Chapter 179

They were really scared. When Gao Niu came out, his hands were shaking.

The American alligator, that is, the Miho crocodile, is not for fun. Although the Miho crocodile is not as big as the Nile crocodile, the six Miho crocodiles are generally about five meters in size.

Later Du Niang said that the largest size of the Mihe crocodile can only grow to about five meters, that is because the living environment of the later Mihe crocodile is not the same as now.

Today's North American continent, especially the Mississippi River, is no different from the wild. Few crocodiles here are specially hunted. Unlike later generations, even such ferocious creatures as crocodiles can be hunted by human beings.

In this era, crocodiles, like bears and wolves, are at the top of the food chain.

Even in some sense, this kind of crocodile living near the river is more terrible than bears and wolves.

In this age, soldiers with muskets can deal with bears and wolves. A bear may not be killed with one shot, but even a brown bear can't stand it with ten or eight shots.

As for the wolves, as long as the right shot, one shot can bring down a wolf.

But Mihe crocodile is not good. If we compare brown bears and black bears to Berserks and wolves to light cavalry, then the Mihe crocodile is a heavy cavalry, or a heavy cavalry with overweight armor.

Crocodile is not only ferocious, a big mouth can be called invincible, this kind of animal's vitality is also quite tenacious. Unlike mammals, which have evolved brains, crocodiles do not have brains, so their nervous system is not so developed. Even if they are severely damaged, they can still fight to death by instinct, which can be regarded as a typical example of immortality.

The most important thing is that it is difficult to kill the Mihe crocodile in a short time as long as it is not shot in the head. Stone bear has seen many crocodile hunting videos in his previous life, in which rifles and even sniper guns are used to hunt crocodiles. As a result, even rifles and sniper guns are hard to kill a crocodile without directly shooting its head.

This is what happened to Gao Niu. Forty rifles opened fire in turn, but it was useless. On the contrary, it stimulated the ferocity of these beasts. If the Bobcats hadn't lit a lot of bonfires in a short time, at least half of Gao Niu's group would have been the food of the six crocodiles.

These crocodiles won't eat them all, but it's certain to kill them.

It can be said that if it wasn't for the stone bear's big bow, which is as powerful as a sniper gun, Gao Niu, they really wouldn't last long.

They were just as scared as Gao Niu and the French.

As residents living near the Mihe River, these Frenchmen can see the ferocity of the Mihe crocodile all the year round. The French know more about the dangers of these crocodiles than they do.

And they know very well that once they can't resist Gao Niu, then these native Indians will not hesitate to throw out their captives as bait, and then they will easily retreat.

I really don't run as fast as a lion, but I just need to run faster than you

Nima, we're all tied up. Even if we run faster than bolt bolt, how can we be a loser?

Therefore, Armand and they also picked up a life.

"Stone, it's a good time for you to come. If you come a little later, we'll have to tell you here." Gao Niu kicked a crocodile lying on the ground in shock and said, big stone is the baby name of the stone bear. Gao Niu is the uncle of the stone bear, so he can call it.

"Uncle, I wish you were OK. No casualties, right? "

Gao Niu shook his head and then looked at the French prisoners. "Our people are OK, but there are two Frenchmen who are about to lose their legs by crocodiles. I'm afraid they can't hold on."

Stone bear walked over and saw two French soldiers lying on the ground. One left leg was missing from the half of his thigh, and the other was missing from his left knee. And their wounds were uneven, apparently bitten by the crocodiles.

Although the bite force of the Miho crocodile is not as terrible as that of the Nile crocodile, which can reach 2500 pounds, the bite force of the largest crocodile in the Western Hemisphere is also quite terrible. When the upper lip of a Mihe crocodile touches the lower lip, that's 2200 pounds of bite force. A human leg under their sharp teeth is no different from a human biting a ham sausage.

Although the two soldiers are still alive, they are no longer saved. Bleeding alone can kill them.

The stone bear shook his head slightly, turned and came back to ask Gao Niu: "uncle, how did these crocodiles get out? At this time, they are still hibernating. How can they attack you? "

Crocodiles will hibernate, and like the Mihe crocodiles living in this area, they usually hibernate until March or even April. Although it's almost February now, it's at least one and a half months before these crocodiles wake up from hibernation.

Gao Niu shook his head and said, "I don't know what's going on. It's estimated that when we got off the boat and walked into the dense forest, the team just passed through the crocodile holes where these crocodiles hibernated. Then our footsteps woke them up, and these crocodiles would chase each other."

After a pause, Gao Niu turned to look at the two French soldiers who had no voice and said in a low voice, "these two French soldiers are walking in the middle, but two crocodiles come out so cold, and then bite them one by one. But thanks to the discovery of these six crocodiles by these two Frenchmen, we can slowly retreat here. "

Stone bear nodded, in his estimation is also such a result. This kind of hibernating crocodile is usually very difficult to wake up, but it can't stand Gao Niu. There are too many of them, nearly a hundred people. It's strange that these crocodiles don't wake up when they come here with such a boom.

Not only do people get up, but the crocodiles also get up. In addition, they have just hibernated for several months and are starving. Suddenly, there are so many bipedal monsters. If these crocodiles don't chase them, they are sorry for their reputation.

The French can only say that their lives are not good, and no one can save them in this situation.

"Come on, uncle. Let's get on the boat." Stone bear just a little ponder, issued the order to board the ship.

Gao Niu asked in a low voice, "stone, what's the harvest like this time?"

The stone bear smiles and whispers: "uncle, the harvest of going to okron fortress this time has greatly exceeded our expectation. You will see our harvest in a moment."

