After resting for two days, each one finally returned to his wolf-like appearance.
Just yesterday evening, Shi Meng also returned to the tribe with his hunting team. Song Xuan informed him of Yang Yang's request, and Shi Meng decisively agreed.
Now is the time when the hunting team is most short of people. With the addition of more than a dozen people from Yangyang, the harvest that can be obtained will naturally be much greater.
A hunting team of forty people alone can bring back nearly ten days of consumption for the tribe in one trip. The wild beasts in the mountains are now very active, and it is easy to encounter groups of them.
Even Song Xuan had told them before that they must be captured alive if there was a chance. However, thinking that the food reserves of the tribe were not sufficient during this period of time, Song Xuan continued not to emphasize it and wait for a while. Anyway, it's not a matter of urgency, and there is a cow tribe here to take care of everything.
It can still be seen that Yang Yang and others are a little nervous. After all, this is their first hunting after joining Soaring Snake, and the scale is relatively large. Including fifteen of them, there are already seventy people.
Since there were many places in the tribe that needed work, Song Xuan still deducted a few people from the hunting team.
However, the hunting team of seventy people is still quite powerful among the surrounding waves. Even the Kite Tribe will probably find it difficult to reach this size, and Teng Snake has the potential to go further. Of course, in that case, there will be some work in the tribe. The store is no longer so convenient.
According to Shi Meng's plan, the actual team was still divided into three groups, hunting from different directions. The three captains were naturally Shi Meng, Shi Yong and Shui Yun.
Yangyang's ability is naturally sufficient, but he is not familiar with Tengshe's hunting methods, and his prestige is also low. It is definitely not suitable for him to lead a team. Fortunately, Yangyang is not familiar with this arrangement. It doesn't make sense, he joined the Soaring Snake posture to be lower than Shuiyun's posture at that time.
Since new people have been added, appropriate adjustments must be made to the personnel of each team. Of course, these dozen people will also be dispersed and organized into three teams.
When Soaring Snake's hunting team hunts, they generally do not impose mandatory requirements on weapons. They just use whatever is most suitable for the situation at that time.
However, most people don’t carry too many types of weapons. Firstly, it is inconvenient to run. Secondly, if they carry so many, they may not be able to use them. Usually, it is the main weapon plus a sling and a secondary weapon. weapons.
However, for each weapon, everyone needs to be proficient in how to use it.
The most popular weapon among all kinds of weapons is naturally the bow and arrow. It has great power over a long distance and is not easy to attract the attention of wild beasts. It is really a must-have weapon for home hunting.
Therefore, most people will carry a bow. Those who are good at archery can get twenty arrows, and those who are slightly worse can only have ten. Of course, people like Shi Yu, who specialize in bows and arrows, let him Bring it yourself, of course there are not many such people in the tribe, there are only five people in total.
The two tribes combined have more than forty people, and a total of thirty people are equipped with bows and arrows. The remaining ten or so people bring weapons that they are better at due to personal habits. Anyway, for this, Teng Snake also There will be no hard requirements, as long as you master the use of bows and arrows. When hunting, you will naturally follow what you are best at. If there are mandatory requirements, it will reduce efficiency.
Most of these people are accustomed to using spears as their main weapons. For them, spears are more convenient to use. Of course, javelins and slings are also used more often.
When hunting, people who use various weapons are needed. It is impossible to shoot the prey from a long distance every time. Once in close contact, people who use bows and arrows really can't kill them in a short time. They will definitely be able to react. When the time comes, they will naturally become the group at the front.
Of course, the most peripheral ones must be the captives in the tribe. Even though many of them have joined Soaring Snake, they are still at the forefront during hunting.
Moreover, they usually only have two weapons in their hands, and there are relatively few choices for them. There are only three types of spears, javelins and stone axes.
And the spear is still a must. The other two types depend on their personal habits, so they can just choose to carry them.
Slings and bows and arrows both involve the secrets of Soaring Snakes, so naturally they cannot be easily handed over to them for use. However, this is not much different from their previous hunting, and it is even worse on Soaring Snakes than on the Black Feather Tribe. Much safer.
Therefore, these prisoners did not appear dissatisfied. As long as they were prepared as soon as possible when encountering wild beasts, there was basically no big problem with safety. Large wild beasts were easier for Soaring Snake to hunt.
