Chapter 67 Bow Saw and Ink Line (Please add to collection and recommend)
The copper buckle awarded this time is similar to a one-dollar coin, not big, and is in the shape of a wolf head. Every adult man has one. Although it is not a practical item, it has greater commemorative significance because it is awarded for fighting against wolves, and it is more like a medal.
The women who participated in the battle received a copper hairpin, and they were quite satisfied.
Finally, there was the longbow that Luo Chong promised, which was also given to every adult, regardless of gender.
"Really? Everyone has a bow and arrow, great, is it the same as the one the leader has?"
"I only killed three wolves, can I also be rewarded with a bow and arrow?"
The tribesmen were very happy to hear the news and were discussing with each other. They had long seen the power of bows and arrows, and they all dreamed of getting a bow and arrow like Luo Chong's.
Compared with the close combat during hunting in the past, long-range attacks are very important for one's own safety. The two sides are separated by a certain distance, and you can attack the target, but the target cannot fight back against you. This is the advantage of long-range weapons, especially after the tribesmen got used to using javelins, they have a deeper understanding of this.
The damage value of a spear is very high, and if it hits, it will definitely kill you. However, the spear is too big, and each person in the hunting team can only carry three. Although the power of an arrow is slightly smaller than that of a spear, the number of arrows that can be carried is large. This is exactly why Luo Chong is going to promote bows and arrows.
At the beginning, Luo Chong said that bows and arrows would be rewarded only if more than five wolves were killed, but in the end, there were only more than 70 gray wolves that died in front of the position. There were dozens of people standing there, and no matter how they divided it, they could not get five wolves per person. He just used this as an excuse to promote bows and arrows.
From this defensive battle, it can be seen that although the Han tribe has nearly 300 copper spears, it is still not enough to encounter a group of hundreds of beasts.
Take this battle against the wolf pack for example. The total number of wolves is more than 200, and there are more than 200 copper spears. But can you throw all the copper spears? Let’s not talk about whether you can hit the target. After throwing all the copper spears, what do you have in your hand to defend yourself.
But it would be different if there were bows and arrows. In medieval Europe, the standard equipment for British archers was 25 arrows per person, which was also the maximum number of times most soldiers could draw the bow continuously.
But now is the primitive age, and human physical fitness is amazingly good. Just from the comparison of diet, it is far from the poor soldiers in the Middle Ages who could not eat meat once for half a year, could only eat dry bread every day, and could be happy for two days when they saw an egg.
Think about it, you don't need too many, as long as each person can shoot 30 arrows, even if you can't aim accurately, you can wipe out the wolf pack with a covering rain of arrows. The advantage of bows and arrows is so outstanding.
Therefore, taking advantage of the remaining month of winter, Luo Chong prepared to equip as many bows and arrows as possible.
The new standard bows and arrows are still single longbows made of fir wood, and the bowstrings are made of sisal fiber, which has no elasticity and is super resistant to pulling. They are all 1.75 meters long. This length can adapt to most adults, and the power is not small. Moreover, there are ready-made wood and a set of woodworking tools now, so it is not impossible to mass produce.
However, when it came to actual operation, there were many difficulties, the most important of which was cutting wood.
The material for the longbow must be hardwood, and it must have a certain elasticity. It is best to use fir, and the sapwood near the bark and the core wood must be 1:2. The core wood of the tree cannot be used because it has poor toughness and easily makes the bow feel tired and reduces its service life.
The most important point is that the whole wood strip must be straight. This is easy to say, but it is difficult to do.
First of all, there is no suitable saw. The Han tribe now has only two kinds of saws. One is a large saw used for felling trees. That thing is too big and requires two people to pull it, and it is definitely not suitable for making delicate work such as bows and arrows.
The smaller one is a hand saw with only one handle. This thing is okay for cleaning branches, but it is difficult to use it to saw logs.
Luo Chong has not come into contact with many carpenter's things. He lives in the 21st century. Even if there are carpenters around him, they all use electric tools. What kind of saw did the ancients use to cut logs? And it must be made under the current conditions of the Han tribe.
After thinking for a long time, Luo Chong finally got the answer. Bow saw, or "I" saw, is the kind of I-shaped frame with a saw blade on one side and a rope on the other. Luo Chong has some impression of this thing, but it was all when he was a child.
This kind of saw relies on the frame to straighten the saw blade, which is at a certain angle to the wooden frame. It is specially used to saw wood boards or wooden strips, which have strict requirements for straight lines.
It was easy to deal with it when we had a goal. Luo Chong came up with the design plan, the new saw blade with holes at both ends was completed by the lame man, and the wooden I-frame was made by the wooden barrel. They all had some experience, so it was no problem to make a small tool.
Luo Chong himself was studying another difficult problem, how to draw a long straight line on a log.
When it came to carpentry marking, the first thing Luo Chong thought of was the ink line, which was a great invention of the Chinese ancestors. Two points determine a straight line.
The Han tribe had ready-made lines, so they could just use hemp ropes. The key was where the ink came from.
The Han tribe could not make paper now, and Luo Chong's progress in teaching characters was only at the level of recognizing characters, not requiring them to be able to write, so there was no urgent need for pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, but now it seemed that the ink had to be made first.
The ancient Chinese wrote with ink sticks and water ground together, and what exactly was ink? In fact, it was just the residue of incompletely burned oil smoke.
In ancient times, people mostly used pine soot ink. Pine trees contain a lot of oil and are oily wood. When the oily pine wood is burned, a lot of oily smoke residues that cannot be completely burned will be produced, which is the main raw material of ink.
Collecting these oil smoke is also very simple. Generally, a kiln is built, and then a long flue is made. After the pine wood is placed in the kiln and ignited, a large amount of black oil smoke will flow out along the flue, but in this process, the oil smoke will also adhere to the flue, so that a little bit will accumulate and finally be collected.
But Luo Chong just wanted to play an ink line. He hadn't thought about doing it on such a large scale, so he just used blue bricks to temporarily build a stove-like thing. There was no pot on it, just a few bricks covered it.
A pile of pine branches was lit below, and black smoke soon rose. It only took an hour to smoke the bricks above black, and the black stuff attached to the blue bricks was pine smoke.
Luo Chong carefully scraped the pine soot into a ceramic bowl, then mixed it with water to get a bowl of jet-black ink. Then he soaked the twisted fine linen thread in the ink, and then he could pull it out to draw the ink line.
However, because there was no special ink fountain, he could only draw it directly with his hands.
Luo Chong personally selected the materials and drew the lines for the bows and arrows, and Mutun helped Luo Chong beside him. After a while, the hands of both of them were as black as if they had just come back from digging charcoal.
"Chief, chief, the new saw is ready."
Just when Luo Chong and Mutun finished drawing the lines, the first I-beam saw jointly built by Lame and Wooden Bucket also came out. The two of them ran over in a hurry, ready to test the new tool.
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