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The ceremony of joining the Holy Church is also simple, that is, those low-ranking Indian priests who were originally young men of the Catholic Church went down to each village with the tablet of "Holy Teacher" and the "Summary of the Five Books and Seven Classics". Recite the "Summary of the Five Books and Seven Classics" in English, and then focus on explaining the benefits of "entering the holy religion and going to hell".
In fact, these Indians who betrayed the Catholic Church were all mentally prepared for going to hell—they have turned to the devil, so can they still hope to go to heaven?So what they want to know most now is whether there will be any preferential treatment after going to hell as a devil believer?And the Hell View of the Most Holy Cult just fits their needs.
As long as life in hell is good and there are preferential treatment for reincarnation, who has to go to heaven?
While joining the Most Holy Church, Montezuma also ordered cities across the country to change their names to a Most Holy Church-style name, so as to reflect the devotion of the Aztecs to the Most Holy.
Therefore, Aztec, the capital of the Aztec Kingdom, was changed to Fort Sanctuary, Hermosillo, the second largest city, was renamed Fort Sanctuary, Sonora, the northern gateway, was renamed Fort Sanctuary, and Aztec, the southern gateway, was renamed Fort Sanctuary. Aomei changed its name to Guimenguan!
Oh, the name of Guimenguan was not changed by Mentezuma, but by Jizhou Hou Su Zhanyang.The reason why it is called Guimenguan is of course to frighten the Spaniards in the south—this is the "Devil's Gate" (this is how the Spanish translation of Guimenguan is translated), and if they want to come, prepare to go to hell!If these Catholics go to hell, there will be no preferential treatment, and they will not even think about being reborn as a human being in the next life. They can't even be a cat or a dog, and at most they will be a cockroach and a bug!
After joining the Most Holy Religion, and changing the name of the city under the Most Holy Religion style, King Montezuma can finally join the military advisors sent by Shangfang Kingdom and his own generals in the palace in the Bastion of Guimenguan, A military council was held around the map.
"King of Aztec, we have already formulated a strategy to attack Xiyi!"
As soon as the meeting started, Hou Su Zhanyang of Jizhou told Montezuma that he had prepared a strategy.
"Suhou, what tricks do you have in your pocket? Tell Xiao Wang quickly." King Montezuma can speak fluent "Shangyu" now, and he also knows the tricks in the legend.
"Haha, I really told the king." Su Zhanyang really took out a bag and put it on the map table. "This is the bag of tricks bestowed by our Shang Wangmei. You can see for yourself."
A clever plan bestowed by the King of Shang?This king of Shang is mysterious. The Aztec kings have been with Shang Fangguo for more than two years, and now they are all members of the Holy Church, and they have never seen the king of Shang.I actually saw King Shang's tricks today, so I have to take a closer look.
Thinking of this, the Aztec king was not polite, he quickly picked up the kit and opened it, and took out a small scroll inside - the trick was written on it.
The Aztec king opened it, and there was a paragraph on it, and he read it in a low voice: "Rely on the most holy religion and divide the land, mobilize the Indian serfs and farmers, have the courage to go deep into the enemy's rear, and establish a rural base." , carry out armed separatism, and gradually create a situation where the countryside encircles the castles, and isolates the enemy's strong castles and main forces... This is the strategy of encircling the castles in the countryside!"
After reading the "Back to the Bag", the King of Aztec seemed to be a little puzzled, looked at Su Zhanyang and said: "Jizhou Hou, we have been in the area of the ghost gate for the past two years, isn't this the way we used to gradually encroach on the Spanish territory? Doesn't it count as a village surrounding a castle?"
"Of course not!" Su Zhanyang said, "We just nibbled away step by step before, and didn't go deep into the back of Curia Castle to surround it. The steps before were still small, and now we have to be bolder and go directly to Spain We need to build the Most Holy Church and the base of the Holy Church in the rural areas where the people are weak, and first encircle the Curia Castle into an isolated city before the Spanish army arrives."
The Aztec king frowned and asked: "But the Spanish army has arrived, can we keep our base?"
Su Zhanyang sneered coldly: "The army? How big can it be? Thirty thousand or fifty thousand? How many villages can it occupy? And we won't let them walk to Kuria Castle ostentatiously."
"Suhou, what method are you going to use to stop the Spanish army?" the Aztec king said, "The combined tiger, eagle, and arrow armies of the Aztec country are less than 2 people. I am afraid they cannot defeat the Spanish army." Army."
Although the land in the hands of the Aztec Kingdom is not small, it is about the northwest of Mexico in later generations plus the California Peninsula. It is more than 1000 miles from south to north, and several hundred miles wide from east to west.
