"Young Master Qi, the bow you want has been made."

As soon as Yuan Mai made a payment, the guards sent a bow and a pot of arrows.

This was designed and manufactured by Han Blacksmith based on Yuan Mai. The bow arm is cast from high-quality bronze, and it is hard and tough. Even if it bears the pulling force of two stones, it will not bend and loose. It can ensure the accurate and stable surname of the arrows shot to the greatest extent. The inside of the bow arm is inlaid with precious buffalo horns, which form a perfect handle with a curved arc, which can ensure the best feel when shooting.

The bow string is made of young beef tendon as the main material, mixed with animal skin, deer glue and tough silk thread, ensuring the maximum elasticity and stretchability; the bow arm and bow string are coated with a layer of silver powder paint to protect the bow from the erosion of frost and dew.

The weight of the entire bow is only about ten kilograms. Although it looks inconspicuous, it took Han Blacksmith a month and a half to carefully build it. During the entire journey, Han Blacksmith not only bought a bow and arrow for Yuan, but also collected the precious materials he required, and spent a lot of energy and manpower, which made an exquisite bow come out.

In addition to the bow being designed by Yuan Mai and made by Han Blacksmith, the supporting arrows are also meticulous in making. A pot of thirty arrows are all made of high-quality bamboos, and the arrows are also cast according to the size required by Yuan Mai, and the tail feathers are made of carved feathers.

In the novels of later generations, when describing war scenes, words such as arrows being fired at once and dialing the divine ling. In fact, in this era, the bows and arrows of ordinary soldiers were made of shoddy, and few were carved feather arrows. The bows and strings were also made of silk threads and animal glue, with a range of only about 120 steps. The distances of later generations were about 150 meters.

The arrows used by soldiers are even more ordinary. Most of the arrow shafts are made of poplar and willow trees, and the arrows are made of iron. The range of an arrow is closely related to the tail feathers; if there are too many arrow feathers, the speed of the arrows shot is slow; if there are too few, the stability is poor. As for the materials, the carved feathers are the best, followed by the horned eagle feathers, followed by the elves and owl feathers, and the geese and goose feathers are the worst. After shooting out, they often jump and run off.

The so-called carved feather refers to the feathers pulled from the carved wings. An arrow requires a carved feather, and a large eagle can only pull out a hundred and tens of carved feathers. A team of bows and arrows with tens of thousands of people need at least millions of crossbows. If all of them are equipped with carved feathers, tens of thousands of carved eagles will need to be massacred to make it. It can be imagined that this is simply impossible to complete. How many big eagles are flying in the entire sky? Even if there are, how much time will it take to hunt down tens of thousands?

In fact, the tail feathers of arrows used by most soldiers in Chinese history are made of feathers of wild gooses or home geese, and even the feathers of eagles are very few. Only a few generals and senior scholars can afford to use the eagle feather arrows.

Zhou Cang had been in the team for more than ten years, and of course he could recognize these arrows at a glance as good ones; but as for this bow, he couldn't help but laugh.

It is exquisite and beautiful in appearance, like a handicraft. But the body is too small. Not to mention that it is incomparable to an iron-tied bow of one stone, two stones. Even the corner bow used by soldiers is much smaller. How powerful can such a small thing have?

"Hehe... Young Master, this bow looks good, but it's too playful, right? Such a small bow is similar to a child's use for playing. Can it kill people?" Zhou Cang couldn't help it and asked with a silly smile.

Yuan Mai smiled and said, "What? Can't you kill someone if you are a small bow? As long as you shoot far, what does it matter if the bow is big and the bow is small?"

Zhou Cang looked disbelief: "A bow of this small, let alone a stone of strength, I'm afraid that it can break it with three dou of strength, right?"

"Oh...is it? Then you try to pull it and see how much effort you can use to break him!" Yuan Mai handed the bow to Zhou Cang and said with a smile.

