Chapter 402

After a worried night, the next day, accompanied by a group of tribal soldiers, a black and thin aborigine walked into the stone house, and then made a correction to Felisa's broken nose bone without expression.

The guy's action was so fierce that Felisa's sore voice was hoarse, but the black and thin guy was not moved at all. In the end, the guy said something when he left, but unfortunately, the only French who knew Cherokee was frozen to death on the road. Felisa, they didn't know what the guy was talking about.

However, the actions of these aborigines also let Felisa completely relax. After all, these aborigines can treat the major's nose and bring them food. Although they are made of the roughest corn flour, it is enough to show that the aboriginal tribe has no intention of killing them.

Otherwise, they would not do these things. They would be locked up in these three stone houses and starved to death.

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"Big bear, I think those vasichu should have bad intentions. I can feel that. But they seem to be scared out of their wits. If you hang them for a few more days and give them some quantity, these guys will collapse. " In the stone bear's room, Bobcat said with a rare smile.

The thin black man who gave Felix a nose was naturally a bobcat. As a member of the longhair cattle tribe, a man who grew up with stone bears, and one of the most admired people, he never changed his name for stone bears. SM only calls stone bear as guardian in public, but in private, he calls stone bear the name of big bear in longmaoniu tribe.

SM has the right to call stone bear that.

"Uncle SM, thank you so much. Since you have this judgment, do as you say. Let those vasichu recover their strength today, and take them to the other side of xiaoyanshan to mine raw salt tomorrow. " Then the stone bear stood up and went to the window. Looking at the falling snow outside, he said with some distress, "it's always snowing like this. It's estimated that the horses prepared by Colonel Jones can't get in. The cost of raising these 500 horses, especially in winter, is very high... Alas, man is not as good as God. "

Felisa and the Spaniards were just a small accident, and the stone bear didn't care at all. Let alone the Spaniards far away, even if a group of British people want to covet the catapult, in this kind of weather, it is the result of no return. The stone bear will definitely kill them in the wilderness.

This kind of weapon will not appear in front of Europeans until it is necessary.

Now the stone bear is more worried about the horses brought by Colonel Jones.

Some time ago, Colonel Jones sent someone to gaoshu tribe to send a message. He said that the horses had been assembled and were ready to send someone to deliver them. As a result, the messenger just walked for a few days, and it began to snow here.

In such weather, those war horses can't be sent.

If there are dozens of horses, the stone bear will not worry. But with a total of 500 horses, it's hard for the stone bear not to worry.

As the stone bear worried, in this era, the cost of raising a war horse is extremely high. The cost of raising war horses in a year is even higher than the value of war horses themselves. If Colonel Jones keeps five hundred horses for a winter, he will be bankrupt.

Although the gaoshu tribe now has hundreds of domesticated bison, it has no pressure to raise them, because under the guidance of the stone bear, the gaoshu tribe has long used silage.

Although Jamestown is not too far away from gaoshu tribe, there is no silage technology there now.

Although silage technology originated in ancient Egypt, it was not until the end of the 18th century that Europe got this technology. Moreover, the production technology of silage was first introduced into the new world of North America by the Nordic people, and then from the new world to the United Kingdom.

In other words, Colonel Jones should not be able to use and make silage now. Without this kind of feed, raising such a large number of war horses in winter would make the Colonel Jones bankrupt.

"Don't worry, Colonel Jones will keep these horses for you. He doesn't want our old rifles. It's a big deal. We'll just give him one or two hundred more guns when we make the deal. "

The stone bear shook his head and said, "we can't place our hopes on others. Uncle SM, you know these horses are very important to us. At least half of our future depends on these horses, so we can't take them lightly. "

"Then why don't I go Asked the bobcat after thinking.

"Can we go in this weather?" Stone bear asked with a worried frown.

"It shouldn't be a big problem." Bobcat said, "we can walk along the Bank of the big bend, which has plenty of water, high temperature and less snow. Besides, the more you go eastward, the smaller the snow will be. The Appalachian Mountains block the cold wind from the north. As long as you get out of this mountain, the snow there should not be so heavy. "

The more the bobcat said, the more confident he was. Finally, he firmly said, "big bear, leave this matter to me! At the same time, our tribe also needs to train a group of soldiers of our tribe. I plan to take the 200 soldiers who are going to train and drive them by riding cattle. Cattle are more reliable than horses in this weather

"But how to solve the feed problem of cattle and those war horses? How to solve the problem of low temperature? " The stone bear shook his head and said, "Uncle SM, don't take risks. Even if we get those war horses, it's hard for them to reach our tribe on such a cold day."

"No, big bear. As you said, raising these horses for a winter would bankrupt Colonel Jones. So it's very likely that he will disperse these concentrated horses again. If he does, it will certainly delay our plan for the spring of next year. So, I need to go, even if I don't bring these horses back, at least I need to send a batch of silage to Colonel Jones, so that he can raise these horses without any burden

When Shi Xiong heard this, he realized that he had got into the top of the ox horn.

Since the mountain is not on me, then I will go to the mountain!

As the bobcat said, since the horses could not be brought back, why not send a large quantity of silage to Colonel Jones? In the past two years, the soybeans of gaoshu tribe have gained a huge harvest. In addition, from the end of summer to the end of autumn, the whole autumn people are making silage every day. Now, the silage of gaoshu tribe has a lot of concentrate mixed with soybean and wheat.

Even if we calculate according to the amount of silage + roughage + concentrate that a batch of war horses eat in a day, it is only 60 days at most from now until the temperature rises. That is to say, when the temperature rises, a war horse needs about 900 Jin of silage + roughage + concentrate, and the amount of feed that 500 war horses need is more than 200 tons, This is not a problem at all for the gaoshu tribe.

Moreover, even if Colonel Jones is poor, at least there should be some rough materials. In other words, gaoshu tribe only needs to pull silage and concentrate in the past, which saves at least half. Isn't it that more than 100 tons of fodder can sustain 150 tons? Two hundred ox carts will pull it twice