The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

It is said that compared with the commonly used beef tendon, whale tendon is not only lighter, but also several times more elastic. With the same material, the bow and arrow shot are faster, more penetrating, and several times more powerful!

Talking about the craftsmen of the Wuxuan Division, they also did a small experiment on the spot.

He simply processed a whale tendon that had just been cut off on the spot, twisted it into a rubber band with double strands, hung it on a recurve bow, aimed at a target 300 steps away from the silo, and raised his hand to shoot!

Only a crash was heard.

The target was unharmed.

"This whale tendon, isn't it working?" Everyone was confused for a while.

Could it be that what Yan Ge said was wrong?

So why do you love lonely people to death, the technology of making bows and arrows is not good?

Seeing that Mr. Yan Ge also made a mistake, everyone burst into laughter.

Li Shizhen grinned and was about to laugh, when suddenly she saw sharply on the distant city wall (the shipping warehouse has a city wall to prevent people from stealing supplies), and a long arrow was deeply inserted into a jujube tree with a crooked neck!

He was in a daze, looking at such a high and far place, and the people from the Wuxuan Division also found that Li Shizhen was wrong: "Master Li, what's the matter?"

"Look, what is that?"

Li Shizhen pointed to the crooked jujube tree in the distance.

The people in the Wuxuan Division were stunned for a while.

"No way?"

"I must have missed it!"

"The city wall of the stockyard is 500 steps away from here. Including the height of the city wall, how far must the bow and arrow shoot to hit the tree?"

The crowd was stunned.

They hurried up the stairs, climbed up the city wall, and walked to the jujube tree, and they were collectively stunned!

That's the long arrow that the craftsman tested, it can't be wrong!

At this time, the tail feathers of this long arrow were trembling slightly, and the arrow had already penetrated three inches into the tree trunk!

Such penetration!

There are 500 steps away from the shooting point, and the height is 3 feet. Beyond 500 steps, it can penetrate three inches of tree trunks!

This is a casual test shooting.

This whale tendon has not been professionally tanned, and it is still wet, which will affect the elasticity of the rubber band.

That is to say!

If this whale tendon can be properly tanned, polished, and adjusted in the hands of the bow and arrow craftsmen of the Armed Forces Division, and then matched with a good bow, and placed in the hands of those amazing sharpshooters in Ming Dynasty, it may even be able to shoot 600 steps, 700 steps, maybe even 800 steps away!

800 steps is 600 meters!More than a mile!

What kind of terrifying strength is this?

You know, the Ming Dynasty's quality requirements for military bows and arrows are that if they can shoot 300 steps away, they are considered qualified.

Even the most powerful and heaviest god arm crossbow in the Ming army has a maximum range of only 600 steps.

What a god-level sniper!

The officials and craftsmen of the Armed Forces Division looked at each other in blank dismay.

Then their eyes gradually released light, looking at the whale's eyes, they were so bright!

This whale is an out-and-out treasure house!

The whale skin is so strong that it can withstand 2000 cowhide, the whale tendons are so tough, and the bow and arrow it shoots is comparable to a god's arm crossbow!

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This whale has more tendons than skin.If all the tendons on a whale's body and the whiskers in its mouth can be made into rubber bands, 5000 such sharp longbows can even be equipped!

5000 longbows that can shoot 600 steps steadily!

The servant of the Armed Forces Division, surnamed Shi and named Xing, was an old official in the second year of Jiajing. He had stayed in the Ministry of War all his life. He looked at the whale tendon bow with dull eyes and remained silent for a long time.

His subordinates and craftsmen, seeing his lord so stunned, seemed a little hysterical, hurried up to push him.

"Master Shi? Master Shi?"

Shi Xing suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed, with tears streaming down his face, and cried: "Back then, if I had 5000 whale tendon bows like this in the city of Beijing, how could the Mongolian Altan Khan be able to show off his power in the city for more than 20 days? God! God! Ah! Next time Mongolian Alta Khan dares to come again, I, Shi Xing, will no longer have to kowtow to apologize with my head on the ground."

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The people in the Ministry of War empathized with each other, sighed silently, and mourned endlessly.

In the 20th year of Jiajing, it was a heavy and bloody account in the hearts of all Ming soldiers.

That year, Altan Khan bypassed the Xuanda defense line, broke through the Zijing Pass, and broke into the surrounding area of ​​Beijing.

The city of Beijing was in turmoil.

Since Zhu Di moved the capital, Beijing has only been attacked by Commander Ye Xian once after the Tumu Fort change.There has been no war for 100 years since then.

But that attack by Altan Khan made all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty unable to hold their heads up.