Chapter 63: Taming the Wild Horses
After watching it for a while, Surin found that Tim did all the work alone, from beginning to end, so he hurriedly called Tim over.
Tim came over and hurriedly asked, "Lord Duke, you are looking for me." ”
Immediately, Su Lin explained the production method of the assembly line in later generations, and asked him to do the same, without having to complete the production of the entire bow alone, and the efficiency would be much faster.
Hearing this, Tim also turned around and walked back, fixed everyone's process, and later found that the efficiency had indeed doubled.
Shi'an saw that Su Lin still understood this, and couldn't help but praise: "I didn't expect you to understand this, you're very smart!"
"Well, who told you that your mind is all on your chest!" Surin teased as he stared at her chest.
"You're good at it, huh. ”
Looking at the busy people, Su Lin felt both relieved and regretful, but unfortunately there are too few people in the town now, except for those old people, women and children, there are only more than 4,000 real adult men, so there is a serious shortage of manpower.
In the evening, Tim sent someone to inform Surin that the first bow was ready, and Surin hurriedly ran over.
At this time, Tim also handed over the longbow he had made, and Su Lin also looked at it carefully, the length was about one meter and a half, and the whole showed a smooth arc, and the middle hand was wrapped with rope grass.
Then Tim spoke again, "Lord Duke, give it a try!"
"Okay, then I'll try. ”
With that, Su Lin took an arrow and put it on the string, then took a deep breath and prepared to pull the bow away at once, but he overestimated his arm strength, and when the string was halfway through, he could no longer pull it, even if he used his strength to feed.
He also knows that one of the characteristics of a single bow is that if you want to pull it wide, you have to continue to increase its strength, and the recurve bow can use constant force to fully draw the bow.
Shi'an, who was on the side, looked at Su Lin's face and turned red, and still kept encouraging, but Felicia walked over directly and snatched the bow, and said at the same time: "You can't do it, look at me." ”
With that, Felicia took a step forward, pulled it directly, and the bowstring was instantly pulled into a full moon, and after letting go, the arrow flew straight out, hitting the bull's-eye.
Seeing this scene, Shi'an couldn't help but feel that Felicia was extremely chic, and her eyes were full of envy.
Seeing this, Su Lin also laughed and applauded at the same time, as a way to hide his embarrassment.
Then he asked Tim, "How much has been done now?"
"Five have already been made, and today everyone is not very familiar with them, but tomorrow we should be able to survive twenty, and in half a month we will start producing recurve bows. Tim gave a detailed account of the follow-up plans.
"Okay, keep it up. ”
Looking at those who were busy, Su Lin also felt very relieved, these are all important members of the arsenal in the future, and now it can be regarded as a start!
When evening came, Surin called Tariq again, and said to him, "Pick a thousand young men to-morrow! Let them form an archery team when the time comes, and now let them train in physical fitness first, and then in half a month they will practice in shooting." ”
Hearing this, Tariq was also excited, as if he still didn't believe it: "Lord Duke, is this true?"
Su Lin looked at him with a serious face and said, "Do you think I'm joking?"
"No, that's fine, Lord Duke, I'll go back and tell them this to be careful. ”
After he left, Surin also sat on the chair and pondered, because the longbowman must have strong arm strength, so the youth of the barbarian tribe is suitable, so he made this decision.
After returning to the room, Su Lin saw that Felicia was the only one in the room, and couldn't help asking, "Where did Shi'an's girl go?"
"I don't know, I guess I'm going to play!" Felicia said without looking up as she rubbed her sword.
"Wife, can you tell me what you want me to be angry with, I'm so prepared!" asked Su Lin softly as he leaned over to her, and he was also very curious about it.
As soon as Felicia heard this, she also turned around and smiled at him, then looked at him and said, "It's not time yet, you better bear with it! ”
At the same time, Shi'an was surrounding Tim, pestering him and boasting: "Grandpa Tim, you can make me a general bow, it's the kind I can pull open." ”
"Girl, I'll do it for you when I'm done, you can rest assured!" replied with a smile, this girl has been pestering herself all night.
"No, I'll do it now. ”
Early the next morning, Su Lin also got up very early, went to the field to look at it first, and applied some fertilizer by the way, hoping that it would germinate early, in addition to corn, he didn't know what the remaining two seeds were, so he was looking forward to it.
At this time, Gru was waiting with fifty knights and one by his side, and in the morning they received an order from Surin to prepare for departure.
At the same time, behind them there were people from more than a thousand years ago, all holding a rope sleeve in their hands, and they were all talking non-stop.
