"Whoosh!" A sharp arrow flew out, and dozens of paces away, a fat wild deer was in the middle of the chest and abdomen. After running a few steps forward, he couldn't resist the excessive blood loss, and he screamed a few times, and fell to the ground.

A few Hopis screamed for joy, rushed forward, carefully pulled the arrow out of the deer, wiped the blood from the arrow, and scrambled to grasp the iron arrow in their hands.

The Indians of this era, especially those on the West Coast, were still stuck in the stage of using bone arrowheads, the transition from the Stone Age to the Metal Age. On weekdays, they use wooden bows, bone arrows or stone arrows, but these iron arrows are their unheard of weapons.

As a breed to trade with the Hopi, the boys of the expedition of the Southern Cantonese Army borrowed a wooden bow from the Hopi warrior with a gesture, took an arrow, looked at the rather fine wolf teeth on the arrow, the young men smiled and shook their heads, took out an iron arrow from the jar, and replaced the wolf tooth.

Bending his bow and arrows, he smiled at the Hopi warriors and said, "If I can bring down that deer with one arrow, this arrow will be my gift to my brothers!" ”

The power of example is endless, and the shock that a fat stag that can only be shot by a few people who usually besiege and run and chase together is easily put down by someone today with an arrow, which brings unprecedented shock to the Hopi people.

Taking over the iron arrow from his subordinates, Yin Lei's mother, as the leader of this Hopi tribe, was also quite surprised.

"Archwizard, no, Dao Chief, what is this arrow of yours made of? So magical? ”

"It's iron. Iron. ”

"Iron?"

As the Peruvian poet wrote, "They look for gold, they leave it." "In this kind of daily communication. Intentionally or unintentionally, many words that were not originally in the Indian language have quietly entered their daily lives and become a bridge of communication between the two sides.

"Dao Chief, you are their big man. I want to swap with you. These iron arrows have to be equipped with so much for each hunter of the entire tribe. Yin Lei's mother gestured with both hands, meaning that each person asked for twenty iron arrowheads. What is needed and how much is needed to exchange? ”

"Poor Dao has long said that Poor Dao was sent by the Emperor of Heaven to find the descendants of Yin Shang, since you are the descendants of Yin Shang, then you and Poor Dao are all descendants of China. What to talk about! As long as the brothers are of the same heart, what is between heaven and earth that is not ours?! "If the chief of the water channel said so righteously and generously, it seems that Yin Lei's mother has a little villain's heart. Immediately, I had to laugh twice. No more mentions.

However, if the water chief is not just talking about it, he asked Yin Lei to gather all the men in the tribe in one place, and according to the standard of twenty arrows per person, he counted a few jars of iron arrows and gave them them.

"We have something, and we will naturally come to you!"

Unlike the Lowlanders, who exchanged a few glass beads from the Indians for New Amsterdam, it was also an exchange, and what the Governor of the Governor and the expedition of the Southern Cantonese Army used in exchange was much more practical. Also much more valuable.

reciprocated the favor, and was so generous in the face of his brothers who had not seen him for many years. Naturally, these Hopi people will not behave badly. Immediately, Yin Lei's mother said that as long as it is the territory of my Hopi people, it will be owned together with your Nanyue Army!

Unlike the passengers of the Mayflower, they are facing the corn they are carrying, holding pumpkins, and leading wild deer. The Hopi people who came with turkeys and fish, and the chief of the water and his boys were always hospitable, and always prepared a meal and invited them to enjoy it. Instead of scalping off with a knife to calculate the bounty. Soon the two sides gradually became one.

With close exchanges, Dingdong City needs to be expanded.

After a red-faced quarrel, Ruo Shuidao and Yin Lei finally agreed to hire young men from the Hopi tribe to Dingdong City to help build houses and expand the scale of the walled city.

According to Yin Lei. It's all your own brothers, if your family builds a house, I'll help, that's a fair thing, what kind of remuneration do you talk about? Just invite us to a drink.

But how can the waterway chief pass up any opportunity to expand his influence and promote technology? He proposed to use a full set of iron farming tools and send young men who are proficient in planting and know how to breed by hand to help the Hopi people with agricultural production technical guidance!

