After having pottery, life among the tribe became much more convenient.
Nowadays, everyone can get at least one pottery basin. Although it is not light to carry, it can still meet the needs of daily washing.
Under the leadership of Song Xuan, it has become a habit among the tribe to bring a basin of water and simply wash up every morning. Even if it is perfunctory, they will still pretend to rinse their mouths a few times.
Of course, those who learned better would be like Song Xuan, who dipped a tree branch in some salt and brushed his teeth.
Especially for the children in the tribe, Song Xuan still put forward certain requirements for them. They still have to brush their teeth twice a day. Especially in this season, there are so many sweet wild fruits, so they don’t need to take care of them after eating. If so, it will also be very harmful to the teeth.
But in any case, this is a primitive society, food is relatively simple, and the dental condition is not as bad as that of later generations.
Song Xuan briefly counted the pottery used by the Tengshe tribe, and it was estimated that there were more pottery than the surrounding tribes combined.
There is no way, this is also not allowed by strength.
Who said only Teng She has mastered the making of pottery?
Pottery pots, pottery bowls, and pottery basins are almost always shared by each person. However, this kind of single-person pot, to be more precise, is a larger bowl. When the products are relatively abundant, you can hold more things when eating. No need to run back and forth.
The bowls in the tribe are mostly used for drinking soup. Of course, they are not small. It is not a big problem to hold one or two kilograms of water.
The next step for pottery is to wait for the stone to figure out its more detailed ratio. Before that, it probably won't be mass-produced. After all, there is a better direction. Making too much now is a waste. In the tribe The inventory is enough to satisfy a swap meet or two.
In addition, those who will be eliminated by then will be a large amount.
Song Xuan's requirements for everything in the tribe are not just sufficient. If it can be done better, it must be as perfect as possible.
Technology is the primary productive force. Although we are in a primitive society, the truth contained in it has not become smaller but is very important. Even a simple breakthrough can achieve a leading position among various tribes and at least make a breakthrough. Snake is now in the absolute lead.
Now that you have reaped the benefits, you naturally have to keep it up.
After all, the technology mastered by the tribe is still in its most primitive state. Many things are like firing pottery and making bows and arrows. It's just that other tribes haven't thought of better methods. It doesn't mean that they don't know this principle yet.
By chance, they might discover it one day. If Soaring Snake is still stagnant, it will have no advantage.
But fortunately, Teng She's lead is still very obvious.
Although the weapons don't look much different from other tribes, the materials used for bows and arrows are the best, and the craftsmanship in every link has been very perfect. Even if four or five people of Teng She's size are dedicated to It took nearly a year of planning and production to reach its peak. It was not so easy for other tribes to catch up.
Although bows and arrows are still being made now, the speed is no longer as fast as before. What is more important is to upgrade the ones that were not done well before. At that time, there was a lack of animal sinews, and some bows were used from some that were not very strong. The strength extracted from the beasts is naturally relatively average. Although it can be used, after this year's accumulation, it can be replaced with a better one.
These bows and arrows are just right for the women and children of the tribe. Their needs are not that great, and their strength is also smaller.
Now, most people in the tribe already have bows and arrows, except of course the captives and the new members of the Sheep Tribe. The captives are naturally worried that some of them will secretly leak the secret. After all, there are several people who have not completely surrendered to Teng She.
Yang Yang and the others came at an unlucky time. When they joined Soaring Snake, they had already passed the training period. In addition, their bodies were relatively weak, so they were only allowed to practice with children's weapons. It didn't take long, so naturally I haven't fully mastered it yet. Later, I joined the hunting team, so naturally I didn't have much time to practice.
Of course, the hunting team does not need so many archers for the time being, which is also a very important reason.
But even so, most people in the Sheep Tribe have now mastered the use of bows and arrows, but the accuracy is slightly worse. I believe they will improve after gradual training.
Now Gongyi and the others are still responsible for the production of bows and arrows, but basically only one batch comes out every month. In addition to replacement, although some have been made, they are not assembled. After all, once the bow is assembled, if it is not used for a long time, its strength will be reduced. Somewhat affected.
So these are all waiting to be assembled later when needed. Anyway, the bow arms and strings have already been made, and assembling them is just a matter of adding one set.
