Chapter 171

"It's about ten miles from Fort okron. Turn the corner and you'll see Fort okron." Major Armand said faintly.

Since the river began to widen, he was lifted out of the cabin by the stone bear and stood in the bow with the stone bear to endure the cold north wind.

Major Armand's role is to tell the location of the stone bear fleet in time.

Of course, it's impossible for the fleet to take all the captives to okron fortress. It's definitely a death hunt, even if the soldiers of the gaoshu tribe have more than 100 muskets and ship borne guns.

Fortress okron is the first military fortress on the Ohio River, and the defense is extremely tight. According to major Armand's confession, there are more than 200 soldiers stationed in the fortress at ordinary times. This time, although he went out to attack the gaoshu tribe and took away 100 gunmen, there are still more than 100 soldiers in the fortress. Moreover, the French living in the fortress are not good at it. They don't have the status of soldiers, but their courage to cross the Atlantic to the new world is enough to prove their bravery.

These people are usually civilians, but once they pick up the gun, then they are even more fierce than the French soldiers!

The most important thing is that the fortress is built on the top of a hill. Although the area is small, there are four 24 pound guns in the fortress, that is, 155mm wallier fortress guns.

Although this kind of Fortress cannons can't fire the blooming bullet, the 24 pound fortress cannons have a range of nearly 3000 meters. Although the shot is not much bigger than a big apple, if this kind of cannonball hits, the inland river military transport ship they are riding on will be in danger of capsizing.

This kind of Fortress gun can easily pierce this ship!

In a military fortress garrisoned by four fortress guns, such a fortress can hardly be defeated without the active attack of a thousand or eight hundred people and large caliber infantry guns.

So Shi Xiong doesn't even think about taking this fortress.

What are you doing with this fortress? It's a long way from the Cherokee stronghold, surrounded by Indians from other tribes. What's the use of taking this fortress?

Is it necessary to send someone to guard?

If someone were stationed, there must be such a person in the Cherokee people. But the question is what to do if you want to garrison the fortress outside the Cherokee territory?

Do you expect the Indians of other tribes around you to take the initiative to supply you?

Wake up, that's not what dreams do

This kind of fortress is a chicken rib for the Cherokee people. At least it's a chicken rib for the stone bear now.

Therefore, the stone bear has no other requirements when he comes to okron fortress this time. It's OK to safely pull the food back to the tribe.

But it's not so easy to get the food safely. At least major chretian Armand, the supreme commander of Fort okron, can't put him back first.

Who knows what this guy thinks. What if this guy goes back to the fort and he doesn't care about the rest of them?

After all, in the eyes of these officers, the lives of these soldiers can not be compared with more than 20000 pounds of food.

Soldiers die when they die. The big deal is that they are killed when they are attacked by native Indians. But it's hard to explain if so much food is gone, and without food, the stability of the whole okron fort will be greatly affected.

So the stone bear can be sure that if major Armand is put back to raise food first, this guy will give up the rest of the prisoners.

Therefore, after determining the distance from okron fortress, the stone bear ordered the fleet to dock.

When the fleet landed, all the prisoners were driven off the ship and shivered in the cold wind. They were guarded by 40 soldiers of gaoshu tribe, who were wrapped in thick animal skins, armed with guns and steel knives.

The stone bear didn't worry about the prisoners running away, because after they got off the ship, they not only tied their hands back, but also tied their feet with thick rope. The length of the rope was only enough for the prisoners to walk no more than 30 cm.

Moreover, a rope was put on the necks of these prisoners. A long rope was worn on the rope. This long rope connected all the prisoners together. If anyone wanted to run, they would either break the rope first or they would run together.

Only sixty of the men who sailed and captain pieno, major Armand's adjutant, were left in the fleet.

Yes, the person in charge of raising food at Fort okron this time is captain pieno.

Both major Armand and captain Constantine remained here. Under the pressure of major Armand, Captain pieno did not dare to abandon his immediate superior. The most important thing is that through interrogation, Shi Xiong has long known that captain pieno's position in okron fortress is very high. He is mainly responsible for logistics at ordinary times, and the food storage in the fortress is handled by him.

With him, the stone bear believes that the food in Fort okron can be easily collected.

When the captives are under guard, the stone bear leads the fleet and escorts captain pieno on his way.

Sure enough, after turning the big bend in front of me, the river in front of me became wider, and in the distance, I could see a wider river.

The stone bear knew that the wider river was the Ohio River. The fiery Tennessee River flows into the Ohio River near Fort okron, then the two rivers merge and flow downstream for about 60 kilometers before finally flowing into the Mississippi River, the largest river in North America.

At this time, both sides of the Tennessee River are mostly flat areas, but occasionally you can see a few hills.

To the west of the confluence of the two rivers, there is a small hill about thirty or forty meters high. On the top of the hill stands a castle which is not tall but strong.

Even if there are several miles apart, the stone bear can still feel the firmness of the castle.

The hill is surrounded by water on both sides, the broad Ohio River in the north and the Tennessee River in the East. With these two natural moats, it is almost impossible for the enemy to attack from these two directions.

In the West and south, there are large marshes, which also prevent the possibility of large-scale enemy attacks.

It is indeed a military fortress meticulously built by the French. With this degree of firmness and this almost inextricable terrain, such a military fortress is almost indestructible.

This fortress makes stone bear itch.

