Chapter 192: The Battered Baking Sun
At this time, the Yellow River was very different from that of later generations. At this time, the Yellow River was more like a strip-shaped lake made up of many rivers. It coincides with the spring flood and the water rises, not to mention the cattle and horses between the two banks, and Lin Ji can't see the scene on the other side of the river even if he holds up his glasses.
Lin Ji and his party stayed on the south bank for a few days, and after setting up the raft, the river receded a little, and at this time, they also saw a few mammoths crossing the river, and the group also began to cross the river.
In the past few days, Bayang arranged for a few people to go back to deliver the message, and Lin Ji also arranged for a few people to go back to report safety, and the number of people in the team became forty-one. There are twenty people on the Lin side and twenty-one people on the side of Bayang. Because Bayang treats Xiaobai as a person.
The people on both sides are considered elite, but because of the different degrees of organization, different thinking concepts, and different management methods, the efficiency of doing things, and the mentality of coping with difficulties are manifested when crossing the river.
When crossing the river, several rows on the forest trail took a trip to the water, and the mammoths also lined up to drive down the water.
When an elephant swims, one of the strongest elephants will be in front of it, and the other elephants will climb behind the head one after another and swim forward in a line. The raft on the other side of the forest trail moved forward in sync with the swimming mammoth strings. Although there was a little commotion in the middle, both the man and the elephant reached the north safely. I also caught a few nets of fish by the way.
Bighorn deer can also swim, but they can't stay in formation.
After the Mao tribe drove them down the river, many of them prayed out of reverence for the river god before going down the river, and as a result, the deer had already swam away. They hurried up from behind, and in the middle of the river something attacked the bighorn deer, causing the bighorn deer to disperse even more. They tried to gather, but in a hurry one of them fell into the river. Everyone was in a hurry, but they didn't save anyone.
The river was not crossed, and the people of the Mao tribe were reduced by one first.
On the shore, some people on this side of the forest trail went out to guard, and some people dragged the raft ashore to hide, looking orderly.
But the people of the Mao tribe were still blaming each other about what had just happened, but a big bird rushed out of the shore and startled a deer, and everyone was busy catching the deer and letting their raft float away.
After going ashore, Bayang took the initiative to approach Lin Ji, but Lin Ji wanted to stay away from them.
It's a bunch of pig teammates.
He regretted a little that he had fooled Bayang out.
At the time, it was just an impulse, and I felt that if I fooled him out, he wouldn't mess around while he wasn't there. If he is so adventurous, he may lose a big enemy.
But from the current situation, it seems that this is equivalent to carrying a hornet's nest on your back. It will blow up the nest at any time, and it may even add a little mess to you at every turn. It's irresponsible for yourself and your teammates.
So, do you want to sink them all into the river while there are no outsiders now? Now the people of the Mao tribe know that their leader has gone out on an expedition, and they will definitely not find anyone dead for a while.
Whereas the Mao tribe is a loose tribe. As long as the baked sun doesn't appear for a year and a half, they may disperse. At that time, it will only be eaten away by Huaxia.
Lin Ji looked at the yellowing water of the Yellow River, and was quite moved.
Bayang still thought that Lin Ji was looking for the whereabouts of the person who fell into the water in the vast river, and he was slightly moved. Then he looked at the well-trained people around Lin Ji and asked, "How did you do this?" ”
Lin Ji said: "It's nothing, it's training, starting from words and deeds, and training every move." In the end, it was naturally forbidden. ”
For the prohibition of orders, Bayang has also seen it at the military parade of the ceremony. At the time, he didn't have any idea about that, he just thought the soldiers were doing something weird.
Now that he's been through this, he's finally seen what these things do.
"Can my people learn too?" Bayang asked with some hesitation.
"Yes." Lin Ji's eyes were retracted from the river, and he suddenly decided to postpone it a little and then sink the river. Because Bayang himself sent it to the door.
He was going to fool this guy in the next few months, or else Lin Ji would take him out to play.
"So, can you teach me? What am I going to exchange for? "Bayang's thinking is still clear. He knew that there were many good things in Huaxia, but they all had to be exchanged at a very high price.