However, although many details of the attack have been optimized, the killing distance has not been greatly improved. Even the best bow among the tribes can only reach a distance of 80 to 90 meters at most if it is fully drawn. If you want to ensure enough killing In terms of strength, it is even only fifty or sixty meters.
If it is further away, it will be okay to deal with some animals whose fur is not that thick, but it will basically have no lethality against large animals, and it will even be very difficult to penetrate their fur.
Of course, when hunting among tribesmen, they are basically carried out within a distance of twenty to thirty meters, so both accuracy and lethality are very high.
But in any case, this distance is already the limit that can be achieved in this era. Although the javelin is powerful enough, if you want to ensure accuracy, it is usually only a few dozen meters. Although the sling is farther, for those who are prepared For people, the lethality is not that great. Of course, intensive attacks are definitely not in this category. No matter how you avoid this situation, it will be difficult to escape.
Most of the battles in this era are hand-to-hand combat, and there are not many tribes that can even freely use javelins like Soaring Snake. After all, for most tribes, javelins are also very precious things and require a lot of effort to make. Ordinary tribes On average, a hunting team only has one or two guns, unlike Soaring Snake, where everyone carries at least five.
In such a situation, the bow, arrow and sling are very useful.
However, the Bow and Arrow Soaring Snake may have hidden it better, but Song Xuan estimated that other tribes already knew about such a thing. It just depends on whether anyone wants to make a few of them, just like the Black Water at that time. Like tribes.
But Song Xuan is not worried. After all, the sling is very simple to make and use. The only difficulty is the projectile. Although ordinary stones can also be used, once it is thrown far, the accuracy is not so satisfactory. Well, if you can't make pottery pills on a large scale like Teng She, you can only look for smoother pebbles on the river beach, but in any case, it is definitely not as convenient as making pottery pills.
Song Xuan even felt that this could also be a selling point for the Tengshe Tribe. Although they could learn the sling, as long as they didn't master the firing method of pottery, pottery pills should also be quite attractive to them. At that time, the price can be set slightly lower. No matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat.
Song Xuan basically left the weapon production to Shi Ban, and he would check on the progress of the production every once in a while.
Although everyone calls him the envoy of the gods, Song Xuan is basically the new leader of the tribe, while the original leader Shi Meng has been weakened. Of course, Shi Meng is also included in this, and it was also the reason why he was put on the shelves in the first place. At the same time, Song Xuan had many things in his mind that were ahead of this era.
And after all, he was a senior executive of a multinational company in the past, and he had thousands of people under his control. Tengshe's hundreds of people were not a problem at all.
However, Shi Meng has never shown any dissatisfaction with such changes. The people of the entire tribe are still very unified, and they all have only one idea, and that is to build Tengshe better.
Although Song Xuan delegates big and small things to others to manage, he will also keep track of each progress. Although Song Xuan may not be proficient in some things, sometimes even if he comes up with an idea, it is equal to the progress of the tribe. In other words, it may have a very big effect.
Just like the recent bone pottery, although Song Xuan didn't know the proportions and production methods, it just happened to be an occasional flash of inspiration. Although it went through twists and turns and it took more than half a year to get the sample, there was still some progress.
"Angel of God!"
Seeing Song Xuan come to the house, Shi Ban also shouted quickly.
However, he did not give up on the work in hand.
The tribe has been very busy since the beginning of spring, and a lot of time has been spent on clearing and planting. Shi Banza also joined in, so in the first two months, he basically didn't make much new things. After all, he was still needed during the clearing. Instructions on the use of the plow.
In other words, he has been a little leisurely in the past two months.
What is being made now is the rattan armor. After many improvements, the rattan armor has been basically finalized. Although the main body is still a vest made of woven branches, the details have also been optimized a lot.
And if you want to have the most complete defense, you must arrange it together with the shoulder armor and skirt. Of course, after many discussions, Song Xuan and Shi Ban agreed that under the current conditions, they should only make a breastplate.
The main reason is that weaving rattan armor is relatively troublesome. Even Shi Ban takes nearly two days to make a complete breastplate on average, not to mention the other people, and the speed is even slower. .
Naturally, Shi Ban couldn't spend all his time making rattan armor, so he had only made it so far. Six of these rattan armors had already been distributed to the hunting team.
