When he goes out to fight, Xu Chen will do his best to guide these officers and hunters to use their brains. Now is a rare opportunity.
Because the possibility of him following him out in the future is getting smaller and smaller, and he will not even personally participate in future wars.
Although Lei and Long have grown up very quickly and have a strong sense of leadership, their primitive and barbaric habits will drive them to make the simplest and most direct judgments, which is not conducive to their growth.
Facing Xu Chen's question, Long pointed at the map with his rough, furry fingers and said, "Your Majesty the Witch King, we can divide into several teams and search in different directions. We will definitely find traces of the barbarians!"
Lei thought for a moment and shook his head slightly and said, "This search is too slow and dangerous. We'd better design a trap!"
Xu Chen nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Tell me the method and the reason!"
Lei drew a large arc from the southeast to the southwest of the salt mine with his hand and said: "The barbarians should be located in this large area now. If we disperse on a large scale, the further we search, the wider the distance between the teams will be.
There is no way to communicate with each other or to join together for assistance. If the barbarians attack a certain team and the other teams are unable to rescue them, there may be relatively large casualties. Even if we win, the other team will escape in large numbers. If we pursue them in depth, it will be even more dangerous.
, so we cannot be spread too far apart, and the number of people in each team cannot be too small, but this will inevitably consume a lot of time. When I followed His Majesty the Witch King to fight against the Cicha tribe, I used tents, treasures and other traps to set traps.
In the end, one person defeated them without taking any damage. Now the barbarians already know how powerful we are. If we hide, it will be difficult to find them. But if we actively attract them to appear and then set a trap, we can defeat them in one go."
Xu Chen nodded repeatedly and said, "You are right. It is indeed not the best way to search blindly right now. Large-scale dispersed searches are also more dangerous. The Yugong clan's previous actions have proven this!"
Long Qu curled his lips in disagreement and said: "Designing traps and traps can indeed win, but now we don't know the exact location of the barbarians, so we still have to find them first. The last time the barbarians and the Yu Gong clan fought, there were a lot of casualties, and
A few months have passed. Maybe they are hiding out of fear or migrating further away. How can we plan to defeat them without a target?"
Xu Chen's eyes were a little brighter this time.
Long seems to be more reckless, but in fact he has carefully considered it, and this is indeed the case at the moment.
The Xiu tribe first discovered the barbarians in February, and the Yugong tribe launched an attack in March and April. Now four months have passed, and the situation has changed greatly. As he said, even if a trap can be set to defeat the barbarians,
But only if they show up first.
So the problem is back to the beginning.
That is which direction the barbarian lair is. If the accurate or general direction can be determined, basically this war will be over quickly.
But right now I have no clue.
"Can we just wait at the place where the Xiu tribe first discovered the barbarians? Maybe they will show up." A Yugong tribe officer pointed to the southeast location and reminded...
Long shook his head directly and said: "If they never show up, can we keep waiting?"
Lei opened his mouth and finally swallowed his words.
Although he and Long had different opinions, he also knew that what Long said was true. He was used to learning Xu Chen's military strategies, but the current situation was indeed completely different from when he faced the menacing Cicha tribe.
The remaining group of officer hunters were also gathered around, talking and discussing, but no one had any better plan. On the contrary, most of them supported the dragon's tactics.
After all, they are all a group of savages with simple thinking. They believe that it is better to take the initiative than to wait and wait.
Although this plan did not meet Xu Chen's vision, he was still very pleased.
At least it can be seen that a group of officers such as Long and Lei have begun to have some basic military literacy and are able to formulate tactics by analyzing and judging the environment and the enemy's situation.
But this kind of aimless proactive attack is too variable.
And Long’s words also reminded me
Xu Chen.
The last time the Yu Gong clan launched a large-scale attack, although they could not find the location of the barbarians and the salt mines, their powerful force was undoubtedly revealed. There were more than two hundred elite hunters, several times the force of the barbarians, and they also caused huge casualties to the barbarians.
A few months have passed, and the current situation of the barbarians can no longer be judged. They are most likely hiding or migrating further away, which will make it even more difficult to find them.
If the opponent doesn't show up, any tactics will be in vain.
Xu Chen's eyes were fixed on the map, staring at the marked location of the salt mine.
Unfortunately, the large area around the salt mine on the map is blank, with no landmarks marked, and no mountains or rivers drawn on it.
In other words, the map is still dark in the large area from the Mongols to the Wulong River.
"Mongolian...salt mine..."
Xu Chen gently swiped his finger back and forth on the map from the Mongolian salt mine to the newly marked salt mine location. Suddenly his eyes lit up and his heart suddenly brightened.
This place is one hundred miles away from the Xiu people, and about seventy or eighty miles away from the Mongolian people further south.
This direction and position are not very accurate, and the error is even large.
On the way here, Xu Chen kept observing the direction and position, and made repeated corrections to this area.
According to his observation, the map that Mo brought back for the first time was obviously different. The distance between this salt mine and the Mongolian salt mine should be closer, most likely not more than fifty miles, or even shorter, maybe only forty miles.
about.
