Chapter Seventy-Eight: Leon's Means!
Seven days later, on the banks of the Nucang River.
Three hundred tribal warriors, led by Leon and Rock Hammer, carried shovels, battle axes, sacks, pikeguns, etc., and came to the river beach where Leon and the others had come a few days ago.
After being trained by Leon himself for a period of time, the spirit of these young and fierce warriors has obviously changed a little, and there are more rules and regulations between actions, and I believe that as long as they persist, they will definitely become a real elite force.
Aklan, Hammer, and Rose followed.
The Lightning Tribe had a very difficult time in the Wuthering Forest, and after a heavy snowfall a few years ago, food was very scarce, and many warriors of the tribe were injured and frostbitten during the hunt.
Due to the worsening of her injuries due to poor treatment, Rose had to send the wounded to the Valley of Hope for treatment herself, and arrange for the other warriors to stay in the Hammer Tribe.
After all, the environment and conditions in the valley are much better than in the woods.
In Leon's opinion, it was only a matter of time before she and the Lightning Tribe merged into the Hammer Tribe, and the difficult situation of the tribe had undoubtedly made her see the cruel reality, but it was difficult to let go for a while.
Leon believed that as long as he took the initiative, he believed that this proud girl would not insist on going her own way and disregarding the safety of her people.
Xue Ni didn't come along, although she also wanted to see the excitement, but the mountain walls here are steep and difficult to walk, and coming here will also drag down the team.
On top of that, the rabbit-descendant girl was accidentally discovered by Munstein to have the gift of a priest and had become the second disciple of the Shaman Elder a few days earlier, and was currently in the beginning of her studies.
Leon asked the soldiers to first clean up the dead trees and rotten roots and other garbage on the river beach, and then carried a shovel and dragged a rectangular frame almost 20 meters long and 10 meters wide on the beach.
The shovel in his hand was made to order in the Blackstone Weapons Shop, using the style of a sapper shovel drawn by Leon himself, using wrought iron to increase and thicken, and the matching wooden handle was planed by the tribe itself.
Three hundred shovels were undoubtedly a large order for the weapons shop in the town, and it took five days to complete the work overnight.
In Leon's opinion, the money was well spent, and the craftsmanship of the blacksmith in the weapons shop was quite good, although the material was only ordinary wrought iron, but the texture was thick and solid, the edge was sharp and wear-resistant, as long as the strength was enough to shovel through the frozen land, it was not a problem.
It can be used as a common tool in normal times, and it can also be used as a powerful weapon at critical moments.
Forcefully thrust the shovel in his hand into the beach, Leon yelled, "Start doing!"
The tribal warriors sprang into action, using the marks drawn by Leon as a boundary, and dug out the beach with shovels.
The beach on the bank of the river is basically made of silt, although it is the middle of winter, and it is quite soft when it is not frozen, so a large number of soldiers work together, and the speed is not ordinary.
A group of people were responsible for excavation, a group of people transported the excavated sediment to other places, and another group of people found boulders from nearby to reinforce the excavated pit walls.
Under the command of Leon, three hundred warriors worked together, and a large pit of two hundred square meters was completed with astonishing speed, and the depth of the pit reached the height of one person at Leon's request.
Akram, who came over to watch the excitement, watched for a long time, and didn't understand what Leon was doing, could it be that if you dig a big hole in the ground, fish will fall from the sky?
Equally curious to him was Rose, the leopard-born girl looking at the pit that was gradually taking shape, and then at Leon, with a puzzled look in her eyes.
Leon didn't care about the eyes of others, and seeing that the pit was almost finished, he drew out a group of people and dug two deep ditches from both ends of the pit near the river, leading to the Nucang River respectively.
Akram gradually realized that Leon first dug a large pit, and then used a ditch to divert water from the river, and the water entered and exited, which eventually turned the large pit into a pool.
But what's the use of digging such a big pool here? Is it fish farming? Akram thought about it and felt that his idea was a little ridiculous.
After nearly half a day's hard work by 300 soldiers, a large pit and two deep canals were successfully completed, and many rivers poured into the pit and canal.
"Dig it up, release the water!"
At Leon's roar, ten warriors swung their shovels in unison to hollow out the last barrier connecting the pit to the Nucang River, and the raging river water immediately poured into the pit and quickly poured into the big pit.
The river was so turbulent that it didn't take much time to fill up the entire pit and the two pits and canals, balancing the water from the top to the bottom and the water to the bottom.
Leon was very satisfied with this result, and he turned to Akran and smiled, "Don't you want to see how I fish?"
"Pull the porcupine!"
Two warriors approached with a blackthorn porcupine tied up in a five-flowered hoop, a half-grown fat pig raised in the Hammer tribe that understood that it was the end of the day, and struggled desperately to let out a terrible howl.