In this season, more people in the hunting team only wear animal skin skirts to cover their shame. Although it is cooler, it is also more likely to be injured than wearing clothes, especially. When encountering fighting beasts, although there are not many scenes, it is inevitable that you will encounter them.
With rattan armor, at least the core can be protected.
However, although everyone is very interested in rattan armor, they don't seem to like wearing it. If it is padded with a layer of animal skin, it will be no different from wearing it in that weather.
But if there is no animal skin, it will be very uncomfortable, and the body will be uncomfortable after running for a few steps. Even these primitive people with rough skin and thick flesh can't stand it.
Song Xuan didn't have a good solution to this problem, so even though he had the rattan armor, the people who were assigned it didn't wear it very often, and they only showed off in front of everyone when they were interested.
However, Vine Armor was not originally prepared for hunting. Everyone has been hunting for so many years and has experienced ups and downs. Compared with before, the conditions have improved a lot. After having shields, bows and arrows, injured people The probability is already greatly reduced. The improvement is not obvious with or without the rattan armor, and it doesn't matter whether it is worn or not.
Tengjia is more prepared for future wars.
Not everyone can hold a shield in one hand and a weapon in the other when fighting. Most people need two hands to cooperate.
Especially those who use spears in hand-to-hand combat.
At this time, a rattan armor that can effectively defend against enemy weapons is very useful.
However, according to the current production, it will take time for it to be fully popularized. Even if Gongyi and the others improve their efficiency, they will only be able to do one or two pieces a day. This is still the result of full production.
Fortunately, there is no need to worry about the raw materials for making rattan armor in the tribe. Although it is not rattan, this value has basically replaced the effect of rattan, and it is very easy to find the tribe, there are many around.
You can easily get a lot of them back. Anyway, it's not something to be used in a hurry, just let Shi Ban and the others do it slowly. If the tribe is just for defense now, as long as the manpower is there, Song Xuan will not be in other tribes, even if this tribe is Wuyu.
As for attacking other tribes, Song Xuan has no such plan for the time being. After all, the existing manpower is not large, and even invading a small tribe is very risky.
Not to mention Soaring Snake's most powerful enemy, the Black Feather Tribe. The defense is okay, but if they can attack, even with a bow and arrow, Song Xuan is not so conceited that he can defeat the Black Feather with just this few manpower. .
Fortunately, after last year's battle, there was no big friction between the two sides. Although a few people were still sent over for reconnaissance in the winter, there was no action after the spring started. It is not known where those who escaped died. On the way, it was said that the Black Feather Tribe had given up.
But no matter what, it is always a good thing for Teng She that they don't take action. Although the initiative is in their hands, as long as they don't take action for one day, it will give Teng She an extra day to grow.
Although both parties hate each other, they now have a tacit understanding.
But Song Xuan also knew that this state would definitely not last too long. After all, Wu Yu had already grasped the location of Soaring Snake, and he might bring someone to fight him one day. If everyone in the hunting team was in the tribe, Hobby, but once the manpower is dispersed, the tribe will be very dangerous, so it is necessary to speed up the development.
Only by taking precautions can one survive in such a dangerous environment, so Song Xuan also asked Shi Meng and the others to look for some better caves in the surrounding mountains and forests.
It is best to be the kind that can accommodate dozens of people, so that in the event of an emergency, Teng She's people can have a place to go.
Although Wu Yu has not come to invade yet, Song Xuan has prepared for the worst, but so far, he has only found two suitable ones in the surrounding mountains.
The caves are only forty to fifty square meters in size, and can barely accommodate twenty or thirty people. The next step is to transform these caves. In addition to hiding the entrances, some food and dry firewood must also be stored inside.
In this way, once Soaring Snake encounters an unstoppable enemy, the first thing to do is to find a way to preserve its strength, instead of fighting head-on like last time. At that time, Soaring Snake had just stabilized, there was nothing in the tribe, and there was not much left in the family. , and there was still a sigh of relief in his chest.
There is a high probability that they will not survive if they escape, so it is better to fight to the death. Fortunately, Song Xuan's command is good, and the Wuyu tribe and a group of fools got into the woods. With a fire and a sling, they only used a few seconds. With small casualties, a very beautiful battle of annihilation was fought.
But now that Teng She's family background and strength are so high, it is obviously a bit irrational. As the saying goes, if you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about running out of firewood. As long as people are around, you can earn them back quickly.