According to the statistics of the Aztec Kingdom, the population of the whole country is only 60 million... Although there are some gold and silver mines in the territory, the output is not high.Therefore, the Aztec king's financial resources were also limited, and a standing army of less than [-] was already the upper limit.
"Don't worry!" Su Zhanyang said with a smile, "Your [-] Aztec warriors are enough to deal with the tens of thousands of Spaniards... If it is not possible, there are also [-] heavenly soldiers from my big business!"
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December 1692, 12, New Andalusian Colony, Curia Castle.
The hanging bridge was finally lowered, and the closed city gate finally opened.
The fortress, which had been on alert for many days, finally felt a long-lost relaxed atmosphere today.
The Governor of the New Andalusian Colony, Major General Perez Sanders, and the Bishop of the New Andalusian Colony, Raul Torres, both left the castle with a sigh of relief.
Behind them were a large group of white lords from the New Andalusian colony who had lost their manors and were reluctant to go to Mexico City to be beggars, a group of listless Indo-European soldiers, and a group of low-class Indians watching the excitement.
A large group of people came out of the south gate of Curia Castle, and stretched their necks outside the ditch—they were looking south at the imperial army!
During this period of time, the Spanish imperial army was about to arrive, but many armed demon priests were sent from the ghost gate, and they did not directly attack Curia Castle, but went around the Curia Castle and ran to the Curia Castle. Rear, then arrives to sabotage and incite the Indians.Around the city of Curia, almost the manors of the white lords, the Catholic church, and the towns ruled by the church and the lords, were all broken by the Indians instigated by these demon priests.The fast-running white masters of that generation all went to Curia City and became refugees, and the slow-running... Now they are either going to heaven or going to hell!
Major General Sanders also sent the defenders of Kuria City to suppress it a few times... but the effect of the suppression was terrible. There were several times without return, and the entire army was wiped out!
The Spanish soldiers who escaped by chance reported that there were Aztec jaguar warriors near the Curia fortress...they were jaguar warriors carrying flintlock guns and pushing three-pound cannons.Moreover, they are well-trained, have strong combat effectiveness, and there are so many of them that they cannot be defeated at all!
Therefore, once Major General Sanders and Bishop Torres combined, they should not go out at all. Anyway, there is still food in Curia Castle, and there is no problem if they persist for another three to five months.
At that time, the army sent by the Spanish emperor will also climb to Fort Curia, right?
Until yesterday, the cavalry of the Spanish Empire came to report that the tens of thousands of Spanish troops led by Lieutenant General Eugen and Archbishop de la Magala had approached the castle... finally arrived!The Viceroyalty of New Spain is quite vast, and it is more than 2000 miles from Mexico City to the Curia Castle on the northwest frontier.The troops of Lieutenant General Eugen and Archbishop Delamagara had said they would come two months ago, and they stretched their necks and waited, and now they finally came.
The people in Curia Castle had had enough of the anger of the Indians outside the city, and this time they could finally feel proud.
So Major General Sanders and Bishop Torres organized this grand welcome ceremony today - not only to welcome the imperial army, but also to unite the hearts of the colonies.
If the hearts of the people are scattered, the colonization will not be easy.
And according to the reports of the Spanish cavalry, the support soldiers also brought an artifact that could restrain the devil - the holy spear!
Knowing that the Spanish Imperial Army came with the Holy Spear, the colonists hiding in the Curia Castle were greatly boosted in morale, and they all left the city excitedly, waiting for the Spanish Heavenly Soldiers and the Christian Holy Spear elegant demeanor.
But to their surprise, the army led by Lieutenant General Eugen and Archbishop De La Magala did not appear outside Curia Castle for a long time.
Not only did Lieutenant General Eugen and Archbishop de la Magala not show up, but even the cavalry that led the way were gone.
Just when everyone felt that the situation was not quite right, a few low-pitched roars suddenly sounded in the distance... The sound sounded a bit like thunder, but the faces of the people who came out of Kuria Castle suddenly changed drastically.Some of them looked up at the sky first, and after confirming that there were no clouds in the sky, they began to discuss.
"Damn it, it's a roadside mine!"
"These Indian devils are too hateful. They don't dare to fight us openly, so they know how to sneak attack!"
It turned out that someone planted a bomb on the march of Lieutenant General Eugene and Bishop de la Magala!
This kind of thing doesn't need to be checked, it is [-]% done by the Aztec guerrillas!
The Montezuma king who betrayed God is really hateful. He not only used land and equality to lure the Indians to the devil.And turn them into real devils with bombs and guerrilla warfare!
