Aztec Eternals

The drizzle stopped, and the long wind remained. The warrior's feather helmet swayed like the trees in the forest, and the sword pointed to the sky.

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

"Suangua?" Sherlot curiously looked at the enemy commander surrounded by giant axe warriors. "Is he great?"

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

"He had just come to the throne two years ago. My brother, the former King Assaya Cartel, saw this as a good opportunity to attack Tarrasco, and sent 30,000 warriors and 70,000 militiamen from Lacy in the south of the Union. Cobain invaded the Tarasco state of Sittacuaro."

"He was already in poor health at that time, so he gave me the command of the 100,000-strong army. As the new Kasongqi, Suangua also mobilized 100,000 people to lead the army to face the battle in person. Crowded in a narrow area south of the Toluca Mountains and north of the Balsas River. We fought hard for half a year, and the rolling plateau was full of blood."

"The Mexican army had an advantage for a time. But the Tarasco people, relying on the mountains and rivers, held on to the two castles of Kuchamara and Tralcappa. After a few months, we gradually lost our strength and the warriors became more Exhausted. Suangua then found an opportunity in the First World War, and led the three thousand bronze axe guards to assault the two thousand eagle chapters and the thousands of warriors around, and defeated our tactical core."

"I defeated that battle." Avit sighed a little. "The army retreated in a hurry. Four hundred eagle nobles, more than three thousand warriors, and nearly 20,000 militiamen were killed along the way."

"Three Hikipili regiments were lost in this battle. Of course, the Tarrascos also lost 1,000 bronze axe guards and 8,000 militiamen as attrition. They were a disastrous 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 eldest brother Asaya Cartel died, and his brother Tisok, who loved theology, succeeded the new Tratoani. "

Avite looked at the bronze axe guards on the other side, with memories and thoughts in his eyes, as well as a touch of regrets that were hidden in his eyes.

Shirot watched the bronze axe warriors with interest. They are stocky, wearing bronze pointed helmets, heavy bronze shoulder pads, yellow leather armor, and a man-high bronze battle axe. This two-handed tomahawk is designed to effectively break through heavy wooden shields. It was obviously designed to deal with the elite shield-wielding groups of the Aztecs, especially the Eagle Warriors with heavy shields.

There are about 2,000 of these elite warriors. They looked resolute, stood still and solemn, and their bodies were full of the beauty of strength and the sharpness of metal.

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

"Tomahawk guard battalion, ace, two-handed axemen, bronze armor, leather armor, medium armor, high morale, average discipline, broken armor, bonus to shield soldiers. Excellent assault infantry."

Shulott nodded: "This unit is a great threat to the Jaguars and Eagles."

Avit smiled: "The Tarrascos do not have a military system to train senior warriors on a large scale. They can only organize such a copper axe assault force to fight against our elite chapter.

Of course, we are not willing to spend the noble warband and these metal warriors. It takes at least 20 years to develop a jaguar or eagle warrior with both offense and defense. And these metal warriors can be formed after a few years of practice tomahawk assault. "

Shilot agrees very much, the jaguar or eagle warrior is like the Spartan warrior in ancient Greece. Their martial arts and physique need to be polished from a young age, and then tempered and formed in the war. The training cycle is close to twenty years.

In the history of China, it is the Jurchen White Armor. It has high defense and is difficult to replenish. It can only be used in key battlefields. They are not the tomahawk guards who can't beat the high attack, but they can't consume it.

The young man thought for a moment and smiled confidently: "Faced with such shieldless infantry, the Longbow Guards we just formed can perfectly restrain!"

The commanders of both sides confirmed their identities on both sides of the river, and then looked at each other silently for a long time before returning to their respective camps.

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

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

However, Scholot 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 were the navy on both sides of the river and thousands of canoes.

The protagonists are hidden, and the supporting actors are the first to appear.

Shulot looked at the army formation in Tarrasco in the distance, the cold light of bronze flickering in the sunlight.

At the most central position is the king and commander-in-chief of Tarasco, Suangua, surrounded by two thousand battle-axe guards. On the periphery are 30,000 warriors of Tarasco, and it is estimated that 20,000 are directly under the king.

