Chapter 488: The siege of Shuigu City, the divine battle of siege!
"Dong dong dong!..."
Fierce war drums sounded outside Shuigu City, accompanied by the shouts of the Mexican Legion, announcing an even more brutal siege!
Soon, thousands of Tekos tribe warriors, hunched over and pushing two hundred heavy wooden shield carts, slowly approached outside the southern city wall. These Tekos warriors were all surrendered troops collected during the kingdom's southern expedition. Their heads
They wear rattan hats, carry short spears on their backs, and wear loincloths around their waists. The most valuable equipment on their bodies is their cheap paper armor. Their assembly costs are surprisingly low.
"Squeak...squeak..."
The heavy wooden shield chariot passed through the trampled solid soil and gradually approached the south wall of Shuigu City, approaching within eighty steps. At this point, the elite long archers guarding the city were able to accurately hit the shield chariot.
"God of hunting bless you! Shoot the enemy to death!..."
On the south wall, the vacancies left in battle were quickly filled. The leading hereditary nobles clenched their longbows and shouted fiercely.
"...Buzz!..."
Upon hearing the order, densely packed Tlaxcala warriors and militiamen all held up long bows, short bows, hunting bows, copper arrows attached to reed poles, bone arrows and even stone arrows, and shot towards the city one after another!
"Whoosh whoosh!... Whoosh whoosh!"
Large swaths of feathered arrows were shot in a chaotic manner like rushing sand. Dozens of Tekos warriors instantly let out miserable screams. They were hit by arrows in the head and face and fell to the ground diagonally, leaving only fresh blood marks.
The people of Tlaxcala admire Miscuatl, the god of hunting, and claim to be descendants of the "Cloud Serpent". The weapon of the god of hunting in mythology is the "disgraceful" bow and arrow. Therefore, they are different from those who respect the hunting of prisoners in close combat.
The Mexicans are different. They especially like to use bows and arrows. Almost everyone is good at shooting, and there are many families of bow makers who have passed down the tradition.
A few years ago, when the news came that the Mexicans had invented a new type of longbow, the nobles of Tlaxcala were astonished and in disbelief. Imitations of the longbow were also immediately spread throughout the Four-State Alliance.
The implementation soon yielded results, and the first batch of new large bows were produced.
Of course, the Tlaxcalans soon discovered that if they wanted to use longbows and improve the power of bows and arrows, it would mean a significant increase in the cost of making bows. They had to use stronger bronze tools, spend more manpower, and use more powerful tools.
Good wood makes a larger bow body and a stronger arrow shaft. Behind all of this, we need rich and sufficient food and strong men who work for a long time!
To this day, the proportion of longbowmen in the legions of the Mexica and Tlaxcala is still very limited. The difference is that the Mexica is limited by the number of elite archers, while the Tlaxcala
It is limited by the lack of manpower and material resources.
"Swish swish!..."
Arrows were flying and death howled. The Tesco warriors hunched down more and more, lowered their bodies, and continued to push the shield cart forward. In just a moment, the shield cart was already filled with bent arrows. Tribal warriors kept making muffled sounds.
He grunted or screamed, was shot in the exposed vital part, and fell to the ground to die.
Fortunately, the fronts of these shield carts were erected with simple large shields, which could form a covering space. Soon, a large number of shield carts were pushed to within 60 steps outside the city, and gradually stopped, forming a cover.
The shooting position. The hundreds of surviving Tesco soldiers held their heads, curled up as much as possible, and crouched on the ground to make more space.
"good!"
Black Wolf Toltec looked at the situation on the battlefield and nodded with satisfaction. The casualties of hundreds of Tekos soldiers were not worth mentioning. On the contrary, they successfully consumed the Tlaxcala people's arrows and pushed the covering shield cart to
specified location.
"Order, the Guards Corps and the Longbow Warrior Battalion, come in and shoot!"
The sound of the war drums became more and more urgent. The longbow warrior battalion shouted in unison, then lowered their heads and ran towards the shield chariot in small steps.
Compared with the Tesco soldiers, the equipment of the longbow warriors of the Imperial Guard is much more luxurious. They all wear bronze armor, bronze helmets on their heads, bronze short axes on their waists, and strong longbows in their hands.
, and also carried two bags of bronze arrows on his back. These thousand elite guard warriors were handed over to Black Wolf by His Highness as the key force to suppress the city. And Tekos, who was pushing the shield cart to pave the way, surrendered his troops precisely for the maximum purpose.
To some extent, reduce their casualties.
"Whoosh!...Whoosh!...Whoosh!"
The longbow warriors braved the rain of arrows and ran non-stop. In just a few dozen breaths, they arrived at the shield car and entered the shooting position sixty steps away from the city wall. Then, they all raised their big bows,
Aiming at the top of the city, the Tlaxcala warriors were shouting and shooting arrows, which was a wave of precise counterattacks.
"Swish swish!..."
"ah!..."
A large number of screams suddenly sounded at the top of the city. Hundreds of Tlaxcala warriors were injured by arrows. Many people fell directly from the top of the city, with their heads bruised and bleeding. The defenders at the top of the city were immediately suppressed and did not dare to act unscrupulously.
