Chapter 57: Wolf Pack Crisis
After the tribes were regrouped, the bark led a team with two firsts. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The deer rider defended his first place with a desperate spirit in several boxing and kick competitions, and also led a team. His team also had a throwing champion, but the man thought he was inferior to the deer rider and gave up the captain.
The third team has Qiao and Potato Blossom, two of the tribe's most outstanding women. The captain is Qiao's husband. When grouping, the men draw lots, and the women follow their husbands into the group. So as not to have an awkward situation where your own woman follows others. With the help of Qiao and Ling, Qiao's husband chose the straightest arrow shaft and tied the arrow feathers with the most symmetrical technique, and as a result, in the archery competition, he won the first place with three targets out of ten arrows.
In Wang Chuan's opinion, thirty meters away, only three out of ten arrows hit a target half a meter wide, there is really no value worth giving a captain, and strong bulls can shoot at this level. But the people of the tribe have just started to use bows and arrows, so there is no need to choose. And it just so happens that this woman is here, and this captain is not useless.
The fourth group so far a first did not. But they have one of the best captains, and that is Bihu. Because there is no captain, and Kuan has begun to be familiar with the matter of striking iron, so he has to be temporarily replaced by Bihu.
After grouping in this way, considering all aspects, the strength of the four groups is not much different.
Wang Chuan rode a baby elephant and pulled a strong ox, followed everyone to the river, first sent people to the river to look at the thickness of the ice, and found that there was no problem walking on the ice, so everyone crossed the river and entered the mountain forest according to the direction roughly divided between east and west.
Wang Chuan did not follow Bihu this time, but followed the bark. Constant dependence on the tiger will lead to dependence, and the bark also needs more observation and communication in order to cultivate.
The bark group travels east along the river and into the eastern area for hunting. The baby elephant walks on the ice without slipping on the soles of its feet, and runs happily on the ice by the river with a sled. The people trotted and followed, and soon they came to a valley, along which they went deep into the forest.
The mountains and forests after the snow are full of ice, and the snow is thick. These places are untrodden, and dead vines and old trees grow in disorder, making it difficult for people to walk. Everyone walked through the snow to find and slowly went deeper.
After walking out of the road for a while, they encountered a large dense bamboo forest, and Wang Chuan and Zhuangniu were ready not to leave. I asked them for a shovel and was going to dig up some bamboo shoots and feed them to the baby elephants or take them back to eat. I haven't taken vitamins for too long in winter, and my fingers are barbed. The number of bamboos at the entrance of the cave is really limited and has many uses, so Wang Chuan is not willing to dig bamboo shoots.
Generally speaking, the place where everyone walked has been checked once, and there is no danger, and this is how the women of the tribe go out and follow the men to collect. Bark was afraid that the two would have an accident, so he left a woman to help dig bamboo shoots and act as a guard.
Picking up the ice and snow, there is relatively loose humus underneath, and the bamboo shoots are generally slightly below the humus layer, so it is not difficult to excavate. I dug a few for the baby elephants to taste, and then put the rest on the sleigh with a rope net and waited to be pulled back. There are many people in the tribe, and if you don't bring more, you won't have enough to eat.
The three had a shovel, a stone spear and a dagger. The woman used a shovel to dig alone, and Wang Chuan and Zhuangniu cooperated with a stone spear and dagger to play digging together, and the speed was not slow. It didn't take long for a dozen to dig out. The baby elephant stood next to it and stole its mouth from time to time, and Wang Chuan didn't see it, so he ate it casually.
After a while, the half-eaten baby elephant began to feel uneasy, and the half-chewed bamboo shoots fell to the ground, hiding behind Wang Chuan with panic.
This idiot is very timid at the slightest breeze, but Wang Chuan thought of what Bihu said when he went out that there were wolves around the tribe, so he immediately stopped and pulled the sleigh to retreat to a dense clump of bamboo.
Beckoning the woman and the bull to come near him, he began to look around. The mountains and forests in the snow were white, and he couldn't see anything, but a faint whimper in the wind confirmed his guess.
"There are wolves, maybe more than one." Wang Chuan reminded.
As soon as the words were spoken, several large gray-and-white wolves emerged from the surrounding woods and surrounded them.
Wang Chuan was a little strange, there should only be a group of wolves in such a small place around, could it be that these guys still followed them, and then picked on them when they were alone?
The baby elephant can't be counted on. If they tried to escape, it was impossible for a few people to escape the four-legged wolf.
"Strong oxen, upside down sleds, pull nets." Wang Chuan commanded.
Wang Chuan himself quickly broke off a thin bamboo, broke off the bamboo leaves, and quickly tied the dagger to it. He has a hemp rope tied to the handle of his dagger, which is usually non-slip, and at such times he can tie it to a stick and use it as a spearhead.
The nerves of women in this era were much thicker than those of later generations, and when they saw the wolves coming around, they didn't know how to be afraid, and they helped the strong ox to erect the sleigh upside down, and tied the net to the sleigh and the bamboo behind it, forming a two-meter-high net fence. They took two nets, put the sleigh in the middle, and pulled one on each side, and surrounded them.
The woman said: "There are so many wolves, I'm afraid we can't deal with them, and seeing that they don't have enough to eat, they won't go on their own, so let's call the men back, right?" ”
"What do you want to call it?" The bull stuck his stone spear in the ground and began to draw arrows with his bow. His fighting attributes began to explode, and now he was thinking about how to fight to the death.
"Why don't I call it?" The woman hesitated.
Not long after they separated from the group, the team walked through the snow again, and now it certainly didn't go far. But you can't hear it when you shout with your mouth. If you want to run out, it's one thing to outrun the wolf, and it's another thing whether the people who stay behind can hold on.
Wang Chuan said: "Let's not move yet. Bulls, you wait until they get close before you shoot arrows. Auntie, you take a shovel, and if they pounce on them, you hit them with a shovel. Just be careful not to cut through the net. Leave it to me to call people. ”
"How can you go?" The woman felt that it was inappropriate. Wang Chuan might as well go by herself. If he had an accident, he might die if he returned to the tribe. Grandma's attention to him is obvious to everyone.
"Why don't I go?" Zhuang Niu felt that he was running faster than Wang Chuan.
As he spoke, the wolf leaned over. If you want to go now, I'm afraid you'll have to fight your way out. The woman knew that Wang Chuan was capable, but after all, she was a child, how could she be able to fight these fierce wolves? When she was ready for Wang Chuan to rush out, she also rushed out together, and fought with these wolves, it was a great death, and she also ran with them these days, maybe she could cut down one or two wolves and let Wang Chuan escape?
"Don't panic, everyone, I'm not going out." Wang Chuan comforted everyone, and also comforted the baby elephant. He was afraid that the baby elephant would panic when he saw the wolf, so he asked it to turn around and face the bamboo forest.
"Strong Bull, pay attention." Wang Chuan commanded first, and muttered: "Idiot, you have suffered." Then he stabbed the baby elephant in the buttocks.
High-spirited! The baby elephant jumped up and screamed loudly and violently.
Wang Chuan hugged the baby elephant's head hard, so that it did not run wildly. But tears were already welling up in the baby elephant's eyes. Wang Chuan comforted for a while, let go of his hand, and stabbed it on the ass again.
The baby elephant's heart must have been broken, and this time it did not jump, but kept screaming.
The cry of a human can't be heard far, but the cry of a baby elephant should be able to travel a lot of distance. When the tribesmen heard the continuous cries of the baby elephants, they would definitely be alert and rush back. Now it's up to us to see if we can survive that time in the wolves.