Chapter 414: Smell Map
Stomping.. Stomping.. Stomping..
The "Cape Storm" successfully docked at Harrisburg, led by Gary's Marine Corps, and a team of heavily armed crews were already trotting through the harbor.
With the exception of muskets and sabers, each person had a "living sharkskin" of a different color but a uniform style around their waist.
As the first force that Evan set out to cultivate, the veteran crew members who had followed him to prove their loyalty had long been armed to the teeth by him.
Although they are still the establishment of the kingdom, with Aiwen's current status, no one wants to mobilize a person without his approval, and they are actually no different from his personal personal soldiers.
Of course, Evan did not hesitate to invest in them.
While the navy men were in full formation, Sir Penn's officers had arrived on behalf of one of the governor's deputies, and of course they were the most anxious about the vicious events that had taken place in the colony.
Moreover, as an autonomous colony, even the top administrator such as the governor was elected by the parliament, and the bureaucracy of course attached the most importance to the will of the people.
The deputy has already found Evan for the first time:
"Your Excellency General, Mr. Governor has urgently dispatched two hundred military horses and a batch of materials for jungle life for your troops, do you think you need anything else?"
"Thank you for your kindness, the Governor, we don't need military horses, just hand over the field survival supplies of two hundred people to us. ”
Evan declined his kindness.
These navies under his command have no training subjects in horsemanship, and they can't run smoothly on flat ground, let alone in the mountains and forests.
And going deep into the wild and unexplored inland with complex terrain, military horses may not be better than human legs, and their own soldiers have secret weapons.
Riding a military horse on the road, just carrying horse food is a big load.
"Yes, Your Excellency, I see. ”
Only the commander had the qualifications to decide what kind of equipment to use, and the deputy did not insist.
Afterwards, the soldiers brought with them the supplies prepared by the colony, including tents in the field, dry rations for the march, various utensils, and other things that would not normally be prepared on the ship.
He didn't even ask for a new guide, and he had already driven towards the wild depths of the western part of the continent with a murderous spirit, and Ai Wen personally led the pursuit and killing mode of the group of natives!
Only a small half of the personnel were left behind, led by the first mate Boris, who stood on the deck of the "Storm Horn" and saluted them.
They will be ready for battle here, because no one knows where the natives will end up.
Among the entourage of the pursuit force were the three official knights Milan, Gary, and Roddy, and the hunter guides Wilder and Mike, sent by the commander of the garrison.
Represented by Fleck, who is a trainee knight in the later stage, two hundred elite soldiers with relatively stronger individual strength.
The tern had made it clear to Evan that even though the massacres of the four pioneering towns had been carried out, it had clearly not satisfied the appetite of the indigenous tribe, the Araukan clan.
In the few days that the kingdom's side had only been passing information, they had already begun to continue their journey north. Even in the Pennsylvania state, another tragedy was created, resulting in the deaths of more than 100 pioneers.
This is the main reason why local officials are willing to provide strong support to Evan and them.
And knowing that there are a large number of totemic warriors in this group of natives, no matter how anxious the high-level leaders are, it is impossible to directly send ordinary soldiers to death.
It's not distressing to just kill a few people, but if you keep adding oil and turning it into a continuous delivery of sacrifices to the evil sect ritual that is suspected of being a blood sacrifice, it will be a big problem if the other party's strength continues to increase.
And the "Storm Horn" and the officers and soldiers led by Aven are already the closest equivalent armed force to the group of natives.
Among them, Aiwen's personal strength is actually the primary factor.
After all, he has a record of "killing" a third-order knight, and he is also an official wizard who is best at dealing with these mysterious events.
At least for now, no one is more suitable than him.
For Aven, this incident was already within his purview, and now the new crew of the "Storm Horn" accounted for almost half of the entire crew, just in time to complete the run-in through a collective action.
By this time, whatever the original purpose of the natives to attack and pioneer the town was no longer important.
Just like Evan has understood since he came to the New World, this is a dispute between the living space and interests of two races, there is no right or wrong, only strong and weak!
Once colonization (aggression) is started, the war will never end unless one side completely falls and can no longer turn back.
The army marched out of the city limits and into a deserted place.
Evan waved his hand abruptly and ordered:
"All of them, marching mode!"
Under the surprised gaze of the new warrant officer Roddy and the two hunters.
"Invincible!"
In the uniform shout, the shark skin on the waists of the soldiers was already wriggling and expanding, but only covering the waist and legs, completing the partial colonization.
There is no need to fight in this state, and the endurance of the "Activated Hide" is greatly extended, which, combined with the excellent endurance of the human beings, is enough to support a long march.
In areas with complex terrain, it is much stronger than military horses, and it is also a miracle that no matter how strong a knight is, it is impossible to achieve.
"Let's go!"
Whoosh!Whoosh....
Although everyone weighs more than 40 kilograms, they all walk with the wind, faster than normal people trotting.
They will travel to the town where they were last attacked, where they will meet up with the responders and scout teams.
At this time, the seagulls had already been sent out in advance, hanging high above everyone's heads, constantly feeding back the information ahead.
As long as the Araukan clan dared to poke their heads out of the summer forests, and there was no need to track down the potions that had been sprinkled in advance, Evan would be able to spot them.
