Chapter One Thousand Five Hundred and Six Red and White, Death of Destiny
The plateau in December has the coolness of autumn and the splendor of early spring. In the Sierra Madre del Sur, red flowers bloom all over the mountains and plains, spreading as bright red as blood. They are the local poinsettias and
Hibiscus flower, the former flower has strong fragrance
The petals of the latter are sour and sweet. From the Cloud Valley to the Oaxaca Valley, there are many white flowers blooming in the lower valleys, white with yellow like the sun. This is common
Daisies and ginger flowers, the former symbolizes hope and the latter symbolizes purification.
"God bless you! If there was no war in the land in the clouds at this time, it would be a beautiful autumn scene in the mountains, full of vibrant 'red and white'! ... But at this moment, the 'red and white' I see is...
It’s Shengjing’s death…”
Shulot was wearing a light sacrificial robe, and underneath the sacrificial robe was tough leather armor. He stood quietly in the southeast of Yunshan City, standing on a hill, overlooking the red and white mountains below.
The dark red is the solidified blood and the dyed battle clothes. The flow outlines irregular semicircular "petals". And among the sacrificial petals, there are clusters of warrior corpses. Those corpses stripped of their battle clothes,
Under the noon sun, it is translucent and is indeed as yellow and white as a 'ginger flower'.
"Commander of the Cuaco Tiger Army, are you the Zapotec Army that ambushed under this hill?..."
"Yes! Lord Prophet! It is behind this hill that we have set up an ambush, all covered with the straw clothes of your 'revelation'. This valley is very close to Yunshan City, and we can already see Yunshan Castle on the top of the mountain.
Within the vigilant sight of the Yunshan tribes...the Yunshan tribes sent three waves of envoys in succession, telling the Zapotecs that it was 'very safe', 'the alliance has withdrawn its troops', and 'requesting assistance as soon as possible'..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! The Zapotec reinforcements came in a marching column and came at full speed. Although they had scouts to warn us, in their haste, they still did not find traces of our ambush in the distance. And when they arrived
At the foot of the mountain, when the ambush was finally discovered, it was already too late!…”
Speaking of this, the commander of the royal army, Kua Kehu, grinned, with a pure smile on his face, which was exactly the joy after a hearty victory.
"Praise the Lord God! Just under this hill, we first fired a round of Tiger Crouching Cannon, which shocked the Zapotec vanguard and created a large area of chaos. Then, the warriors on both sides quickly fired five rounds
Arrows, Jaguar warriors threw three rounds of javelins, killing hundreds of enemy pioneer warriors... Then three thousand armored warriors came from the mountain road in the northwest, from
A frontal charge was launched, and in less than two quarters of an hour, at least one Zapotec legion, a total of eight thousand southern warriors, was defeated! Immediately afterwards, a thousand ambush troops from the mountains on both sides rushed down, and defeated the retreating Zapotec
The legion was cut off in the middle, and none of their vanguard warriors escaped! After that, there was a day-long pursuit until deep in the valley in the southeast..."
"Look! We counted two thousand Zapotec corpses under the valley! They are all elite Zapotec warriors, not just peasant soldiers captured from anywhere... This is really a refreshing experience.
The great victory, the souls of the warriors we sacrifice will definitely make the Lord God happy!"
"That's right! Kua Ke Hu, the Lord God saw your bravery and sacrifice on the battlefield, and He was very happy! And the losses reported by the Alliance Legion were only seven or eight hundred people, and the God King was also very happy... Well, let's go
On the battlefield, take a good look at what the elite Zapotec people look like..."
Shulot walked down the hill, with two priest apprentices carrying his obsidian feather crown and his divination equipment. Behind them were war priests from more than a dozen alliances, carrying sacrificial braziers and sacred smoke, holding high the main god
The large and small flags were obviously prepared. As for the outer perimeter, the brave commander of the Quaco Tiger Army was leading five hundred royal warriors to guard around the priests, guarding against non-existent "in case".
"Commander of the Cuaco Tiger Army, are the leather armors and uniforms of the elite Zapotec warriors all red?"
"Yes! Your Highness the Prophet, the territory occupied by the Zapotecs produces a lot of red dye. Their elite warriors will dye their uniforms into glorious and expensive red, a color as bright as blood. As for the ordinary ones
The warriors wear cheaper yellow battle clothes with some red patterns...and some of these patterns represent the ancestors of the tribe, and some represent certain gods, which I don't quite understand..."
Hearing this, Shulot nodded slowly. He leaned down calmly, picked up the blood-stained armor of the Zapotec warrior, patted off the broken corpses, and carefully looked at the patterns on it. Every kind of pattern here
Different patterns obviously represent a Zapotec tribe, or a group of Zapotec ethnic groups. And through the identification of patterns, you can determine which Zapotec tribes participated in the coalition, and which Zapotec tribes participated in the coalition.
How many casualties were killed in this ambush...
