Chapter 142: Murder in a House (Please vote and subscribe)

At noon that day, after Luo Chong arranged the task for Dashu, he rode on a deer to find the teenagers of the Cha tribe and the logging team. He wanted to build a wooden bridge so that the ox cart could go to the other side of the river.

First, he asked the logging team to find a 40-centimeter-thick fir tree, saw it into four sections, two by two, and then drill a hole in the middle to insert a three-meter-long, 20-centimeter-thick fir tree as a crossbeam. Two right-angle supports were riveted diagonally under the crossbeam to make two 'H'-shaped bridge piers. Fir is water-resistant and can be preserved longer when inserted in the river.

After making two sets of bridge piers, Luo Chong asked the logging team to use wooden boats to transport the two bridge piers to the middle section of the intersection of the diversion river, the backwater river and the small river, and then asked the Chai boys who were good at swimming to take turns to go into the water to dig the bridge pier eyes. After digging, two groups of people on and under the water placed the bridge piers in the riverbed together, and then plugged them with river sand and pebbles to fix them.

After the piers were set up, people were asked to drive two wooden stakes on the banks of the stream, with the width of the stakes and the piers being three meters. The two groups of stakes on the shore and the two groups of piers in the water together support and fix the bridge.

After the supporting structure below was completed, the logging team used cattle to drag five pine trees that were 25 cm thick and 12 meters long to serve as the skeleton of the bridge deck. The five logs were distributed on the three-meter-wide pier beam, with an average width of 60 cm per log.

All the connection points with the piers were cut with an axe to make gaps so that the bridge frame and the beams fit together, just like the joints of a Finnish log house. After the fit is stable, holes are drilled at the connection points by hand, and then wooden pegs dipped in fish bladder glue are smashed in to completely lock it.

After the entire bridge pier and bridge frame were completed, Luo Chong went to the carpentry team to find materials for laying the bridge deck. In the end, he selected a pile of oak wood that had been cut into thick wooden blocks. These oak woods were all prepared as preparatory materials for making oak buckets in the future. This time, Luo Chong directly requisitioned them.

These oak trees were all large trees with a diameter of more than one meter. Because they were too large to be transported back, the logging team would directly break the logs on the spot. Now these woods have been sawn into 10-centimeter-thick wooden blocks, some wide and some narrow, the widest being one meter and the narrowest being 20 centimeters.

Luo Chong directly asked the logging team to saw these wooden blocks into 3-meter lengths, and then nailed them horizontally to the five pinewood bridge frames. The joints were also drilled by hand and fixed with wooden pegs.

The entire bridge deck was paved with 10-centimeter-thick oak boards, and it was a full wooden structure without any metal, but this wooden bridge made of pure wood was very strong.

Finally, hemp ropes were tied to the bridgehead piles at both ends of the wooden bridge and the 'H'-shaped bridge piers in the middle to make a hemp rope guardrail. The bridge deck and the soil on both sides were then compacted with stones and clay, and the entire bridge was completed.

Using the pre-prepared materials and tools, forty people spent an afternoon to build this three-meter-wide wooden bridge, which will be just right for oxcarts to pass tomorrow.

With this wooden bridge, the Han tribe can finally bid farewell to livestock and use vehicles to load when mining again in the future, which will greatly improve the Han tribe's resource utilization rate on the east bank of the river.

The women of various clans who were fishing by the river saw the completion of this brand new wooden bridge across the river with their own eyes, and couldn't help but secretly admire the leader's wisdom.

They have lived here for nearly half a month, looking at all kinds of good things in the tribe and learning all kinds of new terms in the Han tribe. When they knew that everything in the tribe was created by the leader, they couldn't help but worship the leader as a god.

That night, in the thatched houses of each household, the women also talked about the bridge that the leader had built today. The tribesmen were also very satisfied with joining the Han tribe.

Life here is too good. There is food, shelter, and the best tools and weapons. Although there is endless work, there is never a limit on white salt. Since they have white salt every day, working a whole day is not as tiring as before. People from all clans are proud to join the Han tribe.

The tribesmen in the thatched houses were comparing their current and past lives with emotion, and the "expeditionary force" led by Shu Da also arrived near the target location.

The team of 100 people quietly lurked on the mass grave where people were massacred last time, peeping at the situation of the Fire Tribe from a distance.

