Chapter 127 Observing the Shooting Range
As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. After starting, Zhou Chongshan, who gradually gained a feel for the bow and gained experience, was like a master archer holding a bamboo bow.
However, this archer has not hit the bull's eye once so far. After several arrows were fired, they were almost all in the outer circle...
Even as they were thinking this, the target moved to about 90 meters away and an arrow missed the target directly.
Of course, this cannot be blamed on Zhou Chongshan’s ability.
So far, Zhou Chongshan's performance has been worthy of the word "genius".
Although Zhuang Mengdie's latest bamboo bow, under his design, avoids many problems that may have existed in early bows and arrows.
But even so, it cannot change the fact that their tribe's bows and arrows still have a lot of room for improvement.
When the direct shooting distance is extended to this extent, the stability of the arrow has decreased significantly. It is no longer a situation where you can hit the target just by having good skills.
Thinking of this, just when Zhou Xu was about to speak up and put this test at a temporary end.
Zhou Chongshan, whose arrow had just missed the target, lowered his head and pondered for a moment before firing the bow again. The arrow flew out just as before, but unlike before, this time the arrow successfully hit the target, although the position was still on the outer circle...
This situation made Zhou Xu and Li Ce look sideways...
【Luck, right?】
This was the first thought that flashed through Zhou Xu's mind at that time.
During this time, Zhang Xiaoshan, who was responsible for moving the target on the other side, did not receive Zhou Xu's order. After seeing the arrow hit the target, he ran over habitually, held the target and walked ten steps, and then ran away.
Zhou Chongshan pulled out another arrow from the quiver beside him.
He bent the bow and drew the arrow. Compared with before, he seemed to think about it for a second or two longer. No one knew what he was thinking about. The next second, the sharp arrow flew out.
【Eye of Insight! 】
In order to find out the truth, Zhou Xu opened the "Eye of Insight" to capture the trajectory of the arrow without saying a word.
After a distance of eighty meters, the stability of the arrow began to decline significantly, and by the time it reached ninety meters, its stability was no longer noticeable.
Not to mention the current distance, which has been pulled to ninety-five meters...
However, what surprised Zhou Xu was that Zhou Chongshan's arrow hit the target again!
[Is this weapon master's talent really so abnormal? He can achieve such performance after using this weapon for the first time? ]
While Zhou Xu's thoughts were racing, the target had been moved to a position one hundred meters away.
Unfortunately, Zhou Chongshan failed to break the record this time. His arrow went wide and completely missed the target.
After that, Zhou Chongshan tried two more arrows, but still missed the target, so he stopped.
"Chongshan, how did you hit the targets at 90 and 95 meters just now? I saw clearly that the arrow's stability was very poor..."
Having said this, Zhou Xu did not say anything further, but the meaning of his words was already very clear.
Hearing this, Zhou Chongshan nodded.
"Yes, just like you said, those two arrows were basically luck. Even if I try again, I can't guarantee that I will hit the target."
"Okay, I think I understand."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu waved his hand, signaling Zhang Xiaoshan who was standing in the distance to move the target away.
"Chongshan, shoot three more arrows towards that open space. We need to confirm the maximum range of these arrows."
"yes."
Without further ado, after Zhang Xiaoshan moved the target away, Zhou Chongshan shot three arrows in succession.
During this process, Zhou Xu used the "Eye of Insight" to observe the arrow the entire time, in order to confirm how far the arrow's power could be maintained.
Zhou Xu didn’t really care whether the arrow’s flight trajectory would be stable after passing ninety meters.
After all, on the battlefield, not everyone is an archer, and troops rely on volley fire to fight. Who really expects those archers to be able to snipe and kill their targets one by one?
Under this premise, as long as the power can be guaranteed within the maximum effective range, it will be fine.
After waiting for the three arrows to land, Zhou Xu took action himself and directly drew the bow to full and shot three arrows.
This archer has two main attack methods on the battlefield, namely direct shooting and projectile shooting.
Direct shooting simply means shooting in a straight line, which is more powerful.
As for projectiles, the bow is drawn towards the sky, and the arrow draws an arc, falling straight down from above the enemy's square formation, launching a covering range attack on the enemy. The attack distance is longer, and the attack area is also wider.
The last sentence summarizes that it is to use projectiles against distant enemies and direct fire against nearby enemies.
After the three projectiles landed, Zhou Xu began to take steps to measure the distance of the shooting.
Combined with the full observation of his "Eye of Insight", while ensuring the power of the arrow, the maximum effective range of direct shooting should be around 121 meters.
The projectile technique can extend the attack distance to 249 meters in one go! This undoubtedly greatly increases the value of archers on this battlefield.
The current test results can be said to be far beyond Zhou Xu's expectations.
He had never felt so clearly the value of a talent as he did now. [This is the value of talent! But this bamboo bow is probably not easy to make...]
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu turned his head and looked at Zhuang Mengdie, who was spreading out a piece of animal skin paper and busy recording data on it.
Although the people in their tribe are illiterate at present, they can all learn numbers because of the coronagraph. And due to the nature of her work, Zhuang Mengdie has also mastered some basic arithmetic under the guidance of Zhou Xu.
At this stage, using drawings combined with digital data is basically enough, since she can understand them herself anyway.
"Mengdie, how long does it take to make a bamboo bow like this?"
"Twelve days, provided all the necessary materials are available."
Zhuang Mengdie estimated and gave a number.
After all, this was not the first time that Zhuang Mengdie had encountered such a thing, so this time, she had already sorted out everything clearly before Zhou Xu asked her. Now that Zhou Xu asked her, she naturally answered without hesitation.
"The main problem is the polishing of the combined structures. If I want to make them fit perfectly, I have to do it myself. But I have thought about it. I can ask my assistant to polish an outline for me first, and then I can polish the details. This can improve efficiency a lot and reduce the speed to less than ten days."
This answer obviously did not satisfy Zhou Xu.
The main reason is that this bamboo bow is too difficult to make. Just as Zhuang Mengdie said, she has to do many steps herself, which means that this bamboo bow is doomed to be unable to be mass-produced.
[It seems that glue still needs to be made. With glue, the difficulty of making bamboo bows can be greatly reduced. Even if the bamboo bows are glued together, the performance is likely to be inferior to the one made by Mengdie purely by hand. ]
[But it doesn't matter. It should be more than enough for ordinary soldiers. A bamboo bow like this, which is time-consuming and laborious, can be made by Mengdie specifically for a skilled person like Chongshan.]
(End of this chapter)
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