Remember [New] in a second! "Boom boom boom!..."

The fierce battle drums were beating outside the city of Shuigu, accompanied by the shouts of the Mexica Legion, announcing a more brutal siege!

Soon, thousands of Tekos tribe warriors bent their waists and pushed two hundred heavy wooden shield chariots, slowly approaching outside the south city wall. These Terkos fighters were all surrendered troops recruited during the Kingdom's Southern Expedition. They wore rattan hats on their heads, short spears on their backs, loincloths around their waists, and the most valuable equipment on their bodies was cheap paper armor. Their construction cost is really astonishingly low.

"Squeak... squeak..."

The heavy wooden shield cart passed through the trampled solid soil, and gradually approached the south wall of Water Valley City, approaching within 80 steps. At this point, the elite longbowmen defending the city were able to hit the shield car accurately.

"Bless the God of Hunting! Shoot the enemy!..."

On the southern city wall, the vacancies that were killed in battle were quickly filled, and the hereditary nobles who led the army clenched their longbows and shouted fiercely.

"...hum!..."

Hearing the order, the densely packed Tlaxcala warriors and militiamen all held up long bows, short bows, hunting bows, copper arrows, bone arrows and even stone arrows with reeds, and shot towards the city one after another!

"Whoosh!... Whoosh!"

Large flakes of feathered arrows, like the rapid wind and sand, shot in disorderly. Dozens of Terkos fighters howled miserably in an instant, with arrows in their heads and faces, and fell obliquely to the ground, leaving only fresh bloodstains.

The Tlaxcalans worship the **** of hunting, Misquartel, and claim to be the descendants of "Cloud Serpent". The weapon of the **** of hunting in mythology is the "disgraceful" bow and arrow. Therefore, they are different from the Mexica who admire close combat and capture prisoners. They especially like to use bows and arrows. Almost everyone learns to shoot, and there are many inherited bowsmith families.

A few years ago, when the news of the new longbow invented by the Mexica came, the nobles of Tlaxcala were amazed and could not believe it. The imitation of the longbow was carried out in various parts of the Four-State Alliance for the first time, and it soon achieved results, creating the first batch of new large bows.

Of course, the people of Tlaxcala soon discovered that if they want to use longbows and increase the power of bows and arrows, it means that the cost of making bows will be greatly increased. They would use stronger bronze tools, spend more manpower, and use better wood to make larger bows and stronger arrow shafts. And behind all of this, there is a need for affluent and sufficient food, and a young man who needs long-term labor!

To this day, the proportion of longbowmen in the legions of the Mexica and the Tlaxcalans is still very limited. The difference is that the Mexica are limited by the number of elite archers, while the Tlaxcalans are limited by the lack of manpower and material resources.

"Swoosh!..."

Arrows rained and death screamed. The Tesco warrior bowed even more, lowered his figure, and continued to push the shield car forward. In just a moment, the shield chariot was already filled with bent feather arrows. Tribal fighters kept groaning or screaming, were shot in the naked vitals, and fell to the ground to die.

Fortunately, the fronts of these shield vehicles are all erected with simple large shields, which can form a protective space. It didn't take long for a large number of shield vehicles to move within 60 steps outside the city, gradually stopping still, forming a covering shooting position. The hundreds of surviving Tesco fighters all held their heads, curled up their bodies as much as possible, and crouched on the ground to make room for more space.

"good!"

Black Wolf Toltek looked at the situation on the battlefield and nodded in satisfaction. The casualties of hundreds of Turkos soldiers are not worth mentioning. Instead, they managed to expend the Tlaxcalans' arrows and pushed the covering shield carts into position.

"Order, Imperial Guard Corps, Longbow Warrior Battalion, come in and shoot!"

"Boom boom boom!...Longbow Warrior Battalion, attack!"

"Lord God bless!"

The sound of war drums became more and more urgent. The Longbow Warrior Battalion shouted in unison, lowered their heads, and ran towards the position of the shield chariot in small steps.

Compared with Tesco's surrender troops, the equipment of the guards' longbow warriors was much more luxurious. They all wore bronze medium armor, bronze helmets on their heads, bronze shortaxes on their waists, strong longbows in their hands, and two bags of bronze arrows on their backs. These thousand elite imperial guards were entrusted to Hei Lang by His Highness as the key force to suppress the city. And Tekos, who was pushing the shield car to pave the way, descended to reduce their casualties to the greatest extent.

"Swoosh! ... Whoosh! ... Whoosh!"

Braving the rain of arrows, the longbow warriors kept running. After dozens of breaths, they came to the shielded vehicle and entered the shooting position sixty steps away from the city wall. Afterwards, they all raised their bows and aimed at the Tlaxcala warriors who were shouting and shooting arrows at the top of the city, which was a wave of precise counterattacks.

Gu Yu "Swoosh!..."

"ah!..."

A large group of screams suddenly sounded from the top of the city. Hundreds of Tlaxcala warriors were injured by arrows. The defenders at the top of the city were immediately suppressed, and they did not dare to show their figures unscrupulously. The rain of arrows shot down from the top of the city was a little sparse, and the archers on both sides began to shoot at each other.

