Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 236 A month in a hurry

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 serpentine 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.

In addition, Purficott also continued to implement the move to the New World and the empire to move factories to the north and establish an industrial system in the north.

Relying on their close 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 explore and select sites to prepare for the construction work that would begin after the spring. Lay the groundwork.

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.

When Purficott heard the news, he could only lament that these capitalists were not humane and at the same time wish them all the best.

However, the North currently does not have the ability to manufacture large mechanical parts. It would be too wasteful and impractical to rely on alchemists to make them by hand.

Although the New World side did not move as fast as the Empire itself, the preparations that should be made were not left behind.

After the drawings were completed, Purficott sent an airship to the New World and ordered the required parts from there.

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.

According to Purficott's calculations, the northern border had just thawed during the time when the parts were being produced by the factories in the New World. By then, these parts could be shipped directly by freighter without having to consider transportation issues.

Other than that, she doesn't have much energy to pay attention to this kind of thing, because the North has not stopped 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 demons who occupy 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 and resisted the northern lords. rule. Naturally, it was impossible for Purficott to be lenient on this kind of thing.

She summoned the chiefs of various tribes who submitted to her, explained the situation to them, and asked them to provide supplies and guides for the counter-rebellion troops she sent. At the same time, she also made it clear that these chiefs must accompany the army on the expedition.

The chiefs of each tribe understood that Purficott wanted to establish his authority and kill the chickens to scare the monkeys. They didn't 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 to 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 upon others, it can only be said that they completely ignore them.

But for the chiefs of each tribe, although they thought this was a joke, they did not raise any objections. Instead, with the idea of ​​​​seeing how powerful the white warriors were, they sent all the ancestor warriors in the tribe to Brought it.

They had two thoughts. One was naturally 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 the flag of rebellion 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 Perficott 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.

All in all, under the watchful eye of all parties, the counterinsurgency forces 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 one of the larger tribes among the many indigenous tribes in the north. There were nearly a hundred ancestral warriors alone. In addition, The young men from the upper tribe and the men from several other small tribes who were brought together 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.

But relatively speaking, the harsh living environment of the indigenous tribes in the north has actually tempered them. Compared with the tribes in the south, the tribal warriors in the north are taller and burlier, and at the same time, they are relatively more savage.

In the eyes of the rebellious tribal chiefs, the so-called Northern Lord was just a liar. She did not have a strong army at all, so she used gentle methods to conquer various tribes in order to cover up the fact that she was not capable of conquering the Northern Territory.

And the five-man 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 how the Steam Knight, which was the top killing machine even in the white man's old world, crushed the rebel tribes.

(End of this chapter)