Chapter 1506 Red and White, Death of Destiny

The plateau in December has the coolness of autumn and the beauty of early spring. In the Sierra Madre del Sur, red flowers bloom all over the mountains, spreading the blood-red color among the rolling hills. They are local poinsettias and hibiscus flowers, the former has a strong fragrance, and the latter has sweet and sour petals. From the Yunshan Valley to the Oaxaca Valley, there are many white flowers blooming in the lower valleys, like sunshine with white and yellow. These are common daisies and ginger flowers, the former symbolizes hope, and the latter symbolizes purification.

"Lord God bless! If there is no war in the land of clouds at this time of year, it will be a beautiful autumn scenery in the mountains, the vibrant "red and white"!... But at this moment, the "red and white" I see is the death of the scenery..."

Xuluot wore a light sacrificial robe, and under the sacrificial robe was a tough leather armor. He stood quietly in the southeast of Yunshan City, standing on the hill, overlooking the red and white below the mountain.

The dark red is the coagulated blood, the stained battle clothes, flowing out irregular semicircular "petals". And among these sacrificial petals, there are clusters of warriors' bodies lying down. Those bodies stripped of their battle clothes are translucent in the midday sun, and are indeed yellow and white like "ginger flowers".

"Captain Kuakohu, you ambushed the Zapotec army at the foot of this hill?..."

"Yes! Lord Prophet! We set up the ambush behind this hill, all wearing the grass clothes of your "revelation". This valley is very close to Yunshan City, and the Yunshan Fort on the top of the mountain can be seen. It is within the vigilance of the Yunshan tribes... The Yunshan tribes sent three waves of messengers in succession, telling the Zapotec people that it is "very safe" here, "the alliance has withdrawn its troops", and "requesting assistance as soon as possible"..."

"Blessed by the Lord God! The Zapotec reinforcements are indeed marching in a column and coming at full speed. Although they have scouts for vigilance, they still didn't find the traces of our ambush in the distance in a hurry. And when they came to the foot of the mountain and finally found the ambush, it was too late!..."

Speaking of this, the royal army commander Kuakohu grinned, with a pure smile on his face, which was the joy after a hearty victory.

"Praise the Lord! Right at the foot of this hill, we first fired a round of crouching tiger cannons, which startled the Zapotec vanguard and created widespread chaos. Then, the warriors on both sides quickly fired five rounds of arrows, and the jaguar warriors threw three rounds of javelins, killing and wounding hundreds of the enemy's vanguard warriors... Then three thousand armored warriors rushed from the northwest mountain road and launched a frontal charge. In less than two quarters of an hour, they defeated at least one Zapotec legion, a total of eight thousand southern warriors! Then, a thousand ambush soldiers from the mountains on both sides rushed down and cut off the retreating Zapotec legion in the middle. None of their vanguard warriors escaped! After that, it was a day-long pursuit until the valley road in the southeast. Deep down..."

"Look! We counted two thousand Zapotec corpses in the valley! They were all elite Zapotec warriors, not some conscripted peasant soldiers captured from everywhere... This is a refreshing victory. The souls of the warriors we sacrificed will definitely make the Lord God happy!"

"Yes! Kuakohu, the Lord God saw your bravery and sacrifice on the battlefield, and He is very happy! The losses reported by the Alliance Legion were only about 700 to 800 people, and the God King was also very happy... Well, let's go to the battlefield and take a good look at what the elite Zapotec people look like..."

Xuluot walked down the hill, and two priest apprentices carried his obsidian feather crown and his divination tools. Further behind, there were more than a dozen war priests of the alliance, carrying sacrificial braziers and sacred smoke, holding high the flags of the Lord God, obviously prepared. As for the outer periphery, the brave Kuakohu Legion Commander was guarding around the priests with 500 royal warriors, guarding against the non-existent "what if".

"Captain Kuakohu, are the leather armor and uniforms of the Zapotec elite warriors all red?"

"Yes! Your Highness the Prophet, the territory occupied by the Zapotecs produces a lot of red dyes. Their elite warriors will dye their uniforms into a glorious and expensive red, a color as bright as blood. As for the ordinary warriors, they wear cheaper yellow uniforms with some red patterns painted on them... and some of these patterns represent the ancestors of the tribe, and some represent certain gods. I don't quite understand these..."

Hearing this, Xiu Luote nodded slowly. He leaned down calmly, picked up the blood-stained armor of the Zapotec warrior, patted off the broken pieces of the body, and carefully looked at the patterns on it. Each different pattern here obviously represents a Zapotec tribe, or a group of Zapotec people. By identifying the patterns, we can determine which Zapotec tribes participated in the coalition and how many casualties they suffered in this ambush...

