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Chapter 528 Indian Shipbuilders

Five hundred versus one thousand, with a rifle that has a high rate of fire and can shoot at long distances, the pioneering team really doesn't need to worry too much.

The cavalry at the front kept falling off their horses, or fell to the ground along with their horses.

Finally, the Eagle could no longer bear the casualties.

Fortunately, he was more decisive and fled decisively with the remaining Indians, otherwise the thousands of people in his hands would definitely be buried here.

The Indians are relatively flexible in combat, and they will decisively run away if they cannot defeat them.

Cavalry also has an advantage when it comes to escaping.

However, the feud between the Pioneers and the Eagle Tribe was settled.

The Eagle Tribe's attack was unsuccessful this time, which made Simpson feel lucky in his heart. If he had led his own people to attack this Chinese stronghold, he would have suffered heavy casualties.

Although the Indian attack failed, Simpson's goal had been achieved.

He knew that the Indians advocated revenge. The Eagle Tribe would never give up.

Hundreds of Indian corpses and wounded were scattered outside the pioneer camp.

"Let the people from the hunting team quickly pick up the fallen horses. These are all meat. The weather is getting colder now, so there is no need to worry about them being damaged."

"And those wounded Indians should be rescued as well. During treatment, tie their hands to be careful of them hurting others."

This battle did not last long, and the Indians came and ran away quickly.

Wang Hua has already led people to clean up the battlefield, and they are going to collect all the horses that are still intact.

Because the pioneer team had to cross the Rocky Mountains, they did not bring many horses.

Most of the team consisted of pack horses and oxen pulling carts.

These Indian war horses are the descendants of the war horses brought to the Americas by Europeans, and they look much taller than the Mongolian horses.

Wang Hua took a fancy to these war horses.

He led his men on the only few horses in the camp and rushed out to collect the ownerless horses that were running around.

There were dozens of wounded Indians on the ground, wailing in pain.

Most of them were thrown off their horses and had their legs and feet broken.

As for those Indians who were shot, the pioneer team will not waste medicines to find ways to treat them.

Their own medicines are brought all the way here, so they only consume as much as they need.

All the lightly injured people were rescued. Zhao Xu ordered people to give these people simple treatment first.

At the same time, they found a wooden house and locked them up.

Originally, he thought that this Indian tribe would retreat in spite of the difficulties.

Unexpectedly, in the next few days, the logging and hunting teams sent out by the settlement were ambushed by Indians one after another.

When Wang Hua led his people to rush over, all these Indians fled in a flash.

Of course, these Indians can't get much out of it. The logging teams are protected by guards, and the hunting teams themselves are warriors.

However, due to the Indians' wait-and-see style of play, the Blazers still suffered casualties.

Zhao Xu only has so many people in his hands, and every time one of them is missing, he feels distressed for a long time.

Moreover, these people have been together day and night for less than half a year, and they have a deep relationship with each other.

Next, they can only slow down the progress of construction.

But the weather is getting colder and colder. Zhao Xu understands that the cat winter season is coming soon.

There were many wooden shelves set up in the camp, and the shelves were covered with whole horse meat.

Now the horse meat has been dried and has a waxy red color, which is similar to the bacon made by southerners.

Zhao Xu really hoped that the Eagle Tribe would make another sneak attack so that they no longer had to worry about meat in the winter.

"Hmph, these British people must be happy there, thinking that we can't stock up on supplies for the winter and will evacuate on their own when the time comes." Zhao Xu said coldly.

He had already guessed the British tactics.

It is nothing more than making these prairie Indians change their attack strategy into harassment.

As a result, their settlements will not be able to properly log trees and hunt. If they do not have enough supplies, they will not be able to survive the long winter here.

The British's calculation was very good. But they must not have known that Zhao Xu had placed all the main labor teams in the settlements on the north bank.

He is unable to carry out production activities here, but the settlements on the north bank and the river bend settlement that have begun to be established have already started production activities.

As long as the supplies are transported here before the lake freezes, Zhao Xu is not worried about winter supplies at all.

The British still think that Chinese immigrants like them only come in hundreds or hundreds of thousands.

Their pioneering team had more than 2,000 young men when they came out.

At this time, in the Hebend settlement, the potatoes and corn planted by the militiamen were ready to be harvested, and these things grew very quickly.

Chinese cabbage and radish are also growing well.

The weather is getting colder now. The militiamen of the settlement dug a huge cellar inside the settlement. These vegetables will be stored in the cellar.

Corn cobs and potatoes were put into the warehouse.

Ji Qiang and Gao Jun invited the Grizzly Bear Department to have a bonfire party outside the camp.

The Grizzly Indians ate venison stewed with potatoes for the first time.

Each one took a wooden spoon and kept stuffing it into his mouth.

The Indians also performed primitive dances for the militiamen.

There were even some strong-looking militiamen who fit the Indian aesthetic and were pulled into the Indian women's tents.

These closed Indian tribes have always had the habit of "treating guests with their wives".

There is nothing that can be done about it, their lives are too closed. If they don't do this, there may be incest.

This custom is very common among the aboriginal people in the north.

Grizzly bears naturally don't care about such things. After all, this is their tradition.

