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Bang bang bang.

The sound of an ax chopping on a tree trunk came one after another.

The ax was swung with great force and embedded deeply into the tree trunk. After causing a burst of splinters, the exploration team members shook the ax handle and pulled it out with force.

A large enough gap was cut in the trunk of the tree, and the entire tree began to become shaky.

The logging team members shouted loudly and warned, and then several people stepped on the tree trunk with all their strength.

The tree trunk made a creaking sound and then crashed to the ground. Along with the thin sound of countless branches being broken, leaves also flew in all directions.

Although the exploration team only brought a few axes, it greatly improved efficiency and saved the team members' physical energy consumption.

The next step is to saw the trunk into sections for easy transportation.

These trunks are rolled and transported to the camp, where they are finely processed.

The expedition carried no saws.

However, the needle gold was lent to them.

The "saw" of acupuncture comes from the blade spider. The spider's hind limbs are slender and straight, and have a row of tight spikes, which are naturally good saws.

The Blade Spider is a silver-level monster, and the exploration team members quickly realized the power of the silver-level monster from another angle.

Working in pairs, they used their bladed spider legs to saw through thick tree trunks, as if they were slicing white bread with a sharp table knife.

The old scholar Cang Xu has rich experience in leadership and command.

Because Zhenjin was in charge, he divided the people in his hands into two groups.

One group felled the wood, and the other peeled the bark, tearing the inside of the bark into thin strips.

Every once in a while, the two groups take turns changing the work content. In this way, the team members can save energy, take a break, and maintain the progress of the work.

In one morning, the logging team exceeded the task.

A large amount of wood, rolled section by section, was transported to the camp one after another and temporarily piled in the corner.

There are also thin strands torn from the bark, all of which have been smeared with medicine.

The lunch supply was increased and almost everyone was very hungry.

White buds and yellow algae also come back during meal time.

They didn't get much, just a few birds and a pheasant. This harvest is obviously not comparable to the manpower and time spent, but at least they have cleared the forest near the camp again.

To everyone's surprise, Zhenjin also ordered that there would be a short nap time after lunch. This has never happened before.

This was actually Cang Xu's suggestion that a lunch break could ensure the team members' work efficiency in the afternoon.

Although the logging work is over, the workload ahead is still very large.

A large number of tree trunks were chopped down to form pieces of wood, which were the prototype for making short bow arms.

Therefore, there are requirements for the length and thickness of the wooden boards.

Even the original position of the wooden board in the entire trunk of the tree is preferably the core of the tree.

This is joinery work.

It would have been nice if there were carpenters, but the exploration team members were all amateurs, so their amateur nature was immediately revealed - many tree trunks were destroyed, and although many wooden boards were chopped out, after Bai Ya's inspection, they were all useless. qualified.

Unqualified wooden boards can be used to lay traps for hunters.

Even the most tattered wood can be used to make a fire. After burning a fire, 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 need of any resources. The resources that are available will never be let go easily.

The progress of the carpentry was quite slow, which made Zhen Jin's worries and impatience accumulate more and more.

Although he also knew that he couldn't be in a hurry.

To be honest, Zidi's potion did help him a lot, which saved him the most critical time.

Furthermore, Cang Xu's arrangements were also very reasonable and sufficient. The old scholar had already estimated the unqualified situation.

As the members of the exploration team became familiar with the work, the loss of wood began to decrease significantly.

Qualified wooden boards are being produced one after another, and there are more and more of them.

When the number of wooden boards increased to a certain level, Cang Xu directed everyone to start using the wooden boards to make short bow arms.

The craft is actually quite simple.

You only need to cut the board into thinner strips, forming a shape that is slightly thicker in the middle and slightly thinner at both ends, and cut notches at both ends to facilitate hanging bowstrings in the future.

After Bai Ya inspects and confirms the finished short bow arm, it will be smeared with chemicals and placed in a dark corner to dry.

After this work was completed, many people clamored that they thought they could become bowsmiths.

More people keep moving their fingers or kneading the muscles in their arms, arms, thighs, etc. The pain and numbness made them grin.

Their bodies are reaching their limits, but there is other work waiting for them.

A lot of arrows need to be made.

There is generally a standard for arrow shaft material selection. Wood that meets the standard is processed and cut into long cylinders, and then the surface is smoothed.

Of course, the exploration team does not have a mature processing link.

The main material they use to make arrows is branches. The branches are as straight as possible, close to the length and thickness of normal arrows.

Bai Ya instructed everyone to make arrows. First, he peeled off the bark of the branches to make arrow shafts, then carefully cut the feathers with a knife blade, and then glued them with chemicals to create arrow feathers. Finally, the arrowhead is slightly baked to harden the wood after carbonization, and then sharpened.

