Chapter Forty-Eight: Strange Powers
Build an iron stab. Recruit craftsmen to study crossbow arrows.
The direction of research is the most advanced crossbow arrow in the world! They are divided into medium crossbows, strong crossbows, and giant crossbows. The crossbow has a range of up to 200 meters, and the bowstring can be pulled by hand, the advantage of the crossbow is that everyone can use it, pick it up and pawn it, and the shooting distance of the bow and arrow has increased by about 100 meters! A powerful crossbow with a range of about 300 meters, a sharp weapon for long-range strikes, it has the charm of killing half of the enemy before he gets close! But the crossbow must be pulled with the legs to pull the bowstring, so it is only suitable for regular troops! And the giant crossbow, the range is up to four or five hundred meters, is a sharp weapon for attacking the village and attacking the mountain, the front cavity of the arrow shot by the giant crossbow is empty and filled with fire oil, the tip of the first arrow, and tied to the natural object, once ignited and launched, the front end of the impact, the fire oil spews out, and quickly burns a large piece, so that it is also very powerful to attack the cottage and set fire to the city! However, the giant crossbow is expensive to make, and only a few people can use the bowstring, so the number is limited.
There are crossbows and arrows, and the large demand for arrows has become a new topic in Yunwei Cottage, and everyone finally built a small arsenal in Yunwei Cottage, which is specialized in the production of weapons! The production of weapons, wood is easy to say, but metal materials still need to go to the country of Qige trafficking, as soon as he deals with this, Zhang Xiaodao knows that the country of iron and stone is lacking, so most of the iron and stone are used by the state, and the technology of iron smelting here is not advanced, and even the requirements of steel can hardly be met. In the end, everyone switched to bronze, which is a lot of bronze materials, and relatively cheap and has good technical performance!
At the same time as the crossbow and arrow were going on, Zhang Xiaodao also used the horse stop stake used by Mu Maowei, the general of Wuli Kingdom, according to the big loss he suffered on the battlefield for the first time. All of them were improved into spears of six or seven meters that could prevent the cavalry from charging, and once this spear was equipped with troops, everyone was a horse stopper, and the horse was stabbed in the neck by the spear before it could rush to the front and immediately stopped advancing. Then combined with the long-range strike of the crossbow arrow, the power of the equipment will be suddenly revealed.
The sword soldiers are now equipped with small caravans, and an inch long is an inch strong, and the soldiers in Yunwei Cottage are also equipped with the ability to stab, cut, and peck. A bronze spear that can be hooked. The bronze spear is two and a half meters long, and it is also a sharp weapon for infantry and cavalry, and it can also restrain pikemen and attack sword soldiers!
Then the soldiers of Yunwei Cottage were all equipped with war horses. Such a winged Yunwei cottage. The most powerful tribe of the tribes!
Due to the power of funds. This is where the issue of equipment begins, rebuilding homes for the burned tribes, and buying caravans. As well as goods, as well as these things, the economic power of Yunwei Cottage has been invested in seven or eight out of ten!
It's all in plain sight, and then it's time to train the team! The bookkeeper Quan Mingde is in charge of the affairs of the caravan, Gu Long and Mai Hu are in charge of the production of ordnance, and Feng Wuhen and Han Ge Mankui are in charge of the training of the team! And Yili and Li Ershan, who have made meritorious contributions, are in charge of the daily affairs of the cottage and the affairs of the Self-Defense Forces!
At this time, the tribal alliance advocated that the knife was considered, and when everything was done, he would go back and take out the salt owl tribe as well! Hehe, when the time comes, I won't be afraid of no money, no soldiers, and no territory! Hahahaha!
Zhang Xiaodao, who went from a national teacher to a businessman, didn't expect that there would be such a big windfall after destroying the bandits! And all of a sudden, he changed himself, from a businessman to the leader of the tribal alliance here, this change, he really realized, no wonder they are all calling around, it turns out that there are really a lot of benefits inside! Now that he has his own strength, the once weak Zhang Xiaodao has been wrapped in strength and turned into a powerful national sword! Now in his opinion, where there are evil forces, where there are oppressed people, there are fixed banks that can't run away from him to save money and deposits! ……
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The eagle hovers over the vast green vegetation of the river and the sea, and the clear sky allows it to look for its target from a bird's-eye view. Jungle beasts also roam the lush forest meadows, alone or in groups, following the laws of this natural existence. However, whether it is a bird or a beast, the Wa Daiha tribe will stay away when they see the spear and bow in their hands, and then they will flee away!
The Wa Daiha tribe is a tribe that lives by hunting, and all the power in the tribe is in the hands of generations of tribal leaders. However, since the discovery of a strange plant by the tribal witch doctor, the interior and traditions of the Wa Daiha tribe have also changed completely!
