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As the easternmost Mohok people of the Iroquois Indian Union in North America, they are considered to be the Indian tribe in North America that is relatively close to European colonizers.

The fur trade with French and Dutch merchants in the early 17th century brought muskets to North American Indian society for the first time. Relying on these ties with European colonial powers, the Mohoks fought wars against the Native American tribes of the Algonquint-speaking Pects and Mohicans in the east, and for a time spread throughout the upper Hudson River and Quebec.

Both in terms of territory and population, the powerful Mohoks gradually expanded their sphere of influence to the south, while constantly squeezing the living space of other Indian tribes in the east.

It's just that the lollipop of history is not all sweet, and the European colonial forces intervened in the wars between Indian tribes in various ways, which also caused the gradual weakening of the Mohoks, such as being spread by Europeans to diseases, being fooled by Europeans into cannon fodder for colonial wars, and being captured by Europeans and sold into slavery......

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Saturday, July 10, 1621.

The morning training camp had just ended, and the boot camp on Staten Island was on a lunch break after lunch, and the soldiers who had been tormented by the heavy military drills were huddled in the cool and comfortable barracks, all spread out on their beds like dead pigs, enjoying a rare half-day vacation over the weekend.

Suddenly, a sharp military whistle alternated with the rapid beat of drums. The soldiers jumped to their feet as if reflexively, then muttered various complaints, grabbed their equipment, and rushed out of the barracks.

After the successful training of the European infantry platoon, Chen Liwen, the commander-in-chief of the land garrison, attracted the attention of the local Indians, and after communicating with the leaders of the nearby Delaware Indian villages, more than 50 Delaware Indian young men entered the Staten Boot Camp.

They are all the best hunters or battle-tested warriors that their village leaders are proud of. The close relationship of interest between the Delaware tribe and the Chinese has led the village leaders to pay more and more attention to the alliance with the Chinese in all aspects. This also includes some pressure from the Iroquois League in the North, and even the strength of the Delaware tribes in the entire area around Manhattan is not even half of the Momo and Croat tribes of the Iroquois Indian Alliance.

The Indian infantry platoon was hastily formed in mid-June, and it has only been about 20 days now. In addition to the simple and blind obedience that is satisfying, these former Dravare hunters or warriors have even more difficulty communicating and instilling all kinds of military discipline and military knowledge.

However, the first live firing of a flintlock rifle a week ago shocked Chen Liwen, and after the gunshot, more than half of the Delaware soldiers on the spot were so frightened that they peed their pants, and even dropped their rifles and turned around and ran.

For this reason, He Yu, a lieutenant of the Marine Garrison who was in charge of the training of the recruit camp, not only made these Indian recruits constantly accustomed to the sound atmosphere of the flintlock rifle shooting scene, but also used corporal punishment, including leather whips, on many Indian soldiers who stubbornly refused to pull the trigger, and stimulated the nerves of these Indian soldiers who thought they were the bravest with all kinds of ugly mockery.

The simple old line infantry salvo tactics and equipment made military training even easier, which was also the result of careful consideration by the military bosses of the community council. Whether it is European or Indian soldiers, they only need to learn to obey the command to line up and reload and fire, and the more advanced modern weapons and military tactical organizations, even if the material conditions are ripe, are not considered for foreign infantry formations for the time being.

The consequence of this was that the military training of the entire recruit camp was full of all kinds of roughness and tosses, and according to Ho Yu, the soldiers' fear of the punishment of the officers was more than the enemy's broadsword and spear was the highest level of lining up to shoot the party.

Two weeks later, more than 30 percent of the Indian recruits were taken home by their leader, leaving only about 30 men in the eliminated Indian infantry platoon.

On the surface, at least, the European and Indian infantry platoon is a modern army with a sleek appearance. Now, two platoons of 60 people had assembled in a matter of minutes, standing neatly in the center of the training ground, and under a gray-black helmet formed by hydrodynamic stamping, there were expressions that had not yet figured out the situation.

