Wild North America 1846

Chapter 48

In the wee hours of the morning, the night is darkening.

The entire Hewan Village has fallen asleep in the night, only a few lights on the walls of the village, reflecting the huge black shadow of the entire camp, like a huge monster entrenched on the side of the river beach.

A vigorous figure approached carefully, then jumped up, put one hand on the wall of the village, and used his strength to climb over the tall wall made of logs, as light as black smoke.

This person was Li Cha, who took advantage of the night to explore the enemy camp alone.

In the night

Li Cha's black starry eyes gradually adapted to the surrounding environment, sneaked into the village under the moonlight, appearing and disappearing from time to time, and it didn't take long for him to see through the entire village.

Hewan Village is not very big. The encirclement of the camp is about half an acre of land. Dozens of houses, stables, and hay sheds have been built.

The randomly built buildings lead to narrow and winding roads, and white bandits can hide in the buildings and fire outside, which is extremely unfavorable for cavalry combat.

There are three fixed sentry posts in the camp, two of which are dozing off at night, and there is also a night inspection team consisting of four people, who will make a circle every half an hour.

see this scene
Li Cha's mind changed, he knew that a hard attack might not be advisable, and he had to find a way to get it.

Although this river bend village is not big, it has quite a large population. It is estimated that there will always be two hundred to several dozen to three hundred people. Moreover, it is located in the middle of the American River, and the population is highly mobile. There are many white gold diggers coming and going. .

Here, I have to admire that the American River is simply a river of gold, with extremely rich gold sand resources. Ordinary gold diggers can get two or three ounces of gold worth sixty or seventy dollars in a hard day, just like picking up money.

After saving for a few days, these white gold diggers would go to Hewan Village to find a woman to have a good time, and then drink and gamble as much as they want, and enjoy it first.

Gold diggers pay their bills with gold sand, and when they run out, they go to the river to pick it. Anyway, there are plenty of them, and no one feels distressed.

Therefore, this is not only the lair of the Alexander Madison gang, but also a veritable gold-selling cave.

Li Cha had already figured out the situation in the village, so he walked out along the dark corner, but he heard the sound of a dog barking not far away, which made his expression tense, and he unconsciously quickened his pace.

The barking of the dog behind him became louder and louder, and Li Cha cursed silently in his heart; let you be rampant for a few days and settle the score together.

He soon came to the wall of the village and jumped up. After stepping on the wooden post with one foot, he raised his body again, and fell into the black wall of the village like a light and big bird.

After about 2 minutes

That's when three dogs, two, one, one, and one, rushed over and barked at the outside of the wall. They seemed to have discovered something?
This attracted the attention of the night inspection team. After they came over and checked it out, they said doubtfully, "The dog is barking so loudly, did you find something?"

"It should be, otherwise the dog wouldn't come from so far, could it be that someone touched it?"

"Improbable, right? The village is such a big place, and we haven't found anything. These dogs are barking outside."

"That's weird!"

Just when everyone was wondering, they suddenly heard the shrill howls of wild wolves coming from outside the wall of the village.This even caused the other dogs in the camp to bark wildly.

For a moment, the quiet night was broken, and the barking of dogs and the howling of wolves refused to give in to each other.

It turned out to be a wild wolf!

The North American gray wolf is a frequent visitor to the western wilderness. Now the patrol team put their hearts back in their stomachs and yelled at the dog to be quiet and stop yelling.

In the dark forest
The two eyes of the wolf's "one ear" are like a small green lantern, revealing a cruel and ruthless animal nature, but under Richard's touch, it enjoys squinting its eyes, like a docile domestic animal generally.

Li Cha conveyed a clear idea to the wolf's "ear" through invisible tentacles;
Don't be idle these few nights, or harass the dogs from time to time, so that everyone can sleep uneasy.

These dogs are hounds raised by hunters. They are very sensitive to the smell of wild animals. When they find the target, they will bark wildly. Only the dog owner can stop them.

the next morning
"One-eyed dragon" Marbury Jones and the little leader of the White Bandit, Tate, each took a few cavalrymen, set off with black eyes, yawning, and kept cursing in their mouths.

