It was still the midday sun, but it carried the brightness of a near-death experience. Under the sun, there were fierce battles between the guards and warriors from both sides watching enthusiastically.
Shulot looked at Totec's running back and admired in his heart. Following this direction, he saw the flag of King Tisoke not far away and was filled with envy. Further forward, a charging Jaguar warrior team attracted his attention. The two familiar figures at the head were fearlessly charging towards the king's flag.
"Oops, it's not good!" Xiulote reacted immediately when he saw his father and Orosh. He jumped up suddenly and grabbed Avitt's arm.
"Quick, Avitt, let's charge towards Tisok. Father and the others alone can't stop Totok!"
"Okay! The time has come, we must not let Tisok go!"
Avitt waved the staff again, and the royal flag moved forward, and hundreds of family warriors with large shields and bronze spears beside him also immediately moved forward. Under the leadership of Stanley, they bypassed the hundreds of guards who were desperately trying to block them, and rushed straight to Tisoke's royal flag.
Hulot also summoned the longbow guards, and together with Bertard, they ran quickly again.
Totec strode quickly and rushed to the banner of King Tisok. He threw the giant ax out a moment ago, but unfortunately he failed. Avitt was rescued by a short warrior whose face could not be seen clearly. Now he has put on his spare shield and war club, ready to fight to protect the king!
He quickly observed the situation. The betrayal of the Teotihuacan legion was a blow that hit the target. The strength of both sides suddenly reversed, and the royal army fell into an obvious disadvantage. More importantly, the connection between the royal flag and the direct legion was cut off. After being out of the commander's control, the loyalty of the Eagle nobles and direct warriors now made him doubtful!
Totec no longer hesitated and let out a deep roar again, boosting the spirits of himself and the guards at the same time, and then went straight towards the approaching team of Jaguar warriors.
Hearing the roar, Shulot, who was on the way, shuddered. He temporarily felt a little psychological shadow over Totec's war cry. The young man looked forward and saw Totec holding the shield diagonally in his left hand and waving a long stick in his right hand.
The tip of the stick was as fast as lightning, hitting the vital part of the Jaguar soldier. The force penetrated the body, and the soldier fell to the ground. He was immediately killed by the stick. The stick shook like thunder, and it hit the Jaguar soldier continuously, shaking his muscles and bones. The warrior trembled and fell, then writhing in pain. In a matter of moments, nearly ten Jaguar warriors fell.
Shusok, wearing double armor and a beast helmet, stood side by side with Orosh, who was also dressed as a jaguar warrior, and bravely faced them together. Totec swung his long stick sideways, but Orosh deftly blocked it, while Shusok struck hard from the side and behind.
Totec frowned and stepped back. He moved flexibly, shielded with his left hand, blocking the two attacks, and held the stick in his right hand, contracting and preparing for attack. Warriors are most likely to have flaws when moving quickly and attacking powerfully. Totec's eyes were like hawks, staring at the postures of the two men.
Shusok was obviously anxious. He struck hard with the stick, using all his strength, but Totec stepped back and dodged it, causing him to stumble slightly.
Totec immediately raised his left hand, threw the shield towards Orosh, then held the stick with both hands, turned his upper body slightly to gain momentum, quickly exerted force sideways, and swept forward vigorously.
In the flash of lightning, Shusok only had time to lean his shield forward, and then an irresistible force hit him, knocking him and his shield several meters away. He immediately spurted blood and fell to the ground, his hands and feet numb and weak, his body twitching slightly, and he couldn't move for a moment.
As soon as Orosh pushed aside the shield, he saw the scene in front of him. He was shocked and took two steps back to protect Shusok. Jaguar warriors from the surrounding city-states also rushed forward, dragging Shusok's hands and feet and evacuating back.
Seeing this scene from a distance, Shulot exclaimed. Fortunately, killing the general was not Totec's goal. When he saw the Jaguar team retreating, he did not pursue it.
Totec just stood there, breathing hard several times to recover the energy that was rapidly consumed in the short and fierce battle. A guard picked up the shield from the ground and handed it to the cold-blooded commander respectfully. The fierce battle had left the guard covered in blood.
Totec nodded and saw that the Jaguar team had indeed retreated far away. Then he turned around again, and with two hundred more guards, he charged into the Teotihuacan warriors on the left. He wanted to open up the command link with the Eagle Chapter and use his unquestionable authority to regain control of the legion.
In a loose battle formation, ordinary warriors cannot cooperate with each other. Totec can always move flexibly, easily create one-on-one attack opportunities, and then kill with one hit. In less than half a quarter of an hour, he had knocked down more than a dozen people in a row, and was about to penetrate the battle formation when he saw the Eagle Fighting Group in the distance.
A terrifying scowl suddenly appeared on Totec's face. An experienced commander-in-chief can judge the intensity of the battle just by looking at the engagement area of the military formation.
He has discovered that the Eagle Nobles Chapter did not fight to the death. These noble warriors only formed a dense shield formation and fought one-sidedly with the Jaguar Chapter, which also had a dense shield formation. The war clubs hit each other's shields with a loud bang, but the warriors on both sides suffered almost no casualties.
