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The next morning, the sky turned white and the valley began to stir again.

The joy and excitement of the night did not make people feel tired and tired, but instead became more energetic.

On the river beach filled with morning mist, the early hunter team began regular training again. The neat sounds of running, assassination, slogans, and willow flutes merged into a unique momentum of the military camp.

The women started cooking early on by making fire.

The water in the river has been cut off, but the newly dug ponds and the clean and clear mountain spring streams brought to the Wild Wolf Valley to all the tribes participating in the meeting have enough water for daily use for washing and cooking.

The ditch and pond are surrounded by men and women who are getting up early. Some are washing their faces, some are fetching water with clay pots, and some are watching a large group of ducks in the duck house by the pond.

A group of tribal leaders and leaders gathered together to discuss the structure of ditches and ponds and the crisscrossing farmland on the nearby low and rolling hilly slopes.

The changes of the Ba people are changing with each passing day, and there are new changes and discoveries every time they come.

If the Temple of the First Mother and the Eye of the God are favored by God, then the complex water conservancy system formed by the excavation of such a large-scale ditches and ponds and the irrigation and drainage of farmlands will provide more realistic significance for the future development of their tribes.

The bigger the family and the bigger the family, the more obvious the demand for water use and living environment.

Especially for medium and large tribes such as the Wu tribe, Gonghuo tribe, Cang tribe, Yehuo tribe, and Qu tribe, the contradiction between water use and residence is becoming increasingly serious and prominent.

After these contradictions accumulate to a certain extent, the only ending is division. Some of them are either driven away or can't stand it and run away, looking for new places to continue to reproduce and survive.

In the past two years, many tribes have imitated the Ba people to build houses on a large scale, and the water use problem has become more prominent.

Although water wells can solve some problems, they have a single function and huge construction cost.

The combination of water diversion ditches and ponds perfectly solves the problem of water resource allocation.

In addition, the pond can also raise fish and ducks, just like farming, which will provide the tribe with a more stable source of meat, poultry and eggs.

Yesterday, the Ba tribe offered a reward to capture live beasts. Several tribes successfully completed the mission, and the Ba tribe immediately redeemed the pottery reward, but most of the rewards were several small and medium-sized tribes of the Gonghuo Alliance.

Although the pottery reward is enviable, it is said that the Ba people have to raise so many living wild beasts.

It’s okay to say that wild donkeys are similar to horses. If you keep them, you will definitely have no problem riding them as horses. But what are the uses of those little wild boars and wild sheep? It takes manual time to raise them, and there is not much meat.

Especially wild boars, they are stupid and fierce when raised, and may also bring unpredictable consequences. This thing is extremely powerful, and people will basically be useless if they are rude.

Various conjectures fermented and circulated in various tribes.

However, time was too tight, and Xu Chen could not explain the methods and purposes of raising these wild animals to them immediately. He was getting up and eating, drinking, defecating, and preparing to start the second most important task arrangement of the Witch Lord Conference, to round up wild horses.

As the sky became brighter and brighter, red glow appeared in the sky.

The hunters teams of each tribe gradually completed morning exercises and disbanded to eat, drink, and rest.

After eating and drinking, as soon as the sun rose, I heard a few melodious and thick horns sounds. Soon I saw a group of fully armed Ba hunters, led by Xu Chen, holding three flags and riding more than ten horses, running from the courtyard. Most of the dozens of hunters behind me were not bows and arrow weapons, but hunting tools such as ropes, rope nets, horse poles and rope covers.

"Call the call, gather!"

“Woo~~~”

The hunter leaders of each tribe immediately shouted excitedly and began to assemble the team.

Soon, hunters lined up near the flag of their tribe, and the atmosphere became serious and tense instantly.

All the men and women who attended the party stood nearby and watched.

Xu Chen soon got closer. After dismounting, he waited for the tribe leaders to report that they had all gathered. Then he walked into the middle of the team and announced today's plan to round up wild horses.

Because the destination this time is still near the river beach outside the Wu people's habitat, and the distance is relatively long, there is no need for all mobilization, but a group of young and strong hunters will be selected to participate, and the others will stay at the conference to continue trading activities. In addition, in order to increase the entertainment of the conference, Xu Chen will leave some people to guide some interesting competitions.

Originally, this kind of competition should have been held after yesterday's hunting competition, but I didn't expect that crossing the river would take too much time, and most of the time and energy were spent crossing the river, which caused me to return to the valley when it was almost completely dark, so there was no time for these planned activities to be carried out.

