In the Great Forest east of the Mississippi River, near the Appalachian Mountains, the first snowfall of the year comes a few days earlier than normal. The rain is also extremely heavy. Just the first heavy snowfall turned the sky and the earth into a vast expanse of white. The cold wind was blowing, and there was a mist between the tall trees. Several rivers across the Appalachian Mountains have quickly frozen and turned into a solid block of ice.
This area is called Tennessee by Westerners and is called the Southern Forest by Indians. It is where the winter camps of thirty-eight thousand families of Little Soviet Union are located.
Winters on the Great Plains of North America can be terrifying at times! Whether they are nomadic or hunting tribes, every late autumn they try their best to leave the unobstructed plains and seek shelter from the cold in the big rocky mountains ahead or in the southern forests, or they simply head south to a warmer place.
However, many valleys at the eastern foot of the Big Rock Mountains are now occupied by Americans who migrated from the West Coast - these Americans own "long rifles" with long ranges, and like to build forts and set up cannons at the entrances of valleys. Even the powerful small Soviet nomadic tribes would have difficulty breaking through their defenses and occupying a fertile valley full of food and meat.
Therefore, the Little Soviet Union will no longer go to the Big Rock Mountains to escape the cold.
It is also very dangerous to go south to New Rome...Although more than twenty years ago, Steel, the leader of the Great Soviet Union (there are many leaders in the Great Sioux Tribal Alliance, Steel is just one of them) broke away from the Great Soviet Union and organized When he led the small Soviet nomadic tribe, he received full support from New Rome.
But as the Little Soviet Union slowly grew and grew, from a mere few thousand people at the beginning to twenty to thirty thousand households, and now to a full thirty-eight thousand households, the relationship between the Steel Chief and New Rome also changed. Transformation is taking place step by step.
Fundamentally speaking, New Rome, New France, and the United States of New Zealand, New England, and New Spain are no different. They are all colonists of the Old World... enemies who came to seize the land and resources of the Indians. !
Moreover, the population of New Rome has expanded rapidly in the past twenty years or so because of the strong support from the Roman Empire and the Holy See, from a few thousand people at the beginning to 300,000 now - the population of New Rome The expansion was of course inseparable from the "support" of the Ottoman Empire, because the Ottoman Empire occupied half of Austria, the entire Czech Republic and the entire Royal Hungary more than 20 years ago, causing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes in Central Europe.
With the funding of the Roman Empire and the Holy See, most of them moved to New Rome and its surroundings.
As the population increased, the relationship between New Rome and the Soviet Union naturally changed from friends to enemies. After all,
Of course, New Rome is an enemy that can be exploited!
The United States of New Zealand, New England, and New Spain are also enemies that can be exploited.
And being usable does not mean being trustworthy. The Iron Chief would not leave the fate of his thirty-eight thousand families to the New Romans.
Therefore, he did not dare to place his winter camp near the warm New Rome. Instead, he used the old forests at the western foot of the Appalachian Mountains as a winter destination for his thirty-eight nomadic families.
As for the specific locations of these thirty-eight nomadic households, outsiders do not know.
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In a valley sheltered from the wind, a bison skin tent has been set up on the flat land in the valley. There are as many as a thousand tents. There is also a small hot spring in this valley. Even though it is frozen and snowy outside, there is still a small patch of spring in the valley. A small steaming lake warms a small patch of grass and trees around it. Heavy snow fell one after another, falling into the lake and melting, and a trace of white air emerged from the lake.
All around the entrance of the valley, there were Soviet soldiers wearing bearskin cloaks and suede boots guarding the area. Everyone was carrying a well-made flintlock gun, which made a crunching sound on the snow outside the valley.
The nomadic Qianhu who can equip a large number of flintlock guns are certainly not ordinary Qianhu... The ones hiding in this valley to avoid the cold are the "Steel Qianhu" directly under the leadership of Steel, the leader of the Little Soviet Union.
This Thousand Household is the largest among the thirty-eight Thousand Households in the Little Soviet Union, and the Thousand Household with the strongest military force... It is said to be one Thousand Household, but in fact there are two Thousand Households! It was also equipped with thousands of flintlock muskets and even four three-pound cannons!
Next to the lake, there is a tent that is larger than other cowhide tents. In front of the tent is a very long spear, with a dried wolf head stuck on the tip of the spear - this is the Iron Chief's wolf head bag. .
The Indians on the Great Plains all know that where the Wolf Head is, the Iron Chief is!
As the Iron Chief's tribe continued to expand, various outrageous legends about him began to appear on the Great Plains. Whenever the wolf's head appears, the surrounding Indian hunting tribes who have not yet joined the Little Soviet Union either come to join him or stay away from him.
Because everyone knows that the Iron Leader pursues the iron-blooded policy of "join or be eliminated"!
He has wiped out more Indian hunting tribes over the years than the United States, New Rome, and New England combined!
It is absolutely no exaggeration to say that the Iron Chief's hands are stained with the blood of Indians.
However, it is precisely because of this iron-blooded policy that the Little Soviet Union has grown rapidly, and now it finally has the strength to bear the fate of all Indians.
"Now that we have enough strength, we no longer have to be dogs to the Romans! As long as we raise the flag of the Great Soviet Khanate, all the Indians on the Great Plains will defect to us!"
The speaker was an old foreigner with blond hair and blue eyes, a shaggy beard, a little tanned skin, wearing a silk robe, and a feather crown. He was the same Henry Martin who taught the Steel Chief to speak French and a lot of mathematics. .
He has now completely abandoned his French identity and now regards himself as a "Soviet".
And the person listening to him was, of course, Steel, the leader of the Little Soviet Union. He was older now, looking more majestic and wiser.
He did not wear the traditional Indian clothes, but wore a Mongolian-style robe and a Mongolian wind and snow hat - his current idol is Genghis Khan! He also wanted to build a powerful khanate like Genghis Khan.
But the enemies he faces now are much more ferocious than the enemies Genghis Khan faced back then!
Whether it was the United States, New Rome, or New England, they were essentially murderous gun-toting mob states. Not only did everyone hold a gun, but every family raised horses, and their maneuverability on horseback was no less than that of the Indians.
Therefore, even if the Great Soviet Khanate could "unify" most of the Indians on the Great Plains and bring its population to one million, it would not be enough to wipe out the United States, New Rome, and New England.
Moreover, the population growth rate of these three colonial countries was much higher than that of the Great Plains Indians!
"But our population is still too small after all!" Iron Khan thought, "There are only more than one million Indians on the Great Plains now, and we have reached our limit if we can get one million of them. And The Western United States already has a population of two million. Although the population of New Rome and New England is smaller, the growth rate is still very fast... In the long run, it will still surpass us!"
Even the growth rate can be calculated, which is really amazing!
And his thinking is also very clear. He knows what are the shortcomings of the Great Soviet Khanate? Because the various infectious diseases brought by Europe were so lethal, the American Indians were greatly weakened and their population dropped sharply. And the Europeans and East Asians in the Americas are constantly being replenished from their own land, and the population growth rate is astonishing! It is only a matter of time before we surpass, or even surpass, the Indians in numbers!
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