Soon, some people began to worry about the safety of the imperial army.
"These damn devils won't, won't cause too much damage to General Eugen's army?"
"Of course not, that's the norm of the Spanish Empire... How can a few bomb-throwing scoundrels fight against it?"
"Yes! The Aztec attack will definitely not be successful..."
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions rang out one after another, and then there was crackling gunshots!
Now, the people outside the south gate of Curia Castle were finally a little anxious.what 's wrong?Who stopped the Spanish Royal Army carrying the Holy Spear?
Could it be that they encountered the main force of the Aztecs south of Fort Curia?
But when did the Aztec army go around?They won't beat the Spanish Royal Army away, will they?
Thinking that the Spanish Royal Army might be defeated, Major General Sanders and Bishop Torres couldn't help crossing their chests.
Fort Curia can still be defended now, but if the army of Lieutenant General Eugen and Archbishop De La Magala are defeated, who still has the courage to defend the city?It's too late to run... But can they run?
Just when Major General Sanders and Bishop Torres were crossing their chests, outside a large forest only more than 20 miles away from Curia Castle, gunshots were still ringing like popping beans, and bullets rained like weaves. In addition, the shells fired by the three-pound gun and the six-pound gun kept flying into the woods, and even interrupted a few towering trees from time to time, the whole battlefield still had a bit of atmosphere.
But in the woods, no bullets were shot out, as if there were no soldiers left...
After the sound of gunfire, the shouts of "God bless" sounded.
The Indo-European Spanish infantry of the brigade has formed a four-row line, holding a bayonet-mounted rifle and launching an attack on the woods that have just been shot and bombarded.
Lieutenant General Eugen von Savoy's face was already very dark, half of it was sun-tanned, and the other half was from anger!It is for those Indians who are treacherous, cunning and lack chivalry, dare not fight dignifiedly, only plant a bomb on the side of the road, and place some snipers in the woods.
This is not the first time he encountered Indians setting up an ambush on the way to Curia City... Although in the previous few times, his Spanish infantry had won victories, but those victories were meaningless at all!
Because the Indians adopted the rogue style of "the enemy enters and we lie down, the enemy stays and we harass, and the enemy fights and we run", and they also used powerful roadside sugar bombs and rifled guns!
Although the brave Spanish fighters can always drive them away, there is no way to achieve the results of a large number of treacherous enemies, and even few enemies can be seen...
Chapter 857: The Aztecs Have Chuang Wang!
"You damn devils, you know how to sneak attack, don't run if you have the ability..." Eugen von Savoy gritted his teeth and shouted silently from the bottom of his heart.But the Aztecs in the woods in front of them still seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, not even willing to fire a single shot, and a group of Spaniards with guns chanting slogans approached step by step.
It seems that those Aztecs who planted bombs on the side of the road and shot coldly in the woods ran away shamelessly again!
In fact, this method of shooting one shot and changing another place is nothing new to Eugene. In Austria, Bohemia and Hungary, there are also many warriors who believe in God who use this method to deal with evil monsters. Tianfang believers.But warriors who believe in God will not use "enchanted" weapons for sneak attacks-such as sugar bombs with cable fuzes!
This thing is too nasty, it doesn't need to be ignited when it is detonated, just pull the rope, so it is very difficult to be found.And the devil believers who pull the rope can hide far away. They will hide in the woods on the side of the road and wait for the Spanish brigade to pass by or above the bomb before pulling the string... One guy killed twenty or thirty Not too much!
What's even more hateful is that usually they will plant two bombs, one to blow up the front team of the team and the other to blow up the middle.And run away after the bombing, and don't count how many people were killed in the bombing?
In addition, these devil's believers are also equipped with a large number of rifled guns, and their marksmanship is excellent, and they can fire and hit the target from three hundred yards away!
As soon as the roadside bomb goes off, the ambushing snipers will immediately shoot with rifled guns.And they don't shoot repeatedly, they only shoot once and run away... Usually there will be dozens or even hundreds of Aztec gunmen in ambush, and it is not a problem to kill twenty or thirty at a time.
If the two bombs exploded, and the hundreds of Aztec gunmen who were in ambush were also killed, Lieutenant General Eugene's subordinates would lose at least dozens of people, and if there were more, hundreds of them would be killed!
In addition to the loss of personnel, it will also delay time and severely damage the morale of the troops, and it will also make Lieutenant General Eugen angry!
However, Lieutenant General Eugen didn't dare to launch an attack indiscriminately, no matter how angry he was. He still had to counterattack step by step... Even if he knew the enemy would run away, he had to deploy his troops first, then send out scattered soldiers to cover the position, and then deploy the artillery. Then opened fire on the woods where the Aztec snipers were hiding.
