1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 89 [You are late]

Sleeping Bear City has fully popularized rifles. Although bows and arrows are often carried, they are only used as spare weapons and are only used in a few cases.

In contrast, only a few people in the Allied Forces of the Three Races used firearms, and most of them were smoothbore guns, whose range and accuracy were not as good as rifled guns.

Therefore, in just the first round of attack, the dense rain of bullets gave them a blow, and the formation became chaotic.

At the same time, the prairie wolves and the cavalry who looked alone quickly outflanked them on both sides.

Of course, the coalition forces of the three races also knew that they had to guard against outflanking, so they managed to separate some soldiers in time, about three to four hundred people, and intercepted the Sleeping Bear cavalry from left and right.

"Fire!" Prairie Wolf and Du Wang yelled almost at the same time, and the Sleeping Bear cavalry raised their rifles one after another, aiming and shooting.

"Bang bang bang!"

Two hundred bullets temporarily prevented the interception of the coalition forces of the three races.

Immediately afterwards, the Sleeping Bear Cavalry hung the finished rifle on the side of the horse, and then took out the Colt revolver and held it in his hand.

This is the plan designed by the horse post. All professional soldiers will be equipped with at least two guns, one rifle, and one revolver, and officers will be equipped with at least two pistols.

The rifle is responsible for long-distance shooting. In the charge battle, it can be put down after a round of shooting. After all, there is no time to reload ammunition while charging on horseback.

After reaching the medium and short distances, it is the rain of bullets from the revolver, which pours ammunition in a very short time and violently hits the enemy.

This is exactly what the two cavalry teams did, and after a round of shooting, revolvers in hand, advanced at full speed along the outflanking line.

The coalition forces of the three clans were already struggling to deal with the shooting in Sleeping Bear City, and they had no time to intercept them, so they barely gathered their formation.

So soon the two teams of cavalry successfully circled to the rear of the enemy, and immediately launched a charge, rushing towards the enemy from the rear.

"Bang bang bang-"

What followed was the rain of bullets from the revolver, and the enemies standing in the front fell instantly, and the screams were endless.

"Thick shoulders, attack with me!" Witnessing this scene through the binoculars, the horse whistle immediately ordered the soldiers in the city to go out of the city to meet them, and flanked the coalition forces of the three clans with two hundred cavalry.

What happened next was no surprise.

Faced with the comprehensive crushing of equipment, combat quality, and formation, the coalition forces of the three races had little power to fight back.

"Surrender without killing!"

"lay down your weapon!"

As a necessary foreign language knowledge for professional soldiers, the three languages ​​of Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Comanche resounded on the battlefield.

The allied forces of the three clans, whose defeat was already decided, could only surrender. Nearly a thousand people became prisoners, and the rest were corpses, as well as a few clever ghosts who escaped from the battlefield in time.

The leaders of the coalition forces, several great chiefs and war chiefs, were escorted to the horse post.

They all looked in a state of embarrassment, with ragged clothes, disheveled faces, and blood stains on their bodies, and the leader among them was the broken bow of Arapaho.

The horse whistle looked at Broken Bow, and said slowly: "Chief Broken Bow, I heard that you like war, and I thought you were a good fighter."

Duan Gong immediately blushed when he heard the words, and the veins on his forehead burst out: "You can cut off my scalp, but you can't insult me!"

"Insult? Am I not telling the truth?" Ma Whistle snorted, "Look at these corpses on the ground, how many Arapaho youths have paid with their lives for your stupid, selfish desire for war?"

Rainy Day, who was the interpreter, deliberately said this sentence aloud, so that the other Arapaho prisoners could hear it.

"We shouldn't be here..."

"If we had known this, we should have followed the crow's advice."

"Yeah, the crow is right, we are not the opponents of the Apaches, at least not the opponents of Sleeping Bear."

"It's all because of the broken bow, my brother died in battle!" Some voices of discussion sounded among the Arapaho prisoners.

After Duan Gong heard this, he couldn't help feeling extremely humiliated, and his body trembled slightly: "Apaches, Arapahos will never submit to you, kill me!"

"Yes, I will kill you." Horse Post announced his death sentence, "but not now, you will be tried by the law, and then executed by me as a war criminal."

"And I won't scalp you, the Sleeping Bear has abolished this tradition."

In addition to these leaders, there was another person who was escorted in front of the horse post, but it was the square face who betrayed Sleeping Bear.

Ma Shao wanted to have a few words with Fang Face, but this guy seemed to be crazy and scolded him non-stop, so he was gagged.

In the end, he didn't say anything, and instead of looking at the people who were about to be judged, he turned his head and said, "Put all the captives together, build a shed for them to keep out the rain, and don't abuse them."

"Yes." The soldiers went to arrange the prisoners.

"What are you going to do with so many prisoners?" Rain asked.

"Treat them first." Horse Whistle said, "Our soldiers have almost no casualties, but they have many wounded, and the shaman has to be busy for a while."

"What about after that?" Rain asked again, "I guess you won't let them go back."

Ma Shao smiled: "Of course, there was no way to let them go back last time. Now it's different, we can keep them and let them reclaim farmland and build buildings."

"During this period, you remember to lead the shaman to preach to these captives, change their minds, and encourage them to call their families and settle in Sleeping Bear."

"As long as these captives let go of their hostility and settle down in Sleeping Bear City with their families, we can give them free status and let them become ordinary residents."

Yu Tian nodded, and suddenly his eyes focused, pointing forward: "That's—"

The horse whistle also looked up, and a group of figures appeared at the end of the field of vision, rushing here at full speed.

He quickly picked up the binoculars to take a look, but soon he was relieved.

"It's the Chiricahua tribe."

It was the Chiricahua tribe of Apache, the tribe of the oak, who had apparently come to aid Sleeping Bear.

"Long time no see, Great Chief Oak." Horse Whistle went to greet him and said with a smile.

Chief Oak looked around in surprise. It was obvious that a battle had just taken place here, but Ma Shao and the others looked calm, as if nothing had happened.

"I heard that the Comanches came to attack Sleeping Bear, so I brought some soldiers to help you, but this...is the battle over?" he couldn't help asking.

Ma Shuo nodded: "Yes, you are late. If we had been a little earlier, we would have been able to fight side by side."

Great Chief Oak came back to his senses and smiled awkwardly: "Haha, it doesn't matter if I come or not. Those Comanches are no match for you at all."

"Since we're here, let's rest in Sleeping Bear for a few days." Horse Whistle said, "Tomorrow we will hold a trial."

"Judgment?" Oak frowned.

(End of this chapter)