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On the school field under the White Tiger Stage, everyone in Huaihuang City had already surrounded this place with three layers inside and three layers outside.

Lingyun's elm longbow is here to test various performances at this time. Originally, this was just a request from a sharpshooter and bow expert under the shock of Wang Bodang, but the news that Ling Yun had made a magical longbow soon spread like the wind throughout Huaihuang Sanlian City, and everyone came to see this magical longbow first.

"Did you know that it only took one hour for the Alliance Master to make ten longbows?" Someone was excited to the side of the human.

"I've heard that this longbow of the Lord of the Yi Alliance can shoot a mile away!"

"You don't know yet, this longbow costs only a few dozen pennies." Another shouted excitedly. This drew a few retorts from the bowers, "Impossible, a cavalryman's horn bow must be at least three times, and an infantry longbow must be two times." No matter how cheap the bow is, it is impossible to get a few tens of dollars. "At this time, the bow is made of six kinds of materials: dry, horn, glue, tendon, silk, and lacquer, and the wood used is Zhemu mulberry wood, and basically a bow is made for up to three years, and a bow with dozens of dollars is a bow, should you be a slingshot?

Everyone was very curious about the rumored bow made by the alliance leader, in addition to all kinds of exaggerated rumors, in fact, everyone didn't believe it in their hearts.

In the school field, there was a table at this time, on which were ten longbows made by Ling Yun, Yu Chigong, and Cheng Yanjin. It's all made of elm, freshly made.

Compared to those on the periphery who watch the excitement. The people who gathered in front of the longbow of the Taiwan case were all the generals and masters in Huaihuang City, and no one said anything, but they didn't deny it immediately. They know. Since Ling Yun said that this bow is very powerful, it will definitely not be bragging. What's more, when they arrived, Wang Bodang had already tried the bow.

"Alliance leader, is this bow really so powerful?" Gao Bo stroked his beard and asked excitedly. If the rumors are true, then this bow is simply an artifact. This is the greatest good news for the Huaihuang army, which has been worried about the Turks for the time being.

Ling Yun smiled and said, "This kind of longbow." After becoming proficient, you will be able to make a bow in an hour. And he doesn't need to be so troublesome as dry corner tendon silk lacquer, just the elm wood that can be seen everywhere is enough. Even the bowstring only needs to be kneaded into hemp rope. ”

"Incredible. unimaginable! Wang Bodang stood in front of the ten longbows, still looking unacceptable.

As a marksman and a master bowmaker, Uncle Wang is indeed qualified to say such things. No one knows better than him the intricacies of making a bow, and anyone who makes a bow knows a word. Take six materials for the bow. That's the basics of bow making. To complete a bow, you need six materials, stem, which is the material for the back of the bow, the first choice is Zhemu, then mulberry, then orange, then papaya, wattle, and bamboo. Then casting. Horns with horns. Then choose tendons and glue, and use deer, horses, cattle, rats, fish, rhinos and other materials. Finally, silk and lacquer are used. For each material. There are clear selection criteria, and the craftsmanship of the bow is even more particular. In winter, the bow is dry, the spring is soaked in the corner, the summer is treated, the three are made into the bow body with silk, glue and lacquer in the autumn, and then the bow body is placed in the bow box to determine its shape in the winter, and then the bowstring is installed in the spring of the next year, and after all the processes are finally completed, the bow needs to take up to three years.

And Ling Yun's longbow, he actually cut an elm tree casually, and then took an axe to chop left and right, and it only took an hour before and after, and he could immediately make a bow. There is no need for any gluing or soaking, at most it is enough to put a few layers of oil on the bow body to prevent moisture.

"The bowstring only needs hemp rope?" Zhai Rang also asked in surprise on the side. He is also a shareholder of the United Armory, and he also knows a little about bow making. Ordinary bowstrings are generally made of cow tendons, and some are made of horsetails, but I have really never seen such a longbow as Lingyun's longbow rubbing directly with hemp rope.

Which is stronger, the bowstring of the cow tendon horsetail or the bowstring of hemp rope? Zhai Rang didn't know very well, but he definitely knew that hemp rope was cheaper and simpler. You must know that in all dynasties, cattle and horses are quite expensive animal power, and the government even stipulates that you cannot slaughter ploughing cattle and horses privately, even if it is your own private cattle and horses, you can't kill them if they don't die of old age, sickness and disability. Even if you fall and are disabled and want to be killed, you have to report to the government, and then the government will send officials to slaughter them. After the cattle and horses are slaughtered, you can eat some meat at most, such as cowhides, horns, beef tendons, and beef bones, all of which belong to important national materials and need to be expropriated and sold to the government, and private individuals cannot keep them. The state collects these things, of course, because these are remade materials for weapons. Cowhide zuò armor, bowstring, cow tendon bowstring and bowstring made of cow tendon but also have a big disadvantage, the rainy season and rainy days of the resurgence, the bowstring will be easy to lose tension, at this time the bowstring has to be wrapped in oiled paper. Even usually, the bowstring is not always hung on the bow, and when not in use, the bowstring must be removed, so that the bowstring can be used for a longer time. And the hemp rope is kneaded into a bowstring, so you don't have to worry about losing tension when the tide returns. An ordinary bow is basically useless when it rains heavily, and a hemp rope bow certainly won't.

