"God, please save us and let us in!"
Faced with these people's demands, Hu Guanzhu decisively ordered the door to be opened to admit these more than a hundred indigenous people. Only when they came in did Hu Guanzhu know the situation.
"Three tribes that have enmity with us have united to attack us. The tribe has been destroyed." Elder Heilang quickly informed Hu Guanzhu of the situation.
It turned out that the enemy struck first and wiped out the White Buffalo tribe.
"Captain, those barbarians are already heading here!" A sentry on guard from the outside came in to report.
"how many people?"
"There must be at least 2,000 people!"
"More than two thousand people?"
Hu Guanzhu couldn't help but frown.
What an unlucky thing!
A few days ago, the Ming army discovered some locations that were very likely to contain gold mines at a river mouth in the south.
Most of the Ming army soldiers left here and went there to explore.
There are now less than three hundred Ming soldiers in the fortress.
"Send the order and prepare for war!"
Hu Guanzhu immediately issued the order.
As the horns sounded on the fortress tower, all the soldiers of the Ming army were neatly dressed and took their positions to prepare for the attack.
About half an hour passed.
Large numbers of indigenous savages finally approached.
When these Native American savages wearing animal skins and linen clothes and holding big sticks and bone spears approached, they were all shocked by the "huge" fortress in front of them.
They had never seen anything of this magnitude.
Not only the wide trench, but also the high walls built with rammed earth logs were something they had never seen before.
As for the tall sentry tower and even taller lighthouse, they were things they had never thought about.
These savage warriors were all stunned by the buildings in front of them.
However, their people had already figured out the situation.
The fugitives from the White Buffalo Tribe fled here.
Since there is no trace of them outside, they must be hiding here.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
As a trumpet sounded, dozens of Ming army archers took up their respective positions.
Gunpowder is a precious material. Hu Guanzhu will not use gunpowder easily unless necessary!
As long as these savages dare to approach, there will be a hail of arrows.
"Oh God, these people are the most greedy poisonous snakes, we must not let them in!"
Elder Heilang spoke to Hu Guanzhu in unskilled Daming dialect.
"You tell them that if they don't want to die, they should leave here as soon as possible."
Hu Guanzhao grabbed Elder Black Wolf and asked him to act as the translator and shout to the savage leader outside.
After a conversation, the savages outside showed no intention of retreating.
But they had already begun to weave ladders out of logs and ropes.
"Haha, these guys are looking for death!"
When Hu Guanzhu saw this, he smiled meaningfully.
Although the height of the current fortress is not high, for people without armor and weapons, this will be a place where they die.
"Oh!"
"Wow!"
With waves of shouts, these barbarian warriors were already ready to charge.
Hu Guanzhu also personally led a hundred people in formation, ready to kill at any time.
Hu Guan stood outside the city wall, staring at the enemy in front of him.
"Arrange yourself in formation, raise your shield, and hold your gun!"
Hu Guanzhu roared and ordered, issuing the final formation request.
Hu Guanzhao held a spear in his hand and was already ready for battle.
"Wow!"
With a roar, nearly a thousand savage warriors rushed forward.
Hu Guanzhu saw a yellow wild man in front of him running towards him. When he was only a few steps away, he suddenly threw the big wooden stick inlaid with obsidian in his hand towards Hu Guanzhu.
The whistling "wooden stick" made a circle and hit Hu's closed face.
"Good grandson!"
Hu Guanzhu sneered, and with a slight flick of the shield in his hand, he swung the gemstone stick away.
However, a soldier next to him was a little unlucky.
"ah!"
With a scream, a three-foot-long bone javelin directly hit the soldier's shoulder and penetrated deeply into the armor seam.
The huge inertia caused the soldier to fall to the ground instantly.
However, the power of the bone javelin was very limited. The soldier patted his butt and stood up again.
"kill!"
Regarding the situation next to him, Hu Guanzhu, who had long been accustomed to fighting in battle formations, didn't care at all.
He held the spear tightly and stabbed forward!
"kill!"
As he roared, the savage warrior was immediately stabbed in the face.
With a cry from Dong, he fell to the ground and died.
"Kill!"
At this time, the entire array was already fighting together.
The barbarians relied on the strength of their numbers and had already formed an all-powerful offensive in the front.