"Well, the Taoist chief is also kind. Just listen to him. Under the final word of Yin Lei's mother, the two sides reached a cooperation agreement.

Yin Lei led hundreds of strong men from his own clan to the construction site of Dingdong City to help!

Building a city has always been costly, and it is a lot of attention.

In that year, Lu Xiang repaired the Xuanda Great Wall, and calculated that he needed 30 taels of silver per zhang, and 1.6 million taels of silver for repairing the 300-mile Great Wall. Wanli year Qinghe garrison Wang Weiping built a new fort on the lonely mountain, in Tuesday, the city is high and three feet five feet high, all of which are covered with bricks and stones, the residence of the fort officer and the barracks of the sergeants are one hundred and seventy-three, and the common silver is 770 taels, and the grain is 610 stones. As for Master Sun, Sun Chengzong's overhaul of the castle in Liaodong, it cost a lot.

In ancient times, the city wall was built with loess slurry, river sand, lime, glutinous rice slurry mixed into a certain proportion to make triple soil, so that the rammed fortress wall was durable and solid, and it was difficult to break. In some places, dog urine is even added to the wall to ward off evil spirits.

And this is also the most common method of building walls in ancient times, in some big cities or courts, they ram the fortress wall, if the outside to wrap bricks, in addition to adding a large amount of glutinous rice juice, even add a large amount of brown sugar, egg whites, red beans and other things to make adhesives, which costs countless money.

If you want to build a castle in various parts of the southern and central regions, you will basically use burnt ash, masonry, sand, lime, etc. This construction method is much simpler than the above method, and the cost is much lower. The most important thing is that the construction period and effect are very cost-effective.

However, in this land of Fuso, the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. Where to find ashes? Not to mention burning ash, even the brick kiln where the bricks are fired has nowhere to look! If the fort is built with bricks and stones, it will take too long, not to mention, ramming the walls, quarrying, and burning bricks. It's not a day's work. Moreover, at the moment, the expedition team led by the chief of Ruoshui Dao has no place to find any glutinous rice milk! There are also green bricks or something, which consumes a lot of work, and there are no craftsmen in the expedition team who know how to build brick kilns and how to fire green bricks. Besides, there is no adhesive like glutinous rice syrup to fill the gaps between bricks, stones, and other building materials. It won't be firm.

However, fortunately, in this land of Fusang now, whether it is Yin Lei, the descendants of Yin Shang, or those Franco, they all lack or do not have the cannons in their hands, so the requirements for the city defense are naturally reduced a lot!

The mountains are full of primeval forests, and there is no shortage of wood. At the moment, wood can only be used as the main material. The wall of the civil structure has been built!

Dingdong City is actually a walled city made of logs. Like the walled city built by Long Shengsheng in Heilongjiang, they were all built in dug trenches with timber. Wooden walls are built with straw ropes and wooden wedges, and between the two wooden walls are rammed with earth to build a solid wall, which is an impregnable wall.

On the city wall, the style of installing the inner city wall is built with horse faces, arrow towers, and watchtowers, and you can see the situation of people and horses within a radius of dozens of miles. If an enemy army rushes under the city walls, those horse faces, arrow towers. will teach them a profound lesson. Taste the rain of arrows and javelin axes on three sides. The most important ones are granaries, forage yards, arsenals, stables, barracks and other buildings. There are also wells that are also quite important, although the large village of Dingdong City is not far from the river, obviously, out of consideration. Within the walled city, several wells were necessary.

When Yin Lei rushed to Dingdong City with his brothers in the tribe and nearly a thousand men from several neighboring tribes who had rushed over after hearing the news, there was a fire outside the city. It was the young men of the Nanyue Army who lit torches and burned the dense grass and shrubs that were more than one person tall to clear the field, clear the shooting boundary, prevent pests and diseases, etc., in fact, as the fire spread, from time to time from the grass and shrubs, all kinds of small animals screamed and wailed from the burned homes, and some of the eyes did not have long eyes, and they actually hit the legs of the Hopi warriors and became the raw materials for the evening meal.