And as long as these caves are renovated, even if the tribe evacuates, there will still be a place where they can live for a period of time.
The Black Feather Tribe is definitely not as familiar with the surrounding mountains and forests as Teng She. As long as they cannot surround Te Teng Snake immediately or kill them on the spot, otherwise Teng She and the others will burrow into the mountain and they will want to catch up. It won't be that easy.
However, although there is this possibility, the main development must still be on the tribe's side. Such caves are more like backup. If no accident occurs, Teng She will not suffer much loss. It is nothing more than carrying supplies back and forth. , it’s just the manpower consumed.
Song Xuan also had requirements for caves, and basically asked Shi Meng and the others to find one that could be reached in one day, so it didn't take too many manpower.
As for those materials, as long as the cave is sealed, there will be no loss. After all, caves that can be inhabited are relatively dry, and there is no difference between placing them there and placing them in a warehouse among the tribe.
Although the two existing caves were found not long ago, more than half of the people in the tribe on the route already know about them.
The next thing that needs to be done is to transport some food. Although the current food storage in the tribe is not enough to meet the needs for winter, it is almost enough. Song Xuan plans to store in each cave enough to accommodate people for a month.
If they were all small caves like this, there wouldn't be too many.
Although it is a bit troublesome, Teng She is in the dark and Wu Yu is in the light. It is definitely not a bad thing to make more preparations like this.
Of course, this cannot affect the normal life in the tribe. It is definitely not appropriate to invest too many people in this area.
Song Xuan also tried his best to find a more balanced state. For a cave like this, it would be enough to prepare three or four.
After all, this is also prepared for the situation where the hunting team and the gathering team are not in the tribe. Once the tribe has enough manpower, although it cannot attack the enemy like last time, there should be no problem with the brothers and sisters. After all, in this era, everyone is They are all soldiers.
Even women and children have very good fighting capabilities.
Seeing that the people in Shiban were still busy working, Song Xuan also started to study. After all, he didn't have much work to do most of the time.
I even went out with the hunting team in the past two months. Of course, this time the results were not as good as last year. I just followed the hunting normally.
Capturing wild beasts alive or even bringing back a whole litter like Uncle Deer is basically a rare thing and can only rely on luck. Of course, although he cannot bring back alive, it will definitely improve Song Xuan's combat effectiveness.
Although Song Xuan can be said to be relatively proficient in various weapons, actual combat has always been the part he lacks the most. The main reason is that everyone protects him relatively well and basically does not give him any chance.
Under such circumstances, going hunting was a very good exercise. Although hunting was very physically demanding, Song Xuan persisted and tried various weapons, and still learned a lot.
Of course, Song Xuan didn't have much experience to talk about when he went hunting. He just followed Shi Meng's command. Although he had agreed in advance not to give him any special treatment, Shi Meng certainly didn't dare to put Song Xuan in the most dangerous position. In other places, Song Xuan was more likely to follow Shi Yu and shoot arrows at the side.
After shooting, they would surround him with others. Those who were directly shot to death could just collect their bodies on the spot. Those who still had fighting ability would surround him and slowly consume them. As for those who still had the ability to run, they could only fight with them. Fight for speed.
Although Song Xuan was fully prepared, he was still injured while hunting. Of course, this was not caused by contact with wild beasts. Basically, they were scratched by branches and other things while chasing wild beasts.
With the existing hunting methods in the tribe, few people would be directly injured by wild beasts.
Of course, there are no exceptions. Previously, the hunting team encountered a group of ferocious wild boars that were not afraid of death. I wonder if Shi Yu shot and injured an important person in their group.
After discovering that the hunting team was attacking them, not only did they not escape, but they launched a charge, which directly made the hunting team lose their skills.
Some people were seriously injured when they couldn't dodge, and some even suffered broken bones. Fortunately, only the broken fingers did not affect their movements. This is also the most serious injury Teng She has suffered this year.
Compared with other tribes, the situation is still very good. After all, even in the past, Teng Snake's injuries were only minor injuries.
As for those who died due to hunting, not a single one died. In addition to better weapons, of course it was also because everyone tried not to provoke groups of ferocious beasts. The most important thing for Soaring Snakes now is to work hard. Increase the population. The more people there are, the stronger the tribe will be.
