By the snake lake, the big temple built by Mao Xingjian.

After four months, once again, the chiefs and wizards of the seven Sioux tribes gathered together and gathered together, but this time, the atmosphere was even more tense and depressing than the last time.

His head was full of bird feathers, still wearing that set of big cloaks, Mao Xingjian sat on the top with a gloomy face, and the black hoof, who had been demoted to the big chieftain, sat opposite him, the square face, the wrinkled old face was also gloomy and silent, until there were two pots of boiling water, red clouds, black bulls, shooting deer and a large group of patriarchs couldn't stop chattering.

It turns out that the Indians will also complain.

Chongzhen is not so studious, for a long time, so many subordinates were stunned that there was no reasonable suggestion, Mao Xingjian finally coughed helplessly, and asked the black hoof opposite him.

"Patriarch of the Black Hoof, how did the Sioux people deal with the southern barbarians going north in the past?"

"Migration, eastward over Mount Rocky, to the banks of the Missouri River to fight the Fox for territory, wait a few years, the prey is almost over, these Nanban back to the south, and come back."

The Sioux people who dare to love are also the type of bully the soft and afraid of the hard, and they can't resist the alliance of the southern tribes, so they go to the Great Lakes Plains to grab territory with the weaker Foxes, when the Apache and Cheyenne tribes have stayed enough, and when they go south to the Great Basin to migrate to the Gulf of Mexico again, they will come back, anyway, the Sioux people also cultivate corn, and after a while, the bison herd and the deer herd will also breed again.

With Black Hoof's words, the entire temple became quiet again, and the attention of all the Sioux patriarchs and wizards, including Dalat Da, fell on Mao Xing's fitness.

This year is different from previous migrations, for the first time, the Sioux people have run agriculture on such a large scale and are ready to settle down, and for the first time they have such great expectations for the harvest, especially if all this is under the leadership of Mao Xingjian, the prophet, if he moves eastward as always, Mao Xingjian's prestige among the Indians will collapse, and the false prophet will not have a second chance!

But the prince is the prince after all, and everyone was waiting for the word war to pop out of his mouth, Mao Xingjian was stunned and came up with a third idea.

"Can you send someone to negotiate with these northbound tribes, row the snake river as the boundary, this year, the Sioux can provide them with food for the winter, and in the spring of next year, the Sioux will send people to teach them to tame beasts and farm, and everyone can live a good life under the glory of the three gods of wheat and rice, isn't it?"

This idea is simply unbelievable among the Indians, but if it is placed in the Ming Dynasty, it is not a new policy, the Ming Dynasty ministers of the past dynasties in order to do more than one thing is better than less, spend silver and grain to reward the border tribes in exchange for peace, once Nurhachi also followed his father and ancestors with Liaodong tribute to Beijing City to pay tribute.

But the result is also familiar, the literati's handling methods can't even work in the Ming Dynasty, let alone the Su people who advocate force, as soon as Mao Xingjian finished speaking, the two pots of boiling water were already standing up angrily, roaring in Su I don't know what, anyway, it's not a good word, some of the other chiefs and wizards showed incredible looks, and some simply shook their heads in disappointment, only Dalat Da, who had been completely annexed by Snake City, couldn't help but use the Chinese he had just learned and was not proficient in Mao Xingjian's ear and hurriedly persuaded him.

"Prophet, if you can use the robbery, why do you want to negotiate peace?"

These words obviously made Mao Xingjian, who was influenced by Confucian culture, extremely uncomfortable, but unfortunately, it was not good to say but it was reality, Mao Xingjian sighed heavily when he heard it, and then his fist finally slammed on the floor.

"In that case, let's fight these barbarians! The divine steps of the Rice God and the Wheat God descending on the earth must not be defiled by these barbarians! ”

"Honor the Prophet!"

can be regarded as an idea, and the leaders of the various Su tribes also bowed down one after another, but this momentum obviously did not have a full feeling, but was a little weak.

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War is not uncommon in this ancient and wild continent, but this is the first time for the agricultural Snake River Plain, the tension of the war spread throughout the Sioux tribe, under the order of the chiefs of their respective clans, the feather crowns in the tribes are worn, hunters, adult men, and even many sturdy women have left their jobs and rushed to the battlefield, as for the snake city, 2,700 middle-aged men were all recruited.

The benefits of the primitive simplicity of the society are also revealed, the soldiers simply put down the housework in their hands and turn around and leave, unlike the Ming Dynasty, who also pays attention to what soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, and the assembly time is the distance from home to the battlefield, seven days after Mao Xingjian issued the war order, the soldiers of the remaining six departments basically arrived, and the Snake City troops were the latest to arrive.

It's just that although it is the latest one, I am afraid that the real combat effectiveness is still the two thousand seven hundred strong men in Snake City, at least even ordinary farmers, they all carry a steel wood chopping ax in their hands, and a fork for grass dung, and most of them have sharp hunting knives, and although Mao Jue prohibits the export of arms to the New World, but the earth gun shotgun does not care, Han Jinnong's work, some gold digger leaders still have two or three arquebus shotguns in their hands, and they have two hundred pieces of tying a piece.