With the abundant booty, Yin Lei and the others followed the young men of the Nanyue Army back to Dingdong City. A few miles away from the city, suddenly Yin Lei and the others knelt on the ground praying, their faces full of sincerity and fear. The young man of the Nanyue Army who accompanied him was very strange, so he asked Yin Lei, and Yin Lei said in a tone of awe: "Quick, hurry up and pray, there is a miracle ahead." ”

"Miracles?" What is this, after listening to Yin Lei's explanation, the people of the Nanyue Army were even more confused. Seeing that they did not bow down and pray, Yin Lei hurriedly said, "You see, at the end of the horizon, there is a huge house shining with golden light, which must be the residence of the gods. It is estimated that the gods learned of the arrival of their relatives in the West and came to visit you. God's temper is very great, and if he does not bow down, he is afraid that disaster will befall him. ”

The giant house of golden light, the residence of the gods? The people of the Nanyue Army still didn't understand what was going on, and finally followed Yin Lei's fingers, and the boys of the Nanyue Army all laughed. They hurriedly helped Yin Lei up and said, "Brother, you really misunderstood, that is not the giant house of the gods, it is our new city, called Dingdong City." Of course, this is also your city, and we can invite you to live in this city if you wish. ”

After listening to Nanyuejun's explanation, although Yin Lei didn't dare to disbelieve it, he was still puzzled, and Nanyuejun had no choice but to continue to explain: The so-called giant house with golden light you see is nothing more than the loess of the city wall of Dingdong City, which emits a faint yellow light under the sunlight, and there is nothing to make a fuss about.

After some explanation, Yin Lei finally accepted the statement that Dingdong City was a human residence. However, for the sake of safety, they followed the Nanyue army to Dingdong City as if nothing happened, and secretly prayed in their hearts, "God, we have no intention of offending you, don't be surprised."

The city is getting closer, the female wall battlements are clearly recognizable, and Yin Lei finally believes that this is a city inhabited by humans. Because in the city, there are soldiers of the Nanyue Army who they are familiar with patrolling, although there are some thick black things like big trees hollowed out that they don't recognize, but the bad guys still recognize them.

Yin Lei, who was relieved, also began to talk and laugh with the Nanyue army, and unconsciously, they came outside the city, and at this time, they appeared in front of Yin Lei. It's a trench. The trench was five meters wide and three meters deep, and under the trench, there were densely sharpened wooden stakes, and a few poor little beasts on the wooden stakes silently explained to everyone with their lives and flesh. Looking at this bloody example, everyone knows it. This thing buried at the bottom of the ditch needs no introduction, and I know how deadly it is. Faced with this situation, Yin Lei couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and said in his heart, can our relatives fly, how can we pass through such a moat?

And the people who came with Yin Lei also looked at each other, and in the end, all eyes were focused on the leader of the Nanyue Army. The leader of the Nanyue Army patronized and chatted at first. Later, when he saw that everyone was looking at him, he remembered that there was still something serious, so he pulled his neck and began to shout: "Hey, the dead pig inside, don't get up again, Lao Tzu drafted sister, didn't you see your brother-in-law coming back?" ”

Soon, there was a scolding from inside: "I'm a gentleman!" What did you learn from dogs? What a mess. Don't say anything else, my sister. Why did you become my brother-in-law again? ”

After a burst of invincing and creaking from the tower where the rollers were installed, a huge drawbridge made of pine logs split in two was lowered from the gate and slammed against the edge of the trench.

"Brothers, please!" After a few words of ridicule and scolding with the guards on the castle tower, the officer at the head waved his hand. Signal Yin Lei and the others to enter the city!

