Chapter 1979: Novice difficulty

According to information provided by Senegal, Putinski and his 45 companions who lived beside him currently control about thousands of young black cavalrymen. However, about half of the thousands of black teenagers were leaders of local tribes near the Dakar Peninsula and children of important people in the tribe (such as elders, prophets, etc.) and could not be taken away.

There are no more than 500 people who can move to the north bank of the Senegal River following Pukinsky North, and even less than 500 people. Moreover, to get the local tribal leaders to agree to Putinski taking these people, Marin has to pay a great price. After all, those people are also male laborers of all tribes.

Of course, this price is also affordable. After all, the local indigenous tribes have never seen the earth turtle. You can fool around with anything worthless. For example, shiny glass products, as well as table salt, cloth and sugar are not valuable in the civilized world, but are very valuable in Africa. For example, in the local area, a pound of sucrose or two pounds of salt can be replaced by a strong black slave.

Of course, the teenagers who can ride archery are not ordinary slaves, and it is difficult to get a pound of sugar or two pounds of salt. However, according to Eschwein's report, it seems that bows made in Europe are very popular among the locals.

The local indigenous people are mainly hunting, and naturally like the bow and arrow used for hunting. A 60-pound hunting bow, plus an iron-headed arrow (24), can actually be changed to 4 black slaves. Although those black teenagers who can ride horses and archery are high-priced "technicians", as long as they are not children of the chief or elders, the exchange price will never exceed 5 bows and arrows. After all, although the local indigenous people think that the cavalry is powerful, they even think it is the credit for the bow and arrow.

Indigenous people have limited ability to think. They only saw that the black boys killed their enemies and prey with bows and arrows. They did not realize that the archers on horseback were more powerful than the archers on the ground. After all, with the minds of indigenous people, it is difficult to understand the significance of horses' mobility.

They only saw that the enemies and prey were killed by the bow and arrow, but did not realize the great significance of the horse's mobility. Therefore, the locals are very fond of European bows and arrows, especially iron-headed arrows.

Iron-headed arrows can easily penetrate the fur of their prey, which is much stronger than the stone javelin heads used by local indigenous people. Those local tribes who have good relations with the Senegalese company, after defeating other tribes, often use captive prisoners of war to exchange more bows and arrows with Eschwein, especially iron-headed arrows.

Of course, the bow and arrow are indeed very sharp in the conflict of the local tribes. All tribes equipped with a large number of European bows and arrows can often defeat hostile tribes and flee, which has deepened their pursuit of European bows and arrows.

As for the firearms used by the rhino hunting team led by Royce, because of the loud sound, the superstitious indigenous people did not dare to come close, thinking that it was a thunder in the sky, let alone want to use it.

That is to say, as long as Lincoln provides enough bows and arrows made in Europe, it is not a problem to exchange those low-ranking ordinary black juvenile bow cavalry. It really doesn't work. Adding some other goods will always make their chieftains tempted.

Not too much, as long as you can take away four or five hundred black juvenile bow cavalry, and Marin can buy hundreds of Egyptian slave cavalry trained by Mamluk cavalry from Egypt, you can be invincible on the grasslands of West Africa.

The Egyptian slave cavalry have been trained with the mamluk cavalry on the horse's scimitar, and they are good melee cavalry. With four or five hundred black youth bow cavalry, you are not afraid of meeting any black tribe. After all, most of the black people of this era still used javelins with stone gun heads.

Eschwein ’s report described the fighting between black local tribes—when the locals were fighting, the two sides held their javelins and bid for each other at a distance of forty or fifty yards. Then, if one side could not resist, they began to retreat. Often a battle is fought, and the casualties are only a few dozen people, and the casualty rate is very low.

This is because the javelin was originally close in range, and the accuracy was poor. If you shoot a javelin, the hit rate is comparable to that of a smoothbore gun, and the enemy is killed by Mongolia ...