Under the shield vehicle, the huddled Terkos descendants also breathed a sigh of relief. The most dangerous moment has passed, and one life should be saved today.

"Damn it! It's these bronze-armored archery warriors again! The next step is to climb the wooden ladder and send lowly barbarians to the city to fight!"

"Black Snake" Telcott swung his baton angrily, and slammed it **** the wooden shield in front of him. He was so powerful that he shattered the obsidian sharp pieces on the baton!

The Tlaxcala Four-State Alliance lacks a source of copper mines, and bronze weapons are extremely scarce. However, they also have large obsidian mines and mature obsidian craftsmanship, so they have always used obsidian weapons.

In early March, the Mexica South Route Army arrived at the city of Shuigu, and immediately began to besiege the city. They set up a large camp outside the southern city, pulled out the camps in the east and west mountains in turn, and established two small camps. After only a few days, Shuigu City was besieged on three sides, leaving only a "way of life" in the north.

When he was first besieged, "Black Snake" Telcott maintained sufficient confidence.

The city wall of Shuigu City is six to seven meters high. It is built of stone mixed with corn mortar. It is extremely hard. It is the strongest town in the south of the Four Kingdoms Alliance! The old and weak moth people had already been driven out of the city, leaving only 15,000 defenders and enough food for two years. There are another 5,000 militia guarding the mountain camps on both sides, which can contain the attack of the Mexica. For decades, Water Valley City has been besieged by the Mexica several times, but it has never fallen!

"Black Snake" also sent envoys to the northern states asking for help. The Talsas River flows through the east city, and the upper reaches of the north are still in the hands of the Tlaxcala Navy, which can be continuously transported for support.

"Bless the God of Hunting! We can guard this city wall until we die of old age!"

Facing the envoy from His Royal Highness "Reaper" who persuaded him to surrender, "Black Snake" replied like this. He even ordered that the messenger's ears be cut off and the opponent's eyes be pierced, as a response to the endless struggle with the Mexica!

In the ten days that followed, the Mexica did not make any major moves, as if they had nothing to do with Shuigu City.

The Mexica Legion outside the south city was quiet, but kept building equipment in the camp outside the city. The east and west of the city are old rivals who have been fighting for many years, the city-state legions of the Mexica. Carrying wooden ladders, they tried to launch two sieges, but under the attacks of feathered arrows, stones and lime pots, hundreds of warrior corpses were left in vain.

"Black Snake" Telcott became more and more confident, and even organized thousands of warriors to counterattack outside the city under the cover of night.

It's a pity that the enemy's camp outside Nancheng is very stable, and the camp was built meticulously. The warriors couldn't move, but were shot by arrows, leaving hundreds of corpses. The East City and the West City achieved another small victory, defeating the four militia battalions on the outskirts of the city-state army, killing and injuring more than 2,000 people!

A large number of militiamen were killed and dispersed, and the city-state legion of Mexica was used to it, and its morale was still stable. It took them a day to send out warriors to regroup the crumbling militia. The practice of these city-state regiments in fighting is to spread out a large number of militia battalions far away and station them on the periphery of the warrior camps, without even needing to set up fences. The samurai battalion in the center set up wooden fences, lit fires, and was heavily guarded.

In case of a night attack and the militiamen were killed by the enemy, the warriors would not support them at all. They just guarded the camp and waited for dawn. If any militiamen dared to charge into the camp, they would be killed as enemies. And the militiamen didn't dare to flee to the center, they would just scatter everywhere. When it was dawn, the attacking enemy had been killed all night. If they did not retreat in time, they would be attacked fiercely by the warriors!

"Black Snake" Telcott went out of the city and attacked twice, but he was still unable to shake the main force of the Mexica, and even damaged some elites. He had no choice but to retreat to the city ~lightnovelpub.net~ and wait patiently for reinforcements from the north.

However, in mid-March, the situation changes! The Mexica built more than a dozen stone-throwing wooden beasts outside the southern city, and they kept throwing burning fireballs into the city at a distance of one or two hundred steps! These fireballs burn on contact, and can even burn on stones, and billow poisonous smoke. They cannot be extinguished with water at all, they can only be covered with sand, and they emit the evil breath of the crater.

The priest of the holy city of Cholula saw this scene and quickly made a judgment.

"This is indeed the power of demons, the evidence of the depravity of the Mexica!"

However, in the face of the powerful force of the volcano demon, the priests are helpless. The God of Hunting seems to have abandoned his descendants, while the boundless darkness flooded in from the south, gradually engulfing Water Valley City.

In the following days, the blockade on three sides of Water Valley City became more and more tight. The power of demons continued to appear on the scene, clusters of flames shot into the city, and acrid smoke diffused everywhere. In Central America, where there are many volcanoes, sulfur is far easier to obtain than saltpeter, and the cost of sulfur paper fireballs is also far lower than refined gunpowder.

The poisonous smoke dispersed and the flames burned, making the city of Shuigu look like an absolute realm, like a battleground for a battle of gods. The morale of the defenders continued to decline, and the priests racked their brains to appease the hearts of the people in the city. And "Black Snake" Telcott even dreamed of black and red evil volcanic lava when he was sleeping!