This scene, in the eyes of the Nanyue Army, is just a daily routine, but in Yin Lei's eyes, it is indeed like a wizard's practice. Such a wide trench. Between the laughter of the Nanyue army, there is a wide bridge to put down, for people and horses to pass, in the blink of an eye, with a few low horns, the bridge that weighs more than thousands of catties, I am afraid that more than ten strong men may not be able to carry it, it is gently and skillfully re-established at the gate of the city! "This must be magic." Thinking of this, Yin Lei said to his subordinates in a low voice, "You write down their spells, and when you encounter the Heavenly Trench in the future, let the Great Wizard try to see if you can pass over." ”

After entering the city, although I had already silently thought in my heart that this was our brother's house, when I really saw the interior of Dingdong City, I was still deeply shocked. If you use the standard of Nanzhong, Dingdong City is also a small tunzi. The houses are basically adobe houses, and the walls are also earthen walls, but due to the unified planning, the houses and walls are uniform. In addition, the road surface is paved with Sanhe soil, and there are special people to clean it every day, and the breeding of chickens, ducks, geese, cattle and sheep is also concentrated together to avoid polluting the environment. Such conditions, not to mention in the old base of Hejing, are in Ludong, that is, in general, but in Yin Lei's eyes, there is only worship left.

At this time, all the people who followed Yin Lei were very sure in their hearts, we were the descendants of the Eastern Expeditionary Army of the Great Shang, and our relatives came. It's just that we didn't complete our task well, and we were a little shameless, but in the future, we must do something, otherwise we won't be able to mix up among our relatives in the future.

Since Yin Lei and the others had such an idea, they naturally spared no effort in the process of building the walled city. However, if the waterway chief has never treated these distant brothers badly, he is entertained with good wine and meat every day. So that these men who have not yet mastered the technology of brewing are excited every day, like in the clouds.

Near the left is a continuous forest, and there is no shortage of wood, but to build a wall, it is necessary to harvest a large amount of timber, erect it, and then use earth to build a solid ......

In the process of ramming, digging soil, mud, debilitating, and drying also require a large number of manpower.

Fortunately, all the people in the Nanyue Army are good at this, and many of them have more than once had the experience of building houses and villages, under their command and dispatch, a large number of Hopi people carrying and carrying baskets run back and forth along the fort wall marked with wooden sticks in advance, and the young men of the expedition team are wielding shovels and pickaxes to dig earth and dredging trenches, and some people are directing these Hopi men to ram the fort wall. The scene is also in full swing.

Yin Lei and the others took a big axe and a sharp saw from the warehouse to the left to cut down trees in the woods near the left. Trees that used to take great pains to fall down in a matter of moments before the axes and saws fell, and people cheered forward to cut off the canopies and set them aside, ready to be used later as deer and firewood for heating.

The finished timber was hauled back to the camp by livestock and prepared for the construction of the wall.

Timber was brought in in in a steady stream, either into logs or split into planks, and large groups of people erected wooden walls along the planned site.

The wooden wall is built on the side of the original Dingdong City, which is the pattern of the outer city. Erected as prismatic, every 100 steps a protrusion, along the outside of the fence, dug a deep trench, in general, the stockade is rectangular, long from north to south, short from east to west, set up two gates in the north and south, leave a passage road, and have a suspension bridge.

A hundred steps in front of the two gates, there is also a triangular fence in each, and the sharp corners in front and on both sides, the same trench is dug, and the road passes obliquely through the side of the triangular fence.

On top of the wall, several long wooden houses were built.

The second floor of the wooden house, all have windows perforated, together with the fence, form three layers of firepower, if the enemy attacks it, there is if the fear of facing the defense line of Changling Mountain, not only that, the four corners of the village, both sides of the gate of the wall, there are also tall sentry towers.

On the day of the completion of the wall, if the waterway was long on a whim, with a little wine, he helped Yin Lei to give a Chinese name.

"You are a descendant of Yin Shang, you should be surnamed Yin, and your brother is so decisive and neat, he is like the thunderbolt of the gods, how about being called Yin Lei?"

Yin Lei looked at his brothers so happy that the corners of his mouth bloomed, and he loaded all kinds of familiar tools into the car, naturally he was inexplicably grateful.

"Dao Chief, we are just helping each other build a house, the big man is so kind, he is sending things, and helping me name it, how can we be grateful? Nothing else! Half of the sea otter skins and bison we hunted this year! If the crops grow as the Taoist said, and the harvest is abundant, we are also half of the family! (To be continued.) )