Chapter 54
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Chapter 54: Plan Decided
For this battle, Luo Ji had originally wanted to bring Zhao Pan to gain some experience, but given the current situation, he could only leave a very small number of warriors to protect the safety of the Mirror Tribe.
As his foundation, the importance of the Mirror Tribe was beyond doubt.
He did not want his home base to be taken.
Thus, the most suitable person was undoubtedly Zhao Pan.
At the same time, leaving two wolf warriors to assist him, combined with Zhao Pan’s immovable talent and the defensive advantage of other men in the tribe who could act as militia in truly critical moments, under these circumstances, even if the Mirror Tribe were attacked by a strong enemy.
Zhao Pan and the others should be able to hold out until they returned.
Relatively, the Black Rock Tribe also possessed extremely important coal and fuel resources, so to be safe, Luo Ji also left three wolf warriors to hold down the fort.
With these arrangements, the number of warriors Luo Ji could mobilize for the upcoming battle was only twelve.
Including himself, there were a total of 13 people.
This included four wolf warriors and nine ordinary tribal warriors.
However, the opponent was just a small tribe of 30+ people, so this number should be enough.
Having made up his mind, Luo Ji did not continue to hesitate.
His tribe needed new blood.
If before he refused to accept more population out of consideration for the internal stability of the tribe, then this problem had now been resolved.
After experiencing the trial of that severe cold, he had completely become the spiritual pillar of every tribal member.
Even the original Red Fox Tribe members whose loyalty was at the bottom before had now increased their loyalty to him to over 85 points.
Several of them had even soared to 90 points!
The reason was simple.
Because under Luo Ji’s leadership, they had overcome life and death together.
Those original Red Fox Tribe members clearly realized that this man in front of them was the leader who could lead them forward.
This trust built in desperation was difficult to surpass.
Gathering the twelve warriors, including Luo Yong, Luo Ji and his group of thirteen arrived safely at the Black Rock Tribe the next day at noon.
No accidents occurred along the way.
After all, since the Black Rock Tribe’s coal mine began operations, the people responsible for transporting food, resources, and coal resources often had to carry resources back and forth between the two tribes.
This road was simply too familiar to them.
Under these circumstances, if an accident could still happen, that would be the strange thing.
Luo Jin, who had gone ahead, had clearly told Zhou Tao that Luo Ji and the others would be resting at the Black Rock Tribe for a night.
So, even before they arrived, as the manager of the Black Rock Tribe, Zhou Tao had already had people set up tents in the camp for Luo Ji and the others to stay overnight.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Luo Ji happened to inspect the development of the Black Rock Tribe.
Due to having a coal mine deep within the tribe, the Black Rock Tribe, which was rich in coal resources, had very good insulation measures.
Coupled with the fact that they could choose to hide entirely within the mine tunnels to shelter from the wind, the people of the Black Rock Tribe had relatively smoothly survived the previous severe cold weather.
Nearly a month later, Luo Ji came to the Black Rock Tribe again.
This place could already be said to have completely changed its appearance.
In his impression, what was originally just a ground crack of a mineral vein had now been thoroughly dug into a mine tunnel.
Tribal people carrying vine baskets and stone picks went in and out of the mine tunnel, working diligently.
It could be said that the development was quite smooth.
Zhou Tao, who was responsible for managing the Black Rock Tribe’s smooth development, clearly deserved significant credit.
For this, as chieftain, Luo Ji naturally did not spare his few words of praise.
At the same time, as a reward, he presented the Black Rock Tribe with a whole roe deer.
In this era, this could already be considered a heavy reward.
After a night of sufficient rest, early the next morning, with Luo Jin leading the way, the warriors, who had fully recovered their energy, set off fiercely.
But in reality, their marching speed was not fast.
No matter how fast they went, it was impossible to finish the battle and return to the Black Rock Tribe before dark anyway.
Since that was the case, it was better to slow down and allow each tribal warrior to maintain their condition as much as possible.
According to Luo Ji, they only needed to arrive before evening.
This battle wouldn’t last too long.
It would end quickly.
After all, he had brought his killing weapon this time.
Among the group of thirteen, there were four slingers!
Ranged units were a truly significant weapon in this ancient era that didn’t even have city walls or armor!
He had no reason not to make good use of the range advantage of this unit and crush his opponents with this advantage.
Therefore, for the stone bullets needed by the slingers, he directly had people carry eight vine baskets.
To some extent, the reason they couldn’t march quickly was largely due to these eight baskets of stone bullets.
“How much farther?”
Luo Ji asked casually, wiping sweat from his forehead.
“We’re already very close.
Luo Jin, who was leading the way, ran to a tree and confirmed a mark he had made on the tree earlier.
He had several kinds of marks, and the mark on the tree in front of him indicated that the target location was not far ahead.
Luo Ji nodded and looked back at the others.
The eight people responsible for carrying the stone bullets were already covered in sweat.
“Everyone should have heard Luo Jin.”
“Rest well, eat something, regain some strength.”
“We’ll be making our move soon.”
After speaking, Luo Ji took the water skin from his waist and drank a couple of sips of water, then took out a piece of dried meat from his pocket and started gnawing on it.
These water skins and dried meat were originally prepared so that the reconnaissance team could carry out missions for a long time outdoors.
However, they weren’t made particularly well.
For example, this dried meat, perhaps because it wasn’t processed properly, only had a shelf life of five or six days.
Any longer and it would easily go bad.
This had truly frustrated Luo Ji for quite some time.
As for the water skins, they didn’t actually use any sewing techniques.
To put it simply, it was just wrapping up a large piece of processed animal hide, then poking a few small holes at one end, threading animal tendons through them, and tying it up.
These animal hides inherently had toughness.
As long as you didn’t deliberately abuse them, they basically wouldn’t leak.
However, the disadvantage of doing this was that it wasted materials.
One water skin required a large piece of animal hide.
As a result, there were only a few water skins like this in the entire tribe.
The twelve warriors who came out with him this time all shared one water skin among three people.
Luo Ji having his own could only be called chieftain’s privilege.
If they could use better sewing techniques and needles and threads, they could clearly save a lot of materials and make more water skins.
Unfortunately, they didn’t have that technology yet, and they were prone to leaking, so they could only use them like this for now.
