Chapter 117: Cold Winter
Drinking the broth in the bowl and looking at the few deer scattered in the snow, Shi Meng's saliva secreted again, but he could only suck the soup to relieve his hunger.
Although he is greedy, these are the hearts of the divine envoys, so naturally they can't be eaten, but thinking about the big cake that Song Xuan painted for him, Shi Meng is full of enthusiasm again, if there are more livestock in the tribe, then there will be a lot of fresh meat even in winter in the future.
There is no need to be like now, running around for more than half a year, and in the end, the dried meat is gnawed, dry, and the teeth can be knocked out.
The days of winter are always very long, even if Song Xuan has already thought of ways to let everyone do a single job every day, but being trapped in the house all day long, it is inevitable that he will be a little depressed after a long time, and occasionally there will be small conflicts.
However, there is an advantage in this era, that is, once everyone has something unhappy in their hearts, they will say it directly, and then they should fight and make trouble, and others will give up a small circle and let the two of them fall well.
Daily drills will at least ensure that this group of wild people will not be full and have nothing to do.
The current Teng Snake is very different from before, and he couldn't even eat enough before, so he naturally didn't have the mood to think about other things, although the ration is not as good as usual, but the corresponding amount of activity is also a lot less, so it's okay to eat enough.
The development of the plough was quite successful, after Song Xuan assembled it, he found a few more places in the tribe to experiment, although the area is not large, but it is basically able to simulate the use of the field, and it is still a little stumbling to pull it up with manpower, but it should be better to use cattle or deer.
If you want to achieve the kind of effect in later generations, you must go through repeated polishing and improvement, but now it has reached a point where it can be used, and the efficiency will definitely be much faster than the current slow digging with a rake.
Although he hasn't really experimented in the field, Song Xuan has already begun to let the Shi Ban and a few people start to make ploughshares, which is also the most critical part, and it is relatively troublesome to make, most of the other things can be spliced together with wood, even the wheel of the curved plough can be made on a large scale.
If you want to make a plowshare, it will take at least two or three days for a person to do it, and if you really start to make it after next year, you will definitely not be able to catch up.
As long as the plough shovel can be used, the other parts will be adjusted slowly, and Song Xuan's expectations are not too high, he just wants it to reach the point where it can be used.
The whole tribe was helping, and by that time it had also lightened the burden on the Shi Ban, and at least in a month, twenty new bows had already been made, but nearly half of them were for children.
Even so, the speed is more than twice as fast as before, and after the winter, they don't need to worry about other things, and if there are tasks that everyone can complete, just leave them to others.
As long as they concentrate on making bows and assembling arrows, the speed is naturally faster, and now not only can they have twenty arrows per person, but they even have a stock, and there are never too many arrows, and the more they are used, the more they can be safe.
When the arrows were not very sufficient before, Shi Yu was very careful every time they shot out, as much as possible to ensure accuracy, although the arrows were used less, but it was easy to miss the opportunity.
Although it can't be said to be open to use now, it won't be tiptoeing, and the efficiency will naturally be much faster, and if you can solve it with a bow and arrow, try not to send people, which is also Song Xuan's consistent philosophy.
As the saying goes, if you are poor, tactics are interspersed, and if you are rich, you will be covered with firepower, and Song Xuan is also a person in the late stage of lack of firepower.
At the same time, this concept has gradually been accepted by everyone, mainly because the fire cover is really cool to use, even if it is a stone thrown by a catetet, as long as the number is sufficient, it can also pose a considerable threat.
This is also the main thing in everyone's daily training, whether it is the last time against the Black Feather Tribe or the usual hunting experience, it shows the importance of ranged weapons, especially when the number is at a disadvantage.
In this era, no matter how powerful you are, it is also a personal bravery, in general, most of the tribes in the same number of people, the difference in strength is not particularly large, they all rely on two feet to run all over the mountains, fighting with wild beasts all day long, the weak have long been eliminated by this environment, and the rest are not easy to mess with.
In this form, weapons are particularly important, and bows and arrows are the only place where Teng Snake can surpass the Black Feather Tribe, although they have to master the crafting skills first, but if they are not particularly lucky, it is definitely not easy to find enough high-quality materials.
Even if it is made with other wood, the performance will naturally be worse, of course, the most important thing is that several people in the Wuyu tribe who know how to make bows and arrows are here now, and the only thing that may be reversed is that Ulin is also in a half-dead state, at least when he is lifted out of the Teng Snake, there are not a few complete bones on his body.
