A group of hunters had learned lessons from the last roundup, coupled with sufficient manpower and limited terrain, the two wild horses were quickly dragged to the mouth of the valley by a group of people, where they joined several tamed wild horses.
After a not too violent struggle, under the influence of several mutinous wild horses, the two horses quickly calmed down and started communicating with their familiar companions.
"Brother, why are you here?"
"Forget it, we were caught by these two-legged beasts last time!"
"Don't you want to run away?"
"Why are you running? Didn't you see that we are all being brided?"
"What is the bridle for? Is it comfortable to tie the head?"
"It's comfortable, it's very comfortable. You'll know when you're all put on it."
"Oh, why did we run blindly into the nook and cranny at that time, so afraid that we would be eaten!"
"You won't be eaten if you eat it, and people feed it every day, but you have to be ridden on it, which is uncomfortable."
"What the hell, what should I do?"
"Lang Sha, don't struggle too hard when you're being ridden later."
"Why?"
"No reason, you will know after you try it!"
"Just give it a try. I still don't believe they can climb on my back. Give me freedom or die. I've never been ridden by anyone other than a mare in my life."
"Well, come on, cousin, I'm very optimistic about you!"
The two horses caught first here were quiet, but the narrow Wild Wolf Valley was even more lively at this time.
There were still six horses running wildly here and there. However, under the pressure of nearly a hundred people, their range of activities became smaller and smaller. Soon, two more horses panicked and were tripped by the tripping ropes and were wrapped in a rope net of seven to eight feet.
, during the struggle, they were tied up into two rice dumpling horses, and were dragged out of the stone by a group of hunters who were shouting chants.
So there were two more wild horses to chat with.
As more and more wild horses were caught, the remaining horses became more and more restless. However, more and more hunters participated in the roundup. The last four horses were slowly forced into an area of boulders, and some even wanted to jump.
He climbed up a big rock, but fell into a crevice and was stuck, unable to move.
In the end, in less than an hour, all eight adult wild horses that had been hiding in the valley for more than half a month were caught. Except for two of them having some scratches, they were basically unharmed. A group of men participating in the hunt were all safe and sound.
, no one was injured.
The huge harvest made the entire Ba people fall into carnival again.
Both men and women now know that these wild horses are a huge asset.
In the eyes of women, these horses can plow fields and carry goods. With these wild horses, farming will be easier next year.
In the eyes of men, these wild horses allow them to run faster and further, whether hunting or fighting with foreigners, they will gain unparalleled speed and strength.
The strength of the Ba people will become even stronger as a result.
Imagine that when the hunters mounted more than a dozen wild horses and launched a powerful attack, even a powerful tribe like the Uzbek tribe could not stop them at such a violent speed.
What if there were a hundred or more wild horses?
No man dared to imagine what a magnificent sight it was.
Once a hunter mounts a wild beast, no one in the world dares to stop him.
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As soon as Xu Chen came back, he tamed eight adult wild horses, which immediately brought the atmosphere of the tribe to the most lively state.
And these wild horses quickly became the new favorites and toys of tribal men.
The taming process was as challenging as last time, and even caused several people to fall and get injured, but everyone involved felt a sense of accomplishment. Seeing these guys who used to do evil in the valley and come and go like the wind, all of them frowned in the end.
With the droopy-eyed Guaguai being ridden on his crotch, all the hunters who participated in the roundup and domestication felt an unprecedented excitement and pride.
Entering March, when the warblers are growing, the weeds on the riverbank are becoming more and more green, and various plants have passed their flowering period and have begun to bolt and bear fruit. With the gradual arrival of the high temperature and rainy season, all animals and plants are about to enter the craziest growth stage of the year.
Farmland is always more lush than weeds.
Muba and Amu recently started the second large-scale weeding campaign with the women, children and children of the two families.
Since there was no longer a herd of wild horses, the situation in the farmland has greatly improved. Occasionally, some wild sheep, deer and other wild animals appear to hunt for food. However, after Gu Heju and others had a herd of wild horses, the speed and frequency of patrols also increased.
Feng and others even carried out two large-scale drives and hunts on the wild beasts in the valley on horseback, which reduced the number of wild beasts in the valley a lot and the farmland entered the safest growth stage.
It rains more and more often.
The water in the river is getting bigger and bigger.
The flowing water in Yelang Valley began to roar day and night, and there were more and more wild birds on the river beach. Nests of chicks began to appear. It was another year of large-scale breeding season for waterfowl.
The group of prisoners basically didn't have much to do now, so Xu Chen simply started digging trenches in advance.
In addition to providing irrigation for farmland during drought, this ditch actually has another purpose, which is to drain farmland. It can also provide sufficient and clean daily water for the growing family.
As the main source of the river, Wild Wolf Valley is a mountain spring water with relatively good cleanliness. It is directly diverted through ditches to the vicinity of the compound. Not only is it convenient for washing, washing and washing vegetables, it can also provide water for the kiln factory. In addition, with the scale of the kiln factory,
Although the pond formed by excavating clay can store water for daily use, Xu Chen also wanted to take this opportunity to dig it larger and make it into a fish pond.
Nowadays, the level of fishing is constantly improving, and fish are constantly being caught every day. However, fishing in the wild is highly seasonal, with more summer, autumn, and less winter and spring. If you put some of the captured small fish in ponds and feed them, they can provide food for the tribe in winter and spring.
