West coast of the Aztec kingdom.

The blue sea and the sky are closely connected, and the seabirds soar above the blue sky, swooping down quickly from time to time to catch fish and shrimp in the ocean, forming an extremely beautiful landscape.

Between the sea and the sky, a series of sails gradually appeared in the field of vision, gradually, faintly, hazy between the appearance of large ships, soon, these big ships became clear, it was a huge fleet of more than 200 large ships towards the coast.

"The Aztec kingdom, the entire kingdom has a vast territory, but the population is only a few million, and it believes in the sun god and the feathered serpent, and likes to sacrifice the ...... with living people."

"It's really barbaric and uncivilized, and it actually uses living sacrifices to dig out people's hearts."

On one of the big ships, Tian Erniu looked at the information about the Aztec Kingdom collected in his hand, and couldn't help but scoff after reading it.

This religious practice of sacrificing people to live people is very primitive and barbaric, and it is not for nothing that the population here in the Golden Continent is sparse.

From other Yin Shang tribes, it is known that the Aztec kingdom held large-scale human sacrifices in temples and pyramids every year.

Each sacrifice wanted to kill thousands of people, using their hearts to sacrifice to the so-called sun god.

In addition to the sun god, they also believed in many other gods, Quetzalcoatl, the god of war, the god of rain, the main god, etc., these gods also need to be sacrificed regularly every year, each sacrifice requires a large number of living people, and the number of people killed by the sacrifice of the Aztec kingdom alone every year is unknown.

Of course, not only the Aztec kingdom, here in the Golden Continent, the descendants of the Yin Shang have the custom of sacrificing live people, the Aztec kingdom, the Inca Empire, and the large and small Yin Shang tribes are also similar.

In order to have enough living people to sacrifice every year, the Aztec kingdom would wage war every year, attack other tribes and kingdoms descended from the Yin Shang in the surrounding area, capture their captives for sacrifice, and sometimes the lower people in their kingdom would be sacrificed when the number was insufficient.

"They believe in gods so much, maybe they can put it to good use."

"The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl is still very similar to the dragon worshiped by our Chinese descendants, and when the time comes, we can make good use of this to conquer these descendants of Yin Shang spiritually."

Tian Erniu carefully read all the information, and an idea also came to his mind.

The huge fleet quickly docked and anchored, and a large number of personnel began to quickly disembark, bringing weapons, equipment, food and other places to quickly assemble, ready to march to Tenochtitlan, the royal capital of the Aztec kingdom.

In order to successfully win the Aztec Kingdom this time, Tian Erniu also mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized on the Golden Continent.

A total of more than 200 large ships were mobilized to transport personnel, materials and horses, and more than 12,000 people participated in the battle, most of which were mainly crew members and captains who graduated from Tianjin Maritime College.

These people had received paramilitary training at the Tianjin Maritime Academy, and they were quite well organized and disciplined, and there were thousands of them, all of whom were associates of the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company.

Before coming, Tian Erniu also urgently conducted a few days of training, promising them a good reward after winning, which could barely be used to fight a good battle.

The team of 12,000 men consisted of 175 horses, 2,000 bows and arrows, 5,000 state-of-the-art Miyun muskets, and 500 Miyun cannons.

Tian Erniu's side also formed a cavalry composed of 150 war horses, a scout composed of 25 war horses, 2,000 crossbowmen, and a 5,000-man musketeer and artillery battalion.

After the mighty team was assembled, the leader and guidance of several Tabasques advanced towards Tenochtitlan, the king of the Aztec kingdom.

The Tabasques were also a tribe of the descendants of the Yin Shang dynasty, and their Aztec kingdom was a neighbor, so they were also often attacked by the Aztecs.

Many, many clansmen were captured by the Aztecs and then used for human sacrifice, so when they learned that the Ming were going to attack the Aztec kingdom, the Tabasques were very happy when they heard it, and immediately sent people who were familiar with the Aztec kingdom to be guides to help Tian Erniu and them attack the Aztecs.

Of course, Tian Erniu will not believe them all.

He had horses in his hands, and as soon as he landed, Tian Erniu sent these cavalry, put on binoculars and went around to explore, and then gathered information and intelligence obtained from various tribes descended from Yin Shang.

Tian Erniu and the others had already roughly known the location of Tenochtitlan, and the route of the march had already been carefully studied.

Still, Tian Erniu underestimated the Tabasques' hatred of the Aztecs.