Zhou Cang scratched his scalp and smiled silly, "I dare not. This was made by the blacksmith Han, who had spent a lot of effort. If I broke him, the young master would not cut off my head!"

"Just just pull it a little. If it breaks, I will never blame you!" Yuan Mai smiled and handed the bow to Zhou Cang's hands. He thought to himself that if it was casually pulled by you, my archery career in my past ten years will be in vain!

Seeing the young master's resolute words, Zhou Cang took it and tried to pull it a few times. Although it was light, he could feel that there was a strong force on the bowstring and strength. He tried to increase his strength. He could only feel that as the strength increased, the bowstring's elasticity became stronger and stronger, but it did not look distorted. Finally, he used his strength to pull the bowstring into a full moon, but the bow arm was still motionless, and even no extra sound was made.

"Huh... I'm convinced, this bow is really amazing!" Zhou Cang wiped the sweat beads on his forehead and returned the bow to Yuan Mai. "The strength I used just now is two stones. Although my archery skills are not good, my strength is not enough. But this bow can bear it. It's so scary. How far can this bow shoot?"

"You'll know after a while!"

Yuan Mai said lightly, bent down and found some small things from a wooden box, sat cross-legged on the carpet, and slowly tidied up. He couldn't tell how far he could shoot, but he probably wouldn't have a range of 270 or 80 meters, at least he wouldn't lose to the two-stone iron-tied bow.

The range of ordinary bows in this day is about 120 steps, which is about 140 meters in later generations; better iron-tied bows, such as one stone, can reach 150 steps, about 180 meters; while the most powerful two-stone iron-tied bows can reach 180 steps, about 210 meters.

However, such an iron-tied bow is huge in size, about half a person tall. In order to descendants, the length of the bowstring can reach one and a half meters. Ordinary soldiers cannot pull it away at all. Only strong men with strong strength can pull it away. People with strong archery skills are not outstanding, and those with excellent archery skills do not necessarily have such great strength. Therefore, people who can pull a strong bow and have excellent shooting skills can be considered first-class heroes.

Wen Hou Lu Bu is the best in the world. The story of shooting halberds at the gate to repel Ji Ling's soldiers was rumored to be a good story. In addition to Lu Bu, Taishi Ci from Jiangdong, Huang Zhong from Changsha, and Xiahou Yuan from Xuchang were all first-class masters who used bows, who could not only draw a strong bow, but also ensure the accurate surname of archery techniques.

Yuan Mai and the bow and arrow in his previous life had been dealing with each other for more than ten years and knew the principles of bow and arrow. The bow designed by him personally added technological elements from two thousand years later. It seems light, but after the bow string is integrated with scientific elements, you only need to use one bucket of strength. The striking of the bow string is similar to the iron-tied bow of a stone. Moreover, Yuan Mai believes that if the bow is completely full, the range will definitely not be below two stone bows, and it can even be further away.

After hearing Yuan Mai say this, Zhou Cang's curiosity was aroused, and he instigated Yuan Mai and said, "The moonlight outside is as bright as day tonight. Can you try it outside the military camp?"

"When I have installed these small things, I'll try it!" Yuan Mai replied lightly, and he wanted to try how long the range of this bow he designed himself could have?

Zhou Cang glanced at the small things in front of Yuan Mai. Most of them were made of ox horns, iron wire, crossbow clasps, etc. At this moment, the young master was seriously inlaiding them on the bow arms and bow strings.

He asked with a confused look on his face: "What are these? Why do you look more and more like toys for children? They don't look like weapons that take lives on the battlefield!"

Yuan Mai continued to install the small parts in his hand and replied with a smile: "Who said that weapons must be shining with cold light, making people shudder? You know..."

Yuan Mai originally wanted to say, "Do you know guns? The guns in later generations are becoming more and more beautiful. Many of them are as beautiful as handicrafts, but their lethality is not comparable to any weapon of this era..."
Chapter completed!