This also solved many personal problems of the team members.

Although the smell is indeed very strong, everyone comforts themselves that this is the taste of wildness.

With the help of the remaining team, the Grizzly Bear Tribe also defeated several attacks from other tribes.

Winter is approaching, and attacks and killings between tribes have become more frequent.

Some tribes did not have enough food reserves, so they would attack other tribes to steal other people's food.

Something like this happens every year before winter comes.

The Grizzly Bear Tribe is a small wandering tribe, so it is the first choice of other tribes to attack.

In the past, grizzly bears had no choice but to migrate and avoid situations like this.

But this year those who attacked the Grizzlies were all defeated.

If it were normal, Grizzly Bear would definitely lead people to kill all these prisoners.

But this year is different, because there are better hunting tools and help with settlement work.

The Grizzly Bear Department received more food and was able to feed these people.

Ji Qiang and Zhao Jun also wanted to keep these people because there was still a lack of manpower in the camp.

The main question is whether the Grizzlies can control the writing staff.

But they thought too much about this.

The thinking of these Indians is relatively primitive. Now that they have become captives, they have accepted their fate.

"Captain, as long as you give them a bite to eat, they will absolutely surrender." Grizzly promised, patting his chest.

Ji Qiang took a few prisoners to try and gave them a little food. Sure enough, these people surrendered in the Indian way.

This greatly increased the number of people working in the camp.

Although these Indians are very primitive, they are very skillful with their hands.

You must know that these forest Indians were able to produce exquisite wood carvings totems with simple times.

Under the leadership of the carpenter at the camp, we had handy tools.

These people soon became skilled farmers and craftsmen. But at this time, what they had to do was build ships.

The river bend settlement should take advantage of the coming winter to reserve a large number of boats.

Those thick logs were transformed into large, sturdy canoes under the skillful hands of the Indians.

This kind of canoe is not a small canoe that can only accommodate one person.

It is a large canoe over one meter wide.

A log with a diameter of more than one meter was cut into two parts in the middle, and then the inside was hollowed out, and beams and planks were added, and the fenders were raised. It became a large and strong canoe.

In appearance, it looks a bit like a southern awning boat.

However, these boats were formed at once and were much stronger than the awning boats.

The rivers here are generally not deep, and the riverbed is covered with boulders. This large canoe is just suitable for navigation in such conditions.

Ji Qiang was in charge of production and civil affairs. With his order, all the captured Indians became shipbuilders.

Not to mention, these Indians are all natural carpenters. They seem to love these carpentry activities very much.

Now armed with metal tools such as hammers, chisels and planes, the Indians took to their newfound identity like a duck to water.

They could not make patterns originally, but now that they have the tools at hand, they can make them better.

But another problem arises. These people spend too long carving patterns and waste a lot of time.

Ji Qiang spent food to feed them, not to let them engage in artistic creation. Why would a canoe have to be so colorfully carved?

Grizzly explained to Ji Qiang that what these people carved on the ship was their totem, which was said to protect the ship from traveling safely.

But they are too beautifully carved.

Ji Qiang had to ask Grizzly Bear to warn these people that only one totem pattern could be carved on the bow of each ship.

And it must be the simplest pattern. And each person can only carve one pattern. In this way, we can find out who built the ship through the pattern.

Originally I just wanted to find a carpenter. Unexpectedly, I found a bunch of artists. Ji Qiang was also speechless for a while.

There are already hundreds of shipbuilders in the camp. In addition, the population of the Grizzly Bear Division has reached four to five hundred people.

Some of these people were captured by fighting back against the tribes that attacked them. Others were simply sent to their homes to make a living.

Because the grizzly bears have enough food and they don't kill the prisoners.

Many wandering tribes in the forest took the initiative to join in.

In order to feed so many people, Gao Jun led some soldiers and took them on several large-scale hunting activities.

Ji Qiang also ordered people to pull a large net on the river. The weather has turned cold, and the fish that went upstream to spawn have now begun to return to the sea.

With just such a net, Ji Qiang and the others can catch several hundred kilograms of big fish in one day.

Together with the potatoes and corn stored in the settlement, it is basically enough for thousands of people to survive the winter.

Ji Qiang is also planning to build some large wooden houses as shipbuilding workshops.

In this way, they can continue building ships in the workshop during the winter.

At this speed, Ji Qiang and the others will be able to build hundreds of ships next spring.

Seeing that winter is coming, Ji Qiang recently decided to use the built ships to send a batch of supplies to the lower reaches, and report the situation here to Zhao Xu.

ps: It’s almost two million words. When I first started writing, I never thought that I could code so many words. No matter how good the quality is, I code them one by one. It really accumulates over time, and sometimes it’s very difficult to do something.

It’s difficult, it’s even harder to do it well, but the hardest thing is whether you can persist in finishing it.

There is a beginning and an end, it is easy to say but really difficult to do. Even the vows made to each other change sometimes. Such a strong character of Wang Moumou collapsed at a moment's notice.

Sometimes I think about it, it’s good to have something you like to do, stick to it, and do it for a lifetime. Just like you are used to reading books, I usually like to write books. I write and you read them, and occasionally communicate with each other. It’s a pleasure.

Huh!


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