After a few rounds of bombardment, it was found that the enemy did not respond, and then dispatched musketeers forming a horizontal formation, approaching the Aztec snipers entrenched in the woods.Then fire a few rounds of platoon guns first, and then launch a bayonet attack.
In the end, even if there was no enemy in the woods, the Spanish infantry who attacked into the woods had to conduct a routine search. After making sure that there were no Aztec ambushes in the woods, he dared to move forward with the army.
If the Aztecs left an ambush deep in the woods, then Lieutenant General Eugen would have to bite the bullet and command the troops to fight a jungle battle with the Indian devils who are very familiar with the woods—the coast south of Curia Castle The nearby climate is very humid, and the degree of development is average, and there are still large areas of dense jungle.This terrain is very unfavorable to Eugen Savoy and his German officers... They have never seen a tropical jungle in Europe, and they have never seen an attack with roadside bombs and rifled guns Tianfang believers.
It may be because the attack took place near Fort Curia, so the Aztecs who were in ambush did not love to fight. After killing less than a hundred Spanish imperial troops, they disappeared into the jungle. Do you know where you went?
An order cavalry came on gallop, came to Eugen von Savoy, and reported loudly: "Your Excellency, the Aztecs have fled, and the officers and soldiers of the No.12 Brigade of the Imperial Army have completely controlled The nearby woods...the road to Kuria Castle is clear!"
Unimpeded?
Eugen Xin said: "Now the brigade is passing through, of course it is unimpeded. But what about the follow-up supplies? Can it be unimpeded? If the supplies are transported by sea, will the fleet be attacked by the merchant navy?
In addition, it is so far away from the Valley of Mexico, and there are only a few lonely castles around it under the control of the Spanish Empire, which is unreliable in any way.The situation faced by the Spanish Empire in this area is very similar to that of the Romans who went deep into the Teutonic Forest... If the traitor Montezuma cannot be defeated as soon as possible, and then deter the nearby Indians, the consequences will be disastrous! "
Thinking of this, Eugen von Savoy put down the binoculars, still staring motionlessly at the seemingly unfathomable forest not far away, and gave an order in a cold voice: "Order the No. The road to Castle Ya... The rest of the troops, quickly pass through the forest area, and must arrive at Castle Kuria tonight!"
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In the depths of the Fort Curia forest, in a village where "Indian savages" lived, Hou Su Zhanyang of Jizhou and Huang Feiyu, Minister of the Army of the Aztec Kingdom, were together in a thatched hut, looking down under the dim light. They exchanged opinions with each other on the reports sent by others.
Although Huang Feiyu is an official of the Aztecs, he is a merchant nobleman, and his current behavior has been completely "commercialized". Living in a noble life, one can naturally speak a very fluent "Business Language".
"Master," Huang Feiyu said to Su Zhanyang, "We have now controlled 52 indigenous villages and [-] manors south of the Kuria Fortress... Eleven of the indigenous villages are hidden in dense forests or mountains, and It is not controlled by the Spaniards, but they also hate the Spaniards just like the indigenous farmers and serfs, with their support, we can get Curia Fort sooner or later!"
At this point in his words, he suddenly found that Su Zhanyang was sitting there, frowning slightly, motionless, as if he was listening to something?
Huang Feiyu also listened with his ears upright, and found that the sound of gunfire, artillery, and shouts had completely disappeared.So he said to Su Zhanyang: "My lord, it seems that the ambush is over... This Spanish army should arrive at Fort Curia tonight. They don't carry much supplies, but there are a lot of people, at least some Tens of thousands, the consumption will definitely be great. As long as we can control the logistics traffic line of Fort Kuria, we should be able to drive them away quickly."
Su Zhanyang shook his head, "The Spaniards will not be so stupid as to travel more than 2000 miles to deliver supplies by land...they can go by sea! Fort Curia is right by the sea, and there is a port of Curia in the hands of the Spaniards. And we Even if the navy of the Ming Dynasty were to end, it would not be possible to completely block the shipping lanes.
Moreover, Spain sent tens of thousands of troops this time, and it seems that they want to do a big job.I guess they should enter the ghost gate soon... Judging from the situation, there is a big battle to be fought! "
Huang Feiyu smiled and said: "Marquis Su, with the merchant army behind us, even if the Spaniards send [-] troops, they can't do anything to us."
"A large army of merchants?" Su Zhanyang glanced at Huang Feiyu, "Fang Bo Huang, don't you know the details of our merchants? If we can really bring out a large army... Mexico City would have been conquered by now!"
