Chapter VI Armaments
"Dragon—" A familiar voice came from behind the dragon, and the dragon knew that they were once again prostrating, and he turned to look at the primitives, whose eyes were now not only admiration, but also respect and piety. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He knew that his people must have treated him as a god.
However, he didn't feel that this was pressure, but rather an identity that could help him better complete the task. Once the clansmen have such an idea, there are some things that he can easily bypass the stream and complete alone.
Sure enough, no one objected to him moving the fire at will, and when he gave orders, he received more support and obedience.
Long Qiupeng took advantage of the victory and pursued the tribe, dividing the tribesmen, one part of them was responsible for grinding stones and sharpening wooden spears, and the other part was making ropes, and then learning to make nets.
Originally, after completing a technological revolution, he planned to teach the tribe people how to make nets, a simple and efficient tool that could bring exponential growth to the tribe's production, but because of Xi's attitude, he abandoned the idea at that time. After all, under the premise that there is no innovation in storage technology, rashly increasing output will only cheapen microorganisms in the end.
But now the situation is different, traps are not just used to trap, but also to defend against intruders. So now it is not only necessary to teach them, but also to make nets that can be used on the battlefield in a short time.
Sharpening knives does not mistake woodcutters, although it is also possible to weave nets by hand, but this technique is not even very proficient in Long Qiupeng himself, let alone teach others.
He found two sticks that were one man high, nailed them to the ground, and tied a rope between them. It is particularly important to tie another piece of rope folded into double strands with a Prussian knot at intervals as needed, as it determines the size of the mesh. Finally, two adjacent ropes are tied with a backhand, and so on until the entire net is completed.
"Net!" Long Qiupeng pointed to the finished product and said to those primitive people whose eyes were full of curiosity and doubt. The men repeated after him, not knowing exactly what to do with it. But at this time, Long Qiupeng, who already had a certain godhead, did not intend to explain to them the working principle of the "net" at all, because in his opinion, all the primitive people needed to do now was to follow their orders.
He asked the deer to help him nail a few more pairs of stakes to the ground, and the work of weaving the net began in earnest, and for simple-minded primitive people, the most complicated thing was not to think about what the net was for, but how to tie those strange knots. Therefore, Long Qiupeng had to spend a lot of energy to teach and correct them, but even so, the yield rate was only fifty percent, but fortunately, the pregnant women of the left-behind tribe made too much rope a few days ago, and they didn't care too much about this loss.
The first weapons were mostly completed, and the moon's position in the sky slowly shifted eastward. Long Qiupeng calculated that it was about ten o'clock in the evening. Although there was still a lot to do, at this moment he immediately announced that everyone should go to rest.
Tomorrow will also be a tense day, and if you don't recover your strength in time, the day after tomorrow will undoubtedly be a tough battle. Before going to bed, he instructed the little sister in the kitchen to prepare three meals tomorrow according to about 1.5 times the food on weekdays, and now is not the time to cherish food.
After explaining everything, Long Qiupeng also entered the cave and began to rest, but saw the stream in the corner holding a cane and looking viciously at this side. He sighed and walked over to Stream's side, trying to pat her on the shoulder, but she got out of the way.
"Desperate for this kind of thing, let's let the man come...... You...... No......" Long Qiupeng seemed to say to Xi, and seemed to be talking to himself. Regardless of whether Xi really understood, he also rested on his own.
Before the sun jumped above the horizon, Long Qiupeng was awakened by the sound of shreddling outside the cave, only to see a bird stealing the scraps of yesterday's food. He still can't skillfully distinguish the behavioral characteristics of different animals like primitive man, and he can't distinguish safety from danger by sound, and a false alarm made fine beads of sweat on his forehead.
When he got up, he alarmed the deer next to him, and the deer followed suit. The others have not yet gotten up, and for most primitive people, staying up late is still the first time in their lives. There is no need to hunt today, and there is no need to get up early, Long Qiupeng decided to let everyone rest for a while and take a walk around the neighborhood by himself.
"Water...... Come? Long Qiupeng gestured to the deer and asked if anyone would come from the waterway, in fact, Long Qiupeng asked the deer many times this question. Lu shook his head at him very firmly at first, but after being asked too many times, Lu knew that Long Qiupeng still had doubts in his heart, so he slowly didn't know how to answer him.
Although it has been confirmed that the possibility of the enemy sneaking up from the woods is relatively high, the upper reaches of the lake are flowing from the forest, and the distance from the tribe is not too far, and there are many reeds with a height of one person stretching all the way to a place not far from the tribe, and if the enemy is distracted, the distance from the water to the tribe can be completely unexpected.