As long as the two sides are in a confrontation, a dozen arrows will fly over in a short while, and it is difficult for any prey to be able to withstand several rounds of shooting.
Even if there is no way to kill them on the spot, and some prey even escape due to their rough skin and thick flesh, this poses no threat to everyone's safety.
Naturally, Yangyang and the others no longer need to explore the outside. Considering that their bodies have not yet reached their peak, Shi Meng deliberately took care of them when making arrangements, so that they could be in the middle of the team as much as possible, so that they could not compete with the beasts. In a head-on fight, contact must be minimized as much as possible.
With the development of Soaring Snake to its current state, it is rarely possible to fight to the death with wild beasts. With the bow, arrow and sling, the hunting efficiency has been greatly improved. Naturally, there is no need to sacrifice one's own for one or two large beasts. Life goes in.
Of course, when a wild animal is cornered, dogs jumping over walls are exceptions, especially for groups of carnivores, such as wolves and the like. If they dare to turn around and fight for their lives if they are killed, they can only fight with them in such a situation. If he goes head-on, he will definitely not be able to escape.
Moreover, wolves are very vengeful animals. If too many are released at one time, they may come to carry out sneak attacks at night.
After the readjustment, the team now consists of twenty-three or four people.
Shi Meng leads the largest team, with twenty-four people, one more than the other two teams. This is naturally because he is the big leader and naturally has more responsibilities to bear, and the other two leaders are not willing to choose. The team with the most people looks like they are less powerful.
There are ten archers in each team. This is an unbeatable ratio. Although Shi Yu is the leader of the archers, he obviously cannot lead the team alone. This is too unbalanced. However, he does not have a fixed team. The team walked back and forth, instructing everyone on how to choose the best time to shoot.
The other first batch of people who used bows and arrows were also old people with two or three people, scattered among the various teams. The archers also need to cooperate. The strength that one person can exert is very limited, and a smaller number can also be used. It ensures that the damage caused at the same time is more stable. If three or four arrows are shot at the same time, there will generally be no miss. If there are less, it will be difficult to say.
The remaining personnel arrangements are the five people who captured the five sheep tribes, and the other people from Soaring Snake.
There are no requirements for the weapons of several leaders. What is more important for them is to decide the direction of hunting and the arrangements for hunting wild beasts. Therefore, they generally use the weapons they are best at and carry relatively few types, usually just Just one or two.
Naturally, Shi Meng used the javelin he was best at. He was tall and powerful. He carried two rows of javelins each time, a total of ten javelins. Even Shi Meng was no longer satisfied with long-distance accurate throwing, and now also developed A short-distance two-handed throw came out. Although the power is relatively low, it is still very threatening within a dozen meters and can easily penetrate most beasts.
Shi Yong still used the spear he was most accustomed to, and it worked well together with the shield. However, the only drawback was that they could not be used at the same time. Song Xuan was also thinking about whether he could modify the current situation in the tribe. Some shields add a gap on them, which not only has a certain defensive ability, but also exposes the spear, which is also a deterrent. Of course, such changes seem to be more effective when facing the enemy.
Shuiyun, on the other hand, abandoned his previous weapons. His favorite weapon now was the sling. After coming to Teng She's side, he finally had enough pottery balls to practice with.
Shuiyun, who was already very interested in this, couldn't put it down. He practiced it dozens of times every day. This time, he really made him master it. Not only was he unrivaled in the tribe with a slingshot, but that was it. One of the best, very accurate, except that the forward swing is slightly longer, it is basically not much different from a bow and arrow.
Although such a team is not particularly large in number, it is still quite strong and can respond to various emergencies.
A small tribe like Soaring Snake is more suitable for such a small team. It's not like Shi Meng and the others have never tried collective action, but having more people slows down efficiency, and the transmission of information between people is also much slower. It's not just random encounters with groups of animals. In most cases, it's just three or two. Dozens of people swarming around are a bit overkill.
Of course, there are still too few people in Soaring Snakes. If we double the number of people in the existing hunting team, we won't have such a big worry. Then we can just surround an area and slowly squeeze their living space. There is no need to chase him all over the mountains and plains like now. Of course, Teng Snake still has a long way to go before he can hunt in this way.
Fortunately, not all places are densely forested. Otherwise, just chasing through the forest would tire many people to death. As the gathering team and the hunting team left the tribe, the noisy tribe finally became quiet again.
