Chapter 197: Unexpected Gains (Please vote, subscribe, and comment)

The team walked northward for a whole morning. On the way, they encountered gentle slopes, sparse forests, overgrown with weeds, and many huge rocks. It is estimated that the soil layer of this mountain is not very thick, and there should be rocks underneath.

After all, this is still the mountain where the cave of the Han tribe is located. This is a continuous basalt mountain range, but the altitude is not very high, but it covers a large area. There are no very steep places, all are gentle slopes.

Luo Chong rode on the back of Huishan and asked the guide who was following him.

"Did you encounter bare, treeless places and open flat land along the way you escaped?"

"Yes, but you have to go a little further over a hill. There is a valley there. There is an open land outside the valley. The ground is covered with waist-high grass, but it is not flat land. There are many earth mounds. You have to walk until tomorrow noon to get there." The guide pointed to the northwest and gestured to Luo Chong.

Northwest? Luo Chong looked in that direction and saw nothing.

"Did you escape from there, the place you mentioned?" Luo Chong asked again.

"Yes, we entered the valley from there, and then ran towards this side for a day before we ran into the Han tribe's gathering team." The guide gestured to answer Luo Chong's question.

"Oh, so that's it."

Luo Chong thought about it for a while. The battlefield must be chosen in an open area. The valley is not suitable. It is okay to ambush those enemies, but to deal with the cannibals, it must be in an open area so that they have no trees to maneuver quickly. So they can only seize the time to set up an ambush circle in that hilly area.

Thinking of this, Luo Chong called the leader of the deer cavalry, Shouya, over.

"Shouya, take five people and the guide to the valley he mentioned to scout and see if the enemy has arrived there, then send someone back to report.

If no enemy is found, take the remaining four cavalrymen out of the valley to see what the open area outside is like, whether there are any trees, and whether we can hide so many people, then send someone back to report quickly."

"Yes, leader, I'll go now." Shouya took the order and rode on the horned deer with the guide to the northwest.

Luo Chong nodded, called Shu Da again, and arranged for him: "Pass my order, each team should run forward, everyone should run for a while and rest for a while, we should speed up and rush to the valley to camp at night."

"Yes, leader." Shu Da took the order and left.

The team quickly ran. The team of more than 400 people ran in the mountains and forests, startling flocks of birds. Wherever they passed, any birds and beasts would flee.

Humans are social animals. A group of people together is invincible. No beast dares to compete with them, unless there is a large-scale herd of beasts that is larger than humans, but unfortunately there is none here.

When the team was marching in the middle of the afternoon, they actually encountered a pack of more than 20 gray wolves, which were chasing a group of musk deer.

The result is imaginable. They were hit by Luo Chong's large army. The capture team pulled a large net to intercept them, and the meteor hammer team and the spear team surrounded them with nearly 200 spears. After the archers surrounded them, they were all killed on the spot after two rounds of arrow rain.

The harvest from this hunt alone was enough for the team to eat for two days. 26 gray wolves and 34 musk deer not only replenished meat, but also harvested dozens of animal skins.

The battle had not yet begun, but this hunt boosted morale. The soldiers were very happy. They had never seen so many prey at once.

Only Luo Chong knew that it was because humans mastered the hunting method that caused the extinction of wild animals. In the end

, they had no choice but to learn breeding and planting. It was almost evening when the large group of people arrived at the valley that the guide said they would reach tomorrow.

Shouya had gone out of the valley to scout and should be back soon. Luo Chong ordered everyone to set up camp and pick up firewood to prepare dinner.

There was a stream in the valley, and there was no shortage of water. Luo Chong even thought that this valley might have been a big river. The stones in the valley were all pebbles and sedimentary rocks. These were things that only existed in the riverbed and were formed by long-term water erosion. However, the big river had long disappeared. It should be a change caused by geological activities. Luo Chong

asked everyone to start a fire and cook. At the same time, he sent people to take turns to stand guard and patrol. He also asked people to move some sedimentary rocks to the ox cart. That thing was a sandy stone, which was formed by river sand and clay deposited at the bottom of the river after long-term deposition and subsequent weathering. The stone was very soft and fine, and it was the best material for a whetstone.

After arranging all this, Luo Chong rode Huishan out of the valley alone to scout the hilly area mentioned by the guide.

The valley was gradually replaced by darkness, but the setting sun could still be seen outside the valley. Large tracts of hilly grassland were bathed in the sunset. Huishan and Rourou ate the weeds on the ground while walking, while Luo Chong carefully surveyed the terrain.

There were small mounds everywhere, some large and some small, and reverse slopes everywhere. If you were to hide in the grass behind any small mound, others might not be able to find you even if they walked up to you. This was the terrain that Voldemort liked the most, and it was also Luo Chong's favorite terrain.

With such a position as a battlefield, this battle would be won.

Just when Luo Chong was in a good mood and wanted to laugh loudly, a group of black shadows came with their backs to the setting sun. The four leading people were riding horned deer. They were the beast teeth and others who went out for scouting. But what did the dozens of people following them mean?

Beast teeth also soon discovered Luo Chong standing on a small mound, and not far away were two elephants eating grass.

"Chief, you brought a large army here?" asked Beast Fang.

"Well, they are all stationed in the valley now. Didn't I ask you to go for scouting? Why did you bring a group of people back? Who are they?" Luo Chong pointed at the thirty or forty people behind him and asked, among whom there were men, women, and some young children.

"Chief, they said they were from the Qi tribe. The day before yesterday, their tribe was also attacked by cannibals. They also fled here. We found them in the afternoon and brought them here." Beast Fang explained.

But Luo Chong's focus was obviously not on this. "The cannibals are so close? They are already within two days' journey? Fortunately, we came early. If we were a day later, it would definitely be another difficult encounter."

"Yes, the chief is thoughtful. I told them that we have hundreds of warriors and are almost here. We are here to fight those cannibals. They also asked if they could join the battle. They also want revenge, but the monster is too powerful. They are few in number and are afraid that they can't beat it." Beast Fang told Luo Chong about the Qi tribe's experience.

"Okay, if you want to fight, then join our tribe. The Han tribe doesn't mind having too many people. Let their women bring their children to help us cook, and give the men weapons. Let's join the battle together tomorrow." Luo Chong made a decision directly.

Shouya also communicated with the refugees of the Lacquer Tribe behind him and relayed Luo Chong's decision. They nodded in agreement. After knowing that Luo Chong was the leader of this big tribe, one of the men even took out a pair of red leather armor and presented it to Luo Chong.

Is this leather armor? Leather armor made of rawhide painted? Is it so advanced? I have never seen a lacquer tree, and it is red lacquer. This is an unexpected gain.

(End of this chapter)