It's easy to inquire about the news, and it's not difficult to find someone to lead the way, but in fact, there is no party to lead the way, and it's easy to find out where the fleeing people have gone just by looking at the width of the path that has been stepped on the ground. But the place where these people went made Hong Tao and Swan scratch their heads a little, and they ran to a small island in the middle of the lake!

The island is located in the middle of Lake Texcoco, which has gradually disappeared in later generations, but in the thirteenth century it was so vast that it occupied almost a third of the valley. The island is called Tenochtitlan by the Mexicans, and it is said that the sun god guided them here, and when they saw an eagle standing on a cactus with a snake in their mouth, the high priest pinched his fingers and said, well, there it is, the gods have made us build a capital here!

If we follow the original history, a few decades later, it was indeed a large city that was half floating on the water, and it was called Tenochtitlan. The reason why it is said to be semi-floating on the water is that part of it is built on a small island, and the other part is built on a floating island.

The Mexicans made mats from plant fibers and piled up earth on top of them to create floating islands that were used to build houses on swampy land flooded by the lake. Slowly, these floating islands became a piece of land, and the soil became more and more filled, and the floating islands became land.

The ancient city of the Mexicans was destroyed by the Spaniards and another new city was built on top of it, called Mexico City. The name is probably derived from the Aztec Indian name, Mexica!

The question now before Hong Tao is how to cross the muddy swamp and the hundred-meter-wide lake again to conquer these stubborn Mexicans on the island.

The assault will definitely not succeed, so that the advantage of the musket will be reduced, and it will inevitably cause a large number of casualties among its own soldiers. There's no point in shooting across the lake, killing everyone and wasting a lot of ammunition, what's the picture?

Hong Tao not only wants land, but also someone to help him work. There must be tens of thousands of people in the dense tents on this island, which are all the wealth of their own country! Not only can't they be killed, but they have to find a way to keep them alive and healthy.

"Retreat three hundred meters and camp on that higher ground. You take the sniper in position, and whoever is like the leader and the priest will be killed. I'll take the people to make a few rafts, and when their leaders and priests are almost dead, I'll go over and negotiate. After thinking about it for a long time, Hong Tao didn't come up with a good way, so he could only stay here first and not let them come out, and then slowly torture them with the fear of death, even if they were not afraid of being beaten to death, afraid of starving to death? As long as you're afraid, it's easy to do.

These missionaries taught by Joseph are all master missionaries, and they also regard death as home, so they can go to the island to talk to the Mexicans, and the other party must have been fooled and lame, which Hong Tao is convinced. These missionaries were more powerful than later MLM organizations, and they themselves believed in the Helios. So it can't be regarded as a lie, it's really using faith to influence others, and sincerely make you embarrassed not to believe it.

"I don't think it will take ten days for them to eat all the grass on the island, do you think they will eat human flesh?" Although Swann wanted to fight, he didn't think it would be a good idea to launch a strong attack in such a situation.

"You really reminded me that it's best not to push them into any direction. When cooking these days, try to take it to the lake to cook it, put more spices in it, and let them smell it. Death is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that you know that you will die one day, and you have to count every minute to live. As soon as Swan said this, Hong Tao became worried again. If the people on the island can really eat their own kind, then they can only kill them all, even if there is a shortage of labor, they can't have a group of cannibals.

Swann and his snipers worked hard to shoot the Mexicans on the island, but the results were getting worse and worse. The other party slowly grasped the law of who would be killed, and they were all far away from the west side of the island, and it was difficult to find it in the crowd. The smell of the food didn't seem to have much effect, and that evening a bonfire was lit on the island, around which many Mexicans sang and danced, not at all hungry. The missionary went to the island the next day with a captive to persuade him to surrender, but was killed by the Mexicans' arrows, and the body was tied to a wooden stick and stood on the island to demonstrate this side.

"Your Majesty, your people seem to have a lot of courage, why don't you show miracles or something?" Seeing Hong Tao's face distorted by anger, Swan smiled heartily. It's been more than a month since he came out, and this is the first time he's laughing happily.

"Bring a few of the captives over me, and I'll ask them myself." Let Swan laugh at himself, Hong Tao was very unwilling. But he hasn't lost his mind yet, and he still can't kill too many people until he has to. Even if they are hateful, they can't be killed, and after they surrender, they will all be sent to the Tehuantepec Isthmus to dig canals, and they will die of exhaustion.

"It's a pity, such a great project is going to be destroyed in my hands, why don't you go and help me carry the black cauldron?" After interrogating the four captives, Hong Tao walked out of the tent, raised his binoculars and looked at the lake, and said something mindless.

"What black cauldron is on your back? Are you going to kill the island? "Swann thought that Hong Tao asked him to open the killing ring, what kind of black pot is this, the stainless steel is still polished, shiny and shiny, not black at all.

"In the future, when questioning prisoners, the questioning should be more wide, and don't just ask about things related to the war, so that it is easy to miss important details. If you look behind the island, is there a black line in the lake? Hong Tao was very proud, and he felt that the problem would be solved soon.

"Yes, I saw it when I first arrived...... "Swann didn't understand what a black line in the middle of the lake had to do with the people on the island.

"Listen well, I'll just say it again, it's all knowledge. Most of the water in this lake is salt water and cannot be drunk, only this side is fresh water. The ancestors of the Indians were clever enough to separate the lake from salt water with a stone embankment. People can go days without eating, and people on the island can also bring a lot of dry food, and they can fish in the lake to eat, but how much water can they bring? All you need to do is go back to your Uncle Luo and ask for explosives, and blow up this dam for me at night, I want to see how many days they can last when they drink salt water! ”

"It's not near the sea, how can there be salt water?" Swann was skeptical.

"This is geographical knowledge, I will slowly explain it to you when I have time in the future." In fact, Hong Tao didn't know why.

"Then why don't you blow it up yourself?" Swan's questions are so many.

"Nonsense, this is my country, I myself bombed the of my own country, thirsty to death of my own people, if this is known to others, what should I say?" Hong Tao was a little impatient.

"Then if I blow up others, they won't judge me?" Swann felt that the pot was indeed a bit dark.

"Who do people know about you? Besides, your territory will not be here in the future, and you can control what my people say about you? Could it be that you still want my people to like you, and then take the opportunity to usurp the throne? Hong Tao's big hat was buttoned up, and Swan's face was covered in it.

With tens of thousands of grass and mud horses galloping in his heart, Swann and two teams of soldiers found the causeway along the shore of the lake, and wasted half a night's time digging five large holes in it and stuffing explosives into it. In the wee hours of the morning, four loud noises woke up the Mexicans on the island, as well as the sleeping waves. Why did five piles of explosives be buried and only four blew up? You don't need to ask, there must be a bunch of them that don't sound.

In fact, it didn't matter to the Indians on the island whether it sounded four or five, and they didn't know exactly where or why. The main reason why this group of Indians were able to unite and flee to the island to be killed and not surrender was because there was a hero and leader of the Mexicans.

His prestige was able to subdue everyone for the time being, and coupled with the high priest's repeated spells and divination, the results were not bad, saying that this tribulation would soon pass, which was also a sign given by the sun god. To say that the sun god is really busy, not to mention commuting to and from work on time every day, and working part-time everywhere, the missionaries on Hong Tao's side have just finished troubled it, and the Mexicans have asked for it again. In this case, something will inevitably go wrong.

(To be continued.) )