Chapter 104: A Car Is Needed
After settling these people, Wang Lang called the three women of the forest leaf worm and asked about the production of weapons.
The three of them took Wang Lang to the shed where the wood was drying, and said, "All the weapons made are here." ”
Wang Lang looked at the bundles of wooden spears on the ground, and randomly took out a few to check, although the sharpened spearhead was not as sharp as metal, it was still possible to use it to kill, took out one, and stabbed it twice at will, it was not as easy to use as a metal spear, shook his head slightly, and put down the wooden spear.
Picked up and put aside the arrows and looked at them, these arrows made of bone were firmly fixed to the shaft of the arrow, and the flat bones were polished very smooth, slender and triangular, which looked very lethal.
With these weapons, you can arm the adult men of the tribe, and with the advantage of location, even if the other party sends several times more people than you, it is still no problem to defend the city.
If the other party only sent a small number of men to come, Wang Lang would not mind fighting with them in a field formation, with the advantage of equipment, compared with the soldiers trained in a simple array and the undisciplined primitives, the advantage was undoubtedly huge.
After putting the weapons back in their place, and complimenting the three women, he walked alone to the high platform, where he could calm down, and sat cross-legged on the dirt slope, looking at the vast earth in front of him with deep eyes, and he wanted to think about the way forward.
Lin Huo and they all knew that when Wang Lang was thinking, they tried not to disturb him and restrain their subordinates from making loud noises.
Now the tribe except for the women and children and those old people, the number of people who can fight is about forty people, Wang Lang held his forehead, thinking about how to reasonably distribute these people.
The increase in population has made the current tribal resources strained, and Wang Lang decided that most of the corn received this season must be set aside as seeds, and the problem of food shortage can only be obtained through constant hunting, as long as it survives this March, food will no longer be difficult.
The copper mine in the east still has to be mined by some people in the past, and with the giant deer as the transportation capacity, Wang Lang estimates that it should be enough to mine once and go back and forth for three days.
But just use deer to carry goods back and forth, this efficiency is too low, the best choice is to use vehicles to transport, but building a car is a very troublesome thing, before coming to this world, I haven't even seen a carriage with my own eyes, just saw the kind of wooden carriage in the TV series, want to create a carriage with this information, Wang Lang felt a headache.
The importance of the vehicle is undoubted, if the car is not built, the future tribe can only be built along the river, even if the future to the west is conquest, there is no vehicle to transport grain and grass, the army may not need to be fought by the enemy, they will starve to death on the road, for the future development of the tribe, Wang Lang feels that the vehicle must be built.
It's just that Wang Lang's impression of ancient vehicles is that of the kind of fancy cars that often appear on TV, and the kind of wheels with spokes are very complicated to look at.
Drawing a wheel on the ground with a branch, he shook his head helplessly, this kind of complex splicing wheel with the current level of productivity, even if it is to be built, it will take a lot of time, but can those tribes in the west give themselves so much time.
Smoothing out the pattern drawn on the ground, the wheels with spokes are not easy to make, Wang Lang had to retreat, he thought, since the wheels are round, then find a thick tree, directly sawn into a disc, dig a hole in the middle, plug in the axle should be able to make a simple vehicle.
Thinking of the shape of the wheel, Wang Lang stepped off the high platform, he planned to build a simple model of the vehicle, the model was relatively simple, found a wooden stick with the thickness of a small arm, sawed out two similar discs with a saw, made a hole in the middle of the small wheel with a copper nail, and found a wooden stick with the thickness of a finger to connect the two wheels together.
Wang Lang took this simple model and pushed it twice on the ground, he originally thought that the ancient vehicle was a wheel that did not rotate the axle, but when he held the axle and pushed forward, he found that the wheel could not rotate at all, but only slid on the ground.
Scratching his hair in distress, this question was something he didn't expect, he touched his chin and thought carefully for a while, and gently pushed the wheels, and the two wheels rolled forward with the axles for a while.
Looking at the simple model in front of him, Wang Lang frowned, found a wooden stick and used a dagger to carve a groove about the same size as the arc of the axle.
Buckle the wood on the groove, pull it gently, and the wheel slowly rolls forward, although some of the rolling is not smooth, Wang Lang estimates that the groove is not too smooth, and wants to understand the truth, he smiled unconsciously, and secretly said that he is really a genius.
After understanding the principle, the next thing is much simpler, Wang Lang did not continue to do this model, after the rotation problem is solved, the part of the carriage is not difficult.
After resting for a day, the next day, Wang Lang asked Lin Huo to take people to the grassland tribe to transport grain, the tribe's food can only last for three days, in order to solve the food crisis, Wang Lang and the bark of the three of them, after the forest fire left, began a crazy hunt, dozens of adult males, under the leadership of the four people, organized and premeditated slaughter of animals near the tribe.
For a time, the animals within a radius of more than ten miles could be said to have suffered a catastrophe, and under this efficient slaughter, whether it was a ferocious beast or a herd of herbivores, they all became corpses carried on everyone's shoulders.
Once upon a time, the humans on the grassland, when they saw the beasts, they all turned around and fled, but now, they are like a mess of mud, stabbed to death by themselves with wooden spears, the strong smell of blood, completely stimulated the beast nature in people's hearts, including Wang Lang, frantically killed the animals they saw, and almost cleaned up the beasts of this generation in two days, and this area almost became a dead place in a short time.
In the tribe, the captured prey was skinned and deboned, and a large number of clay pots were made, and the meat was salted.
Looking at the piles of skins like a hill, and the thick fishy smell wafting in the air, people realized how crazy they had been in the past two days, but they would not pity these animals killed by themselves in their hearts, in their eyes these are symbols of their own courage, these dead animals are the motivation for their own survival, sympathy and pity in this era of scarcity of materials is a very luxurious and stupid thing.
With so much meat and corn, within a month, Wang Lang felt that there was no need to worry about food.