The Rise of the European Emperor

After the situation report, Garland's envoy hesitated for a moment, then continued:

"Grand Duke, this time when collecting maple syrup on land, I encountered a very difficult problem..."

"Oh, what's the problem?"

"There is a bear stealing candy..."

"What? Bear...stealing candy?" Marin was also stunned.

"Yes, there are big gray bears stealing oak barrels for collecting maple syrup. In other words, they simply robbed those greedy bears who seemed to like the sweetness of maple syrup. Take away the bucket of sugar juice..."

"The whole... Take it away?" Very good and powerful, Marin also remembered at this moment that bears really like sweetness. In order to steal honey, they go directly to the tree to dig out the honeycomb, and they are not afraid of being stung by bees. Of course, the bear's skin is very thick, and if he was stung like a human, he would have died long ago.

Although maple syrup is far less sweet than honey, it still has a sweet fragrance. This season should be the season when the bear has just finished hibernation. The bear has a very good nose, and suddenly smelled the smell of maple syrup.

At this time, the messenger continued:

"Yes, when those bears saw the oak barrels hanging on the trees to collect maple syrup, they hugged and drank the whole barrel. If they couldn't finish drinking, they took the whole barrel away. Moreover, there were greedy black bears who stretched their mouths to Sucking in the tree hole... Someone from the local aborigines blocked it, which seemed to have angered the black bear. Two aborigines were beaten to the ground on the spot. But most of them were only injured and did not die. Because those bears were holding the wooden maple syrup The barrel refused to let go, unable to spare his hand to kill those natives... Most of the injured people were kicked by the bear's hind legs..."

"Uh... don't those native Indians shoot bears?" Marin was a little speechless.

"It's difficult. The bows and arrows used by the indigenous people are not powerful. And the arrows are mostly made of stone, so it is difficult to shoot through the thick bear's skin. Even if you shoot through the bear's skin, most of them stay in the bear's skin and are difficult to hurt. The key point. Moreover, the injured bear is very scary when it goes mad. Therefore, those natives generally dare not provoke the bear..."

Marin thought about it, and it was true. The Indians who are currently in the Stone Age do not have effective weapons for shooting black bears. Unlike Cape Breton Island, where every grizzly bear that could be found was shot because of the use of powerful musket guns, musket guns. The North American continent has always been dominated by North American grizzly bears, and the local aborigines lack powerful weapons to shoot and kill grizzly bears. Therefore, they can only watch the bear take away the whole bucket of sweet maple syrup without daring to stop it...

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"That's not okay, I can't affect my maple syrup business because of these bears! We have to support those indigenous people in hunting bears!" After thinking for a while, Marin said in a serious tone.

"You mean to supply the natives with muskets?" asked the messenger.

Marin shook his head, muskets are not so easy to provide. Marin didn't want the local natives to master this thing, even if it was an arquebus. After all, when the population is sufficient in the future, Marin will let the colonists land and seize the land. If the natives had guns in their hands...

Although it is said that Marin can limit the combat effectiveness of the indigenous people by controlling the supply of gunpowder. However, things are not set in stone. At the beginning, when Britain and France were competing in North America, they provided muskets and gunpowder to each other's hostile natives. If the French set foot in North America someday and secretly supply the natives with ammunition...

Therefore, it is the safest way not to give the aboriginals guns. At most, provide them with some excellent European bows and arrows. Anyway, native Indians are also good at archery.

"Then provide them with heavy arrows for shooting bears!" Marin said after thinking about it.

"Heavy arrow?" The envoy was a little confused. But he quickly thought that if he didn't kill him with one blow, the bear that counterattacked before dying would be very scary...

The so-called heavy arrows are actually triangular arrows similar to those used by Qin crossbows, with blood grooves engraved on the arrows. Triangular arrows are relatively heavy, but because of their high kinetic energy, their armor-piercing ability is better than ordinary arrows.

Generally speaking, the ancients used heavy arrows to shoot and kill ferocious beasts. When shooting birds, use light arrows.

Heavy arrows have a lot of kinetic energy, but because of their weight and gravity, they are easy to fall and affect the shooting range. However, heavy arrows can often break through the thick skin defenses of beasts because of their sufficient kinetic energy; as for light arrows, because they are light, they often have a longer range, but are not powerful enough, so they are only suitable for shooting small animals such as birds.

