Chapter 68: Bows and Crossbows
Tonight, everyone moved into the big cave, because it was arranged that the male orcs lived on the outermost edge of the cave, so Di Mu and Shui lived together in the place where the female orcs gathered, but she found a corner near the rock wall.
The cave was so large that the skins of nearly a thousand people were spread out, and there was still a path between each of them. During the day, the orcs pile up the hides in the corner, and the place where they move is quite large.
As soon as Wolf Yu came back, he was called out by Wolf Jie, and he heard Wolf Jie say that the bow and arrow had been tested, and asked Di Mu if he wanted to go over and take a look. Di Mu didn't go with her, she knew the effect of the bow and arrow, not to mention that it had been improved by her personally, and she knew the range and lethality of these bows and arrows. As long as they polish the animal bones on the arrows sharply enough, they can definitely become a powerful help for hunting beasts in the cold season.
Due to the addition of orcs from the other four tribes to the tribe, they are busy making more bows and arrows these days. Bows and arrows are no small matter, only a few people are qualified to participate in the production, and the manpower is very limited, and they have to seize all the time.
In addition to the bow and arrows, Di Mu also privately gave Wolf Jie a design drawing of a crossbow. The bow is fired by manpower, and how much the bow can be pulled depends on the strength of the person who leads the bow. The better and more powerful the bow, the longer the range. However, in contrast, the crossbow relies on the power of machinery, and the crossbow wielder is only responsible for aiming at the target, so the power of the crossbow is relatively stable. In general, a crossbow can shoot twice as long as a bow.
The production of crossbows is also more complicated than bows, and the tribe does not yet have the ability to make them in large quantities, plus the time is pressing, so these days Wolf Jie and Gelding are also secretly cultivating a group of crossbowmen to be responsible for shooting crossbows.
In the near future, Wolf Yu will also be responsible for gathering all the male orcs in the five tribes to find suitable archers. Although the number of bows is larger, it is not as large as the number of five tribes. Besides, if everyone goes to shoot arrows, what about the beasts in the vicinity?
At that time, the orcs will all turn into the form of beasts, so that they can fight to the death with the beasts, bows and arrows are just auxiliary means, and their own force value is the most important.
Di Mu believes that Wolf Yu and Wolf Jie will handle this matter, and what she is most concerned about now is the infrastructure in the tribe.
On the way back, she picked up a piece of charcoal and now squatted in the corner to write and draw, from the daily food distribution, to making fruit wine, to building a house, she made a list of all the things she could think of in the near future. She also plans to open the school directly in the half month of the cold season, and after the cold season really arrives in a few days, instead of sitting together and doing nothing, it is better to listen to her lecture.
Now that the temperature at night is already very low, many orcs can't help but curl up together when they sleep at night.
Di Mu felt the soft and warm animal skin under him, and a hot current swept through his heart. Wolf Yu is a very caring person, and has been selecting and tanning animal skins before the cold season comes.
The orcs have now mastered the oil tanning and smoking methods.
Oil tanning is the process of applying the animal's own fat or brain pulp to the animal skin to soften it.
Wolf Yu felt that even if the animal skin made by this method was washed cleanly, he didn't want Di Mu to use it personally, so he wasted something and used the smoking method to tann it.
The smoking method, as the name suggests, involves placing the hides to be treated on the trunks of a raised tree, lighting firewood underneath, and using the smoke produced to smoke the hides to soften them. Finally, it is simply treated with plant ash and stove soil.
The animal skin under Di Mu's body was not only extremely soft, but also roasted by Wolf Yu by the fire in advance, and now it was still hot.
He knew that Emperor Mu was cold, and his hands and feet were easy to be cold at night, and when he used to live in a small cave, he often lit a small fire in the corner of the cave.
The current situation is obviously unreasonable to light a fire again, but fortunately, yesterday, under her reminder, Shi Hao nailed a few thick animal skins at the entrance of the cave.
Although it is difficult to isolate the cold, it can also isolate most cold winds.