Remember [New] in a second! The sun at the beginning of February, rising high, shines like a god, illuminating the east, west, north, south. The sunshine crossed two time zones, nearly ten latitudes, and a full radius of four thousand miles, from the arid and cold southwest coast of the North American continent to the warm and humid southeast of the Gulf of Mexico.

The jungle is dense, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, the climate is warm all year round, and the rainy season is long and heavy. This is the coast of Totonac, the front line where the ministries on the eastern seaboard fought against the Kingdom Legion, another warm "Golden Bay".

The camps and military strongholds of the Kingdom Legion, flying the banner of the main god, stretched for nearly 60 miles from the camp of Snake Lake Village near the sea in the northwest to Hewan Village near the river in the southeast, forming a semi-surrounding front. More than 6,000 warriors of the kingdom led nearly 10,000 subdued Totonak tribe warriors. A legion of 16,000 people was stationed scattered in five camps and military strongholds. They have spent a long rainy season and have been confronting the East and West Totonak coalition forces for half a year!

The Eastern and Western Totonak Allied Forces, with Jinwan Dacheng as the core, plus eight or nine surrounding tribal camps and military strongholds, extend for more than 50 miles and are located on the other side of the semi-encircled front. Before the rainy season came last year, the Totonak coalition army experienced several disastrous defeats. They were successively ambushed by the kingdom's army and fell to two large villages. At one point, they fell to more than 20,000 people.

However, after the rainy season was replenished, more tribal reinforcements, holding the flags of the city-states, came from the land of Totonak, seven hundred miles to the east. The size of the entire coalition army gradually increased to more than 30,000.

At the beginning of the war, no one expected that the battle under Jinwan City would last so long! After the rainy season passed, the Kingdom Legion still maintained the initiative on the battlefield. With 16,000 troops, it half-surrounded the 30,000 Totonak army. 877 Chinese Website

16,000 and a half people surrounded 30,000 people. At first glance, it seemed unbelievable. But after field battles with thousands of people time after time, the leaders of the Totonac coalition forces were also forced to admit a painful fact. That is the Totonac city-state army with cotton armor and stone axes and stone spears and short bows. Even if it has twice the numerical advantage, it is impossible to win the kingdom headquarters with bronze armor and copper axes and long spears and bows in the field.

However, if the scale of the field battle rises to tens of thousands of people, and the kingdom's 6,000 headquarters, together with tens of thousands of recruited tribes that are prone to collapse, fight a decisive battle with the 30,000 coalition forces, the outcome will be a bit unpredictable. It's just that at the moment, the leaders of the two armies, one defending the city with peace of mind, and the other waiting hesitantly, have no idea of ​​placing all bets and winning or losing in a battle.

If you don't fight in the field, you can only attack the city. There are only 6,000 warriors in the kingdom's headquarters. Even if tens of thousands of cannon fodder surrendered, it would be difficult to capture Jinwan City and the surrounding army strongholds stationed by tens of thousands of coalition troops. The situation on the battlefield fell into a stalemate like this. The Kingdom Legion set up a long snake camp, while the Totonac Allied Army curled up into porcupines with thorns. The two armies faced each other and consumed each other.

"Hey! The giant python in the heavy rain, the porcupine in the mud, no one can do anything to them, they are all rolling in the water and mud!..."

When the rainy season came, the black wolf Toltek raised the wolf flag, returned to the camp in Snake Lake Village, and stayed still.

The long rainy season, which lasted for months, turned the land muddy and swamped the jungle, making any large-scale military operation costly and impossible. In the coastal land of more than a thousand miles, the war finally ceased, and there was a rare peace. Only the small boats supported by the Totonaks were still struggling to brave the rain, and sent reinforcements to Jinwan City along the coast and rivers.

When the October harvest came and the rainy season passed, His Highness's messenger came in a hurry, bringing new instructions and plans. After reading the new plan, Black Wolf Toltek's eyes flickered, and he thought for a while before he could figure out the flavor of it.

"Ah! Your Highness treats me, Hei Lang, as a fishing net to catch all the big fish in Totonak!..."

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Next, the black wolf Toltek changed his old habits and was no longer in a hurry to fight. He even found time to find a priest accompanying the army, and worked hard to learn the words and teachings in the "Ali Sutra". Because he knew that when His Highness came down, he would definitely test his literacy level to see if he had improved.

