The priests and the heads of the hundred men were called to meet. When they learned the news, their first reaction was "impossible".

The north of the mainland is full of rolling mountains and ridges, which cannot be accessed in many places. The reason why the Niu people can draw a rough map of the north of the mainland is that they have paid a lot of lives in the past thousands of years. But even so, they still cannot enter the inland area blocked by tall mountains, and can only sail along the coast with canoes. Ice, snow, storms, wild beasts... Generations of explorers have been going on one after another, and countless people are walking silently on the bones of their predecessors. This is not because of interest, they want to explore the unknown world, but because they want to break the cruel reality and find more areas suitable for survival.

More than two hundred years ago, the cattle warriors discovered that there was a lake in the north surrounded by mountains and ridges. The climate was pleasant, with spring all year round, fertile soil, and a large number of deer and wild goats running among the forests and grass.

At that time, the good news brought back by the explorers made the whole clan happy, but the cruel reality followed one after another. The continuous mountains were difficult to cross. More than half of the routes explorers took were cliffs, and they had to use various auxiliary tools and superb personal skills to climb up... In short, with the comprehensive strength of the Niu clan at that time, most people could not overcome natural obstacles and reach the rich lake area in the north.

More importantly, the city of Heikong had already begun to take shape at that time, and the entire cattle clan was centered on it, and radiation spread around it. Of course, it was good to have a rich land, but the problem was that it was basically impossible to come back if it went there. No matter how well it developed, it would be equivalent to severing contact with Heikong City from now on. This practice is equivalent to erecting a new, uncontrolled power group within the tribe out of thin air. As long as the supreme ruler is not a fool or an idiot, no Majesty of the King of Bull would accept this reality.

At the discussion meeting, people talked and talked a lot.

"Of course we know there is a lake in the north, but there are all mountains and we can't get past it."

"My grandfather's grandfather's grandfather has been there once, and he said it is indeed a good place. The road is not far, it is hard to walk. Even if you really want to pass, you can only be young people, and it is impossible for the elderly and children to do so."

"The mountains to the north are too high, and they are all stones, so they can't be dug at all."

Shouyi ignored these oppositions. His attitude was very firm. This was an order arranged by the new patriarch himself and must be implemented unconditionally.

The next day, a road construction team of more than 300 people left Kuteng Village and headed north.

The road construction team stopped about three kilometers away from the village, and there was no way to go from here. The cliffs above 200 meters high blocked all possibilities and could not detour. Only the most agile hunter could use ropes and steel brazing to climb to the top along the rocks. Looking at the entire Kuteng Village, there were no more than five such people.

Shouyi asked the hunters to climb up the cliff and find a solid and hard position to tie the rope. Under his command, people moved a heavy sealed wooden barrel from the sled. Shouyi and the soldiers from Panshi City looked solemn. They tied the barrel body with ropes to form a dense and tight grid. At this time, the hunters who had climbed to the top of the mountain also built a pole frame according to the instructions of the craftsman. It was a simple device that used thick steel bars to form an outwardly above the cliff. It could be controlled by the metal pulleys, and it could be closely linked to the rock wall, and could be manually operated.

The fully armed soldiers guarded the barrels, with serious expressions as if they were guarding the most precious treasure in the world.

Shouyi raised his hand and patted the two ready-made craftsmen on the shoulders, and seriously reminded him: "Be careful, do what you draw on the drawings, and you will succeed."

The simple winch on the top of the mountain was started to run, and the rattan rope soaked in grease was very strong. The two craftsmen's crotch and waist were tied tightly. Shouyi held a small red flag and raised his head. He looked at them who were slowly rising. When he watched the height rise to the obvious crack in the middle of the cliff, he raised the flag in his hand and waved it three times in a row from left to right.

The winch on the top of the mountain stopped, and two craftsmen hanging in the air also reached out to hold the stone wall, took out the steel brazing from the tool bag cross-bodying around their waists, inserted it into the gap in the stone in the middle of the cliff, swung the iron hammer and smashed it hard, nailed it in until it was stable.

