Aztec Eternals

The poisonous smoke from iron smelting drifted in the wind, bringing the first "industrial atmosphere" on the West Coast. And following the south wind three hundred miles north, passing the towering Shenqi tree, we will reach the Tolova tribes with tens of thousands of people. For the sake of the salt marsh at the boundary of the tribal hunting grounds, tens of thousands of Tolowa people were completely divided into two small tribal alliances, with the Redwood Tribe and the Leaf Grass Tribe as the core, and they continued to fight and kill each other frequently. And due to the emergence of the kingdom's fleet and the intentional inflow of metal weapons, the scale of this tribal alliance war is increasing day by day!

The kingdom's passing fleet will bring metal weapons, shiny gems, and crops every six months. But the kingdom's fleet took away not only the products from the mountains, but also the captives of warriors from the war between the two large tribes. In more than two years, 400 captured warriors capable of fighting have been transported northward and replenished in the kingdom's North Port. The person leading this strategy is the ambitious Chief Priest Kejie who is based in Beigang!

"Witness the Lord God! On the entire developed west coast, apart from the core Xishan Port, the second most prosperous one will definitely be Beigang, which I am personally in charge of! Beigang is the downstream of a thousand-mile river. Starting from here, no matter the downstream The alliance of tribes at the mouth of the river, the tribes of Calaboa upstream, and even the hunting tribes in the mountains further upstream, will all be affected by the kingdom, and will eventually surrender to the embrace of the Lord God..."

Three Kingdom longships, loaded with salt and coal, as well as sixty newly exchanged Tolova prisoners, slowly docked at the Kingdom's North Port on the south bank of the river.

The long Columbia River originates from the mountains in the far east and flows for more than four thousand miles, nourishing countless tribes along the river before finally merging into the Pacific Ocean here. Even its mouth is several miles wide. This is a truly raging river, the mother river in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of tribes along the river, and the incarnation of the running and surging river god. And the Kingdom of Beigang at the mouth of the river is the starting point of faith towards the entire raging river, and it is the first source of divine fire!

At this moment, Chief Priest Kejie personally stood by the port, lit a pot of blue holy fire, and personally performed the sacred blood oath of conversion for every captured soldier who disembarked.

"The blessing of the Lord God! Carve the emblem of the Lord God and recite the name of the Lord God! From now on, you will be the holy warrior of the Lord God Huitziloppo, a glorious glue man who has returned to the ancestral clan!"

Priest Kejie sang loudly, and most of the kneeling captives looked in awe, not daring to look at the blue flames. They just lowered their heads and repeated the familiar name of the main god. Because when they passed through Coos Bay, they had already been taught by the kingdom priest there...

These young captives boarded ships from two large fighting tribes and traveled north for more than 400 miles, stopping for several days at the Kingdom's South Port on the coast of Coos Bay. Keshu, the priest of Nangang, is a good corn grower, and he is a naturalized Kusi man who can cultivate the land patiently. Therefore, with only a population of over a thousand people in Nangang, he was able to cultivate 6,000 acres of corn fields and have the largest corn storage on the entire west coast! The South Harbor of Coos Bay was also vividly called "Corn Harbor" by the warriors.

Not long ago, the fleet anchored in "Corn Port". Priest Keshu specially treated everyone in the transport fleet, including the escorting Kingdom warriors and Tolova prisoners, to several delicious meals of corn cakes, and also prepared some extra dry food for the warriors. Under the temptation of these rare "hometown delicacies", the warriors of the kingdom turned a blind eye and acquiesced to allow the tree priests to cut off a quarter of the beard, that is, more than twenty people, in the name of spreading the faith of the main god. A prisoner born as a warrior…

"Phew, praise the Lord God! We have finally converted! With the addition of these warrior captives, we can continue to expand to both sides of the river, and seize more tribal populations from the expansion of the Calaboa tribes!..."

The sacred fire is blazing, and the spring sun is shining brightly. Under the bright sun, Priest Kejie was covered in sweat. He took off the heavy ritual robe and put on the light rattan clothes of the northern tribe, looking more and more like a local chieftain.

"Merciful Lord God! That guy in Keshu who reaches out his hand has to amputate a quarter of the warriors every time... Well, for the sake of the tortillas he provides to the fleet, even as a higher-status officiant, I will I can only acquiesce to his approach!”

