Chapter 516: The fourth time to go to sea
The twelfth year of the establishment of the Mang Tribe, the second month of autumn.
After the autumn harvest, the Mang tribe had sufficient food and supplies.
The fleet also set off again, this was their last trip to sea before winter.
"Anchor!"
Bibo stood on the bow of the boat and shouted, and a soldier blew the conch "whimper".
"Crazy..."
The bronze chain was driven by a winch, pulling the heavy anchor vertically from the bottom of the river and hanging on the bow and stern.
After losing the anchor and bronze chains, the ship began to slowly move with the river.
"Start the sail!" Bibo shouted again.
The huge sail was quickly lifted by sailors with the cooperation of the pulley set, and the totem of the Mang Tribe on the sail was very conspicuous.
After the sails rose, they first adjusted their direction, and then were blown by the wind, which led the ship to slowly move forward.
Bibo held Si Nan in his hand, this magical artifact that could point out the direction.
Si Nan of the Mang tribe made certain improvements based on Si Nan in Chenbei's memory in his previous life.
For example, in Chenbei's memory, the spoon made of magnets is separated from the base engraved with the direction. If there is a slight bump, the spoon will easily fall off.
Sinan, made by the Mang tribe, added a very small copper pillar to the center of the base, and a round hole was chiseled in the center of the magnet spoon, placed on the small copper pillar, and then installed a copper cap that fits the bottom of the spoon to ensure that the magnet spoon does not fall off.
Magnets and copper will not attract, so the magnet spoon can still rotate freely on the copper plate to guide the direction.
"If you encounter a storm again this time, you won't be afraid of being blown into a strange sea. You just need to go north."
The southern desert is the sea. After reaching the sea, you can go north and return to land. As for whether it is the southern desert, the western desert, or other places, it is hard to say.
Lie also accompanied the fishing team soldiers this time. He looked at Si Nan and nodded, feeling again that Chen Bei was really capable of everything and could create such things.
Lie walked to the deck and looked at the river bank. There were many people seeing off the river bank, including Chenbei and Qingzhu.
Lie waved his hand to the shore and shouted loudly: "Chief, we will definitely find the Rhino Horn Continent this time!"
"I believe in you, I wish you success!"
Chen Bei also waved to Lie.
Chenbei has roughly determined the location of the Rhinoceros horn continent. The fleet only needs to travel west along the coastline. If it goes well, it can reach the Rhinoceros horn continent.
Once the route is determined, the Mang tribe can transport various materials on a large scale between the two places.
This is an extremely important matter. The Mang tribe grew and grew stronger on the Rhinoceros Continent. The various materials produced can be continuously transported to the Southern Wilderness, which greatly improved the risk resistance of the Southern Wilderness headquarters.
When natural disasters or wars come, this advantage can allow the Mang tribe to have a great advantage in other tribes.
“Woo woo…”
The conch blew twice again, and the huge sea boat drove faster and faster under the wind, leaving arrow-shaped waves on the river.
The fleet became farther and farther away, and after turning a river bend, it was nowhere to be seen.
On the river bank, the crowd gradually dissipated, but Chenbei and Qingzhu did not leave immediately, and still looked at the direction of the fleet leaving.
"Witch, do you think they will succeed this time?"
Qingzhu took out a piece of tortoise shell covered with burning marks and cracks and said, "I did some divination last night, and the result was very good. They should succeed."
"Then I'll be relieved." Chen Bei's expression relaxed a lot.
Qingzhu has a complete witch inheritance and black witch inheritance, and her divination results have always been very accurate.
In terms of combat effectiveness, Qingzhu is definitely far inferior to Chenbei.
However, in terms of divination and prophecy, Chenbei is far inferior to Qingzhu.
Both of them have their own strengths.
"Go back, it's windy by the river."
Because he had been tortured by the queen bee poison before, Qingzhu's body was relatively weak, and Chen Bei dared not take her to blow the cold wind for a long time.
Qingzhu put away the tortoise shell and nodded. The two walked into the tribe together. The tribe members along the way greeted them one by one, and they responded one by one, without any airs.
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Southern Wilderness, Fish Tribe.
"Crazy..."
With the efforts of many craftsmen in the Fish Tribe, the first sea boat that imitated the Mang Tribe was finally launched.
The size of this sea ship is about half that of the Mang Tribe's sea ship, because the Fish Tribe has no bronze parts available, and there is no large piece of linen to make sails.
They still use wooden nails and mortise and tenon structures. The sails are sewn with animal skin and fish skin, which are cost-effective and heavy.
If the ship is made too large, with their current technology and materials, it is likely to fall apart after encountering storms or impacts.
The leader of the fish tribe and Honglin stood on the shore, looking at the sea boat entering the water, their expressions were different.
The leader of the fish tribe was obviously a little excited. After living by the sea for a long time, he had a certain understanding of the dangers in the sea and the rich products in the sea.
This sea boat allows the fish tribe warriors to sail on the sea better and obtain more supplies for the fish tribe.
There was no joy and sorrow on Honglin's face, because this sea boat was imitating the Mang tribe. In her opinion, this was not something to be happy about.
After the sea boat entered the water, the soldiers of the Fish Tribe carefully checked and found no problems. The warrior leader ran to the front of the leader and the witch.
"Chief, witch, there is no problem after the ship enters the water, you can try the sail."
The leader of the fish tribe looked at Honglin and saw that she had no expression, so he replied, "Then let's try the voyage."
"yes!"
The soldier leader ran to the new ship again and shouted loudly: "Trial sail!"
A group of fish tribe soldiers boarded the boat through wooden boards that overlapped with the river bank, and then pulled up the sails with great effort.
Above the sails, there is the totem of the fish tribe. It is a fierce fish with a bloody mouth, with sharp teeth and fierce eyes, which makes people intimidate.
The new ship followed the river and entered the sea. Compared with the previous flatbeds, they could clearly feel that the performance of the new ship was much better.
This made the warriors of the Fish Tribe ecstatic. As a tribe who seeks life on the water, no one knows better than them what a good ship represents.
Honglin looked on the shore for a while, then planned to turn around and return to his residence.
As a witch, especially the witches of the large tribe, they are very busy and need to work constantly.
“Woo woo…”
At this moment, the sound of conchs came from afar. The red scale looked in the direction where the sound came, and saw the Mang tribe fleet flowing downstream, at a very fast speed.
The leader of the Yu Tribe who was very happy just now seemed to have been poured with a basin of cold water when he saw the huge fleet of the Mang Tribe. The smile on his face solidified, and then slowly restrained it.
I am afraid of comparison in everything. Compared with the huge sea ships of the Mang Tribe, the sea ships imitated by the Yu Tribe seem too shabby.
The Mang Tribe fleet slowly stopped on the river surface near the Yu Tribe. They needed to load a large amount of fresh water here, because it would be difficult to find fresh water when entering the sea.
After lowering the sails and getting off the anchor, Bibo was surprised to find that there was actually a ship on the sea.
She looked at the ship carefully and felt that it looked a bit like the sea ship of the Mang Tribe. She was a very smart person. After thinking about it for a while, she understood what was going on.
Bibo looked in the direction of the fish tribe and whispered: "Hong Lin, you are not too stupid. At least you will imitate it when you know you can't catch up."
Chapter completed!