538: Chapter 538 The Power of the Composite Bow

Zhao Fusu added, "This relies on cams, the variable lever-arm effect of non-circular pulleys. During the initial drawing phase, energy is stored with effort, and after crossing the critical point, it enters the energy-saving phase, where the draw weight drops sharply."

"Oh, oh!"

The crowd didn't really pay much attention to this complex principle; their minds had already drifted to the compound bow. They only wanted to get their hands on it quickly to test if it was truly as Zhao Fusu said—that after drawing the bow, one only needed to maintain thirty percent of the peak draw weight.

"Give it a try."

Zhao Fusu saw through their thoughts and smiled as he handed over the compound bow.

Xiang Liang impatiently took the compound bow, gripped the riser with both hands, felt its heavy texture, took a deep breath, and slowly pulled the bowstring.

At first, he clearly felt a strong resistance, but after pulling it to a certain point, as the pulleys rotated, the draw weight indeed decreased rapidly just as Zhao Fusu had said. He only needed to use thirty percent of the peak force to easily maintain the full draw state.

"It really works!"

Xiang Liang's eyes lit up, feeling quite incredulous.

"Let me try, let me try!"

Zhao Xuan looked toward Xiang Liang with expectant eyes.

"Alright."

A look of pleasant surprise appeared on Xiang Liang's face as he handed the compound bow to Zhao Xuan, who was standing beside him and also eager to try.

Zhao Xuan took the compound bow with both hands, his eyes full of excitement and anticipation.

He took a deep breath, gripped the riser firmly, and slowly pulled the bowstring.

After his strength first broke through the peak draw weight, the force he needed to maintain it dropped sharply.

He only needed to maintain thirty percent of the original peak draw weight to keep the compound bow in a full draw state.

This reduced the difficulty of aiming at a target for him considerably.

Everyone took turns trying it out, and sounds of exclamation and admiration could be heard from time to time inside the tent.

"Let's go outside and test its power."

Zhao Fusu said.

"Alright."

Zhao Xuan nodded in agreement.

Zhao Fusu took back the compound bow and walked out of the tent.

He arrived at an open testing ground.

Zhao Fusu attached an optical sight to the compound bow.

The lens of the sight was clear and bright, reflecting a faint blue light under the sunlight.

"What is this?"

This strange object once again aroused the curiosity of the Huaxia Pioneer Group members.

"A sight."

Zhao Fusu introduced it simply: "Through the sight, we can magnify distant objects to improve shooting accuracy."

"Once the crosshairs in the center of the sight are calibrated, within a certain distance, you can hit exactly where you aim!"

Zhao Fusu had someone hang an 8mm steel plate twenty paces away.

He drew the compound bow, aimed, and released the bowstring.

With a whoosh, the arrow easily pierced through the 8mm steel plate.

"Hiss!"

The crowd gasped. It could easily penetrate even a steel plate, let alone leather armor.

It was likely that even from a hundred paces away, it could pierce through leather armor, enter a person's body, and cause injury.

Zhao Fusu also looked at the power of the compound bow with great satisfaction.

It had to be said that the penetration power of this compound bow was even stronger than that of a pistol.

When the foreigner Sang Biao went hunting, he used a compound bow.

Zhao Fusu had seen with his own eyes that after Sang Biao released the bowstring, the arrow shot out could even pierce directly through a wild boar's skull, killing the boar on the spot.

Even if a black bear was hit, it would die from excessive blood loss caused by running.