Aztec Eternals

There was a chill in the main hall of the temple, with the silence after the thunder exploded. The king's words were like rolling thunder, echoing in the ears of the two of them, shocking their hearts.

Sky Horta was terrified, and a layer of cold sweat burst out from the back of his neck. He fell down on the hall with a "bang" and kowtowed heavily.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I... I was wronged, I was deceived, I have no objection! Your Majesty!"

Shulot watched coldly, and then looked at Huitu Puap.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Huitu Pu'apu kowtowed three times, his forehead was almost bleeding. His thoughts turned rapidly, and he spoke with difficulty.

"Your Majesty! The Zicao patriarch lied to us and gave us psychedelic drinks. These... These are all drunken nonsense. I have long wanted to surrender to Your Majesty, but I am afraid of the witness of the Lord God in my heart! I am absolutely the same Heart! If I have the slightest thought of betraying His Majesty, my body will be separated from my head, and my soul will fall into the abyss forever!"

"That's right! This is written by us who were insane after drinking. Your Majesty! We went south in the starry night to crusade against the Zicao family and suppressed the nobles nearby. We have never been disloyal! The Zicao manor has been completely reduced to ashes, and the surrounding nobles are also Already put down, we are your loyal hounds, biting all rebels!"

"The Lord God bears witness! Your Majesty, our hearts are full of loyalty! You are our only sun! Bang! Bang!"

The two kept kowtowing, and their words of defense became more frightened and hasty. The king listened expressionlessly for a moment, then asked coldly.

"Are these two secret letters written by you?"

"Your Majesty, this is being cheated and forced after drinking."

"Yes or no?!"

"Ah! Yes, but at that time."

"Say. Who is Prince Tarasco? Where is it?"

There was an instant silence in the arena. Puap glanced at Horta and spoke bitterly.

"we do not know"

"have no idea?"

".Guramo showed some tokens of the royal family, and said that he has a prince from the puppet dynasty in his hand. If the time is right, we can do whatever. We were drunk at the time, and we agreed on a whim, and never really thought about how So there was no questioning."

"Exactly, exactly! Your Majesty, you are the supreme sun, coercing the kingdom, how dare we disobey it? In fact, we regretted it the next day when we sobered up."

"This time when we attacked Zicao Manor, we didn't find any traces of the false princes. It's probably just a lie."

"Yes! Your Majesty, we, we were framed."

Xiulot was silent. He knew that if he was still there, the two people in front of him would never have the guts to rebel. And if he is not there, there will never be many generals who can stand the test. Of these two letters, the one that caught his attention the most is the so-called "Prince Tarasco". Most of Tarasco's princes were executed, but only a few were at large

"Your Majesty! We were framed!"

"Your Majesty! Please spare us!"

The king shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He looked at the two men with disheveled hair and miserable expressions in front of him, and said indifferently.

"The two of you wrote a secret letter of infidelity, colluded with the southern nobles, and committed a great crime! Personal guards, drag the two of them to the sacrificial stone and behead them as a sacrifice!"

"Ah! Ah this!"

"His Majesty!"

Several armored personal guards immediately stepped forward, clamped left and right, and dragged the desperately struggling two people to the two sacrificial stones. Then, their arms were tied, and their heads were pressed on the dark red sacrificial stone, exposing their tanned necks.

The two personal guards raised their bronze axes high and aimed at the necks of the two hereditary nobles, waiting for His Majesty's order. As long as there is an order, the big ax will fall, and the two will be separated immediately!

A shiny copper ax hung on the neck, and a dark red sacrificial stone was placed under the neck. I don't know how many sacrifices died here in despair.

Smelling the blood coming from his nostrils, Huitu Pu'apu's defense finally broke. He has struggled all the way for so long, betrayed the chief, old friends and relatives, and saw that he has become a noble nobleman, and he is about to die here silently? Thinking of this, his face twisted, and he howled in horror, his voice full of unwillingness.

"Ah! Your Majesty, I beg you! Look at my achievements in conquering Xiancheng in the west! I am willing to die for you, and I am willing to fight for you in the vanguard! Ahhhhhh!"

"Woooooo! Woooooo! I don't want to die! Abba, father, family"

Horta next to him has completely collapsed. His nose and tears poured out together, sobbing uncontrollably. Before his death, his father passed on the family to him. He was only about twenty, and he was the only direct descendant of the family. All the clansmen in the Chapala Lake area were executed by feathers. Could it be that the Sky Family, which has been passed down from generation to generation, will perish here? How could he meet his dead father?

Xiulot watched the two expressionlessly, and never called out the king's order to sacrifice.

The big ax didn't fall down for a long time. The two endured the torment before they died. Sweat, snot and tears mixed together and flowed down from their faces and necks, soaking the dark red sacrificial stones. The scattered blood stained the sides of the two people's faces red, staining them like dead fish, only their bodies were still thrashing.

"Your Majesty, please."

"woo woo woo"

After a while, the screams of the two were hoarse, and the fear of death flooded their hearts, turning into an indelible shadow for a lifetime. Xiulot said coldly.

"Cut off their hair!"

"Tear!"

The sharp ax fell with precision, sticking to the scalps of the two of them, cutting off their hair directly. Pu'apu was heartbroken, and closed his eyes in fear, waiting for the pain in his neck. He closed his eyes for a long time, tears rolling down silently, until he suddenly found that the head on his neck was still there.

