The long winter is finally coming to an end, and the snow outside is clearly melting.

However, the snow accumulated throughout the winter, on the untouched ground outside the tribe, a depth of one meter is common, and even some low-lying places are deeper.

With such a thick snow, it still takes a lot of time to completely melt, not to mention that the temperature is barely high in just a few hours at noon, and the sunshine in winter is already short, and it usually takes a month to wait for the snow to melt and the ground to dry out.

There wasn't much snow in the tribe, but when the temperature came up, the ground became muddy, and the water on the ground came either from the winter or from the snow on the roof.

What the tribe has to do now is to remove the snow from the roof, otherwise it will be inconvenient to let it drain and move around the tribe.

Fortunately, this year has absorbed the lessons of previous years, and the most critical routes have been paved with a layer of bricks, at least there is no problem in walking in the tribe for a short time.

If you don't have such a road, it's very troublesome to eat every day, if you wear shoes, you walk all the way, the soles of your feet are muddy, and after entering the house, you will make a mess of the house, and if you don't wear shoes, it's much cleaner, although you can wash it in the basin at the door before entering the house, but it's still very uncomfortable to walk barefoot in winter, and now it's at least a lot easier for everyone to go to and from the main house, and at other times, you can only suffer a little.

But even so, it is much better than before, although the captives do not have a path paved with bricks, but after all, the range of activities is relatively small, Song Xuan also asked them to pave a road with straw, as long as their feet are not covered with mud.

When the snow in the tribe melts and the ground dries out, you can move freely, and the temperature in the yard will be much higher, Song Xuan is also ready to let everyone move some straw back, and after all the snow on the roof is brought down, it will be burned for a few days.

At that time, such a problem should be solved soon, although the area of the tribe is a lot larger, but there are many people, and the work is still very fast, and the stone class also worked overtime to make a few ladders for everyone, so that it is much more convenient to go to the top of the house.

It only took one day for everyone to clean up the snow on the roof, and even most of the snow was transported out, but after all, the roof is paved with thatch or straw, there will definitely be remnants, and the remaining snow will melt quickly, after all, the surrounding of the house is not only dependent on the outside temperature, but also the heat in the house has a small impact, even if the paste is relatively tight, and there are a lot of radiations.

However, the tribe that everyone finally cleaned up was beaten back to before liberation by a light snow, and it took a few days before it was almost done.

Although most of the rice fields were still covered with snow, Song Xuan still asked the captives to pack up a small piece, which was naturally used to debug the new plow, because it was basically done according to the previous one, but the plough shovel and details were improved, and everyone used it quickly.

Considering the situation in the tribe, it may be very busy after the beginning of spring this year, Song Xuan thought that after the ice on the river melted, he would send Shi Mao to take people to a few tribes, the consumption of salt in the tribe was not much, at least lower than Song Xuan's expectations, of course, this was also related to the very economical use in winter.

Originally, some was distributed to the captives, but the captives basically drank gruel throughout the winter, and even if they occasionally added food and sprinkled salt in the soup, they didn't eat much, and the salt left in the tribe could barely complete an exchange with several other tribes.

As for the reason why the tribe waited for the weather to be better and went to the valley to refine some salt and came back, and the quality of the salt of the Wuyu tribe was better than that of the Teng snake, Song Xuan also asked from the captive.

It turns out that the salt of the Wuyu tribe comes from a salt lake, but this is not the kind that Song Xuan imagined, the salt lake that the Wuyu tribe occupies now is very deep, and it is not so convenient to mine, but no matter how specific the situation is, even Wucang, who has the highest status among the captives, does not know.

After a winter of "torture", Teng Snake now has a much clearer understanding of the Black Feather Tribe, although Teng Snake was also a small tribe below Black Feather before, but the level of Black Feather is quite strict, and this small tribe of Teng Snake is not even a few leaders, let alone the king of the Black Feather Tribe.

And this salt lake is in the hands of King Wu, and even the major leaders are not so clear, they only know the place, and they don't know how to obtain and refine it.

The composition of the Black Feather Tribe is much more complicated than the current Teng Snake, and the perennial conquest has led to more than a dozen people from different tribes in the Black Feather Tribe, some of which are voluntary and some are involuntary, but no matter what, it is definitely impossible to leave easily after entering the Black Feather Tribe.

