Chapter 239: March

In the following time, Zhang Jun began to increase his efforts to build weapons and equipment, in order to protect weapons resources, he decided to move equipment and personnel such as weapons building workshops and iron-making blast furnaces to Longzhai to ensure their safety. However, because the mine is still outside Longzhai, it cannot be effectively protected, and a large number of weapons and equipment must be stored before the war comes, and enough iron ore and fuel must be stored in Longzhai to meet the needs of emergencies.

All preparations are in progress, Fei Ge led three flying dragon teams and a cavalry team has set off, heading for the location of the Chiyan tribe in southern Africa, after careful reconnaissance, Zhang Jun got the news that Chiyan's current location should be in Zambia, more than 5,000 kilometers away from Longzhai.

The neat and orderly flying dragon team in the sky, carrying bows and arrows, various types of throwing weapons, began to march to the south, on the ground, a cavalry team wearing iron bucket armor, making a sonorous metal impact, holding a sharp ring knife, riding on a tall horse, under the leadership of Iron Mountain, marching to the south.

The iron armor on the cavalry looks bulky, the head is tightly wrapped, the helmet is designed according to the shape of the flying dragon's head, the mouth is very long, the iron armor extends to the bottom of the neck, and the whole piece of iron armor bulging on the chest coincides with each other, and the whole face only leaves the eyes left and right surrounded by barbed wire, which can transmit light and facilitate the observation of the target left and right, similar to a fencing mask.

The iron armor on the chest and back is composed of two large iron pieces, and the iron armor on the arms and legs is composed of armor pieces that are combined to facilitate the movement of the hands and legs.

In the Wild Age, teams with Iron Bucket Armor and Ringhead Blades were almost invincible. The wooden and bone spears in the hands of the enemy were too little of a threat to them. Almost negligible, their iron ring-headed knives are a mortal threat to their enemies. Such a Leaping Dragon Ironclad Cavalry Team, even in the era of Ling Weapons, is also a strong soldier that cannot be ignored, and in this era, it can overlook everything.

Iron Mountain and his knights looked at the southern steppes with pride in their eyes, and they were about to set foot on a strange land, face strange beasts and intelligent creatures, and complete their mission.

"Let's go!" Feige's tall body soared in the sky. He saw that the flying dragon on the ground and the flying dragon in the sky were all lined up, and immediately ordered.

Then, under the expectant gaze of several ancestors, the team gradually marched south, the speed of the wyvern was much faster than that of the flying dragon, although the horses could run at a speed of sixty or seventy kilometers per hour, but the horses needed to rest often, and they rested more often than the wyvern, except for the night and hunting and feeding time. On average, a horse travels more than 100 kilometers a day at a good speed.

According to the distance of 5,000 kilometers from Longzhai by the Chiyan tribe, the horses need to walk for a month to get there, so this is more than the month that Zhang Jun expected to complete the task. It will take several times more time, and at this time, Zhang Jun can only hope that the big battle will break out in a few months, and at that time, the Flying Dragoons will no matter what. They all have to return to Longzhai to participate in the battle.

Fei Ge was the commander-in-chief of this southward movement, and he had a map of the whole of Africa and the world in his hands. Painted on animal skin, this is drawn by Zhang Jun from memory. They have long known about the concepts of the seven continents and the four oceans, so when the other tribes did not know what the world was, the dinosaur clan had already understood the whole picture of the earth, and they also knew that the earth was not the only planet in the universe, and these concepts were instilled in them by Zhang Jun.

Tie Shan also has a route map for the march in his hand, and regarding the geographical environment, the flying dragon has already drawn a complete topographic map of Africa after a long period of reconnaissance, including deserts, grasslands, forest coverage, and the general distribution of wild beasts, etc., which are marked on the map, so the team will not encounter the problem of getting lost like other tribes.

Tie Shan also has a strange device in his hand, which is a small magnet, which has been cut into a slender magnet, only two inches long, and a small iron rod is inserted vertically in the middle of the magnet, and if you pinch the small iron rod, you can see the prototype of this compass, which is the original compass device invented by Zhang Jun.

This small magnetic needle, which is only one millimeter in diameter, is actually a compass, and it has the function of a compass pointing north, and the needle of the compass is painted black, so it is easy to identify.

Fei Ge and Iron Mountain both have compasses in their hands, as well as other team leaders, so that they can follow the terrain on the map, and with a compass, they can greatly reduce the delay time on the road, and it is not a problem to reach their destination within a month.

Northern Africa is a large desert, and the oasis area is very small, so the team is along the Nile River Valley, to the southeast, and after entering the central region of Africa, Feige will lead the team to the southwest, and then the terrain is very flat, with few mountains, so the movement will not be hindered.

As time passed, the team slowly advanced for more than half a month, and had walked through the long intersection of deserts and oases, and entered the grasslands and jungles of Central Africa, where the terrain was still flat and mountains were rare, and under the guidance of the compass and topographic map, the team marched all the way south.

It was summer, and before noon, the sun was blazing, and the dragons flying in the sky felt the scorching heat, and lately they usually went at night and in the morning, and during the day when the sun was high, they would stop to rest, and it was already the time when the sun shone overhead, and if it wasn't for the hurry, Feigo would not have ordered the team to advance under this kind of big sun.

Fei Ge flew in front, the beads of sweat on his forehead fell densely, fortunately it was very windy in the sky, so most of the heat was dissipated with the breeze, but at noon and afternoon, the sun on the grassland would become very scorching, and they did not have to risk heat stroke.

Fei Ge flapped his huge multicolored wings, and as he flew forward, he looked back at his subordinates behind him a few times, and he noticed that most of the people's faces had hot and unbearable expressions, so after looking up at the sun in the sky, he shouted: "Stop moving forward and fall into the jungle below to rest." ”

Fei Ge had been flying above the cavalry team below, in order to reconnoiter the surrounding situation for them and protect their safety, Tie Shan heard Fei Ge shouting in the sky dozens of meters away, knowing that it was time to rest.

During the day, because the weather was too hot, the cavalry of Iron Mountain took off their armor and put it on horseback, otherwise they would be very uncomfortable because of the overheating.

"Brothers, stop and rest, give a place to the ancestors, don't occupy all the good places." Tie Shan waved the ring head knife in his hand and shouted, signaling his men to stop advancing.

"It's finally time to rest."

"Get off the horse and get comfortable."

The cavalrymen had been on the road since yesterday evening, and although they had rested several times on the way, they had not slept all the time, so they were very tired, and immediately jumped off their horses, took the reins by the hand, and stepped on the wild grass, and pulled their horses towards a jungle in front of them.

There was a large shady area there, and the trees were quite dense, and it was estimated that there would be some wild beasts inhabiting it, but the mighty momentum of the dragons had already scared away a few wild boars and a group of wild monkeys that had poked their heads out to watch, and the jungle became empty, and only some small insects were still calling inside. (To be continued......)