The ground-air cooperation already has a shadow of a three-dimensional war in the future.
Only Olivia, who was walking easily in the team, was in a delicate mood, yesterday she was still being chased and killed, but today she has become chasing and killing others.
Fate is too mysterious.
......
In the colonial economy, Sir Bing, who was as heavily dependent on furs as East Lunchs, was clearly moving more westward than Caginia, which was dominated by plantations.
Even with the help of "Activated Hides", by the time Evan and his party reached the last place of attack, Norwalk, a day and a half had passed.
And here, too, they saw the corpses of the pioneers who had not been completely cleaned up after the attack.
In addition to the loss of his scalp and the appearance of unity, everyone's hearts are also missing.
The entire chest of one of the corpses had been lifted open by a tremendous force, and in addition to the vanishing heart, the other internal organs also had traces of gnawing.
"Are these disgusting guys cannibals? ”
Milan, who was standing next to her, frowned deeply.
"It's not just this corpse that has traces of gnawing, there are quite a few more beside it, as if I couldn't stand the stimulation of flesh and flesh when I was picking my heart, and I took a few more bites.
Although it is not the main point, it can be basically concluded that after these guys take off their hearts, the greatest probability is that they will be eaten directly. ”
After examining the bodies of most of the Pioneers, Evan had come to a conclusion.
Seeing the new warrant officer behind Milan, who also had the same round face in the face of this scene, he couldn't help but glance at the little fat man again.
The current situation is somewhat similar to the rumors among cannibals that they can gain power by eating the flesh and blood of their enemies.
The Atrians have a large number of people and fight against each other all year round, and there are not too few ethnic groups with a tradition of cannibalism and blood sacrifices.
However, this Araukan clan was originally not strong, and there was no tradition of cannibalism. But after the start of the massacre, the number of totemic warriors in the group began to increase abnormally.
There must be some intrinsic connection between the two.
"Catch up, you can't let them go on any longer.
Even this kind of power that is obtained from the door is bound to have major flaws.
But it doesn't take much, as long as there is a totemic warrior army of dozens of people, even the capitals of the eleven colonies can't stop them!"
However, when they were about to set off again, they got bad news from the people who had been waiting here for a long time.
The elite scout team that had been clinging to the indigenous tribe had been more than 24 hours since the last information transmission, and the significance of this situation was self-evident.
Moreover, the natives must have known that there were already troops from the kingdom behind them, and the difficulty of tracking would inevitably increase dramatically after that.
At this time, Wilder, a hunter guide in a deerskin coat, came to Aven's side and asked, "Your Excellency, leave the matter of tracking to us." ”
"Oh, can you track it too?"
Evan knew that because of the harsh living environment in the New World and the large amount of rifled guns, there were a large number of sharpshooters in the pioneer group.
It's a great deterrent in a wilderness environment, and Wilder and Mike are two such elite marksmen.
Armed with the finest Kentucky rifles, they have a wealth of experience in wilderness survival and hunting, and they already have a bit of a sniper style when fighting in the wilderness.
That's what Evan had of them at first.
Seeing Aven's doubts, Wilder smiled confidently:
"Come out. ”
Squeak squeak...
A lively squirrel came out of his jacket pocket and jumped up to his shoulder.
After Wilder's explanation.
Rats have a tenfold greater sense of smell than dogs and are more discriminatory. After training, they can easily distinguish the smell of potions sprinkled on natives.
The only drawback is that they don't understand complex instructions and are very timid.
And now they are constantly jumping up and down in place, which means that the natives have indeed been here, and the squirrels have indeed smelled the residue of their bodies!
It's just that this kind of guy who has a keen sense of smell but a small brain capacity can't get the full trust of Aven.
Especially in the case of seagulls' high-altitude reconnaissance has been fruitless for the time being, and can only rely on odor recourse.
However, he had been prepared for a long time, but he had a better way.
"Fleck!"
"Your Excellency!"
Hand him a large brown bear skin from his magic pocket, a windfall from his wolf hunt.
Although the bear's sense of sight and hearing is not very sensitive, it has a very developed sense of smell, which can reach seven times that of a canine, and can even present a fine scent map in the brain, which is comparable to a magical supernatural ability.
Most of the ordinary "activated skins" that Evan had made before were just focused on combat power.
However, this brown bear skin retains its olfactory system intact, and although it results in average combat ability, it can almost completely replicate the brown bear's own olfactory ability.
In fact, sharks have an equally sensitive sense of smell, and if you let Padwin, who has inherited the ability of the horn shark from the inside out, come here.
With his transcendent level, he must be even stronger than the brown bear's ability.
However, at this time, Fleck, who had reached the late stage of his apprenticeship, put on a bear skin and turned into a huge brown bear with a height of two meters at the shoulders.
The human mind combined with the brown bear's sense of smell is definitely much more reliable than that of a squirrel.
Got an extra potion from Wilder and sniffed it, and quickly pointed the way.
"Although the smell has faded a little after a few days, the bear's sense of smell tells me that it is in that direction!"
At the same time, Wilder's squirrel made the same judgment.
"Well done, head northeast, let's go!"