089 [You're Late]
Sleeping Bear City has become widely available for rifles, and although bows and arrows are still often carried, they are only used as backup weapons and are only used in rare cases.
In contrast, only a small number of people use firearms, and most of them are smoothbore guns, which are inferior in range and accuracy to rifled guns.
Therefore, just the first round of attacks, the dense rain of bullets gave them a blow to the head, and the formation was chaotic.
At the same time, the steppe wolves and the solitary cavalry quickly outflanked them.
Of course, the alliance of the three clans also understood that they had to guard against outflanking, so they divided a part of the warriors in time, about three or four hundred people, and intercepted the sleeping bear cavalry from the left and right.
"Fire!" Steppe Wolf and Duji shouted almost at the same time, and the Sleeping Bear Cavalry raised their rifles and aimed their shots.
"Bang bang bang!"
Two hundred bullets temporarily thwarted the volley of the allied forces of the three tribes.
Immediately afterwards, the sleeping bear cavalry hung the rifle on the side of the horse, and took out the Colt revolver and held it in his hand.
This is a horse sentry design, and all professional soldiers will be armed with at least two guns, one rifle and one revolver, and officers will be equipped with at least two pistols.
The rifle is responsible for long-range shooting, and in charge combat, you can basically put it down after firing a round, after all, there is no time to charge while riding a horse and reloading ammunition.
At short and medium distances, it is a rain of revolvers that rain ammunition in a very short period of time and hit the enemy violently.
The two cavalry teams did exactly that, firing a round of revolvers and moving at full speed along the outflanked route.
The alliance of the three clans was already extremely difficult to deal with the shooting in Sleeping Bear City, and they had no time to cut them off, so they only barely retracted their formation.
Soon the two groups of cavalry managed to go around the enemy's flank and rear, and immediately launched a charge, rushing towards the enemy from the flank.
"Bang bang bang-"
What followed was a rain of revolvers, and the enemies in front of them fell in an instant, screaming incessantly.
"Thick shoulders, follow me!" Witnessing this scene through the binoculars, Ma Sentry immediately ordered the soldiers in the city to go out of the city to meet the attack, and flanked the allied forces of the three clans with two hundred cavalry.
What happened next came as no surprise.
In the face of the comprehensive crushing of equipment, combat quality, and formation, the allied forces of the three clans were almost powerless to fight back, and the momentum of the flanking attack was formed, and it was a mess in an instant.
"Surrender or kill!"
"Lay down your arms!"
As a necessary foreign language knowledge for professional soldiers, the persuasion of Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Comanche resounded on the battlefield.
Naturally, the defeat of the three-clan alliance could only surrender, and nearly a thousand people became prisoners, while the rest were corpses and a few small clever ghosts who escaped from the battlefield in time.
The leaders of the coalition forces, several of the Great Chiefs, as well as the War Chiefs, were escorted to the horse sentry.
They were all in disarray, ragged, grizzled, and bloodstained, the leader of which was Arapaho's broken bow.
Ma Sentry looked at the Broken Bow and said slowly: "Great Chief of the Broken Bow, I heard that you like war, and I thought you were a good fighter. ”
When Broken Bow heard this, his face immediately turned red, and the green tendons on his forehead burst out: "You can cut off my scalp, but you can't insult me!" ”
"Insults? Am I not telling the truth? Ma Whistle snorted, "Look at these corpses on the ground, how many Arapahoe youths have paid with their lives, just for your stupid, selfish desire for war?" ”
As a translator, on a rainy day, he deliberately said this sentence out loud, so that the other Arapahoe captives could also hear it.
"We shouldn't be here......"
"If we had known this, we should have heeded the raven's advice."
"Yes, Raven is right, we are no match for the Apaches, at least not for Sleeping Bear."
"It's all because of the broken bow, my brother died in battle!" Some chattering voices rang out among the Arapahoe captives.
When Broken Bow heard this, he couldn't help but feel extremely humiliated, and his body trembled slightly: "Apaches, the Arapaho people will never give in to you, you kill me!" ”
"Yes, I'll kill you." "But not now, you will be tried by the law and then executed by my own hands as a war criminal." ”
"And I'm not going to cut your scalp, the Sleeping Bears have abolished this tradition."
In addition to these leaders, there was also a man who was escorted to the horse sentry, but he had the square face of a sleeping bear.
Ma Whistle wanted to talk to Fang Face for a few words, but this guy seemed to be crazy and scolded him non-stop, so that he was gagged.
In the end, he did not say anything, and no longer looked at the few who were about to be judged, but turned to his head and commanded: "Put all the captives together, build them a shelter from the rain, and do not mistreat them." ”
"Yes." The soldiers took prisoners.
"What are you going to do with so many captives?" Asked on a rainy day.
"Treat them first." "Our soldiers suffered almost no casualties, but they were wounded, and the shaman was busy for a while. ”
"And after that?" Rainy day asked again, "I guess you won't let them go back." ”
Ma Whistle laughed: "Of course, there was no way to let them go back last time." Now it's different, we can keep them and let them reclaim the farmland and build the buildings. ”
"During this time, you remember to take the shaman to preach to the captives, convert their minds, and encourage them to bring their families and settle in the sleeping bear."
"As long as these captives let go of their hostility and settle in Sleeping Bear with their families, we can give them a free status and let them become ordinary residents."
Rainy Sky nodded, and suddenly his eyes froze, pointing forward: "That's-"
Ma Sentry also looked up, and a group of figures appeared at the end of the field of vision, rushing here at full speed.
He quickly picked up the binoculars and looked at them, but was quickly relieved.
"It's the Chirikawa tribe."
It was none other than the Chirikawa tribe of Apache, the Oak tribe, who had apparently come to the aid of the sleeping bears.
"Long time no see, Grand Chief Oak." The horse whistle went over to greet him, and said with a smile.
The Great Chief of Oak looked around in surprise, it was obvious that there had just been a battle here, but the horse whistle and the others looked as if nothing had happened.
"I've heard that the Comanches are attacking the sleeping bears, so I have some warriors with me to help you, but this ...... Isn't the battle over? He couldn't help but ask.
Ma Whistle nodded: "Yes, you guys are late." If it had been a little earlier, we would have been able to fight together. ”
The Oak Grand Chief came back to his senses and smiled slightly awkwardly: "Haha, it seems that it is the same whether I come or not, those Comanches are not your opponents at all." ”
"Since you're here, let's rest for a few days." "Tomorrow we will have a trial." ”
"Trial?" Oak frowned.