However, there is no need for all members to participate in the horse catching today, because there are still hundreds of hunters from the Wu tribe who have not come, so you only need to mobilize the Wu tribe hunters to participate. Moreover, the Wu tribes are familiar with the local situation, making it more convenient to round up.

After Xu Chen finished a few simple words of lectures, he quickly gathered a team of nearly 200 people and set off in a mighty manner.

In order to go to the Wu tribe to find out the movements of the wild horse group in advance and arrange the Wu tribe's men, Xu Chen left Mo to lead the team behind, while he took more than a dozen people including Hefeng and Long to ride to the Wu tribe to make arrangements first.

It took more than thirty miles to walk for half a day, but more than ten horses ran down the river beach at lightning and arrived at the Wu tribe in just over an hour.

Feng and other hunters have long been used to this journey and speed, because they often come and go, but Long and other Wu people were extremely moved. This speed and time made the Ba and Wu people almost no longer feel like they were regionally estranged.

You should know that it takes them longer than this to walk from the mountain to the valley entrance.

After arriving at the Wu tribe, Long immediately called on all the remaining hunters in the tribe. Except for the hunters who were patrolling, guarding, mining and hunting outside, everyone gathered quickly, with a size of nearly 100 people.

It’s better to be a person, Xu Chen was envious of seeing it.

There are nearly 200 adult men of the Wu tribe, and forty people lead the team to the Ba tribe to participate in the hunting competition. Some of them are still hunting and patrolling, and nearly half of the remaining ones staying in the valley.

And this time, the changes in the Wu tribe were actually very big.

The river beach is densely filled with dry mud bricks, and piles of trees, stones, thatch and vines are piled up everywhere at the foot of the mountain.

There is also a large area of ​​open space that seems to have just been burned down after the wasteland has begun to be dug in it, and a new round of large-scale house construction has obviously begun.

In addition, at the foot of the mountain upstream, there are several earthen kilns that are burning lime tiles and smelting copper ore. The smoke rolls straight into the sky. The valley is filled with a breath of fireworks, which makes the former wild valley look a lot more hot.

The people who stayed in the valley were basically participating in house repair, kiln smelting and other work.

Most of these people have not participated in military training, so their discipline is significantly worse, so Xu Chen is not very particular. Facing a group of extremely surprised men covered in mud and lime, he briefly explained the matter of catching wild horses, and then ordered them to prepare tools such as horse poles, rope mesh and ropes as soon as possible.

Since the beginning of autumn, Xu Chen asked Feng and Long to discuss and purchase these tools, and at the same time they were constantly training and using them.

Although Long said the training effect was not satisfactory, their training time was much longer than before the Ba people gathered wild horses.

But this time is very different from last time.

Last time, the planning time was long and the training time was short. I fully mastered the behavioral habits and movement trajectory of the wild horses before I started. The final result made Xu Chen very satisfied.

This time, the training time was long, but the planning time was almost zero, and it was almost temporary. It was hard to say how the effect was.

But no matter what, if we mobilize a lot of people to set out in a high-profile manner, we will still have to give an explanation to the people of the long-awaited tribes.

A large team of hunters of three hundred scales hunting at the same time. Even a group of tigers and lions had to catch a few of them alive, let alone a group of wild horses.

Therefore, the results of this hunt are only a matter of how much they are, and they will never return empty-handed.

Of course, the premise is that the group of wild horses are still near the valley, otherwise it would be too troublesome to search all over the mountains.

About an hour later, Xu Chen led his men out of the valley. At this time, the large army set out from the Ba people had not arrived yet, so he asked Feng to take a few Wu people familiar with the environment to inquire about the movements of the wild horses first.

After more than half an hour, a familiar flag finally appeared upstream, and the large army set out from the Ba people finally arrived.

It can be seen that almost all these people came all the way, panting and sweating.

It took more than thirty miles, not close, not far, equivalent to a half marathon. It took these people about three hours to arrive. Although they were not as fast as professional marathon runners, they had no roads because they were completely primitive and wilderness, and this speed was also very fast.

Shortly after the two groups of people met at the entrance of the valley, Feng and others, who were inquiring about the movement of the horse tribe, also sent back the news that the horse tribe was still in the woods near the entrance of the valley where they usually were foraging.

After hearing the news, the audience suddenly felt thunderous and Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Chapter completed!