Win the Ding 1617

"Whoosh!" A sharp arrow flew out, dozens of steps away, a fat wild deer was hit in the middle of the chest.He ran forward a few steps, but couldn't stop the blood loss, wailed a few times, and fell to the ground.

Several Hopi shouted for joy, rushed forward, pulled the arrow out of the deer carefully and godlike, wiped off the blood on the arrow, and grabbed the iron arrow carefully in their hands.

The Indians of this era, especially the Indians on the West Coast, are still in the stage of using bone arrowheads and transitioning from the Stone Age to the Metal Age.On weekdays, they used wooden bows, bone arrowheads or stone arrowheads for hunting. These iron arrowheads were magical weapons they had never heard of.

As a species for trading with the Hopi, the young men of the Southern Guangdong Army expedition borrowed a wooden bow from the Hopi warrior with gestures, took an arrow, and looked at the finely ground wolf on the arrow. Fang, the boys smiled and shook their heads, took out an iron arrow from the jar, and replaced the mace.

Bending his bow and shooting an arrow, he smiled at the Hopi warriors and said, "If I can knock down that deer with one arrow, this arrow will be my gift to all brothers!"

The power of role models is infinite. A fat stag that can only be shot by a few people working together to besiege and run after them is easily knocked down by an arrow today. This has brought unprecedented shock to the Hopi people. .

Yin Lei's mother, as the leader of the Hopi tribe, was quite surprised when she received the iron arrow from her subordinates.

"Great wizard, no, Daoist, what exactly is your arrow made of? It's so magical?"

"It's iron. Iron."

"iron?"

As described in a poem by a Peruvian poet, "They search for gold, and they leave gold behind." Vocabulary that does not exist in Indian languages ​​quietly entered their daily life and became a bridge for communication between the two sides.

"Master Dao. You are their leader. I want to exchange with you. These iron arrows need to be equipped with so many hunters in the whole tribe," Yin Lei's mother gestured with her hands, meaning that each of them would need two arrows. Ten iron arrows. "What is needed. How much to exchange?"

"Pindao said long ago that Pindao was sent by the Emperor of Heaven to look for the descendants of Yin and Shang. Since you are descendants of Yin and Shang, then you and Pindao are all descendants of China. What are you talking about! As long as brothers are of one mind. What in this world does not belong to all of us?!" Taoist Ruo Shui said so righteously and generously, it seems that Yin Lei's mother is a little bit of a villain.Immediately, he had to laugh twice and never mentioned it again.

However, if the head of the water channel is not just talking but not practicing, Dang even asked Yin Lei to gather all the men in the tribe to one place, and according to the standard of [-] arrows per person, he counted out a few jars of iron arrows to give away. give them.

"If we have something to do, we will naturally come to you!"

Unlike the Lowlanders who exchanged a few glass beads for New Amsterdam from the Indians, it was also an exchange, but what the water chief and the Southern Cantonese expedition team exchanged was much more practical.Also worth much more.

Reciprocating love, facing such a generous brother who has not seen him for many years, these Hopi people will naturally not behave badly.Immediately, Yin Lei's mother said that as long as it is the territory of my Hopi people, it is jointly owned by your Nanyue Army!

Different from the passengers on the "Mayflower", facing the Hopi people who came carrying corn, pumpkins, wild deer, turkeys and fish, if the water chief and his boys always It's hospitality.Often the meal is prepared and they are invited to enjoy it together.Instead of scalping with a knife to calculate the reward.The two sides soon gradually merged into one.

With close contacts, Dingdong City needs to be expanded.

After some red-faced quarrels, Director Ruoshui finally reached an agreement with Yin Daida to hire young and middle-aged Hopi tribesmen to help build houses in Dingdong City and expand the scale of the city.

According to Yin Lei, they are all brothers.If your family builds a house, I will help, that is a fair and honest thing, what remuneration are you talking about?Just treat us to a drink when we're done.

However, how can the director of the water channel let go of any opportunity to expand his influence and promote technology?He proposed to use a full set of iron farm tools and send young men who are proficient in planting and how to artificially breed to help the Hopi people with agricultural production technical guidance!

