Chapter 1024 The Nomadic Hunter in the Extreme North Asia, the Meeting Invitation of the Old Grandmother in the Mountains
Dawn breaks in the morning, the sun rises from the sea, and the mountains and forests reappear. The two Kotelmen hunters bid farewell hurriedly, and were about to return to the tribe in the northern mountains. The leader of the exploration didn't stop him. Instead, he smiled and sent a farewell gift to the chief of the mountain tribe. And the hunter Mu Lu secretly opened it, dipped his finger in it and tasted it, and found two bags of blue salt!
"Ancestors! It's precious salt! The Haibu of this deer is really strong and rich!..."
"Mu Lu, this is the salt that the head of Haibu gave to the old grandmother, don't spill it! Tie it up so it doesn't leak out!..."
The hunting captain, Mu Dog, tightened his expression, carefully tied up the salt bag, and wrapped it tightly with deerskin. In extreme northern Asia, where the winter is extremely cold and fuel is scarce, the cost of cooking salt is too high, but salt is a commodity that is valued by all ministries! And it is normal for the tribe to fight for a few bags of salt, and two people died.
"Yes! Captain Sage!..."
The two Kotelmen hunters kept trotting at an unhurried pace, and soon they walked into the pine forest and disappeared into the mountains to the north. And until their figures disappeared, the exploration captain Zuvaro let out a long breath, looked at the sun in the clouds, and prayed sincerely.
"The lord god bless! May this mountain tribe be a friend of the kingdom, not an enemy!..."
After praying for a moment, Zuvaro narrowed his eyes and looked at the dark sky. He quickly looked solemn, and gave instructions to everyone on the shore.
"The lord god bears witness! Look at the sky, it's going to snow!... Hurry up and make the camp tighter, and dig the warm hole half a person deep!..."
"yes!…"
Snowflakes in November were falling one after another from the drowsy sky and spread on the gray ground. It has been snowing for two days, the temperature is always below zero, and the snow soon reaches the ankle. The cold north wind froze the entire coast, causing more and more ice floes, and even condensed all the way to the bay.
Kingdom warriors and tribal sailors were busy in the snowstorm, while cutting down trees, collecting dead branches and logs, and expanding the camp on the shore, while transporting winter supplies from the longship, especially the most important food and coal!
Two hunters from the Kotelmen Mountains left for four days and reappeared from the north. This time, they showed up with ten sleds and forty dogs. And there were four palms sitting on the sled, that is, twenty tribal hunters from the mountain tribe!
"Aww! Aww! Aww!..."
Hearing the continuous howling of wolves, the exploration captain Zuvaro suddenly woke up. He put on leather armor and fur, took a copper axe, and boarded the simple and sturdy log watchtower. From a distance, he could see the dogs running on the northern snow field, as well as the tribal sleds pulled by the dogs.
"Huh?! These tribes in the mountains can actually domesticate... white wolves? To pull sleds?"
Exploration Captain Zuwaro stared wide-eyed, watching the howling dogs approaching, revealing a pair of silly and simple wolf faces, and a strong and powerful wolf body. This is the first time he has seen a Siberian husky, a specially domesticated sled dog from Kamchatka!
But soon, his curious gaze was attracted by the mountain hunters on the sled, and his face instantly became vigilant.
"Lord God! At least twenty elite tribal hunters? Are they all carrying recurved bows and arrows?"
Twenty mountain hunters sat on sleds and drove a pack of dogs, and they traveled several miles in a short while to the kingdom camp by the bay. Looking carefully, these mountain hunters are all carrying compound recurve bows, wearing inner leather armor, outer wing armor, and carrying heavy stone axes and stone knives. They were all wrapped in warm and thick buckskin robes, but they were very agile in their movements. And those fat, round and simple faces, although they were reddened by the wind and snow, were full of vigor and fearlessness!
This kind of early winter of minus seven or eight degrees is not considered cold at all for the Kanchajiazhu Department, but it is a suitable season for travel. Especially after a layer of snow has fallen on the ground, tribal hunters can sit on reindeer or dog sleds and become nomadic peoples on the snowy plains... The speed of travel can be several times faster in an instant, and they can even run in a day. Travel two or three hundred miles!
