Aztec Eternals

The drizzle stopped, but the long wind remained. The warrior's feathered helmet shook like a tree in the forest, sharply pointing his sword at the sky.

Avet carefully identified the flag on the other side of the river, and then suddenly smiled: "It's my old friend. Tarasca's new Kasongqi, the king Suangua who succeeded to the throne two years ago."

"Suangua?" Shulot looked curiously at the enemy commander surrounded by giant ax warriors. "Is he good?"

"He is a good commander, he is very tenacious in battle, and he is also very good at mobilizing the morale of the army." Avit recalled with emotion.

"He just succeeded to the throne two years ago. My elder brother, the former king Asaya Cartel, felt that this was a good opportunity to attack Tarasco, so he conscripted 30,000 warriors and 70,000 militiamen from Lacy in the south of the alliance. Coban invades Sitakwaroban of the Tarascos."

"At that time, he was not in good health, so he gave me the authority to command the 100,000-strong army. As the new Kasongqi, Su Angua also mobilized 100,000 people and led the army to fight in person. The 200,000-strong army Crowded in a narrow area south of the Toluca Mountains and north of the Balsas River. We have fought hard for half a year, and the rolling plateau mountains are full of blood."

"The Mexica army once gained an advantage. But the Tarascos relied on the mountains and rivers and defended the two castles of Kutsamara and Tralchapa. After a few months, we gradually lost our spirit, and the warriors became Tired up. So Su Angua found an opportunity in a great battle, and led three thousand copper ax guards to assault the two thousand Eagles and thousands of warriors around them in the battle, defeating our tactical core."

"I defeated that battle." Avet sighed a little, "The army retreated in a hurry, and killed four hundred eagle nobles, more than three thousand warriors, and nearly twenty thousand militiamen left along the way."

"Three Hikipilli regiments were lost in this battle. Of course, the Tarascos also lost a thousand copper ax guards and 8,000 militiamen as consumption. They were also considered a tragic victory.

When I returned to the capital, I handed over the command of the army and assumed the intelligence and security work of the alliance. A few months later, the elder brother Asaya Cartel passed away, and the theologically-loving elder Tisok succeeded the new Tratoani. "

Avet looked at the Bronze Ax Guards on the other side, with remembrance, thought, and deep regret in his eyes.

Shulot observed the copper ax warriors with interest. They are physically strong, wearing bronze pointed helmets, heavy bronze shoulder pads on their shoulders, wearing yellow leather armor, and holding a bronze battle ax as tall as a person. The design of this two-handed battle ax can effectively break through heavy wooden shields. Obviously, it was specially designed to deal with the Aztec's elite shield-wielding warriors, especially the eagle warriors with heavy shields.

There are a total of about 2,000 of these elite warriors. They looked resolute, standing still and solemn, full of the beauty of power, and full of the sharpness of metal.

The young man observed carefully and felt that the Tarasco troops already had some characteristics of the ancient Greek legion. Bronze was used for helmets and weapons, although the technology for bronze armor apparently had not yet been developed.

"Tomahawk Guard Battalion, trump card, two-handed battleaxe soldier, bronze helmet and leather armor, medium armor, high morale, general discipline, weapon piercing armor, bonus to shield soldiers. Excellent assault infantry."

Xiuluo nodded: "This army is a great threat to the jaguar and eagle battle group."

Avit smiled: "The Tarascos don't have a military system for cultivating senior warriors on a large scale, so they can only organize such a copper ax assault force to fight against our elite battle group.

Of course, we don't want to use the noble battle group to compete with these metal warriors. It takes at least twenty years to train a Jaguar or Eagle fighter who is both offensive and defensive. And these metal warriors only need to practice a few years of battle ax assault to take shape. "

Xiulot agrees very much, a jaguar or an eagle warrior is like a Spartan warrior in ancient Greece. Their martial arts and physique need to be honed from an early age, and then tempered in the war, the training period is close to twenty years.

In the history of China, it is the Jurchen White Armor, which has high combat defense and difficult replenishment, and can only be used in key battlefields. It's not that they can't beat the high-attack Tomahawk Guards, but they can't afford it.

The young man thought for a moment, then smiled confidently: "Facing such shieldless infantry, the longbow guards we just formed can perfectly restrain them!"

The commanders of the two sides confirmed their identities with each other on both sides of the river, and then looked at each other for a long time without saying a word, and then returned to their camps.

The next day was a rare sunny day, and the morning light sprinkled through the gaps in the clouds. Early in the morning, the Tarasco camp on the opposite bank was boiling, and 80,000 troops came out of the camp one after another, forming a mighty formation on the south bank of the Leman River.

Avit also transferred 10,000 directly subordinate warriors to his side, relying on the stronghold behind him, and spread out on the hills on the north bank of the Leman River. The beast helmets of a thousand jaguars are neatly arranged, full of frightening wild power.

However, Xiulot knew in his heart that the legions on both sides of the river were not the real protagonists of the war. What really controlled the course of the war was the water armies on both sides of the river, thousands of canoes.

The protagonists are hidden, and the supporting actors make their debut first.

Shulot looked at Tarasco's military formation in the distance, and the cold light of bronze flickered in the sun.

