As the saying goes, there is no turning back arrow when opening a bow, and it is often compared to everyone that since things have been made, there is no way to stop, but to persist, likewise, it also shows that once the bow and arrow is shot, there is no way to take it back, as a powerful, long-range long-range weapon, the bow and arrow has been widely used in ancient times.
Therefore, we will often see on the TV screen that the ancient army had to carry out a heavy shooting before charging, so can the arrows they shoot out be recovered and reused? It looks like those arrows are like disposables, but they are not what is shown on TV, so don't be misled by TV dramas anymore.
Ancient productivity is low, even in the same weapon in the cheaper arrows, but also need to spend a lot of energy to build, as early as thousands of years ago, China has a tradition of using arrows, which can be traced back to the earliest mythological stories, after the Yi shooting sun, they already have the concept of bows and arrows.
The arrow is composed of three parts: arrow, arrow shaft and arrow feather, the arrow is mostly iron, the front head is sharp and the bottom is large, the style is mitsubishi-shaped, triangular, conical, the arrow blade is thin and sharp, there is a barb next to it, and the enemy is pulled out on one side to take a second damage.
The arrow shaft is mostly made of bamboo or relatively light and sturdy wood cut into a cylindrical shape as the arrow body, and the arrow feathers are often made of bird hair, interspersed in the tail of the arrow shaft, used to make the arrow fly more smoothly in the air and glide, so that the target is hit, an arrow has so many processes, then naturally the army must be recovered.
Like modern warfare, ancient soldiers had people who were responsible for cleaning the battlefield, and their main duty was to clean up the corpses and avoid the occurrence of plague, and to recover arrows of various sizes, and after minor repairs, they were transported to the front line again.
In this way, the arrow can be reused as a recyclable weapon, reducing the burden of military production in the rear, in addition, after the battle, the victorious side naturally cannot give the loser of the battle the opportunity to rise again, and it has become a top priority to collect the arrows used by both sides on the battlefield.
I believe that everyone has heard the story of the grass boat borrowing arrows, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Zhuge Liang used his wisdom to "borrow" 100,000 arrows from Cao Cao, this story is not fabricated, it is truly recorded in history, but the protagonist is not Zhuge Liang, but Sun Quan.
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" records that in the first month of the eighteenth year, Sun Quan led a large army to attack Wusu, Wu Wei confronted on the water, Sun Quan repeatedly sent people to challenge, but Cao Cao could not hold out, so Sun Quan personally took a boat, with a team of people and horses to Cao Cao's water village to watch the formation of Cao Cao's water army, Cao Cao heard about it, hurriedly ordered the soldiers' room, Sun Quan's ship was full of arrows, the big ship was about to fall, he immediately ordered, let his men twist the ship, let the other side of the ship also be attacked by arrows, and finally the ship was balanced, Sun Quan calmly left, Cao Cao wasted a lot of arrows in vain, and he was so angry that he blew his beard and stared at his eyes, but he had no choice.
"Wei Liu" said: Quan came to watch the army on a large ship, the minister fired a crossbow randomly, the arrow hit his ship, the ship was heavy and overturned, Quan returned to the ship, and received arrows on one side, and the arrows were flattened, but they were returned.
It can be seen that the ancients still attached great importance to the reuse of arrows, after all, it was all silver with white flowers!