Hurry up, and the autumn crops in 1775 still did not catch up with the planting.

Even if the Grim Bear Army speeds up its march, even if the Grim Bear Army swept across the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Miami people in a manner of crushing, it really conquered all three tribes. After that, the time has come to October.

  Conquering these three tribes was not as fast as imagined, especially the Chippewa. The 3,000-kilometer lakeshore line was enough to make the Grim Bear Army break its leg.

Even if later, Stone Bear mobilized some smaller inland river armed transport ships and went north along the Illinois River, then went directly into Lake Michigan through the Chicago River, then through Lake Michigan into Lake Huron, and finally through Lake Huron and Lake Superior. The natural river in between enters Lake Superior, and there is no way to help the Grim Bear Army much. The most is to help the Grim Bear Army transport some supplies and ammunition.

  After all, more ships in Beijing only need to be used to transport food and personnel.

  Starting from Shangjing, some ships headed north along the Mississippi River, and some ships headed northeast along the Ohio River, pulling some tribesmen and food, and when they came back, they brought the included Chippewa, Ottawa, and Miami people to Shangjing.

  This work alone accounts for 80% of all capacity in Shanghai. Therefore, there is no excess capacity to help the Grim Bear soldiers speed up the expedition. Then, until mid-to-late October, the three tribes were completely occupied by the Grim Bear army. By this time, the weather near the Great Lakes has become very cold.

  From the topography of the North American continent, the Great Lakes is actually a huge tuyere. The cold current from the far north of the mainland will always be the first to enter the United States through here. Therefore, even if there are Great Lakes here as a relief, it is still unavoidable that the temperature is getting colder day by day.

Fortunately, in October, most of the waterways of the Great Lakes were not frozen, so the Grim Bear army, which had freed up its capacity, began to deploy a line of defense in the later Sault Ste. Marie-Detroit-Cleveland line, or to attack the base. .

  From the end of October, the first and second divisions of the Grim Bear Army will be stationed on this line as the main force, and the third, mixed fifth and mixed sixth divisions will return to Beijing for repair. The Mixed Seventh Division and Mixed Eighth Division will be mobilized here from Shangjing to assist the first and second divisions in building this line of defense.

  The four divisions will stay here until April next year, a full six months. They will spend a long and cold winter here, which is also the longest and coldest winter they have ever spent in their lives.

  In order to ensure that the soldiers can survive this cold winter safely, Shi Xiong also came up with many ways.

  For example, Shi Xiong brought China’s "Di Yingzi".

  This kind of "house" that has been used for thousands of years in Northeast China is half underground and half on the ground. The insulation is very good. The people in Northeast China have used it for thousands of years and have been using it very well. The most important thing is that it is very convenient to repair this kind of ground scent.

  Now the Cherokee do not lack iron tools, and the Grim Bear soldiers are even more equipped with an engineer shovel. The Great Lakes region has abundant water sources, and the trees are extremely lush, and there are thick and thick trees everywhere.

When repairing the tassels, just find a **** that is leeward to the sun and close to the water source and dig a large square pit two meters deep and large enough in area. The middle is topped with a thick tree trunk that has been felled, and logs are placed on it, with big iron nails. Hold it firmly, then cover it with thick thatch, and cover the top with thick soil, and a ground stubble is repaired.

  It takes up to two days for a squad of soldiers to build such a ground.

Once the ground silo is repaired, it is cushioned with dry soil, and then a fire kang is built. A large stove is built. The chimney sticks out from the chimney hole reserved above the ground silo. Once the stove inside is lit, the entire ground silo will be covered. Very warm.

  No matter how cold the weather is, it will never freeze when hiding in the ground. And after these ground scents are repaired, they don't worry that they won't be used. Even if the soldiers of the Grim Bear Army continue the Eastern Expedition after this winter, the tribes who will be added later can also live in these ground stubs, which are definitely good houses to live in this area.

  Furthermore, the winter here is terrible, even if the length of the Sault Ste. Marie-Detroit-Cleveland line of defense is very long, even the Hurons and Iroquois are not afraid to make a large-scale deployment in the winter. Moreover, most areas of this line of defense are on the shore of the lake, and only a few key land transportation routes need to be guarded to prevent sneak attacks by the Iroquois and Hurons.

  The Grim Bear Army is based on regiments, and a total of forty regiments are distributed on this line of defense. There are usually three regiments stationed in key areas, and artillery regiments are also stationed in these key areas. With these 76mm cannons, it is enough to defend an area with a frontal width of 16 kilometers.

  Although the other regiments do not have cannons, 76mm mortars and 55mm mortars, as well as a larger number of grenadiers, are enough to ensure the safety of the Grimbear soldiers.

  Even if there is a cold wave and the temperature drops sharply and the lake is frozen, the Iroquois or Hurons walk along the ice near the lake shore, and the stone bears are not worried.

  Because each regiment is stationed in the area ~lightnovelpub.net~ there is a hot air balloon staying behind. Even if these hot air balloons cannot take off at night, once they take off during the day, holding a telescope at an altitude of 500 meters is enough to see an area one hundred and eighty kilometers away. Even if the Iroquois and Hurons want to sneak through the frozen lake, it is not so easy.

  Stone bears don’t think they can walk hundreds of kilometers on ice in one night

  As for small-scale sneak attacks, Shi Xiong is even less worried. As far as the weapons in the hands of the Iroquois and the Hurons, even if one or two thousand people came, they were not enough to squeeze their teeth.

  Facts have also proved that Shixiong’s arrangement is correct.

  Because just before this line of defense was fully formed, the Iroquois and Hurons unexpectedly joined forces to launch several sneak attacks. Of course, they were not a large-scale attack, but sent dozens of small-scale fighters to sneak attacks from the mountains and forests, from the shoreline of the lake and even in canoes.

  As a result, these sneak attack guys were naturally destroyed by the Grim Bear soldiers without hesitation. The most spectacular one was when the Iroquois sent a team of about a thousand people. As a result, the observers of the hot air balloon saw it early. The twenty 76mm cannons of the artillery regiment were just salvos. In two rounds, more than a thousand people completely evaporated in the world

  Since then, I have never seen an Iroquois or Huron sneak attack.

  It is estimated that their chiefs are worrying about how to resist the advance of the Grim Bear soldiers after the beginning of spring next year