The figure was revealed. The arrow rain from the city was slightly sparse, and the archers from both sides began to shoot at each other.
Under the shield car, the huddled Terkos soldiers also breathed a sigh of relief. The most dangerous moment has passed, and they should be able to survive today.
"Damn it! It's these bronze-armored warriors who shoot arrows again! Next, they will definitely set up wooden ladders and send lowly barbarians to the city to fight!"
"Black Snake" Turcotte swung his battle stick angrily and hit the wooden shield in front of him hard. His force was so strong that the obsidian sharp pieces on the battle stick were shattered!
The Four-State Alliance of Tlaxcala lacks the source of copper mines, and bronze weapons are in extremely short supply. However, they also have large obsidian mines and mature obsidian technology, so they have always used obsidian weapons.
In early March, the Mexica South Army Corps arrived at Shuigu City and immediately began to siege the city. They set up a large camp outside the south city, successively pulled out the camps in the east and west mountains, and established two small camps. After only a few days, Shuigu City
It was surrounded on three sides, with only a "way of survival" left in the north.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When he was first surrounded, "Black Snake" Turcotte maintained sufficient confidence.
The city wall of Shuigu City is six to seven meters high. It is made of stones mixed with corn mortar. It is extremely hard and is the strongest city in the south of the Four Kingdoms Alliance! The old and weak Moth residents have been driven out of the city, leaving only fifteen thousand defenders.
Army, and enough food to hold out for two years. There are also 5,000 militiamen guarding the mountain camps on both sides, which can contain the Mexican attack. Over the decades, Shuigu City has been besieged by the Mexicans several times, but since then
Never fallen!
The "Black Snake" also sent envoys to the northern states asking for help. The Talsas River flows outside the East City, and the upper reaches of the north are still in the hands of the Tlaxcala Navy, which can continuously bring in support.
"Blessed by the God of Hunting! We can guard this city wall until we die of old age!"
Faced with His Highness the "God of Death"'s envoy to persuade him to surrender, "Black Snake" responded like this. He even ordered someone to cut off the envoy's ears and blind the other's eyes as a response to the fight against the Mexica people!
In the following ten days, the Mexicans did not make any big moves, and it seemed that there was nothing they could do about the city.
The Mexica Legion outside the south city was quiet, but they continued to build equipment in the camp outside the city. The east and west of the city were old rivals who had been fighting for many years, the Mexica city-state legion. They carried wooden ladders and tried to launch
The two sieges of the city were only attacked by arrows, stones and lime jars, leaving hundreds of warrior corpses in vain.
"Black Snake" Turcotte became more and more confident and even organized thousands of warriors to fight back outside the city under the cover of night.
Unfortunately, the enemy camp outside the south city was very stable and the camp was built meticulously. The warriors could not attack, but were shot by arrows, leaving hundreds of corpses. The east city and west city once again achieved small victories and defeated the city-state.
The four militia battalions outside the legion killed more than 2,000 people!
A large number of militiamen died in battle, and the Mexica city-state legions were accustomed to it, and their morale was still stable. They spent a day sending warriors to reorganize the scattered militiamen. The practice of these city-state legions in fighting is to disperse the large number of militia battalions far away
, stationed on the periphery of the samurai camp, there is no need to even set up fences. The samurai camp in the center has wooden fences set up, fires lit, and it is heavily guarded.
If there is a night attack and the militiamen are killed by the enemy, the warriors will not support them at all. They will just stick to the camp and wait for dawn. If there are militiamen who dare to rush into the camp, they will directly kill them as enemies. And the militiamen dare not
If you run towards the center, you will just scatter everywhere. When dawn comes, the attacking enemies will kill you all night long. If you don't retreat in time, you will be attacked by the warriors fiercely!
"Black Snake" Turcotte went out of the city to attack twice, but he was still unable to shake the main force of the Mexica and even injured some elites. He had no choice but to retreat to the city and patiently defended it, waiting for reinforcements from the north.
However, in mid-March, the situation changed! The Mexica people built more than a dozen stone-throwing wooden beasts outside the southern city. They kept throwing burning fireballs into the city from a distance of one to two hundred steps! These
Fireballs burn when touched, and can even burn on rocks, and emit billowing poisonous smoke. They cannot be extinguished with water at all, they can only be extinguished with sand, and they also emit the evil smell of volcanic craters.
The priests in the holy city of Cholula saw this scene and quickly made a judgment.
"This is indeed the power of the devil and evidence of the depravity of the Mexica people!"
However, facing the powerful power of the volcano demon, the priests were helpless. The God of Hunting seemed to have abandoned his descendants, and the boundless darkness surged from the south, gradually engulfing Shuigu City.
In the following days, the blockade on three sides of Shuigu City became more and more tight. The power of evil spirits continued to appear, and balls of flames shot into the city, and pungent smoke spread everywhere. In Central America, which has many volcanoes, sulfur is far more convenient than saltpeter.
Yes, and the cost of the sulfur paper fireball is far lower than that of refined gunpowder.
As the poisonous smoke dispersed and the fire burned, Shuigu City looked like an extinct realm, like a battlefield of divine battles. The morale of the defenders continued to decline, and the priests racked their brains to appease the people in the city. And "Black Snake" Turcotte didn't even sleep.