"Hey! Reading and learning the teachings are more difficult than going to battle! And how can these things improve the level of fighting?"

Black Wolf Toltek complained in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He endured his temper and read word by word, those big books that caused headaches. Because, he gradually got some feeling that knowing these words, although he could not help him fight the war, it could help him learn local governance...so as to better prepare for the war.

"Lord God! Why is Your Highness marching so slowly?"

The black wolf Toltek was sitting in a large tent, waiting for His Highness's army, almost moldy all over his body. However, His Highness's army did not arrive until mid-November when the news of departure came. Every day after that, His Highness marched slowly. Not only did he only travel more than twenty miles a day, but he also arranged to rest at every camp along the way.

"This march is only a little better than a tortoise!..."

Black Wolf Toltek complained secretly. From Tree Snake City to Zhan Snake New City, a journey of more than 500 miles, His Highness's army actually traveled for more than 20 days, dragging it until mid-December. However, as the two armies got closer, the exchanges of messengers became more frequent.

"Hey! Motivate the generals, appease the surrendered troops... These Totonac tribes who surrendered are weak and vulnerable, so what is there to appease them?..."

Through the messengers, Hei Lang clearly knew that the reason His Highness marched so slowly was to meet the kingdom generals stationed in various places, and summon the surrendered tribal chiefs to have a dinner together. Afterwards, His Highness will also bestow a seal letter from the alliance, promising the status of the chiefs, and even dividing the territories of the chiefs, so as to appease them.

Afterwards, in Snake Slaying City, also known as Ancient Feathered Snake City, His Highness even stopped the king's flag and stayed there for a full month!

It is said that His Highness has no details, first he summoned the generals of various ministries, comforted and praised them, and appeased the surrendered army. Then, His Highness personally presided over the conferring of fields and conferring titles, and distributed the fields outside Snake City to thousands of Mexica, Prepecha, Mixtek, and even Totonak warriors.

After completing these priority matters, His Highness inspected the harvest of last year's farming and inspected the reserves of grain, cloth, weapons and wood. The army also brought dozens of shipwrights from the Kingdom, and under His Highness's personal auspices, established the Kingdom's Eastern Shipbuilding Department, preparing to build long galleys for long journeys.

"Phew! Allocating land, farming and shipbuilding...these are the three things His Highness values ​​most! I want to learn how to do it too..."

It took His Highness a month to sort out the internal affairs of Snake City carefully before leading the army south again. He stayed in Nianshui city of Qinbo Ali for another five days, received the heads of the tribes of Nianshui, and had a banquet with many chiefs. Among them, there are many noble chieftains of Totonak who surrendered, offering beautiful girls from their direct lineage. His Highness did not refuse like in the past, but accepted it wholeheartedly and sent it to the Kingdom's Shenwei University.

With the arrival of 12,000 alliance troops ~lightnovelpub.net~ plus Xiulot's appeasement "united front" along the way, the territory of more than 500 miles laid down by the black wolf was finally stabilized.

"It's only seventy miles from Erashui City to here! Even if it's a turtle crawling, it should be here today..."

Black Wolf Toltek sat in the big tent, holding a book in his hand, but he didn't have the heart to read it at all. The table in front of him was filled with copied scriptures, and he showed a posture of studying hard. He was thinking wildly in his mind, and his ears were always paying attention to the periphery of the tent. Until the red-haired personal guard Uta hurried over and shouted through the tent.

"Leader! Boss! Your Highness, His Royal Highness's Wang Qi has finally appeared!"

"Good! Good! I'm going to see His Highness right now!"

The black wolf Toltek jumped up, threw the book in his hand casually, and went out of the tent excitedly. As soon as he stepped out of the big tent, he suddenly stopped and turned back, holding the book upside down in his hand.

"Hey! I, Hei Lang, want to hold the book and go to see His Highness! That's what His Highness said, that... that 'hold the book in your hand'! Haha!"

Thinking of this, Hei Lang smiled complacently. His feet were like the wind, he was wearing armor, holding a book in his hand, and a copper ax on his waist, followed by several red-haired personal guards, who disappeared outside the tent in a moment.