Seventy-four, the slaughterhouse of the city of Chorula (middle)
At the same time, Wendeji and his army of 10,000 had already stepped into the edge of the Valley of Mexico and were heading towards the city of Chorula.
According to the plan of the traversers, it was necessary for them to meet the Spaniards before entering the city of Tenochtitlan in order to confirm their attitude. At the same time, show off your own force, so as not to be underestimated by these guys.
Because I don't know whether the Spanish expedition in this time and space will go deep into the valley of Mexico at this point in time, according to the itinerary recorded in the history books. Therefore, instead of taking the shortest route to the city of Tenochtitlan, the expeditionary force of the kingdom of Honshutizgan deliberately made a circle from the north under the pretext of facilitating supplies along the way, and sought information everywhere they went, trying to gather real-time intelligence about the Spanish expedition.
At the beginning of October, the expeditionary force of the kingdom of Honshutizgan, which had arrived on the northern shore of Lake Texcoco (the city of Tenochtitlan was located on the western shore of the lake), finally received a clear message from a certain trader: a group of white-skinned "godsmen" from the east of the sea had recently entered the territory of the Tlaxcalans, and after some fighting, had allied themselves with the Tlaxcalans and prepared to launch an attack on the Aztec Empire together.
The Aztec Empire's response was chaotic, and so far it had not assembled a legion ready to meet it. Seeing that the Aztecs had reacted so weakly, many of the vassals in the Valley of Mexico had different ideas, and even sent envoys to contact the white-skinned "godmen".
By this time, the future emperor Kuauchtmoc, who had led an expeditionary force into the Mexican Valley, also sensed that something seemed wrong with the state of affairs at home. After the expeditionary force arrived on the northern shore of Lake Texcoco, he finally connected with the messenger of the Emperor Montezuma, and then came over with some embarrassment and embarrassment to tell Wendesi that the Aztec Empire was now in an eventful season, and it was inconvenient to welcome guests from afar, and he hoped that the expeditionary force of the Kingdom of Honshutizgan would immediately return home and not stop in the Mexican Valley.
By reading the historical materials of later generations, Wen Dehei, who had expected this, immediately expressed his rightly anger -- it was you who invited us to come over to join the alliance, and we mobilized tens of thousands of troops to march from the distant port of hope, and it took two months to reach the shores of Lake Texcoco, and the amount of grain and straw consumed alone was already uncountable. Now that we have finally arrived at the ground, your emperor refuses to even meet us, so he wants us to turn our butts and go back, and no one comes to reimburse us for the travel expenses along the way...... Is this playing with us like clowns?!
Even the emperor of the Aztec Empire would not be such a bully!
In short, with the help of many of the nobles of Honshutizgan, Wendesi gave full play to his linguistic talents, and he could be said to have scolded Kuochtmok with fierce words and spittle, and said that the future emperor who had done things badly could not hold his head up. Then he sent a nobleman who was good at debate, and asked him to cross Lake Texcoco in a canoe with Kuauchtmok, and go to the city of Tenochtitlan to negotiate with Emperor Montezuma to see how this irritating oolong affair should end.
After Kuauchtmoc left with the Aztec mission, the expeditionary force of the Kingdom of Hun Shitizgan did not stay on the northern shore of Lake Texcoco to wait for news, but marched south and advanced at full speed towards the city of Cholula in the eastern part of the Valley of Mexico.
The reason for this decision was the advice provided by Professor Yang to Wen Desi after analyzing many historical sources.
“…… We can't be sure that after we, the time-travelers, set off a huge butterfly storm, and the Spaniards of this plane will make a detour to the city of Chorula after allied with the Tlaxcala, as recorded in the history books; or directly over the snow-capped mountains and into the city of Tenochtitlan; Or a long rest in the capital of the Tlaxcalas - the future is already in the dark. …,
But once we arrived in the Valley of Mexico, it would be better for our troops to go to Ciudad Chorula, the center of trade in eastern Mexico and the most well-informed place. In this city, we can not only carry out interdimensional trade, replenish food and straw on the spot, and no longer rely entirely on the logistics line of time and space, but also help to find out the latest movements of the Spaniards - the ancient trade center was often also an intelligence center, this can never be wrong! ”
So, after five days, after five days, the expeditionary force of Hungshutizgan finally reached the vicinity of the city of Chorula. And Wang Qiu and the other four traversers also finished transmitting a batch of military supplies and returned to this ancient Mesoamerican time and space again.