Such a complex situation, it is necessary for the people of the black feather headquarters to have an absolute advantage, at least in a single tribe, the people of the black feather are the most, and the current situation of the Teng snake is almost the same, the black feather also firmly grasps the strongest force, if the battle is not particularly important, the opponent is not very strong, then it is like after the tribe moved over, the first time the black feather came to attack, the people from the black feather tribe are only a few.

Although the people's hearts are not so united, but in fact, the combat effectiveness is not bad, after all, there are more people, and some people are pressing, and other people dare not use their strength, but the disadvantage is that once they are defeated, there is basically no chance to regroup

And this battle is the second situation, almost everyone is the Wuyu tribe's own people, and the worst is later joined due to various factors, not to mention anything else, at least there is no need to worry about defection and the like, and the weapons are also better, and the combat effectiveness is naturally much stronger.

No matter how strong the opponent is, it is the strongest combat power of the Black Feather tribe, which is also the most mysterious team of Black Feather, and even before that, the Teng Snake people have not heard much of it.

This group of people is not much, according to Wucang, it is only more than sixty people, that is, the population of a small tribe, but these more than sixty people are composed of the most brave and warlike warriors of the Wuyu tribe.

And the weapons and equipment used by this group of people are also the best among the black feathers, at least now all of them have used bronze ore weapons, although the shield is not as good as the Teng Snake, but it is much better than the simple animal skin shield used by the dark clouds before, at least it is not so awkward to hold in the hand.

These sixty or so people also have a very high status in the Wuyu tribe, and they only need to obey the orders of the king of Wu, in the tribe, even the previous dark clouds cannot mobilize them, you must know that in the Wuyu tribe, Wuyu is the first leader, and it is basically the same as Shi Meng on the side of Teng Snake.

In this way, it is possible to mobilize this group of people and get the order of the king of Wu, and the status of this group of people can be imagined.

However, it is not easy to feed such a group of high-combat personnel, at least in terms of food, according to Wucang's description, over the course of a year, these sixty or so people have to eat at least twice the normal amount of food, even if there is no task, when resting in the tribe, even in winter, it has not decreased.

This group of people can be said to be the warriors of the Wuyu tribe, and the battle is naturally quite strong, with their joining, the combat power of the entire team will be improved a lot, after all, they are all not afraid of death, although the fear of death is possible in each tribe when facing a life and death crisis, but the gap in combat power is difficult to make up, especially from strength to weapons in all directions.

However, even in the brave warriors, in the war, there must be casualties, but the number of this group has never decreased, a total of six squads, each squad has a captain, but the leader of the team will also personally lead a small team, in the case of full sixty-six people.

After every war, people will be selected from among the warriors of the tribe to fill in, and the conditions selected are naturally very high, and ordinary people can easily not enter.

And in the Wuyu tribe, the Wu King's personal guard has also been proud, after all, the position of the leader is relatively limited, and it is very difficult to defeat the current leader, and joining the Wu King's personal guard, at least the living conditions will be much improved.

However, raising such a group of guards is not a small burden for the tribe, even the black feather has not been greatly expanded, and because it is too expensive, they will not be sent to participate in ordinary battles, and the tasks given to them are often the more difficult ones.

Of course, sometimes one or two squads will be sent to strengthen the army, responsible for leading the charge and the like, which can have a better effect on the attack.

In the Wuyu tribe, the refining of salt is also controlled by this group of people, and they will regularly bring some salt back, which is used daily and traded with the surrounding tribes.

However, this salt lake was not in the hands of the Black Feather tribe at the beginning, there were multiple tribes at that time, almost at about the same time all discovered this treasure land, which also broke out a protracted war, although after the outbreak of the war, the Black Feather tribe occupied the advantage most of the time, but there were times when it was robbed.

The war continued until the year before last, when the war gradually stopped, and Karashiwa basically had a firm grip on the salt lake.

However, the benefits brought by the salt lake to the Wuyu tribe are also considerable, the population of the tribe has increased by almost half, and many northern enemies have been eliminated in one battle.

