Chapter 177 (1/2)
Although the tall and thin man's voice was small, the stone bear not far away from them and Mr. fernan also heard it.
Especially fernan, after hearing the name of chikmont, his face became very pale. Obviously, he should have heard of the mysterious team of the mysterious chikmen.
”You... I...” fernan's face was ugly, and the other people's faces became extremely respectful.
Stone Bear looked down at the white fat man who was scared to pee, and said impolitely: ”I said, I don't care what your identity is. Here, anyone who dares to insult our chikmon tribe, their only end is to wash this insult with their blood, so...”
The stone bear weighed the small axe in his hand without expression, and fernan immediately howled: ”Dear chief, please forgive my rudeness just now. I didn't know the identity of you and your brave soldiers just now, so please give me a chance to atone. ”
Stone Bear looked at this guy coldly and scanned the remaining four people. Then he asked, ”I can give you a chance, but you must take out a ransom that is equivalent to the value of your life. Otherwise, I can forgive you. I'm afraid the axe in my hand won't forgive you.”
”Food!” Fernan seemed as if a drowning man had grasped a piece of wood, and his voice suddenly became loud. ”Food, I can give you a lot of food.”
”Food? Joke! I'm here for food, and it's your duty as residents of the fortress to raise food for major Armand, who is hundreds of miles away. So, besides food, you need to bring out other things. ”
Hearing this big chief's words, Armand's face became extremely bitter, but he just thought for a short time and immediately said: ”Dear chief, I can provide you with a lot of salt, cloth, iron and even horses...”
The stone bear shook his head slightly. ”Do you think we chikmen will lack salt? We live by the sea all the year round. When your people came to New Orleans along the Mississippi River, we provided you with a lot of salt. And now more than half of the salt that New Orleans needs is provided by our chichmuns. Mr. fernan, do you still think we will lack salt? ”
After a pause, the stone bear said, ”as for the iron ware, don't you think these two flying axes in my hand are not good enough? To tell you the truth, these flying axes are made by ourselves, and we don't lack iron. ”
At this, Fernand's face broke down.
At this time, there was a neat sound of footsteps outside. Several people looked up and found that the gate of the camp was opened not far away, and dozens of French Army soldiers with guns came out in line.
What happened just now actually took a short time. It took only a few minutes from the time when the stone bear threw the flying axe to the time when he just said these words. It is estimated that the French soldiers in the barracks have just finished their formation. They just came out to see who disturbed the order of the fortress.
It is also the duty of these soldiers to maintain order in the fortress.
When these soldiers saw that there were more than 40 native Indians with guns aiming at them in the square, they immediately raised their guns and aimed at them as if they were facing a big enemy.
But in the face of the French soldiers aiming, the soldiers brought by the stone bear did not even frown. Their hands were still as steady as Mount Tai. They aimed their rifles at the 20 or so people in front of them, as if the muskets in the hands of the French soldiers were firesticks.
The stone bear glanced at the French soldiers, then looked at Fernand, whose face became ecstatic because of the appearance of these soldiers, and said with disdain, ”if these soldiers dare to shoot, I guarantee that your head will fall before the lead bullet hits my soldiers!”
Fernand's ecstatic face suddenly became terrified. He yelled: ”Alphonse, order these damn soldiers to put down their guns, or I will not spare you.”
Alfonso was also a little confused. He had been receiving the great bear chief. Naturally, he didn't know why the soldiers in the barracks came out. But it's clear that the reason these soldiers left the camp was probably the order given by the damned Lieutenant Antoine.
So Alphonse said helplessly, ”Mr. fernan, these soldiers are following the orders of lieutenant Antoine. I can't help it.”
Antoine is Fernando's man, and that's clear to everyone. If major Armand had not valued Alphonse, Alphonse would not have been able to hold down Lieutenant Antoine.
Hearing Alphonse's words, fernan immediately yelled again: ”Antoine, you watch keeper, quickly order the soldiers to put down their guns...”
One of the soldiers, a tall officer, heard the roar. Immediately, he seemed to see an eagle quail and gave the order to put down his gun.
Just now, he saw the scene on one side of the square in the barracks. When he saw that his master was insulted by an aborigine, he immediately organized the soldiers in the barracks to ”rescue”.
There are more than 40 aborigines with guns outside. Antoine doesn't think he can save his master if he goes out. Only soldiers in the barracks can fight against these aborigines.
Although the French soldiers are not very effective, they do a very good job of ordering and banning. With Lieutenant Antoine's orders, the soldiers obediently put down their guns.
Alphonse immediately went up and began to severely reprimand these soldiers. In a short time, these soldiers followed Lieutenant Alphonse back to the barracks with guns. Only Lieutenant Antoine was left at the scene.
Stone Bear looked at fernan playfully, shook his head slightly and said: ”don't think you can do whatever you want in this fortress. It doesn't have any effect on me. And because of what the lieutenant did, I decided to increase your ransom chips! ”
When Fernand heard this, he looked at the lieutenant Antoine angrily.
However, Shi Xiong won't take care of these messy things. He has made it clear that there is an irreconcilable contradiction between the military of the fortress and the spokesmen of these aristocrats. If he doesn't make good use of this opportunity to blackmail the top Sergeant officer of the fortress at present, I'm really sorry that I've led a group of people for hundreds of miles!
So he said simply, ”twenty thousand pounds of grain, forty war horses, thirty APON cotton cloth, well, plus six contract slaves who can alchemy!”
These noble spokesmen all shivered at this, and the tall and thin man could not help shouting: ”it's impossible, you're blackmailing!”
Stone bear said with a smile: ”yes, I am blackmail!”
Finally, the group of six headed by Fernand recognized the conditions put forward by Shi Xiong.