Chapter 66: Escape to the South

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The sun was still shining at noon, but it carried the light of a near-death encounter. Under the sun, there were fierce battles between the guards and warriors from both sides watching enthusiastically.

Shulot looked at Totec's running back and admired in his heart. Following this direction, he saw the flag of King Tisoke not far away, and was full of envy. Further forward, a charging jaguar warrior team attracted

Catching his attention, two familiar figures headed towards the king's flag were making a fearless assault.

"Oops, it's not good!" Seeing his father and Orosh, Shulot reacted immediately. He suddenly jumped up and grabbed Avitt's arm.

"Quick, Avitt, let's charge towards Tisok. Father and the others alone can't stop Totok!"

"Okay! The time has come, we must not let Tisok go!"

Avitt waved the staff again, and the king's flag moved forward. Hundreds of family warriors with large shields and bronze spears beside them also immediately moved forward. Under the leadership of Stanley, they bypassed the hundreds of guards who were desperately trying to block them, and headed straight to

Rush towards Tisok's royal banner.

Hulot also summoned the longbow guards, and together with Bertard, they ran quickly again.

Totec strode forward and rushed to the flag of King Tisok. He threw the giant ax out a moment ago, but it was a pity that he failed. Avit was rescued by a short warrior whose face could not be seen clearly. Now he has put on a spare one.

Shields and war clubs, ready to fight to protect the king!

He quickly observed the situation. The betrayal of the Teotihuacan legion was a blow to the core. The strength of both sides suddenly reversed, and the royal army fell into an obvious disadvantage. More importantly, the connection between the royal flag and the direct legion was cut off.

After being out of the commander's control, the loyalty of the Eagle nobles and direct warriors now makes him doubtful!

Totec no longer hesitated, and let out a deep roar again, boosting the spirits of himself and the guards at the same time, and then went straight towards the approaching team of Jaguar warriors.

Hearing the roar, Shulot, who was on the way, shuddered. He was temporarily psychologically affected by Totec's war cry. The young man looked forward and saw Totec holding the shield diagonally in his left hand and waving a long stick in his right hand.

The tip of the stick was as fast as lightning, hitting the vital part of the Jaguar warrior, and the force penetrated the body. The soldier fell to the ground, and was immediately killed by the stick;

The soldier trembled and fell, then rolled over in severe pain. In a moment, nearly ten Jaguar soldiers fell.

Shusok, wearing double armor and a beast helmet, stood side by side with Orosh, who was also dressed as a jaguar warrior, and bravely faced him together. Totec swung his long stick sideways, but was deftly blocked by Orosh, while Shusok stepped forward from

Hit hard from the side and back.

Toteke frowned and stepped back. He moved flexibly, shielded with his left hand, blocking the attacks of the two men, and held the stick in his right hand, shrinking and preparing to attack. Samurai are most likely to have flaws in fast movements and powerful attacks, Toteke

Ke's eyes were like hawks, staring at the postures of the two people.

Shusok was obviously impatient. He struck hard with the stick, using up all his strength, but Totec stepped back and dodged it, causing him to stumble slightly.

Totec immediately raised his left hand, threw the shield towards Orosh, then held the stick with both hands, turned his upper body slightly to gain momentum, quickly exerted force sideways, and swept forward vigorously.

In the midst of the lightning and flint, Shusok only had time to lean his shield in front of him, and then an irresistible force hit him. He and his shield were knocked several meters away. He then fell to the ground with blood spurting out.

He fell to the muddy ground, his hands and feet were numb and weak, his body was twitching slightly, and he couldn't move for a while.

As soon as Orosh opened his shield, he saw the scene in front of him. He was shocked and hurriedly took two steps back to protect Shusok. Jaguar warriors from the surrounding city-states also rushed forward, dragging Shusok's hands and feet.

Then evacuate.

Seeing this scene from a distance, Shulot exclaimed. Fortunately, Totec's goal was not to kill the general. When he saw the Jaguar team retreating, he did not pursue it.

Totec just stood there, breathing hard several times to recover the physical strength that was rapidly consumed by the short and fierce battle. A guard picked up the shield on the ground and handed it to the cold-blooded commander respectfully. The fierce battle had left the guard covered in blood.

stained with blood.