The arrows produced in this way are far from comparable to regular military supplies.

First of all, the material selection of the arrow shafts is a bit poor, and the material selection of the arrow feathers is not top-notch, it is completely shoddy, but don't dislike it yet.

There are too few feathers in the expedition team. Most of them come from the chicken feathers and bird feathers Bai Ya hunted today, so every one must be cherished.

The only thing that is gratifying is the temporary potion prepared by Zidi - it is really sticky!

As for the arrows, they were downright shabby.

Not even an iron arrow.

If you really use it, it will be scrapped after a few times.

The lethality is naturally very low, but it is still a threat to ordinary beasts.

In addition to the making of arrows, there are other jobs.

For example, a large wooden shield is as tall as a person and relatively wide. It is assembled from tree trunks and rattan and stamped on the ground to form an extremely simple short curtain wall.

This is also called a shield.

A long time ago, when the humans attacked the castle, there were such defenses.

By now, this kind of fortification has long been eliminated.

Even if someone uses it, it will at least be covered with a layer of iron sheet.

In addition to the shields, there were also wooden spears.

The exploration team members can hold guns with both hands and assassinate flying squirrels from a certain safe distance.

But this tactic is better than nothing, because everyone knows that rats are very fast, can glide in mid-air, adjust their tails in the air, and are very flexible.

What everyone is looking forward to is mainly the short bow.

By evening, the torn bark had completely dried. People sighed at Zidi's tricks and began to twist the hemp rope.

The technique of rubbing the rope was also learned from Bai Ya.

There are little tricks here.

The main thing is to first divide a filament into two bundles. Each bundle is rotated counterclockwise. When the two bundles are merged, they are rotated clockwise. In this way, the braided rope will be tighter and less likely to unravel.

Hemp rope is used as a bowstring. Each short bow is equipped with at least two bowstrings, one for regular use and one for backup.

By dinner time in the evening, the bowstring has basically been made.

Just like lunch, dinner is also sumptuous. There are also game meats, which become a rare flavor spice for everyone.

Early the next morning.

Zhen Jin and others all got up early because there was an important thing to do——

Try the bow.

After leaving it overnight and adding Zi Di's potion, the bow was dry.

Bai Ya tried to grab both ends of the bow arm with both hands and bent it hard. When he saw that the bow arm was bent in a large arc, he grinned and said: "Great. It's better than I expected."

Cang Xu muttered: "Huang Zao, I have a task for you. Break this bow arm, but you must use force slowly."

Huang Zao understood what Cang Xu meant and started immediately. When the bow arm bent to its limit, it immediately broke into two pieces with a snap.

Everyone saw it with their own eyes and immediately understood the endurance limit of this simple bow arm.

Cang Xu estimated: "It seems that only one hemp rope can be used as a bowstring."

No one had any objections.

Sometimes, multiple hemp ropes are combined to form a bowstring. But after testing, it was found that due to the toughness and limit of the arm of this short bow, it was more appropriate to use a hemp rope.

Bai Ya tied up the bow string, and he tied it with a live buckle, cleverly and securely.

Immediately, the son of Orion nocked an arrow, aimed at the target in the distance, and shot the arrow with a whoosh.

Everyone watched with wide eyes.

It was obvious that the arrow originally aimed straight ahead flew directly to the upper left, and then landed at an angle.

The range reaches more than fifty steps.

It's far away from the target - I don't know where it's tilted.

But no one showed any disappointment, Zhen Jin even nodded slightly - he knew that this was just the beginning.

The bow needs to be adjusted.

The forged bow arms are very rough and require constant use of daggers and other props to continue processing the bow arms. At the same time, the bow string and arrows must be adjusted. Along with this process, the accuracy of the short bow will become stable and the shooting range will be greatly improved.

Finally, after Bai Ya's debugging was completed, the arrow successfully hit the target a hundred steps away, and the arrow shot into the depth of two fingers.

Zhenjin is already very satisfied with this result.

On the one hand, this is not a compound bow, but a single bow. The bow arms and bow strings are all made from local materials, not carefully selected. On the other hand, the arrows do not have iron arrowheads, but are sharpened after carbonization and treated very roughly.

It's great to have such a performance.

Because needle gold does not require much.

They were now in the forest, not the vast and empty terrain of the grassland, and the longbow was not suitable.

None of the exploration team members are excellent archers. Most of them are just trying to catch a duck. Don't expect them to be accurate from a hundred steps away.

"Limited by the environment and personnel, the effective range of the short bow is one hundred steps, which is enough."

"The key is, how many arrows can we shoot within these one hundred steps? If we can shoot more than three arrows with a certain accuracy, then the short bow plan will be considered successful."