The fleet slowly went down the river. About two kilometers away from Fort okron, a big river flowed into the Tennessee River. The stone bear knew that the river was the Cumberland River.

The Cumberland River originates in the Cumberland Highlands, northwest of Knoxville, which is known as the "Great South Fork" in the Cherokee language.

Seeing the river, the stone bear suddenly realized how the chekasa people had bypassed the big Nancha and attacked the longmaoniu tribe.

It is almost impossible to bypass the Great South Fork by land. Although the Great South fork is not as high as Dawu Mountain, its height is not small. The most important thing is that the width of the Great South fork is very wide. If you want to cross the Great South Fork, you can't cross this large mountain unless you go through some key passes.

There are Cherokee tribes near the key pass in the Great South Fork, so there is only one way for the Cherokee people to cross the Great South Fork and enter the hinterland of the Cherokee people unconsciously - up the Cumberland River!

Because the Cumberland River originates in the hinterland of the Great South fork. Although the upper reaches of the Cumberland River can't run large boats, small sampans or canoes are absolutely no problem. Even a small sampan or canoe can't drive. It's always OK to walk along the valley.

If it wasn't for the Cumberland River, which flows into the Tennessee River, the stone bear couldn't figure out how the chekasa warriors got around the big south fork.

Now he finally figured it out.

Later, the Cumberland River also flowed into the Ohio River, and it was only ten kilometers away from the Tennessee River to Ohio.

Now, however, the Cumberland River does not flow into the Ohio River, but directly into the Tennessee River, and then into the Ohio River. What's more, the place where the Tennessee River and Ohio River meet now is not in the later padiaca, but about ten kilometers east of padiaca.

Later generations of Americans built the famous Kentucky dam at the most downstream of the Tennessee River, and then created Lake Kentucky, one of the largest artificial lakes on the planet.

The Kentucky dam intercepts the main course of the Tennessee River and forms Lake Kentucky upstream of the dam. And just three kilometers straight from the Kentucky dam, the Americans built the Buckley dam, which stopped the Cumberland River and formed Buckley Lake in the upstream area of the Buckley dam.

Between the two large-scale artificial reservoirs is a piece of land about 10 kilometers wide and more than 60 kilometers long, which was later designated as "land in the Lake National Forest Park" by the Americans.

Because of the interception of the Kentucky dam and the Buckley dam, the local topography has changed greatly, and even the estuaries of the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River have changed greatly.

But in this era, there is no Kentucky dam, no Barkley dam, no Kentucky Lake and Barkley lake, only the broad river where the two rivers meet and the marshes on both sides of the river

This is absolutely a pure wilderness of original ecology!

Standing in the bow of the ship, the stone bear can't help sighing the changes that technology has brought to the world. If we didn't see it with our own eyes, who would have thought that in the next 200 years, this arrogant and uninhibited wilderness and these two raging rivers would be perfectly obeyed by human beings by means of science and technology?

Seeing the most majestic man standing in the bow silent, Captain pieno carefully gathered up and asked in a low voice: "guardian, do you have anything else to explain? I'm afraid there's something missing, so... "

The stone bear turned his head and looked at the captain with a disorderly beard. He said with a smile, "Captain pieno, you don't have to be so nervous. I have told you all that I should say. You should also remember what I taught you. So don't be nervous now, especially when you get to the fortress later, or your expression will spoil the whole thing. "

"Yes, yes, guardian, I will not be nervous."

Stone bear nodded, "Captain pieno, you really don't have to be so nervous. I won't take your life, otherwise I won't bring you here. I can kill you in the tribe."

"Yes, yes!" Pieno is a kowtow.

"You have a wrong attitude. Don't forget, you're a captain of Fort okron. You're second only to major Armand in the whole of Fort okron. And we are aborigines. You can't show such an attitude when you get to the fortress. You have to show your pride. Yes, raise your head and look 45 degrees above the slope... "

For the captain, Shi Xiong was helpless. No wonder this guy is older than major Armand, and his seniority is older than Armand, but his rank is not as high as Armand.

During the interrogation of Constantine, the stone bear knew that captain pieno was a cautious guy. He was very steady in his work, but it also restricted his development in the French army.

According to Constantine, this guy was promoted to captain when he came to the new world five years ago, but after five years, he was still a captain.

That's enough to say that pieno didn't do well in Fort okron. If major Armand hadn't watched him do steady work and had a tight mouth, he would not have been allowed to be his own adjutant, let alone manage the logistics of the fortress.

But this also just let the stone bear find the best guide to enter the fortress.

This captain pieno is very cautious, and this kind of character usually means that he is greedy for life and afraid of death.

Sure enough, as soon as the stone bear threatened him before he came, the captain immediately agreed to play a play with them.

This kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, the stone bear is the most assured. If it is replaced by Armand or Constantine, the stone bear will not dare to use them to act.

The stone bear just threw a flying axe in front of pieno, and told him that "I can kill a bison with a flying axe within 30 meters." after that, Captain pieno was completely honest.

He was very clear that what the big man said was true. He saw the flying axe which was thrown 30 meters away and finally split into the tree trunk. He tried to pull it out himself, but it was like shaking a tree. He couldn't pull out the flying axe which was deep into the tree trunk.

How powerful is the big man throwing the flying axe?

If such a flying axe were to be split on himself, would it be necessary to split himself thoroughly?

Pieno is holding such an idea and dare not disobey any orders of the big man