Chapter 472: The Nomadic Clay Tribe (4,800 chapters, please vote and subscribe)

Upon hearing the leader's order, everyone rushed to paddle towards the place where the two children fell into the water. This was not because they had much sympathy, but because of the sentence "If you can't save them, no one can eat." They were really hungry, cold and tired.

The boat that Luo Chong personally took the lead in paddling towards the place where the two children fell into the water. The girl who was holding Luo Chong's trouser legs tightly saw two children of the same tribe being thrown into the water just like herself at the beginning, and she was even more anxious. She shook Luo Chong's pants and pointed at the two children who were up and down and screamed.

She knew that Luo Chong didn't understand what she was saying, but when she saw Luo Chong directing everyone to move towards the place where they fell into the water, she stopped making trouble, but she didn't dare to let go of her hand holding Luo Chong's trouser legs, biting her lower lip tightly, for fear that she would not be able to save the two little guys in time.

As the fleet in the water was rushing, the group of instigators on the high cliff of the "island" also fell into a state of confusion, staring at the fleet in the water with wide eyes, as if they had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

What is that? !

It seems to be a group of people, but how can people float on the water? !

"Wu, what is that? Are they the river gods? Are they here to enjoy the sacrifice we just offered?" A man who had just thrown the child on the cliff asked the old man who presided over the sacrifice. In his mind, the witch is the wise man in the tribe, who can not only communicate with the gods, but also knows many things that others don't know. So when you encounter something you don't understand, it's always right to ask the witch.

But this time the witch didn't answer, because the old man was also confused. He looked at the people in the water in surprise. They were riding on the divine objects that could control water. The oars and shovels on both sides were like the two rows of centipede's abdomen. They looked very scary. Those who could control them were definitely not ordinary people. However, their purpose

was just when the old witch guessed the purpose of the people in the water. The first boat that took the lead finally rowed to the drowning child. Luo Chong lay on the bow, trying to lean out half of his body, and picked up a boy. The child had already struggled to exhaustion, his belly was bulging, and it seemed that he had drunk a lot of water. He probed his nose and still had a weak breath.

In danger, saving people was important. Luo Chong didn't care about anything else. He quickly found an iron pot from the middle of the boat and buckled it on the deck of the bow. Then he let the child lie on the bottom of the pot and kept pressing to induce vomiting, so that he could vomit out all the water he drank. Because he was still breathing, there was no need for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, just vomiting, and then keeping warm.

While Luo Chong was treating the boy, another girl was also rescued by another boat and then sent to Luo Chong's boat for treatment. The other boats all stared at the crowd on the opposite shore. It was because of these people that the leader almost stopped giving them food.

Some people secretly raised their crossbows and bows and arrows and aimed them at the people on the shore with ill intentions. If these people made any unusual movements, they might even make an armed landing in a while.

On Luo Chong's first boat, the two children survived after simple first aid. Fortunately, they did not fall into the water for a long time. If they floated in the water for a while like the girl next to them, they would definitely freeze to death even if they did not drown.

The two children who regained their vitality did not cry loudly, but were still in a daze. This blow caused great harm to their young hearts. I just hope they will not become fools in the future.

Luo Chong handed the two children to the girl, then glared at the people on the cliff, and then glanced at the surrounding environment. There was lake water all around, and it was not easy to get to the distant mountains. Only the "small island" in front of him was a good landing point. There were trees on it, and there must be firewood for warmth.

"All ships, sail around the island to the right and find a gentle slope and shallow beach to land." Luo Chong immediately ordered the ships.

The place where the children fell into the water was also very close to the altar on the cliff. The two children did not float far after falling into the water, so Luo Chong's shouting and the responses of the ships were also heard clearly by the people on the altar.

"They are human beings, they can talk, they took away our sacrifice."

"Yes, I also saw that the person who took away our sacrifice seemed to have a woman next to him, who looked like the saint we offered to the river god yesterday."

"Yeah, maybe it really is our saint. They must have taken her away, so the river god didn't show up. It's almost spring, and the river water is still rising. If it continues like this, I'm afraid even the top of our mountain will be flooded. How can we survive now, woo woo woo woo."

The men and women around the several platforms started to make a loud noise. Some of them were cursing Luo Chong for saving people, and some were crying pessimistically. In fact, there was a reason for this group of poor people to use the method of living sacrifice. The story started last summer.

This small island that emerged from the water is actually not an island, but a mountain. It was just because of the sudden flood last year that the river water kept rising, and eventually half of the entire mountain was submerged. Only the part above the mountainside was still above the water, so it looked like an island in the lake.

