Chapter 61 Slingshot
In Tiewei Mountain, the three horses that Shang Zhen snatched turned into horse meat and were hidden in the cave.
Whether it is stealing horses or robbing horses, he just wants to get food, how can he not kill them?
Although he couldn't eat it for the time being, he didn't have any extra fodder to feed the three horses. If he really had the skill of making fodder, he might as well practice more martial arts by himself!
The morning sun shone coldly, and Shang Zhen sat on the big rock at the entrance of the cave, but looked at the bow in his hand silently.
Of course he knew that he shot five arrows a few days ago before he shot down a horse, but he was not the rider on the horse.
I don’t know if I only practice martial arts and have strength and speed, so I still need to practice bows and arrows well.
However, there are only four arrows left in Shang Zhen’s quiver pot.
When Dada grabbed this set of bows and arrows from the Hu people last time, there were only ten arrows left in the Hu people's quiver pot.
One day he saw a mountain bird on the mountain, and when he was curious, he shot an arrow.
As a result, the bird did not shoot, and the arrow fell on the ridge above him but he couldn't reach it.
He asked the little cat to pick it up, but he didn't know if the little cat didn't understand or was lazy to move. He didn't take it back anyway. Shang Zhen was so angry that he said, "What kind of little cat are you? You are just an ungrateful wolf!"
After the battle of stealing horses, Shang Zhen realized the role of bows and arrows.
But there is a bow, but this arrow is not easy to deal with.
You know, even the arrowheads of the Hu people (i.e. arrowheads) are also made of iron.
In the Hu people's territory, iron tools are also very precious things. Where can you get Shang Zhen to get the iron arrow?
As for asking him to make arrows by himself, he thought about it, but he thought it was too difficult and gave up.
If the iron arrow is not available, it is not easy to get the tail feathers behind the arrow used for a fixed direction.
If you want to get the tail feather, you have to practice archery first to shoot the bird. If you want to practice archery, you have to have arrows. If you want to have arrows, you have to have the tail feather of the bird.
This is simply like asking whether there are eggs or chickens in this world first. This is a vicious cycle of discussion!
When Shang Zhen saw that he had no choice but to get an arrow, he began to think again. After a while, he felt his eyes lit up, and a poem popped out of his sea.
This poem is like this.
"Don't lift the strings with a slight punch, and hold the front fist and twist the whole line.
Open your arms in front of your fist, and hold your back in front of your ear.
The left eye is closed and the right eye is seen by the fist bird in front.
I'm afraid that the front fist will turn, so you must increase the force and tighten the fist.
When the bird falls down after his back, others praise him for his compliment.
No matter how far or near you, you must be full, and not be satisfied with the string.
As long as the slingshot is large, it is difficult to get the head if it is small.
You should know how long the slingshot is, and the bow should be round when pulled to the ear.
There are real and wonderful secrets to the mind, and it is not accidental to be able to do it all."
Otherwise, Shang Zhen’s memorization of the letter was complicated!
In fact, to be precise, this poem is not a poem, but it is a mantra, but a mantra about how to use a slingshot.
It turned out that when he was in Yukou Village, Shang Zhen had seen bows and arrows, and some officers and soldiers guarding the border were carrying them.
Shang Zhen has never seen the slingshot in reality, but he has seen the picture of the slingshot in the book.
In fact, it is a bow, but there is a bullet pocket that is not much larger than a walnut in the middle of the bow string.
What is the bullet pocket used for?
The bullet pocket is used to hold stones or marbles.
Put a stone in the bullet pocket, and pull the bow open with one hand like a bow.
Then, when his hand was loose, the stone flew out!
And this is the slingshot.
You can't make arrows by yourself, but you can slightly transform the bow into a slingshot that can shoot stones!
The stones in the iron curtain mountain are everywhere.
Moreover, Shang Zhen also knew that there were many stones that were very heavy in the place where the spring was buried.
He suspected that the stones there contained iron, which was the stone stick he always carried.
That stone stick is definitely stronger than ordinary stones and is more solid and more solid.
Since I don’t have a few arrows, it is absolutely OK to change this bow to a bow that can shoot stones!
Shang Zhen, who had made up his mind, began to work hard.
That's nothing more than sewing a piece of skin in the middle of the bow sine!
There are skins, ready-made ones, horse skins.
There is no thread for yourself, but it doesn’t matter, it has a ponytail!
It is absolutely OK to use a few more horsetails to twist it into thread.
If you want to talk about needles, there is naturally no one.
But what does it matter? I have a scimitar in my hand, and the tip of the knife is also very sharp, so it is still possible to make some small holes in the horse's skin.
He did it as soon as possible, that is, at noon, Shang Zhen completed the transformation of the bow.
Although the bullet bag is inevitably rough in work, it doesn’t matter. Now he is practicing craftsmanship!
Once you have mastered your skills, you have become a magic archer. No, the magic bullet player, then you can find a craftsman or remade a slingshot that is really suitable for shooting stones!
With the slingshot in hand, Shang Zhen could finally figure out how to use this thing, which involved the poem he had thought of before, no, the mantra.
Shang Zhen only thought about the mantra for a while, and then he knew what this mantra meant.
"Don't lift the strings when playing the hole" is very simple, that means you should pull the bow open like an arrow, and you must pinch the back hand on the pocket.
If there is a stone in the pocket of the bullet, it won’t fall off if it doesn’t hold it?
"Hold the front fist in a diagonal way and twist the circumference" is the knowledge of using a slingshot.
I thought about it and knew that this stone shooting is not an arrow, and the arrow can be placed on the bow arm and shot it out.
But if you sprinkle this stone with the back hand, the stone will be hit on the bow in front or even the position you hold in your hand.
So when you use a slingshot to draw a bow, it seems the same as when you use a slingshot to draw a bow, but the force is different.
Using a slingshot, it was a twisting force, and the bow was pulled open, but the dark force on the front hand, that is, the left hand, was to the left, just to avoid that force.
In this way, when the back hand is spread out, the bow handle will run to the left under the force of the left hand to the torque, so that the stones shot out can be opened.
As for the rest, it's easier to understand.
The bow should be big enough, pull the bow full, and the right hand should put the bullet pocket, or the bow string to the ear.
The left eye is slightly narrowed, and the right eye is about to be widened, that is, aiming, which is the same as the carpenter's hanging line.
Okay, I have thought about everything I can, and now I have to work hard.
Shang Zhen picked up a few small pieces of frozen soil that were no longer small, and this was what he used for temporarily as a stone.
He wouldn't have practiced the stone from the beginning, and then cut his hands on it, that wouldn't be able to do it!
"You can pull the carved bow like a full moon, look northwest and shoot the sky wolf." Shang Zhen tried hard to pull the bow away with the twisting force, and then he let the back hand, that right hand, and the front hand, or left hand, almost at the same time, and the small piece of soil really flew out.
Shang Zhen smiled with satisfaction.
If there is a first stroke, there is a second stroke, there is a third stroke, and if there is a third stroke, there is...
But when Shang Zhen shot the sixth shot, he screamed "ah", and when he loosened his hand, the bow fell to the ground.
Chapter completed!