong, who had always been dissatisfied with Yi, suddenly looked at Yi differently, and Dahu was so much that even his eyeballs were about to fall out.
Xi said on the side: "Sure enough, good archery!" β
But Yi looked at Long Qiupeng, shook his head, and said very solemnly: "No! It's a good bow! I couldn't have done it before! β
Although those who know Yi know that his words are not contrary to his flattery, the clansmen still look at each other and can't tell the truth from the false. Yi's temperament is also considered to be high, so naturally he will not be cheaper than Long Qiupeng, he called a person next to Lu, and that person is Lu's subordinate. Those who know him well know that although this man is hardworking, he is not talented. In archery practice, half of the ten shots should miss the target, half of the missed shots are due to deviation, and the remaining half are due to lack of strength.
Yi gave him the bow and arrows and asked him to be the last one to try the arrows.