Chapter 23: The Eve of the Great War
Since Long Qiupeng returned from the Hai tribe, he began to personally supervise the manufacture of rockets. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The process of making incendiary arrows was not very smooth, and after several tosses, several stages such as non-flammable, insufficient burning time, and fear of wind were solved.
Thankfully, his advice to Great Lakes was effective, and the final fuel blend worked so well that the combustibles could not only be picked up at a glance, but could also burn continuously in windy weather.
But the burning level is over, and there is still a shooting level to train. Compared to ordinary arrows, the incendiary arrow has an added weight on the body, so the center of gravity and balance need to be adjusted in trial and error. Not to mention that this time, they not only need to shoot the arrow, but also let the arrow fall on the roof of the granary.
For primitive people who have just begun to use bows and arrows, it still requires a process of training and adaptation, and this is also the main topic of today's training.
In normal times, archery training is generally done by deer, and when the deer is not there, the big lake replaces. But today they all went to the Furnace tribe to deliver sacrifices.
Long Qiupeng originally planned to go together, but no matter how he put on makeup, his skin that was too fair compared to the primitive people made him eye-catching, so the plan was finally abandoned.
In desperation, he stayed in the tribe to train the team. But in general, he is just an overseer, or inspector. He is not good at using bows and arrows without sights, so his grades are naturally not good, and over time, he will stay away from this "industry", so as not to show his cowardice in front of his clansmen.
However, compared to the rest of the clan, Long Qiupeng, who knew the common sense of physics, was obviously the best substitute for Lu and Dahu, and they were not there, so they had to go into battle in person.
In fact, he was more than enough to teach these primitive people archery, but the language was not up to par, and without the presence of deer, Long Qiupeng's communication with the tribesmen became very jerky and laborious. He secretly planned that after the tribe had calmed down from all kinds of wars, he must hurry up to solve the language problem.
When Long Qiupeng was struggling to teach the clansmen, the team that went to the Lu tribe to deliver sacrifices came back, and he was already very anxious, and he didn't have the heart to care about those team members, so he hurriedly called the deer and Dahu to his residence.
Long Qiupeng, as the leader, has always been known for being considerate, but this time, he didn't even have the heart to let the two of them eat something first, so he asked very urgently: "How is it?" ”
"Like the leader's plan, the Hai tribe has stopped paying tribute to the Furnace tribe." The first to open his mouth was Dahu, after all, he knew some people there, and it was relatively convenient to inquire about things.
It turned out that on the third day after Long Qiupeng and their return from the Hai tribe, it was the day of their attack, and the Hai tribe sent people to the Lu tribe to explain the situation, but they didn't dare to tell the whole truth about the Lu tribe, they just said that they saw the god of fire, and the god of fire summoned the aquatic products in the lake, so there was no way to fish and pay tribute for the time being.
Yan Yan is such a suspicious and vicious person, of course he didn't believe the envoy's words, so he used war to intimidate the envoy and let him honestly explain whether the leader of the Hai tribe was going to rebel.
Under Yan Yan's coercion and temptation, the messenger said out of panic and helplessness that the god of fire had descended to punish Yan Yan and the Lu tribe, and described the scene of the water fire that night.
Yan Yan was furious, and immediately killed this messenger who "deceived the people" and decided to conquer the Hai tribe. For this reason, he also specially summoned the clansmen who were planted in the Hai tribe back, but he didn't expect that after those people came back, they were all in a trance and had nothing to love.
Although Yan Yan did not publish the information he had obtained from the spies, the news soon began to spread. Among the people who returned from the Hai tribe, the people of the Lu tribe not only verified the description of the envoy, but also learned that not a single fish was caught in the place where the fire god appeared the next day, and this phenomenon even lasted for two days before slowly improving.
The Furnace tribe is not particularly far from the Hai tribe, and on the day of the water fire, some people from the Furnace clan saw the fire in the distance. When the envoy of the Hai tribe said something like that that day, many people would be skeptical. Now that it has been confirmed again, the entire tribe is even more panicked.
Yan Yan and his tribe are on the verge of disintegration. These things, even without the need for Dahu to deliberately inquire, there will be an old subordinate of the Tao Department to confess in person, it seems that one day, the Lu clan is really in trouble, so they have a place to live.
The deer brought some information on the field, first of all, since the Hai tribe stopped paying food tribute, the amount of food stored by the Lu clan has been significantly reduced, and in addition, the deer has also successfully followed Long Qiupeng's instructions and quietly destroyed the lids of some wine jars.
The person who received them this time was none other than Qingmang. He was so arrogant that he put down his posture and said to the deer that he hoped that the second batch of food, which was scheduled to be delivered in ten days, would be divided into two batches like this time. The first batch can be delivered a few days in advance. This undoubtedly once again confirmed Long Qiupeng's inference about the current situation of the Lu tribe.