The road construction brigade of more than 300 people did not follow. They stayed half an inside and outside, cut down trees, pried up large pieces of stone from the ground to clean the ground, widened and leveled the distance between the cliff and the silhouette, and made preliminary preparations for the subsequent road construction work.

It is very difficult to operate on the suspended cliff, mainly because there is no focus. But even so, the craftsmen still spent more than two hours to penetrate more than a dozen steel bars into the gaps in the stone walls to create a steel frame that tilts from the outside to the inside.

At noon, a new rope was lowered on the top of the mountain. Under everyone's fearful and anticipated eyes, the heavy wooden barrel was tied up by a rope net and slowly left the ground with the traction force of the winch.

A soldier from Panshi City came to Shouyi and asked anxiously, unsurely: "Boss, can this be done?"

"Of course!" Shouyi suddenly turned his head and glared at him fiercely. His face released an unprecedented fanaticism: "This is the treasure found by Your Highness from Jeju Island. Everything was designed by Your Highness himself. As long as we execute it seriously and there is no error in any link, it will never fail!"

His words seemed like a cardiotonic agent, completely dispelling the soldier's concerns. The latter's face immediately showed a firm expression, pursing his lips vigorously, and nodding slightly calmly and vigorously.

The craftsmen hanging in the air looked solemn. When they reached out to hold the barrel, the hands of the two were trembling at the same time. They from Panshi City received strict training and knew how to deal with various emergencies in similar situations. But the more this happened, the more they felt that their hearts and bodies were controlled by a mysterious force. With indescribable expectation and impulse, under the constraints of reason and calmness, they silently recited the operation steps personally taught by the new patriarch, and pushed the heavy wooden barrel into the inclined support formed by steel bars and mountain rocks, and steadily embedded them into the middle of the crack in the stone wall.

A craftsman took out a gunpowder bag from his carry-on tool bag. The thing was specially processed and weighed half a kilogram. The thick cotton cloth was repeatedly wrapped in several layers, leaving a fuse dozens of meters in the middle. At first glance, a slender black snake coiled around the surface of the cloth bag, mysterious and fierce, with a chilling deterrence of death.

Shouyi waited until the people on the top of the mountain came down, and everyone evacuated to the safe area as instructed. Then he took out the flint and fire break, wiped out the sparks with his trembling hands, and lit the flames. With indescribable excitement, he ignited a long fuse.

Turn around and run wildly towards the way you come at the fastest speed in your life.

When a huge explosion came from the direction of the cliff, everyone who was half inside and outside felt the vibration from the ground. People saw a thick black smoke rising from the top of the mountain hidden in the distance, and countless soil and gravel splashed like raindrops, scattering all over the ground.

The landslide has collapsed!

The people in Kuteng Village opened their mouths one after another, and they clearly saw the reality with their wide eyes. A large piece of the mountain that had existed for thousands of years collapsed from the middle, as if there was a huge iron pickaxe in the void, which was swung high by an invisible giant and dug out this hindrance.

"...This is the power of the gods, the power of the gods!" The priest of Kuteng Village was incoherent, and he subconsciously found the most reasonable explanation in his mind.

Several hundred leaders of the team leader were stunned, and a "buzzing" sound echoed in their ears. Looking at the dust flying all over the sky, subconsciously felt that the priest was right, but the reality seen by his eyes told them that all this had nothing to do with the gods.

It is our people who climb to the top of the mountain.

It is our people who nail the steel bars on the cliffs.

It was ours who stuffed the wooden barrel into the cracks in the stone wall.

The key is that bucket, what exactly contains it?

"This is the power of science." Shouyi stood up from his hiding position. He slapped the dust on his body with his hands, turned around and looked around the people gathered nearby, and laughed loudly, "Let's go, let's go and take a look together."

The power of a large bucket of nitroglycerin is extremely terrifying. Although there is no complex and precise calculation, the explosion still destroyed the entire mountain, causing the upper half of the cliff to collapse completely. From a distance, it seems that there is a missing front teeth in someone's mouth. Through the dusty sky, you can see the faint scenery in the distance.

