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Chapter 768: The first step of testing is always friendly

The desperate tribe would naturally not refuse the help of the advance team.

Makawunu's exchange with the accompanying shaman left a pretty good impression on the advance team, and there was some very unfortunate news in the tribe.

The old shaman died long before Makawunu got sick, and now the chief is sick too.

They were supposed to head north to find Apaches who would join them in seeking refuge.

"So you have a blood feud, so why join them?"

"The news is that several large tribes of Apaches have united and called on others to join them, taking the news from the Spanish very seriously."

The method of communication between the shaman and the natives in the camp has been temporarily spread. Everyone can at least communicate with Makawunu through body language and writing and drawing on paper, including the sentry.

It's just that Makaunu is a little reluctant to write on paper.

He had never seen such white and smooth 'paper'.

The development of the technology tree is one link after another. Even if one link is missing, the development of civilization will reach a bottleneck if some natural factors are missing.

The Indians were not without civilizations. The Mayan civilization in Central America declined before the arrival of European colonists, and the Aztec civilization was later destroyed by Spanish colonists.

The Indians in North America basically did not have any decent civilization, and they did not even have the concept of writing.

The lack of large animals that could be tamed and controlled, and the lack of large-scale application of the wheel in production, were one of the many reasons why Indian civilization was limited to the primitive tribal stage.

But after foreign civilizations give some advice, they can quickly wake up.

The Spanish used their writing, so the Indians also began to develop their own writing for the inheritance of history and civilization, but the development and application were obviously a bit late.

Fortunately, it was not too late for the horses to appear.

There are no horses in America, and the only animal the Indians have that can barely carry goods is the alpaca.

But when the horses appeared in front of the Indians following the footsteps of the Spaniards, they were originally for fishing and hunting. The Indians of the nomadic tribe controlled the horses at extremely fast speeds.

It is a pity that the speed of war horses cannot bridge the gap in the development of civilization.

But it was enough to catch up with the group of people heading to the advance camp.

Controlling a group of natives who do not speak the same language is a hard job for the sentry. The bicycle can only be ridden twice on slightly flatter terrain, so when a group of people wearing feathers on their heads and wearing various colorful camouflage, holding the same When the cavalrymen decorated with feathered spears appeared in front of the team, the sentry felt quite uneasy.

"Apache, Apache."

Everyone in Makawunu's tribe also looked frightened, and the scene was a little tense for a while.

"It seems that blood feud is not nonsense. Go up and say a few words and ask them why they stopped us."

The result of the negotiation was barely okay.

The Apache leader on the opposite side had a horse-like face and spoke in a bad tone, but they did not launch an attack. Instead, they became the team's guard after communicating. After the leader stared at the sentinel for a moment, he led the team at the edge of Makaunu. Hanging and wandering, slowly marching towards the advance team's stronghold.

Although it is not very wise to directly bring the unfamiliar natives to the stronghold in this foreign country.

But after looking at the weapons held by the natives, the sentry felt that it would not be a big problem to just take them back.
I had some knowledge before coming here, and I knew that the main weapon of the indigenous people here was obsidian. In the entire American territory, the indigenous people of South America were considered to be in the Bronze Age, and the use of metals in North America was limited to natural copper.

It’s similar to polishing stone tools, it’s about beating natural red copper into tools and weapons.

The popular knowledge arranged by His Majesty also mentioned that the Indian tribes bordering the areas controlled by the Spanish may have firearms.

There are more than fifty Apaches in this group, only two of them hold matchlock guns, and the rest use obsidian weapons and bows and arrows.

This armament can only be described as terrible.After the advance team landed and selected a site, they swung axes and shovels into the air, so when the sentinel led two groups of Indians to the vicinity of the camp, what was in front of them was a simple bastion camp made of earth and wood.

Then the scout was dunked on the head by Sun Qin.

"Who asked you to bring that group of cavalry back!"

"It won't work if we don't bring them back. General, aren't we short of horses?"

".Too."

Then came the formal negotiations between the advance team and the Apaches, still led by the shaman.

This trick works very well when facing tribes whose divine power is greater than the power of tribal chiefs, and the Indians' beliefs are very widespread.

The horse-faced leader opposite faced the shaman and forced a smile with difficulty.

"Chiricahua Clan, Wolf Pack Killer is my name because I single-handedly killed a pack of wild wolves that came to steal dogs from the tribe."

Wolf pack killer, or wolf killer for short.

He was an Apache, leader of the Chiricahua clan.

If you don’t understand the language, your self-introduction will definitely be incomplete.

However, the demands of all parties can still be expressed accurately.

After all, there are too many Indian tribes in the Americas who don't understand each other's languages. Even the Apaches, each large tribe, uses a different language.

Through drawing and raw body language.

The Apaches know that the advance party will be stationed here, and seek friendly coexistence and trade with all the surrounding residents. It is best if you purchase some horses from the Apaches.

The Apaches came to greet Makaunu's tribe.

Or kill them all.

"The great shaman said they wanted an alliance and more warriors, but if they got too many people infected with smallpox or the Black Death, then they would all need to be shot."

After muttering for a while, Shalang, who was chatting with the shaman, stared at the two shamans with hopeful eyes: "Makawunu from Cocopa said that you cured his smallpox."

The shaman looked at each other and then wrote: "Offer your war horses and friendship, and we will return excellent trade goods and the 'Ritual of the Great Plague' given by the God Emperor."

Shalang was extremely moved when he saw the ritual scene depicted on the paper.

But his face was full of sorrow: "No, everything we rely on for a living, cloth, rattan, and animal skins, can be given to you in exchange for the ceremony, but they are the only ones who cannot. We cannot give our dear comrades, our My brothers are handed over to you."

Sun Qin frowned after listening to the report and said: "You can't just hand over the vaccination method to them when you hand over the war horses. Let them send people over for treatment and pay for the diagnosis with grain and fodder. When will the horses be given to us? Moreover, we are familiar with and even control their It can only be given after the tribe, or a formal alliance."

This side is calculating, and the other side is also calculating.

The Indians are very sincere and know how important they are in exchange for healing methods.

Therefore, the request of the advance team seemed to them to be reasonable and quite cheap.

But it is absolutely impossible to hand over the war horse.

"But kill the wolf and we can get war horses from the Spaniards."

(End of this chapter)