Most of these warriors wore feathered wooden helmets, and a few wore ancient bronze helmets. Wearing yellow or green leather armor, many wear a string of small gilt stones around their necks, which glitter and flow in the sun, very dazzling.

Shulot looked carefully and determined that this was the leftover material from the mining of the patterned copper mine. He didn't know what was the use of wearing it. Is it to blind the opponent's eyes?

Most of the Tarasco warriors held thick wooden shields in one hand and bronze spears measuring 1.56 meters in the other. The military formation of the samurai was a little noisy and not neat. Many noble warriors are facing the Mexica Legion on the north shore, constantly waving bronze weapons, and a few are knocking on expensive copper shields and shouting demonstrations.

Based on the number of copper shields, the teenager judged that the amount of bronze mined in Tarasco was still limited.

"Tarasco warrior battalion, elite, contradictory soldiers, medium leather armor, high morale and poor discipline. The main melee infantry. Except for the bronze spear in their hands, the Tarrasco warriors are indeed inferior to those who have fought for years and have been fully trained. Saiga warriors are obviously much less disciplined."

On the periphery of the 30,000 samurai, Shulot also saw two very interesting new troops.

The troops on the left were wearing simple commoner clothes and ring-shaped cloth caps, and they were holding long bronze spears of about 2.5 meters in both hands. There were about 5,000 spearmen, and they were silent without much sound. They gathered into a phalanx, and the formation was even more tidy than the warriors of Tarasco.

"What is this unit?" the boy asked curiously. These spearmen looked a little like the prototype of the Greek pike phalanx, but after careful observation of their simple equipment, they were more like the two Japanese guns.

Avit glanced at the army formation and smiled: "This is a new army from Tarasco. The soldiers are miners who dig copper mines and fight in formation with spears. There are still some when they get together. Useful, it can defeat the militia and even a small group of samurai. But as long as a large group of samurai charges from the back or the side, it will soon be unbearable to disperse. After dispersing, it is much easier to deal with, and the harvest is like folding the field. as simple as a cornstalk."

Shuluo nodded, the equipment of this unit is too weak, and its martial arts and morale are not enough. If it is equipped with a shield, armor, strict training, and formation of a pike phalanx, there is still a lot of potential.

"Tarasco pike battalion, ordinary, spearmen, cloth armor and no armor, average morale, average discipline, simple pike formation. A good militia to maintain the front."

Being able to organize organized mine soldiers proves that Tarasco's mining industry has developed to a certain extent. The urban economy has developed enough that a certain class of citizens and artisans has arisen among the nobles and peasants. Similar to the homesteaders, this class will also provide the country with an elite militia, or ashgaru.

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

This army also has about five thousand people, and the weapons are very messy, there are stone hammers, stone axes, copper spears, wooden shields, and even short bows. The equipment is also of different levels, mostly commoners, a few leather armors, and some wooden helmets with feathers. These miscellaneous soldiers are now shouting at the North Shore, and they seem to have good morale.

"This is an alien mercenary from Tarrasco, with complicated origins, and was taken in by the Tarrasco people and used on the battlefield~www.readwn.com~ Among them are the rebellious Chichimeks, and the displaced Otto The Mi, the Toltec rebels who hated the Alliance, and even some samurai who lost their land. This unit is a high morale consumable."

Shilot then understood that mercenaries are all cannon fodder.

"Interracial mercenaries, ordinary, miscellaneous soldiers, cloth armor and no armor, high morale, poor discipline. Excellent cannon fodder for the front line."

If Tarrasco's army went further out, there were militiamen who were already familiar with the mountains and plains. These militiamen are still dominated by stone spears, and a few are equipped with shields. They were dressed in commoners or simply naked, their morale was low, and they had no formation at all. There are also about one-eighth of the slingers, which can barely be counted as long-range troops.

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

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

The two armies faced off across the river. The warriors of Mexica sat silently on the hills, gathering up their strength, watching the bustle of the other side.

The Tarrasco army first spread out into a semicircle, and the guards and warriors sat down to rest. Then thousands of militiamen walked to the front of the army, and under the command of dozens of Yuguan elders, 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 wearing gourd necklaces. They took all kinds of utensils and boarded the high platform. Under the watchful eyes of 100,000 soldiers on both sides of the strait, they started a wonderful performance.