At this time, the dull sound of drawing a bow sounded again.
Shulot finally led the longbow guards and moved to a horizontal shooting position one hundred and fifty meters away from the king's flag. He quickly arranged the longbow warriors into a line formation to increase the shooting angle. The swift long arrows shot like a waterfall, and the archers began to shoot at a rate of 10 arrows per minute.
More than a hundred imperial guards formed a tight double-layered shield array, but long arrows kept shooting through the shields and into the gaps. The guards in the front row were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground. The warriors in the back row helped up the corpses in the front row and continued to block the arrows, showing their last loyalty.
Hearing the sound of the big bow, Totec turned around again and saw the royal flag under the rain of arrows. Even with his rock-like strong will, he felt despair at this time: he had wavered along the way, and his military morale had long since dissipated; the matter had come to this, and could no longer be undone.
Totec roared for the fourth time, calling for the two hundred guards who had always followed loyally and were covered in blood. Then, he gave up on the eagle noble warriors who were already in front of him but could not be driven by him, and turned around and rushed in the direction of the Longbow Guards.
Hearing the roar again, Shulot's mood had calmed down a lot. He took one look at the attacking imperial guards and confidently ordered the longbow guards to shoot at Totec.
Totec was now hunched over, hiding behind the giant shield. His body swayed rapidly, but his center of gravity was stable at a fixed height. His steps kept jumping, repeatedly accelerating himself. This imitates the swift running of a jaguar hunting, and the speed may even reach ten meters per second.
The longbow fired two rounds more than 200 meters away, but only killed thirty or forty guards, but was unable to focus on the fast-moving Totec.
Shulot's eyelids twitched, and he turned around and ran away without hesitation, blowing the retreating conch horn as he ran. Bertard ignored the longbow warrior and also covered Shulot.
"After all, there are still too few archers!" The young man complained as he ran quickly. "If there are a thousand longbowmen, let alone a tiger that can run, you will be an eagle that can fly, and I will shoot them down for you!"
Before the boy could run very far, Totec caught up with the longbow warrior's tail and slashed horizontally and vertically with his long stick. In the blink of an eye, nearly ten warriors fell to the ground.
After a while, the bronze spear warrior who was nearby finally arrived. Stanley avoided Totec, and just let the warriors form a close formation to approach, trying to trap Totec. Avitt's royal flag was erected far behind, keeping a safe distance from the unparalleled warrior.
Totec charged for another moment, driving away the Longbow Guards. Looking around, there were only more than a hundred guard warriors. Looking at the distance, the Eagle Chapter was still entangled with the Jaguar Chapter. The warriors directly under the royal family also formed a square formation and exchanged light blows with the familiar warriors on the opposite side.
With a helpless sigh, he turned around and ran towards the king's flag, like a lonely jaguar.
"King! The morale of the army is gone. We are defeated! Leave quickly! I will protect you going south!" Totec knelt on one knee and lowered his head to face Tisok. Blood and sweat flowed from his body, staining the ground beneath him red.
"They all betrayed me! They all deserve to die!...Totec, can I trust your loyalty?" Tisok's hair was disheveled, his face was covered with dust, and his sickly pale skin was revealed under the dust. Only a pair of fierce eyes His eyes were shining with crazy light.
"I will die for you!" Totec made a fist with one hand again and put his fist on his chest. His hands were covered with tiny wounds, just like the scarred armor on his chest.
"Okay! Let's go!" Tisok simply handed the royal flag behind him to the guards and threw away the burden on him.
"Keep this flag until you die! I promise your descendants a future!" Although he did not remember the name of the guard behind him, this did not hinder the king's final promise.
The broken-haired guard bowed his head and knelt down, then stood up quickly and silently took the king's flag. More than ten years of special training have instilled absolute loyalty in these guards, and they have long since abandoned themselves.
"Let's go!" Tisok took one last look around the battlefield, as if he wanted to engrave all the betrayal in his heart.
"When I return to the capital, I will send everyone to the altar and shed all their blood!" The king's eyes were filled with bloody hatred.
"So do the Otomi!" This is also the final madness.
Tisok fled south without hesitation. More than a hundred remaining guards with severed hair escorted him south, leaving only a few dozen people to guard the royal flag. Totec continued to charge forward, and the warriors directly under the royal family retreated one after another to make way for the march.
Shusok lay weakly on several pairs of leather armors, surrounded by city-state warriors who were guarding him. Separated by his shield and double-layered leather armor, two of his ribs were broken by Totec's stick, and he was now unable to move. Fortunately, his internal organs were not injured and his life was not in danger.
At this time, he reluctantly raised his head and looked at Tisoke who was fleeing south. He suppressed the pain in his chest and shouted resolutely: "Hurry up and chase him! We must not let him escape!"
Orosh sighed and laid Shusok's head flat. Tisok disappeared from his eyes in an instant, and the helpless face of the warrior commander appeared in front of him.
