1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 258 Indians lying on the ground

"Lieutenant Colonel, we have been squatting here for more than half a month, why haven't we seen Bernard's ghosts coming? Could it be that these ghosts are not coming?"

Wang Shu, who was dressed in bear skin and had seven large feathers on his head, said anxiously.

After putting on the animal skin costume, the feathers on his head became a symbol of his military rank, the more feathers, the higher the rank.

For example, Deng Yan in front of Wang Shu had nine large feathers on his head, two more than him.He is the person with the most feathers on his head in the entire camp.

After the training of the teaching company established in New York, it was sent to each company as a grassroots officer and non-commissioned officer.

Wang Shu, who was demoted to a private in New York at the beginning, was reinstated and continued to be the company commander because of his excellent performance during the training period.

Of course, in addition to the feather ornaments, Wang Shu's military rank can also be seen from the entire bear skin on his body.

According to the regulations, only company commanders, that is, officers with the rank of captain or above, can wear bear's skin.

The reason for the distinction in clothing is also to distinguish between the Indians in the camp and the California soldiers, so that when the enemy attacks, the soldiers can find their commander as quickly as possible and quickly organize and go into battle.

"What's the rush? It's only been twenty-one days. It will take some time for those ghosts to find this place. There is no train in Oregon, and there is no road in the forest."

Like a skilled Klamath man, Deng Yan skillfully cut open a beaver's chest with a sharp Bowie hunting knife, neatly separated the beaver's skin and meat, and then threw the beaver meat into the In front of Wang Shu.

"Eating meat all the time these days, staying in the camp with good food and drink, isn't life comfortable enough?"

"It's because Dun Dun is meat, that's why"

Wang Shu glanced at the beaver meat on the ground and almost spat it out.

He has been eating beaver meat for more than [-] days in a row, not to mention the smell of beaver meat, now he wants to vomit just looking at the beaver meat.

"I don't know my blessings in the blessings. In Guangdong, if I want to eat this stuff all at once, I still have to eat it." Deng Yan glared at Wang Shu, "Look at the bad habits you are used to, I am the general manager of the Guangdong Navy. When I was young, I couldn’t eat meat a few times a month.”

"I'm just complaining, I've eaten too much meat, and I just want to eat some vegetables to get rid of the meat." Wang Shu scratched his head and laughed.

"There are many such poisonous insects. If we stay longer, I'm afraid we will become Indians."

"Get out! The raw Indians here are no more familiar than the Indians in California. They can only fish and hunt. Where can they find vegetables? The wild vegetables in the vicinity have already been planed out by us."

As he said that, Deng Yan pointed to the meat that had been loaded on the side, and continued to talk to Wang Shu.

"Send a few brothers to pull this cart of meat to the camp of the artillery company."

As soon as Deng Yan finished speaking, a sentry came to report to him: "Lieutenant Colonel! They are coming! They are coming, and our camp is being targeted."

"This is the day I've been waiting for! With so many good leathers, I don't believe these guys won't take the bait." Deng Yan stopped his work, put the Bowie hunting knife back into its sheath, and immediately called for five signal soldiers.

"Notify the artillery company and the cavalry company, get them ready, and tell them that the colonel has an order. This combat mission is to wipe out these ghosts, and none of them will be allowed to escape!"

"Yes! Sir!" the signal soldiers replied.

"Take it easy, don't let those ghosts know that our people are hiding nearby." Deng Yan emphasized.

The infantry used as bait can still hide the ghosts from a long distance, but if the ghosts find out that they have established cavalry and artillery, they will definitely not be able to hide it.

Therefore, Deng Yan did not let the cavalry and artillery stay together in this camp by the river valley, so as not to startle the enemy.

After the signal soldiers left, Deng Yan said to Wang Shu again.

"Let the brothers continue peeling, what should we do, don't let the ghosts staring at us, don't let those ghosts notice the abnormality. Put our bundled skins in a more obvious and orderly way, so that those ghosts Dude, look at our good leather. I don't believe that these ghosts can't be caught with so many good leather."

Burnett raises more than [-] people, and more than [-] people have more than [-] mouths. Faced with so many "easy to get" high-quality furs, he doesn't believe in Burnett's gang Can bear it.

Deep in the jungle, Burnat and others looked at the Indian camp in the river valley from a distance.

Mountains of fine furs piled up in the camp made their hearts itch.

These high-quality furs are dollars and gold in their eyes!
Burnett always felt that something was wrong. Since he was killing all directions in the Oregon area, few Indian tribes dared to openly hunt beavers along the Columbia River.

Although this camp was not obvious and far away from the nearby white-populated areas, Bernat still felt strange, but he couldn't tell where the strangeness was. He just intuitively felt that something was wrong compared with usual.My eyelids are also jumping a little bit today.

"Let's do it! These high-quality leathers are simply the best gift God has given us." Sanders is gearing up, looking eager to try and ready to do it at any time.

"These Indians have a lot of guns, and about half of the Indians carry guns on their backs!" Burnett noticed that these Indians had a high rate of musket equipment.