Chief Priest Kejie arranged many cronies in the fleet, so he naturally knew that Priest Keshu had been "secretly" cutting off the beards. However, Beigang expanded too quickly, and there were not many fields planted, so the food output was always limited. These fields were dominated by hard-to-eat miscellaneous grains, so they did not provide much of the samurai's favorite corn tortillas. In order to appease the kingdom's warriors who were rowing back and forth and working very hard, he had no choice but to acquiesce to this "greedy" behavior of cutting off people.

After all, in this far north, the authority of priests must rely on the support of warriors! When facing many tough hunting tribes, the priests could only rely on the bows and spears of the warriors, just like the highly aggressive Calaboa Alliance in the upper reaches of the river.

The priests of each port actually have great autonomy and act boldly for the benefit of local colonization. As long as they can develop ports in various places and control more converted tribes, they will naturally be promoted to the priest level! In the face of this almost unlimited future, no one will make a big step back and give up their bright future. They can only compromise with each other based on their strength...

"God bless you! Beigang, where I am personally in charge, already has two thousand tribes, firmly controlling a hundred miles of the lower reaches of the river. And the alliance of Hekou tribes allied with Beigang has a total of more than 30,000 people, and there are more than ten The chiefs of each tribe united to fight with the rival tribes of Calaboa upstream! This long and cruel tribal melee had been going on for more than ten or twenty years before the kingdom arrived. The tribe is rising and prospering day by day precisely by virtue of its powerful force that surpasses other tribes..."

The sources of alliances among the tribes at the mouth of the river are indeed very complex. In addition to the Kingdom of Northport, which is dominated by the Clatsop people, they also include the Chinook, the Cathlamet, the Wahkiakum, etc. . As for the enemies of each tribe, there are tens of thousands of Calaboa tribes, mainly centered in the Portland Valley, forming a rather tight tribal alliance, which is much more powerful if united! Of course, the bravery of their stone hunting clan was obviously not enough against the experienced warriors with bronze weapons in the kingdom. They can only rely on their superior numbers and familiar terrain to fight a sudden attack in the forest, dragging the kingdom's warriors into a melee on the same level where they cannot form formations...

Faced with this kind of flexible small-scale bad battle, Priest Kejie also had a headache. The kingdom's main warriors are too few and too precious to withstand piecemeal losses. As an auxiliary force, the Clatsops were too docile and were good at farming and fishing, but they performed poorly on the battlefield and were defeated in one attack.

Priest Koje thought about it over and over, until he discovered the Tolova people fighting in a melee, his eyes suddenly lit up. He specially dispatched a fleet, not only selling weapons, but also trading captive warriors from the Tolova tribes who had fought many small-scale battles and had sufficient experience in mountain and forest warfare to serve as reliable auxiliaries for the kingdom's warriors...

The Koje priests kept fighting against the Calaboa tribe at all costs, not for the upper river valley occupied by Calaboa, nor for the hunting territory with lush water and grass. Beigang is never short of land, but it is very short of people to farm the land! The main purpose of the Koje priests is to rescue the defeated large and small tribes in the upper reaches of the river from the population of Calaboa, and to continuously replenish them into the kingdom's North Port to rapidly increase the number of tribes. As for the more long-term plan, it is to establish a stable leadership position in the Hekou Alliance and continue to promote the blessing of the "God of War" to plan for the long term...

"Blessed by the Lord God! In the process of this fighting, Beigang has fully proved the kingdom's military power, gradually becoming the largest force in the Hekou Alliance, and has the opportunity to become the leader of the alliance! And the Southern Lord God, who is good at fighting, has gradually become the leader of the Hekou Alliance. , and became one of the important gods worshiped..."

"Witness the Lord God! I must plan for the long term and spread the glory of the Lord God at all costs!... If I can truly become the leader of the Hekou Alliance and lead all the more than 30,000 tribes in the Hekou Alliance to convert to the Lord God... then the majesty of the lower reaches of the river will This place will become the starting point of the 'Coy' family! And the future priesthood of the West Coast will definitely have a place for us..."

The sun sets in the west, and the Columbia River rolls in waves. The flowing water flows westward into the sea, scooping up many future heroes. Everything is a joke~~

Note: The Easter egg chapter is a detailed map.