Time and space seem to be out of order.

Clad in jaguar skins and armed with obsidian sticks cemented with turtle dung, thousands of Aztec warriors followed tradition and swarmed in all directions to fight to the death against enemies crawling over low moss-covered walls, but over their heads, blazing shrapnel from the early industrial age flew overhead.

Cooperation with Tianwu, there are still a lot of benefits, along the way, Li Dingguo's army is growing at a snowballing rate, although it has been Christianized for more than a hundred years, but the priests of the old faith still have an unprecedented appeal in this ancient and new land, I heard that the Tianwu in the north is carrying the Aztec holy relic crystal skull to go to the holy place to worship the sun god, I don't know how many native indigenous Indians who were locked up in the mines of the Spanish manor escaped and merged into the war, Some autonomous tribes also abandoned their places of residence and fled in large numbers.

By the time the army reached Gutierrez, there were 100,000 men.

And the war does not seem to be as difficult to fight as Li Dingguo imagined, with a broad mass base, food is not a problem, and the Spanish population is sparse, and once the natives under their hands rebel, they are also helpless, and they are almost overwhelming all the way, penetrating southern Mexico.

This will break through the fortress of Gutierrez, and the gates of the Isthmus of Central America will be completely launched to the expeditionary force.

This is only the last of the eighteen bays, but it is not so easy, it is connected to the flat, fertile Yucatan Peninsula, one of the main grain producing areas of the Spanish colonies in North America, or the last fortress of Lake Nicaragua in the south, where the Spaniards also invested heavily in the defense, there are more than 1,000 colonial troops, equipped with plate armor, arquebuses and steel weapons.

The sound of ping-pong iron on the city wall continued to sound, how the Aztec Empire fell more than a hundred years ago, and it was vividly repeated here, the heavy obsidian war stick smashed on the plate armor and could only be smashed, but the Spaniards only used long swords and halberds to stab these Indian warriors with ancestral guys, five or six sturdy natives may not be able to take a person, standing behind, and clearly saw in the telescope that a tribal warrior smashed a stick on the chest of a Spanish defender, smashing the other party staggered, But the other party just turned around and chopped his head.

With such a fierce opponent, even if the eyes were red by religious beliefs, the native Indian warriors were helplessly defeated, and after being killed two or three hundred people, they retreated like a tide.

On his head, there were Spanish crossbow arrows and muskets on his head, and the fleeing tribal warriors collapsed to the ground one after another, and Mao Yu'er couldn't bear to see the screaming scene.

Putting down the binoculars, she turned around helplessly and hugged Li Dingguo heavily: "General Li, the casualties are too great, it's really not good, let's dispatch our expeditionary force, right?" As long as we take this city and send the Crystal Skull to the Holy Land, we can take Mexico without too much delay! ”

"Your Highness, this is a pilgrimage of the indigenous people, we are guests from afar, how can we take the lead?"

The princess couldn't help but give face, Li Dingguo respectfully put down the binoculars, but in his tone, he didn't have the slightest intention of sending troops, he couldn't trust these natives.

If these people really regard Mao Yu'er, who came back with a crystal skull, as a prophet saint, how can this ghost-like heavenly witch appear in her room silently, for them, they should be guarded against.

Besides, the siege of the city was mixed with casualties, and it was not the death of his Li Dingguo's elite troops, let these natives serve as cannon fodder, consume the blood of the Spaniards, and go up to collect the heads themselves, why not?

But after saying this, Li Dingguo couldn't help but secretly turn his head away again, secretly observing Xiang's side.

Tianwu was expressionless as always, not to mention him, even the three young masters of the tribe who were hostages were as silent as the noodle stalls, and the old aristocratic military leaders below who had returned were kneeling on the ground and muttering prayers, as if they were not their own people who died.

Wacky race! Secretly shook his head, in Mao Yu'er's disappointment, the red battle flag was raised again, and several descendants of Aztec nobles stood up, walked out of the array, and rushed to the Spanish fortress like a meat grinder in front of them with their own people.

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The battle of Gutierrez lasted for five days, and more than 3,000 local natives were killed under the city walls, and the Spaniards were not defeated, but after running out of ammunition and food, they came out and surrendered under a white flag after exhaustion, and the Spaniards still had more than 600 remnants of the battle.