The dogs in the camp barked intermittently almost all night, and no one had a good rest.

According to experienced hunters;

A large pack of wild wolves came from outside the camp of Hewan Village. They arrived near the camp in the dark and could not patrol all night. If the wolves were not overly hungry, this situation was extremely rare.

The hunter found a lot of footprints and fresh feces of wild wolves in the bushes around the camp. He initially judged that this was a large pack of fifty or sixty wild wolves, and issued an alarm;
Wait for a small team of three or five people not to go deep into the jungle to avoid being attacked by wolves.

at the same time
The legend about the mysterious oriental being able to control wild wolves also spread quickly, adding a mysterious color to the Tang Dynasty.

near noon
The number of white armed groups entering Hewan Village gradually increased. At around 60 o'clock in the afternoon, the sheriff of the new town, Old John, led more than [-] white gunmen to arrive, including more than a dozen mounted policemen. All-time high.

Not counting the idlers, there were more than 260 white cowboys armed with live ammunition. This was an unprecedentedly powerful force in San Francisco.

But the news brought by Magistrate John made everyone wake up again as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on them.

Later this afternoon, 220 musketeers and more than 50 white cavalry from Fangcaodi arrived one after another from the Datang Society, bringing the strength of the Datang Society to more than 390 people.

Especially the addition of white cavalry from Fangcaodi made the situation more confusing.

hear the news
Old Kahn led a dozen of his nephews and nephews to leave, but was stopped by the "one-eyed dragon" Marbury Jones at the gate of the camp, and the two sides had a fierce quarrel.

"Get out of the way, Jones, you damn bastard deceived me, this is not the war against the Easterners as you said, the Kahn family will not point their guns at Fangcao, never!"

"Don't be silly Kahn, Fangcaodi is now wearing the same pants as those Orientals, they are our enemies."

"Fart, the Kahn family are all devout Protestants, and it is absolutely impossible to start a war with Fangcao, who are also Protestants. There is nothing to say about this, let me get out of the way."

"Damn old thing, you are blatantly fighting against us!"

"Don't play with me, Jones, the Kahn family withdraws from this armed struggle. We remain neutral and will neither help you nor the Tang Dynasty, but I warn you not to mess with me."

"Come and leave when you want, how can it be so easy?"

"Then you can try..."

Both sides drew their guns and glared angrily, seeing that there was going to be a fight at the gate of the camp. At this time, the sheriff John, who was hiding in the crowd watching the excitement, had to stand up and stop the imminent fight between the two sides.

"Wait a minute, don't be impulsive, Jones... Tell your men to put away their guns." Sheriff John walked to the middle of the crowd, separated the two glaring people, and then said to Old Kahn; It's hard for all of us."

Old Kahn is a middle-aged burly man with leopard head and ring eyes. He has a thick beard and hair. He is well-known for his violent temper.

When he saw John coming out to smooth things over, his tone became a little more relaxed, but he still replied firmly; "God testifies, Jones told me that this is a war between whites and Orientals, a war against heathens." .And that’s not the case. So the Kahns opted out.”

"Kahn, you can choose to stay here and wait and see. I guarantee that Alexander Madison will not force you to do anything, just stay here. This will make us look more united and invincible instead of sending out Wrong signal."

"Sorry, I can't do it."

Old Kahn categorically refused. He is the kind of fanatic who has been heavily brainwashed by religion. He has firm beliefs and will never do anything that God hates.

God taught the Puritans to love each other, how could they draw their guns at each other?
Unless his own safety was endangered, the elder Kahn would never allow his nephews to fight with the Protestants, which earned him great prestige among the white gold diggers.

Of course, this does not include Mexicans and Orientals.

Seeing that it was impossible to persuade, Magistrate John had no choice but to give in. He signaled Jones and his group with his eyes to get out of the way and let the old Kahn's family leave.

Although "One-Eyed Dragon" Marbury Jones is 1 unwilling, but the love cannot be kept, otherwise the merger will be inevitable, and they can only get out of the way bitterly.

Old Kahn waved his hand with disdain, and drove away with his nephews. A group of more than a dozen riders went upstream along the river beach and returned to their territory.

(End of this chapter)