Kama stood quietly in front of his "king palace", watching several solemn elderly priests dancing around a slaughtered livestock. It was said that it was a royal palace, but it was just a few decent wooden houses. However, these wooden houses were already unique among the Kama tribe with thatched sanctuaries. After all, it was not easy to find some wood in this place in South Africa.

In front of him was a calf whining. Its limbs were tied and a sharp knife stabbed a blood hole in its neck. Blood was flowing out of the blood hole, making the fighting within a few meters full of a pungent smell of blood. The cow was to be sacrificed to the "gods". According to the priests, because the actions of the Kama tribe in the past year angered the gods, it caused this conflict with the people on the east coast of the west. The wrath of the gods must be extinguished with sacrifices, and the scrubbing of the sins of mortals also requires certain sacrifices - outside the palace, more than a dozen prisoners of war have been tied to the ground, beside them are warriors of the Kama tribe holding sharp blades. These prisoners of war will be openly killed and sacrificed to the gods to wash away the sins of the Kama tribe.

In recent days, the people of the East Coast on the west have become increasingly restless, and they are increasingly unconcealed from their greed for the land and their malice towards the Kama tribe. First, the Eight Banners tribes who defected to the East Coast suddenly advanced eastward, seized a treasure land with lush water and grass in the west, and began to capture any Xhosa or Khoisan people who grazed on this grassland without reason. Some Xhosa tribes tried to resist, but failed without any suspense. Some tribes who thought they were unable to compete frequently sent people to their "king court" and asked the powerful Kama tribe to send troops to expel this group of evil and cruel Eight Banners tribes.

Kama still knows a little about the Eight Banners tribes. This is due to the many spies he arranged in these tribes. As the name suggests, there are eight of the Eight Banners tribes. Each tribe has a banner awarded by the East Coast people. These tribes have both large and small strength, and there are a large population of more than 2,000 people, among which the strong ones have a population of hundreds of strong men; there are only a thousand people with weak ones, and there are only two or three hundred people with pitiful men. The backbone warriors of the Eight Banners tribes are called "warriors". These are all semi-final soldiers, just like the elite guards led by Kama himself.

The total number of Eight Banners warriors is about 3,000 people. They will practice together for one day every five days. The main content of the exercise is to form formations to catch the enemy. The spear is the main weapon they use. The Eight Banners warriors form a square array with spears in their hands, and advance forward like hedgehogs to catch the enemy. The spear formation is supplemented by a small number of archers to serve as long-range output power.

The East Coast people still value the Eight Banners warriors. It is said that they will gather the Eight Banners warriors to conduct joint training every month, and the East Coast people call this "Haofu". In the Assistant, considering the military formations of a single tribe and the joint military formations of multiple tribes, the individual skills of the samurai are also tested. In the Assistant, the tribe that wins the first place will be rewarded a lot of money, and correspondingly, the last one will be fined a lot of money. Similarly, in the individual martial arts exam, the top ten tribes in each tribe will be rewarded. Among them, the best ones have the chance to become officers in the samurai class; the last ten are warned for the first time, the second is fined, and the third is to deprive the samurai status and become free people, and they will lose all kinds of privileges in the future.

Such a strict and almost strict system ensures the progressive intention of the Eight Banners warriors, and it is also the secret to the rapid improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners armed forces in recent years. To be honest, as a ruler and manager, Kama still appreciates these systems established by the East Coast people, and he is also preparing to implement the appropriate improvements in the Kama tribe. However, from another perspective, the better the East Coast people perform, the greater the pressure on the Kama tribe.

"God said that the people of the East Coast are destined to be enemies of the Kama tribe!" The calf had already stared with big eyes and died of excessive blood loss. A respected priest applied blood on his face, then closed his eyes and said, "They plundered our people to act as slaves, robbed our cattle, sheep and food, and even used strong wine to corrupt the will of our warriors. Eliminate them! This is God's will! The people of the East Coast must be eliminated!"

Kama stood still, standing in front of the priests, as if listening to the will of God. And just two hundred meters away from the palace, next to two pointed wooden houses, several European-faced men looked here from a distance while chatting with a serious expression.

"Lieutenant Porter, how good are they in terms of your fight with the East Coast people?" asked a blond man with blue eyes and a bearded face.

