The location of Tianjing Lake is a valley shaded by bamboo forests in the southwest of the goose-shaped mountain. On the whole goose-shaped mountain, there are more than 10,000 acres of bamboo forest.

(The Han system is six feet for the step, 1 step wide, and 240 steps for one acre.) One acre of Han system is about 465 square meters, which is equivalent to about 0.69 acres of modern city mu. )

On the shore of Tianjing Lake, the green bamboo is clean and healthy. The literati saw the gentlemanly spirit of the humble and bright festival, and the painter saw the free and easy intention of the beautiful and handsome.

In the eyes of the rebellious ministers and thieves who traveled through time and space, what they saw were rebel weapons all over the mountains.

The bamboo growing on the shores of Tianjing Lake is a tea pole bamboo with physical properties comparable to modern glass fiber, such as flexural strength and flexural elastic modulus, which were no better material for bow making before the birth of modern carbon fiber and glass fiber.

These excellent natural high energy storage materials, combined with the knowledge of bow making in later generations brought by the traverser, have provided two generations of high-level bow species with four types of bows whose performance is ahead of the times.

At the beginning, the bow species selected by Ou Xing was the Bhutanese bamboo bow and the bamboo four of the devils next door.

The bamboo four bow is a product of the early Muromachi period in Japan, with a simple structure and a beautiful bow shape. The bow body is made of bamboo material, and there are two pieces of bamboo sandwiched between the inner bamboo and the outer bamboo, and the bamboo pieces are glued together.

The length of the four bamboo bows is about 2.2 meters, which is huge and inconvenient to carry. And because of its structural characteristics, it has a low energy utilization rate, a slow rate of fire, a slow arrow speed, and a close range, which can be described as a lot of problems.

However, there are drawbacks and pros. Thanks to its special structure, the four bamboo bows are paired with heavy arrows, which are strong and powerful in close-range shooting.

In this regard, Qi Jiguang, an outstanding general and military scientist of the Ming Dynasty, once spoke highly of it in the "New Book of Ji Xiao": "The arrows are heavy, the bows are strong, and the hair is not far away." If you don't shoot lightly, you will hit the people, and those who will be killed will be killed, so people are afraid of it. ”

When imitating the four bamboos to play the bow, Ou Xing also upgraded and improved them.

Not to mention the selection of better performance materials for the main material, Ouxing has improved the adhesive and bonding process used in the production process.

When the devil made the bamboo four bows, the glue used was a thick glue made of deer skin and fish bladder, and the thick glue was purely used as a binder.

Chinese and Korean craftsmen also use fish maw glue when making traditional bows, but they use it in a dilute glue.

Brush with dilute glue many times to fully soak the bow arm, which can make the rich collagen in the fish maw gum penetrate into the bow arm material and play a role in strengthening the strength, which is a more advanced process than the thick glue bonding method of the devil, and Ou Xing decisively chose to use it.

In addition, some foreign bow makers have also found that in the preparation process of fish maw glue, adding fish lips will have a better effect. Take it, this trick is also learned.

As for the Bhutanese bamboo bow, the structure is much simpler. Two pieces of bamboo are tied together and live together.

(It is worth mentioning that the green side of the Bhutanese bamboo bow is located on the belly of the bow and the yellow face of the bamboo is located on the back of the bow, which is the opposite of other traditional bamboo bows.) )

Of course, before making a bow, the bamboo pieces need to be pre-carbonized. The traditional process in Bhutan is smoking, and in Oujiachong, Ou Xing upgraded it to cooking and carbonization.

The characteristics of the Bhutanese bamboo bow are the opposite of the devil's bow, and when fired with light arrows, the arrow speed is fast and the range is long. In the long-range shooting event of the World Traditional Bow Competition, the Bhutanese bamboo bow even shot an outrageous result of 400 meters.

After making the bow, Ou Xing took the young men of the Ou clan to trek through mountains and rivers in the Goose-shaped Mountain and its surrounding areas, hunting and destroying wild beasts.

When they find small targets of pheasants and hares, they use Bhutanese bamboo bows to fire light arrows from a distance. When they found crocodiles, bison, rhinoceros, and other high-armored units, they gathered around and shot them with four bamboo bows and heavy arrows.

The reason for this is that the profit from the hunt is self-explanatory. Through hunting, the threat of large beasts was cleared, and the foundation was laid for subsequent clansmen to open up wasteland and farm.

More importantly, through the hunting simulation battle, the combat skills of the children of the district family are exercised.

Using a Bhutanese bamboo bow to snipe critters from a distance can be seen as a simulation of long-range suppression of unarmored targets during battle. Hunting the thick-skinned beast with a bow with four bamboos can be seen as a simulation of the elite enemy army equipped with heavy armor.

Over time, after the hunting operations harvested a certain amount of animal tendons, and the wealth accumulated from the farming program also supported the Ou family to directly purchase more animal tendons, Ou Xing led his bow-making team to start the preparation of the second generation of more advanced bow species.

If it is said that the four bamboo bows are combined with heavy arrows, then the arrows fired by the clear bow are not exaggerated to call them javelins.

Qing Bow can be called the masterpiece of the long bow to the pinnacle, and the last swan song of the cold weapon era.

The bow arm of the Qing bow is made of bamboo, elm, and birch, with horns or horns on the face and cow tendons or deer tendons on the back, which is a standard tendon and horn recurve composite bow, which is commonly known as the "horn bow".

The clear bow is far inferior to the small bow tip recurve bow in terms of distance and rate of fire, but it is still much better than the strangely shaped bamboo four bows.

Its bow has a large long tip, extremely high energy storage, and is very stable in shooting, with thick arrow shafts, heavy arrows, and heavy arrows with a length of more than one meter, the power of close-range shooting is comparable to that of early arquebuses.

