Chapter 19 (1/2)
”What do they want to do?” Looking down at the growing camp, Chad asked with a puzzled look on his face.
Now, a day and a half after the chaos, they not only gathered together the escaped Andes mountain people, but also gathered more than a dozen Andes mountain people who knew that their villages had been destroyed and chased all the way.
However, the number of mountain people is not increasing, but it is small. There are only more than 80 mountain people following them.
They went back to Shawn's hunter's hut and not only took new weapons, but also left the old, the sick and the disabled.
In this regard, Chad and woody also agreed. Soldiers are expensive, but elite are not expensive. If too many people make up their numbers, their comprehensive combat effectiveness will be reduced. Moreover, they are not without work. They need to rush out more arrows overnight to support them at any time.
The long bows in the hands of both the survivors of the previous chaos and the andis hunters who later caught up with them all changed. The pure Andes longbows are a smaller size than the one Sean used before. Even so, the size is still frightening.
”Good bow, really good bow. The bow force must be at least four twisted, and the maximum range is no less than 400 steps.”
”Bows are good bows, but they are not easy to carry and hunt in the mountains. However, they are used to kill people. Such a guy can never be more enjoyable.”
”No wonder Tang likes to collect brass camphor wood so much. His feelings are to prepare for it. The wise man is the wise man. He takes every step and looks at ten steps, and his realm is half a level higher than that of us.”
”The material is good, but the standard of the bow maker is not so good. You can see that he is a novice. There is a small defect of brass camphor wood, which is lack of oil. Before training the bow, it is better to soak oil half a month in advance. Palm oil is the best, followed by cattle and sheep oil. The toughness and tension of the brass camphor wood trained after oil immersion can be increased by more than half. It is made of pure brass camphor wood On the giant bow, the power can be increased by more than 10%
”Is there a remedy?”
”The bow has been shaped, and the original method is no longer appropriate. However, if you wipe it with oil soaked linen cloth three times a day for a period of time, it should have a certain effect.”
It is worthy of being an old hand who has been playing bow since childhood. Once he starts to shoot, he can estimate the performance of the bow without even shooting an arrow.
These old hunters all know that this is a good thing, a good thing to kill people.
Some hunters who are proficient in bow making directly find out some defects on these bows.
Don't underestimate these illiterate people who are usually absent-minded and can't make a fart with eight sticks. It's not possible that they are masters of bow making.
When you touch anything for a lifetime, it's hard to master it. What's more, Andes mountain people have their own inheritance. The manufacturing process of hunting bow is more than ten times more complicated than that of andis longbow. It's no surprise to make Andes long bow.
The reason why it is not popular is mainly due to its function. The Andes long bow is a killing bow. In most hunting occasions, it is still easy to use the bow.
Although the new longbow is not as good as the hunting bow, it is not bad. If you shoot more arrows, you will find the feeling.
What's more, this kind of Longbow has absolute range advantage, and when the long-range coverage shooting is carried out, the shooting accuracy has become irrelevant.
As soon as they started, they could take out a long bow equipped with hundreds of people. Those mountain people were shocked by Shaun's great writing, so they were more confident in their new leader.
On the contrary, the people who used to follow Sean's side are not surprised. The bows they use may contain their trial works, which is a drop in the bucket for Sean's inventory.
When they met Sean, he already had the hobby of collecting special wood. Compared with the composite bow which has been made for several years, the manufacturing process of this single bow is very simple. As long as there is suitable wood, a skilled hand can make one in only three hours.
The best wood to make Andes longbow is camphor. The longbow made from this coppery colored camphor tree after shade drying is not only powerful, but also very beautiful. The unique Camphor Fragrance makes it close to insects and mice.
The stock of this kind of tree in the Andes can only be said to be average, not to say that the Andes are not suitable for their survival, but Andes mountain people have long found that it is a good material for making bows and crossbows. When making hunting bows, they often use it as the main bone. As the consumption is large, the number of wild trees will naturally decrease.
Andes mountain people have been planting a brass camphor tree around their villages and even in their homes for hundreds of years, especially when they have a son. When their son grows up, the brass camphor tree is just at the age of making a bow. Therefore, there is another tree called adult tree or daughter-in-law tree.
Second, Redwood, elm, ash, oak, black camphor and other hard wood are available substitutes, but the performance is worse.
The Andes bows Sean brought out were made of the best brass camphor wood.
Collecting brass camphor wood is another well-known quirk of Sean. Most of the time, his visiting fee is a piece of high-quality brass camphor wood.
In fact, Sean was forced to do so. Andes mountain people were still trading at the level of barter. The money was so small that most mountain people didn't even recognize it. Those who could take half a bag of wheat, a few pieces of animal skin and half the meat as a diagnosis of gold were considered rich families.Especially those patients' homes, which have been dragged down early, are normal. They want to start and have nothing to do. They just need to block brass camphor that will not be bad for 30 or 50 years.