Wang Teng made waist cards and distributed them in person, this trick greatly boosted the morale of the army, and even a few people who complained about it closed their mouths, because they had heard that in the future, new soldiers would no longer issue waist cards until they made contributions on the battlefield.

What is the use of the waist card, it is said that as long as the symbol of killing a person is engraved on the waist card, it can be exchanged for five hundred dollars when the meritorious service is rewarded, if there is no waist card, even if the enemy is killed, it is only a bounty of two hundred dollars, and this time and again is the disparity of three hundred dollars.

It's just that the reward is so generous, maybe there are benefits in other aspects, the townspeople are looking forward to it, they have put the waist card, like a treasure to collect.

The city wall outside the military fort is still under construction, at this time, the ground inside the fort is dirty and messy, and there are stone and wood blocks placed everywhere, even the streets planned by Wang Teng are also messy, and they are not exempt from vulgarity, but the luck of these days has always had results, at least at a cursory glance, this construction site has the appearance of a military fort.

On this day, Tong Cheng found Wang Teng early in the morning and said, "My lord, our team of people and horses use horn bows, which have low range and poor quality, can you think of ideas and make some good bows?" ”

Wang Teng's brain exploded, yes, he has always felt that he had made a mistake somewhere these days, but he didn't come up with it after thinking about it, it turned out that he had forgotten the longbowman.

At present, it is too difficult to make muskets, and the requirements for bows and crossbows are too high, and only longbows are the most suitable, thinking of this, Wang Teng smiled and said, "Look at my head, I have forgotten such an important matter, you don't worry, after a while, I will ask the carpenter to send you a longbow, and then you can try the power."

Tong replied without thinking, "It's okay, I originally wanted to give the thirteen horned bows that I captured to the brothers to try their hands, but since the adults have new bows, let's try the new bows."

Before crossing, Wang Teng saw a post on the Internet on how to make a longbow, the material of the longbow can be mulberry or elm, relatively compared to ordinary composite bows, the production of longbows is simple, the cost is low, and the range is long.

In my impression, it seems that a longbow with a pull force of 30 kilograms can shoot 160 steps, which is already more than some bows and arrows of the Ming army.

In Guangling City, the blacksmith shop is ready-made, and the blacksmith in it has been fed by Wang Teng with silver money, even if he can't drive away, with the blacksmith, as long as he finds some wood, he can make a bow.

Elms are very common, and there are a few trees piled up in the carpenter's house, and these trees have been cut down whole and left in a cold place for almost a year.

An elm tree can take fifteen arched back materials, and Wang Teng instructed the carpenter to take a total of about one hundred and thirty-five materials from the elm.

The most important thing to do is that the back of the bow must be made of a whole piece of wood.

With the materials, Wang Teng instructed the carpenter to process the wood, first digging the two ends of the wood into a neat octagon with a planer, which is the most testing of the carpenter's skills.

After planing out the octagon, Wang Teng bent the back of the bow and tried to do it, because the elm wood is naturally grown, the density of the back of the bow can not be completely consistent up and down, which requires the carpenter to modify the harder end and the other end exactly match.

Only the upper and lower hardness of the back of the bow can ensure the accuracy of the bow, otherwise the arrows shot will be low if they are not high.

After the bow back is adjusted, it is also necessary to file the chord grooves at both ends, the side of the bow back is deeper, and the inner side is slightly shallower.

After all the preliminary preparations, the next step is to "train the bow", that is, to keep the bow back in a bent posture, the Ming Dynasty process is to put the bow back on the fire to roast, in that way, although it greatly reduces the time to make the bow, but also reduces the pull of the bow, reduce the range of the bow and arrows.

Wang Teng adopted the method of bracket support, and in order to prevent the leakage of skills, he only let Zhang Blacksmith participate here.

Under Wang Teng's guidance, Blacksmith Zhang made a wooden bracket, then stuck the bow back in the bracket, and changed a string every half an hour.

"Brother Zhang, in the future, the skill of training the bow will be handed over to you, remember, don't leak it to outsiders."

Craftsmanship is the most important inheritance, Zhang Blacksmith has learned this hand, he is already excited and inexplicable, how can there be a reason not to be inherited?

"Don't worry, my blacksmith will never leak half a word"

Wang Teng was noncommittal, and while he was training the bow, he asked people to make a few bowstrings, which were made of horse tendon mixed with sheep intestines.

Guangling's craftsmen had also made hunting bows for the hunters in the village before, but compared to the hard bows used by the government, the range of the hunting bows was far worse, and it could only be said that they were soft workers, and the craftsmen who made hard bows were all under the centralized care of the government.

Being able to witness the process of making a hard bow with your own eyes is a rare opportunity for the carpenter of Guangling.

Two hours later, the first longbow was made under Wang Teng's guidance.

Wang Teng tried to pull a full bow, the strength should be about thirty kilograms, an untrained adult can full the bow three times, if it is trained, it is still possible to achieve a full bow six times.

The process of making a bow is extremely complicated, thanks to the excellent craftsmanship of the carpenter, to make up for some of Wang Teng's omissions, no wonder the great men say that practice produces the truth, and the theory that has not been proven by practice can only be empty talk.

Wang Teng was so proud of his success in making the longbow that he asked Tong to point to the poplar tree a hundred steps away, and said, "Can you shoot that tree?" ”

With the longbow in his hand, Tong always squinted his eyes, estimated the distance, and said, "I'll try it."

Before the words fell, I saw that Tong's bow was like a full moon, and the arrow was like a flying rainbow, "Do", the bow and arrow went straight into the tree, and the tail of the arrow still shook non-stop.

"A hundred steps through Yang", everyone praised in unison, the archery skills are extraordinary, and the bow and arrow are also extraordinary.

Tong has always loved it, and praised "Good bow!" The strength is excellent, and it can save a lot of energy, if the village Yong uses this bow, he can form combat power in three months."

At this time, a villager walked to the tree, and it took the boss's strength to pull out the arrow, and he ran to this side in surprise, and shouted in his mouth, "The arrows are all in the tree, and the arrow body is more than two inches into the tree, which is really a good bow."

Wang Teng instructed, "You can make me another fifty bows according to the appearance of the bow just now, if the materials here are not enough, you can buy them elsewhere, it is best to choose those shady elm or mulberry wood, and for each bow you make, according to your custom, engrave the surname of the craftsman, and I will reward you generously, well, according to the price of two hundred yuan per bow."

Two hundred dollars, Xiang Yong slashed a rogue and rewarded five hundred, and he could get two hundred money by making a bow.

In order to prevent the skill of making bows from spreading, Wang Teng said, "The manufacturing method of this longbow is a secret inheritance of my Wang family, and you can let go of it in the territory of Guangling, but if I find that someone has passed on the craft, then don't blame me for being ruthless."

Under the grace and power, the carpenter swore a curse and promised that it would never leak out.

Wang Teng's requirements are also in the meaning of the title in the eyes of the craftsmen, the carpenter's craftsmanship is passed down from generation to generation, but once it comes to the core process, it can only be inherited by the most intimate family, so that there will be no apprentice and starve the master to death.

At present, Wang Teng can pass on the secret method of making bows at home, which is already a rare generosity, and it is reasonable to ask for secrecy.

Wang Teng is not afraid of anything else, the world is about to be in chaos, if the way the longbow is made leaked to the thieves, isn't it uncomfortable for him?

For a period of time, Wang Teng plans to be his Ming official army honestly, then he will definitely stand on the opposite side of the thieves, he doesn't want the army he has painstakingly built to die under the longbow he invented, it will become a big joke.