Just as Xu Chen was communicating with the Yu Gong Clan's witch to follow up, Lei, who was guarding the raft outside the valley entrance, came to meet excitedly with a group of Gonghuo Clan and Thunder Clan hunters.

Lei reported in detail the arrangements of the women, children, and young and old among the La tribes migrating to the Thunder clan and the follow-up arrangements of the men and women captives of the Maotun clan of the Yugong clan, and excitedly expressed his willingness to take the hunters of the two tribes to follow Xu Chen to continue exploring downstream.

Xu Chen hesitated for a moment and agreed to Lei and a group of hunters' request.

Thunder Clan and Gonghuo Clan have been training and operating rafts, and they have rich experience on water.

In addition, it has been more than 20 days since I went out. Although it is only more than 100 miles apart, there is no news sent back. I guess Mother Ba and the others are also worried and looking forward to it day and night at home. Now that so many things have happened, it is better to send a message back.

This time, I found a salt mine near the Mongolian people and collected dozens of kilograms of pure stone salt. It is best to send these back first. It just so happens that a lot of hunting and fishing are hunted in winter. The excess can be marinated into salted fish and bacon and hung it dry. You can eat delicious bacon next year.

Therefore, after Xu Chen summoned Feng and other groups of officers for a brief discussion, he stayed Mo to lead the team to follow and explore. Feng led a team of Ba hunters to return to the tribe in advance, and took Shi Yan and some of the captive men and women left in the Gonghuo tribe back to help with construction.

In the past, winter and spring were the most leisurely season, but for all tribes, winter and spring were the busiest times.

Building houses, canals, dams, burning wastelands and farmlands all need to be carried out in winter. Once spring enters the rainy season, these activities will slowly stop and enter large-scale farmland cultivation.

Activities such as growing farmland cultivation, weeding and animal removal will greatly occupy a large amount of time and energy of the tribe.

In addition, there is also a task when the wind returns, which is to guide the cutting down a large number of trees to pile them up and dry them, prepare the wood for making rafts in advance for large-scale exploration next year, and also jointly train riding and shooting with the Wu tribe. In addition, before the beginning of spring, he will lead a team to the Mongolian tribe to deliver the Mongolian tribes their urgently needed pottery, linen and other items, and then send salt back.

In short, this time when going out for a long trip, Xu Chen should try his best to train more leaders who have independent exploration experience. As the core general of the Ba people, Feng is responsible for all military training tasks that command the commander for a long time. Lei is stronger than Feng in terms of strength and force, and is more suitable for field exploration. In the future, more exploration and development tasks will be handed over to Lei and Long, generals with higher military values, and the Ba people will be more responsible for high-level command and liaison tasks.

In addition, after Feng led the team to the Gonghuo Clan this time, people would arrange for people to send the large pottery left in the Thunder Clan to the Mongolian clan first to support salt making and storage transportation.

There may not be many things, but it is quite complicated to go back and forth. Only the Ba people can arrange such things properly. The Gonghuo tribe and the Thunder tribe can only provide temporary assistance at the moment and cannot stand alone.

After everything was arranged, a group of people bid farewell to the Yu Gong tribe, took more than ten rafts of all sizes and went down the river, and docked at the simple pier at the mouth of Jicang River in about an hour.

Here the two people parted ways.

Feng led a group of people to take a small raft with a few baskets of stone salt to the Gonghuo tribe, and then returned to the Ba tribe along the Ji Cang River through the territory of the Cha tribe, the Cang tribe and the Ji tribe.

Xu Chen led Lei, Mo and others to continue down the river.

After exploring the territory of the Yu Gong Alliance, the area on the south bank of the Wulong River has actually begun to become clear.

According to the information found that there are no large tribes gathering in the South Bank in the past three to five days, only a few scattered small and medium-sized tribes. I heard that they also have witches, but their inheritance is completely different from that of the Yu Gong tribe, and they prefer indigenous styles, which are poor and ugly and difficult to communicate with.

Therefore, Xu Chen focused mainly on the north bank of the Wulong River.

To the east of the Gonghuo Basin, which is near a low mountain valley on the east bank of the Jicang River, there are other alliance tribes of the Gonghuo tribe. Their contacts and the Gonghuo tribe mainly pass through land between the mountain valleys and canyons, and do not follow the Wulong River. However, the distance between them is a little far away. The farthest tribe takes five days to leave the Gonghuo tribe.

Xu Chen is more natural and inclined to waterways as such a long way.

In addition, the Jia tribe who found the lead ore last time was about three days away from the Gonghuo tribe. The valley they lived in was not far from the Wulong River.

After the last exchange at the Witch Lord Conference, Xu Chen gave the Jia tribe a red striped flag, asking them to find an open place on the banks of the Wulong River near their habitat to provide a navigation beacon for this exploration trip. Therefore, you only need to find this flag down the river to contact the Jia tribe as soon as possible.

After the Wulong River crossed the Jicang River, the water situation became significantly larger and more stable.