Huang Feiyu is an aristocrat of the Shang Fang, and also personally participated in the "first contact", so of course he knows the details of the Shang Fang... The country's national savages add up to less than 50, but it is impossible to guard the vast territory with a radius of thousands of miles. Powerless.But they were still ambitious and wanted to take down the prairie with fertile water and grass, so they had to separate a small half of the national population to form the Yin Family Khan tribe, and crossed the Big Rock Mountain to the east to Texas.
And the 10,000+ Chinese who stay on the Pacific coast have to do construction, dig for gold, and maintain the dignity of a merchant dynasty, which is not enough at all-these 10,000+ people include children, and they are really grown up. (Including women) there are only 6 men, and only 8000 men... and they are still scattered in Shangdu, Yindu, Xinchaoge, Haiyuan Mountain City, Xibo City, etc. The army that can be concentrated for battle is at most three or four thousand. With the addition of field divisions (with wildlings as the main force), the mobile force of [-] people will come to an end.
So once the Aztec Kingdom collapsed, the foundation of the Shangfang Kingdom would probably be leaked.Although the Shang Fangguo can resist the Spanish attack as long as it recalls the powerful Yin Family Khan (although the population of the Yin Family Khan is not large, it is a nomadic tribe that can gather together and move), it can even counterattack. In New Spain, but wanting to enter the North American prairie is dreaming.
And once the Shangfang Kingdom enters the general mobilization of the whole people, then the production, construction and mining of gold will have to stop, which is very detrimental to the new Shangfang Kingdom.
When Huang Feiyu heard what Su Zhanyang said, the smile on his face became even stronger, as if he had been waiting for the Marquis of Jizhou to say these words, he smiled and said: "Master Hou, if the merchant side can't send out soldiers, then only One way is to bring the Spaniards who attacked the ghost gate back to Mexico City."
"What way?" Su Zhanyang asked.
Huang Feiyu said: "Of course it was Prince Montezuma who conquered Mexico City himself!"
Su Zhanyang was taken aback: "What? Let Montezuma march to Mexico City? Is he that powerful?"
Huang Feiyu smiled and said, "Master Hou, have you forgotten how King Montezuma marched into the New Andalusian colony back then? Back then, he was empty-handed, except for the thousands of people we sent, he had nothing... But he is still the same Relying on non-payment of rent, non-payment of food, distribution of land, and the slogan of expulsion of Western Yi, incited hundreds of thousands of Indians in the new Andalusian colony? If he can lead 20 to [-] Aztecs this time He used the same slogan to confuse the Indians in New Spain. Are you afraid that there will be no Indians to eat pots of pulp to meet the king? Maybe his army was [-] when it left the gate of hell, and it was already [-] when it came to Mexico City. [-]!"
"Ah, King Mengchuang..." Su Zhanyang stroked his forehead, "I actually forgot about this!" He paused, and then said, "Fang Bo Huang, how about this, let's go back to the gate of hell together, and suggest that King Montezuma march into Mexico City... Then you lead people to assist King Montezuma, and lead an army of [-] to march towards Mexico City, and I lead the rest of the troops, relying on the reinforcements from the merchants and the Aztec militia to persevere at the gate of hell."
"Okay!" Huang Feiyu nodded heavily, "Then let's go back to the gate of hell to meet the king!"
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Aztec kingdom, the gate of hell.
When Su Zhanyang and Huang Feiyu rushed to the gate of hell day and night.The Aztec King Mengchuang was worried because a large number of Spanish imperial troops and the legendary Christian Holy Spear arrived at Curia Castle!
Therefore, as soon as he saw Su Zhanyang and Huang Feiyu rushing forward, he immediately said to them: "No, I just got reliable news that the Spanish emperor sent Archbishop De Zumagala and Lieutenant General Eugene to lead [-] soldiers. The army is coming to attack our Aztec country!"
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," Su Zhanyang said confidently, "My big business has [-] heavenly soldiers...the advantage lies with me!"
"But the Holy Spear that Archbishop Desumagala brought from Rome!"
"Holy hair?" Su Zhanyang was taken aback, "The hair on the saint's body? What's the use?"
Huang Feiyu also looked indifferent, "Isn't it just a hair, don't be afraid."
"It's not the hair, it's a spear that can be used to kill people, it's a spear!" Montezuma explained, "This holy spear is also called the Longinus spear... it's stained with the blood of Jesus. A magic weapon!
I didn't expect the Holy See to hand over such a treasure to Desumaraga... It seems that they have spent a lot of money! "
It turned out that the Aztec king was not afraid of Eugen von Savoy's army, but the holy spear.