Providing an additional source of meat can kill two birds with one stone.
Food security is the absolute primary guarantee for survival in any era.
No amount of food storage is too much.
There are conditions for manpower at the moment, but if we miss this year, after most of these captives are redeemed by the Gonghuo Tribe, there will not be many opportunities to have so much free manpower in the future.
As soon as he said it, Xu Chen led a group of people back and forth in Yelang Valley and around the farmland, compound, and kiln factory. After a few days of observation, he planned a ditch route and then officially started construction.
It turned out that out of the more than eighty prisoners, twenty of them had been trained and had stayed with the Gonghuo tribe.
The purpose of keeping these people is not to help the Gonghuo Clan improve their survivability, but because these people have a high degree of identification with the Ba Clan. They are mainly retained to cooperate with the Lei Clan and speed up the split of the Gonghuo Clan.
While living with the Ba people, Xu Chen used military training and the reward and punishment system to brainwash them every day, emphasizing compliance with military disciplines and promoting the power and beauty of the Ba people. These stubborn savages had little resistance to this kind of mental brainwashing.
Everyone believed in Xu Chen's words like chicken blood, and had a strong sense of disgust for their original tribe. They even regretted their previous actions of invading the Cang people. They cried bitterly to show that they would change their minds. Everything will be done in the future.
Taking the orders of His Majesty the Witch King and the guidance of the Great Witch as the direction, he will stay with the Gonghuo Clan to help Xu Chen keep an eye on them, and will definitely prevent the Gonghuo Clan from making any unfavorable moves against the Ba Clan Alliance again.
This is a group of completely trustworthy traitors of the Gonghuo Tribe.
Xu Chen was very pleased.
Of course, this also shows that after the success of his witchcraft plan, the tribe's cohesion is getting stronger and stronger.
Including the remaining sixty or so captives, most of them are now fully adapted and accustomed to living with the Ba people. Many of them even consider themselves a member of the Ba people. Even Xu Chen brought his big brother
The troops left the Ba ethnic group several times, and the captives were very docile and cooperative. They were very proactive in hunting, fishing, driving away wild beasts in the fields, and taking care of the Ba ethnic group women, children, old and young.
There are many reasons for this, but the main reason is that the Ba people's strong strength and Xu Chen's strong personal charm conquered them.
The ditch project is planned to be started in three parts simultaneously.
First, the pond for fish farming in the kiln factory was based on the original mud pit where soil was taken. It continued to be dug deeper and expanded, and the scale was roughly expanded to about five acres. The amount of work was not small.
However, in order to speed up the project, Xu Chen included a nearby low-lying area into the scope of the project. Large-scale excavation was not required, but only widening and building of embankments was required.
The planning of the entire fish pond presents a long and narrow shape running from north to south, which is just connected with the ditch to form a whole.
The second is the main body of the ditch. From the entrance of Yelang Valley to the area running through the farmland, it is about five miles in length from high to low according to the terrain. The amount of this project is not small, and it will definitely not be completed in a short time. However, the water will not flood here in summer, so it can be done.
Keep digging slowly.
The most difficult part of the project is the water intake at the entrance of Yelang Valley.
Here, a dam must be built with stones to divide the stream in Yelang Valley into two parts and intercept a part of it into the ditch.
However, the water in Wild Wolf Valley will be very fierce after summer. If the dam is not strong enough, it may be washed away. In addition, if the dam is not big enough, the water volume in winter and spring will be too small, which will also cause water shortage in the ditch. Therefore, this water intake
The design is very important.
In order to quickly complete the construction of the dam before summer, Xu Chen invested all his people here.
There is no shortage of stones here, but they are all very large, with one stone weighing hundreds of kilograms or even several tons.
After these stones were washed out of the valley by rapid streams in summer, they formed a large, messy boulder beach at the mouth of the valley.
Last time, the complex environment formed by these messy stones was used to cut off the wild horses in one fell swoop and complete the hunting operation.
Now that the wild horses have been taken care of, these stones can be used to build dams locally.
More than 40 of the strongest selected prisoners used wooden hoes, stone hoes, bone picks, sticks and wooden sticks to pry the big rocks out of the soil, and then shouted slogans and slowly pushed them to the location planned by Xu Chen.
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Some stones were too big and too heavy to be moved by manpower. Xu Chen invented the winch, using larger stones and some trees as fixed points, and using arm-thick ropes and wooden bars to push the noose to tighten. Under strong traction,
These rock-solid rocks were finally slowly moved to their required locations.
Sometimes when the winch and rope could not complete the pulling, Xu Chen would use a group of wild horses to pull.
Nowadays, in addition to people, the Ba tribe also has a number of animals available for use. Although Xu Chen cherishes and takes care of them, he is not stingy when it comes to using them.
More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye. A large group of prisoners were busy in the wind and rain every day, and almost all the large rocks within a few dozen meters near the entrance of the Wild Wolf Valley were moved away.
At the exit of the valley, close to the farmland, a dike made of boulders slowly appeared.
The arrangement of these stones is very rough, crooked and shapeless.
But these stones are very heavy. With these big stones that cannot be washed away by running water as the main body of the dam, the next work is relatively easy. Picking up and transporting a large number of stones to fill the gaps between these big stones, such a stone