Under the leadership of the original 2,000 colonial troops led by Albert, 3,000 honest and strong German peasants who were selected began to change into new weapons and armor and conduct various combat training in the jungle.

And it is very interesting that the armor they wear is called plate armor, but it is not plate armor made of steel, but plate armor made of wood planks......

In other words, these 3,000 honest and strong recruits wore wooden plate armor. Why is this so? At the beginning, the armor promoted by Marin was actually a piece of wood armor similar to a mahjong mat. In Europe, in order to strengthen the defense, ordinary soldiers would also nail thin iron pieces to the surface of the wood chips to strengthen the defense against cold weapons.

But in the North American colonies, when Albert ordered the craftsmen to make wood chips to tie armor, a group of carpenters were lazy and thought it was troublesome to make wood chips to tie armor, so they simply used the wood chips to tie the armor to imitate the shape of authentic plate armor, and directly sawed the shape of the front and rear planks with a saw, making a cuirass similar to the cuirassier made of two boards at the front and back.

Albert was angry at first, but the lazy carpenter was convinced that the plate armor was more than enough to defend against the inferior weapons of the Indians. As a result, after testing, this simple "plate armor" spliced with two wooden planks can really resist the earthen bows and arrows of the Indians......

Of course, for the lower body, you can't just saw wood to make leg nails. Helplessly, I had to use wood chips to tie the armor to make the skirt. As for the protection on the arm, after the arrival of the Han shipbuilders, they used the method of weaving willow baskets to weave branches into the shape of arm guards, and put them on the arms at both ends in two sections. As for the helmet, it is, naturally, a plank helmet......

In this way, a nondescript set of "plate armor" consisting of a plank helmet, a plank cuirass, a wood-chip armor skirt, and two arm guards made of branches, was popularized in the American colonies.

The original 2,000 colonial troops still wore a full set of wood chips that had been made before, and many veterans also had iron sheets on their wood chips. Of course, Albert also had a very special army at his command - 50 members of the Wolf's Tooth Commando who participated in the killing of King James IV of Scotland. But these 50 members of the Wolf Tooth Commando Team are burdened with non-public charges, so they are usually very low-key, and they do not wear plate armor or maces. Only when Albert's New York is under a very big threat, these masters who usually dress up as ordinary guards will change into a full set of plate armor and Langya Bang to fight......

As for the 3000 recruits, it was all new wooden "plate armor sets". As for weapons, the recruits used shields and one-handed swords because of their strong bodies.

But their shields were also weakened, and the shields they used were willow-like baskets woven from the branches of locally cut trees.

This kind of basket shield is defenseless against guns. Even in the face of swords and the strong bows and crossbows of the Old Continent, the effect is not very good. However, the weapons used to defend against the Indians ...... This kind of willow basket-like thing is enough......

Albert was a little uneasy, so he asked 1,000 veterans to launch a new offensive with 3,000 recruits under the guidance of old hunters and hounds. As a result, a tribe of the Shawnee on the west bank of the Delaware River was defeated.

The Shawnee's weapons were so bad that they couldn't do anything with the basket-like shields of the recruits. Then, more than 600 people of this tribe were defeated and captured, and they were escorted by soldiers to help cut down trees.

The Shawnee were a branch of the Indian people, and there are currently several tribes living in the Pennsylvania and parts of northwestern Virginia, as well as in the forested areas of eastern Ohio.

Around the 17th century, the Iroquois, who had been friendly with the British, moved south from the north and drove the Shawnee from east-central Pennsylvania to Ohio.

But now, the Pennsylvania area is still the world of the Shawnees. However, it seems that the Shawnee are really not very good at fighting, and their crude stone weapons are difficult to break through the defenses of the colonial army of the North Sea State, even the roughest wooden "plate armor suit". When the 600-strong Delaware West Bank tribe called Sosi was conquered, none of the colonists died, except for two recruits who were inexperienced in the fight and were wounded in the arm by the enemy's stone hammer, but none of them were seriously injured.

Since there were no casualties, the leader of the colonial army, Kronks, did not kill the Shawnees, but drove them to work. In his spare time, Kronx also fed and drank the young men of the Shawnee who worked.

In the process of eating and drinking, Kronx discovered a very unexpected situation - the Shawnee loved to drink......

Because there is too much grain production and nowhere to sell it, the brewing industry in Beihai is very developed, and the wine is extremely abundant. In order to appease the homesickness of the colonial soldiers, Marin provided them with enough drinks.

For example, Kronx, the colonial army he led, among the most important supplies, there were large barrels of wine. Among them, the most popular is probably the rye two-pot head mixed with sucrose.

However, the authentic two-pot head is too strong, and Europeans are not used to drinking it. Therefore, the rye two-pot head supplied to the army is actually only a medium-alcohol liquor of more than 20 degrees. This liquor is actually a medium liquor deliberately formed by a few distillations of dark beer made from rye (the wine diluted with water is not resistant to preservation, unless it is sealed and heated by canning distillation, and the wine formed by natural processing is resistant to preservation), and after adding sucrose, it is very suitable for rough men to drink.

Not only the colonial soldiers liked it, but even the Shawnee people who were forced to work liked it very much. The first time he drank this medium liquor, the Shawnee was drunk. But the next day, when it was time to eat, the Shawnee were clamoring for wine......

Kronx was upset at first, but suddenly something came to mind......

A few days later, Albert received a letter from Kronx, in which he suggested that Albert use a shipload of wine from home to trade with the Indians.

Albert was suspicious, so he sent to Albany to get some Delawares and asked them to help contact the Shawnees, intending to trade wine with them and buy furs.

As a result, several Delaware men invited by Albert started drinking secretly first, and they were all drunk and unconscious......

"Well, no need to ask, I know what the Indians like......" Albert concluded.

The caravans then traveled to the Western Jungle and, under the protection of the guards, connected with several Shawnee tribes and successfully reached a trade deal.

With the lure of alcohol, several Shawnee tribes, without hesitation, agreed to help hunt beavers for beaver skins and beaver scent.

At the same time, Albert sent a letter to Garland on Cape Breton Island, asking him to try to trade with the Indians in Canada with alcohol.

But unlike the Pennsylvania area, the northern Indians on the other side of Cape Breton Island, because of the cold climate, seem to prefer the 40-degree version of the rye two-pot head, and some people even prefer the genuine two-pot head above 53 degrees. Albert was right, though—most Indians liked to drink......