open sea

Chapter 973 Bronze Armor
The Great Flint Chief had never thought that war would be like this. After a long chase and suffering huge casualties, Hulan, whom he had always regarded as cowardly and afraid to fight, killed more people at one time than he killed in his entire life.

The battle was decided at the moment when the birch tree fell, but the killing and pursuit continued. Hundreds of Mongolian soldiers broke their spears and cut their swords, until the sunset slowly disappeared from the treetops on the other side of the river. Go, three of the twenty Hurons designated as living creatures were frightened mad, and Hu Lan finally raised his arms and ordered his subordinates to stop.

The big flint of the Mohawk tribe finally realized clearly what kind of people he had been with all the time in the throbbing of his heart.

He finally realized that Hu Lan chose this birch forest as a camp and a battlefield because it was the most difficult place for people to escape.

The birch forest is neither dense nor huge. It is surrounded by grasslands on three sides. As long as a hundred cavalry with an absolute advantage can completely seal off this forest, it will be difficult for the rout troops inside to escape like headless flies. .

Fleeing into the forest, the banner army fired guns into the forest; jumped into the river, the Jurchen soldiers shot arrows into the forest; ran into the field, and the Mongols chased them on horseback.

When Hu Lan rubbed her trembling hands and stood in front of the twenty selected lucky ones, only four of the twenty could stand. I can't speak, and there are people who are lying on the ground and can't stand up no matter how hard they try.

Under the light of the torches, Hu Lan's face flickered, wearing a Liaodong high helmet. He asked these people expressionlessly: "We people from the Dongyang Army Mansion, do you eat?"

He was taking revenge by sending out the soldiers of the Hurons, whose armor and arms were seen, but not their bodies, which, as is almost the custom of the Iroquois tribes, they thought powerful , so it was eaten.

"This is the end. Go back and tell each tribe that from now on, anyone who dares to shoot an arrow at the Eastern Army's government will be razed to the ground, and no one will be left behind."

"Go back and tell each tribe that from now on, those who dare to eat people will be razed to the ground, and no one will be left behind."

People from the Taomi Department who can understand Chinese are on the sidelines to translate for these people.

Guan Zheng stood aside, nudged Big Lizi with his elbow, glanced at Big Flint, and said, "Old man, ask him if he still eats people."

Big Flint shook his head like a rattle.

It was cured once.

No one can predict the future fate of the Hurons better than Big Flint. The Hurons, like the Iroquois, are composed of various clans. He doesn't know which clans these tribal warriors come from, only that there is more than one Clan, and it can be determined which clan it came from, and which clan will disappear in the future.

The matriarchal society of the Iroquois language family does not mean that women are gods, but that both men and women can be elected. In the election of chiefs, men and women are the same, and men and women are the same in most things. Men are responsible for hunting and protecting the village, and women are in the corn outside the village. , bean or pumpkin fields.

But now, most of the men in dozens or even hundreds of villages were shot to death under this birch forest. Who can protect their villages?
Regardless of the Iroquois or Huron, they are used to killing, but they have never seen anything like Hulan... After the victory in the battle, one is not a god, two is not courage, and three is not a prisoner, it just has no Iroquois logic Kill kill kill.

This is not helpful for the continuation of the tribe. The Iroquois launched the war in order to continue, expand the tribe, and finally achieve the highest ideal of "a peaceful land under the earth".

You have wiped out all the potential manpower and troops, what is this picture?
No matter what the picture is, Hu Lan has achieved his goal, but Da Flint doesn't know it.

When they set up camp, the Mohawks only needed a word from Hulan, and they obediently pushed forward and backward the wooden carts loaded with luggage. The big flint seemed to have grown out of "adolescence" suddenly. What orders does Hulan have? Execute any order.

It is not yet known how effective the deterrence against the enemy is, but at least the deterrence against one's own people is very successful.

The big fools are obedient.

After the battle, Hulan was not in a hurry to march, but after leaving the battlefield for a hundred miles, they set up camp, fished and hunted for game. On the south bank of the river, news of the great victory was delivered and attempts were made to make contact with friendly forces.

On the fourth day after the battle, the Huron tribe cautiously began to bring back the corpses of their tribe's warriors from the battlefield.

On the sixth day, envoys from the Hurons entered Hulan's camp, hoping to understand their intentions through negotiations—not the Iroquois, but the "Oriental Army Mansion" mentioned by Hulan, which Hulan could not answer , because the mission given to him by the military governor Ma Gui was just to explore the terrain along the way and try to map the terrain as much as possible.

Only then did Hu Lan finally remember that there was an Eastern Military Mansion on his head. In this land, because it was far away from the center of power, everyone became reckless.

On the tenth day after the battle, Hulan signed a contract with the envoys of the Hurons that the Ming army could freely travel through the land of the Huron Union, and conveyed to them the hope that the Hurons would not prevent him from going east to attack Montreal, that is, New France. base camp.

It was Lixia when the cavalry sent to the other side of the river returned, and the weather gradually turned from comfortable to warm, and the cavalry brought back great news.

"They are marching east, but there are Chen Bing in the rear, people like me?"

After thinking and thinking, Hu Lan still didn't understand who the phrase "people like him" was, but there was something more eye-catching behind him. He heard the rider say: "Also, Qianhu, they met our Merchants, they said it was He Xing Sheng Public and Private, and the pronunciation should be He Xing Sheng, but their subordinates didn’t understand what public and private meant, and it was by the sea.”

The rider looked at Big Flint and said: "In the territory of the Mohawks, merchants who claim to be from Hexingsheng public and private companies use boats to carry all kinds of goods made by Changsheng to sell here in exchange for their furs, animal bones and other goods. , and brought the seeds of tobacco, let them cultivate, and set the price for tobacco, Professor Jinliang."

"It means that when they come back next year, the Mohawks will be able to use tobacco to buy goods. It seems that they are still allowed to mine. I don't know if it is, but it sounds like I discovered iron ore and taught them to mine. Said to give this to him, and He Xingsheng will be able to make iron arrows and iron spearheads for them when he comes next time."

Hu Lan's eyes widened, and he said, "Are you sure it's our merchant?"

Guan Zheng knew the details of He Xingsheng in his heart, but before he had time to speak, the rider who reported the letter had already said convincingly: "Although I don't know what the public or private means, but it can't be wrong, and I don't know if it was sent by a merchant or Haifa Sand. I bought it, anyway, when I saw him, he was wearing a bronze armor made of Jiajing Tongbao."

Jiajing Tongbao?

The rider nodded and gestured and said: "Take the money as armor leaves and tie them with ropes. Haifasa likes Jiajing Tongbao very much. He said that this should be used to make armor. Daming is so generous that he even punched holes for the rope... ..."

Hu Lan breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that it was European reinforcements. He didn't need to worry too much when he heard that it was a merchant from the Ming Dynasty. "Who, then, is the man who appeared south of the Iroquois?"

(End of this chapter)