Gao Niu lowered his voice again and asked, "what about these guys?"

Stone bear smell speech Leng for a while, then looked at these bound hands and feet of French prisoners, eyes flashed a fierce light.

As Shi Xiong's uncle, Gao Niu is very keen to catch the fierce light in his nephew's eyes.

So Gao Niu pulled the stone bear aside impolitely and said in a low voice, "these people can't stay. It's a disaster to stay!"

The stone bear nodded slightly.

Although Shi Xiong wants to be a man who keeps his promise, he knows that he can only keep his promise to his own people or allies, but it is definitely not these franceans.

First of all, the stone bear didn't like the French at all.

It has been more than three months since he came to this world, and the stone bear has brought himself into this world completely. Although he occasionally thinks of his parents and friends in previous lives, reality is reality, and it's useless to miss them any more. So he's completely taken himself for an Indian Cherokee.

In this era and in the next hundred years, the killing of the North American Indians by the French was no less than that of the Americans. Especially after the independence war, the Americans were greatly hurt because of the just ended war of independence, and so were the British across the ocean. So, while the Americans can't move westward and the British have no time to worry about the new world, the Frenchmen, who have been occupying both sides of the Mihe River, can be regarded as a good Wanton.

Because in the final stage of the war of independence, it was the French who cooperated with the Americans to defeat the British, and the United States after the war of independence was far from being able to compare with the powerful France, so the French began to make a lot of money in the North American mainland when the Americans and the British were weak.

They not only collected money, but also slaughtered the local aborigines crazily. There were more than 100000 Indian aborigines who died in the hands of the French!

Although this number is far less than the number of Indians slaughtered by the Americans, it is undeniable that the hands of the franceans are also covered with the blood of the Indians.

This is the first reason why stone bear is not happy with the French.

As for the second reason, that is, the present franceans are in collusion with the chekasa people.

On the premise that there was no conflict between the gaoshu tribe and the French, Armand dared to encourage Constantine and the chekasa to attack the gaoshu tribe on their own initiative, which they could not forgive.

Of course, there is a third and most important reason.

Since the stone bear came to this era, it has been planning how to make the tall tree tribe stand on the top of North America. In order to achieve this goal, the vast central and western regions must not let go. Not to mention the rich natural resources of the central and western regions, the population of the central and western regions alone has long been coveted by stone bears.

Therefore, when the gaoshu tribe became strong in the eastern part of the North American continent, it was bound to expand westward. The Frenchmen, who occupied both sides of the Mihe River, were a smelly and hard block in the westward March of the gaoshu tribe.

This stone has to be moved, which was planned by the stone bear. Therefore, these soldiers must not be put back. After all, these captured French soldiers are serious veterans. If one of these veterans is put back, it may be possible to kill several soldiers when the gaoshu tribe moves westward.

Therefore, the stone bear will never let go of the things that can weaken the strength of the French.

"Uncle, these people can't let go!" Stone Bear looked at Gao Niu and said in a low voice.

Gao Niu also nodded. He didn't like the Frenchman who was colluding with the chekasa.

Gao Niu whispered again, "let me do this. After all, many people in the tribe have heard your promise to the franceans. If you give orders to kill them, it will affect your prestige. I'll do the right thing for you. "

The stone bear smiles and shakes his head: "uncle, I'd better give the order! I know that the people in the tribe don't like these Frenchmen either. After all, if it wasn't for them, they would destroy us. Even if I once promised to give them a chance to live in front of the people of France, I guess those franceans should take this promise seriously! Anyway, I don't think the ethnic group will take it seriously. "

Hearing this, Gao Niu laughed happily.

He understood what his nephew said. After all, Gao Niu was also a tribal leader. Although he didn't know the saying "benevolence doesn't control the army, righteousness doesn't control the wealth", he still understood the same truth very well.

It is now a battle between the tribe and the franceans. During the battle, all promises, conditions and reasons are blind. The only truth is who has the biggest fist. All the promises and conditions made during the war were for the sake of war.

In fact, in this matter, whether it's Shi Xiong, Li Lei or Gao Niu, they can be regarded not only as military leaders, but also as politicians.

There is a very popular but reasonable saying in later generations - I would rather believe that there are ghosts in the world than that of politicians!

There is another sentence - politicians can be trusted, sows can go up trees!

So in this case, even if the stone bear broke his promise, no one would say anything else. Even those franceans can't say anything else. Who can blame for their inferior skills?

The stone bear and Gao Niu returned to the soldiers, and as the team got closer to the four armed transport ships, the fransies couldn't help smiling.

Although two companions were killed by crocodiles just now, as long as they can get on the boat, they will be able to go back to okron fortress.

Even Armand's eyes twinkled with longing.

But unfortunately, about 50 meters away from the four ships, the stone bear gave the order: "tie all these franceans to trees, they can't get on the ship."

The soldiers of the tribe immediately carried out this task without hesitation. All the Frenchmen with confused circles on their faces were trapped in the trees, because there were not many big trees near the bank, and some trees had three or four people tied up at once.

Major Armand snapped, "guardian, what are you doing here? Don't you promise to let us go as long as the ransom arrives? "

Captain pieno also asked aloud: "guardian, you have already obtained the excess ransom in Fortress okron. Can't you let us go with so many supplies? You promised not to kill us, did you

The stone bear said with a smile, "of course I will keep my promise not to kill you, but I didn't say that I would take you to Fort okron by boat. You wait patiently here. When our fleet is far away, I'll send someone to ride a horse to inform the people of the fortress that they will come back to rescue you! "

Stone bear's words let Armand they slightly put down their heart.

But is that really the case?