Totec nodded and saw that the Jaguar team had indeed retreated far away. Then he turned around again, taking two hundred more guards with him, and rushed into the Teotihuacan warriors on the left. He wanted to get through with the Eagles.

The battle group's command link used its unquestionable authority to regain control of the legion.

In a loose battle formation, ordinary warriors cannot cooperate with each other. Totec can always move flexibly, easily create one-on-one attack opportunities, and then kill with one blow. In less than half a quarter of an hour, he has been continuously

After knocking down more than a dozen people, they were about to penetrate the battle formation when they saw the Eagle Fighting Group in the distance.

A terrifying scowl suddenly appeared on Totec's face. The experienced commander-in-chief could judge the intensity of the battle just by looking at the engagement area of ​​the military formation.

He has discovered that the Eagle Nobles Chapter did not fight to the death. These noble warriors only formed a dense shield formation and fought one-sidedly with the Jaguar Chapter, which also had a dense shield formation. The war clubs were swung on each other's shields.

, making a huge noise, but the warriors on both sides suffered almost no casualties.

At this time, the dull sound of drawing a bow sounded again.

Shulot finally led the longbow guards and moved to a shooting position one hundred and fifty meters away from the king's flag. He quickly arranged the longbow warriors into a line formation and increased the shooting angle. The swift long arrows fired like a waterfall.

Shoot, the archers began to shoot 10 arrows per minute.

More than a hundred guard warriors formed a tight double-layered shield array, but long arrows kept shooting through the shields and getting into the gaps. The guards in the front row were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground, and the warriors in the back row shot the ones in the front row.

The corpse was lifted up and continued to block the arrows, showing its last loyalty.

Hearing the sound of the big bow, Totec turned around again and saw the king's flag under the rain of arrows. Even with his rock-like strong will, he felt despair at this time: he had wavered along the way, and his military morale had long been gone; the matter was over.

At this point, it can no longer be undone.

Totec roared for the fourth time, calling for the two hundred guards who had always followed loyally and fought with blood all over their bodies. Then, he gave up on the eagle noble warriors who were already close in front of him but could not be driven by him, and turned towards the long road.

The bow guards rushed in the direction.

Hearing the roar again, Shulot's mood had calmed down a lot. He glanced at the incoming guard warriors and confidently ordered the longbow guards to shoot at Totec.

Totec was hunched over at this time, hiding behind the giant shield. His body was shaking rapidly, but his center of gravity was stable at a fixed height. His footsteps kept jumping, and he repeatedly accelerated himself. This was imitating the swift running of a jaguar hunting,

The speed may even reach ten meters per second.

The longbow fired two rounds at a distance of more than 200 meters. It only killed thirty or forty guards, but it was unable to focus on the fast-moving Totec.

Hulot's eyelids twitched, and he turned around and ran without hesitation, blowing the conch horn for retreat as he ran. Bertard ignored the longbow warrior and also covered Hulot.

"After all, there are still too few archers!" The young man complained as he ran quickly. "If there were a thousand long archers, let alone a tiger that could run, you would be an eagle that could fly. I would shoot them down for you too!"

Before the boy could run very far, Totec caught up with the longbow warrior's tail and slashed with his long stick. In the blink of an eye, nearly ten warriors fell to the ground.

After a while, the bronze spear warriors who were supporting him finally arrived. Stanley avoided Totec, and just let the warriors form a dense formation to approach, trying to trap Totec. But Avitt's royal flag was erected in the distance.

Behind him, he kept a safe distance from the unparalleled warrior.

Totec charged for another moment and dispersed the Longbow Guards. Looking around, there were only more than a hundred Guards warriors. Looking into the distance, the Eagle Chapter was still entangled with the Jaguar Chapter, and the warriors directly under the royal family also formed a square.

Formation, and lightly exchanged blows with the familiar warriors on the opposite side.

He sighed helplessly, turned around and ran towards the royal flag like a lonely jaguar.

"King! The morale of the army is gone. We are defeated! Let's go quickly! I will protect you going south!" Totec knelt on one knee and lowered his head to face Tisok. Blood and sweat flowed from his body, dyeing the ground beneath him red.

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"They all betrayed me! They all deserve to die!...Totec, can I trust your loyalty?" Tisok's hair was disheveled, his face was covered with dust, and his sickly pale skin was revealed under the dust. Only a pair of fierce eyes could be seen.

