Just as Xu Chen was discussing follow-up arrangements with the great witch of the Yugong clan, Lei, who was guarding the raft outside the valley entrance, excitedly came to join them with a group of Gonghuo and Lei clan hunters.
Lei reported in detail the arrangements for a group of La women, children and children who migrated to the Lei tribe and the follow-up arrangements for a group of male and female captives from the Mao Tun tribe of the Yu Gong tribe, and excitedly expressed his willingness to take the hunters of the two tribes to follow Xu Chen and continue exploring downstream.
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Regarding Lei and a group of hunters' request, Xu Chen agreed after a moment of hesitation.
The Thunder Tribe and the Gonghuo Tribe have been training to operate rafts and have rich experience on the water.
In addition, it has been more than 20 days since I left this time. Although the distance is only more than a hundred miles, there is no news sent back. I guess Muba and the others are also worried and looking forward to it at home every day. With so many things happening right now, it is best to
It would be better to send a message back.
Another time, I found a salt mine near the Mongolian people and collected dozens of kilograms of pure rock salt. It is best to send these back first. There happens to be a lot of hunting and fishing in the winter. The excess can be pickled into salted fish and hung as bacon for smoking.
If you do it, you can eat delicious cured fish and bacon next year.
Therefore, Xu Chen summoned Feng and a group of officers for a short discussion, leaving Mo to continue to lead the team to explore. Feng then led a group of Ba hunters back to the tribe in advance, taking Shi Yan and some of the captive men and women who had stayed with the Gonghuo tribe with him.
Go back and help with construction.
In the past, winter and spring were the slowest seasons, but now for all tribes, winter and spring are the busiest times.
Building houses, building canals, building embankments, and burning uncultivated land all need to be carried out in winter. Once spring enters the rainy season, these activities will slowly stop and large-scale farmland farming will begin.
Increasingly large-scale farmland cultivation, weeding and driving away animals and other activities will occupy a lot of time and energy of the tribesmen.
In addition, Feng Guo also has a task, which is to guide the felling of a large number of trees and stack them for drying, to prepare the wood for making rafts in advance for next year's large-scale exploration, and to jointly train with the Uzbek people on horseback and archery. In addition, before the beginning of spring, he also needs to bring
The team came to the Mongols twice to deliver the pottery, linen and other items they urgently needed, and then sent back salt.
In short, Xu Chen should try his best to train more leaders who can have independent exploration experience this time when he goes out to explore. Feng, as the core general of the Ba tribe, has the task of commanding all military training and cannot be away for a long time, and Lei regardless of
In terms of strength and force, it is stronger than Feng and more suitable for wild exploration. In the future, more exploration and development tasks will be handed over to generals with higher force values such as Lei and Long, and the Ba people will be more responsible for high-level tasks.
Command and liaison tasks.
In addition, after Feng led the team to the Gonghuo tribe this time, he had to arrange for people to send the large pottery stored in the Lei tribe to the Mongolian tribe first to support salt production, storage and transportation.
Things don't seem to be much, but the back and forth is quite complicated. Only the Ba tribe can arrange this kind of thing properly. The Gonghuo tribe and the Lei tribe can only provide temporary assistance at the moment and cannot take charge of it on their own.
After everything was arranged, a group of people bid farewell to the Yu Gong clan and took more than a dozen large and small rafts down the river. They docked at the simple dock at the mouth of the Jicang River in about an hour.
Here the two groups parted ways.
Feng led a group of people with several baskets of rock salt on a small raft upstream to the Gonghuo tribe, and then followed the Jicang River back to the Ba tribe through the territories of the Qia, Cang and Ji tribes.
Xu Chen took Lei, Mo and a group of others and continued down the river.
After exploring the territory of the Yu Gong Clan Alliance, the area on the south bank of the Wulong River has actually begun to become clearer.
According to the inquiring information, there have been no large-scale tribes gathering in the past three to five days on the south bank, only a few scattered small and medium-sized tribes. I heard that they also have witches, but their inheritance is completely different from that of the Yu Gong clan, and even more so.
Preferring to the indigenous style, poor, ugly and difficult to communicate with.
Therefore, Xu Chen mainly focused on the north bank of Wulong River.
To the east of the Gonghuo Basin, near the low mountains and valleys on the east bank of the Jicang River, are scattered some other alliance tribes of the Gonghuo Tribe. The communication between them and the Gonghuo Tribe is mainly through land routes between the mountains and canyons.
Take the Wulong River, but the distance between them is a bit far. The farthest tribe takes five days to walk from the Gonghuo tribe.
For such a long journey, Xu Chen naturally preferred the waterway.
In addition, the Jia tribe that found lead ore last time is about three days away from the Gonghuo tribe, and the valley they live in is not far from the Wulong River.
After the exchange at the last witch leader conference, Xu Chen gave the Jia tribe a red-striped flag and asked them to find an open place on the shore of the Wulong River near their habitat to plant it for this exploration trip.
It provides a navigation mark, so you only need to go down the river to find this flag, and you can contact the Jia tribe as soon as possible.
After the Wulong River passed the Jicang River, the water potential became significantly larger and more stable.
The mountains on both sides are undulating, but low and gentle. Everywhere you can see are virgin forests with towering giant trees. All kinds of animals and plants are more prosperous. On the river beaches along the coast, you can see groups of animals running for food everywhere.
