There is a famous saying in the original historical time and space - kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.
This sentence was once said by Napoleon and the founding father.
The truth is very simple, but it shows the cruelty of war.
There is no doubt that war, which is almost accompanied by the history of human development, has been proving that it is the ultimate means of violence in human history with its blood and violence ever since it appeared.
The situation of the southwest battlefield made the stone bear realize that he seemed to be a little weak before. It seems that my heart has softened since the first battle between the expeditionary team and the bighorn sheep in the South expedition of Yuchi and Kerry.
This is not a good phenomenon.
Although the stone bear used to excuse himself by "not killing more native Indians" or "saving as many native Indians as possible", it might be the subsequent collapse of the Kerry people, the weak retreat of the Powhatans, and the fact that the osaqis were frightened by hot air balloons and knelt down to make them think that their troops could be invincible, But the fact is extremely cruel to prove that since we have embarked on the road of war, there should not be the word "benevolence".
There is no benevolence and benevolence in war, nor right or wrong. War is a simple war, in order to do their best for their own interests. If you can win the war, then you can have everything of the enemy. Similarly, if you lose the war, everything you have will be the enemy's.
It's as simple as one plus one equals two!
Although the process is extremely cruel, the more cruel things are, the simpler they are.
The stone bear knows that he thinks too much and that he shouldn't have any illusions about the enemy.
If you want to win everything from the enemy, you have to fight and kill with your weapons!
There is no room for relaxation!
It was because of his carelessness and a glimmer of fantasy that more than 700 violent bear soldiers fell in front of the epidemic. And he hesitated in the face of the epidemic, which led to the collusion between the Comanches and the Navajo and Apache people for a longer time, which made the war more difficult.
Therefore, similar mistakes should never be made again.
As long as the enemy does not surrender, then kill! Until they break down.
So what if the Comanches, the Apache and the Navajo are united? How ever did the fierce bear army fear the enemy's alliance?
When the weapons are more powerful than those possessed by the major military powers on the European continent, these aborigines are not enough to fight together
As it turns out, when the stone bear's heart became firm again, the war immediately became much easier.
When the world's most advanced thermal weapons compete with primitive and backward cold weapons in this era, the huge gap in weapons can never be filled by the number of people.
Just like in the original historical time and space, Americans used mushroom bombs to blow up little devils. When a mushroom bomb that can destroy a city by throwing it down explodes, no matter how strong the little devils are, they are directly hit and collapsed by this powerful weapon.
No matter how powerful the thermal weapon is, it is still a waste in front of the atomic weapon.
Similarly, no matter how powerful the cold weapons are, they can never be compared with the hot weapons. Especially when the bear army also has mortars with long-range precision strike capability, this gap is infinitely widened.
The process of this war is also simple. Even if the kommanchi, Apache and Navajo sent out at least 20000 allied forces, while the bear army only sent out 12000 first division, pro guard and negligible number of "air force", the war still inevitably tilted to one side.
No matter the Comanches, Apaches or Navajos, they were all the first North American Indian tribes to contact with the Spanish. Although the Spanish had no achievements in the central, Eastern and northern parts of the North American continent, they relied on their advantageous navigation to establish a huge "colony" in the western part of North America.
The whole Rockies, including the west coast to the west of the Rockies, became a Spanish "colony" early on.
It is no exaggeration to say that the North American Indian tribes in this area, especially the Comanches and Apaches in the southwest, contacted the Spanish even earlier than the Cherokees contacted the British.
This situation led to the fact that there were many horses in the southwest Indian tribes such as Comanches and Apache.
If it wasn't for the stone bear's efforts in collecting war horses, trading them for war horses, and trying to cultivate people who would raise war horses, the number of war horses of the Cherokee people might not be as many as the number of war horses owned by the Comanche people.
It may also be that the Comanches have a large number of war horses, which gives them the strength to resist the fierce bear army.
However, with only seven or eight hundred horses, the huge gap between weapons can not be bridged.
The first division of the fierce bear army, the pro guard army and the air force went out in this way. This time, the stone bear rode the Huofeng himself and followed them with full arms.
The chief's personal expedition also greatly stimulated the soldiers of the bear army who had a little low morale, and the morale of the whole army was high.
Under such circumstances, the air force was the first to float in the air. Below the rear are the officers and men of the 10000 first division, and on the two wings of the first division are the 2000 Pro guards, which are divided into two parts.
Speaking of the two thousand Pro guards, this is also an army specially organized by Shi Xiong after he became chief.
Moreover, the pro guard is also the first and only cavalry unit of the whole Cherokee people.
Two thousand Pro Guard troops occupied two thousand of the best horses.
However, the stone bear did not turn the pro guards into the heavy cavalry of those military powers in the European continent. As the range of hot weapons, especially muskets, is getting longer and longer, the heavy cavalry, which used to sweep everything, has no use.
Even if heavy cavalry are wearing heavy armor, these armor can easily resist the attack of bow and arrow and even spear, but in the face of thermal weapons, especially the explosive bear rifle, this kind of advanced thermal weapons is still no different from paper.
Therefore, when setting up the pro guard army, Shi Xiong made the pro guard army into a standard "light cavalry".
All the soldiers of the pro guard army are the best soldiers selected from the fierce bear army. If they want to become the pro guard army, they must first have excellent riding skills. The minimum requirement is that they can release their hands in the process of fast riding, and only use their legs to control the horses.
Of course, after they become pro guards, they also need to learn a skill, that is, in the process of galloping horses, they must shoot with explosive bear rifles in both hands, and they must also learn to load bullets on the horse's back!