Chapter 393 Palm Patriarch and the Southern Tekos

"Chase! Chase quickly! Catch that red-haired barbarian chief! I'm going to make his skull into a wine glass!"

The hills are undulating, the forests are scattered, and the yellow leaves are flying and dancing. The brave palm chief Zotor roared excitedly and ran like the wind among the hills. He led the way, wearing leather armor, and chasing with more than 300 family warriors.

Behind the palm chief, there were hundreds of Apatchinggan warriors, with loose formations, chasing like a long snake. In front of him, more than a hundred red-haired barbarians were fleeing in panic. One of them was wearing a wolfskin robe and looked back in panic from time to time. It turned out to be a rare dog-born chief, a big fish in charge of thousands of barbarian soldiers.

"Quick! Quick! Charge from both sides! Push them into the valley!"

Zotor chased for a long time and suddenly showed joy. This area is north of the city of Apatchinggan, and he is very familiar with the terrain in front of him. One or two miles ahead is a sunken valley. The valley looked very deep, but there was no exit inside, only steep cliffs, and it was impossible to climb out in a hurry. As long as the barbarians were forced into the valley, and the warriors behind blocked the valley entrance, the red-haired barbarian chief would be dead!

"Good! Good! Chase their tail and kill into the valley!"

The red-haired barbarian in front fled in panic, paused slightly at the valley entrance, and seemed to be a little hesitant. But the palm warriors on both sides accelerated forward, and the barbarians were still forced into the valley. The brave palm chief Zotor was overjoyed, and personally led 300 good guards, and couldn't wait to chase and kill.

"Haha! The barbarians are indeed barbarians, looking glamorous, but actually vulnerable!"

Zotor rushed into the valley and laughed.

Thousands of royal troops went south, and he gathered heavy troops to defend the city of Apachingan, but the barbarians who came were all from the north. The barbarians wore cotton armor, held bamboo and wooden longbows, moved quickly, and had no glory of warriors at all. They just looked at the fortified city of Apatchinggan, without inviting a battle or attacking the city, and directly scattered and plundered the nearby Apat Plains a hundred miles away.

Zotor waited in the city for half a month until there were beacons everywhere outside the city, and small groups of barbarians were everywhere plundering and killing. Many mountain strongholds of southwestern nobles were captured by barbarians, all the men were killed, and their families were taken to the north. Only a few people did not know how to escape and came to the city to cry.

Even the Tekos tribe a hundred miles away in the south had several families attacked, and three tribes of a thousand people were directly expelled. The "Shield" chief Chimali immediately sent an envoy to request the Palm Family to send troops to encircle and kill these roaming northern barbarians together.

Chimali was the chief of the Tekos in the Coalcoman Mountains in the south of Apatchinggan. He had a tribe of 20,000 people and 5,000 fighting men. He was related to the Palm Family by marriage. The families of the Palm Family all took refuge in the southern Tekos tribe. This time, Chimali was invited to lead the troops. As the leader of the Tekos tribes in the southern mountainous area, he was the only reinforcement that the Palm Family could count on.

The Palm Family was inherited on the edge of the mountainous area. They had intermarried and communicated with the various tribes of the Southern Tekos for generations, and had a deep understanding of the Southern Tekos. Zotor knew that the Southern Tekos could be roughly divided into three parts according to the gathering areas: the West, the Southwest, and the Southeast.

The Western Tekos tribe gathered in the Colima (now Colima) mountainous area in the west of Zicao County. There were many tribesmen and a wide range of influence. They established their ancestral city of Colima on the plain in the mountains. In the local language, Colima means both "the land of volcanoes" and "the place where the water bends", which can be called the Fire River City. There are huge smoking volcanoes, fertile volcanic ash plains, and the Rio Armeria, which connects to the Chapala Lake area in the north and flows into the endless lake in the south.

The Fire River City is 500 miles away from the city of Apatchingan, hidden deep among the mountains. With Huohe City as the center, the west and south extend to the Endless Lake, the east extends to the western border of Zicao County, the edge of the Apa Plain, and the north extends to the south of Lake Chapala. This mountainous area of ​​500 miles from east to west and 300 miles from north to south is all loose tribes of the Tekos.

Faced with the continued expansion of the former Tarasco Dynasty, the western Tekos tribes were forced to form a tribal alliance, and together with the wild people in the mountains, the total population controlled was close to 200,000. They had several large tribes of tens of thousands of people, resisting the attacks of the old Tarasco Dynasty for decades, and finally nominally surrendered to the kingdom. The leader of the alliance, the strongest chief Colima, even sent his daughter to marry the former Tarasco royal family and gave birth to a prince with the blood of both gods.