"I heard that we are going to catch horses, so we will have horses to ride in the future. ”
"It's not to catch horses, the Duke said that this is called horse training, and we will all be cavalry in the future. ”
While they were talking, Felicia also came on a horse, dressed in a tight civilian robe, with a knight's sword stuck in the horse's back.
At this time, Su Lin also walked over, looked at Felicia and asked, "Why is Shi'an missing again, isn't she going?"
Felicia shrugged her shoulders and said, "She slept in the middle of the night last night, and she's still sleeping!"
Hearing this, Su Lin also got on his horse and prepared to leave, but just as he was about to give the order to leave, he heard Shi'an's shout from behind: "Don't go, wait for me." ”
When she ran over, she also gasped and complained: "You guys didn't wait for me, it's too boring!"
"Okay, do you know how to ride a horse?"
"I'll ride later. ”
Then Felicia reached out and pulled her to the horse, not that Surin didn't want to ride with her, but he was holding a nephrite woman who was warm and fragrant, and if he didn't react, he wouldn't be a man, so he let her be with Felicia,
Then they walked a few kilometers away to the grassland, where there was a herd of more than a thousand wild horses, this time with the aim of taming them.
Along the way, Surin could see people busy in the fields on both sides of the road, and he could already imagine that in a few months the fields would be full of wheat and other grains.
Just as Surin was leisurely riding on his horse, Gru also rode his horse to catch up, and then asked excitedly, "Lord Duke, are you going to build cavalry this time?"
"Yes, and I'm going to hand it over to you to lead, what do you think?" asked Su Lin with a smile.
"I promise I won't fail the Duke's trust, but my lord, I've heard that it will take at least a few months to tame a wild horse!" Gru's face grimaced, as he became excited.
However, Su Lin only smiled slightly at this question, the traditional method of taming horses is 'tied, tied, beaten, and hanged', no matter how arrogant the wild horse is, after five to eight weeks of cruel torture, he will be convinced, but he has ten minutes to tame the wild horse, otherwise he would not dare to take a group of newcomers to catch the fierce wild horse.
After more than an hour, their large group re-entered the grassland, and not far away there were more than a thousand wild horses grazing.
When they saw the horses, all the people were amazed and couldn't wait to rush forward and catch them.
At this time, Su Lin stepped down from his horse, looked at everyone and said: "What are you facing, it is a ferocious wild horse, just because you want to catch it, lions and tigers can be kicked to death with one hoof, and you will die in vain if you go up." ”
In the face of Su Lin's reprimand, everyone couldn't help but lower their heads, but Gru quickly turned his head and pretended to look elsewhere, before he also thought about rushing up to catch them, and then slowly tame them.
Then Surin turned his head to look at Gru again, patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's up to you next, and then you can run with them until they can't run anymore, go!"
Then Gru got on his horse and rushed out with the fifty or so knights, and began to drive the horses.
At this time, the horses also seemed to be frightened, and began to run, and there were bursts of horses' hooves, and the dust was raised, and Gru and the others followed behind.
"Look, there's a pony. Suddenly, Shi'an's voice rang out, and she pointed to the back of the herd.
Surin also stood up and looked at the herd, and sure enough, he saw more than a hundred ponies running behind, and then he remembered that it was April, and it was the time for the mare to give birth, and he couldn't help but be happy.
Seeing this, he hurriedly turned around and yelled at the more than 1,000 young people holding the reins behind him: "Why are you still stunned, you can't catch the big ones and the small ones can't catch them!"
Upon hearing this, a group of people behind him immediately ran out, aiming directly at the lone little wild horses.
Surin got up and looked into the distance, and found that Gru and the others were no longer visible, so she whispered a few words in Felicia's ear, and she took a rein and led a horse to chase after her.
Besides, the thousand men quickly surrounded the hundred or so little wild horses in the middle, and then pounced on them, and put the noose around their necks.
Shi An watched those people walk back with the little wild horses, and immediately greeted them, touching their heads and sighing: "It's really cute, I also have to feed one, and it will be easy to ride in the future." ”
Hearing her words, Su Lin also secretly said in his heart: It's really strange, with your personality, you didn't say that it would be delicious in the future.
Su Lin looked at these little wild horses one by one, with a simple face, and the color of their fur was mainly brown and yellow, which was very cute, and after rubbing their heads, he asked people to send them back to the stable first.
At this time, Gru and the others accelerated their horses from time to time and rushed to the front to control the direction of the wild horses, each with a smile on their faces, but after an hour they couldn't laugh.