A few days passed in a flash, and Hou Yi really lived up to Lin Yuan's expectations, although he was a little boy, he did have a very unique research on slingshots.

Hou Yi has already led the hunters to cut down a large amount of white beech wood and brought it back, but among these woods, there are only a few that can really be made into bows and arrows, and the shape, age and so on limit the range of use.

Of the large piles of wood, only a small part of the material was singled out, and most of the rest was thrown into the fire pit to be used as fuel.

During this time, Lin Yuan has not intervened with Hou Yi and his workers, on the one hand, because Lin Yuan himself really doesn't know much about making bows, he only knows the general shape, but when it comes to what size and shape is best, Lin Yuan himself can't say clearly.

On the other hand, Lin Yuan also wanted to take this opportunity to see how talented Hou Yi really was, he always remembered that there is an old saying in the 21st century: "There is no all-round leader, only an all-round team." ”

Hou Yi really lived up to Lin Yuan's expectations.

A week later, Hou Yi found Lin Yuan with the completed work, a smile full of joy on the face of an honest child.

"Look! It's done! ”

Lin Yuan smiled and took Hou Yi's work, it was a short bow slightly smaller than the longbow, about half the size of the longbow, although the size was small, but it was heavy in his hand.

"Grinding, tying tendons, it's all done by the worker's uncle sent by Chief Anna, I just came up with an idea."

Hou Yi modestly explained the work:

"I originally wanted to follow the slingshot method, but later I found out that if you follow your drawing, like this, the tendon is stretched on the branch, and the rebound force will be greater."

Lin Yuan nodded with a smile and said:

"Good, good! That's what I want it to be. ”

Hou Yi shook his head, sighed and said:

"But, Lord Yan, although this bow is more powerful than a slingshot, it is not easy to use at all."

"Why?" Lin Yuan asked curiously.

The little boy didn't speak, took the short bow in Lin Yuan's hand, picked up a stone on the ground casually, stretched it on the string of the arrow, pulled the bow hard, let go, and the stone flew out quickly, but it kept spinning in the air, and finally flew into the charcoal ash by the fire pit, splashing a burst of white ash.

"You see, this bow is too thin for the stone to control, so I want to add a skin bag in the middle of the place, just like a slingshot, so that the stone can control the direction, do you think it's okay?"

Hou Yi asked with a serious face.

Lin Yuan smiled, this little boy is indeed good, he found the problem and did not let it go, but would try to find a solution.

"Haha, who told you that the bow should be attacked with stones?" Lin Yuan said as he took out an arrow from behind him, which he had figured out by himself in the past few days.

Compared with the production of bows, which depends more on experience and feel, the invention and production of arrows is much simpler.

During this time, Lin Yuan took the time to find some straight and light branches, and after simply cutting them with a stone dagger, he added a few wild duck feathers to one section and a sharpened stone chip to the other section to form a simple arrow.

Hou Yi looked at the arrow in Lin Yuan's hand, his eyes widening.

"Go, take it and try it." Lin Yuan smiled and handed the arrow to Hou Yi.

I saw Hou Yi decisively take the stone arrow, put the arrow on the bow, aim at it, and launch it.

"Whoosh", Lin Yuan didn't see the trajectory of the arrow, only heard a clang, the hare that was grilling on the fire disappeared, and then there was a scream from the tent opposite the fire, and a primitive woman ran out in horror and pointed to the inside of the tent.

The hare that had been roasted was nailed to the beam of the tent by the arrows made by Lin Yuan.

"Ahh Hou Yi himself was also taken aback by the power of the bow and arrow in his hand, and he looked at the short bow in his hand in surprise.

A short bow with powerful explosive power, coupled with arrows that can stabilize the flight trajectory, is a match made in heaven, bursting out with unparalleled attack power.

According to the principle that the smaller the area, the greater the pressure, the small tip of the arrow, the moment it collides with the target, the penetrating power that bursts out is enough to set off a weapon revolution in this primitive world.

"Good, good!"

Lin Yuan stood up happily, the arrow he researched by himself was not expected to be quite successful.

"Blade! Anna! ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly summoned two capable generals to come over.

"Blade, order your hunters, in the process of daily hunting, try to search for this white beech wood, and then shoot out some more large prey, I want their tendons!"

"Yes!" The blade leader replied.

"Anna, I need you to arrange some people as much as possible to be responsible for making this short bow in large quantities, yes, just make it according to Hou Yi's design, and arrows, do it like this."

Lin Yuan handed the short bow and arrows in his hand to Anna, who nodded and said:

"Okay, though...... Recently, we have been a little short of manpower, and if we want to send people to do this, it may be that the project of planting wild fruits by the river will be delayed for a while, and in addition, the last time you proposed, digging a trench and driving wooden stakes, and building a fence, we may also need manpower. ”

Lin Yuan nodded, there are really a lot of projects that have started recently, and he has become accustomed to handing over personnel management to Anna, and he has not studied the personnel arrangements in detail.

"Isn't there a group of injured people who have recovered recently, and it should be able to replenish a lot of workers, right?" Lin Yuan asked.

"Yes, as of this morning, a total of 34 people have recovered, but nine of them are children, and the next 25 people who are able to work are far from enough to increase the number of people required for the project......"

"Hmm......" Lin Yuan thought for a moment, then ordered:

"That's it, because from the sprouting wild fruits, they are basically arbors, and it will take at least several years before they grow up and harvest the fruits, which is a waste of time, so let's put a hold on to the riverside planting and send people to make this bow and arrow, which we need very much now, whether it is hunting or guarding against possible cannibals. The matter of building the fence is also important, so it cannot be stopped, and these two are our key projects at present. ”

Anna nodded in understanding, and turned to leave.

