In February of the eighth year of Dongxiao, Nikan set out from the Great Salt Lake.

At this time, the Apache tribe who learned the news retreated as expected, but before retreating, they burned, killed and robbed the southern part of the Navajo tribe, which was later Las Vegas, and kidnapped all the young and strong men and women. This scene seemed to remind people of the events between the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Navajo and Apache became a feud, which was beneficial to the attacks of the Daxia Kingdom.

Starting from the northern part of the Great Salt Lake, you can walk roughly along a river called the Humboldt River. After crossing countless mountains and valleys, you can reach the vicinity of Lake Tahoe.

As soon as I entered the Humboldt Valley, Nikan clearly felt the unusual landforms of the Navajo territory and later Nevada, with sandstone everywhere, tall cactus, mountains, Gobi, grasslands, and oasis valleys scattered. Under the reflection of sandstone, everything turned almost red.

Mars Earth.

A strange noun came to Nikan's heart.

Most of the mountains in the hinterland of Nevada are the remnants of the Rocky Mountains. They are not continuous here, but intermittently broken mountains. Each mountain is isolated on the plateau. It looks red from a distance. However, when you look closer, there is still vegetation on the mountain, because compared with the Mongolian Plateau, there is obviously more water vapor here. There is snow on the top of the mountain all year round. Under the watering of snow and rain, it seems that there is still creatures on the ground where there is no grass growing.

Each mountain is the center of organisms, with a wide range of grasslands nearby, and the bushes are all kinds of antelope. The mountain is black bears and wolves. When the wolf pack needs to hunt, it sways to the bottom of the mountain and rests on the mountain at night.

Along the way, walking along the Humboldt River, there were both water sources, water plants and animals. Nikan and his group of more than 600 people were unaware of the lack of herb consumption.

The tribes along the way basically leaned against the mountains and rivers. When they saw Nikan's "strange" team and "exotic beasts" that had never been seen before, they naturally fled to the mountains to hide. However, when they learned that Abo, the chief assistant of the Navajo leader, was also inside, they walked down the mountains and bravely surrounded the horse team to watch.

It was said that this team riding the "divine beast" that regarded themselves as the representative of the voodoo god in the world. After the arrogant Hudu Utah headquarters, these people looked at Nikan and the others with envy, and the high priest's brothers were respectful to them, which invisibly aggravated their awe.

Before leaving, Nikan said to Sun Desheng: "The Shawshauni tribe and Utah tribe led by Ani must naturally be included in the jurisdiction of the Great Xia Kingdom. However, the Navajo tribe is not only the most populous tribe in the Moon Goddess tribe, but also the tribe that most trusts the Moon Goddess. It goes without saying that they can't do it. Instead of forcing it, it's better to be restrained, and it's still an old routine, subtly and secretly influence it."

Ten days later, the red eyes were full of beauty, and the cavalry team of 600 people, no one dared to covet anything in this valley. Therefore, it can be said that there is no danger along the way. The climate of about ten degrees below zero is very comfortable for the Hanhai cavalry. The group was not busy rushing, but walked all the way, detecting the terrain and drawing maps. There were not many roads every day.

On this day, they arrived at an estuary, which, according to Apo, was where the Ruby River flowed into the Humboldt River.

"Your Majesty, the Ruby River originates from Mount Ruby in the south. There is a big lake on the mountain called Ruby Lake. There is a small tribe near the lake called Ruby. It is a mountain tribe. It is very powerful. In the past, when we went to the Great Salt Lake to exchange salt, we were often robbed by the tribe."

“They aren’t Navajo people?”

"No, they are not believers of the Moon Goddess, but a group of the Apaches, and a few Apaches who have not moved away. They are not many, but they have lived on the mountains for a long time and are very good at running and jumping. The great leader wanted to send his young and strong men up the mountain to fight. Unfortunately, when they heard that we were waiting, they either set up an ambush or rush into the mountains and disappear."

"Although such a mountain is not big, there are several places in this place. They are familiar with the path. Running from one mountain to another is like on a flat ground, leaving us and other flat lands helpless."

"So, your attack has not been successful?"

"Yes, in the end, the people who had to go to the Great Salt Lake exchange had to go in a team. Even so, they still robbed a lot of them. However, since our team grew up, we gradually reached a tacit understanding with them. The salt we exchanged from the Great Salt Lake will be given to them appropriately, so that both sides could barely keep their peace."

"It has been a long time since I saw the heavy snow like this in my territory, and my tribe members probably haven't gone to the Great Salt Lake to exchange salt for a long time. I guess the Ruby people can't hold back..."

Before he finished speaking, a large group of people flashed out from behind a dark red sandstone!

It turned out that there were two sandstones, with a large area of ​​extremely tall cactus growing in the middle, and most of the people were hiding behind the cactus.

I saw those people wearing animal skins, without eagle feather crowns on their heads, all of them were disheveled and hairy. In the cold weather, they were barefoot and holding a spear in their hands. The spear head was naturally bound obsidian.