Here, Li Dingguo also left a way back for himself, and after collecting these Spanish weapons, he let them go as promised, which obviously caused dissatisfaction among the Aztec nobles who besieged the city, but several leaders such as Tianwu were indifferent.

Anyway, after breaking through this fortress stuck in front of the road, Central America opened its doors to the expeditionary force.

When it comes to Central America, it is impossible to avoid the famous Panama Canal, which cuts off the Americas, changes the route that must bypass Cape Storm and the Island of Fire and Ice in South America, and shortens the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean by 30 days, but this canal was only dug by the Americans at the end of the 20th century, and it is still a dry Isthmus of Panama.

At this time, the golden passage of trade between the two major water systems of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean is close at hand, and the Lake Nicaragua is like a small sea like a gem on land, which is close to the Pacific Ocean, and the lake is only 19 kilometers away from the nearest area of the Pacific Ocean, but it belongs to the Atlantic Ocean water system, through which the San Juan River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

It was also the most important trading post of the era, as raw materials such as spices, cocoa and palms plundered from the Caribbean were loaded and transported by the Spaniards up the San Juan River to the north shore of Lake Nicaragua, from where they were transported by horse-drawn carriage to ports on the Pacific side for shipment to Asia.

If you dig a canal, dig 19 kilometers from here, and dig a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, it seems to be a good idea, standing on the mountain and looking down, Li Dingguo is secretly remembering in his heart.

It's just that digging a canal requires people and food, and in his hands, he is far from having the conditions to dig a canal, so he just took a look, and then packed up his cover and left, marking out the plan.

I have to admit that although these New World civilizations are backward and closed, they also have their own uniqueness, the Aztecs are quite primitive in terms of hieroglyphics and cartography, but on the contrary, Tianwu, who went south for the first time in his life, seemed to be a living map, leading the expeditionary force through the rugged coastal hills, and after about four days of travel, the holy land marked by Mao Yuer finally came into view.

It's hard to find, it's between the mountains, with only a narrow and closed strait connecting the deserted beach, but through the gaps in the mountains, looking east, the ruins of the city, hidden in the rainforest, suddenly come into view.

The soldiers from the Ming Dynasty wandered around curiously in the rainforest, which was like another world for them, with groups of exquisite and strange statues carved on the mossy stone houses, paved with stone slabs, and also mossy city roads, crisscrossed by mysterious ditches, and in the middle of the city, three consecutive zigzag pyramids stood there, and the pyramids of Egypt, indescribably alike.

The sacred site of the Aztecs is the ruins of a Mayan city. This is a civilization that is even more enigmatic than the Aztecs and the Incas.

Even in Mao Jue's time, archaeologists have not fully investigated the secrets of the Maya, the earliest excavated cultural relics can be traced back to the tenth century BC, when the Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains had just been established, the new dynasty of ancient Egypt was at the end of the period, after more than a thousand years of development and glory, these Mayans were as they suddenly appeared, abruptly disappeared, leaving only empty cities swallowed by the rainforest, regardless of the Aztecs or the Incas, In fact, it was only a civilization that had risen from the ruins of the Mayans, and both of them were far behind the Maya in terms of technology, astronomy, geography, and civilization.

There are even rumors that the Mayans built spaceships and immigrated to other galaxies, which is far ahead of the times, which seems to add some truth to this rumor.

It's just that at this time, neither Li Dingguo nor Mao Yu'er had the heart to investigate the mysterious history of the city, and slightly restrained the army.

"Where is the holy place where the skulls were returned and sacrificed were held?"

It was still the same stone face as a dead man, without much to say, Tianwu took out an ancient stone slab with a pattern from the animal skin bag he carried, on the stone slab, the bustling city loomed, and at the back of the city, leaning on the mountain, an incomparably huge face portrait opened its mouth hideously, holding this stone slab and looking at the abandoned city in front of him, suddenly, Mao Yuer excitedly raised her little hand forward.

Between the fingers, on the mountain wall that has been covered with green vines, this big face faintly emerges, despite thousands of years of wind and frost, the big mouth that seems to be about to devour the city at any time is still roaring fiercely into the distance, two whiskers form a plank road up the mountain, and two side by side dark nostril caves do not know where to go.

"Found it!"