"He Yu, give you 30 minutes to prepare, you serve as the supreme commander, board the ship with the platoon commanded by Feng Bin, and go to support West Point Town!" Chen Liwen glanced at the officers and soldiers at the scene, his expression was extremely stern, "There may be something going on there, you will only arrive in West Point Town tonight, in order to hurry up and reduce the burden as much as possible, West Point Town has enough arms reserves." ”

He Yu was stunned for a moment, and glanced slightly sideways at the neatly arranged subordinates on the training ground, revealing a trace of worry: "Now the team has only been training for more than a month, and the Indian infantry platoon has not even been ...... for a month."

"I can't wait that long, just enough to pull it up for actual combat drills." Chen Liwen looked at his watch, a little impatient, "Didn't you also strengthen an infantry platoon of our own people?" If we do a good job this time, it will be good for our entire land garrison, you should know what I mean......"

"Understood!" He Yu said no more, and stood up and saluted. Then he turned back to the queue and shouted, "Sergeant Scott! Immediately organize the soldiers to organize their equipment, do not carry tents and marching pots, receive 30 rounds of ammunition and a day's rations per person, and board the ship in 30 minutes! ”

"Yes, sir!"

The English non-commissioned officer responded loudly like an ox, and then immediately stood out of the queue and gave orders to the more than 60 soldiers to collect ammunition in half-baked, more brutal Mandarin.

For a while, chickens and dogs jumped on the training ground, and the soldiers crowded around the first batch of selected non-commissioned officers, and flocked to the munitions warehouse completely out of order, so frightened that the soldiers who stood guard and crossed the identity thought that there had been a mutiny.

Thirty minutes later, more than 100 officers and men of the land garrison loaded with guns and ammunition boarded the fishing boat and drove at a speed of six knots towards the upper reaches of the Hudson River. This hasty action was unaware even to most of the residents of the Manhattan community.

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The sprawling iron ore mine sits on a hill 5 kilometers west of West Point, and a very simple country road maintains a connection to West Point, and a small concrete concrete concrete fort is built on the hillside next to the iron ore field, guarding the main road.

At any given time, the small fort is manned by nearly 30 armed residents of West Point, who oversee a larger Pecot Indian POW labor camp on a weekly rotation. In order to reduce the burden of supervision, Mayor William, after seeking the consent of Sheriff Guan Ruzhong, even hired a few Mohican Indian soldiers to help supervise the mine.

Today, the once-bustling iron ore mines are as silent as dead, several mine sheds and open-air warehouses are in ruins in the fire, and more than 1,000 Pecots and male and female prisoners of war are firmly guarded in the labor camp, which has burned nearly half of the shacks.

In Guan Ruzhong's telescope, nearly a kilometer to the northwest, there is a makeshift camp dominated by animal skin tents, and hundreds of Mohok Indian warriors who have appeared in and out of the camp at an unknown time.

More than 60 armed residents of West Point have been concentrated inside and outside the mine fort that has been reinforced by Guan Ruzhong, and the Mohicans, who had been in charge of assisting and supervising the labor camp, have been running out one after another since last night.

After learning that the provoking opponent was the Mohoks, these Mohicans, who had been pressed by even the Pecots and could not raise their heads, obviously knew the softness of their opponents, but in just one night and half a day, almost all the Mohicans in and around West Point withdrew to the east bank of the Hudson River.

Guan Ruzhong had planned to use the Mohicans, who had some dealings with the Mohoks, to inquire about the intentions of the Mohoks, but he could not find even an indigenous translator. And looking at the posture, it is clear that these large numbers of Mohok warriors who suddenly approached and caused a fire attack were not here to trade.

