Chapter 46: Improving the Bow

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"It's just that I have to check what the materials for making these bows and arrows are, I dozed off when I went to school, and now there is no nano brain to log in to the encyclopedia of the Federation, but fortunately, I have this 'Noah's Ark System' in my hand, which is not worse than the encyclopedia of the Federation, and there are the most cutting-edge weapon data, but with the current conditions, even the original guns can't be built, so don't think about the invincible battleship......"

Liu Zhibang pondered for a long time, kept drawing sketches on the ground, and kept smoothing and redrawing, finally stood up and stretched his waist, looked around, and saw that an old man was repairing a bow, so he called Ah Qing.

"Report to the commander, A Qing, a soldier of the third team of the Phoenix Army, reports to you, please instruct!"

Liu Zhibang nodded to Ah Qing and said, "Let me ask you, who in the clan is the best at making bows and arrows?" ”

Ah Qing straightened his waist after hearing this, and said loudly: "Commander Hui, there are many people in the clan who can make bows and arrows, and even the best one is Uncle Ah Kun, the bow and arrow he makes shoots farther and more accurate than others do, and that is Uncle Ah Kun!" With that, he gestured to the old man who was repairing his bow under an eaves not far away.

Liu Zhibang waved his hand, Ah Qing returned to his post to be on guard, Liu Zhibang walked to Uncle Ah Kun, at this time Uncle Ah Kun was still concentrating on fiddling with the bow in his hand, Liu Zhibang snorted.

"Ah...... Patriarch, why are you here, please sit ......down" Uncle Ah Kun looked up and saw that it was Liu Zhibang, hurriedly greeted him, and hurriedly pulled over a wooden bench to signal Liu Zhibang to sit down.

Liu Zhibang didn't think that the wooden bench was still a little dirty if it wasn't cleaned, so he sat down and said, "Uncle Ah Kun, I heard that the bow and arrow you made are the best in our clan, I want to ask you for a favor!" ”

Uncle Ah Kun replied with a smile: "The patriarch said that he laughed, the Fire Dance Clan can make bows and arrows, and the bows and arrows I make are also passable, what is the use of my old man, the patriarch can just command!" ”

Liu Zhibang thought for a while, and then said: "I took a look at the current bow in our clan, and I think it can be improved, but I haven't made a bow myself, so I think you can improve the bow according to my design." ”

"Improve the bow? This bow is all done like this, and what else is there to change, isn't it all made of elastic straight vines and the tendons of whitehorn ox? Uncle Ah Kun couldn't help but ask strangely.

Liu Zhibang picked up a branch from the ground, drew a drawing on the ground, which was in the shape of a recurve bow, and then said to Uncle Ah Kun: "Uncle Ah Kun, can you make such a bow?" ”

Uncle Ah Kun stared at the recurve bow for a long time, and said: "The shape of this bow is so strange, why is the back of the bow still concave, it is more troublesome to do this, but it is not a big problem, it just takes a little more hands and feet." ”

Liu Zhibang then said: "Not only the shape should be made like this, but also, I want you to use different elastic materials to make the back of the bow, I see that there is bamboo in the back mountain, you can cut off the bamboo pieces and add them to the back of the bow after roasting them with fire, grind the horns into bent pieces, stick them to the inside of the bow, stretch the cow tendons on the outside of the bow back, and use animal skins to boil into glue to glue several materials together, and the back of the bow should be wrapped with a strong string in a circle, and then coated with a layer of gum on the outside. The bowstring should be soaked in oil with the best tendons, the longer the better, and after the shade is dried, two or three strands are wrapped into one and tied to the back of the bow. How long will it take to make a sample for me first? ”

Uncle Ah Kun frowned and said, "If you do what you say, the materials alone will take several months to prepare, and it will take a lot of time to make them, so when do you want them?" ”

Liu Zhibang asked again: "I will arrange the materials to be prepared for you, what do you need now, use what you can use now, can you make a sample in ten days?" ”

"It's just a rough idea, and it's okay to make it in ten days." Uncle Ah Kun replied confidently.

Liu Zhibang stood up, nodded and said, "Okay, Uncle Ah Kun, if you lack anything, you can go to the treasury to get it, and if you have any difficulties, tell me again, and wait for your good news within ten days......"

Saying goodbye to Uncle Ah Kun, as soon as Liu Zhibang walked to the entrance of the headquarters, Aya greeted him, and Aya said with a questioning face: "You asked me to find all the wooden planks in the village, and asked someone to use those white mud to knead them into a kettle shape and put them on the wooden planks to dry, what are you going to do with them?" ”

"How many have you done now?" Liu Zhibang asked while watching.

Aya replied: "I called five uncles in the clan to help, and I have already done more than twenty of them, do I want to do it again?" ”

"Take me to see ......"

Liu Zhibang and Aya walked to the entrance of the village, where there were five middle-aged people kneading the mud, making a clay pot embryo in their hands from time to time, they made one and put it on the wooden board, and then continued to knead the white clay to prepare to make the next clay pot. At that time, there were nearly thirty clay pots on the ground. Liu Zhibang walked up to look at the clay pots with roughly the same shape, and nodded with satisfaction.

Liu Zhibang waved his hand, and everyone stopped what they were doing, and they all looked at the young patriarch with curious eyes.

Liu Zhibang said: "Now everyone stops, the four of you go to make some rectangular frames, and then fill them in the wooden frame with yellow mud to make flat squares, and place them neatly on the wooden board like this to dry, this uncle, you also go to make a wooden frame, fill the wooden frame with these white mud, prepare some spear heads, short swords, scimitars, arrows, press them in the white mud, and then take out these weapons, leave those mud embryos with marks and put them on the wooden board to dry......" Liu Zhibang said some details carefully, It wasn't until those middle-aged people understood that they let everyone prepare separately.

Aya listened to it for a long time, and asked curiously, "Abang, why did you ask them to make these?" ”

Liu Zhibang stretched out his waist and replied: "I am going to use these clay pots to make crucibles for melting bronze, and I asked them to make square clay blocks, which are ready to burn bricks, and the houses of our Fire Dance Clan are all built with mud and stone, which are not very stable, I want to build a circle of city walls, these bricks are the materials for building city walls and houses, with city walls, it will be difficult for the enemy to attack them." As for asking that uncle to make a mold base with indentation, it is intended to be used as a weapon, we can't always rely on Xia Yuancheng to exchange weapons, there are too few bronze weapons in our clan, and only a few people have a bronze weapon, and it is a great loss to fight against the enemy, and it is a great loss to have no good weapons. ”

Aya's eyes lit up after hearing this, if it was really like what Liu Zhibang said, then the Fire Dance Clan would not be bullied so much anymore. There are tall walls and moats like Xia Yuancheng, who can still attack the village.

"What are you, dare to stand in the way of adults......" An arrogant voice came from outside the village.

"No one can go without the order of the patriarch......"

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