Chapter 488: The Siege of Shuigu City, a Battle of Gods to Attack the City!

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The fierce sound of war drums rang outside Shuigu City, accompanied by the shouts of the Mexica Legion, announcing a more brutal siege!

Soon, thousands of Tekos tribal warriors bent their waists, pushed two hundred heavy wooden shield carts, and slowly approached the southern city wall. These Tekos warriors were surrendered soldiers recruited during the kingdom's southern expedition. They wore rattan hats on their heads, short spears on their backs, and loincloths around their waists. The most valuable equipment on their bodies was the cheap paper armor on their bodies. The cost of their formation was really amazingly low.

"Squeaky"

The heavy wooden shield carts passed through the trampled solid soil and gradually approached the southern wall of Shuigu City, approaching within eighty steps. At this point, the elite longbowmen guarding the city could accurately hit the shield carts.

"God of Hunting bless! Shoot the enemy to death!"

On the southern city wall, the vacancies of the dead were quickly filled, and the hereditary nobles leading the army held their longbows tightly and shouted fiercely.

".Buzz!"

Hearing the order, the densely packed Tlaxcala warriors and militiamen all raised longbows, shortbows, hunting bows, copper arrows, bone arrows and even stone arrows with reed stalks, and shot at the city one after another!

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh! .Swoosh, swoosh!"

Large pieces of feather arrows, like a rush of sand, shot in a mess. Dozens of Tekos warriors screamed in an instant, their heads and faces were hit by arrows, and they fell to the ground obliquely, leaving only fresh bloodstains.

The Tlaxcalans worshipped the hunting god Miscuatl and called themselves descendants of the "cloud snake". The weapon of the hunting god in mythology was the "dishonorable" bow and arrow. Therefore, unlike the Mexica people who advocated close combat to capture prisoners, they especially liked to use bows and arrows. Almost everyone practiced shooting, and there were many inherited bowsmith families.

A few years ago, when the news came that the Mexica people had invented a new longbow, the nobles of Tlaxcala were all surprised and unbelievable. The imitation of the longbow was also promoted in various parts of the Four States Alliance at the first time, and soon it was effective, and the first batch of new longbows were made.

Of course, the Tlaxcalans soon discovered that if they wanted to use longbows and improve the power of bows and arrows, it would mean a significant increase in the cost of making bows. They had to use more solid bronze tools, spend more manpower, use better wood, and make larger bows and stronger arrow shafts. And behind all this, they needed abundant food and long-term labor!

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

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!"

Arrows rained and death roared. The Tesco warriors bent down more and more, crouched down, and continued to push the shield cart forward. In just a moment, the shield cart was full of bent feather arrows. Tribal warriors kept groaning or screaming, and were shot in the exposed vitals and fell to the ground and died.

Fortunately, the front of these shield carts were all equipped with simple large shields, which could form a protective space. Not long after, a large number of shield carts were pushed within sixty steps outside the city, gradually stopped, and formed a protective shooting position. The hundreds of surviving Tesco warriors all held their heads, curled up their bodies as much as possible, and squatted on the ground to make more space.

"Good!"

The black wolf Toltec looked at the situation on the battlefield and nodded with satisfaction. The casualties of hundreds of Tekos surrendered soldiers were not worth mentioning. On the contrary, they successfully consumed the arrows of the Tlaxcalans and pushed the shield carts to the designated position.

"Order, Guard Corps, Longbow Warrior Battalion, advance and shoot!"

"Bang, bang, bang! Longbow Warrior Battalion, attack!"

"Lord God bless you!"

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

Compared with the Tesco surrendered soldiers, the equipment of the longbow warriors of the Royal Guards was much more luxurious. They all wore bronze middle armor, bronze helmets, bronze short axes on their waists, sturdy longbows in their hands, and two bags of bronze arrows on their backs. These 1,000 elite Royal Guards were given to Black Wolf by His Highness as the key force to suppress the city. The Tekos surrendered soldiers who pushed the shield carts to pave the way were to minimize their casualties.

"Swoosh!.Swoosh!.Swoosh!"

The longbow warriors ran non-stop in the rain of arrows. In just a few dozen breaths, they came to the shield carts that were covering them and entered the shooting position sixty steps away from the city wall. Then, they all raised their bows and aimed at the Tlaxcala warriors who were shouting and shooting arrows on the city wall, which was a wave of accurate counterattacks.

"Swoosh, swoosh!"

"Ah!"

A large number of screams suddenly sounded on the city wall. Hundreds of Tlaxcala warriors were injured by arrows, and many people fell directly off the city wall, with their heads broken and bleeding. The defenders on the top of the city were suppressed immediately and dared not show their bodies recklessly. The rain of arrows shot 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 car, the curled up Tekos surrendered soldiers also breathed a sigh of relief. The most dangerous moment has passed, and they should be able to survive today.

