Chapter 14 Strategic Shifts
In the blink of an eye, 7 days passed quickly, every day, Lin Yuan repeated the schedule of the previous day, sending hunters into the mountains to hunt, Anna took the women to pick wild fruits nearby, Qiao Jing took the children to tell stories and paint, and Lin Yuan was holding a roll of animal skins, stained with ink made of wild boar blood mixed with sludge, drawing a map of the neighborhood bit by bit.
Every day, the blade would expand its reconnaissance range by 300 steps compared to the previous day, and every day a new geographical discovery would be brought back, and then Lin Yuan would enrich the animal skin in his hand.
Until his map has been drawn to the limit of what the blade can detect, if he asks the blade to expand the scope of reconnaissance, I am afraid that he will not be able to return to the camp on the same day, Lin Yuan decisively decided to stop the blade's reconnaissance activities, in case there is any accident, once the blade is lost, then such a loss is something Lin Yuan cannot bear.
During these seven days, the 11 hunter squads would bring back some prey every day, although the number was not much, but it was barely enough to feed the tribesmen, and with the wild fruits that Anna brought back, they would not starve again.
As for the female wild boar that was brought back, she also successfully came back to life, wild boar is such a thing, the vitality is really tenacious, from the first few days, can only lie on the low humming to ask for wild fruits to eat, to now can actually go around in the fence, several times almost hit the primitive people to order the stake.
It seems that the first step of the livestock domestication program has been quite successful.
But on the other hand, as there were fewer and fewer prey around, Lin Yuan found that when the hunters came back, the probability of being empty-handed was getting higher and higher, and it seemed that it was time to leave.
Lin Yuan once again confirmed the map he had drawn, on which he had mapped out a route towards the cave, and yesterday, he had let Blade run on foot again to make sure that there was nothing dangerous along the way.
When you move with the whole clan, you must ensure that nothing goes wrong.
This is the basic requirement that Lin Yuan set for himself.
During the day today, he did not send the hunters out, nor did he assign work to Anna and Qiao Jing, he simply issued the order to relocate, and everyone had no objections.
As early as in the past few days of contact, Lin Yuan's outstanding leadership skills not only convinced the primitives, but also made Anna and Qiao Jing, the two traversers, obey their words.
Therefore, regarding the matter of migrating to the ruins of another tribe and a cave, everyone obeyed Lin Yuan's arrangement very obediently.
Lin Yuan divided the hunters into three teams, one team led the way in front, one team was behind the last hall, and the other team patrolled back and forth in the flow of people in case of a possible surprise attack.
At the same time, Lin Yuan asked everyone to take away all the tools, including stone spears, stone axes, animal skins, broken hemp ropes, and various objects. The female boar was also tied with a large mouth, a collar around her neck, and her limbs wrapped with hemp rope to ensure that she could only walk slowly and could not run.
As for those flints, Lin Yuan carefully hid them in his close-fitting clothes.
Just as the team was about to set off, Lin Yuan suddenly remembered something and said to Anna:
"What did I tell you last night?"
Anna smiled and patted her proud breasts and said:
"Anla~ Lord Yanwang, you really have an inexhaustible heart, you see, the tendons of wild boars and the pits of dried wild fruits are all in this skin."
With that, Anna raised the leather bag in her hand, which was sewn from the skin of a wild boar.
Lin Yuan nodded with satisfaction and said:
"Don't blame me for being verbose, these two things, they're very, very important, and they'll come in handy when I find the right opportunity."
Seeing Anna nodding, Lin Yuan shouted reassuringly:
"That's it! Everyone, listen, ready to send out! ”
A mighty procession began a migration.
It's not a migration to say it's actually a migration, after all, it's only a few hundred steps away, and it can be reached in half a day.
But it was this short distance, but Lin Yuan didn't dare to take it lightly.
Because the team is the most vulnerable during the migration, it can suffer heavy losses if it is attacked by wild beasts or enemies.
Although most of the injured people in the tribe have recovered these days with adequate food supplies and good rest, many of them are still not fully recovering and need help from others.
An injured person needs to be cared for by at least 2 people, which is equivalent to the loss of productivity of 3 people.
If you are a headhunter, it is estimated that you will directly choose to kill the injured person and refuse to drag it down, so that you can make full use of the productivity of at least 2 people.
Lin Yuan shook his head, wanting to quickly throw this idea out of his head, this is the most barbaric method, and it is also a sign of staying away from civilization.
The most important difference between primitive tribes and civilized societies is their attitude towards their fellow citizens.
Lin Yuan was convinced of this.
What's more, this effect of caring for the wounded is only temporary, the wounded will eventually recover, and at that time, the return to productivity will not be 2, but 3.
With this kind of simple arithmetic, Lin Yuan could still figure it out.
Therefore, the Yan people will not give up any of their own people.
This was Lin Yuan's creed, and it was also the creed he intended to spread to the entire civilization in the future.
