The wall addition work is well under way and is expected to be completed by the end of the second month of spring.

The firing of pottery is still in the hands of the three clansmen who came out of Su Yan's teaching, and for the time being, only the three of them are enough.

There were already more than two small bowls of pottery in the snake tribe, and Su Yan told them to stop and make pottery bowls, and instead concentrate on making large pottery and lids that matched large pottery.

Sometimes Su Yan will also use his hands to make some pottery embryos in the shape of plates, basins and other shapes, these pottery embryos are relatively thick, and there is still a lot of firing power.

As for that kind of very thin pottery, it cannot be successfully fired until the pottery firing technology reaches a certain level, and Su Yan has no experience in that area, so he can only rely on time to slowly grope for it.

Practicing martial arts, teaching writing and Mandarin, Su Yan has more free time, but Su Yan will not let himself relax, and take the initiative to find new things for him to do.

The fish cage allows the snake tribe to have enough food, the brick building wall to protect the snake tribe's habitat from wild beasts, and the pottery boiling water can reduce the chance of the tribesmen's disease.

Just these three technologies, if they continue to develop normally, the snake tribe will become the largest tribe in this region in more than ten years, and the total population will definitely exceed five hundred, or even greatly exceed this number.

Su Yan thought about it carefully, and felt that the snake tribe still had a flaw, and this flaw was the weapon.

The people of the snake tribe used a variety of weapons, including stone axes with sharp stone chips and short sticks, stone spears with sharp and slender stones and long sticks, and those that used a thick wooden stick or those that used stones directly.

The most powerful weapon of the Serpent Tribe is the stone, a palm-sized stone.

Every time he went out hunting, Dali would carry an animal skin package on his back, which contained ten palm-sized stones, some of which were already stained with blood, which was a testimony to the results of vigorous hunting.

With great strength, grab the stone with the palm of your hand and throw it at the prey, if you hit the head, there is a high chance that the prey will be directly killed or seriously injured; If it hits the body, there is also a half chance that the prey will be seriously injured, and the prey's bones are broken.

Dali's head is not very bright, but Dali's stone-throwing skills are definitely among the best in the snake tribe, and whenever the hunting team goes out to hunt, Dali is definitely the one who contributes the most.

With great strength and perspective accuracy, it can be called a self-propelled artillery, well, the older kind of artillery that fires round balls and solid shells.

During the day, the people of the snake tribe are busy with various things, hunting, fishing, making bricks and walls, firing pottery, weaving fish pots, and so on.

After dinner in the evening, it was already dark, and at this time, people were not sleepy, and by the light of the fire of the campfire, people were still busy, and the most busy thing they were with was to arrange their weapons.

Stones and sticks are like that, if they are not easy to use and then change to another one, stone axes and stone spears will not work, the stone tools tied to the sticks are the most important, and they also have to use straw ropes to fix the stone tools on the sticks, this work is carried out at the time after dinner, and it can be used in hunting by checking it again before going out hunting the next day.

Su Yan thought about it carefully, there are still many flaws in the weapon system of the snake tribe, and the most important thing is that the snake tribe only has offensive weapons, but no defensive weapons.

The consequences of not having defensive weapons are very serious.

Think about it, once the hunting party meets the wolves in the wild, and the wolves rush up, the hunting party can only use those offensive weapons to confront the wild wolves with sharp claws and sharp teeth.

When the wolf's paws scratch at them, they can only dodge or use the stone spears, stone axes, and wooden sticks in their hands to block, the effect of the barrier is very bad, and it is easy to be scratched by the wolf's claws, even if they survived at that time, the wounds scratched by the wolf's claws after returning to the tribe are also very likely to be infected, and finally die as a result.

What the snake tribe needs most at the moment is a defensive weapon similar to a shield, once they encounter a beast, they can use the shield to block the beast's sharp claws, greatly reducing the possibility of being scratched on the body.

The shield is mainly rectangular and round in shape, with a handle on the inside, which is convenient for people to grasp with their hands when using the shield, wood, copper, and iron can be used as the main materials of the shield, and there are also rattan cards made of rattan.

Shields made of rattan are lighter than shields made of other materials, and under the current conditions, making shields from rattan is the easiest thing to do, and it should be easy to find the suitable rattan in the woods.

Of course, if Su Yan goes to find it by himself, it is very easy, if he wants the hunting team and the fishing team to find it, it is more troublesome for them to understand the appearance of rattan, this is still the situation where Mandarin began to spread in the snake tribe, and then find a qualified rattan, I don't know how long it will take.

In any case, Su Yan described the appearance of the rattan to the members of the hunting party who often went out, and asked them to look for similar plants as much as possible.

In fact, Su Yan also thought about making pottery shields out of clay.

Pick up the lid of a large pottery, is it very much like a round shield.

But then Su Yan threw away the idea, the pottery shield looked very thick, heavy and strong, in fact, an adult male of the snake tribe could break it with a single punch.

There are many beasts in the mountains and forests that are no less powerful than humans, and they can also break pottery shields with one claw, and such shields are not of much use, far less than the tough shields of rattan.

The defensive weapon shield was put down for the time being, waiting for the clansmen to find the right rattan and turn their minds to the offensive weapon.

In the Stone Age, before entering the Bronze Age, the offensive weapons that humans could use were the weapons currently used by the Snake tribesmen, such as stone spears, stone axes, wooden clubs, and stones.

Stone spears, stone axes, and wooden sticks are all melee weapons, only stones are medium and long-range weapons, but stones are thrown too far to be thrown accurately, and the farthest distance is about fifty meters.

Stones are a long-range weapon with great limitations, and to a large extent the size of the stone determines the power of the stone, but the larger the stone, the smaller the number of stones each person can carry, and in the end, the stones they carry with them are all used up, and they can only look for stones everywhere.

Then Su Yan thought of the long-range weapon of the bow and arrow, and the history of the bow and arrow lasted until the large-scale appearance of muskets, which stopped being used in large quantities in war.

Bows and arrows have many advantages over stones, such as the light weight of arrows, a person can carry dozens of arrows at a time, and the range of bows and arrows can be longer than the distance of stones thrown by people......