The crossing point of the First Division of the Grim Bear Army was chosen not far from the confluence of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River.

With the southern and eastern expeditions of the Burst Bear Brigade in the past two years, this large area east of the Mi River and south of the Russian River is now basically under the control of the Cherokee tribe.

Now, with all the soldiers of the First Division of the Grim Bear Army crossing the Mississippi River, the Western Expedition plan made by the Stone Bear himself has begun.

On the other side of the river, there was originally a small tribe of Missourians. This small tribe had a small population of only more than 200 people. It usually fished and hunted.

When the soldiers from the Engineer Battalion of the First Division began to cross the river to build the pontoon bridge, the small tribe ran away early. Even if the weather was still a bit cold at that time, the little tribe didn’t dare to stay here anymore.

The soldiers of the First Division quickly crossed the wide Mississippi River, and then began to build military camps with the help of the thatched huts left by the small tribe.

This place will become the base camp of the Western Expedition Army of the Grim Bears, and the "General Manager" Mad Lion responsible for the logistics of the entire Western Expedition will be based here to take care of the huge logistics materials for the entire Western Expedition.

Speaking of this old lion, Shi Xiong is also very helpless.

As the leader of the Red River Water Tribe, one of the top ten tribes of the Cherokee tribe, he had to follow the Western Expedition Army to the west after learning of the stone bear’s plan for the westward march.

Shi Xiong didn't agree at first, but couldn't help the old lion to be too cumbersome, so Shi Xiong finally agreed. However, given that the Mad Lion was not young anymore, Shi Xiong did not agree to join him in the offensive force, but instead asked him to sit in the rear and be responsible for the logistics of the entire army.

Crazy Lion happily agreed to Stone Bear's fate, and at the same time humbly asked for advice from the Division Long Bone Spear of the Second Division of the Storm Bear Army.

Back in the expeditionary army's southern conquest of the Cree, Bone Spear was the logistics chief of the expeditionary army. For logistics, Bone Spear was very experienced. Moreover, the mad lion not only asked him for advice, but also "harassed" the stone bear from time to time.

The soldiers of the First Division will attack in three directions west, north, and south with the logistics camp as the center for a period of time. They will make this semi-circular area with a radius of about 50 kilometers in more than ten days. All the enemies inside were driven away or beaten down. Create a peaceful area for the brothers of the second, third, and fourth divisions that will follow.

It is said that the soldiers and horses go ahead before the food and grass, but in fact the scouts are the first to act!

These Cherokee men with the most exquisite riding skills will ride their horses in advance to figure out the situation in this area and even further away, and then draw a simple map for the commander behind to make corresponding decisions.

These scouts are the eyes of the Grim Bear Army, and the range of their activities will be the same as the range of the Grim Bear Army's subsequent attacks.

When a steady stream of intelligence gathered in the hands of Bighorn Sheep and Kuai Ma, the two top commanders and staff officers quickly made corresponding battle plans.

The First Division has three brigades and nine regiments, each with 1,000 soldiers, plus the large number of engineer battalions, logistics battalions, and division headquarters, which counts as exactly 10,000.

The nine regiments were left with one regiment stationed at the logistics camp. The division headquarters and the engineering battalion and logistics battalion were also stationed at the logistics camp. The other eight regiments were divided into eight directions, with the logistics camp as the center and fan-shaped outward attacks.

Because according to the information brought back by the scouts, a total of seven Missouri tribes and four Arkansas tribes were found in this semi-circular area with a radius of about 50 kilometers. Most of the Missouri tribes are in the west and north, while Arkansas The human tribe is in the southwest.

This place is already under the control of the Osages, whether they are Missourians or Arkansas, they are all under the control of the Osages.

In response to this situation, the Bighorn Sheep decided to divide its troops into eight groups, one regiment for each group, and pull out these eleven tribes!

Even though there are only 1,000 people in each regiment, the soldiers of the first division are really armed to the teeth. And with the excellent equipment of the First Division, let alone these Indians, even the most powerful British at the moment, even if they send three thousand people, they will definitely be beaten in front of a regiment of the First Division.

The equipment of the expeditionary army back then was far less than that of the first division of the Grim Bear Army, but the expeditionary army of 2,100 men froze and directly collapsed more than 20,000 Crees in a single battle.

In this regard, bighorn sheep has a deep understanding! He was the commander of the Cree!

The weapons of the First Division of the Grim Bear Army are far from comparable to those of the Expeditionary Army.

For example, one regiment of this first division would have a special mortar company equipped with eight 55 mortars. In addition, there are two grenadier companies equipped with a full 100 grenades that use smokeless gunpowder as the propellant and the new Xiaohuazha gun as the warhead.

Among the remaining 700 soldiers, there are three hundred musketeers, equipped with blast bear rifles with an effective range of up to 600 meters, and two hundred strong archers, equipped with strong bows with a range of up to 140 meters, and another regiment. The direct security company, as well as scout troops and logistics troops, are also equipped with powerful weapons.

The main battle mortar company and grenadier company alone are enough to destroy all the enemies that can be encountered on the road.

The blooming bombs of this era are not so powerful. Especially for the Indians who have not seen a heat weapon, the sound and light effect of the explosion is estimated to be able to scare them to the ground.

The eight regiments of the First Division, led by the scouts of their respective regiments, were advancing rapidly towards their respective goals.

If you look down from the sky, eight sharp arrows shoot in eight directions!

The first to contact the enemy was the second regiment of the first division. The second regiment attacked in the northwest direction. There was a large tribe of Missourians on the road in front of them~lightnovelpub.net~ that was a population of more than one A large tribe of thousands of people!

After the ambitions of the second regiment had traveled about ten kilometers, they saw this vast tribe.

The Cherokee tribes are mostly in the mountains, even the top ten tribes are as small as possible, so the Cherokee tribes are mostly very compact.

But here is the Great Central Plains, with endless plains and grasslands everywhere, so the land occupied by a tribe of more than 1,000 people is several times that of a large tribe of the Cherokee tribe.

The soldiers of the second regiment were gearing up to take down this big tribe in one fell swoop, and make a good start for the western expedition. But what I didn't expect was that when the soldiers of the second regiment were all in the offensive formation, the tribe didn't even move at all.

In the end, when the scouts cautiously approached the tribe on horseback, they discovered that the tribe had already gone to the building, and no one was seen!

I was thinking of clenching my fist to give the enemy a head-on blow, but I didn’t expect that the punch almost shook my waist.

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