Lin Ji patted Bayang's arm and said, "This is exactly what I want to tell you." Just now I wanted to ask you if you are going to follow me here, or if you are going to go on your own. If you want to go by yourself, you will go north for about ten days, and you should be in the grassland, where you can only tell the direction clearly, it doesn't matter how you run. It's up to your luck to see anything. ”
"If you want to follow me, then we're one. What I can see, you can see. What I can get, I naturally have you. But I can't put my tribe and my clan in crisis, and we're going to have to talk about it. You say, don't you? ”
"Yes." Bayang felt that Lin Ji was very reasonable.
"Are you going to come with us or do you want to go by yourself?"
"That's what I can learn by following you?" Naturally, Bayang wanted to follow the forest trails.
Humans have always had an instinctive fear of the unknown. Following the forest trail is undoubtedly equivalent to having an extra lighthouse around you. The sense of security is much more sufficient.
Moreover, if you follow the forest trails, you don't have to worry about supplies. Lin Rui never seemed to have to worry about supplies. The elephants carry enough weight, which also lightens their burden.
If you can still learn this, the fool will not follow the forest traces.
Lin Ji was also very satisfied with this answer, if Bayang chose to go by himself, Lin Ji would see him as choosing Shenhe. Since they chose to go together and gave Lin Ji a chance to flicker, then this sinking river may be delayed until the return trip, and the day of flickering failure.
But walking together is exactly going to solve two problems. One is to be their leader first. Second, let them understand the rules a little bit. This second point is exactly what Bayang wants to learn.
Lin Ji said: "If you follow us, we will be a team. There is only one wolf in a wolf pack, and there is only one elephant in an elephant pack. Therefore listen to me in all your actions. In this way, we can guarantee maximum safety in all situations. We are more disciplined in our actions, and we will let you start with these. ”
"Shall we try then?" Bayang was still not sure. Leaving the decision in the hands is obviously very difficult.
"In the beginning, we will train you in the habit of following orders, which is a bit hard, and you will be punished if you don't meet the requirements. It's not that the real warriors can't stand it, you're so unsure, I'm afraid you can't stand it. Lin Ji quickly entered the role, and at this time he had actually used the radical method.
Bayang thought of the scene of Lin Ji's military parade in the ceremony, guessed something, and said a little unconvinced: "We can do it too." ”
"Okay." Lin Ji nodded, and immediately said to Chen Li beside him: "Chen Li, take two people and train the people of the Mao tribe according to the third set of training standards." ”
The third set of training standards, which is to train savage miners. This set of standards only has simple commands, so that savages who do not understand the language can understand some basic action commands. Most of the people of the Mao tribe can't understand Ji Lin's words, and it is best to use them for training.
As for the difficulty, it is of course the least difficult of all the trainings. Lin Ji didn't want to teach good things.
The guards looked around and found no danger. It took half a day to cross the river, and both people and animals were already quite tired. Lin Ji decided to rest in place for a day and leave tomorrow.
Chen Li's training of the Mao tribe began at this time.
At first, it was a simple formation of military postures and counting numbers, but the result was these simple things, and the people of the Mao tribe did not learn them for hours. Because the requirements are not strict, Chen Li and others naturally do not urge.
After dinner, Lin Ji routinely told everyone something. Today we are talking about the Yellow River.
From the topography and soil structure of the Yellow River, he explained the reasons for the turbidity of the Yellow River's water quality, and at the same time analyzed the possible harm of the Yellow River in the future.
Because the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River are the Loess Plateau, the loess is prone to soil erosion, so the Yellow River has been flooded since ancient times. The history of later civilizations is almost also a history of fighting against the Yellow River.
Lin Ji took it out and said that he also hoped that people in this era would be aware of the role of protecting vegetation earlier, and not let the Yellow River recreate so many disasters.
After saying this, the people of the Mao tribe, who couldn't understand Lin Ji's words, had already fallen asleep. Bayang looked at Lin Ji with a green light in his eyes: "What you said is true?" ”
"Of course, what's wrong?"
"Such a river, the river ......" Bayang fell into a state of confusion, muttering to himself that he didn't know what he was talking about.
The flooding of the Yellow River had already been experienced once in his limited life. At that time, even his mother was helpless about it. All he had left was a reverence for the infinite mystery of the river.
But these, in the mouth of the forest trails, are only because the sediment has blocked the river.
