Chapter 599: Sailing on dry land, heading to the East China Sea!
"Ouch hey!"
The autumn sun is high and the plains are vast. Thousands of people are crowding around, shouting neat slogans, and dragging the boats to the ground. Following the difficult pace of the people, seven long boats move forward slowly on the flat plains. The long boats
As it was being towed forward, rough rolling logs were exposed underneath. At the front and rear ends of the long boat, there were busy people working hard, carrying the round logs that passed behind the boat to the front of the boat.
"This is His Majesty's idea. It means that if the wood rolls, it will save effort."
Puap wore leather armor and led hundreds of Prepecha warriors, supervising thousands of civilian laborers. Tikalo stood beside him, looking at the stretched ropes on the civilian laborers, and then at the rolling ropes under the long boat.
Logs, if you have some enlightenment.
"Praise the Lord God! Your Majesty is truly divine!"
"Praise the Lord God! Praise Your Majesty!"
Puap lowered his head and prayed. Then, with a stern look, he scanned the crowd of people who were struggling to stretch themselves, and then said to the Mayan merchant with a smile.
"Your Majesty is merciful, let us not be anxious. He received divine inspiration, cherished these captives, and invented such a good way to save labor!...But in fact, each longship is not very heavy! If it is at the bottom of each longship,
Dozens of wooden beams were set up and four hundred civilians were allowed to carry them from the river. No rest was allowed in between. It only took three days to cover the thirty miles! ...At most, it would be almost exhausted after the completion.
Just a common man..."
The kingdom’s latest crocodile god galley long boat has a length of 25 meters, a width of more than 6 meters, a length-to-width ratio of about 4:1, and a draft of just over 1 meter. It has only one floor and one deck, and
There are two masts at the front and rear. This long ship, which looks like a Viking, can carry more than 80 crew members, has a load of about 30 tons, and its own weight is less than 50 tons, which is 100,000 kilograms. This size and weight is about one hundred thousand kilograms.
Thousands of years ago, the Viking snekkje ships were twice as large. Compared with the Ottoman heavy artillery ships that were often tens of meters long and hundreds of tons heavy, they were actually nothing to mention.
And the wooden beams on the 100,000-kilogram ship were carried by more than 400 people. Each person was a burden of about 300 kilograms. Such a burden would be difficult for ordinary strong men in the gyms of later generations to endure.
Too long. But in this era, it is a weight that short and lean civilians can always bear. Because they are using their lives to carry it! The result of not being able to carry it is death...
"Ouch hey!"
Neat shouts came from the mouths of the laborers, with a unique Mixtec accent. Among the crowd, tribesman Didi was lowering his head, hunching his waist, slanting his body forward, struggling to move forward.
Dragging. He was shirtless, with a cloth bag tied underneath. His right shoulder was covered with thick calluses, and he was wearing a thick sisal rope. The rope had deep marks, almost cutting into his flesh. It looked like
It hurts when you put it on.
Big drops of sweat were falling across Didi's cheeks and fell on the moist field. The slightly salty sweat rolled over his forehead, stinging him. He raised his head slightly, revealing the blood on his forehead.
The imprint is a newly engraved "Sun Hummingbird".
This "Sun Hummingbird" was tattooed on his forehead by the canine hunter Chabo. When the canine army arrived at Shuigu City with tens of thousands of captives, two canine hunters took away the heavy bamboo basket from his back.
, also took away the leader's clothes from him. Didi had nothing left, except a piece of leader's crotch cloth.
However, before leaving, the red-haired hunter Chabo thought about it and tied him up, and then took out a sharp obsidian dagger. In Didi's horrified eyes, Chabo swung the sharp blade, and for a moment, he struck.
On his forehead, a sacred emblem of the Lord God was carved on his forehead. The force used to carve the mark made him so painful that he even became hoarse from shouting.
"Little guy, this is our coming-of-age ceremony in the wasteland! A sacred symbol, like a puddle on the wasteland, can absorb the divinity falling from the sky! This symbol is red and blood, and it can turn you into a
A real man, a fearless wolf!"
Speaking of this, Chabo pointed to his forehead, which also had a red sacred tree tattooed on it. The branches of the sacred tree stretched across his face, almost covering his entire face.
Didi glanced at it and lowered his head in fear. He didn't know how painful the tattoo would be, but when Chabo took out the red dye he carried with him and colored his tattoo, he fainted from the pain again.
"Haha! Only if you apply the red color of the wasteland, your wound will not rot. Although, it hurts a bit! Goodbye, may the Lord bless you, little wolf ant!"
Hunter Chapo laughed, and finally patted Didi's face. This red ore dye contains copper salts that are common in the wasteland, and silver powder that is also available everywhere. These two heavy metals are both effective.
Sterilization. Of course, it will also leave scars that cannot be washed away, forever.