Before Zotor started his army, he also sent envoys to Huohe City for help, but there was no news. The western tribes were too far away, and the attitude of Chief Colima was unclear, and he seemed unwilling to rashly provoke the powerful northern king.

The Southwestern Tekos tribe gathered in the Coalcomán Mountains southwest of Zicao County, and built the small city of Coalcomán (now Coalcomán) with the Coalcomán land as the core. The city of Coalcomán is about 250 miles away from the city of Apatchingan. In the local language, Coalcomán means "snake with hands", so it can also be called the City of Hand Snakes.

The range of the southwestern tribes is also 500 miles from east to west and 300 miles from north to south. They go east to the Talzas River, north to the Apa Plain, south to the Endless Lake, and west to the edge of the Colima Mountains. However, due to the lack of fertile volcanic ash plains like the Fire River Plain, the southwestern tribes have only about 110,000 to 120,000 people, and many are scattered on the lakeside plains of the Endless Lake.

Before the sudden demise of the previous Tarasco dynasty, the southwestern tribes were all vassals of the kingdom. The powerful tribes were deliberately suppressed or even split up, and many tribal warriors were recruited during the Western Expedition. It was not until the demise of the previous dynasty that the "Shield" chieftain Chimali finally broke free from the shackles of the kingdom and officially rose. During Chimali's rise, the Palm Family traded a lot of food and weapons and became an important ally of the Shield Tribe. The relationship between the two sides was extremely close.

Therefore, when Zotor's messenger for help arrived at the Hand Snake City, the enterprising Chimali immediately summoned all tribes to support the allies in the north. The southwestern tribes had been suppressed by the kingdom for many years, and they finally gained independence, and they did not want the old rule to come again. Now, at least more than 10,000 tribal warriors have emerged from the mountains and forests, and more tribes are still gathering.

The Southeast Tekos tribe gathered in the southeast of Zicao County, nearly 200 miles east of the lower reaches of the Talsas River, and the city of Sakatula (now Zihuatanejo) on the Sakatula coastal plain. Sakatura means "water in the yellow mountain". It is located between the mountains and the endless lake. It is also the "land of women" and has a large number of matriarchal clans. Therefore, it can be called the Sea Girl City. Four hundred miles northeast of the Sea Girl City is the Huetamo Mountains, and two hundred miles southeast is the Trapanic people living along the coast.

The Sea Girl City is extremely far away, four or five hundred miles away from the city of Apatzingan, and there are large rivers and lakes in between. The Tekos tribe there has only 40,000 to 50,000 people. Like the various tribes of Trapanic, they are nominally subservient to the kingdom and the alliance, but in fact they are self-governing behind closed doors. Their geographical location is very isolated. In the north, they are protected by the Sierra Madre del Sur. There are towering and desolate mountains for hundreds of miles. They are almost not afraid of any land expeditions, and they don't care about the situation outside the mountains.

Zotor also sent envoys to the Sea Girl City, but he knew in his heart that the southeastern tribes had almost no possibility of sending troops.

Chaotic thoughts flashed through the mind of the Palm Chief, making him more aware of the danger of the situation. But what we can do now is to defeat this weak barbarian army that is plundering and fleeing!

Thinking of this, Zottoer's footsteps did not stop. He chased and killed all the way, and finally forced the wolf-robed chief on the opposite side to the end of the valley. Looking around, there are steep cliffs all around, and there is no way to escape. The wolf-robed chief, with more than a hundred red-haired people, turned around in despair. He raised the bronze short spear in his hand and roared loudly.

"Awoo!"

"Haha, let's see where you can escape!"

Zottoer laughed heartily. He approached with three hundred family warriors, his eyes full of murderous intent.

"Don't even mention learning to howl like a wolf. Even if you kneel down and learn to meow like a cat, I will cut off your head today!"

"Awoo!"

The wolf-robed chief roared again, with a strange smile on his face, and the red-haired hunter beside him also called at the same time.

"Awoo!!"

But after a few breaths, as if they heard his call, a uniform wolf howl suddenly sounded from behind the cliff, like the roar of a wolf pack hunting!

Then, in Zotor's unbelievable eyes, hundreds of red-haired hunters stood up on the cliff dozens of steps away. They raised light and powerful bamboo longbows in their hands, aimed slightly, and fired a deadly volley at the gorgeously dressed palm chief!

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"

There is a specific map of the southwestern mountainous area in the easter egg chapter. I checked some information yesterday and roughly sorted out the situation of the Tekos people in this area. At the same time, according to the suggestions of book friends, I began to try to replace the transliterated names with the literal translations to facilitate memory. Please support me at the end of the month!