Originally, the most suitable for shooting heavy arrows is actually the heavy crossbow. However, Marin can't guarantee that the heavy arrow can kill the Grizzlies with one hit. You know, those beasts can burst out with huge energy in the case of serious injuries. Their dying blow is much more terrifying than that of humans. If a heavy crossbow is used, if the shot fails, the user's life is in danger. After all, grizzlies run much faster than humans. Those heavy crossbow users who failed to shoot would definitely be unable to escape the bear's claws.

Therefore, Marin designed a plan for the natives to shoot the grizzly bear

This solution is to provide the native Indians with a strong bow with greater tension for shooting three-edged heavy arrows. Native Indians are good at archery, and it is not difficult to find good archers and strong ones among them. Then, let this warrior, with a strong bow and heavy arrows on his back, climb up the big tree and ambush the grizzly bear. At the same time, they will carry a short spear with a steel spearhead on their backs, which is more than one meter long...

Grizzly must have been furious after being hit by a heavy arrow. It's best if it's shot at the point. If it misses, the grizzly will definitely run under the big tree and plan to attack the shooter. In this way, the Grizzlies have two choices: whether to break the big tree, or climb the tree to kill the shooter...

Therefore, the tree that the shooter climbs must be thick enough. Otherwise, it might be interrupted by the Grizzlies or "Lu Zhishen pulls out the weeping willow". You know, the strength of a grizzly bear is no less than that of Lu Zhishen...

If the tree is thick enough for the grizzly to not move, then it will have to climb the tree to hunt and kill. However, at this time the hunter was carrying a short spear with an iron tip. When the grizzly bear climbs to a close position, the shooter can use a short spear more than one meter long to stab the grizzly bear's head hard...

At this time, the grizzly bear was climbing the tree with all four limbs, unable to cover it, it either retreated, or was pierced in the head...

Moreover, before the grizzly climbs the tree, the archer can shoot multiple three-edged heavy arrows. With any luck, the grizzly would have been shot.

In addition, you can also engage in a multi-person linkage method. That is to say, there are other shooters ambushing on the nearby big trees, and everyone shoots three-edged heavy arrows at the grizzly bear together, and the effect is better.

Not only that, but shooters can also pit traps under trees. Grizzly bears apparently don't look closely at traps after being enraged by a shot. Once they are eager to retaliate, they can easily fall into a deep pit when they rush over. At that time, the grizzly bear that falls into the pit will be the fish on the chopping board, and it can be done whatever you want... You can shoot it to death with random arrows, stab it with a spear, throw it to death with a big stone, or throw it on fire. The firewood went down and burned to death...

In fact, the bottom of this trap can actually be pre-set with wooden pickets. If the grizzly bear falls, it will be directly attached to the wooden picket... But Marin is worried that when he sends troops to land and invade in the future, the natives will use this method to target him. Therefore, he is only willing to teach the aborigines to use ordinary deep pit traps... In fact, there is no need to teach this, the aborigines will already know how to dig ordinary pit traps...

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It's no wonder that Marin deliberately wanted to kill those grizzly bears, because grizzly bears were too harmful to the collection of maple syrup. The season of maple syrup gathering is the time when grizzly bears wake up from hibernation. At this time, the grizzly is the hungriest. When it sees the sweet maple syrup it likes to eat, it will definitely snatch it, and it will be very ferocious.

The only way to prevent the collection of maple syrup from being affected by grizzly bears is to kill those grizzly bears.

Grizzly bears are very harmful to humans. Even in the later generations when animal protection is rampant, in order to prevent grizzly bears from hurting people, Canadian officials often encourage hunters to use powerful shotguns to regularly clean up flooded grizzly bears to prevent humans from being harmed by them. Of course, the Canadians of later generations are more hypocritical. They demand that they must use powerful shotgun bullets that can kill quickly, so as to prevent the grizzly bear from being painfully injured and not dead...

That was still in the later generations with a high level of development, and there are actually not many Grizzlies. But now, because Indians lack the weapons to hunt and kill grizzly bears, they generally dare not provoke grizzly bears. Therefore, in this era, grizzly bears were more prevalent in Canada, with almost no natural enemies except grizzly bear cubs, which had a wider distribution. If you don't kill the grizzly, you don't even think about developing North America...

Therefore, Marin will ask people to make a batch of strong bows and three-edged heavy arrows with blood grooves, which are specially provided to the aborigines in Canada, and teach them the method of hunting grizzly bears designed by Marin. In this way, in the future maple syrup collection, they can be robbed and disturbed by grizzly bears as little as possible...