But bows and arrows are different. The 60-pound bow sold by Eschwein to local blacks can easily aim at the enemy at a distance of 50 to 60 meters. And in the case of projectile, it can easily reach a range of one to two hundred meters.

This kind of striking distance is much more powerful than the African javelin. When the enemy on the opposite side bids for a few enemies in the "Mongolian" at a distance of forty or fifty yards, the archer here can accurately kill the opponent at this distance.

Although the shooting level of local black bows and arrows is low, it is not possible to shoot as many rings as possible. However, at a distance of forty or fifty yards, the target of the black people on the opposite side is so big, and most of them are not wearing clothes ... In this way, the killing of the 60 pound bow on the opposite side is very amazing ...

Think about it, a group of non-clothed second-hand goods stands opposite to let you shoot with an arrow, no armor, no shield ... if the archer can't cause a lot of damage to the opposite ...

However, the virtue of black indigenous people was shot a few in the front row, so it broke down ...

Therefore, which tribe Eschwein sold bows and arrows to, which tribe's combat power soared, could beat the tribes around, and arrested many black prisoners of war as slaves. Of course, the premise is that none of the surrounding tribes have bought Eschwein's bows and arrows ... If there are bows and arrows on both sides, it depends on which side has more bows and arrows and shoots accurately ...

Moreover, Eschwein also discovered that the locals seem not to be eager to annex the surrounding tribes to strengthen themselves ...

Why? Because the local black people are still in the most primitive hunting era. Their main way of survival is to hunt for food. Therefore, all tribes value the hunting area, that is, the site.

Generally speaking, a tribe is not happy to share hunting grounds with other tribes. Because, sharing the hunting ground means that the food should be distributed to others ...

At the same time, if the tribal population is too large, then the pressure to hunt will increase. Therefore, the local tribal chiefs are not willing to annex other tribes, they only like to drive away the hostile tribes and occupy more hunting grounds. Then, grab a few Zhuang Ding slaves of the other clan to sell ...

In the simple concept of local indigenous people, there are not many people, just a few hundred. However, the range of the hunting ground must be large enough. In this way, you can eat too much food ...

Therefore, the local tribal population is generally several hundred people, and few large tribes with thousands of people. Obviously, without farming, it is not easy for large tribes with thousands of people to appear.

In addition, the locals do not have horses and have a small range of activities, so naturally they have no idea of ​​annexing the surrounding tribes.

This is similar to the Sauron people. The hunting ethnic group and the general tribe have a small population, mostly a few hundred people. Because, with a large population, hunting pressure will increase. In the absence of horses, people's hunting range is limited. If the population is too large, the prey is not enough to kill.

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The indigenous blacks of Senegal, still in the hunting era, obviously had no idea of ​​annexing other tribes. Most of the clashes among their tribes are based on snatching hunting grounds. Of course, they also grabbed some prisoners of war and sold them as slaves. Because Eschwein also bought slaves and exchanged them with bows and arrows. If Eschwein had n’t bought slaves, they would n’t be willing to capture the captives ...

In other words, the local tribal conflicts are generally of a scale of one hundred people, and the type of mutual bidding for guns is not as good as the gang hack.

And Putinski and others, if they took 500 Egyptian slave cavalry and four or five hundred black juvenile bow cavalry. There is no need for Egyptian slave cavalry to rush up and slash, only need to use bows and arrows to easily defeat those black tribes.

Moreover, Eschwein has not sold bows and arrows to the indigenous tribes north of the Senegal River. Those indigenous tribes can only use javelins made of stone spearheads when fighting, and their combat effectiveness is quite garbage. Thousands of cavalrymen can absolutely sweep the tribes there. It is actually not difficult to get through the trade routes of the Songhai Empire.

If the black indigenous tribes that conquered the north of the Senegal River and the southern border of Mauritania in later generations are regarded as a copy, the difficulty is probably novice level, very easy ...