Chapter Eighty-Seven: Let the Spear and Arrow Fly a Little Longer

Let's talk about bows and arrows first, making a lethal bow and arrow is not simple, first you have to have a material, and then you have to know how to make it.

Wang Yang finally made a recurve bow that was better than the original bow, but the result was still unsatisfactory.

The choice of materials for the bow is made of bamboo, but unfortunately there is a large coniferous forest nearby, and there is no bamboo.

If you want to be powerful, use yew, England longbow uses this, or elm ash and so on.

These trees are very adaptable and can be found with some time.

However, for Wang Yang, it doesn't matter whether he finds it or not, he wants to improve on the existing bow and arrow to provide more experience for the future.

In terms of the bow body, Wang Yang couldn't do more articles, so he set his sights on the arrow.

His arrow was actually a wooden spear that had been shortened countless times, and the commander of the bare pole was nothing.

The area that can be improved is to install arrow feathers and change arrows, which is what he can do.

First find a small, conical stone, it is better to have a natural point, and if you don't have it, polish it slowly.

It would be great if you could find a small olive-shaped stone with pointed ends.

Needless to say, as long as you are willing to take the time, you can do it well.

The arrowhead is made in the shape of an olive-shaped with two pointed ends, one end nailed to the stake, and the other end of the branch is pressed against the tip of the top, and the arrow will go deeper and deeper under the friction.

With that, the arrow is done.

Wang Yang made one, but didn't make arrow feathers, so he took it out and shot it.

Overall, the piercing power is much better than before, it can be nailed to the trunk of a tree, and hunting some small animals with thin skin can cause killing.

But for rough skinned guys like wild boars, it still doesn't do much harm.

As the saying goes, killing a chicken with a knife and shooting a rabbit with a bow and arrow, instead of hunting large animals, is a bit of a failure.

This bow-making was a success in terms of process alone, but the actual significance was negligible.

So Wang Yang set out to make another weapon, the spear thrower.

The history of spear throwers is far less well known than that of bows and arrows and slings.

It's not even as familiar as the Javelin.

But in fact, the spear thrower was an extremely powerful weapon in the late Paleolithic period, when the global climate was warming more than 10,000 years ago.

It is widely used by many tribes, has a long range, is easier to master than a sling, and is powerful, all of which are its excellent characteristics.

A good spear thrower, even if he is thin, can easily pierce through the fur of large beasts.

In the demise of many animals, it played a role in contributing to the fire.

But why is it so prominent, but it is always obscure, and the history of development has become short-lived?

Bow and arrow.

That's right, the bow and arrow have risen.

This powerful tool, which is more accurate and has a longer range than the spear thrower, completely surpassed the status of the spear thrower overnight and became a powerful artifact.

The deeper reason, Wang Yang, believes is that its development era is different from the goal of mankind.

The slings appeared very early, and they were investigated a lot, although it was relatively difficult to master, and the deep heritage was not something that ordinary weapons could shake.

The slings only shone more than 10,000 years ago, and they were too close to the era of rapid development of mankind to leave much of a mark.

The most important thing is that the opponents of humanity are different.

In the past, human beings dealt with wild beasts, and no matter how powerful the beasts were, they could not go anywhere, and after years of development, human beings have long stood firmly at the top of the pyramid.

Now, humanity is confronted with itself, equally intelligent, intelligent beings, and those methods of the past can only develop rapidly and adapt to the war between humans.

At this time, the spear thrower is weaker than other weapons.

Of course, these are just Wang Yang's random speculations, and they can't be true.

He found a straight stick and cut off the top layer, leaving only a slanted protrusion at the end.

To do this, in fact, it has already been done.

If you continue to do it, you can make something at the front end that makes it easier for your hands to grasp, or make a hole, or use a leather strip or rope to make a hook hand to grasp more firmly and exert more force.

To be more sophisticated, a fork is planted at the front end, which has the same meaning as the sight, and you have to hold the spear if you save your hand.

The spear thrower is almost half a meter long, and there is no fixed standard, which varies from person to person.

Wang Yang made this piece, naturally because he could hold it easily.

Once you have made a spear thrower, you have to make a spear.

His spear was not very suitable for use here, it was too thick and too long to handle.

So he found a branch more than a meter long, which was about a few centimeters thick, crooked, not very straight.

But that's not a problem for him at all.

He took the branch, walked to the campfire, put the branch on top of the flame and roasted for a while, under the influence of thermal expansion and contraction, the molecules in the wood became sparse and easily deformed, and then pressed the bent place to straighten.

Tools such as making bows and arrows can be used.

After straightening, peel a stone with a pronounced water chestnut.

Then attach an arrow to it like a bow and arrow.

A standard spear and arrow was born.

If you want it to be more stable and fly farther, you can reload it with arrow feathers.

Wang Yang didn't go to An Jianyu, he couldn't wait to come to the clearing, ready to put an arrow first.

Everyone was no longer surprised by his crazy inventions during this time, but they were just happy to have so many fun toys.

They gathered around and looked at Wang Yang.

Under the gaze of so many people, Wang Yang thought about it and felt that it was necessary to make them understand the power of this thing.

He simply put down the spear thrower, took a spear, stepped forward, and shook it hard.

The spear flew into the air and landed about twenty meters away.

Everyone was slightly stunned, not understanding what he was going to do.

I saw him pick up the sling, attach the stone, swing it a few times, and with a few sharp flicks, the stone flew away like a cannonball, drew a beautiful parabola in the sky, and fell in front of the spear.

Then Wang Yang picked up the bow and arrow again, wound the arrow, and released it violently.

"簌簌~" The light arrow easily overtook the spear, overtook the stone as it fell, and plunged into the ground in one fell swoop.

Wang Yang turned his head to look at everyone, hoping that a move farther than the other would make them understand.

They seemed to understand, watching Wang Yang pick up the spear thrower.

He placed the end of the spear on the protrusion at the end of the spear thrower, and held the spear and arrow while holding the tip of the spear thrower with his hand.

He took a step forward and shook it hard.

"Buzz~" The spear and arrow buzzed, and it flew forward while bending.

The powerful kinetic energy provides, so that its head and tail swing up and down in the air, like a flying silver snake, showing its elegant posture in the air.

Its initial speed was extremely fast, and it overtook the spear in a blink of an eye, reaching its peak when it reached the position of the stone.

It wasn't until it overtook the bow and arrow that it slowly descended, and with a "ding~" sound, it was nailed to the tree, and the tail was still swinging up and down.

"Woo~" Everyone was shocked inexplicably, this time at least forty or fifty meters away, according to their height, more than thirty people had to lie straight to get to this distance.

Wang Yang exhaled lightly: "Fortunately, this time the loss is not too bad, there is no foolishness, plus the arrow feather, you can fly farther." ”

(The second chapter may not be finished until midnight, so let's get up tomorrow and read it again, and ask for a collection of recommended tickets.) )