Chapter 85: Change of Plan
According to the original plan, the grassland camp was just a springboard for them. Its main purpose was to facilitate their acquisition of resources on the grassland.
Therefore, Zhou Xu did not pay much attention to the early development of the grassland camp.
After completing the most basic infrastructure, the manpower and material resources here will be invested in collecting various grassland resources.
However, the collection of grassland resources requires large-scale outward exploration, but the appearance of Centaurs and the potential threat they carry prevents Zhou Xu from continuing with the original plan.
There was no choice but to change the plan, suspend external exploration, and instead give priority to internal development, strengthen camp construction, and deploy chevaux de frise around the camp as a defensive facility, turning it into a military stronghold on the front line.
The purpose is that when the time comes, even if they really fight against those centaurs, they will be able to hold the camp and not be easily defeated by the enemy.
Even through tenacious defensive tactics, they persuaded the enemy to retreat.
Although he had told Ye Jinghong before leaving the grassland camp that if they really came into contact with each other, they should just ignore the camp and run away, but the camp had been built after all, and it would definitely be better to defend it.
Abandoning this camp would be a huge loss for them.
The next period of time was a gamble for Zhou Xu and his team.
They were betting on whether their grassland camp could develop stably until all the defense facilities were completed.
To be honest, the overall efficiency is not fast.
After all, their transportation capacity is limited at this stage. Before the subsequent wooden carts are manufactured, the limited two wooden carts are simply not enough for them.
Take the present for example. Under the premise that the two wooden carts are all used to transport the wood for making chevaux de frise to the grassland camp, the logging team at the Black Moon camp has no wooden carts to use. As a result, the work efficiency of the logging team will be significantly reduced.
Therefore, in order to keep up with the supply of wood, they had to ask the logging team for a wooden cart after the first trip to improve their work efficiency, otherwise there would not be enough wood at the camp.
In addition, the wood cut by the logging team is not delivered directly. The wood used to make the chevaux de frise needs to be polished to a considerable extent, and one end has to be sharpened to increase the deterrent and lethality of the chevaux de frise.
And this job will depend on the efforts of the equipment department.
The newly added polishing work and the obvious increase in stone axe wear and tear have put tremendous pressure on the equipment department recently.
Needless to say, Zhuang Mengdie and her colleagues were very busy at the same time as they were making the third wooden cart.
It seems like a simple matter, but in fact it has made the Black Moon Camp extremely busy.
This situation was slightly alleviated after the third wooden cart was successfully produced.
At least one wooden cart can be left for the exclusive use of the logging team. As long as the wooden cart improves the transportation efficiency, the work efficiency of the logging team can be guaranteed.
Of course, even so, Zhuang Mengdie's project of making wooden carts did not stop.
During this period, for their tribe, the more wooden carts the better, as they were not only needed at the grassland camp, but also at the salt lake camp.
At present, these three wooden carts can only be used as a makeshift.
According to Zhou Xu's idea, if the grassland camp wants to have sufficient transportation capacity, it will need at least five wooden carts.
This is not just because we need to make chevaux de frise, and the wood is bulky and difficult to transport.
In fact, wood is used in many places in camp development and is considered one of the basic building materials for camp development.
Even if we don't build barricades anymore, the transportation capacity of five wooden carts is still needed in order for the grassland camp to obtain sufficient resources for development.
Under this premise, and considering the Salt Lake Tribe and some departments that also need wooden carts to improve work efficiency, building ten wooden carts can only be considered a minimum guarantee.
Every time a batch of wood is delivered, a barricade is tied out, and with the joint efforts of multiple people, it can be completed in about an hour.
But for this amount of material, the transport team would need a day and a half just to travel the distance.
This does not take into account the situation at the Black Moon Camp where the logging team or equipment department are not working efficiently enough and the materials cannot be delivered immediately.
Of course, this does not mean that Zhou Xu and his companions in the grassland camp have nothing to do.
Apart from his daily fishing work, Zhou Xu also skillfully made a batch of lasso traps, which he set up near nearby rabbit nests to catch hares and further increase their food supply.
At the same time, they calculated the time and dug up the nearby berry bushes so that the transport team could take them back along the way to increase the scale of red berry cultivation at the Black Moon Camp.
During this process, it was certainly impossible for Zhou Xu to stay in the grassland camp without moving.
In fact, after the plan of external exploration was hindered by the appearance of the Centaurs, although there were some things in the grassland camp that needed him to do personally, it would be a waste of time to stay here for a long time.
So during this period, Zhou Xu often stayed here for seven days and then there for seven days.
It just so happened that he was able to handle matters in both camps relatively promptly, without delaying either side.
And in the past seven days, he happened to be at the Black Moon Camp...
"call--"
Zhuang Mengdie let out a long breath, temporarily finishing the work at hand, and shook his hands which were already a little sore.
Although the manufacture of this wooden cart is very urgent, she is not made of iron after all, and polishing parts is very tiring. In order to avoid overwork and injury, she will take a break every once in a while to relax her hands.
During this period, Zhuang Mengdie would usually choose to confirm the learning results of the two apprentices and then give them appropriate guidance.
But today, she didn't do that. Her entire attention was focused on Zhou Xu who was working hard nearby.
In the past two days, their leader basically stayed in their equipment department during the day. The main reason was that their leader was also polishing something recently, and their equipment department had a complete range of polishing tools, so it was more convenient for him to stay here.
"Chief, what is this?"
It was a round stone plate of considerable size. There were some symbols engraved around the outside of the plate that she could not understand, and in the center was a polished straight bone needle.
In the past few days, their leader has been polishing this thing, and now it seems that it has been completed. This also made Zhuang Mengdie finally ask the doubts in his heart.
"This is what you're talking about? It's called a coronagraph!"
Updated, thanks to book friend 'Yiyue Leng' for the reward (end of this chapter)
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