Next, they saw a heinous slaughterhouse.
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Not far above the city, a red fire flickered and black smoke lingered.
The avenue leading from the north to the city of Cholula was crowded with panicked and fleeing citizens.
Their eyes were full of despair and horror, and many of them were still covered with bloody scars, one by one, like rats that had been flooded into their nests, scurrying around in despair, trampling on each other from time to time. There were even people who panicked and crashed headlong into the queue of the Honshutizgan expeditionary force, and then were unceremoniously knocked to the ground and tied up by the samurai.
Through questioning of these refugees in Cholula City, Wang Qiu and the others quickly understood what terrible things had happened in the city.
To put it simply, it was a brutal massacre.
-- The morning before yesterday, Cortés suddenly claimed that he had a major event to announce to the magnates of the city. So the nobles, priests, and wealthy merchants of the city of Chorula, as well as the chiefs of the nearby villages, were all summoned to the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, at the top of the Great Pyramid, to listen to Cortés' teachings.
As soon as Cortés saw that the number of people was almost there, he suddenly turned his face and ordered the Spanish soldiers to block the temple gates, arrest all these bare-handed magnates of the city of Giorula, and then force them to gather the young men of the city, saying that they needed a lot of manpower to carry the goods for themselves.
Up to this time, the magnates of the city of Chorula had not taken the matter seriously, thinking that the Spaniards were at most trying to forcibly recruit the strong men of the city, forcing them to attack the Aztecs together, and pay a letter of surrender.
So, under the pressure of the sword, the nobles of Chorula, who had been kidnapped, thought that they had surrendered anyway, so they pinched their noses and agreed, and then sent their servants out to gather men, and soon gathered five or six thousand men—most of the strong men in the whole city were here.
Next, five or six thousand unarmed chorulas were gathered in a courtyard surrounded by high walls, crammed more crowded than canned sardines or a rush hour subway car. The heavily armed Spanish soldiers were already ready outside the door and at the wall. As soon as all the Chorula people stepped into the trap, they immediately drew their swords and fired their guns, turning the courtyard into a mill of flesh and blood—because the natives were so dense that a single bullet could kill several people, and a single cannonball could blow up a large area, and those who wanted to escape were confined by high walls, with no way out, no weapons to resist, and only to die with the stumps, scraps, and intestines of their countrymen, and to die in utter misery.
At the same time, the nobles, priests, and chieftains who had been arrested earlier were also tied to pillars and burned alive by order of Cortés.
During this time, the only resistance of the Chorula was during the massacre - the king of the city of Chorula, a strong middle-aged man, broke free from the ropes, escaped from the pyramid with twenty other nobles, took refuge in a fortified house and tried to defend it, and stoned several Spanish soldiers. But Cortés immediately surrounded the house with his troops, and then set fire to the house and its occupants.
It is said that the king of Chorula, who led the wolf into the house, finally struggled in the flames and let out a cry of remorse at the zuihou moment of his life: "...... Yes! O wicked beasts! How have we offended you? You've just enjoyed our wine and feast, and now you're going to slaughter us? If you have what you can do, go to the city of Tenochtitlan, and the almighty leader Montezuma Bixia will avenge us. ”
Next, the Spaniards and Tlaxcalas began to massacre the city of Giorula and set fire to the houses. The young men of Chorula City had been almost slaughtered in the temple compound, and the remaining old and weak women and children were even more powerless to resist, and they didn't even have time to react...... After two days and two nights of burning, this city, known as the "Holy Land", is now full of corpses and has become a ruin.
Now, the Spaniards, after burning and looting the city, have slashed their butcher knives at the villages on the outskirts, causing the remnants of the Giorula to flee one after another...... Some of them ran into the Hunghyutizgan expeditionary force that had come from afar.