Chapter 62: The Battle of Quirigua
"Bang bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"
Chichin. In the royal palace in the city of Itza, there was a rhythmic sound of broken bottles, and a few angry monologues were interspersed.
The bottle-smashing solo lasted a quarter of an hour, and the king of Toltec finally sat down breathlessly in his throne, glaring at his younger brothers with his pair of big eyes.
"Father, would you like to dissipate your anger and let the child teach you a lesson about the damned Mayans, and turn them all into fertilizer for you to plant flowers?" Chichin. The eldest prince of Itza walked around the debris on the floor and leaned in front of his father and asked in a low voice.
"Good! Or I'm sensible! King Toltec nodded in satisfaction at his son, and then shouted at his younger brother, "Look at you rice buckets! How awesome they usually brag one by one, but now they are actually defeated by the Mayans, a whole 5,000 people, they were all wiped out like this, what are you doing in your usual training? Has all the energy been applied to the woman? ”
"Your Majesty forgive your sins! Your Majesty is angry! All the generals, regardless of their ranks, fell on one knee and begged their king for forgiveness.
Although they still looked down on Maya in their hearts, and they complained more about the incompetence of the defenders of Antigua City, it was better to behave well in the face of their own king's anger.
"Humph!" The king expressed his strong displeasure with his nostrils, but no matter what he said, the matter had already happened, and he still had to think about it. Look at his son has indeed grown up, he was born mighty, and he has the style of his youth, it's time to let go out and earn some merits, so that he can take over his family business in the future.
"Wang'er, tell me what you think!"
Prince: "Yes, Father! The child just took a closer look at the battle report presented below, and according to what was said above, Maya obviously came prepared this time. They gathered tens of thousands of people, which was unprecedented. And according to our defeated army, there is a small group of people among the Mayans who are very different from them, and the defeat of the defenders of Angua Di is due to them. However, they didn't quite know what kind of magic the group of people used, and it was only when they saw that they suddenly fired many arrows, which caught the defenders of Anguadi off guard, and they were devastated.
Therefore, in the child's opinion, those Mayans are not to be worried, believing that 10,000 defenders of the city of Chirigua are enough! However, those unknown people are our henchmen, no matter what kind of magic they use, they must be exterminated, and even if they can't be exterminated, then let it be used by me! ”
The king nodded: "It can be seen that my son is still very careful about this, and he has collected a lot of information, and my father is very pleased!" This matter will be left to you to deal with, and you will see how many people you have to gather, and tell you how many people you have to count! ”
Prince: "Father, don't bother! Besides, we also have several cities to defend, so it's too much trouble to transfer manpower. The boy thinks so, you have ordered the garrison of Quirigua to guard the city strictly, and if those people only know how to shoot arrows, as long as they are in the city, they should not be afraid. As for the Mayans, if they dare to attack the city, send them back to their hometowns. Then, the child led our two thousand elite legions, quietly went around their backs, and raided the mysterious people, as long as they were dealt with, the Mayans...... Hum! ”
The Toltec people's plan, Liang Shi and the others still have no way of knowing, and there is still a feeling of darkness for them in this unfamiliar area.
Finally, when they were all impatiently waiting, these lazy Mayans finally remembered that they still had nothing to do, and then they started the journey again.
After this period of looting, the Mayans finally got a decent set of equipment, and they no longer had to carry a bunch of wooden sticks to show people there, and even their morale increased a lot...... However, even if the march is still the same, it seems that this habit is indeed a lot of easy things to change!
Of course, it can't be said that Maya's habit is completely unbeneficial, at least Liang Shi feels that there is no need to send scouts by himself with them, if there are still people who can do some ambush under the noses of the Mayans running around the mountains, then I really have to admire him.
Staying in the center of the Mayans like this, and driving for a month boringly, except for occasionally being able to taste a little game that the Mayans revered, it was really boring.
Yang Sien woke up and patted the sliding rod, and the two Mayan natives skillfully lowered the sliding rod, he walked down and stretched, grinning and shouting to the soldiers who were hurrying with their heads shrugged: "Come on, brothers!" Victory lies ahead! ”
"Cut!" Several naughty soldiers raised their middle fingers at him together: "Lord Yang, you really don't have a backache when you stand and talk, you have slept comfortably all the way, but we have worn out a pair of shoes!" ”
Looking at the entire marching team, except for those elders who can enjoy the treatment of sliding rods, only Yang Sien is still sitting on sliding rods, this is not that he wants to be special, but his physical fitness really can't keep up with the pace of others, so he can only accept the kindness of other people's indigenous friends.
Yang Sien didn't care at all about the soldiers' disdainful eyes, and continued to say, "Oops! Maya friends, this level is really good, I don't feel shaking all the way, and it's so good to sleep! ”
For this kind of cheeky guy, everyone treats it with a blank eye......
The most time-consuming thing to fight in this year is to hurry, it is estimated that it will take ten of the most time, except for some special cases of siege mines, the time for most wars is actually very small. After all, this is not like the war in the period of thermal weapons, where everyone can drag a burning stick and squat in the trench for ten days and a half.
