Chapter 124 Shields and Bows
After the sacrifice was completed, the next day, all the new totem warriors were driven to open the land just like before.
The clearing of land on heavy snow is not only conducive to the new totem warriors to be familiar with the power of totem, but also conducive to the tribe's production next year. It is a great thing.
The matter of bringing the new totem warriors to open up the land was handed over to Yan, and Yun, Baicao, and Lie, except for taking turns patrolling the tribe, were all pulled by Chen Bei to the Wood Workshop.
Since the first time the Mang tribe was attacked by other tribes, Chen Bei has always wanted to improve the weapons and equipment in the tribe, but he has been busy with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and has no time to improve it.
Now that the tribe has sufficient food, Chenbei can finally free up his hands to do something else.
Like other tribes, the weapons used by the Mang tribe are extremely primitive, except for stone tools, they are bone tools, and they are mainly swords and spears, and even bows and arrows are rare.
Although these primitive stone tools and bone tools are simple to make, they have poor lethality and have no defense capabilities.
So, while there is nothing wrong in winter, Chenbei wants to upgrade the weapons and equipment in the tribe.
The first thing to do is a shield for protection.
This is also the easiest thing to make in Chenbei Limited’s knowledge reserve.
In the wooden workshop, everyone was listening carefully to Chenbei's explanation.
"This thing is called a shield." Chen Bei took out a animal skin, which was painted on it with both sides of a rectangular shield. The front was ferocious, with the head of the beast with a bloody mouth, and the reverse was the handle used to grasp it.
"It can be made of wooden boards, bamboo boards, and rattans, and covered with raw animal skins. It can also be square or round, each with its own advantages."
"As for the beast heads on it, they are used to scare people."
"A shield can withstand the enemy's attacks. For example, if someone else cuts you with a knife, you can only dodge or be chopped. However, with a shield, you can use a shield to block his knife."
"I plan to make some round and square shields with wooden boards, bamboo, rattan, and each so that everyone can choose the shield that suits them, and can greatly improve their strength when fighting."
"It's probably like this, can the root be made, right?"
Carpenter looked at the shield painting on the animal skin, nodded, and said, "Yes."
"Okay, then start doing it."
Chenbei brought a lot of rattan, bamboo slices, wooden boards, cowhide, as well as animal brushes and pigments.
The carpenter took his apprentices and began to make shields.
The first thing I made was a wooden rectangular shield covered with a wild boar skin, which was hard and not very time-consuming to make.
"Yun, come and try to cut a knife."
"Okay." Yun took out his stone knife and was eager to try.
Chen Bei held a shield in his left hand and a bone knife in his right hand, standing in front of the clouds.
"Chief, I'm here."
Yun held a stone knife and rushed forward a few steps, stabbing Chenbei with one sword.
"Du!"
Chen Bei raised the shield and blocked the stone knife. The stone knife slashed the shield, making a dull sound.
Yun looked on the shield and saw that although the stone knife penetrated the wild boar's skin, it did not penetrate the wooden board. This thing was harder to cut through than he thought.
Chen Bei took advantage of the stone he cut on the shield and took a step forward, and the bone knife was already on Yun's neck.
"See it. This is the difference between having a shield and not having a shield. It can block a knife for you at critical moments, or even several knifes."
Yun was a little dissatisfied and said, "If I use the power of totem and cut it down with all my strength, this thing will definitely be cut through."
Chen Bei put away the bone knife and said, "What if I don't cover the wild boar skin on it, but three layers of bison skin? What if I don't use wooden boards, but bone plates made of animal bones?"
"this……"
Yun was shocked. If it was really as Chen Bei said, even a totem warrior would be difficult to cut through. Even if it was cut through, it would not be able to split the entire shield.
Others also heard it and their eyes shone. This shield looked very useful.
A totem warrior with similar strength has a big difference between having a shield and not having a shield, and it may directly determine life and death.
Chen Bei put down the shield and said, "In the future, I will draw some apprentices from various workshops to form a weapon workshop to specialize in making various weapons needed by the tribe."
Everyone nodded one after another. As the tribe expanded, the number of weapons needed increased rapidly. Stone workshops, bone instrument workshops, wooden instrument workshops, and had to make daily necessities and weapons, and they were too busy.
Most people in the tribe have very poor weapons and are not very useful to use, so it is still necessary to form a workshop that specializes in making weapons.
In the next few days, Chenbei tried bamboo shields and vine shields, each with their advantages and disadvantages.
After the shield, Chenbei asked the carpenter to try to make bows and arrows.
The Mang tribe has primitive bows and arrows, but it is very simple, not very powerful, and has poor accuracy.
For example, the string with the most talent for archery in the tribe, he spent a lot of time to make a bow according to his use habits, but the power was not particularly strong. He could only shoot the eyes of prey and other key points to cause relatively large lethality.
In the final analysis, the technology is too poor, and the bows made cannot withstand the huge power of the totem warrior, so they cannot play a big role.
When facing wild boars and other preys with thick skin and flesh, bows and arrows have less effect.
A truly good bow is extremely cumbersome. With a half-baked guy like Chenbei, it is impossible to remember everything. He only remembers part of it and can only look forward to gradually improving it in the future.
In order to make bows and arrows, Chen Bei specially found the totem warrior "string".
Xian brought the bow tire he made over and some semi-finished arrows.
Chen Bei said to the string: "I know not much about making bows and arrows. I can only tell you the part I remember."
"First of all, the inner wall of this bow needs to be covered with animal horns, which can be a cow horn or other horns. After polishing, grind it with fire, then dip it with fish glue, and the outer wall will be wrapped with animal tendons."
"Then wrap the outside with thin threads, so that the bow made in this way can withstand greater strength."
"As for the arrow, you have already been covered with feathers, I won't say much, just do it straight."
"It's probably that. I only know so much. As I said, try it more, it should be much better than your current bow."
"If you succeed, the tribe will give you satisfactory rewards. At that time, I will also find some people with archery talent to learn from you, and these people are yours."
After listening to Chen Bei's words, Xian said excitedly: "Don't worry, leader, I will definitely succeed in doing it."
Chen Bei nodded with a smile and said, "Xian, I believe in you, do it well."
Afterwards, Chen Bei left Xian's house. After leaving the door, he felt guilty because the method he told Xian was actually just a rough idea, and he still needed to explore it himself.
Fortunately, Chen Bei has long been accustomed to this model, and people in the tribe often bring surprises to him. This time, it should be the same, right?
Chapter completed!