Not to mention, the hemp rope bowstring is obviously simpler to make and cheaper to build.

In the history of warfare, all kinds of weapons emerged one after another, but in the end, it was often not the most powerful ones that occupied the dominant position, but the rudimentary weapons. Because these weapons are the cheapest to build, the easiest to make, can be equipped in large quantities, and the cost is low. It's like a horse lance, it's extremely powerful, but except for the generals from the family, the vast majority of generals still use guns and spears, just because guns and spears are simpler.

Wang Bodang can imagine that as long as this longbow does not have too fatal shortcomings, then it is inevitable that this longbow will replace the traditional bow. The traditional bow takes three years to make a bow and costs one or two thousand yuan, but Lingyun's longbow only takes an hour to make one, and the cost is almost negligible. Which one is better, I guess fools will choose the longbow.

Now, it's time to put the longbow to the test.

"First shoot horizontally, test the range!" Wang Bodang personally served as the tester. Ten of the best sharpshooters were given the honor of testers.

Holding an eyebrow-high longbow, several sharpshooters are a little unsuitable, and the general bows are divided into infantry longbows and cavalry horn bows. The infantry longbow was longer than the cavalry horn bow, but it was only about four feet, while the horn bow used immediately was shorter, only about three feet. The ten longbows of Ling Yun were of different lengths, but the shortest was five feet high, and the longest was seven feet long. For this. The ten archers selected by Ling Yun were all equivalent to the ten longbows.

The longbow was in hand, and the first test was flat shot. Ling Yun gave them the lightest flying arrow, three feet long and five coins in weight, which was the lightest flying arrow.

Push away the crowd on the east side of the school yard. After getting out of the way. Ling Yun let the arrow go. Zhai Rang was a little unimpressed, although this school field was surrounded, it was also 500 steps, and then this was just a long bow made of elm wood and kneaded into a bowstring with hemp rope, which could shoot more than 500 steps?

"Put!" Uncle Wang shouted an order, and ten marksmen released arrows at the same time.

The extremely light arrow flew forward, all the way forward.

"Wow!" There was a burst of exclamations from the side. Although the exact range has not yet been measured, it can be measured by visual sight. It's already amazing. "At least two hundred steps!" Someone shouted.

"More than that, more than that, I see three hundred steps."

Five feet is one step, one step is one meter five, this step is a bit big, but the ancients actually counted two steps as one step, one step as a step, and two steps as one step, so it is normal for five feet to be a step. Three hundred steps, a full 450 meters, even if it is 200 steps, it is 300 meters.

There were already several cavalrymen galloping towards the place where the arrows fell, and the White Tiger School Yard had long been marked with a step record, and there was a corner flag every twenty steps. The cavalry soon got the range of the arrows.

"The longest arrow is two hundred and forty steps, and the nearest one is two hundred and twenty steps!"

Hearing this exact number, the onlookers exclaimed in amazement, even if it was only counted according to the last two hundred and twenty steps, it was quite amazing.

At this time, Wang Bodang ordered again: "Flying arrows, shoot from the back!" ”

Anyone who has ever shot an arrow knows that the maximum range of a bow and arrow is to shoot it at an angle of 45 degrees.

The ten sharpshooters were also secretly surprised by the power of the arrow just now, there were more than 200 steps in the flat shot, and it was estimated that the upward shot could shoot farther, not to mention, it was the first arrow just now, and they were not slightly used to the longbow, but after shooting an arrow, they were already slightly adapted.

"Put!" Ten more arrows off the string and heading towards the sky.

"Count!" Wang Bodang's face remained as calm as possible.

The cavalry who reported the number was shocked at this time, and his voice was a little trembling and shouted: "The nearest arrow is five hundred paces, and the farthest arrow is five hundred and fifty steps!" ”

This time, it was really a group of exclaims, especially those archers who watched, the so-called laymen watched the excitement, and insiders watched the doorway. No one knows better than the archers what five hundred and fifty paces represent. This range is even beyond the range of the Fuyuan double crossbow. At this time, the four kinds of crossbows that were more commonly used in the army were the Fuyuan crossbow with a range of 300 steps, the Zhang crossbow with a range of 230 steps, the horn bow with a range of 200 steps, and the single-bow crossbow with a range of 160 steps.

