Aztec Eternals

The breeze drifts in the mountains, stroking the new shoots of the treetops and bringing moist water vapor. This is April when all things germinate. It has been half a year since the siege of the city, the dry season of the plateau has passed, and the new rainy season has not yet arrived.

After returning to the siege camp, Shulot first rested in the hut for a few days, and then his father Huosoke came to see him and exchanged the situation of this expedition with him.

Palms in the north were almost burned to the ground, and many Chichimek nomads went south. After the city-states of Guamare and Palms were crippled, the harassment of the Otomi people on the army was rapidly weakened, and the number of militiamen was greatly reduced.

Although the Otomi guerrillas are still going on, the strength has changed from flies to mosquitoes. The casualties of the Mexica warriors dropped to over a hundred each month. The warriors of the city-state were still somewhat dissatisfied, but they were within the limits of their tolerance. The supply of food has been able to keep up with the consumption, and the stock of food in the camp has also begun to increase.

The days of the siege seemed a little leisurely. It has been several months since the expedition, and Husok has higher expectations for his son. He had a secret conversation with the veteran warrior Bertade for a long time, and resumed the family military training of Shilot.

Every day at dawn, Shirot had to get up and start training as a warrior with the rising sun, and Bertard was his teacher.

The Aztec city-state alliance is a typical classical military society, and every teenager in the Mexica city-state is forced to participate in military training. Home training begins at the age of twelve at the latest and is influenced by the family's financial capacity.

Shulot's training began at the age of ten. His father provided him with the most adequate food supply, with fine corn tortillas and rare meat, and then let Orosh teach him martial arts.

At the very beginning, Shulot, who has adult memory, was resistant to training. He would use various hiding methods to test Orosh's IQ in finding people, thus delaying the time to start training.

In order to increase the youth's interest in practicing martial arts, under the protection of the samurai, the jaguar warrior showed him the "stunt" of the number one samurai: one person and one stick against a jaguar. Humans can turn sideways to avoid the big cats with extraordinary agility, and then slam the obsidian battle stick with both hands fiercely, killing the tiger with one stick and killing the tiger with ten sticks!

Since then, the shocked Shulot finally obediently completed Olosh's training requirements, all of which eventually transformed into the muscle lines under the boy's single shirt.

When the city-state teenagers reach the age of fifteen, they will enter the city-state's strict community military school, Trpochcarli, to receive practical skills and military instruction. The teachers of the military academy are all senior soldiers of the fourth level, just like a jaguar taking care of a group of kittens, they can definitely give every teenager an unforgettable "good" memory.

The "good" memories will last for five years until graduation from the military academy. Excellent teenagers were given the status of young warriors and became the preparatory ruling class. Then, they began the promotion process of capturing and upgrading prisoners. From youth to middle age, the brave moved forward fearlessly, until the ceiling of the common people's struggle "four-level senior samurai", with the ability to join the Jaguars and Eagles and become military nobles. qualifications.

The teenagers who failed have no relationship with the ruling class since then. They would become artisans, merchants, or farmers at the bottom. Top craftsmen can participate in the construction of the pyramid temple, and excellent merchants will be recruited as Pochitka intelligence scouts, who also belong to the fringes of the ruling class.

A small number of descendants of nobles and priests will enter the higher school directly under the city-state, Kalmykkake. There, military teaching becomes a secondary program, with the main subjects being noble literature and politics, astronomy and theology, culminating in a higher "starting point", the young noble warrior or assistant priest.

Young noble warriors and priests still have to upgrade their ranks by capturing prisoners. Fourth-level senior noble warriors usually join the Jaguars or Eagles more easily and become first-level military nobles. The first-level military nobles belonged to the small noble class, and then they entered the ranks of the big nobles. From the top are the second-level hereditary nobles, the third-level honorable nobles, and finally the royal family and king of the Sun God. And the noble nobles already have the qualifications to rule the city-state and act as the city lord.

The peak of the priests' capture and promotion is the fifth-level coyote priest. As for the city-state priests and elders, the high priests of Teotihuacan, and the chief priests of Tenochtitlan, they all belong to the top of the ruling class with one radish and one pit. .