Hu Guanzhu led the elite to fight calmly, preventing the savage warriors from advancing any further.
Steel armor versus rags.
Long knives and spears versus wooden sticks and bone spears.
The offensive of the barbarian warriors quickly collapsed under the counterattack of the Ming army soldiers.
Coupled with the crossbowmen who kept shooting on the rear camp wall, these savage warriors suffered heavy casualties.
"kill!"
Hu Guanzhu roared and led the soldiers beside him to launch a countercharge towards the front.
He has already seen it.
These savages in front of me are no threat at all.
The weapons of wood and bone were of no use except for making a clanging sound when they were struck against the armor.
Until now, Hu Guanzhu has not seen a single Ming soldier fall.
Instead, these savage warriors... had fallen to the ground.
After this easy victory, Hu Guanzhu thought about it for three days and three nights!
He also didn't think about it, who gave him the courage to let these Yin people armed with sticks and rocks attack him?
"Yin people" or "Yin people" are the official names set by Zhu Han for the indigenous Indians in North America.
In this era, it was the Ming Dynasty that discovered the American continent, so naturally there will be no more Indians.
There are nearly ten million indigenous people in the New World. If the Ming Dynasty wants to conquer this land, it must make good use of so many human resources.
Otherwise, only by immigrating from the Central Plains to the New World, this land can be managed well in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
Assimilation is the best characteristic of the Ming Dynasty in conquering these indigenous people.
After discovering the New World, Zhu Han immediately asked the Ming Dynasty to officially endorse it, attributing the indigenous people in this new continent to the Central Plains lineage.
Legend has it that King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Yin Shang Dynasty, and a large number of Yin Shang remnants crossed the sea eastward after the demise of the Shang Dynasty, and finally disappeared.
Now this legend happens to be placed on the heads of the Indians in North America.
In fact, people in North America migrated to the New World much earlier than 10,000 to 20,000 years ago.
If they were really the survivors of the Yin Shang Dynasty, they would not be as defeated as they are now.
The indigenous residents of the New World are still in a backward primitive society. Only the ancestors of the more developed Mayan and Inca civilizations in the south still have some traces of early slavery.
However, all the indigenous people on the entire continent cannot smelt bronze, let alone iron. The weapons they use are all wood, bone or
Obsidian products.
In the early days of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, they were able to cast large bronze ritual vessels and weapons.
However, if so many New World indigenous people have to be assimilated into the manpower available to the Ming Dynasty, who cares what the truth is?
Anyway, as long as they know that they are from China, they are of the same lineage as the Ming Dynasty.
Hu Guanzhu had no doubts about His Royal Highness the King's assertion that the residents of the New World were descendants of Yin merchants.
After this disparate battle not long ago, Ming Dynasty completely defeated these Yin people.
They showed complete submission to the Ming army, which was like heavenly soldiers.
In order to control these Yin people more effectively, Hu Guanzhu immediately changed the image of these surrendered tribes according to the conquest strategy provided by Zhu Han.
First of all, according to the custom of the Ming Dynasty, men of all tribes that surrendered must learn from Han customs and tie their hair.
Women also pay attention to their personal appearance and no longer expose their armpits and big white legs at every turn.
Secondly, all the Yin tribes that surrendered were all given Han surnames by Hu Guan. For example, the White Buffalo tribe that was the first to defect to the Ming army adopted the surname Bai. The tribe elder Cang Lang was renamed Bai Cang, and the Ming translator Shan Ying was named Bai Cang. White Mountain.
Other tribes adopted the names Hua (there are many flowers near the tribe), Lin (the tribe near the woods), Hu (the tribe near the lake), Niu (the part with many bison), and Jin (the tribe near the tribe) according to their respective characteristics. A large number of gold mines), Gao (tribes living in mountains or highlands), etc.
After gaining the allegiance of these tribes, Hu Guanzhu immediately had a large number of human resources to draw on.
The Ming army not only quickly established three strong fortresses here, but also thoroughly explored the surrounding land and mountains for hundreds of miles.
The more the Ming army explored inland, the more they discovered that this new continent had many benefits.
On this continent, there are wide grasslands and woods everywhere, and there are treasures everywhere that are difficult to see in the Central Plains.