The tribe trapped in the mountain is a nomadic tribe called Zhan. They have been growing rice for generations, but they grow round glutinous rice, which is quite sticky, so they are called the Zhan tribe.

Speaking of nomadic tribes, some people may not understand. Aren't there farming people and nomadic people? How come there is a nomadic tribe? In fact, this is a very normal phenomenon. If Luo Chong hadn't traveled to this world and disrupted the normal development process, then when the farming people first appeared, they actually lived by nomadic farming. This mainly depends on the way crops are cultivated.

Early farming was all slash-and-burn farming. The so-called slash-and-burn farming is to use fire to open up wasteland, burn the planned farmland into a piece of white land, and then use farm tools made of stone, bone, and wood to cultivate the land. There was not even any arable land. Just use a stone knife to scratch the ground, and then sprinkle the seeds directly on it, or poke a hole in the ground with a wooden stick, sprinkle a few seeds, and then stomp it with your feet.

As for how much food can be harvested, it doesn't matter how much you harvest. Fertilizer? It doesn't exist. What is fertilizer?

It is because of this rough planting method that the primitive ancestors who just learned to plant can't stick to one place. This is because they don't know how to cultivate carefully, let alone fertilize. The ash from burning wasteland is not enough to support the continuous cultivation of a piece of land. Besides, modern agricultural planting pays attention to crop rotation, intercropping, and intercropping to increase the output of the land, but the early primitive ancestors did not understand these technologies.

Then, when continuous cultivation leads to a significant decrease in soil fertility, and because the same crop is planted in a piece of land continuously, the yield plummets, making them start to starve, what should these primitive ancestors do?

It's easy, there is only one way, migration, change a piece of land and do it again.

Therefore, the nomadic tribe was born. They migrated once every two years or five years to find new farmland and then open up wasteland for planting.

Although they do not migrate as frequently as nomadic tribes, migrating at least twice a year, they do migrate constantly compared to other humans who settle in one place for their entire lives, so it is not wrong to call them nomadic tribes.

Because the Nian tribe grows glutinous rice, although they also migrate all the time, they cannot leave the water source. They need to find the shallows along the river to grow rice, and the crops are also sown along the river, so they must migrate along the river when they migrate.

Just two years ago, the Nian tribe migrated again, and walked all the way here to regain their foothold, set up camps, open up wasteland and sow seeds, while farming, they searched the surrounding environment, hunted, gathered, and fished. They also knew how to do it, because eating rice alone is not enough, they also need meat and salt intake.

After planting in this new place for a year, the newly developed farmland harvested a lot, and the tribesmen were very happy. Just when they thought that the new year would be another bumper year, heavy rains suddenly fell in the summer and mountain torrents broke out.

The farmland of the Nian tribe was destroyed by the flood first because it was distributed along the river. Then the river water kept rising, and the entire Nian tribe had to retreat to the mountains. Fortunately, the flash floods endangered not only humans, but also a large number of other birds and beasts were forced to flee to the mountains. These concentrated animals became a new source of food for the Nian tribe.

They thought the flood would recede in a few days, but who would have thought that a barrier lake caused by a landslide would appear, forcing the water level to continue to rise. As a result, the water level was getting higher and higher, and the place where they could survive became smaller and smaller, and eventually they became an island in the lake.

But if this continues, they can't grow food on the mountain, and there are fewer and fewer animals on the mountain for them to eat. If the flood does not recede, won't they all die on the top of this isolated mountain?

Therefore, when spring was approaching, the Nian tribe held a grand sacrificial ceremony. They selected a young girl who had just reached adulthood and was the most beautiful from the tribe as a sacrifice. They wanted to offer her to the river god and make her his wife, praying that the river god would calm down, let the flood recede, and return the land they depended on for survival.

As luck would have it, the girl did not die and was rescued by Luo Chong. However, the Nian tribe certainly did not know all this. What they could see was that as the temperature continued to rise and the ice and snow upstream continued to melt, the water level did not decrease but continued to rise.

This frightened them, thinking that the river god was not satisfied with their sacrifice, so the scene that just happened happened. They sacrificed another pair of boys and girls, but they were rescued by Luo Chong again.

This is really annoying.

A group of people had different opinions, and finally reached a unified caliber, that is, Luo Chong and his party destroyed their sacrifices, robbed the sacrifices dedicated to the river god, and caused their sacrifices to fail. Now the river god is angry, and the water level is still rising. If it continues to rise, it will cost them their lives. So a group of people began to shout and kill the fleet of the Han tribe.