"Damn it! These bronze-armored warriors shooting arrows again! Next, they will definitely put up wooden ladders and send lowly barbarians to climb the city to fight!"

"Black Snake" Tercot swung his war stick angrily and smashed it hard on the wooden shield in front of him. His strength was so great that the sharp pieces of obsidian on the war stick were smashed into pieces!

The Tlaxcala Four States Alliance lacked sources of copper mines, and bronze weapons were extremely scarce. However, they also had large obsidian mines and mature obsidian craftsmanship, so they have always used obsidian weapons as the main weapon.

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

When it was first besieged, "Black Snake" Tercott maintained sufficient confidence.

The walls of Shuigu City are six or seven meters high, built with stones mixed with corn mortar, and are extremely hard. It is the most solid town in the south of the Four States Alliance! The old and weak moth people in the city had long been driven away, leaving only 15,000 defenders and enough food to hold out for two years. Another 5,000 militiamen guarded the mountain camps on both sides to contain the attacks of the Mexica. Over the past decades, Shuigu City has been besieged by the Mexica several times, but it has never fallen!

"Black Snake" also sent messengers to the northern states for help. The Talzas River flows outside the east city, and the upper reaches of the north are still in the hands of the Tlaxcala navy, which can continuously transport support.

"God of Hunting bless us! We can defend this city wall until we die of old age!"

Facing the messenger of His Majesty the "God of Death" who persuaded him to surrender, "Black Snake" replied like this. He even ordered people to cut off the messenger's ears and blind his eyes as a response to the Mexica people's fight to the death!

In the following ten days, the Mexica people did not make any big moves, and it seemed that they could do nothing about Shuigu City.

The Mexica Legion outside the south city was quiet, but they kept building equipment in the camp outside the city. The east and west of the city were old opponents who had fought for many years, the Mexica city-state legions. They carried wooden ladders and tried to launch two sieges, but under the attack of feather arrows, slings and lime pots, hundreds of warriors were left in vain.

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

Unfortunately, the enemy camp outside the South City was very stable, and the camp was built meticulously. The warriors could not charge, but were shot by arrows, leaving hundreds of corpses. The East City and the West City won a small victory again, defeating the four militia camps outside the city-state legion, killing and wounding more than 2,000 people!

A large number of militias died and scattered, and the Mexica city-state legion was accustomed to it and remained in a stable morale. They spent a day sending warriors to re-collect the scattered militia. The usual practice of these city-state legions in fighting is to let a large number of militia camps spread out far away and stationed outside the warrior camp, without even setting up fences. The warrior camp in the center set up wooden fences, lit fires, and guarded heavily.

If there is a night attack, the militia are killed and scattered by the enemy, and the warriors will not support them at all. They just hold the camp tightly and wait for dawn. If there are militias who dare to crash into the camp, they will be directly killed as enemies. And the militia did not dare to flee to the center, they would only scatter everywhere. By dawn, the attacking enemies had fought all night. If they did not retreat in time, they would be hit hard by the warriors!

"Black Snake" Tercot attacked twice, but he could not shake the main force of the Mexica people, and he also lost some elite soldiers. He had to retreat back to the city, patiently defending and waiting for reinforcements from the north.

However, in mid-March, the situation changed! The Mexica people built more than a dozen wooden beasts with stone throwing outside the south city, and kept throwing burning fireballs into the city at a distance of one or two hundred steps! These fireballs burned when they touched them, and they could even burn on stones, and they would also emit billowing poisonous smoke. They could not be extinguished with water at all, but only covered with sand, and they would also emit the evil breath of the crater.

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

"This is indeed the power of the evil demon, and it is the evidence of the Mexica people's depravity!"

However, facing the powerful power of the volcanic demon, the priests were helpless. The God of Hunting seemed to have abandoned his descendants, and the boundless darkness surged from the south, gradually engulfing Shuigu City.

In the following days, the blockade of Shuigu City on three sides became tighter. The power of evil demons continued to appear, and groups of flames shot into the city, and pungent smoke spread everywhere. In Central America, where there are many volcanoes, sulfur is much easier to obtain than saltpeter, and the cost of sulfur paper fireballs is much lower than refined gunpowder.

With poisonous smoke spreading and fire burning, Shuigu City seemed like a deserted place, like a battlefield of divine war. The morale of the defenders continued to decline, and the priests racked their brains to appease the people in the city. And "Black Snake" Turcot even dreamed of the evil black and red volcanic lava when he slept!