"Witness of the Lord God! Ah! Their moving speed on the snowy ground is so fast! This... Is this the nomadic northern tribe that His Majesty mentioned?"
The expedition leader Zuwaro showed surprise on his face, and estimated that the running speed of the dogs pulling the sled was at least six or seven times faster than walking! He had a lot of thoughts in his mind, but he ordered decisively in his mouth.
"Shi Jian! Let the warriors of the kingdom wear bronze cloth face armor, let the tribal sailors carry their spears, and get ready for battle!..."
"Yes! Captain!"
"Aww! Aww! Aww!..."
A quarter of an hour later, at the gate of Fengxue's camp, the leaders of both sides met again. Expedition Captain Zuwaro, with forty heavily armored kingdom warriors and fifty tribal sailors carrying spears, lined up outside the camp. As for the hunting team leader, Mu Hound, with twenty mountain hunters with bows on their backs, walked off the sled leading the pack of dogs.
"Witness of ancestors with spirits! Friends from Haibu, we meet again!..."
"The lord god blesses you! Brothers in the northern mountains, the lord god shines on you and your dogs!..."
The hunting captain, Mu Hound, held his head high, leading the tribe's most elite hunters, with a confident smile on his face. And it wasn't until he saw the platinum heavy armor of the kingdom's warriors that his confident expression froze suddenly, showing real surprise!
"Ah? Ancestor!...This is? Is this... the bronze armor of the Horse Department? There are so many pairs of bronze armor in the Sea Department!..."
As one of the tribes fighting on the snowfields of the extreme north, the hunting team leader of the mountain tribe naturally knows metal armor, whether it is copper armor or iron armor. Although there are very few metal armors in the Kamchatka Tribes, and the extremely cold climate is not suitable for ordinary iron armors, they still have the insights that the North Asian tribes should have.
The nomadic Ewen people and horses thousands of miles away in the west have some bronze armor and iron armor from the south, and some have even been passed down for dozens of generations, from the nomadic empire that died hundreds or thousands of years ago .
"Lord God bless! Brothers in the northern mountains, you come to the camp... Well, do you want to drink a bowl of warm whale meat soup together?"
Exploration Captain Zuwaro smiled, gestured enthusiastically, and looked at the tribal hunters in front of him. There was no killing intent on the faces of these hunters, but they all wore wing armor that spread out like wings in battle, and held the bows and axes in their hands tightly, as if intentionally or unintentionally, they wanted to show the strength of a certain tribe.
"Blessed by the ancestors! From the east, friends of the Haibu. Our Shanbu and Haibu are relatives for generations!..."
The hunting captain Mugou looked serious and said what the old grandmother told him to say. Then, he stretched out his hand, patted a tall man behind him, and ordered in a deep voice.
"Wu Hai! They come from those islands in the eastern sea... just like your father! Go, use the language your father taught you, and tell them the old grandmother's invitation!..."
"Yes! Captain Sage!..."
The tall Wu Hai nodded and took a step forward. He blinked his eyes and looked curiously at the Unanga clansmen in armor and carrying spears in the camp, but he spoke Aleut mixed with the local language!
"Ancestors witness! Sleeping giant, resting at our feet... My dead father came from Grandmother Island in the northeast. He mentioned the people in the east, the people who are hard to find on the sea..."
"Clan people on the ancestral island chain! You came here in a long and long boat that has never been seen before, and came to the territory of our mountain!... The wise old grandmother of the tribe said that the mountain and the sea have never fought , but since the oldest ancestors, they have often intermarried..."
"Ancestors with spirits, who protect us from the same ancestors! Haibu who came from the sea, you showed kindness, shared bonfires, meat and salt... You are friends of the mountain, brothers we have been apart for a long time! Wisdom The old grandmother invites you, invites your leaders, to the winter camp in the northern mountains, to have a warm bonfire together, and to drink the blood of the same deer! …”