Savage Secret

() With the trembling sound of a tiger roaring and a dragon's sting coming from the bow, the feather arrow immediately flew towards an ancient pine tree several tens of feet high. Lao Niu and Tian Yuan couldn't help laughing anymore, while I It was staring at the black bamboo arrow intently, wanting to see its final result.When the black bamboo arrow just leaves the bowstring, its flight path is slightly curved. After flying more than 20 meters, it draws a huge arc in the air, flies to the back of the target and then hooks back to nail it on the target. Pierce the target.

"Okay!" Fengling and several Tujia men cheered.I watched such a strange scene and trembled a little, Lao Niu and Tian Yuan also stopped laughing, and Li Yongsheng and Li Yongsheng turned their heads to look at Luo Yu.

This time Luo Yu was even more outrageous, and turned his back to the target. Following the sound of a tiger roaring and dragon's sting on the bowstring, the black bamboo arrow once again drew a beautiful arc in the air and pierced through the bowstring. On the archery target, unlike last time, this time the arrow passed through the front.

"No, this kid must have done something to the arrow or the target, I'm going to see!" Lao Niu yelled, pulled Tian Yuan and walked towards the target together.

I smiled wryly and whispered to Li Yongsheng next to me: "Old Niu is worrying too much, I don't believe that Luo Yu will cheat, because I can't explain the arc drawn in the arrow air!"

Li Yongsheng nodded, and suddenly asked me: "Have you ever heard of the Phoenix-tailed Arrow?"

"A phoenix-tailed arrow?" I was startled for a moment, then patted my head vigorously, "Yes, why didn't I think of it! Apart from the phoenix-tailed arrow, there is no other arrow in the world that has such a weird flight path."

The phoenix-tailed arrow is a very old type of arrow. It has a very strange angle from the tip of the arrow to the tail of the arrow, and has extremely strict requirements on the material, size, quantity, size, and weight of the arrow-making materials. The slightest deviation.Only the arrows produced in this way can make full use of the principle of aerodynamics. After leaving the string, they can fly stably and deflect according to a certain trajectory to kill the enemy to the maximum extent. The enemy killed is hard to defend against. In the autumn period, "Kao Gong Ji", which recorded the handicraft industry norms and technological processes at that time, clearly pointed out that the feathers at the arrow tail had a huge impact on the flight stability and final lethality of the arrow, and it was written: the feathers at the arrow tail, with Eagle feathers are the best, horned eagle feathers are next, owl feathers are second, and arrows made of feathers such as geese and geese are the worst.Ling refers to the few hard and long feathers on the wings and tail of birds. Not to mention that eagles and horned eagles are very difficult to catch. Not many arrows, until the Song Dynasty people invented the Fengyu arrow.Although these arrows are better than wild goose feather arrows, they are not worth mentioning compared to phoenix tail arrows.

The feathers used to make phoenix-tailed arrows must be vajra feathers. The so-called vajra feathers refer to the most beautiful and sharpest among the wings of golden eagles over a hundred years old.The golden eagle is a large bird of prey. From the sky to the ground, all animals can become its food. Even the most ferocious wolf cannot escape its sharp claws. Both Mongols and Kazakhs often use it It comes to guard the flock. Where there are golden eagles, wolves never dare to invade.The reason why the golden eagle is fierce is not enough to have a sharp beak and sharp claws, it also has a pair of powerful wings.These wings can help the golden eagle fly high in the sky, and when it catches its prey, it can instantly insert its claws into the head of the prey at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, giving the prey a blow.

The longest lifespan of golden eagles is about 80 years, and few of them exceed 100 years. However, only the golden eagles over a hundred years old can have the feathers in front of the wings called diamond feathers.This is inseparable from the unique physiological characteristics of the golden eagle. Every 40 years, the golden eagle's sharp claws will become blunt, the sharp beak will become bald, and the feathers will become dull.At this time, the golden eagle will return to its old nest on the cliff, peck off the no longer sharp nails with its mouth, pull out the feathers on its body, and remove the hard shell on the mouth on the hardest rock. Knocking it off, and finally waiting for them to grow back with difficulty, this is almost a new life for the golden eagle.Unfortunately, most golden eagles will die in the second 40 years, and only a few surviving golden eagles can give birth to diamond feathers.

Diamond feathers are hard and sharp, can easily cut through stubborn stones, and have a very strong texture. Only this kind of feathers can be used to make the tail feathers of phoenix-tailed arrows, so that the phoenix-tailed arrows can fly in the air with the most controllable and perfect shape. radian!It's just that there are very few golden eagles over a hundred years old in the world, and the vajra feathers are extremely scarce. I don't know why there are such things in the Tujia people.

In fact, not only the vajra plume, but also the black iron stone used for the tip of the arrow and the thousand-year-old black jade bamboo used for the arrow shaft are very precious things. After making precise calculations, they are built and combined. If the craftsmanship of the craftsman is not good, there is a little deviation in the work, the proportion, weight, angle, and material are not done well, and the arrow will not know where it will fly after it leaves the string. Where did it go.

The procedures for making phoenix-tailed arrows are cumbersome, the workload is huge, and the requirements for users are also extremely high. Users are required to know each arrow very well and have a very keen hand feeling. With so many restrictions, since ancient times There are very few people who can use phoenix-tailed arrows. In history, only the ancient Houyi and the archer Yang Youji of the Warring States period have used them. After that, there are only legends and no records.I didn't expect that I was lucky enough to meet him here today. Since this man can use phoenix-tailed arrows, it's not surprising that the Tujia people directly call him Luo Yu, the master archer.

In my ears, the cheers of Feng Ling and the Tujia youth continued. There were only two arrows left in the quiver on Luo Yu's back. If he was allowed to shoot them all, these people would definitely look down on us even more in the future. I felt depressed for a while. Looking down at the bayonet barrel in front of the Sanba Dagail in my hand, I suddenly came up with a solution.