"Well, let me see the patterns of these gods! The one with rain patterns and lizards must be the most important rain god of the Zapotecs, the first god who controls rainfall and crop growth, Cocijo. He is similar to the Alliance rain god Tlaloc and Mixtec rain god Chac, but in the form of a crawling lizard. This god is an ancient god who has been merged with the Lord God! Of course, the Zapotecs don't know this and are still trapped in the old beliefs, waiting for the guidance of our Lord God priests... the Lord God to witness! The one who can paint this kind of pattern on leather armor is likely to be an Oaxacan warrior from Silver Tip City!..."

"This painted and engraved god has the pattern of the sun and the cyclic '○' pattern. It should be their second god, the sun god Coquihani. He is the ruler of time and the universe. He is the ruler of daily life. And the symbol of time cycle...you are right! It is indeed a false god that offends the authority of the Lord God, and it is a belief that must be erased..."

"This god with the corn pattern is the third god of the Zapotec people, the corn god Pitao Cozobi. He controls the growth and harvest of corn, and also likes sacrifices of blood and vitality. To gain the harvest of the life cycle... This god is not a false god, but an acceptable follower god..."

"Hey! The combination of this man and a jaguar? The tiger man's divine pattern? Oh! I remembered it! He is the ancestor god of the Zapotec people in Oaxaca, and he is Petela. Legend has it that he is After the great flood that started the Second Age, he took his people to the central valley of the Oaxaca Valley and established the original city-state of the Zapotec people, 'the land of gods under the sacred mountain'. ', 'Mountain God City' Xaguixe... This city-state is not very powerful, but its source is very ancient and has the influence of the Zapotec ancestral land. Well, the ancient mountain god tribes made mistakes. The choice is to stand on the opposite side of the alliance. But I think the alliance should give them a chance, just like giving the Yunshan tribes a chance..."

Shulot narrowed his eyes and stared at the "tiger" on the red leather armor, recalling the information that the alliance's distant merchants had discovered. As the ancestral land of the Zapotecs, City of the Mountain God is not only the religious center of the tribes of Oaxaca, but also half of the political center. Around this ancient city, there are the sacred Great Pyramid of Monte Albán, Mitla, the "Place of the Dead", the warrior temple Dainzú, and the ruins of the "Old Capital" of the Second Age. Yagul, are all "divine" imprints of Oaxaca's ancient civilization.

It can be said that as long as the most powerful Silver Tip City is captured, and then the oldest Mountain God City is captured, and the northern valley of the Central Valley is controlled, the hundreds of thousands of Oaxaca tribes will completely lose the power of the tribal alliance. "brain". None of the other tribes in the southern valleys are qualified enough to lead the remaining Oaxaca tribes. Even the hundreds of thousands of coastal Huastec tribes farther east will become a piece of scattered sand and lose the motivation to come to support...

"The City of the Mountain God, the ancestral land of the Zapotecs... It seems that this is also a very strong fortress built on the mountain? I only hope that the mortars of the southern expedition army can hit this unknown mountain. Fortress. Or, the Zapotecs could choose to surrender and not have another long and brutal siege!…"

Shulot thought for a long time, and then looked at the corpses around him. His expression was slightly startled, and he discovered something keenly. He walked quickly to a prone corpse and looked at the arrow inserted into the other person's heart, as well as the blue clothes that were obviously Mixtec style. He examined it carefully for a while, and found that the cloud patterns on the blue clothes were very similar to the sacrificial robes of the priests and elders of Yungu Mountain, and they also had tiger claws that were even more similar.

"This is... a young, Mixtec noble warrior?..."

When Shulot straightened the corpse's crooked head, he saw an angry, frightened, and unusually young face. Fear solidified in the dying eyes, and anger ended on the unwilling face. Perhaps until the moment of his death, this young noble warrior never knew the truth about his ambush. He did not know that the river of fate was destined to die long before it flowed out...

"The fate of smoke, the death of youth"

Shulot watched silently for a while, closed the deceased's eyes, turned his head and called out.

"Kuakohu!..."

"Your Highness the Prophet?..."

"Send two warriors to 'organize' this corpse and send it back to Yunshan City. If the same Mixtec corpse is found again, we will deal with it in the same way."

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"Sent to Yunshan City? Yes!..."

"Tell the Mixtec nobles in the city that the kingdom's priests have prayed for these dead souls and led their souls to the kingdom of the Lord God!..."

"Yes! Praise the Lord God!..."

"Well, praise the Lord God!"

Shulot lowered his head slightly and prayed devoutly for a few breaths. Then, he let go and let the young deceased fall into the blood-stained daisies. Then, he stepped on the blood stains and flowers, and continued along the red and white blood road towards the valley road extending to the southeast.

After all, this was just the battlefield of the initial ambush. The real extension of death was more than twenty miles southeast, in front of the camp that the Zapotecs captured and lost. That cruel battlefield where no prisoners were left was the destination of the priests this time, a brand-new cemetery where funerals were held and the souls of both sides were appeased~~