One day, the heaven and earth thundered, the earth shook the mountain, and after the earth stopped, the people of the Wa Dai Ha tribe found that there was a mountain that was cracked in a V-shape, and after everyone went to investigate deeply, they were shocked to find that there was a strange stone tree at the bottom of the mountain! The stone tree is high and meters long, the whole body is jet black, like a solid stone, the stone crown is divided into five forks, such as a person holding the sky with four hands, the head is like a deer antler, its roots are shallow and rooted in the ground, but it is very solid. Everyone was watching strangely, and suddenly, I saw that the outer skin of the jet-black stone tree suddenly fell off, and slowly revealed the red inner layer inside, and after the black outer layer of stone was all gone, there was a bright red and bright five-pronged strange tree as the size of a baby wrapped inside!
After the five-pronged strange tree came out, it was thought by the witch doctor that this was a divine object from the sky, and the tribal leader saw the thunder of the heavens and the earth, and the mountain shook after the mountain came out of this thing, and immediately believed that it was true, and then all the people of the Wa Daiha tribe knelt down and worshipped! Finally, he brought it back to the tribe!
The five-pronged tree that was welcomed back to the tribe was no different at first, and everyone just kept it as a sacred object in the tribe, but suddenly one day the tribal witch doctor noticed that it was strange!
One day, the Wa Daiha tribe caught the prey, and then pulled back to the tribe to slaughter, and the smell of blood was everywhere. The tribal witch doctor accidentally entered the tent, but it was strange to find that the bright red and bright color of the five-pronged strange tree was changed to blood red all over the body, and all the three prongs of the tree were tilted and pointed to the place where the prey was slaughtered! This discovery surprised the tribal witch doctor, and then he found a little prey blood and poured it on the root of the five-pronged tree, only to see that the blood fell and was immediately sucked into the soil, and the three prongs of the tree were straight again, and the whole body was blood-red, and it also turned a more vivid and beautiful red!
On the second day, something even stranger happened, the prey that originally needed to be obtained by traveling, rounding up, hunting, and trapping was now frequently appearing near the Wa Daiha tribe, and it was very easy to hunt and make a living! The simplification of the ration problem immediately allowed the Wa Daiha tribe to have enough time to do some other things, such as strengthening weapons, annexing surrounding tribes, and so on, making the Wa Daiha tribe a powerful tribe among the tribes! And the baby-sized five-pronged strange tree also grew into a small five-pronged tree more than a meter tall at this time.
With such a change, the tribal witch doctor also changed, and the tribal witch doctor also became a tribal wizard by relying on the five-pronged strange tree! The tribal wizard relied on the strange ability of the five-pronged strange tree to attract animals, and captured the minds of all the people of the Wa Daiha tribe, and now all the tribal people regard the five-pronged strange tree as a powerful divine and holy object of the tribe under the index of the tribal wizard! And this tribal wizard has also become the plenipotentiary representative of the gods and relics, as well as the spiritual leader of everyone!
The appearance of the spiritual leader then brought the power of the tribal leader to the sidelines, and the tribal wizard took it with him! The powerful wizard of the tribe himself knows the magical power and blood-eating nature of the five-pronged tree! Now that he has great power, he doesn't need to hunt prey for a living, so he ordered the tribesmen to build a round large cellar for the five-pronged strange tree! And implant the five-pronged tree as a sacred object!
Since then, the Wa Daiha tribe has been formed a tradition by tribal wizards, that is, on a certain day every year, five people over the age of sixteen in the tribe must be selected, except for the tribal wizards, to draw lots to decide, and then blood sacrifice to the sacred five-pronged strange tree in the round earth cellar! The purpose of the blood sacrifice is to use the blood of the people to bless the Wa Daiha tribe with their future strength and wealth! and the admiration and reward of the sacred five-pronged tree!
This tradition has been passed down from generation to generation, and the five-pronged strange tree, a sacred relic in the Wa Daiha tribe, has been changed by its people! Every year, the day that is approaching is a day of fear for all the tribesmen, who it will be, even the tribal chief, may be beheaded, and then thrown into the round earth cellar! At this time, the real power of the entire tribe has been completely controlled by the hands of this generation of tribal wizards Hoharth, and the tribal leader is only nominal and insubstantial in daily affairs!
The current Wa Daiha tribe has developed from a small tribe of a few hundred people to a large tribe of two or three thousand people, and it also enslaves many small tribes around it, carrying out gold panning and stone hunting activities for it, as well as food production activities, and the tribal wizard Hoharsi also colluded with the salt lord tribe five hundred miles away, which made his position in the tribe more stable! Second, the two major tribes are in cahoots, which is enough to deter and control all the surrounding slave tribes.
At this time, the Wa Daiha tribe has also been divided into two factions, and the division of the two factions began on the day when the Great Wizard Hoharsi changed the sacrificial tradition. And the old people, women, and people who are not aggressive have become the targets of the lottery sacrifice! The group of Electors living in fear finally ignited a flame of rebellion one day!
The day of the traditional sacrifice of the Wa Daiha tribe is approaching, and at this time, the five candidates for the blood sacrifice have been selected, and they have been closely guarded by the great wizard Hohasi, just waiting for the day of sacrifice.
In the wooden house of the tribal chief of the Wa Daiha tribe, two people are talking in secret.
…… (To be continued......)