Historically, many Dameng and peasant army generals such as Du Song, the general soldier of Dameng, and Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor of Daxiguo, were killed under the Qing bow and arrow of the Tartar approaching the shooting.

It can be said that the clear bow of the Ya name "Javelin Launcher" is the perfect upgrade replacement for the bamboo four bows that also take the longbow and giant arrow route.

The Bhutanese bamboo bow used for long-range shooting, the iteratively upgraded bow species star is the Korean bow of Smecta next door.

Throughout history, the martial arts of Peninsula Smecta have always been unbearable, and archers and archery are the only weapons and skills that they can master.

In the campaign to resist Japanese aggression and aid Korea during the Wanli period, one of the evidences that the Ming army accused the CX army of collaborating with the enemy several times was that CX archers were found in the Japanese army, which made the CX royal family constantly "defend" for this.

CX archery, Da Meng Tianbing and Taijun all said yes!

Different from the clear bow with long tips, the Smecta Korean bow is an outstanding representative of the small bow tip recurve bow, and its soft and short elastic bow tip itself also participates in deformation and energy storage, and at the same time, it is lighter in weight and will have higher efficiency, and when firing high-speed light arrows, the arrow speed is extremely fast and the range is extremely long.

On the way of launching high-speed light arrows, Smecta also developed extreme products and supporting skills - piece arrows.

A bamboo and wooden semi-circular cross-section fixer is used to assist in opening and aiming the bow, and is used to fire a piece of arrow that is only half the length of a conventional arrow.

Small in size and lightweight, the flake arrows are far faster and longer in range than conventional arrows when fired, and are exceptionally stealthy.

It is used for hunting and can hunt small and medium-sized animals with high alertness and speed. When used on the battlefield, it becomes an invincible high-speed hidden weapon, especially suitable for long-range sniping enemies in mountainous and jungle environments.

(Historically, similar techniques have appeared in China and Europe.) In China, this technique is known as the method of barrel shooting, and it is recorded in the "New Tang Book":

The arrows shot by the barrel are more than one foot long, and half of the barrel is cut, and the arrows used in the long and regular bows are left two or three inches without cutting. For the Fu string, in the inner quiver, on the arrow string, next to the barrel is a small trick, wear a small rope tied to the wrist, the bow is immediately fired, the cylinder is to the hand, all are shot at the enemy, the middle is penetrated, the so-called barrel shot also. )

Although the Han bow and the Qing bow are good, the tendon and angle compound bow is labor-intensive and extremely troublesome to make. Up to now, the two types of bamboo bows are still the main bow species of Oujiachong, and the number of equipment for Han Gong and Qing Gong is quite limited.

There are 15,720 households in 3,142 households in Oujiachong, with a total of 3,500 Bhutanese bamboo bows, 1,000 bamboo four bows, and 150 Han bows and Qing bows.

Because of the restrictive policy of "the horn bow shall not be taken away from the wall of the Ou family", the outside world does not even know the existence of these two types of bows.

It's not for the sake of technical secrecy - the bow species commonly equipped in the Han Empire include long-tip horn bows, mainly for the sake of Taoguang's obscurity.

The bow craftsmen of the Han Dynasty had a bad impression of bamboo bow tires.

The standard guidance document for bow craftsmen in the Han Dynasty "Zhou Li Kao Gong Ji" Zhongyun: "Where to take the seven ways of dry: Zhe is the top, the second is the second, the mulberry is the second, the orange is the second, the papaya is the second, the wattle is the second, and the bamboo is the bottom." "Bamboo is considered to be the least important material for bows.

(The principle is roughly similar to "orange born in Huainan is orange, and born in Huaibei is orange.")

When the book was written, China's economic and cultural center of gravity was in the north, and the mechanical properties of bamboo growing in the north were not as good as those in the south.

In the Ming Dynasty, after the economic and cultural center of gravity shifted southward, southern bamboo climbed to the top of the chain of contempt for bow-making materials at that time - "Tiangong Kaiwu" cloud: "Where a bow is made, bamboo and horn are the middle dry quality." There is no bamboo in the northeast, and soft wood is used for it. ”）

The tribesmen carry and use bamboo bows, which are more harmless to humans and animals, and are not noticeable.

"Huh~ Shaojun, admit it!"

On the shore of Tianjing Lake, Ou Shengle stopped the white horse and shouted excitedly.

"The silver saddle shines on the white horse, sassy like a shooting star! Gongzhao is very capable! Ou Xing said with sincere admiration, "Oh, go on." ”

Ou Xing untied the jade jue from the leather belt and threw it to Ou Sheng with a smile.

"Thank you, Shaojun!" Ou Sheng took it with both hands, and he kept playing excitedly.

"Phew~"

The rest of the horsemen also arrived one after another, looking at the stunned Ou Sheng, everyone's eyes were full of envy.

"The dragon boat race is about to start, which boat have you bet on?" Ou Xing came out coldly.

"Jade Liquid (No.)" / "No bet!" ”

Ou Kang, who came as soon as he opened his mouth, was interrupted by Ou Le's voice before he finished speaking.

"I didn't bet," Ou Le said with a shy face, "Shaojun has ordered five times to strictly prohibit gambling, how can we knowingly commit it, hehe~"

"Yes, yes, yes, I didn't bet." Ou Kang came back to his senses and nodded again and again.

However, under Ou Xing's gaze, the honest man Ou Kang soon became uncomfortable.

"I gambled on wine, not on money." Ou Kang snorted and said, "If you don't have gambling money, you can't gamble." ”

The air was filled with the smell of embarrassment.

"On the day when Qu Yuan didn't have Miluo, people and ordered the boat to meet him, and he still thinks it is a race" - "Hug Puzi"