Shawshauni?

Li Chengdong asked: "How many people are there in this tribe?"

Zhang Yida said incisively: "How many people cannot know, but they are widely distributed, and there are probably at least millions."

Li Chengdong smiled and said, "No, it's him!"

Like many Indians, the Shoshones mostly lived in scattered areas, scattered among the mountains and forests of North America in small tribes and even families.

As white colonists swallowed the Americas, the living space of Indians was compressed and they gradually had fierce conflicts with whites.

After the Komanches, the descendant of the Shoshones, acquired horses, they evolved into a nomadic civilization in a very short time, which once scared the Spanish colonial authorities.

Although these indigenous people are backward, if they are included in the Han ruling order, with the help of Chinese civilization, they will immediately end their tribal state and evolve into advanced agricultural civilization.

Li Chengdong did not let his subordinates go up to the mountain city, but camped in the bay. Because of the simplicity of conditions, many of his relatives did not land and stayed in the ship warehouse.

After all, there are beds and toilets on the boat, but there is nothing on the shore.

At this time, the results of the battle last night were counted, and a total of 300 people were killed, most of them were natives and black slaves, and more than 700 people were captured, most of them were natives.

When Li Chengdong came over, he brought a lot of craftsmen. He temporarily handed these people over to Zhang Huangyan and asked him to help select a site and build a city.

After inspecting the surrounding terrain, Zhang Huangyan chose to build a city by a large river in the distance. However, considering that the city building project was too large, Zhang Huangyan suggested that only the castle be built to garrison troops, residential areas, and workshops be built outside the castle. After that, if you have financial and manpower, you can build a wall to enclose the city wall.

At this time, Zhang Huangyan organized the people and some prisoners built the city for Li Chengdong, while Li Chengdong gathered his subordinates together.

One thousand soldiers from Penglai Kingdom and three hundred and thirty men from Xincheng vassal who had changed their equipment formed a coalition of more than 1,300 people.

After Li Chengdong and Zhang Yida discussed, the coalition forces were divided into four departments, each with 333 people.

Li Chengdong left a division and stood firm in the camp, and the remaining three divisions marched to the east, southeast, and south.

Their location is in Vancouver Bay. To the north is too cold, with few natives. To the west is the sea, so they can only search for native tribes in the east, southeast and south.

Because the soldiers of Penglai Kingdom were not familiar with the terrain and the situation in Dongzhou, the three departments that set out to search for were mixed with men from Xinchengfan.

The native civilization was backward, and the productivity of the tribe was not enough to support thousands of people and tens of thousands of people gathered to live, so the departments also acted in dispersed ways.

The soldiers of Penglai Kingdom were all wearing well-designed plate armor, iron helmets, ghost faces, and only two eyes were exposed on their bodies. They held muskets in their hands, grenades on their chests, and short axes, battle knives, ropes, and kettles on their waists. They were equipped with extremely well-equipped.

This equipment, even Zhao Ming's guard, was not equipped, and was given all of it to Li Chengdong, which was conscience.

After seizing the Spaniard's equipment, the men in Xinchengfan also replaced the cannons with their bird guns. They wore not very fitting plate armor, held muskets, and armed their teeth.

Li Chengdong immediately ordered the troops to divide into three groups to explore.

The two generals led 300 people to advance south and southeast respectively, checked the traces of the Spaniards, and conquered the tribes along the way.

Li Chengdong and Ruan Jin led another team of troops to march westward to attack the Xiaoxiaoni people's nest.

Although the Shawshauni people live in a relatively scattered manner, they have formed a social structure similar to tribal alliances. The entire Shawshauni people are widely distributed, with traces of them from the coast to the east to the Great Lakes.

With such a broad range, it is difficult to establish close relationships and ruling systems with the level of civilization of the Xiaoxiaoni people, so they are divided into twelve large surnames and distributed in different regions.

The Shoshones near Vancouver are also scattered, but they belong to the same surname and obey the orders of a tribe of more than 2,000 people in the western foothills of the mountains.

If Penglai Kingdom wants to conquer the Xiaoxiaoni people in the territory and liberate them from primitive society, it must first destroy their original chiefs and social system, so as not to lead the territorials and refuse to embrace civilization.

In March, a team of nearly a hundred people, waving branches, shuttled through the jungle. They were wearing iron armor, the bayonets on the muskets were flashing coldly, and the air conditioning was rushing.

At this time, Li Chengdong, Ruan Jin and others crawled out of the woods one after another, and the soldiers behind them slowly gathered.

In front of everyone was a valley, with low earthen houses everywhere, and some corn and sweet potatoes were planted in the valley.

Li Chengdong stood on the ground with a musket and looked at the indigenous tribe in front of him. His eyes were bright, shining with light, and his heart was undulating.

This scene was included in a historical biography book "When the Stars of the Ming Dynasty shine", hundreds of years later, and became a classic scene.

Li Chengdong and Ruan Jin, who had been walking through the jungle for a long time, waved their hand and walked towards the valley with a hundred soldiers.

"Jili Gulu" a verb came, and some native soldiers stepped forward to stop them.

"Bang bang bang" musket sounded, white smoke came from the muzzle, and the native warrior fell to the ground on his back.

"Run!" The moment the gun was fired, Li Chengdong and others roared, and a hundred soldiers raised their muskets and rushed towards the valley.

In the valley, native tribes are conducting bloody human sacrifices to pray for good weather and the protection of gods.

The priest saw a group of alien soldiers shooting the stopped soldiers to death. The native women around him screamed loudly, and the crowd scattered in panic.

At this time, the tribe chief led hundreds of warriors, with bows and arrows and darts, to stop them.

These soldiers were very brave, but their weapons were too simple, and the arrows and spearheads were polished with obsidian, so they could not shoot through the soldiers' plate armor.

In front of the natives, the soldiers of Penglai and Xincheng were as if they were invulnerable to swords and guns.

More than 1,000 Spanish troops could defeat more than 100,000 troops of the Aztec Empire. It was not that Spain was too strong, but that the weapons of the Aztecs were too bad.

Li Chengdong led the soldiers to draw out his weapons and slowly met these thin and fierce locals who were so fierce that they were so murderous.

"Kill me!" Li Chengdong shouted.

The muskets were fired, and the soldiers rushed into the indigenous crowd, with swords splitting, bayonets sprinted, and blood splattered. In less than a quarter of an hour, there were no natives standing in the valley.

The tribe of two thousand people, chieftains and priests were all cut to death, and none of the rebellious soldiers could stand, while the remaining natives squatted in the corner and shivered.

In Vancouver Bay, Penglai City had already begun to take the outline. The soldiers of various units took the prisoners back to the camp, took a short rest, and set off again.

In one month, more than 20,000 native prisoners had already been involved in Vancouver Bay, building cities, houses, and opening up fields. They gradually had enough manpower.

When Li Chengdong returned to the camp, he saw the castle rising from the ground. He was very happy. While distributing the captured native women to the soldiers as concubines to stabilize the morale of the army, he also asked Zhang Huangyan to build a fort to strengthen the defense of Vancouver Bay.

When Li Chengdong was working hard in Vancouver, the defeated Spanish army had already fled back to Mexico City.

The Spanish governor felt great shame for his defeat. His grandfather once formulated a plan to conquer the Ming Dynasty with 20,000 people, but he did not even capture a small Chinese city.

This result made the Governor unacceptable, and he was determined to regroup and mobilize more troops to destroy the Chinese in the Americas.
Chapter completed!