And Lin Ji actually knows the reason for this......
Today, he followed the military posture of the school parade to report the number, and one of the people who was holding back was him. He was over thirty years old, and he didn't react as quickly as other young people.
When he saw Asayashi City, he made a promise that he would build such a city as well. In the nearly a year since he went back, he has also been working hard. As a result, up to now, countless amounts of food have been spent, and I haven't even figured out the slightest clue.
He had heard that cement was needed to build the city. Huaxia is also willing to exchange cement for them. And accidents can be exchanged for food. However, after he tried to build a wall with cement, he found that to build a city, he needed an endless supply of food.
- A few days ago, he was preparing to attack the forest with 5,000 men, and he was angry because of these failures. He followed the forest trail out, and there was also an element of evasion.
Now he heard Lin Ji talk about what he feared the most, and it made him suddenly feel like a mountain was looking up.
More than him? Defeat him? It's impossible, it's impossible in this life, right? So what to do?
This night, Bayang almost didn't sleep all night. The next morning, I practiced turning left and right, and the roasting sun was also left and right. Chen Li simply asked him to follow Lin Ji. Chen Li can't teach this goods, Lin Ji will do it himself.
On this day, it began to move northward, and the speed was still not fast, it was a pattern of someone exploring the way in front and a large team following behind. After walking for a few days in a row, Bayang was in a state of insolence.
After 200 kilometers to the north of the Yellow River, the scene changes again. It's still a wilderness, but the trees are sparse and the meadows are plentiful. It looks like an African savanna.
At this time, the grass and trees begin to sprout, and the eyes are full of green, and the occasional wildflower dots the scenery.
Herds of cattle, sheep, elephants, tigers and lions can often be seen here, and tall ostriches can be seen here. However, the ostriches here also have thick feathers around their necks, which are obviously different from the African ostriches of later generations.
These ostriches have also begun to be afraid of people, but under the bow and arrow of Huaxia, they can still easily hunt one. Let Lin Ji take a closer look and taste it.
Seeing these things, Bayang's spirit recovered a little.
On this day, everyone entered a dense grove. The small bush is more than three meters high, full of young leaves with new sprouts, just under the feet of the elephant riders, making people feel like walking in the sea of tender green, which is very beautiful.
Both bighorn deer and mammoths are greedy for the young leaves of small trees and are reluctant to walk quickly. Xiaobai opened the way with a big knife in front, and also grabbed two handfuls of young leaves from time to time and stuffed them into his mouth.
Because this scenery is rare, everyone is naturally happy to see more. The people of the Mao tribe who rode the deer also gave up the deer from time to time, and strung them on the back of the elephant to look around. The mentality is also extremely relaxed.
"Enemy attack!" Chen Li, who had been paying attention to his surroundings, suddenly shouted and began to raise his bow and look around.
The crowd also drew their weapons and prepared for battle. It's just that there is no wave in the green, where is the shadow of half an enemy?
Everyone was about to blame Chen Li for being too nervous, but Chen Li pointed to the sky and told everyone that there was something wrong with the trajectory of the ghost eagle.
The ghost eagle in the sky made a small circle above everyone's heads, and swooped from time to time, apparently in the posture that the enemy was nearby.
But where is the enemy?
Lin Ji chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Battle formation, be careful under the tree!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a strange cry of "do-do" from the surrounding bushes, and something struck out like lightning in the bushes, hitting people and beasts.
"It's a bird!"
"Ostrich!"
"Not an ostrich!"
"My ears!"
There was confusion in the ranks.
At this time, the people of the Mao tribe fought bravely and fought separately. The Chinese people quickly gathered around the forest trails, rode elephants to break through the small trees, and formed a battle formation.
The people of the Mao tribe are all elites, and each of them uses a variety of metal weapons exchanged from Huaxia. As soon as they fought, they split the branches of the trees around them, so that the enemy did not dare to get close.
However, they fought on their own, with little cooperation, and many people were still injured under the attack.
On the forest trail side, as soon as the twenty-headed elephants formed a battle group, the enemy did not attack this side at all.
Lin Rui looked into the gap cut by the people of the Mao tribe, and found that the enemy was not a human, but a large bird as tall as an ostrich, but with a head as big as a bucket and a beak like a hook.
"What the hell is this?"