Long Qiupeng knew that the fate of the tribe hung by a thread, and he was just a grasshopper on the rope of fate. In ancient times, the productivity was poor, and many tribes would start wars because their tribes could not survive, so the side waiting for the defeat was not a captive or a slave, but was directly executed in the name of sacrifice. To be on the safe side, he still has to be prepared, he doesn't want to become a fossil by his own mistakes.
The so-called war is a catalyst for the development of science and technology, relying on his rich experience in the wilderness, Long Qiupeng successfully passed the first step against nature, but the struggle with human beings really stimulated his creative potential.
He tried hard to recall the scene of the day, and found that although the enemy tribe was superior to his own tribe in terms of offensive equipment, it was still half a pound and eight taels in terms of defensive equipment, especially for the importance of shoes, they were far from realizing it. Although the primitive man is not like him, there is a thick cuticle on the soles of his feet, which is not so uncomfortable even if he does not wear shoes, but that cortex still cannot resist the damage of sharp weapons, and perhaps placing ground thorns in the reeds is a very simple and easy way to defend himself.
There is a kind of sour jujube growing in abundance in the forest, the tree is not tall, but the thorns are hard and long, two or three centimeters long, and the people in the tribe who have picked sour jujube have been scratched by it. Long Qiupeng wanted to use it as a fishing hook, so he used to cut a lot of it and put it in the tribe for later use, but later gave up because the shallow slope on the edge of the lake was extremely gentle, which was not suitable for fishing, and those thorns were idle. Now it seems that those sour jujube strips with thinner branches and very sharp thorns are the most suitable raw materials for ground thorns.
At this time, some people in the tribe had already woken up one after another, and Long Qiupeng didn't care about the distribution, so let them hurry up and go to the forest to find some sour jujube branches to come back, the more the better, and try to come back before the end of breakfast. However, there are two things that must be paid attention to, do not go too deep, anyway, this shrub actually grows more in the edge of the forest than in the depths of the forest, and it is easy to encounter the enemy if you go too deep, in case you really encounter the enemy's traces, you must not fight, and return to the tribe as soon as possible before the other party finds out. A few of the women who woke up were in charge of tying the sour branches that had been hoarded in the tribe into a net with rope.
Take advantage of the opponent's weaknesses to attack the opponent, and improve your own weaknesses to strengthen your defense. His own weapons are inferior to the other party, if he doesn't know how to protect himself, there are not many people, and if a few more die, then no matter how good the skills and tactics are, I am afraid that they will not be able to be used.
Long Qiupeng's initial thought was to wear leather armor like the enemy's tribe, but obviously the difference in productivity was decided, and it was a fantasy to want one leather armor per person at the moment.
He checked with the deer again to check the enemy's weapons, the bow and arrow had not yet been invented, the spear was still the tip of a stone, which was obviously harder and sharper than his own, and the others were stone axes and stone hammers. Not too sharp in such a situation, perhaps a shield is more useful than leather armor.
At first, his first reaction was to use a wooden shield, but he was not a carpenter, and he did not have a metal fixation, and without a really sharp saw, even if he could cut down a big tree, he would not be able to separate at all, so he wanted to make a rattan shield.
The rattan is simpler, because the trap needs to be used, so the tribe has always had to collect, but before the old trap is broken, there is no need for new rattan, but the primitive people do not understand this truth, the person in charge of collecting has been bringing rattan to the tribe, at this time there are already a lot of spare rattan that has been dried, take it and use it.
He called Lu and three of his more clever clansmen to learn with him how to make Teng Dun. At the beginning, he adopted the method of weaving baskets, from the center to the outside, the shields woven in this way are dense, both tenacious and dense and powerful, but the biggest problem with this method is that it is difficult to learn, and slow, five people wasted a lot of effort and time to make four, and if this continues, I don't know when I will be able to equip my team with weapons.
Long Qiupeng was a little agitated, but he soon thought of another temporary substitute - the cover pad. This method of weaving only compiles one dimension, and the other dimension is mainly fixed by ropes, and the last four turns are reinforced to complete it.
Although such a shield is not as strong and durable as the real Teng shield, and its strength is relatively small, as long as it is not in the face of a stone axe that can chop with strong ability, it still has a great chance of winning. But in any case, this temporary shield is the most suitable choice because of its small material and fast processing.
Long Qiupeng pointed to the two finished products and said to the deer, "Shield." With that, he handed it over and let him hang it on his left arm. He was standing across from him.