Chapter 291: Yew Longbow, the Strongest Among Bows!

This girl has short black hair, which stands on end, and she looks particularly piercing, and it is Mo Shengnan who has been following Qian Fei'er and others.

Mo Shengnan glanced at Qian Fei'er suspiciously.

"Qianfei'er, is there anything wrong with you?"

Qian Fei'er chuckled, opened the folding fan in her hand, and fanned it gently.

"It's not a big deal, I want you to help me test out a new weapon."

"Oh? Weapons, what weapons? Mo Shengnan asked.

A look of mystery appeared on Qian Fei'er's face, and she gestured.

"Shhhh

"What the hell, it's the middle of the night." Mo Shengnan said dissatisfiedly, but walked out of the room and closed the door.

She had lost to Qian Fei'er's cousin before, that is, Qian Liuli, in line with the principle that the winner is king and the loser warms the bed, she will do most of the orders that Qian Fei'er commands.

Qian Fei'er glanced at Mo Shengnan with satisfaction, turned around and walked in a direction inside the Seven Treasure Colored Glass Sect, and behind, Mo Shengnan followed suit.

The two of them walked through several corridors, and then through several halls, and came to a clearing of land.

Standing in the clearing, Qian Fei'er took out a cylindrical piece of wood from her soul guide and put it on the ground.

This wood is several meters long, about thirty centimeters wide, and there are many annual rings on the cross-section, with a faint purple color on the whole, which is the tree that Qian Fei'er had harvested from the Weevil Sect before, the yew wood.

Qian Fei'er took out a sharp short knife from her soul guide bracelet, and with a few movements, she peeled off the bark of the yew wood, and then took the straight part of the middle of the trunk, with an even texture, no or as few knots as possible.

She cut off most of the sapwood from the log, and got a piece of material about two meters square and about two meters in cross-section, which was in the middle, half of the wood and half of the sapwood.

The core of the wood is relatively soft and compression-resistant, and the Qianfeier is placed on the inside, and the hard and tensile sapwood is used on the outside.

Qian Feier cut one side of the wooden core, trimmed the material to a thickness in the middle and a little thinner at the two ends, and then narrowed the ends slightly by the two sides, slightly like a flat shoulder.

She took out a planer from her soul guide and used it to shape the cross-section into an octagonal shape at both ends of the wood. In trimming, she carefully measures with a tape measure to ensure that the surface is flat, the ends are symmetrical, and the thickness is consistent.

After cutting out the shape, Qianfeier uses a flexure test to check whether the elasticity of each section of the wood is uniform.

Because it is difficult to be completely uniform with naturally grown wood, there may be some places that are harder, some places are softer, and the strength may not be the same just because the shape is uniform.

Therefore, Qian Fei'er corrected it through observation and slightly thinned the hardness of the place.

The timber was roughly adjusted, and she filed the chord grooves two inches (five centimeters) at each end, the outer side of the wood was darker, and the inner side was slightly lighter.

"Bow man, knead the wood and string it with a target", Qian Fei'er said casually, saying the purpose of tonight.

It turned out to be a bow!

Mo Shengnan knew that among all of them, the only one who used a bow and arrow as a martial soul was herself, and she thought that Qian Fei'er should have come to test the newly made bow and arrow.

Looking at Qian Fei'er in the field, Mo Shengnan thought to himself, this should be, it's about to bend the wood and make a bow, right?

The most important process of making a bow is to bend it, and Qianfeier is doing this step, which is also called "taming the bow".

The bow and arrow made by Qian Fei'er are in a simple arc shape, and they do not have the complex reverse curve shape of Mo Shengnan's Apocalypse White Bow Martial Soul, nor do they use the method of fire, which will reduce the tension of the bow.

You can't bend it into place all at once, in that case, even if the arched back is not broken, it will cause internal injuries and lose its elasticity, and the busy work just now will be in vain.

The process of "taming the bow" is to gradually adapt the bow back to the bending.

In order to do this, Qian Fei'er also found a special bracket from her soul guide bracelet. The carriage is made of hardwood, with a groove dug vertically at one end to support the bow, and the other end manages to be fixed vertically to the ground.

On the sides of the brackets, eight to ten chord slots are carved at an equal distance of 1.5 inches (about 3.8 cm) from top to bottom, with the first chord slot 7.5 inches (about 20 cm) from the head of the bracket.

In the relaxed state of the bowback, Qianfeier tied the rope to both ends, put the center of the bow's back on the groove of the bracket, used force evenly, slowly pulled the string, and hung it into the first string groove, and the bowback was slightly bent.

At this point, she double-checks that the curve of the arch is smooth and even, marks the areas that are too stiff, relaxes the bow, and fine-tunes until she is satisfied.

Then she pulled the rope apart, gradually increasing the opening and hanging it downward, and continued to trim the arch until it formed an even arc that satisfied Qian Fei'er herself.

Every time she added three or four grooves, she tightened the rope.

She is not in a hurry during this process, especially before each increase in the opening, she will let the arch back "rest" for twenty to thirty minutes, so that the internal stress can be relieved to avoid damage to the wood.