There were actually more than 100 Dongying ronin samurai among the gold diggers, who took out all the hidden knives and carcass foot tools at home, all of them wearing armor, wearing mountain ghost masks, and carrying katanas taller than themselves, quite murderous.

There is also Mao Xingjian's own armament, one hundred sailors on the Black Pearl, and later three boats came to the Chen family, and there were sixty or seventy sailors with guns.

In addition to the more than 2,700 Snake City troops, the remaining six Su tribes are really a little ugly, the bronze spearhead spear is considered a luxury, and more is a polished sharp stone spearhead, such a wooden spear is the main hunting tool of the Sioux people, and it is also their war weapon, how much of a role this thing can play on the battlefield, it is difficult to say! Anyway, Song Yongzhong shook his head when he saw it.

In addition, there are a lot of Sioux bows and arrows, but the Indian bow made of animal tendons and branches, Mao Xingjian pulled it, and looked at the stone arrows that shot out more than ten meters, and he himself shook his head helplessly.

All the people are soldiers, and the Su people, with a population of about 30,000, have put together an army of tens of thousands, but most of them are equipped like this, and it is really difficult to estimate what the combat effectiveness on the battlefield is.

The only bright spot is the fruits of the labor of the various ministries this spring, large and small, bringing more than 1,000 tame South American bison, and the big guys are tied to the stakes with the nose rope of the ox, and eat out the open space in the shape of a large cake around the river bank, which can be regarded as majestic.

How is the equipment, it has even become secondary here, and how to command 10,000 people has become a big problem, you must know that the Sioux people in the primitive commune have never experienced a large-scale war, basically a tribe and a village, hundreds of people copy the guys and pounce on them, fight with hooligans like that, win if you win, die if you lose, simple and rude, there is nothing to say, it is difficult to organize a plate of loose sand into a troop even at the level of the army!

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Savages, accustomed to being wild outside, are very low in terms of treatment, at night, gnaw two mouthfuls of dried fish and beef jerky, and make a nest on the ground to sleep, on the edge of the chaotic accommodation area of one tribe, Han Jinnong and his son and a group of workers helplessly hold a big basket one by one, and one person sends five ocean nails.

A big one is tied to a wooden spear, the lethality and penetration of this thing are stronger than stones, and the remaining four are installed on the shaft of the arrow, and then bubble in the stool, shoot no one on the spot, and let him die of tetanus when he goes back, which is also the only way that Mao Xingjian wants to improve his equipment at present.

In order to encourage Mao Xingjian to go out to hunt in the field without anything, don't provoke Mao Jue like an old nerd, and specially sent him a cowhide tent, which was regarded as the Chinese army at this time.

The soldiers of the Ming army who can be sent to the expedition to the New World are all the best of the various armies and departments, and they are really all-powerful, the simple marching map was also drawn by Song Yongzhong at this time, a large cowhide was hung in the middle of the tent, the middle was the Snake River, the black arrows at the forefront of the southern breakthrough were the Cheyenne, and then the Apache people, the black-footed people, the dense tribes were like tadpoles, rushing southward, and the eyes of the people who looked at them were straight flowers.

Pointing to the map, Song Yongzhong's face was quite grim, and his voice was a little gloomy to explain, what Mao Xingjian didn't expect was that he could actually speak Su language, every sentence was first spoken to himself in Chinese, and then Su to those chiefs.

"There are about 30,000 Cheyenne people at the top, and some sporadic hunters have swam to the north bank of the Snake River these days, and have been killed by patrol cavalry, and they have already sensed the hostility of our department, and the Cheyenne people are now standing on the green grass beach, that is, here, if they guess correctly, they should summon the nearby Zuni people, black-footed people, open-nosed people and other tribal allies, according to their habit of all soldiers, if the four tribes gather together, the number of warriors who can be dispatched will be 30,000!"

"And according to the intelligence, several have about 400 horses, 1,000 or 2,000 iron weapons from the Spaniards, and the number of arquebuses is unknown, but it is estimated that there must be more than 100."

Not to mention the primitive people fighting, even if it is a close Central Plains war, the number is also a very important war factor, just like Li Zicheng's million-strong army, even Mao Jue was quite a headache at one time, this number has caught up with the total population of the Su people, even if it is a black hoof, they can't help but show a slight fear of two pots of boiling water.

Listening to this weapon, the terrier neck, Han Jinnong, and Chen Zao looked a little ugly. After introducing the information, Song Yongzhong himself paused, and then continued.

"So the lowly battle plan is to build a pontoon bridge across the river on the shallow water beach in front of you, and take advantage of the fact that the Cheyenne people have not yet gathered allies to attack the Cheyenne people's camp in an all-out way, and defeat them in one go! Let the barbarians in the north at least know our prestige! Frustrate their spirits! ”

With a click, Song Yongzhong's dagger slammed into the map, and in the camp of the Cheyenne people, his gaze also fell on Mao Xingjian, however, hearing this, Mao Xingjian hesitated for a while and shook his head.

"Lone thinks that you should use your brains to fight!"

(End of chapter)