At the core is Suangwa, the king and commander-in-chief of Tarasco, surrounded by two thousand Tomahawk guards. In the outer periphery are 30,000 Tarasco warriors, and it is estimated that 20,000 are directly under the king.

Most of these warriors wore wooden helmets with feathers, and a few wore simple bronze helmets. They wore yellow or green leather armor, and many of them wore a string of gilded small stones around their necks, which glistened and flowed in the sunlight, very dazzling.

Xiulot examined it carefully and determined that it was the leftovers from the striped copper mine mining. He didn't know what to wear it for. Could it be that he blinded his opponent's eyes?

Most of the Tarasco warriors held a thick wooden shield in one hand, and a bronze spear measuring 1.56 meters in the other. The army formation of the samurai was a little noisy and unorganized. Many noble warriors were facing the Mexica Legion on the north bank, constantly waving bronze weapons, and a few of them also knocked on expensive copper shields, shouting and demonstrating.

According to the number of copper shields, the boy judged that the amount of bronze mined in Tarasco was still limited.

"The Tarasco Warrior Battalion, elite, contradictory soldiers, leather armor, high morale, poor discipline. The main melee infantry. Except for the bronze spears in their hands, the Tarasco warriors are indeed inferior to the well-trained ink soldiers who have been fighting for years. Saiga warriors are obviously much less disciplined."

On the periphery of the 30,000 warriors, Xiulot also saw two interesting new troops.

The troop on the left was wearing simple cloth clothes and a ring-shaped cloth cap, holding a long bronze spear about 2.5 meters in both hands. There were about 5,000 spearmen in this group, and they were silent without making much noise. They gathered roughly into a phalanx, and the formation was even more orderly than the warriors of Tarasco.

"What is this troop?" The boy asked curiously. At first glance, these spearmen looked like the rudiments of the Greek spear phalanx, but after a closer look at their crude equipment, they looked more like the two Japanese spears.

Avet glanced at the army formation and smiled: "This is a new army created by Tarasco. The soldiers are miners who dig copper mines and fight in formation with spears. When they get together, there are some Useful, it can defeat militia or even a small group of warriors. But as long as a large group of warriors charge from the back or side, they will soon be unable to hold back and disperse. After they are dispersed, they are much easier to deal with. Harvesting is like folding a field as simple as cornstalks."

Xiuluo nodded. The equipment of this army is too weak, and its martial arts and morale are not enough. If it is equipped with a shield, puts on armor, trains strictly, and forms a spear phalanx, it still has great potential.

"Tarasco Pike Battalion, ordinary, spearmen, cloth and unarmored, average morale, average discipline, simple pike formation. Good militia to maintain the front line."

Being able to organize into a system of mine apprentices proves that Tarasco's mining industry has developed to a certain extent. The urban economy has been developed enough that a certain class of citizens and artisans has arisen among the nobles and peasants. Similar to self-cultivating farmers, this class will also provide the country with elite militias, or ashigaru.

"Look at the other side." Avit pointed to the right again, where there was another interesting new troop.

There are also about 5,000 people in this army, and the weapons are very messy, including stone hammers, stone axes, copper spears, wooden shields, and even short bows. There are also different levels of equipment, mostly civilian clothes, a few leather armors, and some wooden helmets with feathers. These miscellaneous fighters are now shouting loudly at the north bank, and their morale seems to be pretty good.

"This is Tarasco's alien mercenary, with complicated origins, and was taken in by the Tarasco people on the battlefield. Among them are the unruly Chichimeks, the displaced Otomi, and the The alliance hates the Toltec rebels, and there are even some landless warriors mixed in. This army is a high consumption of morale."

Shulot then understood that mercenaries are all killed as cannon fodder.

"Alien mercenaries, ordinary, miscellaneous soldiers, clothed and unarmored, with high morale and poor discipline. Excellent cannon fodder for the front line."

If Tarasco's military formation goes further out, there are militias all over the mountains and fields that Shulot has long been familiar with. These militiamen are still dominated by stone spears, and a few are equipped with shields. Dressed in civilian clothes or simply naked, their morale was low and they had no formation at all. Among them, there are about one-eighth of the catapult soldiers, which can barely be counted as long-range troops.

There are a total of 40,000 militiamen. No matter which alliance they were in, they were all multi-functional consumables that could not only carry food and grass, dig pits and build villages, but also fill the front line and consume the physical strength of the opposing warriors.

This is Tarasco's legion: 2,000 copper ax guards as the core, 30,000 warriors as the main force, the remaining 5,000 pikemen, 5,000 alien mercenaries are high-quality cannon fodder, and the most 40,000 militiamen are ordinary cannon fodder.

The armies of the two sides faced each other across the river. The warriors of Mexica sat quietly on the hill, consolidating their strength, watching the bustling on the other side.

Tarasco's army first expanded into a semicircle, and the guards and warriors sat down to rest. Then hundreds of militiamen walked to the front of the army formation, and under the command of more than a dozen old men with feather crowns, they built three huge round platforms with a height of several meters and a diameter of more than ten meters.

Finally, when the sun finally rose to the center of the sky, hundreds of priests wearing long feathers came and wore gourd necklaces. They took all kinds of equipment, climbed onto the high platform, and started a wonderful performance under the watchful eyes of 100,000 soldiers on both sides of the strait.