In the era of cold weapons, the main theme of war is always hand-to-hand combat, and you can know with your toes that who can drag a body of iron knots for so long, let alone kill the enemy, you will probably exhaust yourself to death first.
Therefore, the stalemate time of ancient wars has a lot to do with the terrain of the battle, and if it is in an open area, it is basically a wave of play. And when the terrain is not conducive to the deployment of troops, then take turns to fight, in this case, it is more time-consuming.
This was something that Liang Shi didn't want to see, so after arriving at the camp not far from Kirigua, he called a few elders over.
"Elders, we're all old acquaintances, so I'll get straight to the point! I just took a look at this city of Kirigua, it's a lot bigger than Anguadi, I wonder if you know how many Toltec troops are in it? ”
Elder Wusi: "Captain Liang, we have already inquired with the compatriots in the city, and there are really a lot of them, it is estimated that there are nearly 10,000 people, if we hadn't added some clansmen in Angua Land, we wouldn't have been able to surpass them!" However, as long as we can take the city of Chirigua, our power can soar, and we don't need to be afraid of the Toltecs. ”
Liang Shi: "Oh, then I don't know what you think about this battle?" ”
Wu Si looked at the Great Elder, and when he saw that he nodded at him, he blushed slightly and said to Liang Shi: "Captain Liang, I may have to trouble you to help this time!" There are a lot of Toltecs, and there are cities to hold onto, I'm afraid ......"
Liang Shi nodded: "Siege warfare is not easy to fight, and our long-range weapons are not easy to use, we had better find a way to attract them out of the city...... I have an idea, you don't think this will work. You divide the people into two parts, one of them is attracted head-on, and it is better to trick them out of the city, and the other part is hidden on both sides, and when they get out of the city, you cut off their back path. My men, on the other hand, will help you to hold off the Toltecs and defeat them......"
Several elders looked at him as if they were looking at a gorilla: "Captain Liang, how can you have such an idea?" We have always fought together, and we have never engaged in such unkind things! Moreover, you can rest assured, as long as we declare war, they will come out of the city to fight us, just like in Angua Di, hiding in the city is a coward's thing, and it will be despised by everyone......"
Due to the different regional concepts, Liang Shi and others prefer to pursue the use of the art of war to achieve the best war results, while these relatively backward Maya people prefer to express their demands in the most direct way.
Since he couldn't convince them, Liang Shi had to agree with their idea first, anyway, as long as the Toltecs could come out of the giant city made of those huge stones, whatever method they used was acceptable.
On the first day when the sun rose, the Mayans had to get up early, and there was no other reason why they were going to attack today.
They stood a mile from the walls of Quirigua, excitedly waiting for the Toltecs to come out of the city, backed by the mysterious and powerful Song people behind them, believing that they would be able to easily win today, just like the Anguadi time, and soon be able to enter the larger city of Chirigua and enjoy more and better food.
Thinking of this, many people couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and their eyes became more eager when they looked at Kirigua City.
Liang Yi covered his eyes with his hand, glanced at the sun that had risen to the sky, and touched Elder Uss: "Elder, what do you see those Toltecs doing?" Why haven't you come out to fight yet? ”
Elder Uss: "Yes! I wonder too! According to the previous situation, they would have rushed out a long time ago...... Could it be because it was so big last time that it scared them? It shouldn't be! ”
And on the walls of the city of Chirigua, a bunch of petty officers were motivating to ask their supreme defender to fight: "General, you let me go out and kill those Mayans!" You see, they are all bullying us at our doorstep, and we are still cowering in the city, which will make the people laugh at us! When did we ever fear the Mayans, didn't we always run around with them? ”
The guard slapped the city wall and said angrily, "You think I am willing to lie in the city like this and be blinded!" This is an order from His Majesty the King himself, and it is necessary to hold the city and wait for the instructions of His Royal Highness the Prince, hum! ”
One of the young generals complained: "Your Royal Highness? …… When we were fighting, he didn't know how to walk! ”
The general gave him the back of his head: "Mutter something! Give me a good guard of the city, I'll go back first, something will come to me! ”
"Yes, General!"
After dealing with the boss, several young generals spat out the city dissatisfiedly, and then found a quiet place to sleep in line with the principle of not being out of sight and not being upset.
On the Mayan side, a few elders, you look at me and I look at you, and they don't know the situation for a while, and they don't know whether to attack or continue to wait. If he attacked, he didn't prepare any siege weapons on his side, and the two gangs had been fighting for decades, and they didn't think that this problem would arise at all. Therefore, the first day of fighting ended hastily before it began.
However, the Mayans did not take Liang Shi's advice because of this, but rushed to produce some siege weapons overnight, preparing to launch a strong attack the next day.
"Elder, your speed is too slow, why don't you use our knife first!" Liang Shi took a look at their progress, and at their speed, they wouldn't be able to make a few of them by tomorrow morning, so he couldn't bear it anymore before he said directly to Elder Wusi.
Elder Uss was also polite: "That's good!" Your knife is so easy to use, you can bring some for us next time you come over! ”
Next time? I don't even know when the next time will be!
However, Liang Shi still smiled and said, "It's easy to say!" Go ahead and get busy! ”