Chapter 047: Pre-War Preparations
An unsuccessful sneak attack resulted in one member of the clan being wounded in battle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info But because of the panic, the number of people who were burned by the soup reached five.
The location of Wang Village has been exposed, and the patriarch said that the people of Liu Village will report their losses, and they will definitely dispatch a large army to find the field after suffering a loss this time. Moreover, for the first time, the iron weapon was exposed to the rest of the villages, and with the greed of the patriarch of Liu Village, this kind of divine weapon had to be controlled in his hands no matter what.
After counting, the food in the clan is sufficient, not to mention the meat of the giant bear, the fish caught during this time alone is enough for the clan to eat for a long time. After the discussion between Wang Hao and the patriarch. The work of the clansmen has undergone a realignment.
The weapons of the clan are counted.
One eight-ox crossbow and three crossbow arrows of pure iron.
There are twenty-five black iron swords, and basically all adult strong men have one in their hands.
There are forty strong bows of red sandalwood, and after testing, a total of seventy-five people in the clan can draw strong bows, of which forty-six are women and children.
The newly made feathered arrows are piled up in an entire thatched hut, which is enough for the next training and the battle that will begin at some point.
Twenty axes, which will also be the weapons of the people when necessary.
There are also a large number of short swords, wooden spears and stone axes.
Judging by the ratio of weapons of the clansmen, the current clansmen are basically armed to the teeth.
Wang Hao plans to make thirty more strong bows in the next three days, and strive for everyone in the clan who can pull out the strong bow, regardless of gender.
Marching in the wilderness is not the same as on Earth, as there are often emergencies, so the team will walk very slowly. According to the patriarch's estimate, it will take at least four days to wait for Liu Niao and the others to return to the village, and then dispatch troops and supply food to attack the village.
In the past four days, both men and women in the clan, as well as young and old, have been arranged by Wang Hao to prepare for the defense of the village.
On the beach by the river, ten straw figures made of thatch were neatly arranged. Those of the tribe who were able to draw their bows and arrows were divided into two teams of thirty men each. In the morning, the 1st Brigade practiced archery by the river, and in the afternoon, it was replaced by the 2nd Brigade.
The other fifteen people are clansmen like Wang Hao and Wang Hu who have already mastered their archery skills and don't need to do more practice.
The children of the Great Wilderness are very precocious, even if they are just ten years old, they can do a lot of things. Several children took the place of Wang Ba and their work, taking turns adding firewood to the brick kiln. Wang Hao promised them that after this war, each of them would be able to get a small bow and arrow.
After the tribesmen had finished practicing their bows and arrows, they had to go to the forest to cut down wood with their sour arms.
There is a large river to the north of the village, so there is no need to worry about the enemy attacking from that direction. But to the east is a forest, and to the west and south are plains, and if the enemy comes, there is no danger in these directions.
Since there is no risk, let's make it artificially.
The front of the stout wood was sharpened, and then the triangular fence was tied with tough vines, and then arranged in three rows on the side facing the forest. This kind of thing is called a horse rejection on earth, but it is also very good to use it to reject people. If the enemy wants to attack from the other side of the forest, he will inevitably be slowed down by the three consecutive rejections.
At a distance of less than 100 meters, the clansmen can leisurely teach them how to behave with bows and arrows.
After experiments, Wang Hu led twenty clansmen to run a distance of about 100 meters on the Great Wilderness. After mental arithmetic, Wang Hao estimated that they shared twenty-five seconds. If you run this far alone, it only takes 10 seconds.
But when Wang Hu and his people ran from the other side of the forest towards the village where they had been stopped by the rejected horses, it took them five minutes to reach the village at the last of them. This is still a situation where no one is harassing with bows and arrows.
To the west of the village, the thatch, which was more than half a man's height, had been cut out for three hundred meters. The thatch was not cut by the roots, but left a stalk of about 20 centimeters on the ground. These grass stalks are just enough to cover a person's feet, but they don't interfere with the view of the people in the village.