At this time, it was already dark. In the Fire Tribe's residence, the remaining 50 men did not know that their large army had been wiped out. The less than ten escaped Fire Tribe warriors did not return to their residence, and no one knew where they ran to.

The women and children of the Fire Tribe were locked up in the cave. The cave was formed naturally, and the entrance was very small, only enough for two people to stand side by side. There were only five people guarding the entrance, and those five people were not alert at all.

Several people lit a bonfire at the entrance of the cave, and sat around roasting fire rat meat as a midnight snack. The other 45 people were making babies in their own huts or tents, and there were constant cries and cries from the huts.

The leader was not at home, and they had nothing to do. They relied on eating fire rat meat every day. The Fire Tribe dug several large pits and built pools with stones and clay to raise fire rats. Every day, they only needed to let a dozen women go out to collect some grass and shrubs to feed the fire rats.

The women who went out to collect also had children left in the tribe. They would not abandon their children and run away, and they could not escape even if they did.

At night, the idle men would run to the cave to pick some women who were not pregnant and pull them out to make babies.

Taking advantage of the night, Shouya, Shuda and Xuetu sneaked into the residence of the Fire Tribe. There were empty huts and tents all around. There were voices of people coming from some of the huts, but they were scattered.

The whole settlement was only illuminated by a few campfires, and they were far away from the house. They were afraid of burning the house, so the whole settlement was pitch black. Only the fire in the cave halfway up the mountain was brighter.

"Captain Shu, what should we do?" Beast Fang asked Shuda in a low voice.

"It's too dark here, there are not many of them, and they live so scattered. Our bows and arrows are useless here. I think it's better to attack them directly. The leader asked us to fight quickly, so don't wait. Anyway

, there are only so many of them. Let me make arrangements. Beast Fang, you lead ten men and ten women, each with a bow and arrow, quietly walk down the hillside, and shoot the random arrows at the entrance of the cave.

I think there should be less than ten people at the entrance of the cave. You 20 bows, shoot three rounds at once, even if not all of them are dead, I think they are almost dead. Then you can lead people to rush up, and you will definitely win." Shuda also whispered his own meaning.

"Well, I have no problem, this is a good idea." Beast Fang nodded after listening, indicating that he could do it.

"What about me?" Xue Tu also asked in a low voice.

"You and I will take the remaining people, two people in a group, and go directly into the house to kill people. They are all sleeping in the house, and our bows and arrows are useless. It is better to take advantage of their unpreparedness and kill them directly." Shu Da said, groping for the axe on his waist.

"Okay, I agree. I will bring everyone here now." Xue Tu licked his mouth happily and said.

"I will also ask people to go." Shou Ya also nodded.

"Okay, you go, I'll wait here, and when everyone arrives, we will start."

Shu Da also made arrangements in a low voice. Several people nodded to each other and separated.

After more than ten minutes, Shou Ya led a team of 20 archers up the hillside, and Xue Tu also led the remaining 70 people to the residence.

Xue Tu had just told everyone about Shu Da's plan at the mass grave. After coming here, they automatically divided into two groups. Everyone took their own melee weapons and quietly moved towards the houses where the sound came from.

Shu Da and Xue Tu looked at each other and nodded, then walked towards the two houses respectively.

In a tent, there was a large haystack on the ground, and a layer of animal skins was laid on the haystack. On the animal skins, a man from the Fire Tribe was lying on top of a woman, working hard.

The woman kept her mouth shut, looking out the door with a look of despair, and a continuous "eng, eng" sound came out of her nose. But suddenly, something flashing with white light appeared at the door she was staring at. It was Jerry on Rat Da's head.

Rat Da didn't say anything, and even walked lightly. He slowly pulled out a golden bronze axe from his waist and quietly stood behind the man.

The woman kept staring at Rat Da's movements and didn't say anything. She seemed to be quite nervous, and she held her breath unconsciously. The intermittent nasal sound just now disappeared, and even her body seemed to be tighter.

The man lying on her seemed to feel something was wrong. He looked at the woman under him. The woman's eyes were always looking behind him, so he turned around to look.

But just as the man turned his head and hadn't seen anything clearly, Shu Da held the axe in both hands and split Huashan with great force, just like Chenxiang splitting the mountain to save his mother, and smashed a hole in the man's head with the axe.

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