Chapter 130 Camp Operation
The combination of mortise and tenon structure and glue can improve sufficient stability and strength while not affecting production efficiency to the greatest extent.
This matter is easy to say, but it is not easy at all to do.
Which part uses the mortise and tenon structure, and which part uses glue? How to allocate them to get the best cost-effectiveness? This is something that needs to be carefully considered and tried.
During this period, Zhou Xu received a report from Zhuang Mengdie, which made him fall into a brief contemplation.
If they want to continue researching and developing this bamboo bow, it means they will have to invest more time.
By then, even if the new bamboo bow is successfully developed and put into mass production, it will still take a lot of time.
This would undoubtedly greatly slow down their entire arming efficiency, which made Zhou Xu, who had been eager to improve the tribe's combat effectiveness and start training, a little hesitant.
But he was a decisive man after all, and after thinking it over for a while, he agreed.
Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood, and now is the time to sharpen the knife.
Although the production and training of bows and arrows has been postponed, their tribe has just completed the first batch of conscription.
Let’s not talk about other trainings for now, just talking about weapons training, even if we can’t do archery training for the time being, we can still do stone axe training and spear training.
The daily training program is basically fixed. After a period of training, even if Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce are not there, the soldiers in the camp know what they need to do every day, which saves them a lot of worry.
But saving worry does not mean saving effort.
The recruitment work in this camp has come to an end for the time being. Should the recruitment for other camps also be started?
Needless to say, on a new day, Zhou Xu brought Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce directly to the Salt Lake Camp to recruit soldiers.
The population of the Salt Lake camp increased after the addition of a quarrying crew.
But the work pressure is also high. At the same time, as a small functional camp, the Salt Lake Camp cannot compare with the Black Moon Camp, which serves as the base camp, in terms of scale or population.
Considering the need to maintain the normal operation of the camp, even the Black Moon Camp only recruited ten soldiers, so shouldn't the Salt Lake Camp be half as many? After one trip, only five were recruited.
According to Zhou Xu's previous idea, in order to minimize the impact of conscription on the camp's labor force, these soldiers usually have to help various departments in the camp do hard work.
Taking this into consideration, the five soldiers recruited from the Salt Lake Camp naturally cannot be brought to the Black Moon Camp. They can only be trained in the Salt Lake Camp for the time being. By the way, they can also serve as the daily garrison here to ensure the safety of the camp.
Once the soldiers were familiar with the training process and there were no major problems for the time being, they left and headed to the grassland camp to recruit soldiers.
During this process, he also thought about the camp in the deserted mountains.
The desolate mountain camp with a population of one hundred is currently the most populous camp in their tribe.
Originally according to Zhou Xu's idea, this first batch of soldiers was the top priority, and there were not many of them, so he had to select each one carefully and take the elite route.
But the camp in the deserted mountains is too far away, and it takes too much time to go back and forth.
There was no way. After weighing the pros and cons, Zhou Xu decided to hand the matter over to Shi Lei, who was in charge there.
Early this morning, the person in charge of delivering the message had already set off with the transport team.
During this period, with the full implementation of the new camp plan, the construction of the barren mountain camp was completely shifted to the inside of the mountain.
Under this premise, because they needed to provide a large amount of bamboo for camp construction, Shi Lei had to expand their territory outward and include the bamboo forest area into their territory.
But in this way, they will inevitably come into contact with some tribes deep in the mountains and forests...
This was also the case on this day. After discovering each other's existence, both sides were obviously on edge, and the other side frequently sent people to the edge of each other's activity area to test each other.
As the person in charge of the barren mountain camp, Shi Lei dispatched more personnel to the marginal area as soon as he received the news.
On this day, conflict broke out again...
"The enemy is coming, run!"
In the mountains and forests, an armed conflict broke out between more than a dozen people from both sides.
Originally, the number of people on both sides was about the same, and the complex mountain environment made the fight difficult for a while.
But the opponent obviously didn't expect that Shi Lei's support would arrive so quickly.
As soon as the support arrived, the opponent had no advantage at all, so it was a wise move to escape immediately.
Things like this have been happening frequently recently, but Shi Lei didn't think there was anything strange about it.
In this era, when two tribes discover each other's existence within their own sphere of activity, this kind of thing is bound to happen.
For now, he has manned the sentry post on the edge of the barren mountain camp.
Once an armed conflict occurs in the outer area, reinforcements will follow immediately.
Relying on the advantage in numbers, they can basically ensure that their camp will be invincible in the recent conflicts.
In addition, before leaving the barren mountain camp, their leader had already told him roughly about some tribal forces that might exist deep in the mountains.
Combining this information, the tribe that is currently in conflict with them is most likely no match for them.
Although judging from the current situation, Shi Lei believes that he does not need reinforcements and can handle it by himself, he still needs to complete the report.
After the messenger followed the transport team and informed them of the latest orders from their leader, Shi Lei quickly informed the other party of the situation here and asked them to take the news back.
After all, this news was somewhat important, so the messenger did not dare to rest for too long. After sleeping for a night in a camp in the deserted mountains, he set off in a hurry.
At this moment, Zhou Xu and his people are still at the Salt Lake Camp.
These days, Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce have been busy training the newly recruited soldiers, while Zhou Xu has been busy inspecting the work at the Salt Lake Camp and the situations of various departments.
As a functional camp, the Salt Lake Camp has always provided important resource supplies to the entire tribe. After opening the chicken farm and quarry, its status has undoubtedly become higher, and Zhou Xu naturally has to pay attention to it.
When the chicken farm was just established, Zhou Xuyou asked Zhao Geng to come over and take a look and give some pointers on the breeding work there.
Now, after some time, the chicken farm has been run quite well.
After taking a rough look around, Zhou Xu took his men to the quarry to inspect the situation.
There were rocks everywhere on this side of the Gobi Desert. He thought about the layout of the area and found a rock wall that might hinder future development, and then asked the quarrying team to start digging.
At this moment, five newly recruited soldiers were helping in the quarry. Under the scorching sun, they were wielding hoes and sweating profusely.
The temperature is estimated to be around 35 degrees Celsius, it's officially summer.
At this moment, Zhou Xu frowned slightly as if something had blinded him...
【Eye of Insight! 】
Without hesitation, the Eye of Insight opened directly, and with a much clearer vision, Zhou Xu locked onto the pieces of stone that were emitting metallic luster in the sun at a glance...
(End of this chapter)
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