Chapter 160 (2/2)

Because the stone bear has already crossed the road when he came here, at least the stone bear can guarantee that there is no danger on the road, so there are not many people going to gaoshu tribe this time, including Baiyun, only 16 people.

In fact, it's very easy to get to gaoshu tribe from Xiaohe tribe. You only need to walk eastward along the foot of Dawu Mountain, but it's troublesome to cross several big rivers.

After some preparation, they set out in the direction of the sun forever.

Xiaohe tribe is about 200 li away from gaoshu tribe. If you are in the plain, you can get there by horse in the morning.

But the road from Xiaohe tribe to gaoshu tribe is not so easy.

As a matter of fact, there is no way to walk here, otherwise the stone bear will not ride a horse, and it took more than two days to run more than 200 miles.

This section of the road is full of small rolling hills. The series of folded mountains between the Blue Ridge and the Cumberland highlands have broken this area to pieces. These folded mountains were originally complete, but after hundreds of millions of years of weathering, they have long been weathered out of shape.

These hills, which are only 180 meters high and less than 20 or 30 meters low, can be seen everywhere. They are the folded mountains after weathering. In addition, this is the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains, so there are many rivers, big and small, blocking the road.

In fact, strictly speaking, this area is no man's land. Even the Cherokees and chekasa rarely come to this place.

At this time, unlike later generations, countless dams were built on the huge Tennessee River, and then the Tennessee River became one reservoir after another. In this era, the Tennessee River is a truly harmful river.

The water source of Tennessee River is mainly from atmospheric precipitation, so it is abundant and unstable. In this era, the whole Midwest of Tennessee is actually a everglade. The Tennessee River, which floods from time to time, is the main culprit for this huge everglade.

Because of the high altitude of the route they took, the Tennessee River did not harm this line. However, there are hundreds of rivers, large and small, in this route to gaoshu tribe.

For example, the haiwoxi River, the little Tennessee River and the littleriver River are relatively large. There are hundreds of other small rivers only a few meters or even more in width.

These small rivers are flowing down the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains. Because of the terrain, these rivers did not converge when they just flowed down the slope. But as they flow down the river, these small rivers will gradually converge and eventually all flow into the Tennessee River.

Therefore, these small rivers, together with the weathered folded mountain system, make this area completely fragmented, just like a complete mirror fell to the ground

It's easy to talk about small hills. If you can't climb them, you'll make a detour. It won't take long, but these rivers are more troublesome.

In this age of no bridges, stone bears can only look for places with narrow rivers and then wade through them. If they encounter a big river with a width of tens of meters, they have to make a detour for a long time and find a place convenient for them to cross the river.

That is to say, it's deep winter and there is less water flow. If it comes to the end of winter and the beginning of spring in a month or two, these rivers will become irritable.

It's also a strange phenomenon. In other parts of the United States, rivers are wet in summer, but in the upper reaches of the Tennessee River, the wet period is at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, but in summer, the water flow is less.

The reason is that the river originates from the west slope of the Appalachian Mountains. When the monsoon goes south in winter, it is blocked by the mountains and uplifted, resulting in precipitation. In summer, due to the blocking of mountains, the southeast monsoon precipitation mostly occurs on the east slope of Appalachia, while the precipitation on the west slope decreases a lot. Therefore, in summer, the flow of the Tennessee River will be smaller.

The peculiar topography created the peculiar dry and wet period of the river.

Now it's deep winter, and the amount of water in these rivers is generally small, so they can find places to cross the river. But if it's wet season, they can't go like this.

”Big bear, our two tribes are not far away, but these rivers...” standing in front of a big river, Lei Ying said with a worried face.

In front of us, this river is sixty or seventy meters wide. Later, it was called ”little Tennessee River”. It is the largest tributary of the upper reaches of the Tennessee River. This river originated in the depth of the fog mountain, is also a very violent River, abundant water flow makes this river often flooding, in the small Tennessee River and Tennessee River confluence area, at this time is a large marsh.

In later generations, the Americans built four or five dams on the river at a time, which completely restrained the raging river. Finally, the swamp disappeared and replaced by a large reservoir.

But in this era, it is impossible to build a dam. Let alone a dam, it is impossible to build a bridge. The stone bear can't build a bridge, and the Indians can't build a bridge.

So, if you want to cross the little Tennessee River, which is now slightly calm, you have to go far downstream to cross the river from the swamp area.

At that time, when the stone bear crossed the little Tennessee River, because there was a tribe separated from the gaoshu tribe nearby, and their people were very familiar with the situation of the swamp, the stone bear was able to cross the little Tennessee river safely from the swamp.

After crossing the swamp, Lei Ying's face became more sad. The steel and salt of the gaoshu tribe are really good, but if the road is like this, it will be very difficult to send a letter between the two tribes, let alone trade.

It's a dry season now, and it's so hard to walk. If it's a wet season, this river alone can cut off the connection between the two tribes!

Of course, Lei Ying wants to make a long-term deal with gaoshu tribe, but this way

If Lei Ying knew the ancient Chinese poetry, he would probably sing a sentence at this moment: it's hard to walk on the road, it's hard to reach the sky

Lei Ying, with a sad face, looks at the fiery eldest daughter Bai Yun, who is talking to Dali Xiong over there, with a happy look on her face. She is in a better mood. Of course, if Lei Ying could hear what his daughter and big bear said at this time, he would not be so sad again.

”What? You said that when we meet again, we won't have to ride a horse? Do you have a boat

”Of course, we have four ships. They are big ships. Well, you should have seen them. They are the windboats that the franceans ride on.”

”But how could you have a francean boat?”

”It's not easy. Some time ago, a tribe of your chekasa people, named rettich, and the French garrisoned in the military fortress of okron, formed a coalition. They took four boats up the bend to kill our gaoshu tribe. As a result, I made a fire bull array and brought all these guys to the end. Even the four boats on which they were travelling were also taken by me... ”

In front of his beloved woman, Shi Xiong never mind telling her about his great achievements