One day after the earth wall was built, Hua Feng suddenly hurried to find Hua Xi who was repairing and inspecting the earth wall. He gasped and said: "Tribe... Patriarch, the tribesmen we were hunting outside just now were attacked by an unknown tribe. Fortunately, we reacted.
Come on, everyone ran back with minor injuries!"
"Ah! Unknown tribe, attacking...?" Hua Xi quickly dropped the wood in his hand and made sure again.
"Yes..." Hua Feng turned his head and looked at the forest to the west, and said bitterly
"Then are they coming after them? How many people are there?" Hua Xi confirmed that she heard correctly, and quickly took Hua Feng's hand and walked outside the village gate and asked.
"There were more than forty people seen, and... no one else... I don't know if the others were chasing me or not..." Hua Feng reported what he knew intermittently.
"Well, then he..."
"Clan...Clan leader! Someone...attacked...us..." Several intermittent but high-pitched voices interrupted Hua Xi's continued questioning. A series of unfavorable news came. At this time, Hua Xi wanted to say
If you're not nervous, that's just a lie. When you look up, a member of the hunting team rushes over in a panic.
Hua Xi went up to him and asked about it. He found out that the tribesmen responded to the same thing as Hua Feng, that they were attacked by other tribes during the hunting process.
"Could it be the tribe where the barbarians belonged that day? But why didn't they attack the village directly? Primitive people also know how to disturb the enemy's supply? Or..." A series of questions rolled up and down in Hua Xi's mind.
Doubts remain doubts. Now the tribe's food supply is in trouble. If this bad situation continues, then the tribe's food reserves before winter will be seriously insufficient. The livestock raised are not enough to support the consumption of more than three hundred mouths.
Weapons, weapons needed for defense. Nowadays, there are more than 300 people in the clan, and more than 200 people have fighting ability. In this barbaric era, women, like men, need to engage in hunting, felling and other serious physical labor, although they have innate strength and speed.
Not as good as men, but much stronger than the otakus of later generations. Tens of thousands of years of fighting with nature have given primitive people, both men and women, extremely tough characters and physical abilities. In the six months they have been together, Hua Xi has already learned a lot about it.
There is no doubt about the strength of the female tribe members
Although the division of labor in human society is finer and the social progress is greater, the current situation may be a disaster of genocide. To hell with these nonsense, as long as the tribesmen with fighting ability, regardless of gender, are gathered by Hua Xi for a "pre-war meeting"
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"Now, there are unknown hostile tribes attacking our hunting team one after another. If the situation continues, we will have nothing to eat. What do you think we should do?" Hua Xi directly and clearly stated the current situation, specifically pointing out that there will be no food to eat, throwing out the question.
This technique is often used by us in later generations, and it is also applicable to primitive people. If you discuss too many things with primitive people, they will only become more confused without any help.
How could the tribesmen not be angry when they suddenly heard that their food source was being attacked? Food is the most important thing for the people, and what could be more serious than taking away the food in their mouths? Curses, anger, desperate voices and emotions were rapid.
The whole water tribe exploded like an atomic explosion, and the anger quickly spread into the minds of every water tribe member.
Seeing that the mood was almost rising, Hua Xi said again: "They may come to attack our village. What do you think we should do?"
"Kill...kill...kill..."
If the lack of food means taking away their lives, then attacking this village that they have continued to protect and develop is the extermination of their entire tribe. Not only has the village gathered their hard work for countless days and nights, but there are also their relatives and children here.
No matter how weak a person is, as long as they still have a trace of blood, they will resist when the lives of their loved ones are seriously threatened, let alone primitive people? The primitive animal nature was completely provoked by Hua Xi's few words, and there was a roar of murder in the sky above the entire Shui Tribe tribe.
The mood of the tribe was high, and it was time to use it. In the following time, Hua Xi not only told Hua Feng and the others not to go out hunting for the next few days, but to help make the weapon "bow and arrow" that Hua Xi had always wanted to make. The making of bow and arrow, 80
In those days, hunters in mountainous areas would make their own costumes and go hunting in the mountains. When Hua Xi was a child, she witnessed the process of her grandfather making bows and arrows. At that time, the playful Hua Xi was young and had no interest in the manufacturing process. Hua Xi only had a vague impression in her mind.
There was no way, the dead horse was treated as a living horse. Although the manufacturing process was vague, Hua Xi remembered clearly the materials used to make the bow and arrows. When she was a child, she didn't know how many times she touched the bow that was treasured by her grandfather. There were many types of bows, and they were lethal.
The power, rate of fire, and range are all different, but Hua Xi doesn't have much research on this. As long as the bow can kill and injure the enemy, it is a good bow for him. Hua Xi doesn't even think about those bows that require more than a hundred processes.
First of all, the material for making the bow can be used as long as it is completely dry and strong. Of course, it is ok if it is not available. However, it will break quickly and cannot be used. The range and lethality may be reduced a lot. There are oak, elm, birch and willow trees by the river in the nearby forest.
They are all ideal materials for making bows. Now that the materials for the bow handle are available, the next step is to make them. Hua Xi started making them based on what he saw and vague memories.
For the length of the bow handle, Hua Xi puts her right hand on the side of her waist, holds one end of the spring wood, and then grabs the spring wood with her left hand and straightens it forward to make a mark. This length should be the length suitable for her. The middle part of the bow handle
It is about 5 cm wide and tapers at both ends. Carve a groove about 2 cm away from the ends of the handle at both ends to fix the bow string. Then use a pottery knife to peel off the bark. After shaping the bow handle, apply a layer of grease on the surface.
The bow handle is complete
The material and production of the bowstring are much simpler. The selection of materials is similar to that of the bow handle, as long as it is elastic. Hua Xi used raw cowhide and beef tendon to make the bowstring. He used a pottery knife to cut the rawhide into long, tough pieces of about 3 mm.
strips, and then fix the cowhide and tighten it in the groove. In this way, the bow is completed.
Naturally, a bow must have arrows, otherwise how to shoot the target? Birch wood, like the bow handle, is a good arrow-making material. Huafeng and the others used tools to select the birch wood and cut out a strip about 60 cm long and 3 cm wide.
The size of the arrow shaft is then carved with a groove on the end of the arrow shaft to facilitate attaching it to the bow string when shooting.
The next step is to use chicken feathers to add arrow feathers to the arrow shaft. Although the production of arrow feathers is simple, it can greatly improve the range and accuracy of the bow. The arrow part is even simpler. Hua Xi directly sharpens the front end of the arrow shaft and quenches it.
It becomes a stone and can be sharpened to make a really sharp arrow. Cut a slit in the center of the front end of the arrow shaft and insert the arrow into it. The tendon of the animal is a good binding material. It is used when it is wet and will shrink when it dries.