Ming soldiers could often find patches of towering trees.
These big trees require more than a dozen people to hug them, and some can reach dozens of feet in height.
These trees are not only tall, but also straight in shape. If they are used to build palace beams or ships, each big tree can be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver in the Central Plains.
In this new continent, these towering trees are everywhere.
Because the Yin people had backward tools, they simply could not develop these towering trees with only the bone and stone tools in their hands.
In addition to these tall and scary trees, another sight that pleased Hu Guan and the Ming soldiers the most was that the continent was full of fat bison.
These bison in the New World are a special group. Different from the common buffalo or oxen in the Central Plains, their tempers are particularly violent, and even newborn calves are difficult to tame.
For the Yin people who only have stone and wooden tools in their hands, it is really risky and difficult to capture these New World bison.
But to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, these huge herds of bison looked strong and fierce.
But they are all a bunch of silly fools, extremely courageous, and not even afraid of people.
When the soldiers of the Ming army approached with strong bows, crossbows and muskets, these buffalo herds did not even know how to run away.
In the face of sharp swords, guns and firearms, the Ming army captured large numbers of bison.
The number of these prey was so large that the Ming soldiers had beef as their main meal three meals a day.
While Hu Guanzhu was writing a memorandum about the exploration of the New World, the guard came outside the door to announce that dinner was ready.
"What's for lunch today?" Hu Guanzhu walked out of the room and asked the guard next to him.
"Sir, today's lunch is minced beef pancakes with beef soup!" the guard said.
Hu Guan frowned slightly and said, "Damn it, Chef Wang is doing it with beef!"
Calculated according to solar terms, it is now equivalent to a horse
During the twelfth lunar month when the Chinese New Year is about to be celebrated, although the temperature in this part of the New World is not cold, there are not many fresh vegetables to eat.
The potato, corn and wheat seeds brought by the Ming army from the ship were all needed for sowing next year, so naturally they were reluctant to eat them.
The dry food and canned food brought on board were really unpalatable.
Therefore, after the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty got help from the Yin people, they almost ate beef here in the New World.
So much so that Hu Guan, who is such a carnivorous person, now feels a little tired just thinking about all kinds of beef.
"I really get tired of eating meat!"
"We can only wait a little longer. As soon as spring comes next year, we will be here and let the Yin people open up wasteland and farm!"
"When the time comes, these high-yielding crops from our Ming Dynasty will turn this place into a fertile land for thousands of miles!"
Before Hu Guanzhu came to the New World, Zhu Han had already formulated a detailed colonial expansion strategy for him.
The first is to conquer some Yin people for their own use.
Next, the Ming army used the labor force of these Yin people to reclaim land and cultivate food to achieve self-sufficiency, and turned the Yin people who originally hunted and gathered into a fixed farming tribe, allowing them to gradually accept the civilization of the Central Plains.
The productivity of farming society is much higher than that of hunting and gathering. In addition, the Ming army can provide advanced tools and materials, and it will not take long to assimilate these Yin people.
Then, Hu Guanzhu could recruit local soldiers among these assimilated Yin people and continue to expand the control area of the Ming army outwards.
The Yin people in the New World and the Han people in the Central Plains are not very different in appearance.
After educating them culturally, there is no need to worry about betrayal.
After having lunch, Hu Guanzhu summoned several of his generals to discuss the issue of educating these Yin people.
"Sir, I went to see those tribes. There was a lot of gold on the territory they occupied, and everyone in the tribe also had a lot of gold jewelry. I used a few bottles of fruit wine in glass to get this A bag of gold!" A general said with a big grin, then he took out a cloth bag from his arms and fell it on the table with a crash.
I saw a lot of gold jewelry in the cloth bag. Although the gold contained a lot of impurities and the craftsmanship of the jewelry was rough, the shining color made everyone love it.
"The two Jin tribes you went to seem to be well-deserved!"
Hu Guanzhu glanced at the gold on the table and said with a smile.
Since arriving in the New World, although the gold in the hands of the indigenous Yin people is precious to them, it is nothing more than some beautiful decorations. At most, it is used to display when offering sacrifices to the gods.
Any items in the hands of the Ming army are far more valuable than gold to the Yin people in the New World.
