Chapter 171 (1/2)

”It's about ten miles from Fort okron. Turn the corner and you'll see Fort okron.” Major Armand said faintly.

Since the river began to widen, he was lifted out of the cabin by the stone bear and stood in the bow with the stone bear to endure the cold north wind.

Major Armand's role is to tell the location of the stone bear fleet in time.

Of course, it's impossible for the fleet to take all the captives to okron fortress. It's definitely a death hunt, even if the soldiers of the gaoshu tribe have more than 100 muskets and ship borne guns.

Fortress okron is the first military fortress on the Ohio River, and the defense is extremely tight. According to major Armand's confession, there are more than 200 soldiers stationed in the fortress at ordinary times. This time, although he went out to attack the gaoshu tribe and took away 100 gunmen, there are still more than 100 soldiers in the fortress. Moreover, the French living in the fortress are not good at it. They don't have the status of soldiers, but their courage to cross the Atlantic to the new world is enough to prove their bravery.

These people are usually civilians, but once they pick up the gun, then they are even more fierce than the French soldiers!

The most important thing is that the fortress is built on the top of a hill. Although the area is small, there are four 24 pound guns in the fortress, that is, 155mm wallier fortress guns.

Although this kind of Fortress cannons can't fire the blooming bullet, the 24 pound fortress cannons have a range of nearly 3000 meters. Although the shot is not much bigger than a big apple, if this kind of cannonball hits, the inland river military transport ship they are riding on will be in danger of capsizing.

This kind of Fortress gun can easily pierce this ship!

In a military fortress garrisoned by four fortress guns, such a fortress can hardly be defeated without the active attack of a thousand or eight hundred people and large caliber infantry guns.

So Shi Xiong doesn't even think about taking this fortress.

What are you doing with this fortress? It's a long way from the Cherokee stronghold, surrounded by Indians from other tribes. What's the use of taking this fortress?

Is it necessary to send someone to guard?

If someone were stationed, there must be such a person in the Cherokee people. But the question is what to do if you want to garrison the fortress outside the Cherokee territory?

Do you expect the Indians of other tribes around you to take the initiative to supply you?

Wake up, that's not what dreams do

This kind of fortress is a chicken rib for the Cherokee people. At least it's a chicken rib for the stone bear now.

Therefore, the stone bear has no other requirements when he comes to okron fortress this time. It's OK to safely pull the food back to the tribe.

But it's not so easy to get the food safely. At least major chretian Armand, the supreme commander of Fort okron, can't put him back first.

Who knows what this guy thinks. What if this guy goes back to the fort and he doesn't care about the rest of them?

After all, in the eyes of these officers, the lives of these soldiers can not be compared with more than 20000 pounds of food.

Soldiers die when they die. The big deal is that they are killed when they are attacked by native Indians. But it's hard to explain if so much food is gone, and without food, the stability of the whole okron fort will be greatly affected.

So the stone bear can be sure that if major Armand is put back to raise food first, this guy will give up the rest of the prisoners.

Therefore, after determining the distance from okron fortress, the stone bear ordered the fleet to dock.

When the fleet landed, all the prisoners were driven off the ship and shivered in the cold wind. They were guarded by 40 soldiers of gaoshu tribe, who were wrapped in thick animal skins, armed with guns and steel knives.

The stone bear didn't worry about the prisoners running away, because after they got off the ship, they not only tied their hands back, but also tied their feet with thick rope. The length of the rope was only enough for the prisoners to walk no more than 30 cm.

Moreover, a rope was put on the necks of these prisoners. A long rope was worn on the rope. This long rope connected all the prisoners together. If anyone wanted to run, they would either break the rope first or they would run together.

Only sixty of the men who sailed and captain pieno, major Armand's adjutant, were left in the fleet.

Yes, the person in charge of raising food at Fort okron this time is captain pieno.

Both major Armand and captain Constantine remained here. Under the pressure of major Armand, Captain pieno did not dare to abandon his immediate superior. The most important thing is that through interrogation, Shi Xiong has long known that captain pieno's position in okron fortress is very high. He is mainly responsible for logistics at ordinary times, and the food storage in the fortress is handled by him.

With him, the stone bear believes that the food in Fort okron can be easily collected.

When the captives are under guard, the stone bear leads the fleet and escorts captain pieno on his way.

Sure enough, after turning the big bend in front of me, the river in front of me became wider, and in the distance, I could see a wider river.

The stone bear knew that the wider river was the Ohio River. The fiery Tennessee River flows into the Ohio River near Fort okron, then the two rivers merge and flow downstream for about 60 kilometers before finally flowing into the Mississippi River, the largest river in North America.

At this time, both sides of the Tennessee River are mostly flat areas, but occasionally you can see a few hills.

To the west of the confluence of the two rivers, there is a small hill about thirty or forty meters high. On the top of the hill stands a castle which is not tall but strong.

Even if there are several miles apart, the stone bear can still feel the firmness of the castle.

The hill is surrounded by water on both sides, the broad Ohio River in the north and the Tennessee River in the East. With these two natural moats, it is almost impossible for the enemy to attack from these two directions.

In the West and south, there are large marshes, which also prevent the possibility of large-scale enemy attacks.