After waking up from a coma, Didi found that he had changed and was really different. The other captured men in the tribe no longer dared to hit him when they saw the red mark on his forehead, and some even
Afraid of him. The tiger man, eagle man and dog man who supervised him all the way saw the mark on his forehead and became much gentler and no longer whipped him at will.
From that day on, no one would snatch his food, step on him, or urinate on him. When he walked, he began to hold his head high and even bumped into strong men in the tribe.
He spat at the opponent. Although he was still thin and still couldn't beat anyone, his heart had gradually changed. The coming-of-age ceremony in the wilderness really gave a humble ant the ferocity of a wolf!
"Pooh!"
Didi spat heavily and dragged the long boat behind him even harder, even half way forward than the other civilians standing side by side. The boat was so long and big, it must be a divine object given by the Lord God.
, possessing powerful divinity!
"Even bigger than the priests and chiefs of the tribe before! No, in front of the supreme and powerful Lord God, the descendants of the Rain God and the Rain God priests are all short and small, as if they were cut off
The heads are the same!..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The temple in front of the Yunzhong Temple has always been lingering in Didi's heart, just like it has been lingering in the hearts of tens of thousands of Mixtec captives.
. However, when dreaming about it, Didi gradually became less afraid. He chanted it repeatedly in his heart to encourage his spirit, just like he chanted to the sun when he was pulling the boat to rest.
Recited the same.
"Ah! The main god who is bigger than the sky, wider than the earth, and can suppress the rain god under his body! Praise you!... Feeding radishes is so strange!..."
"Um?"
Chihuaco, an old militiaman wearing a straw hat and leading a dark snake, stood not far from the peasants. He heard the muffled prayers and looked in the direction of the sound. A thin, short man raised his head.
The praying Mistke civilian husband soon fell into his eyes.
That civilian husband was as ordinary as an ant, without any special features. The only thing that caught his attention was that there was a blood-colored emblem of the Lord God carved on his forehead.
"Um..."
The old militiaman watched for a while and said nothing. When a moment of rest passed, the Mixtec men pulled up the boat again. And the ordinary civilian man leaned forward and shouted a slogan, which was more powerful than any other.
Everyone can work hard.
Sailing on dry land to the east, day after day. The prisoners stretched for days, starting from the appearance of the first beam of light and pulling until the last beam of light disappeared. Soon, the sound of running water could be heard in the night
Hear it. And the oncoming wind begins to become more and more moist.
In just five or six days, they had traveled a distance of thirty miles to the northeast and successfully pulled seven long boats into the nearest Herb Lake (Tenexac). At the northern mouth of the Herb Lake, a strip of water stretched out
A winding river. This small river is the Cat Eagle River (;
). From there, go down the river and go 500 miles northeast, which is the mouth of the Caribbean Sea!
Well, in the Nahua language, tenexac means "herbs, a place with lots of vegetation", and the meaning of tenexac is "wetland where owls roam". The names of these rivers and lakes are all given by local tribes, and they are related to the rivers and lakes.
It’s related to the geographical environment. Maybe when the alliance unites the world, it will rename the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas in the world!
"Huh! After struggling for so long to pull the boat on land... the expedition fleet finally entered the water again!"
Watching the longship "crash" into the water, Chihuaco, the kingdom's expedition leader and veteran militiaman, finally relaxed and let out a long breath.
"The next step is to follow the instructions of His Blind Majesty and follow the guidance of the local guide to go to the eastern seaside... And when we get to the seaside, the long bald businessman said that there will be Mayan guides who will lead the fleet along the coast again.
, sailing to the east..."
"As for the Huastec and Mixtec city-states along the way, His Majesty has sent envoys,
Ask them for the support and supplies of the fleet... With the Mexica Legion as the backing, these messy seaside city-states should not dare to mess around..."
"Captain, I followed Priest Mecat to do an inventory. In the past few days, several sailors in the fleet have been injured and injured, and now there are only eight left!"
Dark Snake panted, came to the old captain, and reported weakly. He was proficient in arithmetic, calendar and astronomy, so he was arranged by Chihuaco to follow the Mecat Priest in the fleet, so he did not have to do the hard physical work.
Because Priest Mecat participated in the first exploration and recorded the route and latitude of the northward journey, he has been promoted by His Majesty to a second-level priest, equivalent to the newly boarded "Tomato" priest, Thomas.
Of course, the two priests are not subordinate to each other. One is the enlightened priest who is responsible for navigation, and the other is the preaching priest who is responsible for preaching. The achievements of the two in improving their levels are also different. But no matter how you say it, although it is dangerous to explore the sea, it is
It is a shortcut to the promotion of priests!
"Huh? There are still eight sailors left?..."
After hearing the reply, Chihuaco scratched his head. After thinking for a while, he selected a few strong men from the Mixtec prisoners pulling the boat. Finally, he paused slightly and looked at the corner of the crowd.
There was a solitary, thin civilian man with the Lord God's mark engraved on his forehead, who was chanting in a low voice.
