Bang bang bang.
The sound of axes slashing on tree trunks came and went.
The axe was swung vigorously and embedded deep in the tree trunk, stirring up a burst of small pieces of wood, and then being shaken by the exploration team members to shake the axe handle and pull it out forcefully.
The trunk was cut out of a large enough gap, and the whole tree began to become crumbling.
The logging team members shouted loudly and issued reminders, and then several people kicked on the trunk together.
The trunk made a crunching sound and then fell to the ground with a bang. With the faint sound of countless branches being broken, the leaves also flew around.
Although the exploration team only brought a few axes, they greatly improved efficiency and saved the physical consumption of the team members.
Next, the tree trunk is sawn into sections for easy transportation.
These tree trunks are to be rolled and transported to the camp, where they are finely processed.
The expedition team did not carry a saw.
However, the wire was lent to them.
The "saw" of the needle comes from the bladed spider, which has slender and straight hind limbs and a row of tight spikes, which is a good natural saw.
The blade spider is a silver-level magical beast, and the exploration team members quickly realized the power of the silver-level magical beast from another angle.
They worked together in pairs, using bladed spider legs to saw through thick tree trunks, as if they were using sharp kitchen knives to easily cut white bread.
The old scholar Cang Xu has rich experience in leadership and command.
Because of the needle sitting in charge, he divided the people in his hands into two groups.
One group fells wood, one group peels the bark, and tears the inside of the bark into strips.
Every once in a while, the two groups take turns changing their work content, so that the team members can save energy, take some breaks, and maintain the progress of their work.
In one morning, the logging team exceeded the task.
A large amount of wood, rolling in sections, was transported to the camp one after another, temporarily stacked in the corner.
There are also thin threads torn from the bark, which have been smeared with medicine.
Lunch was served up, and almost everyone was hungry.
White buds and yellow algae also came back at mealtime.
They didn't get much, only a few birds and a pheasant. This gain is obviously incomparable to the manpower and time spent, but at least they cleared the mountains and forests near the camp again.
To everyone's surprise, Needle also ordered that there would be a short nap after lunch. This has never happened before.
This is actually a suggestion made by Cangxu, and the lunch break can ensure the efficiency of the team members in the afternoon.
Although the logging work is over, the work that follows is still very large.
A large number of tree trunks were cut down to form pieces of wooden planks, which were the prototypes for making short bow arms.
Therefore, the length and thickness of the boards are required.
Even the original position of the wooden board throughout the trunk should be the core.
This is the work of a joiner.
It would be nice if there was a carpenter, but the exploration team members were all laymen, so the nature of the layman was immediately revealed - many tree trunks were destroyed, and many planks, although cut down, were all unqualified after the white bud inspection.
Substandard planks that can be used to arrange hunter traps.
Even the most broken wood can be used to make a fire. After burning, the charcoal and wood ash formed are also good resources and have high practical value.
The exploration team has reached this point and is in demand for any resources. The resources that can be obtained will never be easily let go.
The progress of the carpentry was quite slow, which made the worries and impatience in Needle's heart accumulate more and more.
Although he also knew that he was in a hurry.
To be honest, Zidi's potion did him a lot of help, which saved him the most critical time.
Furthermore, Cang Xu's arrangement was also very reasonable and sufficient, and the old scholar had already estimated the unqualified situation.
As the members of the exploration team became familiar with the work, the wear and tear of the wood began to decrease significantly.
Qualified boards were born one after another, and more and more.
When the number of wooden boards rose to a certain level, Cangsu instructed everyone to start using wooden boards to make short bow arms.
The process is actually quite simple.
It only takes shaving the board into thinner strips to form a slightly thicker shape in the middle and thinner at both ends, and cutting notches at both ends to facilitate future bowstring hanging.
After the white buds are checked and confirmed, the made short bow arm will be applied with the agent and placed in a dark corner to dry.
After the work was over, many people shouted that they could be a bowsmith.
More people constantly move their fingers or knead their arms, arms, thighs, etc. muscles. The pain and numbness made them grin their teeth.
Their bodies are close to their limits, but there are other jobs waiting for them.
A large number of arrows need to be crafted.
There is generally a standard for the selection of arrow shafts, and the wood that meets the standards is processed into long cylinders, and then the surface is smoothed.
On the side of the exploration team, of course, there is no mature processing link.
The main material they make arrows from is branches, which are as straight as possible, close to the length and thickness of normal arrows.
Bai Ya instructed everyone to make arrows, first peeling off the bark of the branches to make arrow shafts, then carefully cutting the feathers with a knife blade, and then pasting them with potion to create arrow feathers. Finally, the arrows are slightly baked to make the wood carbonized and hardened, and then sharpened to a fine edge.
