Chapter VI Combat Readiness
Yang Tian sensed that some other clans other than the Ying Clan were not very friendly to him and even the Ying Clan, even if they were not strongly hostile to him, Yang Tian could feel that if he did not take some extraordinary measures. If an outsider like himself wants to establish his ideal feudal or even modern centralized power relations and completely reshape the organizational system of the entire tribe, I am afraid it is not as easy as he thought before.
He already has a huge prestige that is second to none, and he is quite simple and simple, and the infant should become the core object of his "love and difference". At least for the present self, authority does not lie in wisdom, not in ability, but in reliability and obedience...
Yang Tian, who already had some understanding of the infant clan he was in, understood: on the surface, the infant clan and other clans were the same tribe, but the people who were abandoned to some extent rarely belonged to other tribes in the true sense of kinship. Even if you don't regard other clans as enemies, you can only rely on absolute force to truly integrate the tribes on the island by gathering a force that unites around you. One day we will be able to venture out of this depraving place en masse ...
In the days of preparing for the war, Yang Tian learned more about how backward the isolated tribes on this island were, and estimated that the life without much survival pressure for at least a hundred years seemed to have lost the javelin overdraft technique, and almost no one was good at the sling. Because there are no large beasts at the level of wolves on the island, let alone the interests and conflicts formed by friendly neighboring tribes. Even bows and arrows are not found in the longbows and arrows that are common among the most backward primitive tribes in the Andaman Islands of the Bay of Bengal in later generations, because there is no need to attack people outside the island. Some of them are just some simple short bows used to hunt small animals, and some are slingshots that can be made casually by modern village children. This may be the reason why I didn't see a decent weapon at all.
Fortunately, Yang Tian's first few days of racking his brains for innovation, hard thinking, and even the trial and error that spent a lot of energy finally quickly yielded unusual results. When Yang Tian began to try to make Neolithic tools by means of heat expansion and cold contraction, burning stone and dripping water, and making up for the defects of the traditional Neolithic blade fineness by starting with the simple method of sintering masonry, the technical ability of some fields of Yingshi was improved to the late Neolithic period, and many woods that were difficult to process in the past were at least able to be processed. In this case, whether it is to make bows or new levels of sturdy stone and wood composite tools, there are many advantages. The sintering method also enables the mass production of fine and sharp arrow clusters at a much faster rate than in the traditional Neolithic period.
"When you go out hunter-gatherers, you can take with you the tools I have made. But you should also bring the tools you usually use, and don't easily expose this secret in front of outsiders. If you encounter something, try to avoid it, and if you can't avoid it, come back and tell me," Yang Tian directly expressed his opinion by combining his actions and even some local vocabulary that he mastered, and told individual young people who went out to hunt and work through the more intelligent elder woman of the infant clan.
"And the children, you tell them to keep watch in shifts during normal times, and try to kick rocks off the hillside when strangers from outside the clan approach. I don't want these unique technologies to be handed down by people who won't wholeheartedly follow my arrangement."
In this way, to people other than the infant clan, it seems that everything is no different from when the outsider first arrived. The outsider who came to the island also seemed to rarely come out to see people outside the clan, and became a little quieter and more mysterious.
But in terms of internal quality, because of the sharp Neolithic arrow clusters, wooden wrenches, and more sophisticated wooden bows that match the wooden wrenches, the efficiency of hunting for people who go out to work has immediately increased by seven or eight percent.
This seemingly low efficiency increase of seventy or eighty percent has liberated the five strongest people among the more than ten men who are still in the prime of life in the entire infant family, and they can accompany themselves to practice martial arts all day long. There are also several women who have good hands-on ability to rush to make bows and arrows for practice according to the method taught by Yang Tian, correct the equipment, and even make handguards, wooden armor, and wooden shields according to Yang Tian's requirements.
Although Yang Tian had some thoughts about the weapons under this unique masonry-wood composite tool technology at the beginning, he didn't dare to guarantee that some of his ideas would be practical. Therefore, in the initial period of time, various specifications of stone and wood weapons were also produced to test the effect.
At the beginning, Yang Ran had a teenage girl try to use a small-sized meteor hexagonal stone hammer with a rope on a rope and proportions to her strength and size. Another brave teenager who looks about his size uses a wooden hammer tied with straw to simulate a traditional paleolithic tool. Yang Tian roughly estimated: The difference in combat effectiveness between a layman like himself and a real good player may be about the same as that of a ten-year-old girl and a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy.
However, while the hammer style of weapon was still more powerful and flexible than the heavy and clumsy paleolithic tool, it was also limited in its use. The pre-action is very large and difficult to change the speed and steer, and when the gap is as big as the fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy who is good at hunting and the ten-year-old girl is the same age, he is quickly blocked by the simple and completely handsless boy who uses the hammer to block the meteor hammer and fly up at the same time, although it looks a little dangerous, but it is still very easy to win.
Yang Tian, who saw the problem, later chose a one-handed short hammer that was as simple as an armor-piercing hammer, and then combined it with a small wooden shield that could be more suitable on his left hand to compete.
The heavy armor-piercing hammer and the stone-wood composite tools in the style of Indian war sticks are indeed much more agile, far from being comparable to the clumsy paleolithic tools. However, the difference in strength between the two sides is still too huge. The boy felt that it seemed a little inconvenient to use a wooden hammer, and he always used it in the opposite way when he suffered a loss, and a wooden stick could directly rely on the huge difference in strength and skill between the two sides to crush the gap between weapons and tools. . .
In this way, after many tests, it has been continuously improved: when the little girl's right hand has a meteor stone hammer attached to the arm gauntlet, and this meteor stone hammer is covered with a thick hollow wooden barrel made by Yang Tian, which can be used as a meteor hammer or as a weapon with a rod. The right hand gauntlet, which is the easiest to be captured, is also patiently arranged with wooden thorns like wolf fangs. When the right leg and waist in addition to the shield were also protected by wooden planks, the battle was barely tied for a period of time when the difference in weapons between the two sides was huge. When the competition continues, although the little girl's side still loses more and wins less, she finally has the opportunity to use the "shrinking hammer" that is elusive and difficult to accurately determine the distance to hit the opponent with a certain probability. In this way, the standard melee weapons of the five elite warriors selected by the entire infant clan and even Yang Tian himself, a total of six people, were replaced with this special meteor rod hammer.
The bow and arrow are also prepared with a lot of longbows with three fighting strength, one person is about the height of one person, and the other six young men who seem to be a little less courageous and a woman who is brave and outstanding constitute an archery team, and is equipped with a spear with a brick blade stone spear for hand-to-hand combat, a heavy javelin weighing about two catties for throwing, and the arrow itself uses conventional arrow clusters and the arrow body is estimated to be two or three hundred grams when the fine stone cluster is still not sharp enough, and the method of measuring two or three hundred grams is like a light javelin to improve the lethality of people or beast-level targets in the real sense. In this way, the entire infant clan also has a total of thirteen professional warriors in the true sense. There are also thirteen pairs of shields that are beginning to take shape.
In the following less than three months, Yang Tian did not dare to delay any longer, and patiently carried out "off-duty training" while maintaining six full-time "soldiers" and seven semi-full-time fighters, including himself, and had the determination to "sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime".
With the proficiency of using new tools, the harvesting ability of the infant clan also seemed to be gradually improving, Yang Tian was unwilling to expose this too early in front of the foreign clans, so he used the freed manpower to start selecting a relatively high place, which was not easy to be eroded by the tide, and was not too large to carry out the early preparation required for a truly military camp.