Chapter 227 Earth Dragon Turns Over (Please vote and subscribe)
"Smart, the specific plan is like this. You have seen the power and effect of explosives. It is indeed very powerful, but as long as we know how to use it and use it well, we can dig a few more water diversion rivers in a month.
In this way, we can plant another batch of rice this year, and store enough food and livestock feed in winter." Luo Chong couldn't help but praise Dashu when he heard his guess.
After hearing this, several people couldn't help but nod their heads. The leader still has a way. Now the population of the Han tribe is increasing. Food supply is indeed a big problem, especially for winter reserves. It won't work if you don't make plans in advance.
Fortunately, the leader thinks far ahead and has the leader to use his brains in making suggestions. Now there is a way. They just need to complete the tasks assigned by the leader seriously. Several people are instantly full of fighting spirit and are ready to let go and do a big job.
After testing the amount of explosives and the explosion effect, as well as the safety distance, the preparations are complete. In the next period of time, Luo Chong began to plan the land on the east bank of the river.
A road should be left on the east bank opposite the bridgehead, and then this road should be used as the axis to open up 500 meters of rice fields on both sides, with a length of one kilometer. In this way , the rice fields on both sides of the road add up to a square with a length and width of one kilometer, with a total area of 1,500 mu.
In this way, the total number of rice fields reclaimed on the east and west banks this year is about 2,500 mu, which is enough for this year's grain reserves.
The location close to the river on the east bank is relatively flat, and the trees are not particularly dense. It can be regarded as a sparse forest. There are also some shrubs in the forest, and it will take some time to clean it up.
So Luo Chong called back the logging team working in the Xishan Forest Farm and asked them to clear the trees and shrubs in this area first. As for the tree roots, they can be directly buried with explosives to blow them up, which is much faster than manual excavation. The roots of the shrubs can also be dug out with a plow. When the rice fields are reclaimed later, the fields are covered by water for a long time, and the remaining roots cannot grow out.
While the logging team was clearing the ground, Luo Chong also asked Dashu to lead the team to start blasting the moat on the west bank. The moat still had to be dug, and it not only played a role in protecting the city, but also provided water for the land west of the city. Although the grassland on the west side did not grow food, it could also be used to grow vegetables.
On the river channel of the moat, Shu Da led a few people to use Luoyang shovels to make blastholes, one every four meters. It took a day to dig 50 blastholes, covering a range of 200 meters. On the second day, Luo Chong personally mixed the explosives and placed them at the bottom of the blastholes.
Dashu led people to dig some simple bunkers, and Shu Da also led people to set up the detonation device. The elders and the rat witch notified the tribesmen in advance and took the tribesmen away from the blasting site. Then Luo Chong called 50 tribesmen to prepare to detonate those blasting points at the same time.
50 people pulled the detonating ropes by hand and lay in a simple bunker 30 meters away. The way of signaling changed from shouting with their mouths to beating drums.
Luo Chong asked people to move the cowhide drum they had made earlier to 50 meters behind the bunker. This time, it was agreed that three drum beats would be the signal. When they heard the three drum beats, all the blasters in front loosened their ropes at the same time. Thus, a prehistoric explosion like a dragon turning over happened.
In the second half of the first month of summer, in the morning, the weather was clear. On the urban construction site of the Han tribe, 50 blasters pulled the detonating ropes by hand, waiting for Luo Chong's signal in the back.
Dong, dong, dong -
the sound of the cowhide drum vibrated in the air, and almost at the same time, it was clearly transmitted to the ears of the 50 blasters. The next moment.
Boom boom boom -
a long mud dragon of more than 200 meters rose up in the western half of the moat in the south of the city, like a dragon breaking out of the ground. The momentum was so great that everyone who saw it was shocked. It was too terrifying and too spectacular.
The livestock of the entire Han tribe, led by Huishan and Rourou, all crawled on the ground, trembling and daring not to speak.
But the scene after the explosion was exciting. The smoke and mud dissipated, and a 200-meter-long deep ditch appeared in the original place. The river channel that originally took dozens of people several weeks to dig was formed instantly. With a little repair, water could be directly diverted in.
After the explosion, Shu Da began to lead people to work with the slaves, collecting the flying mud with a cart, and then piled it in the city, ready to be used to build rammed earth walls in the future.
The Han tribe also entered a major construction phase. With the addition of the Li tribe and the two tribes that had joined the Western Expedition, Luo Chong reorganized a construction team to build houses. This time, the team was expanded to 30 construction teams, which could build 30 rough houses at the same time.
Ordinary tribesmen built houses in the city, and slaves dug rivers and transported soil outside the city. All work was back on track. Two
days later, the remaining 200-meter section of the moat in the south was also blasted, and the second-season rice seeds sown in the rice fields also grew the fourth leaf. The mining team, which had been out for many days, also completed the first stage of the goal.
The team led by Dali, Xue Tu, You Fu, and Ying Rui successfully arrived at the salt lake area. They first worked together to build a camp near the salt lake, dug out many semi-underground earth houses for people to live in, and built a circle of one-person-high earth walls around them with the excavated soil.
At the same time, You Fu also led the cavalry and all the eagle-raising warriors of the Eagle Tribe to hunt the surrounding ferocious beasts, which was considered to be a relatively safe working area for the iron ore area.
In the following time, Dali and Xuetu began to lead the slaves to dig magnetite. Carts of magnetite began to be sent to the river, then piled up and transported to the Han tribe by wooden boats.
On the other side, Youfu and Yingrui also began to search for the traces of the horses all over the grassland. Unexpectedly, in just a few days, the herd of wild horses migrated to the west bank of the river. Maybe the horses also discovered this group of humans who suddenly occupied the salt lake, so they all hid far away.
After two or three days of pursuit, Bazuka finally led everyone to the vicinity of the horses on the west bank. A group of people hung far around the horses, keeping a certain distance, following the movement of the horses, thinking about how to capture as many of them as possible.
Luo Chong gave a plan for this, which was to choose an encirclement in advance and find a way to drive the horses into the encirclement, but it was easier said than done. It was not so easy to establish an encirclement on the flat grassland.
Therefore, Youfu made a decision to leave five cavalrymen and a warrior from the Eagle Tribe to follow the horses, and he took the rest of the people to look for a suitable place for an ambush.
(End of this chapter)
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