Song Xuan was confident that even if he was still alive, the Black Feather Tribe would definitely not be able to catch up with the Teng Snake in terms of the speed of making bows and arrows.
Although the space in the room is not particularly spacious, it is enough to do a simulation training:
"Shoot!"
Shi Yu is training the ability of the archery team to shoot volleys, and it may be a good thing for some people who are particularly strong in archery, but for most people, they will soon find a difficult choice, and once there is a battle, it is easy to find the wrong person.
And the shock effect is far less than this large-scale salvo, the tribe of eighty bows, at the same time to the target in the established direction, a round of volleys, two rows of a total of twenty grass targets, almost every target has arrows inserted on it.
With such power, the sharp effect of thwarting the enemy's attack is still quite good, even if it encounters a shrinking tribe, in terms of the existing defenses of other tribes, the effect is quite considerable.
Not every tribe has a strong wall like Teng Snake, it can only be said to be a fence before, but now after layers of reinforcement, it can already be said to be a wall, and Song Xuan has also made a decision, if he really finds the lime mine, the first thing to do is to upgrade the existing defense measures, the house can be lived in a little worse, but the safety aspect can not be tolerated, the slightest sloppiness.
However, the width of the room still limits the power of the bow and arrow, and everyone can only go out to practice when it is not snowing, but fortunately, the wind and snow are not as frequent as at the beginning, although there will be heavy snow occasionally, but neither the duration nor the power can be compared with the beginning of the period.
However, the weather was still very cold, and Song Xuan sometimes wanted to go out for a walk, but as soon as he left the house, he quickly shrank back.
Now the temperature is getting lower and lower day by day, basically it has reached the coldest time of the year, to say that the temperature in this world is also abnormal enough, when it is hot, it can kill people, and when it is cold, it can freeze to death.
At least Song Xuan, as a half-southerner before, had never experienced such a low temperature.
Fortunately, there was enough wood in the tribe, and the house was very warm, and even in the house where the cattle lived, Song Xuan equipped them with things to keep them warm.
Every house where the animals live will have an opening of about half a meter, which is also left by Song Xuan early in the morning, the purpose is to prevent the temperature from being too low in winter, although the house is more comfortable to sit in, but if you really want to keep warm, in fact, it is not necessarily better than going to the cave outside.
At least the cave of the Tengsnake original tribe is easier to warm up than the current house, and the temperature is not easy to overflow, and most of the caves inhabited by animals are also carefully selected, basically warm in winter and cool in summer.
But after being caught here, although a wooden house has been put on the outside, after all, it is made of wood and grass mud, and it is not very thick, even if the door is blocked by wooden doors and curtains, it will still be ventilated.
In recent days, every time Song Xuan went to see Uncle Lu, they were also curled up together, obviously affected by the wind and snow and low temperatures.
When it didn't snow, Song Xuan gave them this small kang that he imagined in advance, in fact, it was to build a stove with bricks, burn a few fires in the stove at night, and put a few fires in the stove after the temperature was up.
Although the effect is not as good as the heating in the back room, at least it does not make the inside of the house too cold, and the outside is also blocked by a small wooden shed, and the fire can usually burn until the second half of the night.
This is also a temporary makeshift thing, Song Xuan didn't do it at first, and he didn't expect that this winter would be even colder than last year.
But at this time to make it, it is regarded as to accumulate experience for the fire, although the scale and production methods are not the same, but the technical principle is still similar, at least after so many days of use, it seems that it can still be used to expand it, but the kang can only match the brick and earth wall, and the existing wooden wall is not quite matched for the time being.
The small kang of the cattle is also, with a lot of mud around to paste, otherwise the fire is really easy to char the surrounding wood, although it is said that there will be no fire, but the air leakage everywhere is also certain.
Fortunately, this kind of weather will only last for a month at most, and it won't last too long, as long as you survive this period of time, it won't be so cold, at least you can stay in a closed room.
The weather is cold, and everyone's work efficiency has slowed down, but Song Xuan also knows that this is an unavoidable thing, after all, according to the habits of previous years, at this time, they are all lying in the house to rest, that is, this year's food is enough, so as to meet everyone's daily activities.
Anyway, there is still plenty of time, and most of the set goals have been completed, so there is no need to be too anxious, a comfortable life is also good, and it is rare to have such a leisure time in a year.