Chapter 236: A Rush of January
Time flies by, a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and spring has finally arrived in the north.
The snow is smiling, the fjords are thawing. After a long winter, the northern border has finally returned to green again, and navigation with the outside world has finally resumed.
It’s just that spring came a little later than expected. According to Purficott’s inquiries from the local indigenous people, the start of spring was nearly half a month later than usual.
For the local indigenous people, this was just an accidental cold weather. Although spring came a little late, it was not that similar things had never happened in the past, it was just very rare.
But for Purficott, this means they are running out of time, because the lengthening of winter is ironclad evidence that global temperatures are falling.
Time is really running out.
In this fleeting month, Purficott did not sit idle or waste time. Instead, he led a team of alchemists to try to build the first snake-shaped shield machine prototype.
Although she had made a miniature model before, the model was just a model after all, and many details were difficult to reflect on the model.
Only when the prototype is actually made can we figure out what problems there are during use.
However, the North currently does not have the ability to manufacture large-scale mechanical parts. It would be too wasteful and impractical to rely on alchemists to make them by hand.
So during this month, her main job was to dismantle her miniature model, and then study the structure of each part with other alchemists, and implement the research results on the drawings.
After the drawings were completed, Purficott sent an airship to the New World and ordered the required parts from there.
According to Purficott's calculations, the northern territory had just thawed during the time when the parts were produced in the factories in the New World. By then, these parts could be shipped directly by freighter without having to consider transportation issues.
In addition, Purficott also continued to implement the move of factories to the North and the establishment of an industrial system in the New World and the Empire.
This matter is progressing relatively smoothly, and all parties are attaching great importance to it. The first batch of factories to be moved to the northern border have been prepared, and some of the equipment sent from the empire has been loaded on ships. Just wait for the northern border to arrive. Shipping will begin as soon as the news of Bian Thao is confirmed.
Although the New World did not move as fast as the Empire itself, the preparations that should be made were not left behind.
Taking advantage of their proximity and the fact that not all parts of the North were frozen, these capitalists formed an exploration team and entered the North during this season to select sites for exploration, starting after the spring. Make preliminary preparations for the construction work.
When Purficott heard the news, he could only lament that these capitalists were not human beings and at the same time wish them all the best.
Other than that, she didn't have much energy to pay attention to this kind of thing, because the North did not stop during this month.
The Wild Mane Tribe was the first to take advantage of the situation, and after some bargaining, several surrounding tribes basically chose to surrender and became subjects under the rule of the Northern Lords.
But there are also some tribes who are not so aware of current affairs. They believe that the northern lords are no different from the white devils who occupied their homes in the New World. Surrendering to the northern lords is tantamount to being slaughtered by others, so they decisively raised the flag of rebellion. , resisting the rule of the Northern Lords. Naturally, it was impossible for Purficott to be lenient on this kind of thing.
She summoned the chiefs of various tribes who had surrendered to her, explained the situation to them, and asked them to provide supplies and guides for the counter-rebellion troops she sent. These chiefs were required to accompany the army on campaign.
The chiefs of each tribe understood that Purficott wanted to establish his authority and kill the chickens to scare the monkeys. They did not have much objection to this, and they all obediently followed the counter-rebellion troops and set off.
It's just that the counter-insurgency force sent by Purficott was a bit of a joke for them, because she only sent a five-man Steam Knight team, and in addition there were only about fifty soldiers and two alchemists responsible for logistics.
A counter-insurgency force of this size cannot be said to look down on others, it can only be said that they completely ignore them.
But for the chiefs of various tribes, although they thought this was a child's play, they did not raise any objections. Instead, they wanted to see how powerful the white warriors were, and sent the tribesmen to All the ancestral warriors who can be dispatched are brought with them.
They had two thoughts. One was, of course, that Perficott's suppression of the resistance was successful, so they were going to wave the flag and share the spoils along the way.
But if this sparse counter-insurgency force overturns, they will defect before the battle, join the rebels, and also raise a counter-flag against Perficott.
Of course, it is not that no one thinks that this time Purficott just wants dog-eat-dog among the natives. This five-man team is just a supervisor. In essence, these surrendered tribes are still required to send troops.
It’s just that Purficott made it clear before the counter-insurgency troops set off that they didn’t need people from these tribes, so this guess was not valid.
In short, under the watchful eyes of all parties, the counter-rebellion troops quickly found the resisting tribes and launched an attack on them.
The people who resisted Purficott were a large tribe. They regarded bears as their ancestral spirits and called themselves the Barbarian Bear Tribe. They were the largest tribe among the many indigenous tribes in the north. The ancestral warriors alone were close to a tribe. There were more than a hundred people, plus the young and middle-aged men from the tribe and the manpower of several other small tribes who were brought together, and they managed to form a team of nearly a thousand people.
This scale is already considerable among indigenous tribes.
Although the indigenous tribes had assembled larger armies than this during the original war against the whites' invasion of the New World, troops of this size were rare in the North.
After all, the living conditions in the north are here, and the population size of each tribe itself cannot be compared with the tribes in the south.
However, relatively speaking, the indigenous tribes in the north have tempered themselves due to the harsh living environment. Compared with the tribes in the south, the tribal warriors in the north are taller and burlier. Relatively speaking, it is more barbaric.
In the eyes of the rebellious tribal chiefs, the so-called Northern Lord is just a liar. She does not have a strong army at all, so she uses gentle methods to conquer various tribes in order to cover up her inability to do so. The fact of conquering the North.
The five-person team she sent out to counter the rebellion also proves this point. If she really had a large army, why would she only send five people?
We have two hundred ancestral warriors and eight hundred young men on our side! One thousand against five, the advantage is mine!
So he chose A and went up, and then...
Then the chiefs of various tribes who surrendered to Purficott saw that even in the old world of white people, it was the top level of killing. How on earth did the machine's steam knight crush the rebellious tribe?
(End of this chapter)