Chapter 507

Although the Navajos became the largest preserved Indian tribe in the United States, they were much inferior to the Apache and even the Comanche at this time.

Even at this time, the number of Navajos is more than that of Apaches and Comanches, but it can not change that Navajos are in a relatively weak position.

However, compared with the Pueblo people, the Navajo people, who are also indigenous people in the southwest, are much stronger.

But this kind of strength is paper in front of the fierce bear army.

The fierce bear army even broke down with the Comanches, and forced the more fierce Apache people to flee to the West. How could the Navajo people resist the fierce bear army?

In fact, when the bear Stormers "escorted" the Apache people all the way to the west, and finally let the Apache people continue their journey to the west near Yuma, the bear Stormers began to move northward along the Colorado River Valley.

Although the Navajo territory is not far away from the Apache territory, there are many mountains between them. There are many scattered mountains between the Colorado plateau where the Navajos live and the area where Apache lives, but it is these mountains that we have to let the bear army go a long way to reach the Navajo territory.

And along the north side of Colorado is undoubtedly the best way to go.

Of course, from Yuma to the north along the Colorado River, this area will also become the focus of the stormy bear army. If the Apache people want to go back from California, the Colorado River will become a natural barrier, and this natural moat will provide enough reaction time for the bears.

If we can successfully win the Navajo, then the whole southwest can rely on the steep rocky mountains and the turbulent Colorado River to form a strong enough defense line to protect the safety of the southwest.

The situation near the Colorado River is much better in this era than in later generations. Later generations of Americans built the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. As a result, the whole Colorado River was cut off. Although it formed a huge artificial lake like Lake Mead and provided sufficient water for Las Vegas and other cities, it caused an irreversible and devastating impact on the ecology of the lower reaches of the Colorado River.

With the construction of Hoover Dam, the original large area of the downstream grassland has been reduced a lot in just a few decades, causing an almost irreversible devastating blow to the local ecology. But at this time, there was no Hoover Dam, no Lake Mead, so the valley grassland area of the lower Colorado River was still large.

In fact, the Navajo migrated along the Colorado River Valley. In spring, they will go down from the Colorado Plateau along the south of Colorado, stay in the downstream river valley with fertile water and grass until autumn, and then go north before winter to enter the deep Grand Canyon of Colorado, relying on the protection of the Grand Canyon to avoid the cold wind in winter.

But this time, the bear Stormers, led by the Pueblo, went all the way north along the Colorado River Valley and reached the door of the Navajo from the back.

Obviously, the Navajo did not expect that there was such a wonderful marching route for the bear army. Their large troops were arranged in the southeast, relying on the local terrain to try to resist the invasion of the bear army.

Unfortunately, stone bear's unreasonable "back door" March route really caught the Navajo people off guard.

All the Navajos were dumbfounded when the bear stormtroopers appeared behind the Navajo's back door.

Of course, they already know the strength of the fierce bear army. Among the more than 4000 elite soldiers they sent out, less than 300 came back in that battle. Especially after the soldiers who came back and the high-level people talked about the terror of the bear army, the Navajo people were already scared.

But they obviously don't want to surrender, so they still try to rely on the local favorable terrain to resist the bear army. What I didn't expect was that the stormy bear army's unreasonable March completely disrupted the preparation of the Navajo people.

So, twenty four giant hot air balloons rose again in the sky on that day. When tens of thousands of fierce bear soldiers pressed the door of the Navajo people, the Navajo court hiding in the rear completely collapsed.

Even if they want to fight, there are few people.

Their troops are all hundreds of miles southeast of the royal court. They can't get close. And even if the tribe's troops came back, it would be difficult to resist the fierce Cherokee.

Therefore, black hawk, the chief of the Navajo people, led the high-level of the royal court out very happily.

In the face of this old guy named Black Hawk, the stone bear can't help but smile a little. Although he knew that the famous shadow helicopter used by American Continental Airlines was named after the chief of the Sok nationality, the chief was also called Black Hawk.

There is no doubt that the pressure of the fierce bear army on the Navajo people is very huge. In the face of the fierce bear Army armed to the teeth, even the chief Black Hawk has to lower his noble head.

Especially when he learned from the mouth of the Pueblo people who came with the bear army that the Comanches had completely surrendered, and the powerful Apache people had been forced to flee West by the bear army, the Black Hawk finally recognized the current facts.

The fact is very simple, there are only two roads in front of him. One is complete obedience, then the whole Navajo will be well preserved. The second way is to fight to the end, and then the whole Navajo may disappear completely in the long history.

Under such circumstances, the Black Hawk made a wise choice.

Like the Pueblo, they were converted to the bear army.

Of course, the stone bear may have given them good conditions. For example, they can continue to live here and manage the southwest with the Pueblo people. For example, they will get more food and learn more advanced farming methods. In particular, they will receive education.

Navajo people don't know what education is, but they need more food and advanced farming methods.

Although we have to pay other costs in order to get these, those costs are nothing compared to being exterminated by the fierce bear army now.

Moreover, the stone bear also promised that the Navajo people would receive the same treatment as the Pueblo people. Every year, 3000 soldiers from the tribe would be selected to join the mixed division of the bear army, and each soldier would serve for three years

In order to maintain the stability of the southwest region, Shi Xiong did not hesitate to carry over the military service mode of later generation soldiers. That's three years of conscription.

This can not only speed up the integration of the tribes here into the Cherokee tribe as soon as possible, but also stabilize here. How can the stone bear let go of killing two birds with one stone?

In this way, after a winter's expedition, the four large tribes in the great southwest, one remnant, one escape, two surrender, the whole great southwest completely calmed down!