"ah?"

"Ah! Woohoo."

Horta screamed and screamed like a quail again.

Seeing the performance of the two, Xiulot smiled lightly.

"Drag over here."

The armored guards dragged the two of them over, and as soon as they let go, the two of them collapsed to the ground like mud. Pu Apu was extremely embarrassed, his face was ashamed, but his heart was filled with joy.

"His Majesty."

"Wooooooh."

"You just said that you are willing to take the crime and make meritorious service and die for the kingdom?"

Xiulot asked lightly, his eyes were calm and sharp.

"Yes, yes! Your Majesty, I, Puapu, would like to commit crimes and meritorious deeds, and do my best for you!"

"Wuuuu. I'm Horta, too."

Xiuluo nodded. He was not going to execute the two of them. Horta was born in the Lake Chapala area, and will be useful in the subsequent expeditions. Pu'apu was an example of surrendering troops in the Western Expedition, and it is better to keep than to execute.

"Then spare your lives and give you one last chance! But capital crimes can be avoided, and punishment is essential!"

The king spoke calmly.

"Come here, under the watchful eye of the Lord God, give each one twenty lashes!"

Several personal guards stepped forward, took off the armor of the two men, and pressed them to the ground. Then, the two warriors swung their leather whips and beat them hard on their backs without mercy.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!."

"Ah! Ah! Ah!."

There was a miserable howl, and the merciless whipping was extremely painful. After twenty lashes, Huitu Puap was already covered in blood, and Horta almost passed out.

After the whipping, Shulot stared at the two people who were unable to move, sternly ordered, and gave the final judgment.

"Horta handed over the Sky Warrior Battalion, transferred to the Tuntian Army, and served as the commander of the Thousand-Man Battalion! Puapu handed over the Qin Congcan Warrior Battalion, and exiled Pamsi"

Xiu Luote paused, a thought flashed, and when he said it again, his words changed.

"Exile at the end of the Talsas River, at the southwestern mouth of the sea, and guard the southernmost boundary of the kingdom!"

Hearing this, Huitu Pu'apu's eyes darkened, as if falling into a bottomless abyss.

With the popularity of the king, the great lake with boundless east and west has been endowed with the concept of "sea", which is a dangerous journey to a distant continent. The southwestern mouth of the Talsas River is quite far away, more than two hundred miles away from the city of Kuramo. There are only a few Tekos tribes who pay tribute in name, and they were officially included in the kingdom's jurisdiction last year following the exploration of Trapanik merchants. This is the real exile.

"From today, the Sky Warrior Battalion will be renamed the Chapala Warrior Battalion, and the Chin Cong Chan Warrior Battalion will be renamed the Patzcuaro Warrior Battalion, and we will be purging them at the same time!"

Shulot ordered in a deep voice and made a decision.

Among the five legions in the kingdom, the Imperial Guards are veteran warriors recruited from various ministries. The First and Second Spear Legions are well-trained elite militias. Many surrendered nobles and surrendered warriors of Tarasco Kingdom.

In the early days of the establishment of the kingdom, these surrendered troops were used to appease people's hearts, and they were not easy to move. By this time, the kingdom had been stabilized, so they took advantage of the rebellion of the southern nobles to completely clean up this legion! Completely eliminate the influence of the Sky Family and other nobles in the old private army. And the Prepecha warriors in each legion must be included directly under the kingdom.

In fact, the king once thought of completely breaking up the four thousand Prepecha warriors and kneading them into other troops. But in this era, local friendship is an important source of combat effectiveness. Ordinary warriors are grouped together according to their origin, and they will be tougher and braver in combat, so it is better to keep them.

"Well, after the conquest of the south, the Second Long Spear Corps will also need to make some adjustments."

The king pondered for a moment, then looked at the two hereditary nobles in the hall. Horta's tears were still in the sky, and his face was filled with the joy of escape from death and the sadness of losing his military power. But Huitu Pu'apu looked gloomy, lying on the ground motionless, as if he had accepted his fate.

"Sky Horta, Ash Puap, do you have any dissatisfaction?"

"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

". Praise Your Majesty! Puap is willing to obey and die for you in the south!"

Xiuluo nodded, looked at the two for a while, and waved.

"Go down! Deliver the things in the camp as soon as possible, and then recuperate well."

Several personal guards stepped forward immediately, and carried the two people who could not walk down the temple pyramid. Then, five hundred guard warriors went with them to the barracks outside the city for the handover of troops. There, the head of the group, Olosh, had already selected new successors for the two warrior battalions.

The cold wind of December blew through, and the Gyeonggi Army Corps carried out purges on the spot. All the officers mentioned in the Zicao family's letter were strictly dismissed and sent to be stationed in the city of Palms thousands of miles away on the wasteland. These officers were able to contact Gulamo, and most of them were of noble origin in Tarasco, who happened to be replaced by civilian warriors with outstanding achievements.

The king personally sits in the town and comes prepared, and the purge of the Gyeonggi Legion is progressing very fast. Ten days later, the purge was largely complete. Dozens of officers and more than a hundred warriors are about to be exiled for thousands of miles. Then the king summoned all the generals in the main temple, and under the witness of the main god, burned all these secret letters, promising to forget the past!

The Changfeng flew over the Great Temple and headed westward in mighty force. Two hundred miles away in the west, outside the city of Apatchingan, after several days of entanglement, a crucial pursuit battle is coming to an end.