Chapter 7 Preparing for Battle
"I'll fight, you block" Long Qiupeng said and gestured to him. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info finished speaking, picked up a stone hammer and smashed it at the head of the deer, in fact, most of the soldiers who were injured in the last war were also injured by weapons in the head, and the age without armor and sharp weapons was obviously the most deadly place in the human body.
Lu didn't particularly understand at first, but after the two of them practiced a few times, Lu gradually mastered the essentials, and immediately learned to draw inferences from one another, blocking Long Qiupeng's next few attacks.
"Shield" Long Qiupeng emphasized one side again, and at the same time pointed to the shield in the shape of a cover pad, telling the deer that they were the same. The deer nodded in understanding. Long Qiupeng breathed a long sigh of relief, so that the afternoon drill could basically be given to the deer to do.
By the time the sun shone through the reeds and reached the tribe, the tribe had already put themselves into a new day of armament production in a tense atmosphere. For the first time, Long Qiupeng really felt that life passed in time.
The "new" shield began to enter mass production, and the clansmen called several other people to help, and the production of the "old" shield was temporarily put on hold. But high-quality shields can't be wasted, primitive people don't know the difference, but Long Qiupeng knows it, he naturally wants to keep one for himself, and there is no doubt that he gave it to the deer, and the third shield is given to the only pregnant woman in the tribe at present.
With the last shield left, he hesitated and came to Xi Xiang. Long Qiupeng found out that she was going out, he hurriedly stopped her and said, "No! ”
Xi ignored him and wanted to bypass him, but he was still held back: "Danger! Of course, this is not only because she is worried about the safety of the stream, but also because she is afraid that she will not handle the enemy well and lead the wolf into the house.
Long Qiupeng looked serious and couldn't be disobeyed, Xi was angry but not good at attacking, and kept clutching the things in his hand, only then did Long Qiupeng see Xi holding her special "medicine hoe" in his hand.
It turned out that in the face of the upcoming war, all she could think of and what she could do was to go up the mountain to collect medicine. Qiu Peng looked at the kind-hearted Xi's cheeks that had turned crimson because of annoyance, and felt a little guilty. He handed over the Teng Dun in his hand, but Xi stubbornly refused to take it.
He sighed, pulled his left hand across the stream, put Teng Dun on it, and said, "Be careful!" And he left.
Long Qiupeng returned to the processing site, he took a look at everyone's situation, and felt that the original expectations had basically been met, so he stood in the middle of everyone and shouted: "Stop!" Everyone stopped their work in response, and lunch time was approaching.
In fact, Long Qiupeng was a little unappetizing, but he asked himself to eat it, because the next 24 hours were crucial. If the calculations were accurate, they would have found a suitable place to camp before evening, and if they were brave enough, they could have attacked at night, but without that guts, they would have waited until the next morning when the animals were over.
If it's the former, then you have to send more people to keep vigil, but if it's the latter, you need to get more rest. Although it is said that eggs cannot be put in one basket, the amount of troops he has under his command now is not enough to use them separately. Long Qiupeng could only gamble, bet on the IQ gap between primitive and modern people, and bet that they would not be able to surpass the awe of nature and launch a surprise attack.
Long Qiupeng's prediction of this incident was that the big battle should take place before noon the next day.
After eating, the weather suddenly began to be a little muggy, and Long Qiupeng asked everyone to take a lunch break. Primitive people actually did not have the habit of taking a lunch break, because their days were short enough, but staying up late last night still overdrew the physical strength and energy of some of them, and forced rest was only so that they could achieve the best mental state before the start of the war.
But he didn't rest himself, and he and Lu thought about the afternoon group training. The production of armaments is almost over, and it still takes a little time to get used to it, and in the afternoon all production activities are stopped, and they are divided into two groups to train alternately and set traps, and strive to complete all the work before dusk comes.
Although Long Qiupeng also wanted to praise Haikou to everyone, saying: "Fighting is a man's business!" "But there are so few men in the tribe who can fight, so it is inevitable that women will go to war. The rest of the stream took the wounded and pregnant women to care for the tribe's children who were too young.
Many primitive people did not have the habit of taking a lunch break, so they woke up after a while, and then Long Qiupeng began to be responsible for organizing the setting of traps, and Lu and several old hunters were responsible for training everyone to use weapons.
The setup of the ground spike is relatively simple, just place the ground spike in the selected position and camouflage it slightly. After all, this simple trap can't be expected to bring substantial damage to the opponent, just to make the primitives make a noise when they are injured and slow down the speed of their surprise attack.