According to the traditional habits of tribal gathering and ethnic group division, if these two barbarians are indeed split from the same ethnic group in the past, then the distance between them will not be too far. Seventy miles is far beyond the distance of ethnic group migration.
Tradition.
Moreover, in such a primitive dense forest with a very harsh environment, forty miles should be the limit. No matter how far it is, there will never be any contact between the two tribes. This is not in line with the tribe's habit of staying together, mating and communicating.
In addition, according to the experience analysis of Xu Chen’s geological exploration, the same type of mineral deposits in the same area will always have certain geological distribution rules, and will form a belt or block type distribution according to the mountains, rivers and other terrain, and rarely have sporadic point distribution.…
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In particular, the formation of salt mines is very typical.
Salt mines were formed during the active period of ancient orogeny. Generally, salt lakes were formed by the sea accumulating during the geological uplift process. Then these salt lakes were evaporated to form salt layers.
According to the different formation time, it is generally divided into three periods.
From the oldest Sinian period to the Carboniferous period, solid halite mines buried deep underground were formed.
From the middle Permian to the Jurassic, salt brine deposits are generally formed. The brine mines in Bashu and Yunnan areas of China were roughly formed during this period.
From the latest Cretaceous to the Quaternary Cenozoic, a large number of superficial brine deposits such as plateau salt lakes will be formed.
According to the stage of development of human civilization on earth, the current matriarchal clan should be in prehistory thousands of years ago, at the end of the Cenozoic in the Quaternary Period. The earth's large-scale orogeny has ended, the mineral geology has been stabilized, and animal and plant species have basically been stably formed.
There will be large-scale evolution and mutation again.
The Quaternary Period is also called the Ice Age, which means that during the long million years from the appearance of the ancient ape man to Xu Chen's time travel, the earth has been in a declining temperature range, and the biggest driver of the transition from matrilineal clan to patrilineal clan is
After a large-scale cooling of the earth, the earth's temperature dropped sharply, resulting in a large-scale glacier activity, the extinction of a large number of animals and plants, and a sharp reduction in human food. In order to survive, we had to abandon traditional gathering and hunting, develop in the direction of farming, and
This started a large-scale tribal conflict among humans, and men slowly began to take the dominant position in the battle.
During this glacial activity, groups of mammoths in high latitudes froze to death and were quickly submerged by the glaciers. This resulted in the remains of a large number of mammoths preserved under the frozen soil in Siberia in later generations.
The mammoths in these frozen soils died very quickly, freezing to death almost instantly. Many mammoths still had undigested plants in their mouths and stomachs, their bodies were well preserved, and their tissues even had considerable biological activity.
This severe cooling is exactly the same as the doomsday scene described in the movie The Day After Tomorrow.
However, this cooling should not have started yet, but if this is really the earth and not a parallel space, judging from the current civilization level of human development, it may happen in hundreds of thousands of years.
The Ice Age led to the mass extinction of species in the Cenozoic. As temperatures slowly recovered, glaciers melted in large quantities, and the ensuing floods once again dealt a devastating blow to the remaining animals, plants and human civilization.
This is the model record of this world-destroying natural disaster such as Nuwa's patching up of the sky and Noah's Ark in the West.
These things are still very far away from Xu Chen, but as he was resurrected with the aura of a god, he decided that before his death, he must cast a piece of gold to preserve the great prophecy of annihilation.
Everything in the world may be destroyed, but only gold and stone will last forever.
The Sumerian clay tablets and the Israelite rattan baskets could be preserved for thousands of years, and he believed that his golden prophecy would also be preserved.
But at the moment, he is not worthy of worrying about the future of mankind. Instead, he must first solve the problem of ensuring that thousands of people in his kingdom can eat salt, and wait until he has time to make big prophecies and other things.
According to the analysis of the topographic characteristics of the Wulong River Basin, this large area should be similar to the Bashu and Yunnan areas. It is a landform formed by the uplift of the seabed during the middle and late stages of orogeny. The salt mines here should be underground brine salt mines.
This kind of brine salt mine has the ability of aggregation and mobility. If it is exposed on the ground, it will be a salt lake and a large-scale saline-alkali area. But if it sinks underground, it will inevitably become an underground salt brine layer.
If nothing else happens, this new salt mine and the salt mine near the Mongols should be in the same salt brine layer, and may be connected underground.
So from the analysis of the distribution pattern, this salt mine should be closer to the direction of the Mongols, closer to the south rather than to the east.
In other words, if you want to narrow down the scope of the salt mine more accurately, you should look further south.
[To be honest, I have been using @@ recently to read and catch up on updates, change sources, and read aloud with many sounds, and it can be used on both Android and Apple.]
According to the living habits of the barbarians, their residence should be near the salt mine, never too far away. Even if they avoid migration, they will never suddenly run too far. After all, they can't run far in a few months.
And living close to salt mines makes it easier to hunt beasts that like to lick salt.
Thinking of this, Xu Chen also had a relatively clear goal in finding the direction of the barbarians.