The migration was easier than Lin Yuan had imagined, thanks to the high obedience and discipline of the primitive people of the tribe, as well as the migration route that he had repeatedly studied for several days and nights.
According to the results of Blade's reconnaissance, he carefully selected a route on the map, which could avoid climbing the towering peaks and pass through the large trees and grass to avoid revealing his whereabouts.
In fact, the results of the migration once again proved the feasibility of Lin Yuan's plan, and they all arrived at the new camp safely without encountering any accidents along the way:
An abandoned cave.
As Blade had previously described, it was a natural cave embedded in the back of a massive rock wall, with a small stream on the opposite side of the cave flanked by an endless dense forest.
If there is a forest, it means that there is prey.
Food, water, caves, a few elements are all available, no matter which tribe lived here before, this must also be a place they have carefully chosen, it is simply too suitable for survival.
Lin Yuan looked at his surroundings with satisfaction, and then slowly walked to the entrance of the cave, where the ground was covered with thick black ashes, and the air seemed to be filled with a smell of smoke and fire.
There must have been a terrible battle here, but unfortunately, the original owner of this cave was unable to defeat the attack of the Chiyou headhunters.
Lin Yuan silently lowered his head and bowed to the former owner of this cave as a sign of silence.
Behind him, more than 300 members of the Yan clan bowed in silence according to the appearance of their leader.
"The Si people have passed away, and the remaining value is left behind, so you must cherish and thank you."
After Lin Yuan said this in a low voice, he raised his head and began to order the Yan clan members to enter the cave and settle on the spot.
The placement in the cave is also very particular, especially for a tribe that may be threatened at any time.
Lin Yuan first ordered the hunters to be reassigned into 12 groups, and the three groups were divided into one shift, and according to the distribution method of two shifts during the day and two shifts at night, they carried out round-the-clock patrols and sentry.
Before settling down completely, Lin Yuan needed to make sure that there were no suspicious enemy tracks around the camp.
He then asked Anna and Qiao Jing to divide the non-hunter primitives into groups of workers to build the camp.
He arranged two groups of workers to remove the thick ash from the ground in the cave, and specifically instructed:
"Don't throw away the ashes! Yes, put it here, under this big tree, yes, just this one, sprinkle the ashes evenly on the ground. ”
Lin Yuan pointed to a piece of grass outside the cave near the river bank and gave an order.
After a while, dozens of hard-working tribal workers moved out the black ashes in the cave and sprinkled them on the clearing according to Lin Yuan's instructions.
"Good." Lin Yuan nodded, he beckoned, called Anna, and said:
"Go find a few attentive women and let them shovel the land with a stone spear and turn over the grass."
"You mean, let them plow the land?" Anna asked, surprised.
Lin Yuan nodded, pointed to the leather bag around Anna's waist, and said:
"Here, try to plant all the pits of those wild fruits, I don't know what can grow, but at least it's better than planting nothing, maybe we can find crops that can be planted."
Lin Yuan said meaningfully.
Anna suddenly realized, she nodded, and immediately ran away to carry out the order.
Then Lin Yuan took Qiao Jing with him, divided the new camp into several different areas, and asked Qiao Jing to assign workers to build it by himself.
"Here, this piece of shrub outside the cave, let the workers cut down the suitable trees and make a fence, or according to the previous appearance, circle it out, well, it is better to be larger than the previous fence, as soon as possible, when it is done, drive our holy pig in."
"Also, here, next to the pigsty, make a smaller fence with a stump thicker than the pigsty, yes, to be so thick, I want to use this place as a prison cell, well, yes, you know what I mean, the bone slave and Xiang are locked up here."
Qiao Jing nodded, left according to Lin Yuan's instructions, and began to gather people to start construction.
The layout outside the cave ended, and Lin Yuan walked inside the cave.
The industrious primitive people had already cleared most of the ashes in the cave, and the smell in the air was much better, and Lin Yuan took the remaining workers who had not been assigned work to work in the cave.
He first dug a large pit in the middle of the cave, threw the firewood that could be burned into it, and then put the torches he had brought all the way into it, and soon a bonfire rose and a fire pit was formed.
Then he pointed to the inside of the cave and told the workers to build their own tents for sleeping, and the rest of the workers scattered happily.
Lin Yuan found that these workers were all construction artists, and they cut down small tree stumps from the adjacent woods, and then used local materials to set up many tents of different shapes in the caves.
They came from different tribes, so the tents they built also had their own characteristics, such as traditional tents lined with sticks and warm animal skins, simple beds made of stones and covered with animal skins, and even more so, several stretchers were erected high in the air using bamboo sticks, and the stretchers were covered with wide thick leaves.
Lin Yuan decided not to interfere with them, and let the tribesmen have some of their own characteristics, which was his respect for the traditional culture of the tribe.
"A new home...... Well, not bad......"
Before the sun set, Lin Yuan looked at the sunset and muttered to himself.