Wild beasts and overwhelming wild birds.
Tigers roar and apes crow, wolves run and dolphins rush, the sky is high and the sky is vast. In this slightly cold winter, there is a kind of primitive and heroic freedom of all things, which makes people want to roar a few times to release the joy in their hearts.
Eight huge rafts, amidst the roars of a large group of hunters, rushed eastwards along the rolling Wulong River, covering dozens of miles in the blink of an eye.
"Look, Qi Ga!"
Although the hunters on the raft were shouting excitedly, they kept observing the conditions on both sides of the river along the way.
Only about three hours after setting off from the mouth of the Jicang River, the Jicang River slowly turned around a large bay from east to southeast. A sharp-eyed hunter suddenly pointed to the mouth of a small tributary not far ahead and shouted.
Roar of surprise.
"Drop the river mouth!"
The flag is currently an original item of the Ba tribe. Mainly linen is a rare item. Even the Gonghuo tribe cannot weave it. Therefore, the only possibility for this flag is that it has arrived near the Jia tribe.
This tributary is similar to the small river in the Ba Valley, maybe slightly larger, but it is also very limited. The mouth of the river is not wide, only about 100 meters, and the river water is only a shallow stream in the middle of the river beach, which attracts a large number of wild birds.
Gather here to look for food.
A long row of rafts slowly approached the mouth of the river, looking for a place to dock.
Flocks of waterbirds took flight in fright, and soared into the sky overwhelmingly.
On the raft, a hunter couldn't help but pick up his bow and arrow and shoot randomly in the sky. A few actually fell down, which immediately caused a burst of excitement and cheers.
Hunting birds has always been very difficult, but since the introduction of bows and arrows, it has gradually become common. For hunters who have gradually become proficient in bows and arrows, it is not difficult to shoot a large or medium-sized beast, but only if
Only by shooting wild birds in flight can you show your superb skills.
Therefore, during hunting leisure time, hunters always like to compete in hunting birds to show off their archery skills and skills.
In fact, among the Ba people, with the emergence of horses, hunting has become more and more the specialty of archers, and those hunters who are slightly inferior to bows and arrows have gradually withdrawn from the front-line hunting team and begun to become auxiliary units, and more of them have changed careers.
Go fishing and do other things.
It can be said that the emergence of bows and arrows has greatly changed the way of hunting. Apart from fighting, traditional spear throwing has been rapidly marginalized.
With the emergence of water tools such as rafts, fishing methods will also undergo great changes. In the past, fishing could only be done in shallow water areas such as small rivers, rivers, beaches, and small pools. Fishing will gradually move to deep water areas such as large rivers and lakes, which are more suitable for fish survival.
development of vast water areas.
With the changes in these production tools, while the quality of human life has been greatly improved, the scope of exploration has also increased exponentially.
Just like this voyage of exploration.
With rafts, hundreds of miles of waterway can be traveled in half a day, which was simply unimaginable before.
In just over a year, the Ba people have gone from being able to move within only ten miles around the valley to being able to move within hundreds of miles. While humans continue to increase their activity areas, their horizons are also expanding on a large scale.
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Lei, who was new to the exploration today, and a group of Gonghuo tribe hunters were still excitedly hunting birds on the river beach. However, for the Ba tribe hunters and a group of Gonghuo tribe captives, they were no longer so interested in this kind of activity.
After a large group of people dragged the rafts to the river bank, they raised flags and blew horns and headed down the river into the valley not far away.
Before we walked too far, we heard several shouts from ahead, and a group of hunters also started shouting in response. Soon, they saw a group of more than ten people wearing furs and simple armors.
Hunters hurried over with spears and clubs.
"Jia Ga!"
"嘢嚯~"
Everyone couldn't help but cheer loudly. Soon the two groups met and couldn't help hugging each other and beating each other's backs enthusiastically to express their excitement and excitement.
"Your Majesty the Witch King!"
After saying hello, a group of hunters from the Jia tribe squatted on the ground with excitement on their faces to express their respect and welcome to Xu Chen's arrival.
"Everyone, get up. You have done a great job and the flags are very eye-catching!"
Xu Chen smiled and helped the hunter leader up and said with a smile.
The leader of the Jia tribe plucked his messy hair with his hands and gestured with a silly smile: "I don't know if the Witch King is coming to Ga, we will go to the river every day to see him!"
"Well, I should have come earlier, but I found a tribe on the other side of the river..."
Xu Chen explained a few words with simple gestures, and a group of hunters were suddenly surprised and happy. When they led Xu Chen and others to the habitat cave, a group of Gonghuo tribe captives also loudly and continuously recounted the conquest of the Maoton tribe and the
The Yugong clan's feat immediately made these Jia clan hunters even more excited, and they expressed with regret that if there was still a chance to fight next time, they must be invited to join them to make a fortune.
At present, various tribes are cutting down trees on a large scale to lay bricks and build houses, and are extremely short of manpower.
Especially for tribes such as the Jia tribe, which are remote and have a small number of people, manpower is even more scarce.
I have to build a house and hunt and fish, so I am very busy every day.
And if you fight with Xu Chen, you can get prisoners to help with labor. It is natural to regret missing such a good opportunity.