The shortest range of a single bow is 160 paces, and the farthest range of a double bow is only 300 steps. And you shot a bow that took only one hour to shoot five hundred and fifty paces away, isn't that hell? Even these archers actually knew in their hearts that this was only the longest range, not the effective killing range, and in terms of the longest range, the Fu Yuan crossbow could reach a distance of five hundred steps. But even if this was the longest range, five hundred and fifty paces, it had already scared the vast majority of the archers. If you take a longbow and shoot at a normal archer, Nima, you can already shoot them several rounds before anyone else sees you.

The tests continued, followed by the effective killing range of the arrow's horizontal and upward firing angles. The number of jù is still shocking, and the effective range of the flying arrow reaches one hundred and twenty steps, and one hundred and twenty steps away, directly penetrating a piece of cowhide armor. Eighty steps, penetrating the fish scale armor, sixty steps, directly penetrating the fish scale armor plus leather armor. Within thirty steps, it is simply invincible.

This number made Wang Bodang, a master bow maker and archer, sigh, and he knew that with this alone, the longbow could completely replace the original recurve bow. It takes three years to make a recurve bow worth more than two thousand yuan, one hundred and twenty paces away, and it is not very lethal at all. A hundred paces, barely able to break through leather armor, the best killing range of the recurve bow is sixty to fifty paces, not the one hundred and twenty paces such as this longbow.

"Change the heavy arrow!" I used a flying arrow just now, and it weighed only five coins. The new heavy arrow is even more fierce, this kind of arrow, the shaft of the arrow alone weighs thirteen coins, and the armor-piercing arrow he is equipped with weighs one or two. Such a heavy arrow, weighing more than two taels, three feet long feather arrows, with two taels or three coins to break the armor of the heavy arrow, this is the real murder weapon.

One hundred and twenty steps away, one foot deep into the log, eighty steps, two feet deep into the wood, sixty steps, three feet into the wood.

At a distance of one hundred and twenty steps, whether it is a bright light armor or a fish scale armor or a rope armor, or a cowhide armor, all of them cannot be stopped, and the middle one is immediately transparent.

After repeated tests, Wang Bodang built yì, can give the longbow with three kinds of arrows, one is a five-dollar flying arrow, the farthest shot, a salvo of arrows, covering the blow, extremely lethal. The other is a heavy arrow of one or two coins, which is also extremely lethal. The last one is two halves of super-heavy armor-piercing arrows, which are designed to deal with those cavalry and armored soldiers.

In the end, Ling Yun and Wang Bodang, the two archers, personally tried to shoot, Wang Bodang shot two arrows with a flick of his fingers, and shot a pot of thirty arrows in half a pillar of incense. According to the time calculation method at this time, there are four quarters in an hour, three teas in one moment, two pillars of incense in one tea, six snaps of fingers in one pillar of incense, and ten moments in one snap of fingers. A flash is a second, and a pillar of incense is five minutes. Wang Bodang had reached the speed of twelve arrows per minute, and he was shooting thirty arrows in a row.

As far as Ling Yun knew, the most elite English longbowmen could shoot ninety-six arrows in a row at a rate of seven arrows per minute, and forty arrows at a rate of seventeen arrows per minute.

The result of Ling Yun's own test shooting was ten arrows per minute, and he could shoot thirty arrows in a row. But if it was on the battlefield, taking into account the comprehensive factors, Ling Yun estimated that he could reach six or seven arrows in one minute.

"Artifact, artifact!" Gao Bo and the others all praised it. Now everyone no longer doubted the longbow, but turned to the extreme respect for the longbow.

However, Ling Yun poured cold water on them at this time.

"The longbow is sharp, but it's not invincible. First of all, this longbow has stone power, and it needs to be strong. "The strength of a stone bow is more than 100 catties, which requires great strength, although the legend says that there are people who pull the bow of eight or nine stones at every turn, but in fact, those who can pull a stone bow are strong men. And being able to pull a stone bow is not a qualified archer.

"To use this longbow, not only must you be able to shoot a strong bow, but you must also be at least five feet eight tall." More than 5 feet 8 is required to be more than 1.75 meters tall. Height is required, mainly because longbows are based on height, and the longer the bow, the greater the bow power and the longer the range. The longbow requires a long hand, which is one of the basic requirements of the English longbowmen.

Strength, height and hand length, this is only one of the basic conditions, and a more important condition is the foundation of all archers, that is, you must have archer talent and tremble.

As soon as these three requirements came out, the vast majority of the soldiers of the Huaihuang Army failed to meet the requirements.

"Moreover, the longbow was too long for the cavalry to fire a longbow on a horse." Ling Yun's words broke the desire of many cavalry generals to equip their cavalry with longbows.

Despite this, Wang Bodang was still full of admiration for the longbow: "Even so, this longbow will also replace the original infantry longbow and become the king of war!" (To be continued......)