The use of muskets by Indians is not new. During the Spanish rule in Oregon, the Indian tribes in the local melee exchanged furs with Spaniards for muskets to improve the fighting power of the tribe.

But it would be good if three or four out of ten Indians were equipped with muskets. About half of the Indians were equipped with muskets, which seemed a little abnormal to Burnett.

"Many of our subordinates are retired veterans, and many of them are veterans who participated in the Mexican-American War. There is no need to worry that these Indians are equipped with muskets."

Burnett's partner, Nettleman, is quite dismissive.

What if the Indians were equipped with muskets?Isn't it all a group of loosely organized mobs?

In the process of fighting the Indians before, it is not that they have never dealt with Indians equipped with muskets.

Nettleman urged Burnett very impatiently: "Do it! Such a good leather is actually in the hands of the Indians. It is a crime and a waste of money! The Oregon area is the territory of the United States, and these leathers should belong to us. citizen!"

"That's right, Your Excellency, hurry up and give an order! In addition to these skins, there are hundreds of high-quality adult Indian scalps! I haven't seen so many adult Indians gather together for a long time."

Sanders couldn't wait to pull out his Colt five revolver.

After the United States annexed Oregon and California, the massacre of local Indians intensified.

Compared with the Americans, the Spaniards and British on the west coast of North America have become very amiable, kind and friendly in the eyes of these Indian tribes.

In the conflict with the Americans, these Indian tribes on the west coast of North America have also learned to behave. When hunting animals for furs, they are no longer as high-profile as usual. Friendly tribes gather together to hunt and divide labor to improve the fur. s efficiency.

Because when they were hunting furs, it was the time when these white men were most active.

The reason why the white people in the Oregon area choose to be active at this time is that they can directly kill them to get their scalps to receive rewards from their chiefs in Washington, and secondly, they can directly occupy their skins, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"Just get these skins and scalp these savage Indians. Take the skins to California for gold, take the scalps to Portland for dollars, and we'll be rich too."

Not only Bateman and Sanders, but even other subordinates came to urge Bernard to give orders quickly.

"Prepare to attack!"

Burnett had to give the order.

His team is not a regular army, and he cannot use military orders to restrain his rebellious subordinates. The only thing that can restrain these subordinates is gold dollars.

This is a group of guys who can give them gold and dollars, and it is unrealistic to expect them to ban it.

In addition to his own 50-man guard, the remaining 300 people, Burnett's ability to restrain them is also very limited.

Even if Bernat didn't give the order, these people would definitely not be able to bear the temptation of these furs and scalps, and did it themselves.

After Burnat gave the order, these whites quickly lined up under the order of the little leader and approached the Indian camp.

Looking at the camp of the Indians, Burnett couldn't help laughing at the fact that these Indians had no military knowledge at all, and they chose to make their camp in a valley with no danger to defend, backed by the Columbia River.

Once such terrain is surrounded by attacks, it is difficult to even run away.

But thinking about the status of these Indian barbarians, I feel normal. If these Indians understand some military common sense, the price of their scalps will not drop again and again.

"Drive these Indians into the water and into the Columbia River! Let them have nowhere to escape!" Burnett ordered, holding the Colt six-shot revolver high in his hand.

A sudden gunshot broke the silence of the Columbia River.

The Indians who heard the gunfire returned fire with muskets and bows in their hands.

However, the accuracy of the long-distance musket is limited, and the sparse bow and arrow projectiles are even more touching.

Only two unlucky ghosts in Burnett's team caught one arrow and two bullets after a round of shooting.The rest were unharmed.

"It's a bunch of savages after all, it's just a bunch of rabble!"

Seeing this scene, Sanders became more and more excited.

It seems that the furs of these Indians and the scalps on the top of their heads are already in the bag.

"Look! Look at what these savages are doing. They were so scared by us that they got down on the ground with guns! How do you load ammunition on the ground?"

Bateman fired a shot at the Indian camp and couldn't help laughing.

"Even if you give them the most advanced weapons in the world, these yellow savages don't know how to use them! Are they lying on their stomachs and waiting for the bullets in their guns to run out before being stabbed by our bayonets?"

But soon, the smiles on the faces of Sanders and Bateman, who had never seen the world, disappeared without a trace.

In their eyes, the Indians who fell down on the spot and hid behind log and stone bunkers to fight back at them seemed to be using rifled guns, which were extremely accurate, and they could hit wherever they pointed.

After a round of shooting, more than [-] companions were shot and fell to the ground in an instant.

Indians with breech-loading rifles?
Burnett had a vague premonition of uneasiness.

Since these Indians were lying on the ground, hiding behind logs and stones and shooting, Burnett and others' shooting caused very limited damage to them.

As far as he could see, Burnett didn't see the Indians lying behind logs and stones being hit.

Burnett's armed forces are mainly equipped with smoothbore guns, and only a small number of people in the team are equipped with rifled guns.

Rifled guns are more expensive than smoothbore guns. In this era, the American army, whether it is the Army or the Navy, does not have many troops that have completed the refitting of rifled guns, let alone Burnet's civilian armed forces.

(End of this chapter)