open sea

Chapter 967 Lamb
Hulan is mobilizing the enemy.

The reason why the main force was able to avoid all the villages was because those villages had already been patronized by his cavalrymen. There were twelve cavalry detachments, each with five men, led by a Beiyang Banner Army who had a strong sense of direction and knew the map. A Jurchen hunter is responsible for the trip, and three Mongolian riders are the main force.

They walked faster than the main group, with six teams on the left and right, and the left and right teams were divided into two teams. The first team scouted first, and after the investigation, they circled back behind the second team. village.

After the second team took the Hurons who were good at running to practice in the wild, the first team chased after them from behind to ensure that the pursuers ran along their prescribed route.

It is precisely because of this that this road is a smooth one for Hulan.

Along the river in the northern part of Lake Ontario, the Mohawk Great Flint Chief who had been traveling for several days was finally able to catch his breath. He saw Hulan camped by the river. Under the straight and towering birch forest, a piece of dark green looked like a small house. camp tent.

He had the same idea as Big Lizi, this group of people was really full.

It's as if Chen Mu asked Yin Zhengmao to look at the bastion, and the Western minister opened his mouth to say, "Europeans have committed a terrible crime." At this moment, Da Flint looked at the young men who had burned pot-boiled meat outside the Hulan camp.

Let Big Flint choose again, he will never compete with Hulan, and he will lead his troops to leave here before he is about to penetrate into the hinterland of Huron... After following up, he found that there are fewer and fewer subordinates, and fighters with good physical strength can keep up. Bad fighters ran and disappeared.

When he found that he had less than 600 people left, he could no longer turn back. There were tribes of Hurons all around, and only by following Hulan could he survive.

Just when he thought that Hulan's idea was to go directly across the north shore of the Great Lake and attack from the south of the undefended tribe of the Ottawas, he found that Hulan stopped on the north shore with his men, and seemed to be in a good state of mind.

Outside the camp of the Hulan Department under the birch forest, two low walls were built with stones, and the camp was more rigorous than the Mohawks had ever seen.

Hulan arrived here the night before, and she slept very unsteadily, afraid to raise a fire, and afraid of accidents, the lakeside in spring was freezing cold at night, and her clothes were soaked in moisture when she got up in the morning.

But it's better than the big flint with smoky makeup.

"Eat meat, drink water, and sleep. This is the battlefield at the earliest this afternoon, and at the latest at noon tomorrow, and you have to run."

Hu Lan asked Lao Taishan to tell the Flint Chief about this meaning, just in time for Baihu Guan Zheng, who was holding an iron hat, stepping on the mud by the river, one foot deep and one foot shallow, the two exchanged glances, Guan Zheng clasped his helmet and said: "Qianhu, it's done, there is not much gunpowder, and we have to prepare for the next battle. We can only blow up thirteen trees."

Hu Lan was a little dissatisfied with this number, but there was no other way. The number of banner troops was not large, and they did not carry heavy artillery. Right now, they can have the gunpowder to blow up trees. And prepare the wood picking tools.

Hu Lan doesn't understand the specific theory, but only knows that in Guan Zheng's words, it is called "directional blasting". If you want the tree to fall on which side, you first use a saw and ax to cut a hole on the back, drill a few holes in the front, and stuff the gunpowder tube into it to seal it. Well, the tree fell when it detonated.

Tried and tested along the way, the thicker the tree, the bigger the gap, and the more medicines used.

Fortunately, this birch forest is not as thick as fir trees, so it saves a lot of medicine.

Hulan said, "It's okay, as long as it can cause confusion for them."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Big Flint arguing about something, Big Lizi came back and said helplessly: "Big Flint said he is not a coward and will not run away."

"He doesn't run? Anyway, I will run. Tell him that the enemy will attack here first. Those wooden fences and walls are fake. A few sticks and a layer of soil are covered with cloth, and they will fall down as soon as they are pushed."

"There is a river behind this place. If we run to both sides, they will chase on both sides. When they separate, some trees will be blown down, and we will turn around and surround them... There are far more enemies than us, but as long as we turn back, we can borrow the big river and fallen trees surrounded them."

Hu Lan raised his arms and pointed at the river, "When they flee, they can only jump into the river and drown themselves."

"Let Cockscomb stop thinking about capturing prisoners all day long. This is a war. Winning is the most important thing. After defeating this pursuing enemy army, we can kick all the way to the gate of the Ottawa Tribe and contain all the Hurons on the northern shore of the Great Lakes." to allow the tribal forces on the South Shore to approach Montreal unimpeded."

"The more the Hurons lose in this battle when they join forces with the army on the south bank, the less the main force will fight us. If we kill them all, there will be no Hurons in the future."

Big Flint doesn't care what you Hulan said, he took his subordinates into the birch forest to eat meat, sat on the bank after eating meat, and ran away?

So cowardly.

The cowardly Iroquois had no wives.

The key point is that the big raccoon himself doesn't quite understand what Hulan said. The Iroquois wars have always been carefully planned, but the planning is a battle, not a whole war.

They can send 1000 to [-] troops to fight on land thousands of miles away from the tribe in a few months, but they lack a vision from the overall situation.

The ministries are not subordinate to each other, and it has always been a joint operation of several friendly armies rather than a single army. Not to mention the lack of a mature logistics system, fifty miles is already a long way for most tribal leaders, and they are expected to think farther?

Just when Hu Lan was racking his brains on how to persuade the angry Da Flint to obey his decision but was helpless, four long and low sounds of cow horns came from a distance that afternoon, followed by horseshoes mixed with the sound of killing From the other side of the grassy low knoll.

This is Hulan's men, and the sound of the horn means that more than four hundred enemies are chasing them.

Soon, the four cavalry galloped past from west to east in front of the birch forest camp. Their quiveres were all empty, their armor was pitted, their bodies were covered with messy blood, and the last horse had three short and one long wounds on its buttocks. The arrows and javelins he had just ran across the front of the camp suddenly lost their strength and fell down. The rider on the horse also fell to his death in the tumbling.

Farther away, a black crowd came galloping here.

Hu Lan led the horse and shouted loudly: "Get on the horse, mutton, mutton!"

The members of the Beiyang Banner Army who had been holding guns under the order of Baihuguan Zheng were dumbfounded. They had never eaten mutton from beginning to end, especially today, they ate shabu-shabu bear meat.

The big raccoon and the aboriginal fighters were even more bewildered. They took "mutton" as the battle cry of the Hulan tribe for granted.

Seeing that his sense of humor has not played its due role, Hu Lan, who got on his horse, felt extremely lonely. No one in this continent understands his four dictionaries.

He was recreating the scene when Kublai Khan was suddenly attacked while eating. In order to win the prize, Kublai Khan ate a few slices of boiled mutton before the battle, and then won a big victory.

Hulan will also win a big victory.

The Mongolian cavalry with helmets and armor leaped over the cloth wall, and Hulan, who was holding a bow and arrow, led more than forty cavalry at the front of the formation. They opened their mouths to let Fanyin pull the battlefield into the Mongolian grassland.

(End of this chapter)