Chapter 19 Bows and Arrows and Leather Shoes (Please add to collection and recommend)
Luo Chong was lucky. Cutting down fir trees was not as difficult as he thought. After carefully searching the fir forest, he found two young trees as thick as thighs. They were knocked down by some animals and lay horizontally on the mountain. They had been dried in the shade and were just right for making bows. It took two trips for his friends to carry them down.
Due to the lack of tools, it was a bit difficult to make a longbow in two days. As the saying goes, if you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools. It took a whole day to make these things, such as stone axes, stone chisels, and stone knives.
After another whole day of chiseling, a 1.5-meter fir longbow finally took shape. After another day of careful correction and polishing, it was considered finished.
The bowstring is made of sisal fiber, which has no elasticity and strong tensile strength. Otherwise, it cannot be used as a crane cable.
All arrows were cut into one meter length. The length unit is not accurate, but just an approximation. The width of the ring finger nail of an adult is one centimeter. With this basic value, the rest is easy.
Luo Chong will definitely promote the centimeter-based length unit in the future. Facts have proved that the centimeter-based length unit is most conducive to the development and progress of science.
Arrows are not equipped with arrowheads. Stone arrowheads are not easy to grind. There are no suitable animal teeth. The pig teeth obtained last time are larger than the arrow shafts, and there are not many of them. Luo Chong gave them to Qubing to make necklaces. The arrow shafts are originally made of spikes, so killing wild animals is not a problem. Now we don’t consider the ability to penetrate armor, so this is enough.
The arrow feathers are made of blue-green feathers of the terror bird. They are first fixed with sisal fiber and then glued with fish bladders. More than 200 feathers were made in one go.
One evening three days later, when all the tribesmen came back, Luo Chong gathered everyone in the open space. There was a straw target 30 meters away from Luo Chong, on which hung several marmots that had just been caught today.
Luo Chong first demonstrated spear throwing to everyone. At a distance of 30 meters, he hit the target every time. Then he demonstrated close-range stabbing with a spear.
The tribesmen were very excited to see this. They only realized now that the chief had been making weapons these days.
Luo Chong gave all the adults, regardless of gender, one spear each. Each person in the hunting team had three spears. They used them for two spear throwings and the remaining one for close-range stabbing. Even the children who were about to become adults had one spear each, regardless of gender. In addition to pulling weeds and playing, they had to practice spear throwing every day.
The white-shafted spears were very beautiful, smooth and straight. You might not think anything of a thing when you hold one alone, but when you put dozens of identical ones together, you will find it spectacular. Even people with obsessive-compulsive disorder will feel comfortable looking at them.
The tribesmen were very happy and couldn't put down this standard weapon, especially those teenagers who had never participated in hunting. They had a great interest in this weapon.
The hunting team was no exception. This was the first standard weapon they were equipped with and the only weapon that could attack from a distance besides throwing stones. With the white-shafted spears, Luo Chong believed that it would not be long before they could bring back bigger prey.
If the spears excited them, then the bows and arrows were already worshipped as gods by them.
At a distance of 70 meters, or about 100 steps, this is the distance of the Olympic Games, 5 consecutive arrows were all shot at the groundhog. The adults were stunned and amazed, and they couldn't understand what the principle was; the children rushed over to touch it, with stars in their eyes and drooling.
However, Luo Chong was just demonstrating it to them, and he was not going to promote it yet. He just told them that it was difficult to make it, and he would have it in the future.
Luo Chong's longbow was only 1.5 meters long, which was not suitable for everyone. If it was used by adults, it would have to be at least 1.8 meters long to exert the maximum power of the longbow. As for not being able to draw the bow, that didn't exist. Any woman here was stronger than an adult male on Earth.
Another issue was the hit rate. Luo Chong shot accurately because he made the bows himself. No one knew the principles and performance better than him, and he had practiced bows and arrows seriously before. If we want to promote bows and arrows in the future, we need a lot of practice. Now, it will take more than a short time for everyone to have a bow.
After successfully promoting the spear, Luo Chong began to study other things.
Two black wild boar skins have been soaked in wood ash water for several days. After many scraping, kneading, washing and other steps, they have become very strong and tough.
If they can't make warm clothes, they can be used to make leather boots. Cut out the soles according to the size and shape of the feet. Each sole is three layers thick, glued together with fish bladders, and then pressed with stones. Glue the cut uppers on it, and a simple leather boot is ready.
There is no steel needle and awl, and it is impossible to sew, so it can only be glued, but fortunately the fish bladder glue is strong enough and does not affect wearing.
In order to ensure that everyone could wear shoes, Luo Chong was the only one in the tribe whose boots were made entirely of pig skin. Others could only use pig skin for the soles, two layers of pig skin and one layer of rat skin. The skin of marmots is hairy, and the uppers were also made of rat skin, with the hairy side facing inwards, which was similar to modern cotton boots.
The boots for curing diseases were made by Luo Chong himself. They were made of white rabbit skin and pig leather soles. The boots were very long, reaching all the way to the knees, and they were very warm when they covered his calves. The little brat showed off to others every day and smiled at everyone he saw.
After Luo Chong's tricks, the few small pieces of animal skins in the tribe were also used up. The weather was getting colder and colder, and the demand for animal skins was imminent.
Luo Chong wore the most, but it was just an animal skin robe and a pair of leather boots. He also wanted a pair of pants, otherwise he would not be able to leave the cave in winter.
This was the treatment of the leader, not to mention those little friends who were still naked. God knows how they endured it. Fortunately, they can drink hot soup every day to warm themselves up, otherwise Luo Chong estimated that someone would definitely fall ill from the cold.
The cripple had already fired a lot of pottery. The number of water jars and pottery pots increased by four per day. Now there are dozens of them. The pottery bowls were no longer fired. Three per person could not be used up. Later, two batches of jars, pots, plates and other things were fired. The firing of pottery was completely stopped.
Luo Chong assigned him a new task, firing bricks, regardless of the number, the more the better. When there are more bricks, he can build a larger kiln and fire some large water jars and other things, or even use them to build walls.
The task of weeding and clearing bushes assigned to the friends has also been completed.
The cave faces south and north, with a large open area in front. There is a small river more than 900 meters to the east, a jungle more than 1,000 meters to the north, and a jungle about 1,500 meters to the west, which is the direction of the tribe of Bald Head.
There are only grass and bushes in such a large open area. After clearing them, you can build a house or grow crops. But there are no suitable seeds now, so you can only grow some peppers.
Luo Chong was not going to plant sisal here. It was a perennial plant. It only needed to be planted once and harvested every year. There was no need to cultivate it back and forth. So he planned to plant sisal on the back hill to squeeze the living space of the man-eating tree.
After arranging these long-term tasks, Luo Chong was ready to go on a long journey. He was going to find large herbivores, even sheep. Now Luo Chong wanted furry animal skins, the more the better.
In order to go on a long journey, he had been preparing equipment for a long time, especially a pair of wear-resistant leather boots.
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