It doesn't tighten too much each time, only one inch at a time. It stopped when she reached the full bow opening that she felt was suitable for Mo Shengnan. Xiaotao Chinese

After a long time, Qian Fei'er removed the bracket and brushed the arch back with several layers of linseed oil as a moisture-proof protective layer. When the oil dried, the strings began to hang.

The bowstring that Qian Fei'er took out from her soul guide was made of sheep intestines and tendon tanning, and its elasticity and toughness were very good.

The fixed opening of her strings is held at the distance between the bowstring and the center of the bow back to the height of her fist, which is the term used in archery to the height of a clenched fist and a thumbs up, about fifteen centimeters.

When tying the bowstring, Qian Fei'er tied a special "shooter's knot" to avoid slipping.

The figure-8 knot is simple but effective, and the tighter it gets.

Eventually, after more than three hours of continuous effort, the bow was completed.

Qian Fei'er held the bow in her left hand, wiped the sweat from her forehead with her right hand, then turned her head and smiled lightly at Mo Shengnan.

"Katsuo, you can give it a try."

Mo Shengnan nodded, walked to Qian Fei'er's side, and took the bow with his left hand.

She grabbed the bowstring with her right hand, then pulled it back hard.

The bowstring slowly tightened, and the bow arm slowly deformed, and after a while, Mo Shengnan pulled the bow to the fullest, at this moment, she only felt that the pull of this bow was very huge, and it was much stronger than her Apocalypse White Bow martial soul, if she didn't urge the soul power, the power of the Apocalypse White Bow was far from comparable.

"What kind of bow is this?" Mo Shengnan asked.

Qian Fei'er chuckled and replied, "Yew longbow." ”

Yew longbow, the most powerful bow in the history of cold weapons, if the god arm crossbow is the apex of crossbow weapons, the yew longbow is the pinnacle of all bow weapons!

As the most famous bow in history, the Yew Longbow has a maximum range of 300 meters, which is much lower than the 420 meters of the Recurve Compound Bow.

However, due to its parabolic attack path and increased pull, the Yew Longbow is still effective at unarmored and lightly armored targets, even at maximum range.

In comparison, the maximum range of the recurve compound bow is 420 meters, which is the end of the strong crossbow and does not pose any threat.

In terms of armor-piercing distance, the standard armor-piercing range of the Yew Longbow is 220 meters, except for the Tiefutu heavy armor and some plate armor with a thickness of more than one centimeter, the rest of the armor cannot withstand the elevation angle projectile of the Yew Longbow.

And if it is within twenty meters, the jet of the yew longbow at a large elevation angle close to the vertical angle will pierce the golden broken armor, and it will be unfavorable!

According to historical records, during the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, the British used yew longbows to shoot heavy arrows at close range, which once pierced the gates of the French!

Such a proud record is unique among all bow weapons.

And for the killing and wounding of soldiers, it is even more terrifying. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the English yew longbow was a lingering nightmare for the French, and it was once recorded that a French heavy cavalryman was shot by a yew longbow.

The heavy arrow, which was 90 centimeters long and weighed more than a tael, pierced his front thigh armor armor armor skirt, then penetrated his thigh about six inches in diameter, and then shot through the heavy armor armor skirt below the thigh, and then shot through the leather-covered saddle under the crotch, and finally sank into the horse's belly before stopping.

The terrifying penetrating power of the yew longbow is simply terrifying!

In the clearing, Qian Fei'er took out an arrow from her soul guide bracelet and handed it to Mo Shengnan, then walked to the distance and placed a shield on the ground.

She stepped back a little, pointing to her shield.

"Katsuo, try shooting."

Lying flat with a shield asking me to shoot, do you want to shoot at an elevation angle?

Mo Shengnan glanced at it and made a decision in his heart.

The shield and Mo Shengnan were only more than ten meters apart, Mo Shengnan glanced at it, estimated the distance, put on the bow and arrows, and raised the bow to the sky, the angle was close to vertical.

At a distance of more than ten meters, if it is not a direct shot with a flat angle with a little depression, then it is necessary to carry out a large elevation angle projectile, which can accelerate the arrow with the help of gravity when it falls, and increase the attack power.

Mo Shengnan's eyes looked down at the position of the shield, and after making sure that he could shoot accurately, he released the bowstring with his right hand.

"Boom ——!"

The bowstring popped out a strong momentum, straight towards Mo Shengnan's left arm, but fortunately, her martial soul is a bow and arrow, and she had expected to pull the bow every day, and her left hand skillfully moved to the left side to dodge.

On the other side, arrows shot out from the yew longbow in Mo Shengnan's hand, bringing a sharp whistle, piercing people's eardrums and hurting at the same time, straight into the sky, as if to break through the sky.

After a moment, reaching the maximum distance, the arrow is pointing downward, the arrow is turning, and the downward dive accelerates.

With the blessing of gravity, the arrows fired by the Yew longbow pierced the sky, pierced through the space, and let out a whimpering cry, stabbing at the shield.

"Knock ——!"

The arrow hit, and the violent impact made the entire ground, including Mo Shengnan himself, seem to shake, and the dust and small stones on the ground jumped upward, and it took two or three inches before falling.