China has a long history, in the long division of forces, the evolution of weapons has become the key to victory, and every time a new weapon is born, it can always easily dominate the situation of war. There are many types of weapons recorded in the history of our country, swords, swords, axes, hooks and forks, and they are endless, and the long-distance weapons that can dominate the war situation on the battlefield are the bow and arrow. Engels said that bows, strings, and arrows are very complex tools, and the invention of these tools requires a long period of astonishing accumulation and developed intelligence. This illustrates the greatness of the invention of the bow and arrow, and the person who invented this weapon was the Chinese.
As early as the Paleolithic Age 30,000 years ago, primitive humans in the Huaxia River Basin began to use bows and arrows for hunting. The first bow was very simple, a bamboo pole was burned into a bend, tied in the middle with a grass rope, and the bow became like this. Arrows are directly sharpened branches and tree strips. Later, after development, people began to use sharpened stones or shells and other things, tied to arrows, when arrows were used, and in the Bronze Age, the arrows were bronze, until finally the formation of iron arrows.
However, in order to increase the lethality of the bow and arrow, the ancients also invented the poisonous arrow, coating the arrow with poison to increase the power of the bow and arrow, and the bow and arrow was greatly used in the Three Kingdoms period. The famous bone scraping cure poison is an allusion that happened because Guan Yu was hit by a poisoned arrow in his right arm. In the Ming Dynasty, there were flying arrows that would sound, which were made of bones with holes in them, which could be used to report letters, which showed the dependence of the ancients on bows and arrows.
However, despite this, although it can play new tricks on the arrows, the power is still not large enough, and many times several arrows cannot kill a person. The ancients thought of a way, the bow and arrow in the feces soaked, the bow and arrow will carry a large number of bacteria, very easy to cause infection, and after infection, the basic soldier is wasted. Because the cost of each arrow to be coated with poison is too high, the army fights hundreds of thousands of arrows, which is really a bit unaffordable, so the soldiers use this method to replace the poison, although it can not be immediately effective, but at least the purpose can be achieved.
The poisoned bow and arrow is generally only used when shooting the general, so it can be seen that Guan Yu was poisoned by a poisoned arrow and his entourage was not poisoned, and this bow and arrow stuck in the dung pit was actually a low-grade version of the poisoned arrow, and it was this low-grade version that almost became a necessary magic skill for later wars.
It can be seen that the ancients' research on weapons was really extremely capable, although it could not be compared with the current weapons, but it could represent the creativity of the society at that time. Do you know such cold knowledge?