They saw the fleet began to circle around the island, so the sticky tribe on the island also began to circle around. A group of men holding various stone farm tools, bone farm tools, and spears and other objects chased up. The number was estimated to be 200 to 300.

This is not a small number. There are 200 to 300 adult men alone, and the total population of their entire tribe must be at least over a thousand. This is not a small tribe.

But the people on the shore walked on the mountain road that used to be, which was full of trees, vines and bushes, and the mountain road was also uneven. How could they catch up with the boats in the water? Therefore, before they caught up with the fleet, Luo Chong and his party had found a relatively flat place to land.

"Land, land, move quickly, sword and shield soldiers line up for defense, spearmen provide cover, and archers prepare to shoot."

As soon as the people on several boats rowed to the shore, Luo Chong began to command loudly.

This time, a lot of strong laborers were needed, so some of the people brought were the few regular troops of the Han tribe. In addition to the new weapons accumulated over the past year, it was still easy to arm three or four hundred people.

The ships rushed to the beach one by one, half of them rushed to the shore, and the other half was still floating in the water. When the people on the boats heard the leader's shouting, they also began to organize defense under the leadership of the captains.

The shields of the Han tribe were wooden shields, which were the easiest to make, so there was no shortage of shields. Many people picked up shields from the ships and began to line up under the leadership of the captains. Luo Chong stood on the shore to command, and asked people to form a square formation, with one missing for three, and the opening facing the beach, so that the ships could be protected.

Large shields half a person's height were arranged side by side. The weapons they held in their other hands were varied. There were only a dozen or so fine steel goose-feather knives. Some of the rest held shovels, some held hammers, and some held axes, most of which were tools used for work this time.

After the shield soldiers were arranged in formation, the spearmen immediately took advantage of every opportunity. Sharp spears stretched out from the gaps between the shield soldiers, or were placed diagonally on the shoulders of the shield soldiers. In

the open space in the middle of the square formation, there was also a circle of archers standing here, as well as a few older young clan leaders. They were here to act as guides, and Luo Chong did not intend to use them for any physical work, let alone fighting.

The people who had landed on this side were already prepared, all sharpening their knives and preparing for battle. However, when they ran here excitedly to shout and kill Luo Chong, the culprit who destroyed the sacrifice, they were dumbfounded.

Damn, there is such a thing in war? !

All the people who had just landed were blocked by large wooden boards. Spears with white or golden light extended from the boards, because there were many bronze spears used by the Han tribe to kill wolves.

In this circle, there were some people holding strange weapons. Their saint and the two children who had just been sacrificed were also surrounded. At the same time, dozens of red, yellow and black flags were erected, and all the flags were flying the same symbol. The middle-aged

leader of the sticky tribe, Sticky Mao, also came, but he stopped immediately when he saw this strange formation. However, a group cannot be without reckless men after all, and their leader was still in a state of confusion and did not issue any orders. Therefore, some of the people who followed him stopped, while others continued to rush forward regardless.

One of the sturdy men ran the fastest, holding a stone hoe and rushed over. As a result, just as he ran to the 100-meter range in front of the formation, the crossbow in Luo Chong's hand made a sound of the mechanism moving.

Bang—whoosh—

ah—

the strong man who ran the front fell down, curled up on the ground and kept howling. He was not dead, but Luo Chong's crossbow arrow shot through one of his thighs, half of the crossbow arrow was in front and half in the back, deeply stuck in his thigh.

The other people who followed the strong man were also stunned when they saw this sudden change, and then they were terrified, yes, they were surprised and terrified.

Oh my God, their weapons can shoot so far!

We can't go forward anymore, or we will be shot to death.

Our spears and stones can't get through this distance, what should we do? !

The men of the Nian tribe had their own thoughts, and they all stopped in place for a while and didn't dare to move forward, but the fellow tribesman in front was still howling and calling for help, it seemed that he was not dead yet, so several people quickly ran to the front and carried the guy who was shot back with their hands and feet.

They carried it all the way to the leader Nian Mao, and everyone looked at the sharp little wooden stick that pierced the thigh, and their scalps tingled.

However, Nian Mao was still calm. They had such powerful weapons, but they didn't kill this tribe member directly. They probably just wanted to warn him and didn't kill him. It seemed that there was still room for easing the situation. Maybe they could talk to them and let them voluntarily hand over their tribe's sacrifices.

Nian Mao made a plan in his mind and began to try to get closer to the strange square formation, wanting to communicate with these strange uninvited guests.

In this way, Luo Chong's goal was achieved. Why did he have to shout and kill? Can't you just talk it out? You have to see some blood to be satisfied. How despicable are you?

(End of this chapter)