Those people probably had been ambushing behind the cactus for a long time, and jumped out as soon as they heard the movement, but they were stunned as soon as they came out.

A large group of "experienced beasts" that I had never seen before, and people wearing strange clothes and riding on the strange beasts!

For a moment, the people stood there silently. At this time, Etuhun led a hundred cavalry to the back of the cactus and sealed their retreat.

Nikan said to Apo, "I want to give a generous gift to the Navajo chief."

After saying that, about a hundred cavalry flew out from his side, and together with Etuhun, surrounded the people one by one.

"kill!"

Nikan had no sympathy for these people.

After a musket sounded, the war horse suddenly rushed in!

There is no suspense. Under the huge force gap and the intimidation of the "divine beasts" that scared them, they were wiped out. The fast running they used to be pale in comparison with the speed of horses.

In the end, they captured a few people and killed all the remaining people.

"What do you think is good for this tribe?"

Nikan asked Abo.

Abo was immersed in the storm attack of the Hanhai Army. Hearing this, he said: "These people are mostly the strongest people of the Ruby tribe. Without these strong people, the remaining people cannot cause big storms, forget it."

Nikan shook his head, "No matter who you do something inappropriate, you should be punished. The punishment must be timely, otherwise it will not be enough to warn others. Don't worry, I have a team called the Tiger Cavalry. In addition to being a good horse, I am also good at fighting in the mountains. With these prisoners leading the way, they will soon find their nests and destroy them in one fell swoop. It is the time!"

Abo led Etuhun and left with two hundred riders, and the rest of the people were stationed at the mouth of the river.

By the afternoon of the third day, Etuhun, Abo and others appeared. Of course, in front of them, a large group of people were tied with straw ropes, both men, women, young and old, all barefoot, and were walking quickly on the land under the urging of war horses.

In this way, Nikan's cavalry brigade escorted the Ruby people and continued to move along the Humboldt Valley. Along the way, these Ruby people were very respectful to Nikan and the others. They naturally took on the chores such as making fires, carrying water, and finding firewood.

Twenty days later, they finally arrived near Lake Tahoe.

Along the way, Nikan carefully observed that none of these Ruby people, whether old, young or young, fell behind. His strength to retreat could not help but secretly admired him.

Lake Tahoe is another steaming lake of tears (actually caused by geothermal heat). Near the lake, Little Ani and his tribe are waiting.

To the northeast of Lake Tahoe, there is a tall red sandstone with an area of ​​about five acres. Above is a grand welcoming ceremony.

Texas is the name of this ceremony, meaning welcoming friends.

Like Ani of the Shawshauni tribe, the 18-year-old Navajo leader, Xiao Ani, also had no inch besides the eagle feather crown and eagle feather skirt. She led the dance herself, and brought ten girls like him. Around them, a big drum made of bison leather was also ringing "dongdong". The ones who beat the big drum were a group of strong men. Those big men also had no inch besides a eagle feather skirt.

Not as seductive as Ani, but little Ani was serious and performed their Navajo standard ritual in a straightforward manner.

The ceremony took place for a full half day until the fire on the high platform was extinguished.

Seeing this, Nikan knew that it would be impossible to completely incorporate such a tribe into the management of the Great Xia Kingdom in a short period of time, but it should be possible to make good friends with them or become an allies without any obstacles to using their manpower.

"Uzanikan"

"Ani"

After the dance, Nikan met with Little Anni. As soon as he met, Nikan was shocked.

His daughter, Sun Dezhao, looked very similar to this person. In an instant, the remaining contempt in his heart disappeared, and he said his name in Sauron.

When Little Annie said his name, Nikan seemed to hear the sound of the imitation bird he saw here, and the sound was extremely pleasant.

But then he heard two news that surprised him and was happy.

"Dear Daxia tribe leader, the Navajo tribe is willing to join the Bogda God Alliance. In addition, due to heavy snow, it is no longer feasible to cross Taiho Mountain at this time. If you want to, you can linger on the banks of Lake Tahoe for a month."

Nikan thought about it and then came up with a new idea.

In the next few days, he met with Little Ani and then made large-scale mining of silver mines near Lake Tahoe, trading cloth and iron kits for their labor.

Compared with the Shoshone and Utah people near Lake Tahoe, the Navajo people were indeed higher in cultivation. At least they could bury the seeds underground and knew that they had to water some water. However, they did not understand the principle of fertile fields. After planting a piece of land a few times, they gave up the harvest and turned to other undeveloped land. This cycle led to the fact that although the area near Lake Tahoe was far fertile than the Humboldt Valley, they could not withstand their use of ground abilities like this.

So, another condition was formed.

Daxia teaches them to farm reasonably, and as a reward, Daxia can sneak into this place one hundred farmers.

"One hundred households", Nikan thought secretly, "It is better to move into those single gold diggers, use their obviously superior farming ability as a starting point to attract native women to combine with them, and slowly merge with the Navajo people, and take time, haha..."
Chapter completed!