Based on Arnold's experience, as long as they kept their distance from the woods and threw up a defensive line of several hundred men across the wilderness, they could effectively counter Native American ambushes.
Yet what he had not expected was that the Indians he encountered this time were somewhat different.
Through the gunpowder smoke drifting among the trees, Little Turtle quickly spotted the Americans beginning to fall back. He immediately let out a series of urgent "hoo-hoo" calls and leaped down from the tree.
The Indian captains around him followed with all manner of whistled calls. Within 1.5 kilometers, Indian soldiers who received the signal emerged one after another from the undergrowth. Little Turtle was the first to step out of the bushes, and 1,700 Indians continuously gathered at his side.
Along both flanks and behind their formation, more than eighty French veterans helped the captains maintain their distance from the enemy, preventing them from accidentally wandering into the Americans' firing range.
In truth, the American forces were retreating in utter disorder at that moment, and no one noticed the Native American legion behind them.
More than ten minutes later, Little Turtle shouted the slogan, "Destroy the heretics!" and gave the order to attack.
The Native American soldiers let out strange cries of "Oloroloro" and charged at the American forces in a Native American-style skirmisher formation.
Yes, Napoleon had taught them how to use muskets in battle while retaining their traditional formations. They no longer had to rely solely on short spears and hand axes to launch large-scale assaults.
A dark mass of Native American soldiers advanced in the same measured rhythm until they were sixty or seventy paces from the American left wing. At Little Turtle's whistle, they all halted and raised their guns to fire.
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