There are not many enemies of the Black Feather Tribe, but the most threatening to them is the northern tribes, although the number is not large, each tribe is only a hundred people, but the number of tribes is quite a lot, there are six or seven people in contact with the Black Feather Tribe alone, and the combat effectiveness of this group of people is very strong.

Daily hunting is not like Teng snake, black feather this kind of hunting in the mountains, they are riding horses in the grassland to hunt, although there are a lot of risks to face, but the benefits are also quite high, and the biggest danger is that the ability to resist risks is too poor, a slight change in the weather, the impact on them is very great.

And the climate in the north is already worse, even if there is a strong wind, they may not be able to go out hunting, and they can barely feed the tribe after a year of hard work, but they have a second choice, that is, to rob the other tribes around them.

The preferred tribe is naturally the Black Feather Tribe, and the salt is equally important to them, and the most difficult tribes to solve with the Black Feather tribe who forcibly seized the salt lake are these groups.

However, now they can put much less pressure on the black feathers, in the previous battle, the dark clouds managed to lure them into the valley, and then mobilized the warriors who had ambushed them to block the front and back, so that they were able to kill and injure a group of people.

At least by the time the dark clouds invaded the southern tribes again, several ethnic groups in the north had not yet eased up, and there was only a small area of looting, which did not have much impact.

Otherwise, the dark clouds will be able to lead half of the tribe's warriors at one time, but even so, it still failed, for the black feather tribe, the consequences are still quite serious, and the previous relatively large threats, the possibility of relaunching a large-scale war is not very large.

Not only did the Black Feather tribe repel the opposing side in battle, but the Black Feather tribe also decisively traded with several tribes after mastering the salt lake, although the asking price was not low, but it was not wise to have a war with such a large tribe for a long time.

And the result of the battle was not satisfactory, not only did the Black Feather tribe not become weaker, but also gradually grew, and the other surrounding tribes simply agreed to the exchange of the Black Feather Tribe, although they would pay some food, but at least they didn't have to lose manpower frequently.

For several tribes, it is an acceptable result.

However, once the other tribes know that the warriors of the black feather have lost most of them at this time, it is estimated that the war will resume, and it is not known whether the black feather tribe will be able to withstand the rest of the matter.

Song Xuan hoped that he could hold on for a little longer, Teng Snake also needed time to develop, at least when the Black Feather tribe popularized bronze weapons, and once the Black Feather was solved, then basically they would have to come into direct contact with other large tribes, and when the time came, whether they recognized Teng Snake or not, the possibility of war was very great, and it was best to accumulate enough strength to contact them in order to have more power.

However, this is not something that Teng Snake is about to face, the first strong enemy is still the Black Feather Tribe, as for the northern tribes and other tribes, it is better to know the relevant news, and it may be more convenient to contact it after having a general understanding.

What Song Xuan wanted to know most was definitely the situation of the Wuyu tribe, this time he understood it more thoroughly, at least a lot of information was not known by people like Teng Snake before.

This will definitely be more beneficial for future wars, before Teng Snake almost knew nothing, and even the population was not very clear, let alone other things.

At the same time, among these captives, many of them are high-level, and they still have a very thorough understanding of the overall situation, but for things like the salt lake, which are controlled by the king of Wu himself, they will know a lot less information as soon as they want, but they still know the information about location.

Although bronze ore is also more important, it was found in the process of hunting at the beginning, and it was only more breathable than the ordinary, and it was very troublesome to mine and polish, so it has always been the king of Wu who sent a team and ordinary clansmen to mine.

This is good news for Teng Snake, at least I know that there will not be too many people, and the number of mining times a year is not much, generally before the winter will dig one or two batches back, after the winter polishing, used in the next year's hunting and fighting.

If there are still ores in the tribe, they will not mine them on a large scale, after all, they are still mainly hunting and foreign wars, and they can't spare too much time to polish these ores.

In this way, the risk of encountering the enemy will be much smaller, although according to impermanence, the people who go to mine ore every time are about seventy or eighty, but once they meet, even if they can fight, the price they need to pay is definitely not small, at least there is a whole team of Wuwang guards here.

Moreover, in the environment of the wild, even if the manpower is equal, Teng Snake's side does not have too many advantages, not to mention that Song Xuan was ready to fight only twenty or thirty people at the beginning.