"Okay, the Daoist leader is also kind. Just listen to him." Under Yin Lei's mother's final decision.The two parties reached a cooperation agreement.

Yin Lei led hundreds of strong men from his clan to the construction site in Dingdong City to help!

Building a city has always been costly and requires a lot of attention.

Back then, when Lu Xiang repaired the Xuanda Great Wall, he needed 30 taels of silver for each Zhang Zhang, and 160 million taels of silver was needed to repair the 170-mile Great Wall.In the Wanli year, Qinghe garrison Wang Weiping built Gushan New Fort. On Tuesday, the height of the city and the crenels were three feet and five feet, all of which were built with bricks and stones. There were 770 three rooms for the guarding officer's residence and the sergeant's barracks. They shared 610 taels of silver and [-] shi of grain. .As for Master Sun Chengzong's overhaul of the castle in Liaodong, it was even more costly.

In ancient times, the city wall was built by mixing loess slurry, river sand, lime, and glutinous rice slurry in a certain proportion to make three-component soil. Only in this way can the fort wall built in this way be durable and strong, and it is difficult to be damaged.Even in some places, dog urine is added when building walls, and it is believed that this can ward off evil spirits.

And this is also the most common method of building walls in ancient times. In some big cities or palaces, they tamped fort walls. Egg whites, red beans, etc. are used to make adhesives, which cost countless money.

If castles are built in Nanzhong, they are basically built with burnt ash, bricks and stones plus sand, lime, etc.This kind of construction method is much simpler than the above method, and the cost is also much lower.The most important thing is that the construction period and effect are very cost-effective.

But, in this land of Fusang, on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, where can one find ashes?Not to mention burned ashes, there is no place to find even the brick kiln for firing bricks!If the fort is built with bricks and stones, it will take too long to ram the wall.Quarrying stones and burning bricks are not done in a day.Moreover, right now, the expedition team led by Director Ruoshui.There is nowhere to find glutinous rice milk!There are also green bricks and so on, which will take a lot of work, and there are no craftsmen in the expedition team who know how to build brick kilns and how to fire green bricks.Besides, there is no adhesive like glutinous rice pulp to fill bricks and stones.There are also gaps between other building materials, and the city will not be firm.

However, the good thing is that in today's land of Fusang, no matter whether it is Yin Lei, the descendants of Yin Shang, or those of Flangji, they all lack or have no cannons to attack fortifications. Therefore, for the defense of the city Naturally, the requirements are much lower!

There are virgin forests all over the mountains and plains, and there is no shortage of wood.At the moment, it can only use wood as the main material.Build the wall of the civil structure!

Dingdong City is actually a walled city made of logs.The same as the city built by Long Shengxing in Heilongjiang, they are all made of wood in the excavated trenches, connected with grass ropes and wooden wedges to build wooden walls, and the two wooden walls are rammed with soil to make them more compact. It is an impenetrable wall.

The inland city wall was installed on the city wall. Horse faces, archery towers, and watchtowers were built, so that people and horses within a radius of tens of miles can be seen at a glance.If any enemy troops rushed under the city wall, those horse faces and arrow towers would teach them a profound lesson.Taste being attacked on three sides by arrows, javelins and axes.The most important ones are granaries, forage fields, arsenals, stables, barracks and other buildings.Wells are also very important.Although the big village in Dingdong City is not far from the river, obviously, out of many considerations, it is within the city.Several wells are necessary.

When Yin Lei arrived at Dingdong City with his brothers from the tribe and nearly a thousand men from neighboring tribes who heard the news, the city was ablaze with flames.It was the boys of the Southern Guangdong Army who lit the torches and burned away the dense grass and shrubs as tall as a person to clean up the field, clear the shooting area, prevent pests and diseases, and so on.In fact, as the fire continued to burn, from time to time, various small animals fled from the burned homes screaming and wailing from the grass and bushes. Some of the short-sighted ones actually bumped into Hopi On the legs of human soldiers, it became the raw material for the evening meal.

