Chapter 146: Chief, Don't Run Away (Please vote and subscribe)
The Black Rat Tribe moved in early spring, and the traces of migration had long been covered by the sprouting grass and trees. It was impossible to find the traces now, but there was one thing that pointed the direction to the Li Tribe.
A soldier from the Li Tribe looked around the Black Rat Tribe's residence. When he turned to the small hillside north of the Black Rat Tribe, it was the location where Luo Chong led his men to attack the cannibals.
It was dusk, and the sunset glowed the entire sky red, but in the sky west of the Black Rat Tribe's residence, three particularly unsightly things appeared. They were the smoke columns from the three brick kilns built by the Han Tribe by the river.
Smoke is very conspicuous. People in ancient times were good at building beacon towers and lighting fires to release smoke to convey urgent military information, so the soldier easily found the location of the Han Tribe through the smoke columns on the mountain, just like when Rat Da found the Han Tribe through the smoke columns.
He immediately stood on the hill and shouted excitedly: "Chief, Chief, look over there, there is smoke over there, the Black Rat Tribe may have moved over there."
Mao Li was stunned, and he immediately looked in the direction the soldier pointed, but he was standing a little low and his sight was blocked by trees, then he ran to the hillside where the soldier was, and immediately found three columns of smoke.
There really was smoke, and the three lonely columns of smoke were obviously man-made, which meant that there was someone over there, and after thinking about it carefully, Mao Li said to the soldier.
"I heard from the previous leader that there is a small river one day's walk from the Black Rat Tribe to the direction where the sun sets.
The Black Rat Tribe will definitely not move too far, because they don't know if there are other tribes far away, so the Black Rat Tribe is likely to have just moved to the small river one day's walk away.
We will rest here today. Tomorrow you will go back to the tribe alone and tell the witch that the Black Rat Tribe has moved. I will take people to find the Black Rat Tribe and will be back two days late."
"Yes, leader."
In this way, the Li Tribe discovered the existence of the Han Tribe unintentionally, but it was not considered that the Li leader guessed wrong, after all, the Black Rat Tribe did move to the west bank of the small river, but just joined the Han Tribe.
The next morning, Mao Li sent a warrior back to the tribe to report the news, and then he took the remaining warriors and several girls to the west to look for the Black Rat Tribe.
At the same time, Da Shu had already led people into the Dark Forest, and the boat was hidden by the river; on the other side, Shu Da, who was several days away, also led a team of thousands of people and moved towards the direction of the Han Tribe with difficulty.
In the settlement of the Han tribe, Luo Chong has already started building houses. After several days of hard work, the kiln workers of the cripple have already fired the first batch of bricks for building houses. Although there is not enough lime to use as cement, the construction of houses can no longer be delayed. Luo Chong decided to use clay and mud as cement. Is
it okay to use mud and bricks to build walls? According to the structural strength, it is no problem to build a one-story bungalow. Even in modern times, some people with not very abundant conditions build houses with mud to save money. However, they need to apply a layer of cement to the joints of the bricks and waterproof them. Such houses can also last for many years.
The Han tribe does not have enough conditions to get so much lime now, so they can only use this "cutting corners" method to catch up with the construction progress. There is no way, there are still not enough people.
Tools are needed to build walls. Luo Chong specially asked Dazui to cast 50 tile knives with bronze. In fact, it is a knife-shaped copper plate. This thing is used to chop bricks. There is also a triangular shovel, which is specially used for shoveling mud.
To build a wall, you must first lay out the lines accurately, and not only horizontally, but also vertically, so that the built wall remains perpendicular to the ground. This is very simple. Just tie a brick with a thin hemp rope and hang it below.
The foundation part in the base trench is a 50 wall, which is a half-meter thick wall. It is mainly used to bear weight. The arrangement method used is to first arrange two 24-centimeter bricks horizontally, plus the brick seam in the middle is exactly 50 centimeters, and then take two standard bricks and arrange them two vertically and one horizontally, which is also 50 centimeters. The rest is to arrange them alternately along the hemp rope, apply mud, and build a layer of bricks.
Such a 50-wall foundation only has 10 layers, and then 6 layers of 3:7 walls are built, that is, a T-shaped arrangement of one horizontal and one vertical. This wall is also used for load-bearing. The two sections of the load-bearing wall are only one meter high in total, and they are only a dozen centimeters above the ground when placed in the base trench.
Of the 20 people in the construction team, two were assigned by Luo Chong to dig wells. Four of the remaining 18 were responsible for fetching water, mixing mud, and delivering mud. The remaining 14 followed Luo Chong to learn how to build walls.
This thing is not that difficult. As long as you pull the rope in advance and remember the order of bricks, basically anyone who is not mentally retarded or handicapped can do it, but the speed varies.
Because the construction team was not yet skilled in building walls, it took 14 people nearly a day to build the one-meter-high foundation bearing wall of three houses. This was because someone remembered the wrong order of bricks and was ordered by Luo Chong to dismantle and rebuild.
In the evening, three square boxes finally emerged from the ground in the foundation trench. Luo Chong asked them to review the arrangement of bricks for building walls. A group of people were swinging bricks around next to them, simulating building walls like building blocks.
Luo Chong found it interesting to watch from the side, so he used this method of building blocks to teach them a new way to arrange the wall. Tomorrow, they would build the main wall exposed on the ground. The main wall did not need to be as thick as the load-bearing wall, so a two-four wall would be enough, that is, two bricks horizontally and one brick vertically, arranged alternately in a T-shaped manner. The thickness of the wall was only the length of one brick, or the width of two bricks.
Just as Luo Chong was teaching them how to build a two-four wall, Mao Li, who had been trekking for a day, also led the team to the river. They headed straight for the direction of the three smoke columns. As soon as they arrived at the river, they saw the Han tribe fishing team on the other side of the stream, which was finishing work. Both sides were stunned, and then reacted.
The women of the fishing team immediately threw down the poles carrying the fish baskets, picked up the bronze spears placed aside and blocked the bridge head, while shouting that there were enemies and foreigners.
As soon as the shout came out, the people who were digging the river not far from the riverbank immediately put down their work and ran to the bridge head with copper shovels in hand. In less than two minutes, no less than 500 adult men and women holding various weapons gathered at the bridge head, which scared Mao Li on the other side of the bridge so much that his eyes almost popped out.
Damn, why are there so many people?
Mao Li turned around and wanted to take his people to escape. Now is not the time to think about pottery. It is more important to save his life.
But just as Mao Li was about to escape, someone among the hundreds of people on the Han tribe recognized Mao Li. They were the women of the former Black Rat Tribe, and the boys and girls who were traded to the Black Rat Tribe by the Li Tribe last winter and later resold to the Han Tribe.
"Chief, they are our former leaders. They are not enemies, but the leaders of our former tribe." A boy who was sold to the Han tribe shouted to the tribesmen around him.
After he shouted like that, some people who knew the Li tribe immediately recognized Mao Li and shouted in the Li tribe dialect: "Chief, it's us, we are here, don't run away."
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