Ryan asked Dad Moya about the situation of crossbows in this world, and found that the arrow groove of the crossbows in this world is not closed, that is, a long wooden block is connected to the inside of the bow body, and the length extends to the back of the bow string.
There is a semicircular arrow groove carved on the top of the wooden block along the center of the bow string, which can be used for arrows to be placed on it.
The principle of the crossbow is also very simple. Pull the bow string to the buckle position, put an arrow in the arrow slot, and put the tail of the arrow on the bow string. After that, just press the switch on the handle, and the crossbow will be released.
Buckle the bowstring, release the bowstring, and shoot the arrow.
The arrows in this world are the same as bows and arrows. The arrows of the arrows have an iron head, the arrow shaft is made of wood, and the arrow tail has feathers.
However, crossbow arrows are not as powerful as bows and arrows. Generally speaking, unless they hit the enemy's fatal vitals, they will not hit other parts of the enemy's body as deeply as imagined. Even some inferior crossbow arrows cannot even reach the thin iron armor.
None can penetrate it.
Furthermore, the front sight of the crossbow arrow is also slightly offset. The characteristics of the arrow groove structure determine that the crosshair of the crossbow arrow must be offset.
Of course, there are still some very good quality crossbows in the world. For example, the broken crossbow that Ruian has on hand is a heirloom with a history of hundreds of years, as the businessman said, then it is a good one.
Crossbow, because a bad crossbow will never be preserved for hundreds of years.
But now this crossbow has no arrow slot, and the bow body also has a one-third deep crack.
Ruian has already thought about it. The arrow trough is going to be made of iron blocks to make a closed arrow trough based on the shape of the barrels of firearms in previous generations, while the arrows will be made of all iron based on the shape of bullets.
As for the cracks in the bow body?
The dark and heavy wooden bow body, Ruian couldn't tell what material it was made of.
Ruian gently bent the bow and found that the cracks did not seem to have changed. Ruian tried pulling the bow string out again and found that it took almost all of his strength to pull the bow string to the buckle position.
"This bow is really powerful. If it's not broken, it might be a good crossbow." Ruian couldn't help but mutter. He carefully observed the cracks in the bow body and found that there was a little unnatural deformation in the cracks.
Maybe after hundreds of uses, the bow will completely break.
Ryan thought for a while. He wanted to replace the bow body of the crossbow, but he couldn't seem to think of any good material to replace it with.
So Ruian took the crossbow and asked Father Moya. As a result, Father Moya could not think of any material that was better than the existing materials for the bow body.
In the end, Ruian decided to repair the cracks in the bow body to extend the life of the crossbow as much as possible, and then replace the crossbow with a new one when the bow was completely broken.
There are many ways to repair the bow body, but Ruian still wanted to repair it according to his own ideas. First, he found a material for making iron bows.
In this world, there are iron bows made of pure iron, but the elasticity of iron bows is average and not as good as some high-end wooden bows. According to Moya’s father, a bow body made of pure iron is far more durable.
It is far inferior to the bow of this crossbow, even though it has cracks.
Ruian made two small iron pieces, one finger wide, with two small holes on both sides. He drilled two small holes on each side next to the crack in the bow body, and then wrapped the two small iron pieces around the bow body.
Finally, pass a thin iron wire through the small holes in the bow body and iron plates, and wrap them tightly.
Then Ruian pulled the string of the crossbow and checked the cracks on the bow body. He found that the cracks were not deformed. This showed that the method used by Ruian was effective. However, the repair of the bow body was not completed yet, so Ruian added some red-hot
The molten iron is poured into the connection between the iron piece and the bow body, so that the iron piece and the bow body are completely bonded together.
Finally, after the molten iron cooled, Ruian worked hard and pulled the string of the crossbow hundreds of times, observing some cracks in the bow body every time he pulled it. After hundreds of times, Ruian finally got the answer to his satisfaction and the repair was successful.
Crossbow cracks will not worsen.
It took Ryan two days to repair the bow body. Next, Ryan had to build the arrow trough according to his previous idea.
