Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 127 Observation Range
As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. After starting this, Zhou Zhongshan, who has gradually gained the feel and experience, is holding a bamboo bow, just like a master archer.

But so far, this sharp archer has not hit the bull's-eye once. Several arrows have passed, and almost all of them have drifted away from the outer circle...

Even when they were thinking this way, the arrow target moved to almost 90 meters and the arrow missed the target directly.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on Zhou Zhongshan's ability.

So far, Zhou Zhongshan's performance has been worthy of the word 'genius'.

Although Zhuang Mengdie's latest bamboo bow, under his design, has avoided many problems that may exist in the early stage of bows and arrows.

But even so, it can't change the fact that their tribe's bows and arrows still have a lot of room for improvement.

As the direct shooting distance is extended to this extent, the stability of the arrow has dropped significantly. It is no longer the case that if the technique is good, it will definitely hit the target.

Thinking of this, just when Zhou Xu was about to speak out to bring this test to an end for the time being.

Zhou Zhongshan, who just missed the target with an arrow, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and then fired again. The arrow flew out of the string as usual, but what was different from before was that this time the arrow successfully hit the target, although the position was still the same. It's on the outer circle...

This situation made Zhou Xu and Li Ce look sideways...

【Luck? 】

This was the first thought that flashed through Zhou Xu's mind at that time.

During the period, Zhang Xiaoshan, who was in charge of 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, took another ten steps with the target in his arms, and then ran away.

And Zhou Zhongshan drew another arrow from the quiver beside him.

Bending the bow and setting the arrow, he seemed to have pondered for a second or two more than before, and he didn't know what he was thinking about. The next second, the sharp arrow flew out of the string.

[Eye of insight! 】

In order to find out, without further ado, Zhou Xu opened the 'eye of insight' to capture the trajectory of the arrow.

After a distance of 80 meters, the stability of the arrow obviously began to decline, and when it reached 90 meters, its stability was no longer visible.

Not to mention the current distance has been pulled to 95 meters...

However, what surprised Zhou Xu was that Zhou Zhongshan's arrow hit the target again!

[The talent of this weapon master, is it really so perverted?Using this weapon for the first time, can you have this performance? 】

While Zhou Xu thought about it, the target had been moved to a position of 100 meters.

Unfortunately, this time Zhou Zhongshan failed to set a new record. He shot an arrow and completely missed the target.

After that, Zhou Zhongshan tried two more arrows, but he still didn't hit the target, so he stopped.

"Chongshan, how did you hit the arrow targets at 90 meters and 95 meters just now? I can see clearly that the stability of the arrows is already very poor..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Xu didn't say anything further, but the meaning in the words was already very clear.

Zhou Zhongshan nodded upon hearing this.

"Yes, as you said, leader, those two arrows are basically luck. Let me try again, and I can't guarantee that I will hit the target."

"Okay, I probably understand."

While speaking, Zhou Xu waved his hand, signaling Zhang Xiaoshan, who was standing in the distance, to move the target away.

"Chongshan, you shoot three more arrows towards the open space, we need to confirm the maximum range of this arrow."

"Yes."

No nonsense, after Zhang Xiaoshan moved the target away, Zhou Zhongshan directly shot three arrows one after another.

During this process, Zhou Xu observed the arrow with the "eye of insight" throughout the whole process, the purpose of which was to confirm how far the arrow's power could be maintained.

Zhou Xu didn't really care much about the arrow's flight trajectory after 90 meters was unstable.

After all, on the battlefield, not everyone is a good archer, and troops rely on volleys in combat. Who really expects those archers to give him one by one sniper target?

Under this premise, as long as it is within the maximum effective range, the power can be guaranteed.

After waiting for the three arrows to land, Zhou Xu did it himself again, and directly fired three throws with the full bow.

This archer mainly has two attack methods on the battlefield, namely direct shooting and projectile.

Direct shooting is simply shooting in a straight line, which is more powerful.

The projectile is to open the bow to the sky, the arrow draws an arc, and falls straight from the top of the enemy's phalanx, launching a covering range attack on the enemy, with a longer attack distance and a wider attack area.

The last sentence sums it up to use projectiles for distant enemies and direct shots for nearby enemies.

After the three shots hit the ground, Zhou Xu began to take a step to measure the distance of the shot.

Combined with the whole observation of my "eye of insight", the maximum effective range of the direct shot should be about 120 meters under the condition of ensuring the power of the arrow.

And the projectile method can expand this attack distance to 240-[-] meters in one go!
This undoubtedly greatly enhanced the value of archers on this battlefield.

The current test results can be said to have far exceeded Zhou Xu's expectations.

He has never realized the value of a talent so clearly for a moment like now, how huge it is!
[This is the value of talent!But this bamboo bow is probably not easy to make...]

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu turned his head to look 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 not literate, they are all literate because of the corona, and because of the nature of their work, Zhuang Mengdie has mastered some basic arithmetic under the guidance of Zhou Xu.

At this stage, using drawings and digital data is basically enough, anyway, she can understand it by herself.

"Mengdie, how long does it take to make such a bamboo bow?"

"Twelve days if all the required materials are ready."

Zhuang Mengdie reckoned and reported a number.

After all, this is not the first time Zhuang Mengdie has encountered similar things, so this time, before Zhou Xu asked her, she had already sorted out the matter clearly. Now that Zhou Xu asked her, she naturally came here.

"The main trouble is the polishing of those combined structures. I need to do it myself if I want to do it like this, but I have thought about it. I can ask my assistant to help me polish an outline first, and then hand over the details to the If I come, I can improve a lot of efficiency and increase the speed to less than ten days."

This answer obviously did not satisfy Zhou Xu.

The main reason is that the production of this bamboo bow is too difficult, as Zhuang Mengdie said, many links have to be done by herself, which means that this bamboo bow cannot be mass-produced.

[It seems that the glue still needs to be made. After the glue is available, the difficulty of making the bamboo bow can be greatly reduced. That is, the bamboo bow glued with glue is likely to be inferior to the handmade one made by Mengdie in terms of performance. payment. 】

[But it doesn't matter, it should be more than enough for ordinary soldiers to use. A bamboo bow like this kind of time-consuming and labor-intensive bow can be made by Mengdie specially for a master like Chongshan. 】

(End of this chapter)