Chapter 281: Divergence

At the sound of Hulan's order, hundreds of Mongolian horsemen under his command raised their horses under the order, and these Mongolian cavalrymen who had been trained by the Beiyang Drill Code in Jincheng showed extremely high fighting qualities at this moment, roaring over the fence of the Hurons, raising sabers and torches to frighten everyone in the village who saw them, regardless of whether they were friends or enemies.

Whether it was the trembling old man of Huron, the woman of Huron holding a child, or the Iroquois warrior who captured his captives with spears and axes, they were frightened and driven to the open space east of the village.

The sudden change stunned the people.

The Iroquois warriors were unaware of the Mongol wrath of unknown origins, and the warriors who were torturing the bravest captives to death and slicing them into pieces to free their souls looked at the Mongols running around with bewilderment and grievance.

Their eyes are like little beasts that have been rebuked for no reason.

The big raccoon was stunned by his son-in-law.

The infighting seemed to have occurred in an instant, and although the Ming army and the Jurchen heavy armored archers did not receive the task assigned to them, the situation did not allow them to hesitate for a moment, and everyone immediately moved closer to the robes, raising their bird guns and horned bows and pointing at the Iroquois who had been marching together.

At this moment, all eyes are on the enemy.

Torches were hurled at the longhouses of the Huron at the screams of the samurai, and the food they piled up before they had time to process it ignited a huge fire, engulfing the surrounding fences and emitting billowing smoke.

The war horse neighed, and the blade of the saber was raised to point at the women and children who had not had time to escape and had accepted the fate of being captives: "Get out, run as far as you can." ”

This was seen as a dangerous move to snatch the spoils of war.

It was only a moment, but it not only made Hulan realize that he was not the same as the Iroquois Alliance, but also made the Iroquois, including the big raccoon, realize that they were different from Hulan.

This Iroquois army belonged to the Mohawks of the Great Flint Clan, and they all had a hairstyle with a high middle and low sides, which is known as the Mohican, but this is a translation error in later generations, in fact, the Mohican do not have this hairstyle, which is exclusive to the Mohawks.

Their chieftain was a tall Mohawk, with shaved hair on both sides of his head, long horsehair in the middle tied with a rope, with an eagle feather tied to it as a hairpin, and an iron axe raised slightly, but in the end he did not point to Hulan, but only looked at the big raccoon with gloomy and hateful eyes.

He wanted to figure out what was going on.

The warriors of the Mohawk Legion were eager to try and did not dare to assert themselves, but the big raccoon hurriedly ran forward to grab the reins of Hulan under the signal of the Mohawk chieftain's eyes, and asked, "What are you doing here?" Why attack your own people? ”

"Kill them or let them go, why abuse them." Hulan still has respect for Lao Taishan, raised his hand and said: "That prisoner was cut by a knife and didn't say a word, even if he didn't say that he would let go, he should leave a whole corpse for such a Badu'er!" They ate him! ”

Batuer, also known as Batu, and Baturu in the later Manchu text, all have the same meaning, which is the name of heroic and invincible.

In the Mongolian steppes, the bravest men will be canonized by the Great Khan, taking the name Batuer.

In the confrontation war between the north and south of the Great Wall, there are often such and such Batu Er, such and such Batu leading the army to cross the Great Wall, or such and such a general fighting with such and such Batu outside the Great Wall, and people with such a name are warriors.

Tortured and silent, in Hulan's opinion, this is a real warrior.

When the big raccoon retold Hulan's words to the Mohawk chieftain, the chieftain with the eagle feather hairpin stared at his eyes blackened with charcoal, and his expression showed great astonishment, holding the axe and opening his hands, "We are giving him the glory of a warrior!" ”

"His soul and glory will return to Heaven as an eagle on the tree of peace, watching the danger from afar for all." Chief Mohawk looked agitated and slapped his chest with his left hand that was not holding an axe: "His courage and strength will be handed over to us to protect the peace of the Alliance!" Such is the glory of the bravest warriors! ”

"No one will swing a knife at his brother like you, there will be no such person in our entire alliance, when you make a contract, then abide by it and never betray! This is the foundation of the alliance! ”

"And you are now distributing our spoils, your men are not involved in this battle, but dictate what we should do with our captives, and if you do not want to take part in the hunt, you will stay here! No one will look up to you cowards. ”

Hulan was also stunned when he listened to the big tanuki's translation, and he also knew that the reason why Chief Mohawk did not let his subordinates attack him was mostly because he had measured the gap between the two sides in his heart, and it was impossible for them to defeat him with the same strength.

Unexpectedly, after reprimanding him, Chief Mohawk gave orders to his men, and the Iroquois soldiers continued to run into the woods to catch everyone they could.

I had no intention of arguing with him.

They hated each other, and Hulan was not used to the insulting customs of the Iroquois, and the Iroquois were not used to Hulan's casual roommates.

In the Iroquois culture, the five tribes who planted the Tree of Peace together and the new members of the Alliance were enemies of the world, and they naturally recognized that everyone except their blood relatives was an enemy to be attacked, and that absolute peace was needed within the Alliance.

Especially in the same room, it is never acceptable.

The members of the Great Tanuki tribe looked at them with strange eyes, but the big Tanuki did not let his people follow the Mohawk tribe, he called Hulan off his horse, and walked and talked in the Mongolian version of the Ming Dynasty official dialect that he had just learned from Hulana mixed with strange pronunciations.

"I don't know what your wars are like, but the Iroquois wars are like this, they come, they win, they bring back the captives, and when they return to the village, some of the unlucky ghosts will be taken to appease the anger of the families of the soldiers who died in the battle, most of them will be killed, but if they are strong and brave enough, they may be adopted and replaced by the original person."

"With the exception of children and women, the other captives would be attacked in the pinch and, if they could not hold out, they would be killed if they were too weak; If the punishment that follows is extremely brave and strong, it may be eaten as a symbol of glory, and some ordinary people who are neither cowardly nor absolutely brave will become adopted children. ”

The Iroquois 'adopted son' and 'dog' are the same words, the only domesticated creatures of most tribes before the outsiders landed.

Other livestock are used for food, except for dogs.

"At first, adopted sons will be bullied and will have to work, but after a while they will prove that they can be trusted, and like everyone, if they are good, they can also be chiefs and chiefs or shamans."

The tanuki said: "If you think this is not good, you can bring it up in the Governor's House, but you can't show your knife to the people in the alliance, I know you are not afraid of anyone, but our tribe will be attacked because of this." ”