With a wealth of loot, Yin Lei and others followed the boys of the Southern Guangdong Army back to Dingdong City.A few miles away from the city, Yin Lei and the others suddenly knelt down and prayed in unison, their faces full of sincerity and fear.The young man from the Southern Guangdong Army who accompanied him was very strange, so he asked Yin Lei, and Yin Lei said in an awe-inspiring tone, "Hurry up, pray quickly, there is a miracle ahead."

"Miracle?" What kind of stuff is this? After hearing Yin Lei's explanation, the people of the Nanyue Army became even more confused.Seeing that they didn't kneel down and pray, Yin Lei quickly said: "Look, at the end of the horizon, there is a huge house shining with golden light. It must be the residence of the gods. It is estimated that the gods knew about the arrival of Western relatives and came to visit you specially." .God has a big temper, if you don't kneel down, I'm afraid it will bring disasters."

The giant house of golden light, the residence of the gods?The Nanyue Army still didn't understand what was going on, and finally following Yin Lei's finger, all the boys in the Nanyue Army laughed.They quickly helped Yin Lei up and said, "Brother, you really misunderstood. That is not the giant house of the gods. It is our new city, called Dingdong City. Of course, this is also your city. As long as you want, we can invite you to come here." Live in this city."

After hearing the Nanyue Army's explanation, although Yin Lei didn't dare not believe it, he was still puzzled, so the Nanyue Army had no choice but to continue to explain: The so-called huge golden house you saw was nothing more than the loess of the city wall of Dingdong City, which was illuminated by the sun. , emitting a faint yellow light, nothing to make a fuss about.

After some explanations, Yin Lei finally accepted the statement that Dingdong City is a human residence.However, just to be on the safe side, they followed the Nanyue Army to Dingdong City as if nothing had happened, while secretly praying in their hearts, God, we didn't mean to offend you, so don't be surprised.

The city is gradually approaching, and the crenellations of the female wall are already clearly discernible, and Yin Lei finally believes that this is a city inhabited by humans.Because in the city, there are soldiers from the Southern Guangdong Army that they are familiar with patrolling. Although there are some thick and black things like hollowed out trees that they don't recognize, they still recognize them anyway.

Yin Lei, who was relieved, also started chatting and laughing with the Nanyue Army. Unknowingly, they came outside the city. At this time, what appeared in front of Yin Lei was a moat.The trench is five meters wide and three meters deep, and the bottom of the trench is densely covered with sharpened wooden piles.A few poor little beasts on the stake silently explained to everyone with their lives and flesh and blood.After seeing this bloody example, everyone knows that the thing buried at the bottom of the ditch needs no introduction, and they also know how deadly it is.Faced with this situation.Yin Lei couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, thinking that our relatives can fly, how can we pass through such a barrier?

And the people who came with Yin Lei also looked at each other in blank dismay.In the end, all eyes were on the leader of the Southern Guangdong Army.The leader of the Southern Guangdong Army was busy chatting at first, but after seeing everyone watching him, he realized that there was still business to do, so he scratched his neck and started shouting: "Hey, the dead pig inside, don't get up again, I'm drafting my sister, I didn't watch it Your brother-in-law is back?"

Soon, there was a burst of cursing from inside: "I hate you sir! You learned from dogs in school? What a mess. If nothing else, why are you fucking my sister and becoming my brother-in-law again?"

After a burst of cursing and creaking noises on the tower where the pulley was installed, a huge suspension bridge made of pine logs split in two was lowered from the city gate and rested on the edge of the ditch with a bang.

"Brothers, please!" After teasing and cursing with the guards on the tower, the leading officer waved his hand, indicating that Yin Lei and others can enter the city!

This scene was in the eyes of the Nanyue Army.It's just a daily routine, but in Yin Lei's eyes, it is indeed like a wizard's practice.With such a wide trench, the Southern Guangdong Army laughed.A wide bridge was laid down, allowing people and horses to pass, and in a blink of an eye, with a few low-pitched chants, the bridge weighed more than a few thousand catties, and even a dozen strong men might not be able to lift it.Then lightly and skillfully re-established at the gate of the city! "This must be a magic spell." Thinking of this, Yin Lei said to his subordinates in a low voice, "You all write down their spells, and when you encounter a natural barrier in the future, let the great wizard try to see if you can pass."

