165 vehicles and boats
In the eastern part of the steppe, the Garuda camp is stationed.
Cowhide tents are scattered around a huge lake, and herds of cattle, sheep and horses are leisurely grazing grass nearby, and every herding person has a happy smile on his face.
Beishan's mother looked at all this in front of her, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in her heart.
When she was in charge of the Beishan Division, she really didn't expect that the clan would be so easy to feed, and there would be thousands of cattle, sheep and horses!
At that time, she had to worry every autumn, because the people did not have enough food to survive the winter, and every year people would starve to death and freeze to death.
At this time, she didn't have to worry at all, because just these cattle and sheep in front of her couldn't be eaten by the clansmen for a few years, not to mention, she would take her subordinates to subdue more herds of bison, wild sheep and wild horses.
She was sighing when the captain behind her suddenly said loudly: "Report, general, two hundred elite cavalry have been assembled." ”
Hearing this, Beishan Mother slowly looked back at the neatly equipped cavalry behind her, then raised her hand and waved it, and said loudly: "Let's go." ”
"Boom", a thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded, and two hundred elite horsemen rode straight to the west under her leadership.
At this time, her eyes were obviously full of excitement, but on the surface, she seemed quite calm, because it was not the first time she had been a leader, and she quite understood the importance of being calm in front of her people.
This time, she went to pick up the Great Leader of Haotian, because a few days ago, the Celestial God Camp Elite rode a fast horse and whipped to report, and the Great Leader of Haotian had already rushed to their Garuda Camp with people.
As for what the great leader of Haotian was doing, she didn't know very well, she only knew that her daughter Ah Shui would also come over.
She hadn't seen her daughter for a long time, so how could she not be excited.
Judging from the report of the Heavenly God Battalion Elite Cavalry, it is estimated that the leader of Haotian and his party are still hundreds of miles away from their Garuda camp at this time, and it stands to reason that she does not need to go out so far.
However, there is no way, who made her anxious to see her daughter.
Two hundred elite horses ran on the grassland for about an hour, and finally a dense black spot appeared in front of them, looking at the scale, it was probably about two hundred horses, but the people on the opposite side were not as neat as them, at least most of the horses were carrying things on their backs, and no one was riding.
This should be the team of the leader of Haotian, Beishan Mother hit the horse to meet and take a look, sure enough, the leader is Zhao Hao, and Ah Yun, Ah Yue and Ah Rou and others have followed, and her baby daughter Ah Shui is riding on the back of a young adult at this time.
At this time, Zhao Hao had already stopped the entourage and horses, she hurriedly raised her hand to let the fine riders behind her also stop, and then arched her hand and said, "See the big leader." ”
Zhao Hao raised his hand and smiled: "You're welcome, you're welcome, I'm afraid you're not in a hurry to see me when you come all the way to meet me, hahahaha, Ah Shui, don't come over quickly." ”
Hearing this, Ah Shui skillfully pulled the reins, rode Meng Meng, paced to Beishan Aunt, and said: "Auntie, I'm amazing, this time I didn't let people take it, I rode Meng Meng alone along the way." ”
Although Meng Meng is less than a year old at this time, her body size is already about the same as an ordinary horse, and it is certainly not a problem to gallop with a little girl.
Beishan's mother looked at her daughter with excitement on her face, nodded vigorously and said, "Well, when our Ah Shui grows up, we can ride horses, okay, okay." ”
Although she was excited, she didn't do anything out of the ordinary, after all, there were two or three hundred people present at this time, and more importantly, there must be something wrong with the great leader of Haotian who came thousands of miles away, and she couldn't delay other people's major events.
She just chatted with her daughter Ah Shui for a few words, then turned her horse's head and led the group straight to the Garuda camp station.
So, what did Zhao Hao work so hard to come over, was he just to send Ah Shui to meet his mother?
Of course not, he's not so idle.
This time, the reason why he traveled thousands of miles was mainly to build a ship, and then go to the east across the big river to hunt for the existence of a divine beast.
The big river in the east is not ordinarily wide, that width, at least about a kilometer, it is not a problem for him to swim through alone, and others who want to pass through it are afraid that they will have to rely on boats.
And the existence of his hunting close to the divine beast is not only for himself, now there are many masters in Haotian who have reached the limit of 10,000 catties, and the generals of the eighth battalion have basically reached the limit of 10,000 catties except for Ah Hua, as well as Ah Yun, Ah Yue, Ah Rou and others.
He is ready to build as many masters with a strength of more than 10,000 jin while improving his strength, so he is ready to build a strong fortress on the other side of the river, and bring people over to guard it, and then let the masters who have reached the limit of 10,000 jin take turns to improve their strength in the fortress.
In this way, he doesn't have to carry thousands or even tens of thousands of catties of alien beasts across the river.
It was not easy to build a ship, and after the ship was built, he had to train a boatman who would specialize in handling the ship, so he chose the Garuda camp to be stationed.
The Garuda camp itself is located in the easternmost part of the Haotian Division, and there is a huge lake here, and this lake is also connected to the great river to the east by the water system, so it can be said that this is the best place for shipbuilding.
However, this shipbuilding is not so easy, it doesn't mean that someone can build it if he just draws a sketch, and no one in Haotianbu knows how to build a ship at this time.
After he arrived at the garrison of the Garuda camp, he only rested for a while, and then began to investigate around the lake with a dozen or so personal guards.
The lake is big enough, and there are quite a lot of water systems connecting the big rivers, so it is no problem for boats to row from the lake to the big river, but the problem is that there are no trees near the lake.
Without forests, there would be no wood for shipbuilding, so what to do?
After some investigation, he hurried back to Beishan Aunt's big tent and asked directly: "How far is the junction of the wild jungle and the grassland?" ”
Beishan Mother said without thinking: "The junction of the wild jungle and the grassland is about two hundred miles away from here. ”
About two hundred miles is half a day's journey, Zhao Hao thought about it, and decided to rest for one night first, after all, they had traveled thousands of miles, and he was not tired and others were tired.
Early the next morning, accompanied by Beishan Amu and others, he went straight to the junction of the wild jungle and the grassland.
In fact, at this time, the men and horses of the Garuda camp were not concentrated in one place, and there were many people at the junction of the wild jungle and the grassland, because the nearly 500 young men who were captured last time were building sheepfolds, cowsheds, and stables at the junction of the wild jungle and the grassland, and there were many elite horsemen of the Garuda camp who guarded them.
Zhao Hao roughly walked around the valley of the newly built sheepfold, cowshed and stables in the Garuda camp and found a new problem.
There is enough timber for shipbuilding here, but it is quite troublesome to transport it to the lake, because the boat he wants to build must be at least ten meters long, and the timber required for such a long ship is not a little.
Such a long timber horse is basically impossible to carry, and if people carry it, I am afraid that they will have to walk for more than ten days, back and forth, and it will be troublesome.
He frowned and pondered for a while, and finally came up with a solution, that is, to build a carriage, as long as the carriage could be built, it would be easy to transport timber.