The mountains on both sides are rolling, but they are low and gentle. The primitive forest with towering trees is filled with huge trees. Various animals and plants are more prosperous. Along the river beaches, you can see flocks of wild beasts and overwhelming wild birds everywhere.

Tigers roar and apes cry, wolfs rush and porpoises rush, the sky is high and the earth is vast. In this slightly cold winter, there is a primitive and heroic battle for all things to compete for freedom in the frost sky, which makes people want to yell a few times to release the comfort in their hearts.

Eight huge rafts were flowing eastward along the rolling Wulong River amid the howling sounds of a large group of hunters, and they went dozens of miles in the blink of an eye.

"Look, Qiga!"

Although the hunter on the raft was excited and screaming, he kept observing the situation on the river banks on both sides.

After leaving the mouth of Ji Cang River, Ji Cang River slowly turned over a large bay from east to southeast here. A sharp-eyed hunter suddenly pointed to the estuary of a very small tributary river not far ahead and let out a surprise roar.

"The estuary is on the shore!"

The flag is now an original item created by the Ba people. It is mainly a rare item, and even the Gonghuo tribe cannot weave it. Therefore, the only possibility of this flag is that it has already reached the Jia tribe.

This tributary is similar to the small river in the Ba people's valley. It may be a little larger, but it is also very limited. The estuary is not wide, only about a hundred meters, and the river water is only a shallow flowing water in the middle of the beach, attracting a large number of wild birds to gather here for food.

A long row of rafts slowly approached the estuary and looked for a place to shore.

Flocks of water birds flew in shock and rose into the sky with a swell of edges.

On the raft, a hunter couldn't help but pick up the bow and arrow and shot it at the sky, and actually dropped a few, which caused a burst of excitement and cheers.

Hunting birds has always been very difficult, but since the arrival of bows and arrows, it has gradually become common. For hunters who are gradually proficient in bows and arrows, it is not difficult to shoot a large and medium-sized wild beast, but only by shooting a flying wild bird can you show superb skills.

Therefore, when hunting, hunters often like to test hunting birds to show their archery and skills.

In fact, with the emergence of horses, hunting has become more and more the strength of archers. Hunters who are slightly inferior to bows and arrows have gradually withdrawn from the front-line hunting team and become auxiliary troops, and more often change careers to participate in fishing and do other things.

It can be said that the emergence of bows and arrows has greatly changed the way of hunting. In addition to fighting, traditional spear throwing has quickly become marginalized.

With the emergence of water tools such as rafts, the fishing methods will also undergo great changes. In the past, traditional fish could only be fished in shallow water areas such as small rivers, rivers, beaches, and pools, and gradually develop into vast waters such as deep water areas, rivers, lakes, and other large rivers and lakes that are more suitable for fish survival.

With the changes in these production tools, while the quality of life of human beings has improved significantly, the scope of exploration is also increasing in multiples.

Just like this long-distance exploration.

With a raft, it takes only half a day to travel a hundred miles of water, which was simply unimaginable before.

In just over a year, the Ba people have changed from being able to move within more than ten miles of the valley on weekdays to being able to move within hundreds of miles. While humans continue to increase their activity areas, their horizons have also grown on a large scale.

Thunder and a group of Gonghunter hunters who were newly exploring today were still excited to hunt birds on the river beach, but for Ba hunters and a group of Gonghunter captive legion, they were no longer so interested in this kind of activity.

After a large group of people dragged the rafts to the bank of the river, they raised their flags and sounded the trumpet and advanced along the river to the valley not far away.

Before I could walk far in, I heard a few shouts coming from the front, so a group of hunters began to shout loudly. Soon, I saw a group of more than a dozen hunters wearing furs and simple armor running in a hurry with spear sticks.

"Jiaoga!"

"Yew~"

Everyone couldn't help but cheer loudly. Soon the two groups met, and couldn't help but hugging each other enthusiastically and pounding each other's backs to express excitement and excitement.

"Your Majesty the Witch King!"

After saying hello, a group of hunters from Jia tribe squatted on the ground with excitement on their faces to express their respect and welcome to Xu Chen's arrival.

"All up, you guys did a good job, and the flag was very eye-catching!"

Xu Chen smiled and helped the hunter leader up and said with a smile.

The leader of the Jia clan pulled his messy hair with his hands and smiled and said, "I don't know that the Witch King is here, we will go to the river to see every day!"

"Well, I should have come earlier, but I found a tribe on the other side of the river..."

Xu Chen explained a few simple gestures, and a group of hunters were shocked and happy. When he led Xu Chen and others to the cave, a group of people from the Gonghuo Clan Captive Legion also loudly talked about the feat of conquering the Maotun clan and the Yugong clan. This made these Jiagen hunters even more excited, and said with regret that if they had a chance to fight next time, they would definitely call them to make money together.

At present, all tribes are logging and building bricks on a large scale, and there is a shortage of manpower.

Especially for tribes such as the Jia tribe, which have remote and small populations, the manpower is even more short of people.

I have to repair a house and hunt and fish, and I am very busy every day.
Chapter completed!