Chapter 248: Southridge Center
The center of the lush Nanling Mountains, ruled by snakes, insects and beasts for countless years, was completely broken by an official road that longitudinally runs north and south.
The Yue tribe, which was originally in a primitive state of human beings, is only a part of the law of the jungle here, and is still competing with wolves, tigers, rhinoceros, and bears for the position of king, but they have always won and lost each other.
But from the construction of this official road that crosses the mountains and is relatively straight, which can be used for a car to gallop, a large number of human beings have come here.
They followed the official road, there was a dock fort every ten miles, and a large gate city every hundred miles.
Wolves, tigers, and bears could not cross the civil walls of the fort, and even rhinoceros, which had always been known for brute strength and had horns that had not met their opponents, could not do anything with them.
Human beings take the li as the unit, live in the dock fort, take the township as the unit, live in the city, every 147 in this city to catch the market, 258 and go to the end of the city, there is always a meeting market every day.
Next to the dock fort and the closed city, the big trees that have lived for hundreds or thousands of years were cut down to the ground and dragged not far away, and another dense and prosperous waterway with the same dock fort and water village was transported away by boat.
The remaining trees of several or more than ten years have either become part of the civil fort wall, or they have become houses and furniture in the dock fort, and they are not even qualified to integrate into the city wall of Seki Castle, because Seki Castle is a brick and stone structure.
The shrubs that were less than a year old, the crooked, low shrubs were all burned clean by a fire, and then collected by humans, piled together, and piled up into piles of fertilizer, and domestic ploughing cattle and ploughing horses, driven by humans, turned this scorched black land into arable land.
In the face of these uninvited humans, who are completely different from the indigenous Yue tribes, packs of wolves, tigers with both strength and skill, majestic brown bears, and brave and invincible rhinoceros, they are no longer opponents.
These alien human beings, each with a bamboo spear several feet long, several iron spearheads gathered together, even if it is a rhinoceros with rough skin and thick meat, they can't bear it, they can only drink and hate on the spot.
There have been thousands of wolves storming the Dock Fort, and this time is also the most optimistic for the natives in the Southridge Center.
But to no avail, thousands of wolves, intelligent and the most adept of the "natives", launched a surprise attack, only to be "exposed" by their distant relatives, the hounds.
The human beings hid in the dock fort, and on the wall of the fort, they used bows, arrows, and javelins to "shoot" at the wolves, and the feather arrows and javelins that were "shot" were no longer the bone and stone arrowheads and spearheads used by the indigenous Yue people, but were made of iron that they had rarely seen.
The iron blade that braved the cold light, far surpassed the bone blade and the stone edge, and the heroic jungle wolf fell unwillingly, but he couldn't reach the humans on the fort wall, and he couldn't break through the thick gate.
The wolves have come up with their usual trick, which is to revolve around their prey, looking for flaws.
But a few days passed, and the flaws were not found, but a huge human army came, and they waved the "Cao" flag, and everyone wore armor, long and short, far and near weapons, everything, lined up in a neat queue, and killed the wolves.
Seeing these humans who took the initiative to attack, they waited for several days, and the wolves who didn't even eat a bite of food flashed green in their eyes, and thousands of wolves devoured them like a torrent.
They were greeted by a rain of crossbow arrows, then a rain of feather arrows, and then a rain of javelins, and after finally rushing closer at the risk of death, their distant relatives came out again, and these distant relatives were several times stronger than the earth dogs in the Dock Fort, and they were a tall hunting dog breed.
The hounds and the timberwolves strangled together, while the army stood aside, counting the wolves behind them with javelins, crossbow arrows, and feathered arrows, and spearmen hid behind the sword and shield hands, using spears to help the hounds who were outarmed.
A large number of jungle wolves fell, and the wolves, who had managed to break through the entangled dogs, were also cut down by their sharp spears, special hook and sickle guns, and nimble swords while being pushed away by their shields.
In the end, thousands of timberwolves, defeated, were chased by their distant relatives hounds, and those who stopped a little were 'shot' by the army that caught up behind, and the last wolves who escaped were only one or two hundred.
It contributed five or six hundred soft and precious wolf skins to mankind, and for a time the bazaar was flooded with wolf tooth pendants, attracting a large number of passing caravans to buy.
Since then, humans have become the kings here, and there are no beasts that can shake his might, and humans have begun to hunt tigers and rabbits in groups, and sometimes even rats are not spared.
The strong men who once competed for the throne are no longer beautiful, and they are afraid to live every day, and they are cautious when they travel, because they may fall into the traps dug by hunters at any time, and the result is that they will contribute their whole body to foreign humans, and they are more ruthless than them, even bones and teeth.
Since these human pioneers and pioneers, a large number of human beings have stepped onto this primitive land, which is no longer a forbidden area for human beings, and the pedestrians who pass by are becoming more and more bold, and even the human beings who have grown white and fat, and who have passed here before, can only be turned into lunch, dare to walk on the road openly.
Eventually, the number of times that human beings stepped on this land was no longer rare, and with the arrival of human beings, domestic animals and poultry that were not usually seen began to take root and multiply rapidly.
On the official road of Nanling, human beings either drove flocks of chickens and ducks, or drove carriages and donkey carts, coming and going, but the beasts did not dare to cross the thunder pond for half a step.
Because on both sides of the official road, there are too many traps waiting for them, and one carelessly contributes to the human beings they hate.
At the intersection of the waterway and the official road, the city began to grow, and the Cao army, which had defeated the wolves, began to be stationed here, and here, the woods began to be cut down in a large area, and a large number of timber processing factories were built on the edge of the waterway in the rudimentary form of the city, and countless primary-processed timber were shipped to shipyards in the north and south.
There are no intersecting waterways and official roads, and there are also a large number of small roads that begin to connect the two places, and the farm tools, grains, and seeds in the water village are transported to Guancheng along the trail, and the "medicine" materials, skins, "furs", and timber of the Guancheng are transported to the water village along the trail.
With the first batch of low-cost salt from the South China Sea in Jiaozhou, through here to Jingzhou in the north, human beings have become more active, more human beings focus here, those who have the ability to stick to sea salt are naturally good, and those who are incapable have included precious mahogany, tiger skin, bear paws, rhinoceros horns, and wolf teeth in the ranks.
Countless hunting teams began to be formed, and the central area of Nanling instantly became a paradise for human hunting.
In addition, with the opening of the trade of special products between the north and the south, a large amount of wealth has been developed, and the rise of Zhenyang in the south has attracted a large number of refugees.
The official road with a car width has been trampled into a width of two cars running in parallel, which confirms the old saying that there is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, it becomes a road.