Coussi walked into Esquat's tent and said with a serious face: "The people of the Pinault tribe also escaped, and the two wounded men were lucky to survive. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Esquart's face was already very bad, but now it is even worse, and he said, "Is Pinault also ruined?" ”

Coussi nodded, also very serious and heavy, and said: "It's all burned, the Tang people killed all the people in the tribe, and the rest of the old and weak women and children were taken away." ”

Esquart's face flushed from blue, and he didn't say a word, or say anything.

Kusi said: "We can't continue like this, our West Apache tribe has been seriously invaded by the Tang people, and now I don't know how many tribes have been wiped out by the Tang people, we know that there are Tongtuo, Pino, Xibieqiu and other departments, and the next one everyone knows is our White Mountain, Esquart We must react, is it to fight or retreat?" ”

It can be said that the reaction of the Tang people was both expected by Esquart, and he did not expect. Of course, he knew that the Tang people would definitely fight back, but he didn't expect this counterattack to come so quickly and without warning. Esquart was not without thinking about the losses inflicted on the Apache by the Don army, but he believed that as long as the tribe was moved north, and then the Don had to send cavalry to conduct a large search on the Colorado plateau, then the Apache forces would strike at them, cut off their rear routes, or harass them, and it would be enough to achieve some good results.

However, the speed of the Tang army's attack was far beyond Asquart's imagination, and although he had learned a lot of new things through contact with the Tang and Spaniards, he still lacked an understanding of the organizational ability of a modern state. The Tang Dynasty itself is a powerful country with more execution and organization than the modern powers of the same era, and if it weren't for the fact that the Tang Dynasty had to solve some evidentiary problems at the beginning, the Tang army would actually be able to strike the first blow at the Apache within 48 hours.

It's probably dragged on for more than a week now, Coe in Asquart's opinion. Still too fast. Moreover, this attack, at the very beginning, put a lot of pressure on Apache. Within three days, the Tang people cleared out more than half of the tribes of the West Apache tribe, and they were completely ruthless and destroyed and invaded the tribe. Slaughter any rebels, then burn the original tribe to the ground with a single fire.

This caused a major panic among the Apaches. The Baishan tribe is the northeasternmost tribe of the West Apache tribe, so it is not in the sequence of being attacked at the beginning, even if the Tang people knew that Baishan was the culprit of the bombing incident, but the Tang army did not rush to attack Baishan out of support without support.

In the past few days, several groups of people who have come to Baishan for help have come to Baishan, and many of them have their tribes destroyed. And then with blood and tears accused. Some of these tribes joined Esquat's Apache League, some did not, but were all wiped out without incident, some wanted Esquart to do justice to them, and some came directly to accuse Esquart of being wronged. No matter what the psychology of these people is, and Bai Shan's own people are also terrified, those tribes that were wiped out were no worse than Bai Shan, and the Tang people wiped out these tribes in three days. Then the Tang army came to Baishan, and the Baishan people obviously couldn't resist.

Those who had been incited by Esquart to young people. At this time, anxiety also appeared, and things were not going the same way they imagined. Esqua gave them a bright future, and although he told the Apache that the Tang people had come back to seek revenge, he portrayed the Tang people as a bunch of cowardly fellows. Esquat would unite the Apache army ahead of time, and then defeat the Tang with great military prowess.

But Esquart only completed the Apache Alliance, but forming a coalition army was not an easy task. After all, the Apache are still a primitive people, with extremely low productivity, and it is still winter at the moment. They lacked enough food, without which they could not organize an army capable of fighting. The place where Esquart has the most disputes with the chiefs of various tribes is that some of the alliance chiefs say that they can send troops to fight, but Esquat must provide grain and grass for the warriors of the tribe, but where will Esquart have excess grain and grass, the Baishan tribe has become fat by picking up the train, but in essence it is still a primitive tribe, and there is not much surplus grain. Esquart's approach was also straightforward, he encouraged several tribes to bring their own food to follow him into battle, they would attack the Tang towns near the railway line, and if there was a superiority in troops, they would still be able to fight in one fight. As long as the granaries of the Dons could be captured, then the logistical problems of the Apache would be solved.

Now Esquart has only persuaded a limited number of tribes, including Moglon, to agree to bring their own supplies to fight without food, but most of the tribes have bitten to death and will not fight without food. Esquart thinks it may be more difficult, and thinks that it may be more likely that after the beginning of spring next year, the food will become more abundant, and there will be more opportunities.

Winters in the Colorado Plateau are cold, and no one wants to fight in the winter, preferring to go back to their own winters and then decide it out in the spring. However, the logic of the Tang people is different from that of the Apaches, and the Tang people will not think that there is anything wrong with fighting in winter. The environment may have been a little harsh, but they had makeshift board houses with warm materials, each soldier had a thick military coat, and they sometimes even rolled shirtless in the snow in the winter to exercise their perseverance. For the Tang Army, fighting in winter was a pediatric thing.

Under such circumstances, when Esquart did not expect it, the Tang people thought that the natural attack caught Esquart by surprise.

Esquart also forced himself to calm down a little and said, "The Tang army is menacing, and it is unwise to rely only on our warriors of Baishan to fight against them. We had already decided from the beginning that we were going to fight on a free foot and avoid a head-on confrontation with the strong Don Army, and now we should do what we had planned. The Tang attacked each Apache tribe quickly and accurately, indicating that they had mastered our position in advance, so the location of the White Mountain should also be exposed, and we must take everyone to migrate, and at the same time gather the warriors of other tribes to unite and deal with the Tang people. ”

Although Esquart said this, his heart was still full of worries, because abandoning his old nest would mean that Baishan would be greatly injured, and the reason why Asquart was able to unite other Apache tribes was also because Baishan was strong in these years, with the most war horses and muskets. (To be continued.) )