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Chapter 1169 Seven People's Battle of Civilization ([-])

"We only have five muskets, and the bullets are all distributed to you, while the two of us use sabers. You must obey the command, and don't waste bullets in vain because of panic. Now we only have more than 100 rounds of paper shells." Cao Bianjiao allocated the only weapons.

He and another soldier who was good at hand-to-hand combat each carried a saber of the Tang Dao style, and the five muskets were distributed to the other five people who were slightly separated, especially Li Yizhu and the mineral expert who were non-combatants.As members of the expedition team, they are warriors when they need to fight.Guns, a weapon that can be used without long training, are most suitable for them.

"What we can rely on is the last batch of weapons. When we get back the supplies, we can continue to search for gold upstream with the recovered supplies, and we can also avenge the four missing people." Cao Bianjiao encouraged everyone before setting off.

If the only survivors were him and Li Yizhu, Cao Bianjiao would never hesitate to choose to return to Jinshan Town.But after five more survivors returned to the team, he had the idea of ​​retrieving supplies.

Cao Bianjiao, as the team leader, scouted the road ahead with a saber in his hand, and beside him, he also found a mineral expert from the indigenous tribe and a Caucasian dog.

As the only woman in the expedition team, Li Yizhu was in the middle of the team with three soldiers, and another soldier was in the rear.While advancing, the expedition team left signs on the way to facilitate a quick retreat after the surprise attack.

They are extremely cautious in the mountains and forests. This time their enemies may exceed a hundred times their number. If one is not careful, they will fall into the opponent's crowd tactics, and I am afraid it will not be so easy to escape.

"Can we really defeat a big tribe with the strength of seven people? Those people went forward bravely one by one during the sneak attack, and they lived in this mountain forest and they are familiar with the terrain here..." The members of the surprise attack team said I made a decision to retaliate, but I couldn't help worrying on the way to the march.

None of them had ever waged a war with such a disparity in numbers.

"There are footprints, not our people's marks. There are also drag marks left when dragging the wooden box, which was doubly clear because of the rain. We seem to have found the right place, and we are approaching their gathering place. Everyone wants to Be careful!" Cao Bianjiao judged their distance from the target based on the footprints and traces in the forest.

When the traces of human activities are more and more obvious, it means that they are closer to the location of the indigenous tribes.

"That's right, I vaguely remember the forest here, not far from their semi-cave dwelling! Their people may come out to collect wild fruits or hunt, so be careful!" The mineral expert who accidentally broke into here reminded .

There was already a stream of sweat on his forehead.Originally, he only came to survey and identify the distribution of gold deposits, but he never thought that he would go into battle with a gun in person.

The members of the surprise attack team also held their breaths, as if they were facing an enemy.

"Next, unless it is absolutely necessary, don't speak out easily, everyone watch my gestures!" Cao Bianjiao gave an order in a low voice.

Their seven-person team lurked secretly to the gathering place of the indigenous tribe.This tribe is still in a relatively primitive state, and almost all of them live in semi-tavern buildings partially underground.Compared with the Inca Empire conquered by the Spaniards, their fragmented technical level is even more backward, and they don't even have the concept of fortifications.Collective hunting with stone tools has freed them from fear of almost all wild animals in the American River Valley.Unless there is a long-term, large-scale and tragic war between the tribes, it will give them the motivation to look for harder weapons-iron weapons.But in this sparsely populated watershed, there is a lack of communication and war. At most, it is a conflict between tribes. This kind of conflict can easily end with one party destroying the other, without triggering years of wars, and technology lags behind.

The tribe seems to be still at the stage of the patrilineal clan commune, in addition to the semi-cave dwellings used for living, there are also places where stones are piled up to resemble altars.Some wore animal skins, others only covered themselves with large leaves such as palm fronds, and some were not even clothed.They were painted in red clay paint, and some had feathered headdresses on their heads.

Cao Bianjiao and others, who had suffered a great loss, patiently lurked in the surrounding bushes to observe the terrain and the number of people around the tribe.

The number may not be in the thousands, but in the hundreds or so.It seems that when they came to sneak attack that night, they had already used almost all the men in the tribe.

Fortunately, it is not a large tribe of thousands of people.Cao Bianjiao and the others breathed a sigh of relief.What they fear most is that the empire built by the natives is hidden in the valley of this river.

The state is much more advanced than the clan commune.The state can quickly call thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people into war, while the clan commune is still at the stage of control and management by blood, just like a big village.

"Wait, I will approach one of the thatched huts and light it with a small amount of gunpowder. If anyone in the tribe stands up to direct the fire, it must be their patriarch, elders or something like that. The four of you are secretly using muskets to provide Cover to scare them, while the other two went up and hijacked their leader to threaten them. After the hijacking is successful, I will search for our supplies from thatched hut. Once we grab the supplies, I will use the toolbox Set fire to the kerosene lamps to cover our escape. The deployment is interlocking. If there is a mistake in any link, we may have to abandon all plans and retreat immediately. During the retreat, the musketeers who were hidden in the dark continued to be responsible for the cover task, and the hijackers retreated first. Before launching the attack, Cao Bianjiao gathered the members of the team and deployed them.

The four people who were deployed in the dark had muskets, including two non-military personnel, Li Yizhu and a mineral expert.They were arranged by Cao Bianjiao in the bushes, and the muskets in their hands were aimed at the tribe.

The other two gave up their muskets and drew out their sabers. They waited for the leader of the other tribe to be drawn out by the flames, and then rushed forward to hijack the other party.The danger faced by the two of them is second only to Cao Bianjiao who sneaked into the enemy's settlement and set fire to it alone.

"We must shoot the enemy later..." Li Yizhu's palms holding the musket were dripping with sweat.

It's relatively safe to hide in the bushes for cover missions, but their cover is vital to a hijack.If they can't use the muskets in their hands to deter the natives in the tribe, it is very likely that the hijacking will fail.

"Seven people should be able to conquer these people. What we have are not only advanced weapons, but also brains and insights." Cao Bianjiao looked around and avoided eyes and ears with the help of shrubs, stones, and weeds, and walked around to one of the thatched grass. behind the house.

(End of this chapter)