Although they kept saying that they were going to wage war against the Hai tribe, the amount of ore coming in and out was much less than when they first went to the Lu tribe.
But in contrast, they seem to have cut some wood to dry, as if waiting to dry it to make planks. Others, on the other hand, are busy compiling the web. It is probably to get rid of the dependence on the Hai tribe and start developing their own fishery again.
These tools are all placed on the dock next to the grain depot and are ready to work once they are completed.
This is both good news and bad news. The good news is that the current situation of the Furnace tribe is indeed critical, and the bad news is that if left unchecked, this state will not last long, and the Furnace tribe will regain the ability to be self-sufficient.
After listening to Lu and Dahu's report, Long Qiupeng had only one sentence left in his heart: Don't miss the opportunity and never come again.
He knows very well that although the current Furnace tribe is on the verge of collapse, if he can't take advantage of the victory to pursue and put the other party to death, then Yan Yan, who has a strong scientific and technological thrust, will definitely restore the production and life of the tribe in a short period of time and return to normalcy, and when the Furnace tribe stands up again, the Long tribe will forever lose the opportunity to defeat him.
We can't wait any longer, the operation has to be scheduled for these two days.
He had never felt such urgency, not even a minute could be wasted. He didn't care about lunch, so he immediately sent people to the forest to look for bears, and called the stream, which was still eating, to count the tribe's supplies and personnel. The Long tribe was once again forced into a state of preparedness for the sake of life and death.
It was not an easy task to retrieve the bear from the forest, Long Qiupeng asked the deer and the lake to eat something, but he had no desire to eat at all, and in this cold autumn, he actually felt very anxious.
Xi thoughtfully brought a bowl of water and let Long Qiupeng drink it to reduce dryness. He took the water from the stream and looked at her worried eyes, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Dignified man, how can a woman be worried? Thinking of this, he smiled at Chongxi and said, "It's okay! Absolutely! ”
Xi's language is not as good as that of Lu, so Long Qiupeng is not very sure if she can understand it all, but from her regained appearance, Long Qiupeng knows that she feels her confidence.
Finally, the deer and the bear returned to Long Qiupeng's room, and Dahu also waited with him, and after a short separation, they saw the shining light on Long Qiupeng's face, and they were full of confidence in this battle.
Long Qiupeng took a deep breath and said to several other people in an extremely firm voice: "Although this battle is dangerous, our Long clan will definitely win if we are blessed by the Dragon God!" With that, he began to deploy the entire strategy.
Long Qiupeng hadn't really fought, but he still knew that it was irrational to run long distances. The productivity of primitive people was not enough to build a camp where they could rest and defend against wild animals in a short period of time, so Long Qiupeng planned to use the old Tao Clan as a transit point, and the soldiers passed by road, and the military rations were transported from the lake by boat.
Although the old Tao tribe is not as close to the water as other tribes, because the Long tribe does not have wheels and cars, the waterway is still much more convenient than land transportation.
Except for a small number of clansmen who stayed to guard the tribe, the rest of the warriors had to participate in this war, and in the face of the powerful Furnace tribe, no one or negligence was allowed in any detail.
After arriving at the Tao Department, the team will be divided into three teams, one team will be led by Long Qiupeng and Lu himself, and they will pass by the waterway and burn the granary of the Furnace Clan, which is the most dangerous and crucial step. It's a matter of success or failure.
Once the burning of the granary is successful, the original exploration team, with a team of people, will ambush around the Furnace tribe. Without food, they must first choose to bail out like other affiliated tribes, or coax.
If a tribe sends them food out of sympathy or fear, the development of the event becomes unpredictable. Therefore, we must be optimistic, no one from the Lu tribe can leave the village, once someone is found to be informed, it needs to be arrested as soon as possible, and in case of extraordinary circumstances, it can be executed on the spot.
During this period, there may be people from the Tao tribe who fled from the Lu tribe, and all the old Tao tribes who chose to take refuge in Shun before the official war began, the Long tribe will all take them in, and they do not need to be treated as prisoners of war.
After a few days of consumption, the Dragon Clan can launch a general attack on the "once" powerful Furnace Clan.
After listening to his strategic deployment, everyone felt amazed, and Long Qiupeng instructed them that all warriors only need to obey orders, and are not allowed to know the specific combat deployment. Otherwise, this long-lasting battle may lose his original balance at any time due to the change of a "weight", and eventually fall short.
After receiving the order, everyone went to their subordinates for a final exercise. But Long Qiupeng was lying alone in the house, he knew that even if the plan was complete, there were still too many unknown factors in it. Success still needs to be perfected.