open sea

Chapter 963 Absorption
When Chen Mu was worried about dispatching manpower to support Hu Lan, Hu Lan was also worried.

He underestimated the appeal of Chinese men to members of the Iroquois Confederacy.

After the discussion in the longhouse, the alliance quickly formulated the strategic purpose and implementation situation approved by unanimous votes. The newly joined Hulan Department or the main combat force of the Rice Washing Department will be used as a mobile force to attack the Ottawa towns on the west of Lake Ontario. middle.

After the leaders of the alliance recognized their abilities, they followed the large army to attack north, and then used the "sturdy pack beast" to go northeast along the northwest bank of the river to block the opportunity for the Hurons to approach the river, and accompanied the tribes in the southeast of the river to attack the river. Outsiders entrenched on the island of Montreal.

After the meeting, the Taomi Department quickly became the star of the alliance, and various tribes rushed to inquire about the situation of the Hulan Department from the Taomi Department. After hearing that they only had men, and the men who spoke in the meeting hall were called Baihu, With 110 fighters under his command, after ten men like this, the more exciting marriage action began.

The hundred households who proposed "Guan Yunchang flooded the Seventh Army" happened to have the surname Guan. They had an upright face and a very upright name. They were called Guan Zheng.

On the same day, after getting permission from Hulan, he joined Mohawk, known as the Flint family, and three other hundred households joined the Oneida Department of the Standing Stone Family, Onondaga and the Hill Family. Marsh's 'Cayuga Department.

Of course, in Hulan's view, at this stage it can only be regarded as an engagement.

His tribe is about to be carve up completely, even if this is what he expects, he will inevitably feel unbalanced, so he wants to find a little bit for the "Hulan tribe" that once appeared on this land. Presence - a grand wedding.

As for the wedding, there is no more complicated marriage than that in the Central Plains, so he and the leaders of the various ministries made an agreement that when the war is over, these young men will hold a grand wedding with the bride, and one by one every day will be held in the alliance. half a year!

In fact, this is exactly what the tribal leaders wanted. First, let's see what these 'newcomers' are capable of during the war.

For the Iroquois women, bravery is the most valuable quality in a man, and the test of that quality is war.

The slow and meandering march made every soldier in the Hulan Department feel irritable.

They have been marching for a whole year, and they have hardly done anything serious. They just walked eastward from the west, crossed mountains, stepped on grasslands, crossed rivers and lakes, and rested by the big lake for two months to escape the winter. , and then continued to march—now, these natives actually let them go back?
Yes, they began to march west again with twelve hundred carefully selected Iroquois warriors. The town of the Ottawas was to the northwest of them. They were going to cross Lake Ontario from the west and attack north.

Because the aborigines lacked pack animals and more experienced marching methods, it took a lot of time to forage on roads far away from their own towns and villages, which made their marching speed slower than Hulan expected, which made him It's only just beginning to understand why the battle has been fought for nine months.

After marching for more than [-] miles, their vanguard encountered a foraging team of Hurons in the wilderness. It was next to a village with more than [-] longhouses. Hulan could even see the fields with binoculars. potatoes.

When the two sides met, they lined up and shot at each other in batches with bows and arrows, blowing arrows, and throwing spears. The lack of effective protection methods caused heavy casualties on both sides.

But they have more tenacity and courage than other troops. No one is willing to disperse the army and retreat when the strength of the troops is similar. The Hurons broke down and fled in all directions.

The Iroquois and the Hurons spoke the same language, shared the same culture, and even had the same clans that formed the confederacy. The Iroquois had five clans, and the Hurons also had five clans.

Even both sides use the 'silent war', which is to adopt prisoners of war to replace the dead in the war. They believe that the soul of a person will not dissipate but just wander in the world, and can be reborn in another person after a series of means.

For example, in this small-scale battle, a warrior named 'Redstone' from the Flint clan of the Iroquois Alliance died. They captured a warrior named 'White Bear' from the Bear clan of the Hurons, and Redstone's relatives would adopt him. White Bear, and renamed him Red Stone, and then White Bear became Red Stone.

But it is not so simple in practice. There is a set of procedures related to the mood of soldiers, battle losses, traditional beliefs, including punishment and execution.

Qu Lan did not participate in this battle. He thought that the level of the enemy was not worth the risk of his soldiers urging the horses to be scratched by the arrows.

The bravest fighters of the Hurons were tortured to wear down their fighting spirit after being prisoners of war, but these brave men were respected, and before the execution was halfway, several well-meaning men of the Alliance tribes scolded others and announced that they had adopted these fighters.

However, some people who did not perform so well in combat and were too brave during execution, those silent warriors were divided and eaten by the Iroquois, and the atmosphere was like New Year's Eve.

"What are they doing?"

Hulan panted heavily, pointed to the Huron village in the distance and said, "Their village is here, and they stopped, abusing prisoners of war for fun, and even eating them?"

This is a group of monsters!

"They don't attack villages." Although the big raccoon is not an Iroquois, he is not surprised by this kind of behavior, and said: "With a village, new enemies will be attracted to settle down, and more prisoners of war can be absorbed in the future. Now they... …also to absorb them.”

But after the battle, he realized that these aborigines were different from them, different from Mongols, Jurchens, and Han people.

They cannibals, the Iroquois, the Hurons, all cannibals.

The essence of silent war is to weaken the enemy and strengthen oneself.

Their culture believes that form complements form, eat a deer if you want the speed of a deer, eat a bear if you want the strength of a bear, and eat a man if you want the courage of a brave man.

Big Lizi smoked his pipe and said, "We lose, and we may be eaten by the enemy, especially a brave fighter like you."

Their treatment of captives is different from every race that Hulan knows. They are neither like the Han people nor the nomads outside the mouth. They respect and worship the brave and despise the weak. If the enemy is defeated, it means that the enemy is incompetent. It is even more necessary to fight to the death; if the enemy is not defeated, they will be respected instead, and they may get the "most honorable death" in their eyes, and they may also live as a new Iroquois.

"Don't look at me like that, the Iroquois aren't savage, you see them in leagues too, hardly anyone fights, the Iroquois longhouses love each other, that doesn't include the people outside the longhouse, but the myths that people believe in In China, they are given the heavy responsibility of maintaining peace, and their ancestors planted the tree of peace to bring peace to every place."

Hu Lan pointed to the soldiers gathered in the distance and asked, "Just take it like this?"

"The Iroquois will declare war on every tribe around them except blood kin, first they will welcome the tribes around them to their longhouse as the sixth tribe, the seventh tribe, now we are the sixth tribe and the Union will welcome more people."

"If you refuse to join, the alliance will give those tribes that refuse a contract, and the two parties will guarantee peace; if they are refused again, the Iroquois will launch a silent war and absorb them by adopting or eating them."

Hulan really couldn't listen to the fallacies of the old man, he was afraid that if he listened to it, he would think that the Iroquois' approach was correct, so he simply raised his hands and said: "The Hulan department obeyed the order to drive out everyone in the village, and burn the people here. A village!"

(End of this chapter)