The arrows made in this way are far from being compared with regular military supplies.
First of all, the selection of arrow shafts is inferior, the selection of arrow feathers is not superior, it is completely shoddy, but don't dislike it.
There are too few feathers in the exploration team, most of which come from the chicken feathers and feathers that Shiraya hunts today, so cherish each one.
The only thing that is gratifying is the potion temporarily configured by Zidi - it sticks really firmly!
As for the arrow, it is simply shabby.
Not even iron arrows.
If you really use it, it will be scrapped after a few times.
The lethality is naturally also very low, but it is still a threat against ordinary beasts.
There are other jobs besides arrow production.
For example, a large wooden shield is one person tall and wider. It is assembled with tree trunks and rattan, and is pestled on the ground to form an extremely simple and short curtain wall.
This is also called a shield.
A long time ago, when the Terran tribe attacked the castle, there was such a fortification.
By now, this kind of fortification has long been eliminated.
Even if someone uses it, at least it is covered with a layer of iron sheet on the surface.
In addition to shields, there are wooden spears.
The exploration team members can hold guns in both hands and assassinate flying squirrels within a certain safe distance.
But this tactic is just better than nothing, because everyone knows that the rat is very fast and can glide in mid-air, and its tail adjusts its direction in the air, and its posture is very flexible.
What everyone is looking forward to is mainly the short bow.
By evening, the torn bark had completely dried in the shade, and people began to rub the hemp rope while lamenting the methods of purple stems.
The technique of rubbing the rope is also learned from Bai Ya.
There is a trick in this.
The main thing is to divide a filament into two bundles, each of which rotates counterclockwise, but when the two bundles merge, it rotates clockwise. In this way, the woven rope will be tighter and less likely to fall apart.
Hemp rope is used as a bowstring, and each short bow is equipped with at least two bowstrings, one commonly used and one spare.
By the time it comes to dinner at night, the bowstrings are basically enough.
Just like lunch, dinner is also satisfying. There is also game in it, which has become a rare taste concoction for everyone.
The next morning.
Needle and others got up early, because there was an important thing to do——
Bow trial.
Left overnight, with the addition of purple potion, the bow has dried.
Bai Ya tried to grab both ends of the bow arm with both hands and bend it hard, and after seeing that the bow arm was bent in a large arc, he grinned and said, "Great. It's better than I imagined."
Cangxu pondered: "Huang Zao, I will give you a task. Break this bow arm, but be sure to use it slowly."
Huang Zao understood what Cang Xu meant, and immediately set off, and when the bow arm bent to its own limit, it immediately broke into two pieces with a snap.
Everyone witnessed it with their own eyes, and immediately understood the limit of this simple bow arm.
Cangxu estimated: "It seems that only one hemp rope can be used as a bowstring."
No one objected.
Sometimes, multiple hemp ropes are combined to form a bowstring. But after the test, the toughness and limit of this short bow arm are more appropriate to use a hemp rope.
Bai Ya tied the bowstring, and he hit the live buckle, which was clever and reliable.
Immediately, the son of Orion put on the arrow, aimed at the arrow target in the distance, and shot the arrow with a whoosh.
Everyone watched with wide eyes.
Obviously, the arrow that was originally heading straight ahead flew directly to the upper left, and then landed tilted.
The range reaches more than fifty steps.
It was far from the target - I don't know where it was skewed.
But no one showed disappointment, and Needle even nodded slightly - he knew that this was just the beginning.
The bow needs to be debugged.
The bow arm created is very rough, and you need to constantly use daggers and other props to continue processing the bow arm. At the same time, the bowstring and arrows should be adjusted. With this process, the aiming of the short bow will become stable, and the range will be greatly improved.
In the end, after Bai Ya's debugging was completed, the arrow successfully hit the arrow target a hundred steps away, and the arrow was shot into the depth of two fingers.
For this result, the needle is already very satisfied.
On the one hand, this is not a compound bow, just a single bow, and the bow arm and bowstring are all made of local materials, not carefully selected. On the other hand, the arrows do not have iron arrows, but they are sharpened after carbonization and are handled very roughly.
It's good to be able to perform like this.
Because there are not many requirements for the needle.
They were now in the forest, not the vast and empty terrain of the grassland, and the longbow was not suitable.
The exploration team members are not excellent archers, most of them are driving ducks to the shelves, don't expect them to be accurate from a hundred paces away.
"Due to the limitations of the environment and personnel, the effective range of the short bow can be 100 steps, which is already possible."
"The key is to see, how many arrows can we shoot within these 100 steps? If you can shoot more than three arrows and have a certain accuracy, then the short bow plan will be considered successful."