In the middle of these grass stems, there are some arrowwood with sharpened heads. The arrowwood was inserted fifty centimeters into the ground, and only the sharpened arrows that had been sharpened and baked with fire were exposed to the ground.
For the sake of these traps made of arrowwood, all the pregnant women in the village have been blistered on their hands for the past few days. The blood blisters on the hands were not caused by sharpening arrowheads, but by inserting arrows into the ground one by one.
The people in the Great Wilderness do not wear shoes in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and Wang Hao believes that if the people of Liu Village attack from this side, it will be impossible for them to attack until they have cleared a feasible road.
He had tried for himself, and it would take at least fifteen minutes to walk through the dense array of arrows to the village without being injured, and this was without the slightest disturbance as he watched his feet intently.
The clansmen could imagine that if the people of Liu Village attacked from this side, then they would become the best targets. And it's the kind of target that doesn't have the ability to dodge.
And directly south of the village, under a canopy, there are five eight-ox crossbows.
There were only three crossbow arrows of pure iron, but Wang Hao found an item that could be replaced, and that was ironwood.
Ironwood is the hardest and heaviest wood in the wilderness, and in the past, if the tribesmen wanted a weapon made of ironwood, they often needed to polish it for a week. But when food was scarce, what tribe could spare a surplus of men for a week not to run around for food but only to craft weapons?
Now that there were axes and planers, and food was plentiful, the iron trees were cut down in the sweat of the people, and then the four of them fought them back to the village, where they were made into crossbow arrows day and night.
After testing, this crossbow bolt is not as stable as the pure iron crossbow arrow produced by the system, and the irregular protrusions on the ironwood cause the shaft to flutter violently during high-speed firing. Within three or four hundred meters, the shaft of the arrow will move straight in the direction of the target. However, once this distance is exceeded, the shaft may spin or move sideways.
In the first experiment, the crossbow bolt flew 300 meters and then moved sideways, and as a result, it swept nearly 40 meters of grass.
It's a pity that this situation is uncontrollable, basically ten test launches, only three or four of them will appear. Otherwise, it is also a good choice to use an eight-ox crossbow to mow the grass.
The first bricks and clay pots have already been kilned. The bricks were stacked into two stacks and placed there. After careful consideration, Wang Hao decided that the first batch of bricks would be used to make warehouses.
Not only the storage of salt and bacon, but also the storage of the eight bull crossbows. Because the eight-ox crossbow is pure wood, and the bowstring is systematically made of animal fur, it is not suitable for moisture.
According to the description of the system, the eight-ox crossbow produced by the system, if properly maintained, will have a three-year service life.
If it is not properly maintained, let it rain a few times, I am afraid that it will be scrapped after three months.
The Eight Ox Crossbow is the most powerful cold weapon that can be crafted by the current Level 2 system. It is also the only thing that the clansmen can compete with the high-level creatures in the Great Wilderness, and this important thing can't be kept under the canopy all the time.
After the first furnace of bricks out of the kiln, the cave must be cooled for a day before people can go in to take the bricks, in order to make the picture simple, Wang Hao they dig the kind of simplest single-entry kiln that can only burn a batch of bricks at a time, not the kind of three-entry kiln that can be fired in cycles.
By the afternoon of the third day, the brick kiln had started fire again, but this time it was not bricks or pottery, but limestone that the tribesmen had brought back from the mountains across the river on improvised rafts.
When there is no cement, if you want to build a brick house firmly, you can only use lime mortar. And if you want to get a large amount of lime, you can only rely on the tribesmen to burn it themselves.
Six rafts were made, and each raft could transport more than a dozen people, and if the people of Liu Village invaded, these rafts would be the last retreat of the clansmen.
Every night after eating, Wang Hao would take his clansmen to rehearse the assembly and retreat twice. A simple flag made of animal skins has not left Wang Hao's body for a moment since the next day.
In the battle, a person's voice is not heard clearly at all, and if you want to convey the message in the battle, when the horn is not made, you can only rely on the flag.