Looking at Anna's pretty back, Lin Yuan shook his head, since the last time he chatted by the river, he had never been alone with Anna, although he could also feel that this former urban white-collar beauty had a very obvious impression of him, but both of them seemed to have a tacit understanding to avoid talking about it.

Because now is the time when the crisis is lurking, although many primitive people do not think so, but as the leader, Lin Yuan, he knows that he must not take it lightly at this time, the growing population needs a lot of food, and the prey around is constantly decreasing, and the cannibals who have never reappeared, Lin Yuan has to worry about the crisis that may break out at any time.

Therefore, on the other hand, the private relationship of children is the last thing Lin Yuan needs to consider at this juncture.

Maybe Anna also understands the key point of this, since the last long talk, she has also devoted herself to her work, and there is no abnormal behavior.

That's probably a good thing, for the whole tribe.

Lin Yuan comforted in his heart.

"Lord Yanwang...... I...... Responsible for what? ”

An immature child's voice pulled Lin Yuan back to reality.

Hou Yi was still standing in place, waiting for Lin Yuan's order.

Lin Yuan smiled and signaled, he called Qiao Jing and said:

"Qiao Jing, are you ready for what I told you before?"

Qiao Jing smiled mischievously and said:

"Ann ...... Lord Yanwang...... It has been arranged a long time ago, a total of 43 children, waiting for your dispatch at any time, hehehe......"

After speaking, Qiao Jing made an exaggerated bowing motion, playful and cute.

Lin Yuan smiled angrily, this little girl has always been so naughty, I really don't know if it will be better when she grows up.

The thought that he was going to live with this little girl for thousands of years made his head ......

"Hmm...... Very good," Lin Yuan pretended to be serious and said, "Hou Yi, I will give you a task, from now on, you will be responsible for training the young people of the tribe and training them to be sharpshooters like you, understand?" ”

It took Hou Yi a while to figure out the meaning of the word marksman, and immediately jumped happily and said:

"Understood! Got it! ”

Lin Yuan nodded comfortably, if he could really build a team of archers, he might really be able to use the cards in the future.

He waved his hand for everyone to leave, and then he fell back into deep thought.

He is also making some necessary long-term plans for the Yan tribe......

……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed since the Yan people were stationed in the cave by the river.

In the past month or so, Lin Yuan further consolidated the control of the tribe, taking the opportunity of punishing the old witch of the black clan for fake witchcraft last time, Lin Yuan completely banned all kinds of strange beliefs in the tribe and replaced them with the only Vulcan faith, thus making the spiritual beliefs of the tribe unprecedentedly united.

At the same time, under Lin Yuan's arrangement, the Yan tribe built a strong wall along the surrounding area of the cave where they lived, and also dug a trench around the perimeter of the wall, which was connected to the nearby small river, attracting water and forming a small moat.

And the total number of people in the tribe also increased by 1, it turned out that there was a pregnant woman among the captives at that time, and everyone didn't find out before, until one night, the cry of the newborn child woke everyone up, and at the request of the primitive mother, Lin Yuan named the child, called Chu, which means the first child of the Yan tribe.

Most of the prisoners who had been wounded had also recovered basically, and the working population of the tribe had been further enriched and its strength was much stronger than before.

The only problem left is food.

Although Lin Yuan had already equipped the hunters with the newly produced short bows, perhaps because the skills needed to be improved, or perhaps because the number of prey in the vicinity was too small, the prey brought back by the hunters was getting smaller and smaller day by day.

Lin Yuan realized that if he only relied on hunting and picking wild fruits, the tribe was destined to get no big development, without stable food support, in the long run, it would be difficult for the tribe population to achieve a large increase, and in the end, in order to compete for prey, the Yan tribe would sooner or later join the tribal dispute over food.

Therefore, obtaining a stable source of food has become the most important thing for Lin Yuan recently.

The wild boar caught before has given birth to 7 piglets, Lin Yuan arranged for personnel to feed them carefully, but Lin Yuan knew in his heart that if he wanted to successfully cultivate domestic pigs, it would not be an overnight thing, at present, catching a live male wild boar as soon as possible is the most important task, with a boar, you can expect them to successfully mate and reproduce.

Livestock domestication is also an industry that is difficult to harvest in the short term, Lin Yuan's thoughts turned around, and finally he had to turn his attention to the traditional planting industry.

The most stable and easy source of food is actually the cultivation of food crops, which is what modern people often call "farming", Lin Yuan used to be a farmer's child, he will definitely farm, but the most difficult thing is to find seeds, to know how low the probability of finding wild wheat or wild rice is in this world without planting...... Sometimes, Lin Yuan had been wondering how the ancient people had found the seeds, and finding edible plants from the weeds all over the mountains was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Therefore, so far, Lin Yuan only has the wild fruit seeds that have been preserved before, and the wild fruit planting industry has actually been declared a failure, judging from the results of the experimental fields that Lin Yuan has reclaimed before, most of these wild fruit seeds currently mastered are arboraceae, that is, they are the fruits of the tree, if you want to grow from saplings to fruit trees, it will take at least many years, and even if you can pick them, wild fruits cannot be used as long-term edible food.

For this reason, Lin Yuan held many meetings with Qiao Jing and Anna to discuss and study the types of food crops they knew, and drew a rough appearance on the animal skin, and handed it over to the hunters to go out to look for, but maybe it was because the appearance of the plants in ancient times was different from the details of modern times, or maybe the original grain plants were originally very scarce, anyway, after so long, the hunters still found nothing.

Just when Lin Yuan was planning for the long-term development of the tribe such as food, an unexpected accident suddenly struck, completely disrupting Lin Yuan's plan.