In addition, Song Xuan finally knew the source of the bow and arrow of the Wuyu tribe, but there was some misunderstanding of the bow and them before, and the things were basically the same as what they said, and the Wuyu tribe was the only one who mastered the bow and arrow manufacturing technology at that time.

But the only loophole is in the body of Ulin who was beaten by the Teng Snake and fractured all over his body, and was carried out on a dying basis, although he was tortured very badly on the side of the Teng Snake, no matter who judged it, according to the current level of medical care, it was a matter of mercy to the gods to be able to live until the night.

But in that state, Wu Lin still survived, of course, the consequence was that he had completely lost his ability to move, and he couldn't even control his urine and urine, even if Shi Meng and others greeted him in the face at that time, and even knocked out his full mouth of teeth, but after the swelling was reduced, he did not completely lose his ability to speak.

However, the original language is relatively simple, and the meaning that can be expressed is quite limited, not to mention the situation of Ulin, but with the efforts of many parties, the Wuyu tribe still regained the production of bows and arrows, although it is worse than the previous one, but the effect is still very obvious.

With the blessing of the arrowhead made of bronze ore, the power is even stronger than that of the Teng Snake, but it is a little closer.

However, the production of bows and arrows was only done after last summer, and it was not done quickly, so by the time the dark clouds invaded south, the number of archers in the team was very small.

But now that I think that I have mastered the production method, then the follow-up must also be in the production, and the number will only increase, and if the bow and arrow can form a scale, the power is still considerable.

Not to mention that even if they lose three hundred warriors, but the population is still there, if they really make hundreds of bows, it is estimated that few tribes can stop it, but this is not very likely to happen, after all, they will face the problem of hunting after the beginning of spring.

Without these three hundred tribesmen, even if they control the salt lake, it is not easy to solve the stomach problem, let alone once the news is known by other tribes, it is difficult to say whether the salt lake can be controlled.

This is also the worst of the many news that Song Xuan knows, but it can also be regarded as a wake-up call to Song Xuan, that is, since he is not ready to show mercy, he still needs to be more ruthless in the future, and indecision will inevitably leave hidden dangers.

At that time, even if it was solved on the spot, it would not have caused a worse result, anyway, the two sides had already turned against each other, and it was unlikely that the Wuyu tribe at that time would free up so many people, but the Teng snake at that time had just settled down, even if there were dozens of more people, the threat was quite large, but since the matter had already happened, it could only pay more attention in the future.

Fortunately, the Ebiyu tribe is very slow to make bows and arrows, and the beast tendons needed to make bows and arrows are not so easy to obtain, not to mention that Ebona didn't pay so much attention to hunting before, and with the benefits brought by the salt lake, they don't need to take huge risks to fight against large beasts.

And there is no Teng Snake around the snake to find a large piece of wood that is most suitable for making bows and arrows, using more general materials, anyway, this speed is not easy to raise all at once, even if it is Teng Snake, with a few skilled craftsmen, it took nearly half a year to form a certain scale.

In the bow and arrow, Teng Snake still has a certain advantage, the new bow has basically been improved, and it is currently in the process of testing, but there are problems, that is, the requirements for the two ends of the bow arm are higher, but if the wood alone, it is still not able to withstand long-term use, but Song Xuan has not come up with a better solution at present, he thought of a few, and finally used it on it, whether it is a set of animal skins or a bronze coat, it can't be used, and even the result has deteriorated, Therefore, it can only be used for the time being.

However, it's a big deal to change it every once in a while, at least in terms of the benefits it brings, it's not a big loss, the new bow has almost half an increase in range, and the maximum distance can reach nearly 100 meters, and it can still penetrate a single layer of animal skin at this distance.

You must know that this distance can only be barely achieved by the enlarged version of the strong bow, and the accuracy is very average, basically you can only rely on luck, but if you want to ensure the best, the lethality can only be within seventy or eighty meters, but even if it is improved like this, it is quite obvious, and this is still an ordinary arrow.

If you can replace it with bronze arrows, the lethality should be able to increase a little more, because the bronze arrows are somewhat precious, the current test is still ordinary, but they are all newly polished, in terms of single penetration, just in the face of animal skin, in fact, it is not much weaker than bronze.