novelaction Chapter 340 Crossbow
Chapter 340 Crossbow
Zhou Gu shuddered all over.
Zhou Guo thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll just stay at home. He may not come. If he doesn't come, that's fine. But if he does come..."
He touched his chin and said, "I heard that there are only a dozen people. If they come, well, machetes and swords won't work, then what about bows and arrows? Bows and arrows won't work either, because they don't have that much strength... Master, let's make something."
The old man nodded without any hesitation. He was very curious about what his young apprentice could make. He always had something new every time.
The two men went to the carpenter's house in the town and worked in the yard for three days and three nights. Zhou Guo then went to the blacksmith shop to order a batch of things. Several batches of things were broken before they were considered qualified.
Four days later, the two returned to the village with their belongings.
The old man fiddled with the pile of things obsessively, but he couldn't figure out how to do it. He looked at Zhou Guo who was driving the cart and said, "Forget it, I'll drive the cart. I don't know how to do this. You should do it yourself."
Zhou Guo nodded and said, "Okay, we haven't seen how powerful this thing is yet. If it's not powerful enough, we can only think of another way."
The old man took the reins from her and said with a smile, "I don't know what's going on in your little head. Even if I have seen it, I can't create it."
Zhou Guo sat down and piled the things together. He began to assemble the carriage, which was shaking.
The messy things were pieced together one by one, and the appearance of this thing gradually took shape.
It turned out to be a crossbow!
Zhou Guo assembled the crossbow and made sure there were no flaws. Then he took out a feather arrow from the side, put the bow on, and shot it at a big tree beside the road.
With a whoosh, the arrow shot into a big tree a hundred steps away, and the arrow feathers trembled slightly.
Zhou Guo's eyes lit up and he cheered, "Master, Master, did you see that? It worked, it really worked, hahahaha, I'm so awesome!"
The old man squinted his eyes and looked serious. The arrow was about four or five inches deep. Such power could not be matched by ordinary crossbows today.
Zhou Guo was very excited. In her previous life, she had been very interested in bows and crossbows and had visited museums to see them. She especially yearned for the legendary crossbow.
Even though she couldn't make the divine arm crossbow, this ordinary crossbow was still okay. It was worth her years of careful research on it. She actually used it and it was quite powerful.
The old man stepped forward and pulled out the crossbow arrow, then looked at the arrow hole. He couldn't help but blow his beard, he really couldn't figure it out.
Zhou Guo also took a look and said with a smile: "Master, do you want to try it? This hole looks really deep. If you shoot it into the barbarian, it will definitely penetrate him!"
The old man said nothing and held out his hand.
Zhou Guo smiled and gave him the crossbow.
With a whoosh, the sharp arrow flew through the air and hit a big tree about one hundred and sixty steps away, with the arrowhead penetrating about two inches.
The two tried a few more times, and the longest range of this crossbow was two hundred and twenty steps!
The longest range the old man has ever used was only 240 steps, much longer than this!
Because the materials were not cheap, only two pieces were made this time, which cost Zhou Guo twenty taels of silver, and he also used up all the good materials from the carpenter.
It takes a lot of strength to draw the bow, so Zhou Guo gave a bow to Li.
There was another one, and Zhou Guo couldn't decide, so he let the brothers choose for themselves and give it to whoever practiced better.
As a result, after two days of practice, it was impossible to tell who was stronger. Zhou Gu was strong, but his aim was very poor. Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi had good aim, but not much strength.
Zhou Guo rubbed his head, turned around and saw Zhou Xing embroidering stitch by stitch, his eyes lit up, "Sister, why don't you try it."
"Ah?" Zhou Xing was startled and pointed the needle at her nose, "Me?"
Zhou Guo nodded, "Yes, you try it."
Zhou Gu and the others huddled aside, watching them always miss the target, or having the target hit with great effort only to be nailed with arrows by Zhou Xing again and again, and they dared not say a word.
Zhou Guo clapped his hands and laughed, "Okay, this crossbow belongs to my sister now."
Zhou Xing's excited eyes were brighter than the lights, and she nodded heavily.
Li smiled and said, "I didn't expect that the girls in our family are so capable, even more capable than our brothers."
Zhou Gu and Zhou Mi scratched their heads embarrassedly.
Zhou Mai smiled and said, "We have sisters to protect us. We are much luckier than other brothers and sisters."
Zhou Gu and Zhou Mi nodded. They were proud to have such sisters.
Several families in the village went into the mountains to explore. Some went in in the morning and came out in the afternoon.
Upon asking, they found out that they had managed to walk forward four or five miles in the snow, but could not go any further. The snow was deeper than their thighs and the road was narrow. They almost fell off the mountain. After finally moving forward a little bit, the snow on the mountain was like an avalanche and almost buried them.
They were so scared that they immediately turned around and went back. It was extremely difficult to walk. It took them more than an hour just to walk the four or five miles with empty hands.
But you can't go into the mountains with your family empty-handed. You have to bring things, such as clothes, bedding and food. It would be difficult to move forward in the mountains with these things.
The people who came out waved their hands and said, "We can't even think about going into the mountains at this time. Otherwise, we might freeze to death, fall to death, or be buried by the snow in the mountains."
Everyone was panicked. Since they couldn't go to the mountains, where could they hide?
The village head with white hair said: "Everyone should stay at home these days, try not to walk around the village, and keep the doors and windows closed. If the barbarians don't come, it's fine. If they come, everyone should hide. If you really can't hide, everyone should shout at home, and the young and strong men in each family will come with their weapons."
Everyone could only nod worriedly, it didn't sound very reliable.
Zhou Guo stood up and said, "Grandpa Lizheng, we can't just hide at home. If the Hu people enter the village, it will be too late to shout. We have to grasp the enemy's movements."
That makes sense, everyone nodded, thinking it was much more reliable than what the head of the village said!
The village head saw her as a little kid saying this and asked sternly, "What should we do?"
Zhou Guo said, "There are only two roads out of the village, one at the entrance and one at the end. The others all go deep into the mountains. Let's not talk about the ones in the mountains. We have to send people to guard the two roads at the entrance and end of the village from a distance. It would be best to build two high platforms and have people take turns to guard them. If we see the Hu people coming from a distance, we can light smoke or beat gongs and drums so that we can be prepared."
"Hey, this idea sounds good, but now the soil is frozen, it may not be easy to build a stage."
The head of the village scolded him with a stern face: "What is easy? Is it easy to enter the mountains? Or is it easy to kill the Hu people? Can't the whole village build a platform? If it can't be built, everyone will wait to die in vain."
Everyone lowered their heads and dared not speak.
It’s not that I haven’t worked in the winter in previous years. Sometimes when urgent labor service came, I would go even if it rained knives from the sky.
So building a platform on the frozen ground was difficult, but with so many people the whole village worked together and it took more than a day to build the two tall lookout towers.