"Kill it, don't waste a little bit of pig blood!"
The blackthorn porcupine rested on a wooden shelf, and a large wooden barrel was placed underneath, and a warrior drew a dagger and stabbed it into the pig's neck.
Poof!
Pig blood spurted out of the wound and poured into the barrel, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
The blackthorn porcupine's howl stopped abruptly, and its limbs twitched and soon stopped moving.
A large bucket of pig blood had accumulated, and Leon ordered, "Pour half a bucket into the pool!"
In full view of everyone, half a bucket of pig blood was poured into the pool, and the blood water mixed with the somewhat turbid river water slowly flowed down the pit below into the Nucang River.
Could it be... Seeing this scene, Akram suddenly understood a little, and he vaguely knew what Leon wanted to do.
In the beginning, everything was calm.
But it wasn't long before a wave suddenly rose on the surface of the river downstream, revealing a dozen black fish ridges, which chased the water mixed with pig's blood upstream, and quickly rushed to the outlet of the pit.
The warriors on the river beach could not help but exclaim, and they could clearly see the big fish in the water, with black backs, blue-gray bellies, long pointed heads, and white fangs with open mouths.
These river monsters that are chasing the bloody ones are definitely not good!
They crowded into the shallow mouth of the pit and scrambled to drill into it, and rushed down the pit into the large pool.
"Cut the porcupine into pieces and throw it down!" Leon ordered again.
The two warriors swung their tomahawks and chopped the carcass of the blackthorn porcupine into pieces of flesh and threw it into a pool of blood, immediately sparking a fierce scramble.
A few of the big fish that entered the pool first were desperately biting the pork, stirring up a pool of river water that was extremely turbid and the waves were churning, which also attracted more fish to rush in and share the feast.
When the warriors threw the last leg down, there were more than a dozen spines visible in the pool, each at least four feet long, and the largest being more than six or seven feet!
Outside the pit, there are still many big fish swimming, and different fish species appear, some with their backs as sharp as sharp swords.
"Brothers, we can harvest!"
Looking at the boiling pool, Leon's face showed a triumphant smile: "With a hook and sickle, in pairs!"
The warriors guarding the pools and ditches cheered, and they took out their hooks and sickles and began to slaughter the fish.
This long-handled hook scythe is also from Leon's handwriting, and it is specially ordered in the weapon shop in Blackstone Town, which is nothing more than a sharp scythe on top of the shuttle gun.
The able-bodied warriors work in pairs, each with a hook and sickle, and after selecting a target, they draw both guns together, stab the fish and pull it back hard.
Due to the presence of the sickle hook, the prey could not break free from the stabbing at all, and the two warriors worked together to pull the large fish weighing hundreds of pounds directly to the shore.
When they get to the shore, no matter how fierce they are, they can't make any waves.
In the beginning, there were several dangerous situations when the warriors were unskilled in their skills, and one of the warriors was almost dragged down by a fish that was struggling violently, but fortunately Leon and Rock Hammer were there to take care of them, and they were all saved from danger.
However, after a few cooperations, the warriors' techniques became more and more proficient, as long as the two cooperated properly, there was no room for the prey to struggle.
One after another, large fish were hooked ashore, and the blood of these fish became bait to attract new schools, and more fish washed into the pool.
By this time, there was no one who did not understand Leon's whole plan of fishing, and looking at the rapidly accumulating schools of fish on the riverbank, they truly admired Leon to the extreme.
Akran and Rose were completely speechless, they really never dreamed that there would be such an easy and convenient way to fish, you must know that these carnivorous fish must be the strong men in the Nucang River, and they are completely slaughtered here.
Leon walked up to a black fish that had just been hooked, took out his saber and bent down to cut through the thick scales, cut off a thin slice of fish, put it in his mouth and chewed it.
The fish is very tender and has a sweet flavor that is characteristic of sashimi, and this kind of fish is definitely the best of the best.
"What are you doing in a daze, and you don't want to bring these fish cuts back?" Leon shouted with a smile to the stunned tribal warriors.
They woke up from a dream, and began to dispose of the spoils of war with their tomahawks, chopping off the heads of the fish and entrailing them, and packing large pieces of fish into sacks and rattan baskets.
In the middle of winter, you don't have to worry about the fish rotting and take it home to marinate or dry, but it's definitely a good food.
In this Nucang River, I don't know how many fish live, and with such a simple fishing method, the Hammer tribe has an inexhaustible source of food.
In this way, the food problem that currently plagues the Hammer tribe is solved!
Rose looked at Leon, who was commanding not far away, and a flash of brilliance flashed in her eyes.