There are many traps set by Long Qiupeng, but the most important thing is a pit at the entrance of the cave as a defensive battle. It is impossible for him to abandon his position, and the final main battlefield will inevitably take place in front of the mouth of the cave. At that time, there were elderly people, pregnant women and children in the cave, and double insurance had to be added to the cave entrance.
Before entering the tribe, the task of fighting guerrillas in the forest was handed over to Lu and his hunter team, because it was just delaying time and depleting the opponent's combat power, although those traps were easy to use, but Long Qiupeng was not a professional hunter or soldier after all, and the determination of the opponent's whereabouts could not be too accurate, so the efficiency was not necessarily high. In short, the principle is to fight when you find it, and run if you can't fight, and it is better not to have results than to have casualties.
It was dark at dinner that day, and Long Qiupeng erected a circle of torches around the open space at the entrance of the cave, although he judged that the other party would not sneak attack at night, but it was always just in case. Today's labor intensity far exceeds the daily life of primitive people, after all, in the simple minds of these primitive people, they are not particularly clear about what they are going to face.
This night was particularly long, some stuffy Long Qiupeng tossed and turned and couldn't sleep at all, and the deer's task the next day was also very heavy, he didn't want to disturb him, so he quietly got up and sat at the entrance of the cave, looking at the burning torches, a little distracted.
He sat half-asleep at the entrance of the cave for a long time, when suddenly a muffled thunder startled him. Is it going to rain? Thinking of this, he moved the two torch racks to the cave, and left the others alone. But before the second torch could reach the house, a rain of beans fell. When he returned to the cave with the torch in his hand, and when he looked back, the rest of the torch was already dying.
The first thing that came to Long Qiupeng's mind was: Fortunately, it looked like it was about to dawn, but the second thing made him shiver, a cold sweat oozed from his body, and then he woke up: there are no torches in the night rain, and those primitive tribes will fall into a dangerous panic, in this case, will the other party survive to the death and choose to attack the tribe in advance?
"Get up!" He shouted, and many people were woken up in their sleep, but they didn't know what was going on, and they all looked at the grumpy man in front of them in a daze.
"Get up!" Seeing that everyone's expressions were sluggish, and many people had not woken up, he shouted loudly again, and his voice and tone were even more nervous and eager. The lack of rest gave him the illusion that the enemy was right in front of him.
Lu looked at Long Qiupeng, who was anxious, and called softly: "Dragon? What's wrong? ”
Long Qiupeng urged the people who had not woken up with his hand while saying to the deer: "Prepare for war!" The enemy is coming......"
The deer, who was still a little sleepy just now, jumped up suddenly, and he used primitive people to translate Long Qiupeng's semantics, and those people also got up one after another, ready to go.
The deer and the team were ready to set off, but Long Qiupeng began to hesitate, after all, he was the least experienced among these people, he sat at the door anxiously, hoping that the sky would soon light up, and prayed that the heavy rain would not collapse the pit of thorns.
He looked out from time to time, but it was pitch black except where the fire shone brightly. There is an infinite killing machine lurking in this blackness, from nature as well as from other human beings.
Suddenly, the deer who had been sitting on standby stood up, and Long Qiupeng's heart tightened, this was the sensitivity of a primitive person that he did not have, indicating that danger was coming.
He clenched his dagger and stood up, looking hard into the dark shadows. By this time the rain had begun to lighten, and the thin light of the morning had broken through the clouds, and hunched figures appeared, not too far from them.
"Woo......" The deer roared like a wild beast, and then the people of the tribe also took a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, and began to make warning sounds. But Long Qiupeng stretched out his arm to stop the deer and let him calm down for a while. The enemy heard the voice, knew that he was exposed, and made the same move, and for a time the two faced each other and were in a stalemate.
But Long Qiupeng knew that at this time, it was still dark, and the party that struck first was easy to suffer in the subsequent battle, not to mention that there were many people on the other side, and it was easy to be besieged by the enemy when they took the initiative to attack, and they were attacked on their backs. On the contrary, the size of the hole is limited, and there are pits outside, so it is very possible to take advantage of this advantage to knock out a wave first.
After another confrontation for a while, the sky gradually became clearer, and the enemy finally couldn't bear to prepare to attack, and there was a whining and killing cry outside the cave, but Long Qiupeng still stood there with his arms raised and did not move.
The man who rushed to the front held a stone axe high and rushed towards him, and he was about to enter the cave and rushed in front of him, when he fell into a slump, and with him were three or five people who rushed to the front, and the people behind him quickly stopped, but they were struck by the people behind and planted into the pit together.