After entering the city, although I had long thought in my heart that this was our brother's house, when I actually saw the interior of Dingdong City, I was still deeply shocked.If the standard of Nanzhong is used, Dingdong City is only a small village.The houses are basically adobe houses, and the walls are also earth walls, but due to the unified planning, the houses and walls are uniform.In addition, the road is paved with composite soil and cleaned every day by a special person, and the chickens, ducks, geese, cattle and sheep are also raised together to avoid polluting the environment.Such conditions, not to mention the old base in Hejing, are just so-so in Ludong, but in Yin Lei's eyes, there is nothing left but worship.

At this time, all the people who followed Yin Lei were very sure that we were the descendants of the Great Shang's Eastern Expeditionary Army, and our relatives came.It's just that we didn't complete the task well, and we're a bit shameless, but in the future, we must show some good looks, otherwise we won't be able to hang out with relatives in the future.

Since Yin Lei and the others had such an idea, they naturally spared no effort in the process of building the city.However, Master Ruoshui never treated these distant brothers badly at all, he entertained them with good wine and meat every day.These men who have not yet mastered the brewing technology are excited every day, as if they are in the clouds.

Nearby is the continuous forest, and there is no shortage of wood, but to build the wall, a large amount of wood needs to be harvested, and after it is erected, it must be rammed with soil. .

During the tamping process, a large number of people are also required to dig the soil, mix the mud, remove the blank, and dry it in the sun.

Fortunately, everyone in the Nanyue Army is good at this, and many of them have experience in building houses and villages more than once. Under their command and dispatch, a large number of Hopi people carrying baskets and carrying baskets walked along the road with wooden sticks in advance. The marked fortress walls were transporting soil back and forth, while the boys from the expedition team were wielding shovels to dig soil and dredges, while others were directing the Hopi men to ram the fort walls.The scene is also in full swing.

Yin Lei and the others took a big ax and a sharp saw from the warehouse to the nearby woods to cut trees.In the past, it took a lot of trouble to bring down the trees. In front of the big ax and the sharp saw, they fell to the ground in a short while. People cheered and came forward, intercepted the treetops and put them aside, preparing to use them as deer villages or heating. For firewood.

The finished materials are pulled by people with livestock and transported back to the camp, ready to be used for the construction of the wall.

Timbers were continuously brought in, either as logs or split into planks, and a large group of people erected wooden walls densely along the planned site.

The wooden wall was built on the side of the original Dingdong City, which can be regarded as the pattern of the outer city.It is erected in a prismatic shape, protruding every hundred steps, and a deep trench is dug along the outside of the fence. Generally speaking, the stockade is rectangular, long in the north and south, and short in the east and west. Features a drawbridge.

A hundred steps in front of the two village gates, there is also a triangular fence. The sharp corners in front and the two sides are also dug with ditches, and the road passes obliquely by the triangular fence.

On the wall of the village, several long wooden houses were built.

There are windows perforated on the second floor of the wooden house, and together with the fence, they form three layers of firepower. If the enemy attacks, they will have the fear of facing the defense line of Changling Mountain. There are tall watchtowers.

On the day when the village wall was completed, Ruo Shuizhang, on the spur of the moment, helped Yin Lei with a hint of alcohol to give him a Chinese name.

"You are a descendant of Yin and Shang, so you should be named Yin. Your brother is so decisive and quick in doing things, you are like a thunderbolt from the gods, how about you call him Yin Lei?"

Yin Lei watched his brothers happily loading all kinds of familiar tools into the car, and he was naturally inexplicably grateful.

"Master Daoist, we are just helping each other to build a house. How can we thank the Datou for being so generous, giving me things, and naming me? Nothing else! The sea otter skins and bison we hunted this year , I will share half with you! If the crops grow as well as the Daoist leader said, and the harvest is bumper, we will also be half of the family!" (~^~)