In a nutshell, in Scholot's view, the Aztec class system was like the Qin state in the East, where "military merits were awarded", or the Prussia in the West, "an army with a state."

Training in the camp always begins with the rising sun. Xiulott first took a cold bath for half an hour, wearing only a pair of shorts in the cold wind of the morning, tempering his will. Then, in the morning, there are two or three hours of endurance training, including running, climbing, moving rocks, lifting shields, and marching with weights.

After a short break, he would continue to learn the skills of the shield and the stick with Bertard, first raising the shield to block, then slashing, tapping, slapping with the stick, mastering the difference between killing and capturing prisoners, and finally One-on-one practical combat.

At this time, Bertard would always use dexterous swings to tell him what it means to be light and hard to guard. Shulot often felt that his shield was a decoration, and Bertard always patiently emphasized that the shield was the life of the samurai. This is especially true in large-scale battle formations, where there is a spare dagger if the battle club is lost, and often less than three minutes if the shield is lost.

After the training is a hearty lunch. After the severe training, there must be sufficient nutritional supply. This is also the biggest restriction encountered in the training of civilian warriors.

Lunch starts with a cup of hot cocoa. It was really difficult for Shilot to get used to the traditional cold cocoa mixed with chili peppers, so he changed it to hot cocoa with honey. The taste was still bitter, but it was very comfortable to drink.

Central America is an excellent sugarcane growing area, but no sugarcane has been introduced yet. If you want to eat a little sweetness, you can only rely on expensive and scarce wild honey, weak agave juice, and seasonally limited maple pulp. I heard that the Mayans had mastered the top-secret technique of raising honey, which gave Shilot another reason to attack Yucatan.

The staple food is a tortilla with black beans and green beans, supplementing basic carbohydrates and protein. The samurai liked to add peppers, avocados and baby tomatoes. Avocados and tomatoes are usually more expensive. And in Mexico, chili can be enough.

Next came the time for the most satisfying supplementary meal of Shilot, seared venison with salt and herbs. In Meat-deficient Central America, it was definitely the food of the great aristocracy. Because of the scarcity of venison, in many cases only turkey meat from Chai Chai can be used instead.

I heard that the Mayans also invented grilled lizards, grilled conch shells, grilled sea turtles, and grilled lobsters. Shirott expressed his gratitude and insensitivity, and did not dare to try these dangerous foods. Even a delicious lobster, once eaten by parasites, will be accompanied for life in this era ~www.readwn.com~ almost no solution.

Finally, the lunch ends with a tequila drink. Bertard will drink a small glass of tequila, while Scholot prefers slightly sweet tequila juice. Agave is almost one of the most important plants in the life of Mexicans. Agave stems can be roasted and eaten. Agave leaves are used to feed turkeys. Agave juice can be drunk or brewed. Leaf fiber can also be used. Make ropes. Shilot thinks that it should also be able to make paper.

After lunch, it was study time that made Sherlot happy. Every afternoon, he would sort out the Chinese characters used in daily life and draw teaching graphics, and sometimes Avit would come to help and tell the latest military situation by the way.

Then when the sun was setting in the west, he happily gathered his followers, watching the majestic warriors in the sunset, learning the characters with a bewildered face. This is also the time when Bertard, the eternally quiet warrior of the vicissitudes of life, rarely shows a sad face.

After night fell, there were no candles made of grease and no opposite sex, so the warriors had nothing to do. Only chat, brag, sing, fight, and drink around the campfire. Of course, rare drinks are generally only served on important sacrificial days.

At this time, Shirot will chat with his followers about daily life, and also listen to the life in the market, the rumors from afar, and the desire of the samurai.

When the night was dark, he returned to the hut under the moonlight, lay on the grass bed, and looked at the dim starlight outside the cloth window. Thoughts spread far away, traveled through time and space, and finally fell asleep leisurely.

Bertard would lie awake on the grass bed in the corner of the house, quietly guarding a memory of the past and a hoped-for future. In the mountains and forests outside the camp, the battles and slaughter between the Mexica warriors and the Otomi people were isolated in this way, as if they were separated from each other.

This is the day of Shulot, rising in the rising sun and resting in the starlight, waiting for the turning point of the battle.