His eyes were shining with crazy light.

"I will die for you!" Totec made a fist with one hand again and put his fist on his chest. His hands were covered with tiny wounds, just like the scarred armor on his chest.

"Okay! Let's go!" Tisok simply handed the royal flag behind him to the guards and threw away the burden on him.

"Keep this flag until you die! I promise your descendants a future!" Although he did not remember the name of the guard behind him, this did not hinder the king's final promise.

The cut-haired guards bowed their heads and knelt down, then stood up quickly and silently took the king's flag. More than ten years of special training have instilled absolute loyalty in these guards, and they have long since abandoned themselves.

"Let's go!" Tisok took one last look around the battlefield, as if he wanted to engrave all the betrayal in his heart.

"When I return to the capital, I will send everyone to the altar and shed all their blood!" The king's eyes were filled with bloody hatred.

"So do the Otomi!" This is also the final madness.

Tisok fled south without hesitation. More than a hundred remaining guards escorted him south, leaving only dozens of people to guard the royal flag. Totok continued to charge forward, and the warriors directly under the royal family retreated one after another.

, get out of the way of the march.

Shusok lay weakly on several pairs of leather armors, surrounded by city-state warriors who were guarding him. Separated by his shield and double-layered leather armor, two of his ribs were broken by Totec's stick, and he was now unable to move.

Fortunately, his internal organs were not injured and his life was not in danger.

At this time, he reluctantly raised his head and looked at Tisoke who was fleeing south. He suppressed the pain in his chest and shouted resolutely: "Hurry up and chase him! We must not let him escape!"

Orosh sighed and laid Shusok's head flat. Tisok disappeared from his eyes in an instant, and the helpless face of the warrior commander appeared in front of him.

"Captain, don't worry. The overall situation has been decided, and Tisoke is doomed to fail. With me as a tracking master, he can't escape! Do you still remember the jaguar hunt we watched together when we were young? The prey was the last one.

The struggle is the most dangerous. The jaguar will not take risks. It will only continuously create wounds and follow the prey. It will not kill the prey until its blood bleeds dry and it is exhausted."

Shusok recalled the life of a free and fearless boy. That happy era when he did not have to shoulder the responsibilities of his father and family. He once adventured freely in the jungle with his old friends, chasing tigers and leopards, looking for falcons... He was calm.

He came down with a smile on his strong face.

"I'm fine, but I have two broken bones. I just need to go back and recuperate for a month. You take the Jaguar warriors to find Shulot and tell him not to worry about me. Quickly take the Longbow Guards and you can pursue them together!"

Remember, don’t get close to Totec until Tisoke is dead!”

Orosh nodded, looked at Shusok's smiling face, and also smiled. He stretched out his hand to check the temperature of his old friend's forehead to make sure there was no fever. Then he opened his old friend's leather armor and checked carefully to make sure.

There are no bleeding symptoms.

Then, he thought hard and turned around to order the warriors around him: "Use the rope you used to capture the captive, carefully fasten the captain's chest. Remember to tie it firmly so that he cannot move around, just like tying a crocodile."

"Chief Samurai, how do you tie a crocodile? I've never tied it before." The warrior looked embarrassed.

"You've never tied a crocodile? There are so many on the river, what did you do when you were young! Stupid turkeys! Forget it, you should have tied a deer before, right? Remember to put a soft cloth on his chest."

After saying that, Orosh turned to leave. After thinking for a while, he added: "Take another circle of cotton cloth and cover the leader's eyes. Don't let him look around. This battle has been won. Let him have a good sleep."

Yes. I won’t have a good night’s sleep along the way! Watch carefully and don’t move!”

Only then did Orosh nod with satisfaction, feeling that he had thought it through. He led the elite Jaguar team and hurried to Avitt's King's Flag Line.

Only Shusoke's helpless wry smile was left.

Watching Totec leading Tisoke to flee south, the giant bear Stanley finally came out from behind the shield formation of the bronze spear warriors. He looked at Totec's back, fighting spirit and awe flashed in his eyes at the same time.

Then he bravely moved forward and rushed towards the king's flag, which was guarded by only dozens of people. The bronze spear warriors swarmed forward and chopped down the scarred and broken-haired guards in a moment. Then Stanley held the flag with both hands again and folded it hard.