"Mr. Hager, it's hard for me to give a definite answer to your question. In fact, the East Coast people had never had a head-on conflict with us at the beginning. It was always the so-called Eight Banners tribes with weak combat power that came to harass us." Second Lieutenant Porter said after thinking about it, "But I can tell you clearly that the regular army of the East Coast people is definitely stronger than the mercenaries under your brother. What you understand is that I am not talking about combat technology, but fighting will."

Lieutenant Porter was wearing a white wool shirt, a boat-shaped hat on his head, and his beard was unshaven, and he looked like a down-and-out officer. In fact, his current situation was also very down-and-out. After the Dutch took over the Cape Town Colony, the Knights Haywood had recommended Lieutenant Porter to the new Governor Deyan before he withdrew. Governor Deyan might have been for face or really needed a capable officer who knew the situation in South Africa, so he continued to hire Lieutenant Porter to command the English militia in the Fort Good Hope to assist the Dutch in guarding the colony.

However, after the Dutch transported a large number of immigrants from the local area and hired the mercenaries of Hager brothers who enjoyed a certain reputation, Lieutenant Porter was embarrassed to find that he was gradually marginalized. First, the new German mercenaries took the dominance of defense, and they squeezed the "landscape" under Lieutenant Porter to the side. Next, the Dutch West India Company reorganized the local militia and took over the command of the militia, so Lieutenant Porter became an optional person. Finally, Governor Deyan finally remembered that there was a person like him. As a result, with a series of cooperation agreements with the Kama tribe, Lieutenant Porter was kicked here to teach the barbarians how to use muskets.

Little Hagel turned his head with a little displeasure, and soon changed the subject and said to another middle-aged man in a priest's uniform beside him: "Pastor Strom, is this the religious ceremony of the barbarians? What a group of stupid people, may they return as soon as possible and return to the embrace of the Lord."

"The Almighty and All-knowing Lord is the only destination of their souls." Pastor Strom murmured in a low voice: "In recent months, some lost lambs have converted to the Lord's arms, and their piety is beyond doubt." At this point, Pastor Strom subconsciously glanced at the precious fur, flesh and fat and food piled in the room - these are gifts from believers.

"But the temptation of the devil is everywhere, and more of the Lord's Lambs are still unaware of returning under the devil's inspiration." Pastor Strom narrowed his eyes and looked at the priests in the distance, "Of course, the pagans of the East Coast are even more of a group of completely depraved devils. Too many of the Lord's devout people can only pray to the Lord alone at night, and they should be completely destroyed."

Speaking of this, the three present whispered to the Lord together.

"So, Lieutenant Porter." The little Hagel turned to Lieutenant Porter again and asked, "Do you think these savages are already skilled in using muskets?"

"No, only a small number of them can use muskets skillfully." Lieutenant Porter shook his head without hesitation and said, "The time is too short. These barbarians spend most of their time fighting outside. They practice using muskets together for not long. Currently, only a few of them have mastered how to load, load, and fire. As for the formation and tactics of using muskets, they know nothing about it. But when it comes to this, I have to remind you honestly that these barbarians are not unorganized and disciplined mobs. On the contrary, their military discipline is very strict - even harsh, and they are not afraid of death. They are very brave and have mastered certain tactics in a long-term war, so they should not be underestimated."

"What do you think of this upcoming war between the barbarians and the East Coast people?" Hagel asked a question he was concerned about, which was also a matter of concern to Governor Deyan, because it was related to whether the Cape Town colony was worth continuing to invest in this tribe.

"I'm not very optimistic." Lieutenant Porter shook his head, "First of all these barbarians have hostile tribes in other directions, and they cannot use all their troops on the East Coast people. Secondly, their equipment is very simple, most of them are spears, short spears, iron knives, and not many bows and arrows. There are almost no armor. They believe in using the most courageous impact to destroy the enemy. However, if this outdated tactic hits the dense musket array of the East Coast people, it would be a great tragedy. Finally, their supplies were also poor. One of the big reasons why they fought year after year was that the existing land and grasslands could not support too much population, and the newly born population in the tribe reached an unprecedented peak, so it was inevitable to expand outward. But the same is true that their supplies were too poor, and the soldiers needed to plunder the enemy to obtain enough rations, but the East Coast people were obviously not a good target for robbery."

"Then why do they still insist on this damn war, the time is not ripe?" Hagel was a little puzzled. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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