Chapter 525

"How many Iranians are there ahead?" In such a large mobile headquarters, Shi Xiong asked SM.

This mobile headquarters is actually a tent that can be quickly put up and put down. Usually, when marching, the tent is put away on a large ox cart. When needed, more than ten Pro guards can set up the tent in less than ten minutes.

SM is still the leader of the scouts. Even though he is in his forties, his skill is not so sharp, but his experience and prestige are unparalleled in the scouts. Now almost all the commanders of the whole scouts are brought by him.

In fact, the Bobcats had retired from the position of commander of the scouts, but Shi Xiong knew that the northern expedition was the last large-scale battle of the Cherokee expansion, so he invited the Bobcats out in person to serve as commander of the scouts again. Leading more than 1000 scouts below!

"There are a lot of them, about 10000 people, but behind them, there are more than 10000 troops supported by other tribes. There are Iroquois in it, and they have muskets. " Bobcat is still so calm answer.

"Is the Iroquois finally out of control? Are they willing to pull out their Musketeers? " Stone bear said to himself without worry.

Although the British, the French and the Spanish had a tacit understanding that they would not trade muskets and artillery to the North American Indians, they were not the only three countries that came to the new continent in the early days. The Dutch arrived in the new world even earlier than the British, so the Iroquois got a lot of muskets from the Dutch a long time ago.

Like the Cherokees, the illites, who were also the offshoots of the Iroquois, used to be very fierce. Unfortunately, the Yili's poisonous arrow could not resist the Iroquois' muskets, and was eventually swallowed by the Iroquois.

In the first half of the 17th century, even the most old-fashioned muskets could not be handled by ordinary bows and arrows

The Cherokees moved to the south early, so they did not see the power of the Iroquois' muskets, but the Iroquois' muskets were very famous.

From Shangjing, along the Mississippi River all the way north, not far away, you will enter the Elaine territory.

The Iranians, who lived in the central part of the United States and the Great Plains, used Algonquian.

Elaine people usually rely on hunting elk, Turkey, buffalo, deer, lynx and other animals for food, but also grow corn, pumpkin. Of course, they also do fur business with the French. They are one of the important trading partners of the French.

The whole irenai people are composed of more than ten major groups, including Michigan people, moinwina people, tamaloa people, kinkoa people, malaa people, cahokian people, kaskaskian people, peolia people, espeminkian people and so on.

In its heyday, the Elaine people controlled a large area from Chicago to Arkansas.

However, in the original historical time and space, under the successive attacks of the Elaine European colonists and the US Army, their organizations were gradually scattered and defeated, several large parts no longer existed, and finally moved to Oklahoma in the mid-19th century.

The Iranians are now in their heyday.

As a matter of fact, if it wasn't for the fierce bear army's continuous extermination of the chekasa, conquest of the osaqis and the Kiowa, and the relocation of Shangjing to the vicinity of the confluence of the Mihe River and the ohe River, the Iranians would have felt the strength of the Cherokees and shrunk their influence back in the south, even the present upper Kyoto would have been within their sphere of influence.

However, the Iranians and osaqis did not deal with each other, and the two powerful tribes had overlapping spheres of influence, so small and medium-sized conflicts often broke out between them.

However, although the population of the Iranians is not as large as that of the osaqis, they are more powerful than the osaqis. Therefore, the two sides are equal in strength, and the spheres of influence controlled by each other are intertwined.

But the problem is that the osaqis who can share the same interests with the Iranians are easily cleaned up by the bear army. How can the Iranians not feel afraid? Especially in recent years, with the continuous growth of Shangjing, even the powerful French have been beaten by the Cherokee, and the French waterway on the Mississippi River has been completely cut off, which makes the Elaine people even more afraid.

The Iranians took the initiative to shrink and formed a team of tens of thousands of people in their core areas, trying to resist the northward movement of the Cherokees.

The core area of the Elaine people is located in the central area of Illinois, which is the area between Springfield and Peoria.

There is a hilly area between the Iranians and Shangjing. This hilly area is the Shawnee National Forest Park of the United States in later generations, and it is also the only natural barrier between the Elaine people and Shangjing.

Now, the main force of the Iranians is in this hilly area, trying to stop the northern expedition of the bear army. Because if you go north after this hilly area, you will find a smooth plain. There is no natural danger to act as a defense line.

But the problem is that the northern expedition from Beijing is not only by land. The broad Mississippi River is the best route to transport troops.

As a matter of fact, except for the first division and the 5000 strong Pro guard, the four divisions of the stormy bear army followed the stone bear by land, the other four divisions went by water.

The second division and the mixed Fifth Division sailed along the north of Mississippi in batches, while the third division and the mixed Sixth Division sailed along the north of Ohio.

In this way, together with the first land division and the pro guards in the middle, the stormy bear army had formed a state of encirclement against the Iranians.

According to the military plan previously formulated, the Chinese army was slow because it was on land. However, when the Chinese army arrived in this hilly area, the western and Eastern armies on the left and right sides by water could just encircle and complete the encirclement of this hilly area.

There are not enough boats for the bear army. We can't transport all the bear Army soldiers at one time. We can only transport them in batches. So although it's fast to go by water, it's not a short time.

"Big horn sheep, where have our western and Eastern armies arrived?" Stone bear asked big horn sheep, commander of storm bear army.

"According to the scheduled March plan, half of our west route troops should have arrived at the scheduled position now, while the East Route troops are estimated to have arrived at the scheduled position now because they are far away. If the West Route Army and the East Route Army all arrive at their predetermined positions, it will take about seven days. " The bighorn sheep answered in the affirmative.

He is the commander of the army. Naturally, he should clearly control the details of his subordinates.

The stone bear nodded slightly, and then said, "if we don't wait for the West Route Army and the East Route Army, can we kill the Iranians directly?"

The bighorn sheep laughed, "of course, no problem! These Iranians despise us so much that they dare to divide their forces. There are just over 10000 people, even if there are Iroquois riflemen, our first division only needs to send out division artillery regiment to kill them directly! "