Tisok's royal flag slowly fell.

At this point, the victory or defeat has been decided, and there is only one king left on the battlefield!

Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, the majestic Avit held high the royal flag and the divine staff, and once again shouted to surrender: "In the name of the patron saint Huitzilopochtli, the blame lies only with Tisoc, and those who surrender will be forgotten!"

As Tisok fled south and the royal flag fell, the Eagle Nobles were the first to react. They had been observing the situation, and after hearing Avitt's promise, they immediately retreated slowly and fought with the jaguar.

The group communicates separately with each other in a tacit understanding.

Then, they threw away the original legion command flag and replaced it with a large flag painted with a bloody sun. They saluted on one knee to Avitt to express their surrender. Because the royal crests of the two royal families were the same, they could only use different kings' ceremonial guards to distinguish them.

, obviously well prepared.

Finally, the noble soldiers pushed the legion commander who was loyal to Tisok and had long lost his power to the front of the battle line and tied him with a hemp rope. This was also the public scapegoat.

Shulot watched the surrender of the noble battle group, and felt that the process was smooth and natural, without any fireworks, and that the surrender was natural.

The direct warriors were much simpler. After hearing the king's promise, the seven thousand direct warriors on the opposite side threw away their weapons, knelt down towards the king's flag, and bowed their heads to the ground in salute. They used obsidian sharp blades to cut off part of their hair in order to

Show loyalty and obedience.

While Avit sent out his personal guards to collect the surrendered warriors, he quickly summoned the generals.

In just a moment, Stanley led the bronze spear warriors, Shulot led the longbow guards, and the jaguar warriors from the city-state of Orosh gathered under the king's banner.

The young man asked Orosh worriedly: "Teacher, how is father's injury?"

Hearing the address of "teacher", Avitt frowned slightly. He glanced at Orosh with some dissatisfaction.

"The captain's injury is not serious and his life is not in danger. He asked us to chase Tisoke quickly!" Orosh gave the young man a reassuring look.

The young man nodded and looked worriedly in the direction of his father for a moment.

Avitt tapped the magic staff in his hand with his fingers. There was a crisp sound, and the generals were immediately in awe.

"Tisok must be captured! Shulot, I will give you 700 family warriors, and you will take another 100 longbow guards and 200 jaguar warriors from the Holy City, and quickly go south to pursue!"

This battle was short and brutal, and the guards of both sides bore most of the losses. Three hundred of Avit's two thousand family warriors were killed, and the Longbow Guards also lost nearly fifty people.

These family warriors are the legacy of his mother and maintain the highest loyalty to Avitt. Now he has handed over seven hundred to the young man, leaving only a thousand loyal warriors around him to control the royal army.

"In the south, I have deployed more than 10,000 blockading warriors, and I will hand over their command to you. They will work with you to block Tisok!" Avitt smiled slightly and handed the young man a talisman.

"Stanley, you also follow Shulot, protect him, and be careful of Totec!"

Stanley knelt down on one knee, bowed his head respectfully and accepted the order.

"Tisoke is Totec's belief in fighting. Don't think about capturing Tisoke alive, just shoot Tisoke to death! Don't engage in close combat with Totec! Protect yourself." Avitt finally lowered his head slightly and whispered in the young man's ear.

, then reached out and touched the young man's head.

Shulot also knelt on one knee and bowed his head to accept the order. After many battles, his friend was already the only king. He needed to show respect for the king in front of the generals.

Avitt nodded, then held up the young man's hands, and watched the young man leave. He wanted to stay here, continue to collect the surrendered troops, and suppress the Eagle nobles.

A thousand elites immediately gathered.

Shulot straightened his chest and looked at his subordinates with confidence: elite warriors holding bronze spears, long bows and war clubs, Stanley, Bertard and Orosh all bowed to listen to the order.

The young man is energetic and high-spirited. This is the first time he has led an army alone, and it is also the first time he has gone to capture a king!

"Generals, listen to the order!" The young man did not have a magic staff, so he could only wave the war stick in his hand to the south: "Go south to hunt for the enemy, life or death!"

Thousands of troops agreed with a roar, and then rushed southward, like a pack of wolves in pursuit. This was the last hunt!


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