These defects all determine that the bow is destined to be a very cost-effective weapon!
The famous archer groups in history, such as Mongolian cavalry, Infantry archers of the Later Jin Dynasty and Longbowmen of England, have been trained since childhood. Almost every archer has to go to the battlefield for more than ten years of training. This kind of training is achieved.
Difficulty is naturally a great burden for a country.
Fortunately, people also have alternatives. Crossbows can perfectly solve the above problems.
However, crossbows also have their own problems, that is, the crossbow's firing speed is too slow, and it will definitely die when the crossbow is within the range of the bow and the archer with several arrows per second.
French crossbowmen who shot against English longbowmen during the Hundred Years' War should have a deep understanding of this.
Therefore, ancient military experts would fantasize about having a weapon that takes into account both bows and crossbows. Unfortunately, by the end of the entire cold weapon era, they could not find such a weapon. Until modern society, it finally appeared!
Equipment like the Hawk Bow, which is half a bow and half a crossbow, can indeed meet all the requirements of ancient military experts.
Only one!
A characteristic of the eagle bow determines that it is an equipment that people in the agricultural era cannot afford, and it is also an important reason why it was born in modern society, which is that it has extremely high requirements for arrow shafts.
Because the Eagle Bow uses pulley sets, the arrows of the Eagle Bow have to bear thrust far exceed those of the crossbow at the moment they are shot. This gives the Eagle Bow an acceleration that is almost unrivaled in the crossbow, and even more so
It has extremely strong penetration, but this also puts a huge burden on the arrow shaft.
Simply put, if the eagle bow uses a wooden arrow shaft, the arrow will not fly out at all, and its shaft will explode directly on the bow. In this way, the archer's hand will be destroyed at the least, and the worst may be
Life-threatening.
If a metal arrow shaft is used, the arrow will be too heavy, and the range and lethality will be greatly affected. Only the aluminum and carbon fiber of modern society can meet the requirements of the eagle bow for arrow shafts.
Lu Xu had long wanted to make an eagle bow. In his previous idea, he should have used wood to wrap steel to make arrow shafts.
Don't want to!
In this strange world, he actually found wood with strength and toughness that is greater than ordinary wood products, which allowed him to complete the creation of the eagle bow in this world.
Of course!
People nowadays do not know the power of the eagle bow, but since Lu Xu has verified the possibility of the weird wood making arrow shafts, he immediately ordered his subordinates to cut off weird wood on a large scale to make bows!
Because of the pulley set to ensure the acceleration and power of the arrow, Lu Xu's requirements for bow body materials can be appropriately relaxed.
One of the important reasons for the expensive archers in ancient times was that the cost of bows was also very high. The best among ancient war bows, the clear bow, even required a skilled bow maker to spend several months or even more than a year to build it.
Lu Xu obviously didn't have that time, and the toughness of the ghost wood is enough. Since that's the case, use ghost wood as a bow piece, and then inlaid a layer of steel on the outside of the ghost wood. This is a qualified bow piece material.
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This way of making bows is more like the method of making bows in the industrial era in later generations. However, the eagle bow is a bow in the industrial era after all, and it is the best choice to make bows similar to that in the industrial era.
But others don't understand!
The people in Wei'an Castle were all born into building weapons, so there were naturally many bow makers here. When they heard that Lu Xu wanted to use this method to build bows, they couldn't help but talk behind their backs.
On that day, Han Yidou was on his way to the construction site, and he heard two people whispering in a corner.
"This road team officer usually looks very powerful, why are you confused this time? How can you make a bow like this?"
"Hey, why else? Can't I get out of Taiwan? He used to be a Jinshi, but he was a serious young and promising young man. Now, he has lost such an adult in front of so many of us craftsmen. Can he be willing to do so?"
"You mean, he is slapping the swollen face and pretending to be fat?"
"I think so! I guess he knew that the crossbow he made was not useful, so he thought of such an evil way to make his own thing useful..."
Han Yidou could no longer listen, so he rushed over and shouted: "What are you talking about?"
The two of them heard someone yelling at him and were about to have an attack on the spot, but when they saw that the person was Han Yidou, they could only leave embarrassedly.
Han Yidou's father is the village chief of Wei'an Castle, and he himself is highly valued by Lu Xu. In this Wei'an Castle, Han Yidou is definitely a big shot. Those who only dare to whisper in the corner will naturally not dare.
It was rash in front of Han Yidou.
The two of them left, but Han Yidou was so angry that he couldn't do it. So he seemed a little absent-minded when he was at work. Lu Xu, who noticed that his situation was wrong, of course, had to come to understand the situation.
Lu Xu really didn't expect that his test would be regarded as a demonstration. This is also his fault. Every time he had something new, he would acquiesce to everyone to watch.
At that time, he urgently needed to prove his abilities to everyone, so it was understandable to do so. But the last time he was just a test, not a demonstration of new equipment, but it was just that the people misunderstood that led to the current results.
However, Lu Xu didn't have time to pay attention to them. He said to Han Yidou: "We can't control what others say, we can only control what we do?"
"As long as we do our job well, those who have questioned us will naturally know that they are looking down on others."
Han Yidou understood the truth, but he was just angry and needed to vent his anger. Hearing Lu Xu's words, he could only work overtime as much as possible in the hope of hitting those who don't like them as soon as possible.
And just as Han Yidou and Lu Xu were working hard for new equipment, the wives of Wei'anbao came!
Chen Yueqi, no, it should be called Wen Yueqi now.
Wen Yueqi's life has been pretty good over the past period of time.
After accepting Wen Yuanzhong's mission, Wen Yuanzhong was really good to her. Although she was still a lowly woman, she almost maintained the level of a rich lady in life.
Not only that, Wen Yuanzhong gave her a lot of dowry on the grounds that he prevented Wen Yueqi from being wronged in Wei'anbao. Wen Yueqi knew what her dowry was. With her knowledge, she felt that even a small official in the capital would marry.
My daughter is just this level.
If an ordinary woman suddenly gets such a good thing after suffering a disaster, she may not be grateful immediately and be loyal to Wen Yuanzhong.
But Wen Yueqi is not an ordinary person after all, and she has long seen the problem with her reading poetry. She even knew that those dowry were not given to her by Wen Yuanzhong, but by letting herself go to Wei'anbao to buy people's hearts.
, when necessary, this money can even become the capital to control Vienborg!