1840Indian rebirth

(Adjustments have been made in the last two chapters)

Fang Lian became more and more angry, his face red and red: "Standing Wolf, you are a lackey of the Apaches! Chief, we should immediately form a coalition to attack Sleeping Bear!"

Standing Wolf was much calmer and almost turned a blind eye to him: "Chief Owl, I hope you can respect the Plains tribe and let me bring back the traitor Fang-face."

"You——" Fang Lian tried to make a move, but was stopped by the owl.

The owl stood up and looked at the vertical wolf: "Go back and tell the horse whistle that Square Face is a Comanche, and I won't let you take him away."

Then he took a deep breath and strengthened his voice: "The Two Wolf Clan also belongs to the Comanche. If Ma Shao is unwilling to hand over the Two Wolf Clan, I will, I will consider calling in the Comanche coalition to make you pay the price!"

The vertical wolf didn't say much, turned around and left.

When the vertical wolf left the tent, Square Face gritted his teeth and said: "Great Chief, we can't let this traitor leave. We should capture him and cut his scalp!"

"Anyway, his current status is that of an envoy." The owl shook his head, "It is against the rules to kill an envoy."

"Then we should form a coalition as soon as possible." Fang Lian pointed in the direction where the vertical wolf left, "It has only been half a year, and someone in the Two Wolf clan has completely betrayed the Comanches. If it is delayed any longer, it won't take long for them to

Everyone will become an Apache!"

Owl had a headache and sighed slightly: "I know...let me think about it."

For a period of time that followed, he was always in a dilemma.

Fang Lian had been urging him to attack Sleeping Bear, and he had indeed spoken cruelly to Standing Wolf. But if he was really asked to take action, he still didn't dare.

For many days, Owl spent the whole night in hesitation and couldn't sleep. Sometimes he was eager to follow Fang Lian's advice, and sometimes he was timid and worried about losing the war.

Until one day, an unexpected guest came to the forest tribe.

"Chief Broken Bow!" The owl looked at the visiting guest, Broken Bow, a great chief of the Arapaho people in surprise.

"Haha, long time no see, Owl." Chief Broken Gong looked to be in his thirties or forties, with a tall build and especially thick arms. He greeted him warmly.

The owl reacted and immediately showed a warm smile: "Welcome, Broken Bow."

The forest tribe held a welcoming ceremony for Chief Broken Bow. Around the bonfire, the air was filled with the smell of spirits and barbecue.

The two chiefs sat together, holding wineskins, and drank strong wine together.

The other Comanches also drank and ate meat, and the atmosphere was lively.

After a while, the two chiefs got down to business.

"Owl, we are old friends." Broken Gong put down the wine bag, "I came here this time hoping to form a coalition with you to counterattack the Apaches."

The news delighted the owl.

Of course, this is not surprising. After all, the Arapaho are a warlike people and are almost always associated with war.

He was hesitating whether to attack Sleeping Bear, but he did not expect reinforcements from the Arapaho people to arrive at this time.

The owl did not express his thoughts immediately, but first asked: "As far as I know, haven't you already made a truce with the Apaches?"

"Hmph." Duan Gong snorted, as if remembering something unpleasant, "It's those cowards in Crow who want a truce, but I didn't agree. I have always been a staunch fighter!"

The owl said nothing.

Duan Gong continued to mind his own business and said: "They also talked about the children of the sky, and said that all aborigines should put aside their hatred and unite as one... I think they are simply cowardly and greedy for life and afraid of death!"

The owl thought for a while: "How many tribes of Arapaho are planning to counterattack the Apache?"

"Ahem... two." Duan Gong was obviously a little embarrassed, and quickly changed the topic, "But I have also contacted two Cheyenne tribes, plus your forest tribe, it will definitely be no problem to organize a thousand coalition troops, or even a thousand and five

Hundreds of people. How about it?"

The owl did not agree, but took another sip of wine, seemingly thinking: "If we form a coalition, will we have to deal with the entire Apache tribe?"

"Of course!" Broken Bow blurted out.

The owl shook his head: "I don't think this is necessary. Among the Apaches, the most dangerous one is the Sleeping Bear Clan, that is, the 'Son of the Sky'. I shouldn't need to say more about his record."

After a pause, he continued: "We should concentrate our efforts and only attack the Sleeping Bear clan. In this way, the scale of the Apache coalition will be much smaller, and it will be easier for us to win."

Duan Gong disagreed: "The horse whistle is indeed dangerous, but after all, it is only one clan. Our coalition of more than a thousand people only attacked one clan. Wouldn't it make people laugh if we say it?"

"It seems you still don't know the current situation of the horse whistle." Owl said.

"how?"

"Mashao has become the great chief of the Plains tribe, and has gathered almost the entire tribe of Apaches into his clan. Now his clan has one or two thousand people." Owl said slowly.

Duan Gong was very surprised: "Really?"

The owl nodded: "So I said, we should only attack the Sleeping Bear. The Sleeping Bear clan is already quite powerful. If we deal with the entire Apache clan, our chances of winning may not be high."

Duan Gong was silent for half a second: "But how can we only deal with the Sleeping Bear clan? As you said, Mashao has already led the Plains tribe. If we attack the Plains tribe, other Apache tribes will definitely support him."

The owl smiled and said: "If you can stay out of it, no one is willing to take the initiative to participate in the war. In fact, the Sleeping Bear clan has annexed one of my clans. We can use this as a reason to tell other Apache tribes that we have no intention to fight with the entire Apache clan."

As an enemy, I just want to take back the clan from Sleeping Bear."

"In this way, other Apache tribes will at least reduce their support to Sleeping Bear, and our coalition will surely win."

Duan Gong thought for a while: "It makes sense."

The two had another conversation and quickly reached an agreement to form a coalition to jointly defeat the Sleeping Bear.

"I have one more request," the owl said at last.

But Broken Gong seemed to predict his thoughts: "Slave?"

"That's right."

Broken Gong waved his hand nonchalantly: "No problem, after we defeat the Apaches and Utahns, you will choose the prisoners first. Do you plan to sell these slaves to the white people?"

"Of course not, we use it ourselves. Some of our Utah slaves died not long ago." The owl shook his head and said, "It's not worth selling to white people, and they are not black slaves."

Duan Gong smiled and said: "If you ask me, except for women, it is more convenient to kill the other captives directly. Slaves are of no use."

At this time on the North American continent, not only white people held slaves, but some Indians also held slaves.

Even some free blacks owned slaves, and they were not much different from white slave owners. They still liked black slaves, after all, black slaves were the most valuable.

There are also many kinds of slaves, in addition to the most common black slaves, there are also white slaves and Indian slaves.

White slaves were mainly indentured slaves, such as gamblers who owed money and sold themselves; Indian slaves were mainly from war, for example, some Comanches liked to turn captured enemies into slaves.

All in all, North America in this era was very free, and it was not surprising that anyone enslaved anyone.