Although the Pecots had nearly swept away the villages around West Point in the war months earlier by the allied forces of the Manhattan community and the Mohicans, the captives did not suffer harsher reprisals in the days that followed. Perhaps it was the tradition of the Chinese people, perhaps it was the intolerable repetition of North American history, or perhaps it was simply an extremely utilitarian policy of long-term exploitation of labor, and the lives of the Pécot prisoners of war were far more fortunate than their compatriots in history.

Together with the coal mines in the other direction, the living conditions of the prisoners of war are basically no worse than the villages where they once lived, and because the Brooklyn Industrial Area still has limited inland river transportation capacity, the iron ore mines are not very intensive, basically only 200 tons of iron ore and 500 tons of coal mining can be stopped every day, and the rest of the time is spent repairing the labor camp and nearby transportation, and even the old and weak women and children have planted crops on the limited flat land around the labor camp.

In addition to the lack of freedom and strict routines, the Pecot POWs were clearly in a strangely carefree life.

"Mr. Sheriff, a prisoner of war said he wanted to meet you!" A European boy with a flintlock pistol ran up to the small fort in three steps and two steps, bringing unexpected news.

A short time later, a reasonably strong Pecot man was escorted to the fort. The Pecot Indian man, dressed in shabby linen, cautiously looked around at the white man present, and bowed slightly to Guan Ruzhong, who was obviously of higher status in his eyes.

"Mohok...... Foe...... They want land. ”

The prisoner of war seems to have learned a little Mandarin in recent months, and he has told what he knew. Under his description, Guan Ruzhong finally knew what happened.

It turns out that the Mohoks have always coveted the intimacy and trade between the Mohicans and the Manhattan community, and they are full of cruelty and greed for the Pecots who once ran away. They saw these Chinese people building mines and settlements on the territory of the Pecots, and they wanted to get a piece of the pie.

For several months, the Mohoks have been secretly expanding their sphere of influence by relying on their strong strength in the upper reaches of the Hudson River and the northwest of West Point, and at one point they have even clashed with the Mohicans, robbing the Mohicans of Chinese goods that they had so hard to exchange from West Point.

The Mohicans swallowed their anger, but this greatly dealt a blow to West Point's long-term layout of controlling the surrounding area through trade infiltration. So on several occasions Guan Ruzhong or Mayor William made representations to the Mohok representatives who came to West Point to trade.

But this time, the Mohoks didn't know what they had in mind, and they directly planned to use force to get West Point to cut off the mine to them. And their way of negotiation is to give West Point a dismount first.

"It's fucking sick...... Guan Ruzhong looked at the Mohok camp in the distance and couldn't help but spit out.

"Mr. Sheriff, when will our reinforcements arrive?"

At this time, the one-legged Mayor William actually appeared in front of Guan Ruzhong alone with a flintlock pistol, which made Guan Ruzhong's brows furrow slightly.

"William, you should stay in the town, organize the residents to do a good job of defense, protect the residents' families and the docks, there are enough people here for the time being." Guan Ruzhong patted the other party's shoulder, revealing a serious expression.

"Isn't there still Ensign Cheng here?" William squeezed his eyes and smiled lightly, as he raised the flintlock pistol in his hand, "It's the mayor's duty to fight with my townspeople!" Let these barbarians eat! ”

Hearing such a slogan, the armed European residents standing guard nearby let out a wolf howl of cheers.

Quietly looking at the other party's disdainful smile, Guan Ru gradually swelled up in the center of an inexpressible bitterness.

The shadow of the Pecot Indian Girl and Qiao Daqiang, who had died in front of them, appeared in dreams almost every night, and the Delaware Indian boy like Fatima made Guan Ruzhong care for him with an attitude of atonement from beginning to end.

If it weren't for the fact that he came from a modern social time and space, and had the incomparable sense of civilization and strong strength support of this era, then in the eyes of these Europeans, I am afraid that they are also barbarians like Indians of the same species, right? Even in the eyes of the current Manhattan community, all of North America is barbarians except for those who call themselves Chinese......

Guan Ruzhong turned his head to the east, perhaps looking at West Point, or perhaps beyond.

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