As soon as he started building it, Ryan discovered that the idea was beautiful, but the reality was cruel.
The lack of tools made Ruian almost give up, but in the end he had to find a way to persevere.
The most critical part of creating an iron arrow groove is drilling.
If in the world of Ruian's previous life, a hole could be drilled with a drill press in one stroke or two. But in this world, drilling is very troublesome. You need to hold a drill tool by hand and drill slowly bit by bit, and
The drilled holes were very irregular and could not meet the requirements of the arrow groove.
As a last resort, Ruian had to find ways to improve the drilling technology before making the arrow trough. Fortunately, in his previous life, Ruian could only operate a few processing equipment and knew the shapes of various drill bits well.
After countless attempts, the arrow groove was finally made with great difficulty. The smoothness inside the arrow groove could not satisfy Ruian, and it could only be regarded as passable at best.
Making an arrow is much simpler. It has a pen-like shape and a very sharp tip. The length is due to weight issues. After dozens of attempts to launch it, it was finally determined to be only half as long as a wooden arrow.
Iron arrows are much more powerful than wooden arrows. This can be seen from the fact that iron arrows can penetrate a small tree pole as thick as an arm.
However, the friction between the arrow and the arrow trough is very high, and it makes a very loud friction sound when fired, which also reduces the power of the arrow. Fortunately, Ruian thought of a way to reduce friction, which is to rub the lamp oil used for lighting on the arrow.
In the slot and on the arrow. In this way, the sound is reduced, the friction is reduced, and the power is increased a lot.
Ruian did not make many arrows, only twenty, because the process of smoothing the arrow body was very time-consuming.
At the end, Ryan thought about it and decided to open a blood groove on the arrow to facilitate bleeding after hitting the target. This is a very insidious practice, but many people will do it.
The entire process of repairing the crossbow took almost twenty days of Ruian's time, and also consumed a lot of Ruian's mental and physical energy.
After the crossbow is repaired, the remaining problem is to practice archery.
There was a saying in Ryan's previous life: Sharpshooters are fed with bullets. Similarly, if Ryan wants to become a sharpshooter now, he needs a lot of archery practice. However, Ryan cannot do a lot of practice because although the crossbow has been repaired, it still needs a lot of practice.
It still can't hold up for many times of shooting arrows. Once the number of arrows reaches the limit, it will completely break.
Ryan decided that he would only practice a thousand times to try to hit the target accurately.
Since the number of times is set, you cannot practice aimlessly, you must practice with your brain.
After Ruian practiced for a hundred times, he found that the structure of the new crossbow was still difficult to aim at the target.
After thinking about it, Ruian decided to refer to the sights on firearms in his previous life, install two upright aiming rods on the bow body of the crossbow and the tail end of the arrow trough, and then use the three-point-one-line principle to aim.
Then Ruian shot two or three hundred more arrows, carefully adjusted the height of the aiming rod, and finally adjusted the sight of the aiming rod to be consistent with the sight of the arrow.
At this time, there were only five or six hundred exercises left, and Ryan practiced again and again with an extremely stingy mentality. With the help of the sight and the stability of Ryan's hands, he finally completed the set of one thousand exercises.
Practice to the point where you can shoot nine out of ten times accurately.
The fly in the ointment is that the effective distance of the rhinoceros arrow is about ten meters, and once it exceeds twenty meters, the power and sight of the rhinoceros arrow plummet.
However, this already makes Ryan very satisfied.
With swords, sticks and arrows, Ruian felt a sense of heroism in his heart that he would kill Buddhas when he met them, and he would kill gods when he met gods.
Everything was ready, and Ruian couldn't wait to go to the college right away.
After counting the days, there are still less than two months left before the college's registration deadline.
Ruian thought about it and thought about whether to go to Skayas City in advance, because he was really not in the mood to blacksmith now, although he still wanted to earn more gold coins. He then counted all his net worth, about 14
A little more gold coins, less than 15 gold coins.
Ryan finally decided to go to the Mercenary Association to see if there were any mercenary missions to Skayas City, and take the mission to earn some gold coins.