In fact, the Tabasques who led the team were very conscientious and had no intention of deceiving Tian Erniu.

The Tabasques were bullied by the Aztecs during their time, and a large number of their tribesmen were captured and sacrificed every year, which made the Abbasid guests full of hatred for the Aztecs.

In fact, the historical Spaniard Hernán ~ Cortés also made good use of the contradictions between these Indians, and with the help of many Indian tribes, he successfully defeated the Aztecs.

One of the most important reasons for this is that the Aztecs have been attacking other tribes and kingdoms around them for many years, causing the Indians of other tribes and kingdoms to hate them.

Cortés took advantage of this contradiction, and with the Indians' fear of horses and artillery, as well as the protection of hard armor and excellent weapons, it was only with less than a thousand men that he was able to defeat the vast Aztec kingdom.

A huge team of tens of thousands of people continued to advance towards Tenochtitlan, and the vast procession, the traces were difficult to hide, and they were soon discovered by the Aztecs, and the news quickly spread to the highest levels of the Aztec kingdom.

Tenoch Dilant!

The royal capital of the Aztec kingdom, a beautiful city built on an artificial island in the middle of a lake.

A large number of temples and pyramids were built here, dedicated to the god of the sun, the god of feathered serpent, the god of war, etc., and huge squares were built next to these temples and pyramids.

There are two main squares in the city, one is the square of the Temple of Traltrolco, and the other is the square of the religious center really called Tenochtitlan, both of which are large enough to easily accommodate tens of thousands of people.

At the same time, the houses in the whole city are made of mud and sand, and there are also high-end stone buildings, and there are two-story buildings. And the roofs of these houses are full of flowers and plants, like hanging gardens, which are very beautiful.

Among them is a huge palace with three huge courtyards and hundreds of houses, which was the royal palace of the Aztec king Oizottel.

At this time, in the huge royal palace, all the important people of the Aztec kingdom were present, including the next king of the inner design, Montezuma II, the high priest Wichilo, who was in charge of communicating with the gods, and many nobles and ministers.

"Sons of the Sun God, I have just received news that those hateful Ming people have launched an attack on us, and a huge army of more than 10,000 men is coming towards our sacred Tenochtitlan."

Oyzotl said in a somewhat old voice, he began to become the king of this kingdom twenty years ago, put down rebellions in various places in the early stage, and in recent years mainly led the Aztec kingdom to constantly attack the surrounding tribes and kingdoms, and continued to expand, obtaining more captives to sacrifice to the gods.

At this time, under his notice, the Aztec kingdom entered its heyday, controlling nearly 400 tribes of all sizes, and its territory had reached its limit.

However, he was already old, his health was getting worse day by day, and most of the affairs of the kingdom were left to his son Montsuma II.

But today is different, the news that the Ming people are going to attack them is too shocking, and he has to stand up again and hold a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

"Father, please give me 30,000 people, and I will definitely capture all those hateful Ming people and use them to worship our great sun god!"

Montezuma II took the initiative to stand up, his father was not in good health, there were few days left to live, and he would soon become the king of this vast kingdom.

At this time, if he can establish his prestige with a big victory, then he can quickly control the entire kingdom after ascending the throne, so he also took the initiative to ask for help.

"These greedy Ming people, they want to build their own cities in our land, we don't agree, they even come to invade us, and the sun god will punish them."

"The people of the great sun god must take them all, then dig out their hearts, and water the land with their blood."

After some pretending to be a god, the high priest Wichiro also made a statement on behalf of the gods.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to sacrifice some Ming people, and the gods might like this new kind of sacrifice.

"Capture the Ming people alive and use them to sacrifice to the gods!"

"Capture the Ming people alive and use them to sacrifice to the gods~"

The words of the sacrifice were more effective than anything else, and as Wikilo's words were finished, the nobles and ministers below also shouted along.

The position of the gods in their hearts is supreme, and for this reason they sacrifice every year, and the scale of the sacrifice is very huge, and for this reason, they do not hesitate to fight for many years, constantly attacking the surrounding tribes and kingdoms.

Even one of the kings before Oyzotl, Tizok, because he did not carry out a decent expansion and did not capture enough people to sacrifice, made the whole Aztec kingdom think that he was incompetent and cowardly, so he was replaced by Oizotl.

From this we can know the position of the gods in their hearts, and also the power held by the high priest.