Under the leadership of the original 2,000 colonial army led by Albert, 3,000 selected honest and strong German farmers began to replace them with new weapons and armor and conduct various combat training in the jungle.

What’s very interesting is that the armor they wore was challenged by the armor, but not the plate armor made of steel, but the plate armor made of wooden boards...

In other words, these 3,000 honest and strong recruits were wearing wooden plate armor. Why was this happening? At the beginning, the armor promoted by Marin was actually a wooden piece of armor similar to a mahjong mat. In Europe, in order to enhance the defense of ordinary soldiers, they also nailed thin iron pieces on the surface of the wood piece to enhance their defense against cold weapons.

But in the North American colonies, when Albert ordered the craftsmen to create wooden pieces of armor, a group of carpenters were lazy and felt that it was troublesome to make wooden pieces of armor, so he simply used a saw to simulate the appearance of the authentic plate armor, and directly sawed it into the shape of two wooden boards in front and back, making a breastplate made of two plates in front and back like the breastplate cavalry.

Albert was very angry at first, but the lazy carpenter was rumored and said that this plate armor was completely enough to defend against the poor weapons of the Indians. As a result, after testing, this simple "plate armor" spliced ​​with two wooden boards could really withstand the Indians' bows and arrows...

Of course, for the lower body, you can't just saw wood as leg armor. Helplessly, you have to use wooden pieces of armor as the skirt. As for the protection on the arms, it was the method of weaving willow baskets after the arrival of the Han Chinese shipbuilding craftsmen, and weaving branches into the shape of arm guards, and put them in two pieces on both ends of the arms. As for the helmet, it is naturally a wooden helmet...

In this way, an inappropriate "plate armor" composed of wooden helmets, wooden chest plates, wooden piece armor skirts and two pieces of arm guards woven with branches was promoted in the American colonies.

The original two thousand colonial troops were still wearing a full set of wooden pieces of armor that had been made before, and many veterans had iron sheets on the wooden pieces. Of course, Albert also had a group of very special troops - 50 members of the Wolf Tooth Commando who participated in the killing of King James IV of Scotland. But because these 50 Wolf Tooth Commando members were charged with undisclosed charges, they were usually very low-key, and they did not wear plate armor or mace. Only when Albert's New York was under great threat, these masters who usually dressed as ordinary guards would change into a full set of plate armor and fight with Langya Bang...

As for the 3,000 recruits, they are all new wooden "plate armor sets". As for weapons, the recruits use shields and one-handed swords because they are strong.

But their shields were also weakened. The shields they used were basket shields similar to willow baskets woven from branches cut down from local cut trees.

This kind of shield has no defense against guns and cannons. Even when facing swords and powerful bows and crossbows from the old continent, the effect is not very good. However, weapons used to defend against Indians... This kind of thing like a willow basket is enough...

Albert was a little worried, so he asked 1,000 veterans, under the guidance of the old hunters and the hounds, to launch a new round of offensive with 3,000 recruits. As a result, a Shawnee tribe on the west bank of the Delaware River was defeated.

The Shawnees' weapons were really bad, and they could not do anything to use the shields of the new recruits like baskets. Then, more than 600 people in this tribe were defeated and captured, and were escorted by the soldiers to help cut down trees and work.

The Shawnees are a branch of Indians, and currently there are about several tribes living in the Pennsylvania region and parts of northwestern Virginia, as well as the forested areas of later Eastern Ohio.

Around the 17th century, the Iroquois, who were intimate with the British, moved south from the north and drove the Shawnees away from the central and eastern Pennsylvania to the Ohio area.

But now, the Pennsylvania area is still the world of Shawneys. However, it seems that Shawneys are really not good at fighting. Their rough stone weapons are difficult to break through the defense of the North Sea colonial Army, even the roughest wooden "plate armor set". When conquering the more than 600 Delaware tribes named Sosi, none of the entire colonial army died. Only two new recruits were injured by the enemy's stone hammer in the fight because of insufficient experience, but they were not seriously injured.

Because there were no casualties, the leader of the colonial army, Cronx, did not kill the Shawnees, but drove them to work. In addition to work, Cronx also gave the young Shawnees who worked well enough to eat and drink.

And while eating and drinking, Kronx discovered an extremely unexpected situation - Shawnee people love to drink...

Because of the large amount of grain production and nowhere to be sold, the brewing industry in Beihai Country was very developed and the wine was extremely sufficient. In order to appease the homesickness of the colonial soldiers, Malin provided them with enough wine.

For example, in the colonial army led by Kronx, the most important supply supplies included large barrels of wine. Among them, the most popular one was probably the rye Erguotou mixed with sucrose.

However, the authentic Erguotou is too strong and Europeans can't get used to it. Therefore, the rye Erguotou supplied to the army is actually a medium wine of only 20 degrees. This wine is actually a medium wine that is deliberately formed by rye brewing tan beer that is less distilled several times (the wine diluted with water is not resistant to preservation unless it is sealed and heated by can distillation, and the wine formed naturally is resistant to preservation). After adding sugar, it is very suitable for rough men to drink it.

Not only the colonial soldiers liked it, but even the Shawnees who were forced to work very much. The first time they drank this moderate wine, the Shawnees got drunk. But when they were having dinner the next day, the Shawnees shouted that they wanted to drink...

Kronx was very unhappy at first, but suddenly thought of something...

A few days later, Albert received a letter from Cronx, in which Cronx suggested that Albert use the wine shipped from his native land to trade with the Indians.

Albert was skeptical and sent someone to Albany to invite some Delavas to help contact the Shawnees, intending to trade with each other with wine and buy fur.

As a result, the few Delava men invited by Albert started drinking the wine first, and they were all drunk and unconscious...

"Okay, no need to ask, I know what Indians like..." Albert summarized.

Then, several caravans went to the western jungle area, and under the protection of escorts, they joined the heads with several Shawnee tribes and successfully reached a trade agreement.

With the temptation of alcohol, several Shawnee tribes agreed without hesitation to help hunt beavers to obtain beaver skins and beaver fragrance.

At the same time, Albert also wrote a letter to Garland on Cape Breton Island to try to trade with Indians in Canada.
Chapter completed!