The reason why the mountain did not detonate directly from the foot of the mountain was due to safety considerations. There are two uncertainties: one is that the overall weathering of the mountains is severe, and the explosive power will cause the complete collapse of the cliffs that are hundreds of meters long; the other is that the explosion power is insufficient and cannot cause damage to the mountain within a specified range, which will damage the cliff structure and bring difficulties to re-blasting.

First blow up the upper part of the cliff, then reduce nitrified glycerol to perform secondary blasting at the bottom of the cliff. This is the complete plan.

Looking at the gravels all over the ground, the priest of the Han Vine Village was shocked.

"...Miracles, this is a real miracle..." He repeatedly said this, and the simple and devout brain could not find any applicable words.

"This is not the power of the gods." Shouyi loudly corrected the mistake in his words: "This is the wisdom of His Highness the patriarch. He told me to use this method to blow up this mountain. Take a good look at these stones, and even an old woman can move them away."

No one denies his statement, no one questioned all of this.

People's hearts are filled with hope for a happy future.

I heard that the new patriarch, His Highness, is a witch-performer. He must have been told by the gods to do so. He is the spokesperson on the ground who can truly receive the blessings of the gods and use the power of the gods.

The obstacle to the northern lake area opened up a gap.

In the coming days, this gap will continue to expand.

...

The entire Leiniu Department began a comprehensive rectification.

Food from Panshi City and Leijiao City is continuously transported to various villages, and with the urgently made fur coats and cotton coats, people can enjoy the long-lost fullness and warmth this winter.

Of course, all this is not at no cost.

No village can enjoy peace in the cold winter as in the past. There are twins between "staying at home and going hungry" and "you have to work after eating". According to the order of the new patriarch, all villages must prepare for road reconstruction before the spring sowing season next year and clear out obstacles to exchanges between villages and cities.

Those who refuse to obey orders, kill them!

Kill someone who is cheating!

Those who dare to question the new patriarch's orders will be killed!

There were violators everywhere, but in terms of total amount, the civil affairs officials stationed in various villages faithfully executed all his orders, and each village killed several people. These heads, which were frozen into hard blocks in the cold north wind and ice and snow, had a good demonstration effect. No one dared to resist the disrespectful order, and no one questioned the orders of the new patriarch.

...

The Leiniu tribe territory, south of Panshi City, is close to the border with the Deer tribe.

This is a leeward valley. Hundreds of crossbowmen are stationed on the surrounding mountains. Towers are built on the top of the mountain and heavy crossbows with extremely long range are installed. The special location determines that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack here, and it also guards the road to Panshi City from a high point. Although the number of defenders is not large, it can rely on sufficient food and arrow reserves to block the attack of tens of thousands of enemy troops and persist until the reinforcements arrive.

When night fell, a team of more than fifty people came slowly from the south. Wearing clothes showed that they were members of the Deer tribe, obviously calculating the time and speed. Shortly after entering the valley, the sun fell below the horizon. Although a little light shone on the sky, most of the world was shrouded in darkness and soon became invisible.

Several wooden houses have been built in the hidden open area deep in the valley. This is the rest area of ​​the defenders, and it is now temporarily requisitioned by the patriarch's guards from Leijiao City. The soldiers responsible for the guards are everywhere on the periphery. They are well-equipped and the surface of their armor is specially painted with light gray and black stripes. Even during the day, it is difficult to distinguish them from the surrounding environment.

When Lu Qingxi walked into the wooden house, he saw Tianhao sitting opposite the fire pit.

"Sit down, I've been waiting for you for a long time." The young patriarch smiled very well. He released a gentleness that was easy to touch, as if the fire in winter made people want to get close to him.

Lu Qingxi stood in place and observed around him, confirming that there was no threat to him, so he took a step and walked to the fire pit to sit down.

"You are still so cautious. Why, are you afraid that I will harm you?" Tianhao picked up the pottery bowl on the table next to him, scooped up a bowl of steaming broth from the boiling pot, blew away the heat on the surface, and drank in small sips along the edge of the bowl.

"This is the pheasant I got beaten today. I stewed it for an afternoon and it tasted very good. If you want to drink it, do it yourself." He raised his hand and pointed to the bowls and chopsticks on the table: "I'll try it first, so I'll save you from saying that I'm poisoning in the soup."
Chapter completed!