"Well, let me see the patterns of these gods! The one with rain patterns and lizards must be the most important rain god of the Zapotec people, the number one god who controls rainfall and crop growth, Cocijo.
.He is similar to the Alliance rain god Tlaloc and the Mixtec rain god Chak, but in the form of an animal body.
Crawling lizard. This god is an ancient god who has been fused with the main god! Of course, the Zapotec people don’t know it. They are still trapped in the ancient beliefs of the past, waiting for the guidance of our main god’s priests... The main god can witness! Can
The person who painted this pattern on the leather armor is probably an Oaxaca warrior from Silvertip City!…”
"This carved god has the pattern of the sun and the cyclic '○' pattern. It should be their second god, the sun god Coquihani. He is the ruler of time and the universe, and controls daily life.
And the symbol of time cycle... you are right! It is indeed a false god that offends the authority of the main god, and it is a belief that must be erased..."
"This god with the corn pattern is the third god of the Zapotec people, the corn god Pitao Cozobi. He controls the growth and harvest of corn, and also likes sacrifices of blood and vitality.
To gain the harvest of the cycle of life... This god is not a false god, but an acceptable god..."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Hey! The combination of this man and a jaguar? The divine pattern of the tiger people? Oh! I remembered it! He is the ancestor god of the Zapotec people in Oaxaca
, is Petela. Legend has it that after the great flood that opened the Second Age, she took her people to the central valley of the Oaxaca Valley and established the original city-state of the Zapotec people.
, 'The land of gods under the sacred mountain', 'Mountain God City' Xaguixe... This city-state is not very powerful, but its source is very ancient and has the influence of the Zapotec ancestral land. Well, ancient
The Mountain God Tribes made a wrong choice and stood on the opposite side of the Alliance. But I think the Alliance should give them a chance, just like it gave the Yunshan Tribes a chance!…"
Shulot squinted his eyes and stared at the "tiger" on the red leather armor, recalling the information that the alliance's long-distance merchants had discovered. As the ancestral land of Zapotec, the Mountain God City is not only the religion of the tribes of Oaxaca.
The center is also half the political center. Surrounding this ancient city, there is the sacred Great Pyramid of Alban (Monte
Albán), Mitla, the "land of the dead", Dainzu, the warrior temple, and Yagul, the "old capital ruins" of the second era, are all "relics" of Oaxaca's ancient civilization.
Divinity” mark.
It can be said that as long as the most powerful Silver Tip City is captured, and then the oldest Mountain God City is captured, and the northern valley of the Central Valley is controlled, the hundreds of thousands of Oaxaca tribes will completely lose the power of the tribal alliance.
"Brain". The other tribes in the southern valley are not qualified enough to lead the remaining tribes of Oaxaca. Even further east, the hundreds of thousands of coastal Huastec tribes will become scattered.
Sha, lost the motivation to come to support...
"Mountain God City, the ancestral land of the Zapotecs... It seems that this is also a very strong fortress built on the mountain? I only hope that the mortars of the southern expedition army can hit this unknown mountain.
Fortress. Or, the Zapotecs could choose to surrender and not have another long and cruel siege!…"
Shulot thought for a long time, and then looked at the corpses around him. His expression was slightly startled, and he discovered something keenly. He walked quickly to a prone corpse, looked at the arrow inserted into the opponent's heart, and returned
There was a blue coat that was obviously Mixtec style. He examined it carefully and found that the cloud pattern on the blue coat was very similar to the sacrificial robes of the priests and elders of Yungu Mountain, and there were even more similar tiger claws.
"This is...a young, Mixtec noble warrior?..."
When Shulot straightened the corpse's crooked head, he saw a face full of anger, fear, and unusual youth. Fear solidified in the dying eyes, and anger ended on the unwilling face. Perhaps until the moment of death, this young noble warrior
, they never knew the truth about being ambushed by themselves, and they didn’t know that the river of fate was destined to die long before it flowed out...
"The fate of smoke, the death of youth..."
Shulot watched silently for a while, closed the deceased's eyes, turned around and called out.
"Kuakohu!..."
"Your Highness the Prophet?..."
"Send two warriors to 'organize' the corpse and send it back to Yunshan City. If the same Mixtec corpse is found again, we will deal with it in the same way."
"Sent to Yunshan City?...Yes!..."
"Tell the Mixtec nobles in the city that the kingdom's priests have prayed for these dead souls and led their souls to the kingdom of the Lord God!..."
"Yes! Praise the Lord God!..."
"Well, praise the Lord God!"
Shulot lowered his head slightly and prayed devoutly for a few breaths. Then, he let go of his hand and let the young deceased fall into the blood-stained daisies. Then, he stepped on the blood and flowers and continued along the red and
The white blood road leads to the valley road extending to the southeast.
After all, this was only the battlefield of the initial ambush. The real extension of death was not until more than twenty miles southeast, in front of the camp that the Zapotecs captured and lost. That cruel battlefield where no prisoners were left was
The destination that the priests went to this time was a brand new cemetery where funeral services were held to appease the souls of both sides~~