"Captain, don't worry. The overall situation has been decided, and Tisoke is doomed to fail. With me as a tracking master, he can't escape! Do you still remember the jaguar hunt we watched together when we were young? The prey was the last one. The struggle is the most dangerous. The jaguar will not take risks. It will only keep creating wounds and follow the prey. It will not kill the prey until its blood dries up and it is exhausted!"
Shusok recalled the life of a free and fearless boy. That happy era when he didn't have to shoulder the responsibilities of his father and family. He once adventured freely in the jungle with his old friends, chasing tigers and leopards, looking for hawks and falcons... He calmed down and put a smile on his strong face.
"I'm fine, but I have two broken bones. I just need to go back and recuperate for a month. You take the Jaguar warriors to find Shulot and tell him not to worry about me. Quickly take the Longbow Guards and you can pursue them together! Remember, don’t get close to Totec until Tisoke is dead!”
Orosh nodded, looked at Shusok's smiling face, and smiled too. He stretched out his hand to check the temperature of his old friend's forehead to make sure there was no fever. He opened his old friend's leather armor and examined it carefully to make sure there were no bleeding symptoms.
Then, he thought hard and turned around to order the warriors around him: "Use the rope you used to capture the captive, carefully fasten the captain's chest. Remember to tie it firmly so that he cannot move around, just like tying a crocodile."
"Commander, how do you tie a crocodile? I have never tied a crocodile before." The warrior looked embarrassed.
"You've never tied a crocodile? There are so many by the river. What did you do when you were young! Stupid turkeys! Forget it, you should have tied a deer before, right? Remember to put a soft cloth on his chest."
After saying that, Orosh turned to leave. After thinking for a while, he added: "Take another circle of cotton cloth and cover the leader's eyes. Don't let him look around. This battle has been won. Let him have a good sleep." Yes. I won’t have a good night’s sleep along the way! Watch carefully and don’t move!”
Orosh nodded with satisfaction, feeling that he had thought it through. He took the elite Jaguar team and hurried to Avitt's royal flag.
Only Shusoke's helpless wry smile was left.
Watching Totec and Tisoke flee south, the giant bear Stanley finally came out from behind the shield formation of the bronze spear warriors. He looked at Totec's back, fighting spirit and awe flashing in his eyes at the same time.
Then he bravely moved forward and rushed towards the royal flag, which was guarded by only dozens of people. The bronze spear warriors swarmed forward and chopped down the scarred and broken-haired guards in a moment. Then Stanley held the flag with both hands again and folded it hard, and Tisok's royal flag slowly fell down.
At this point, the victory or defeat has been decided, and there is only one king left on the battlefield!
Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, the majestic Avit held high the royal flag and the divine staff, and once again shouted to surrender: "In the name of the patron saint Huitzilopochtli, the blame lies only with Tisoc, and those who surrender will be forgotten!"
As Tisok fled south and the royal banner fell, the Eagle Nobles were the first to react. They had been observing the situation, and when they heard Avitt's promise, they immediately retreated slowly and separated from the Jaguar Chapter in tacit understanding.
Then, they threw away the original legion command flag and replaced it with a large flag painted with a bloody sun, and saluted Avitt on one knee to express their surrender. Because the royal family crests on both sides are the same, they can only use different royal ceremonial guards to distinguish them. They were obviously well prepared.
Finally, the noble soldiers pushed the legion commander who was loyal to Tisok and had long lost his power to the front of the battle line and tied him with hemp rope. This was also the public scapegoat.
Shulot watched the surrender of the noble war group, and felt that the process was smooth and natural, without a trace of fireworks, and that the surrender was natural.
It is much simpler and straightforward for the direct samurai. Upon hearing the king's promise, the seven thousand direct warriors on the opposite side threw away their weapons, knelt down towards the king's flag, bowed their heads and bowed to the ground. They cut off part of their hair with obsidian sharp blades to show loyalty and obedience.
While Avit sent out his personal guards to collect the surrendered warriors, he quickly summoned the generals.
In just a moment, Stanley led the bronze spear warriors, Shulot led the longbow guards, and the jaguar warriors of Orosh's city-state gathered under the king's flag.
The young man asked Olosh worriedly: "Teacher, how is father's injury?"
Avitt frowned slightly when he heard the name "teacher". He glanced at Orosh with some dissatisfaction.
"The captain's injury is not serious and his life is not in danger. He asked us to chase Tisoke quickly!" Orosh gave the young man a reassuring look.
The young man nodded and looked worriedly in the direction of his father for a moment.
Avitt tapped the staff in his hand with his fingers. There was a crisp sound, and all the generals were immediately in awe.
"Tisoke must be captured! Shulot, I will give you 700 family warriors, and you will take another 100 longbow guards and 200 jaguar warriors from the Holy City, and quickly go south to pursue!"
The battle was short and brutal, with the Guards on both sides bearing most of the losses. Three hundred of Avit's two thousand family warriors were killed, and the Longbow Guard also lost nearly fifty men.
These family warriors are his mother's legacy and maintain the highest loyalty to Avitt. Now he handed over seven hundred to the young man, leaving only one thousand loyal warriors with him to control the royal army.
"In the south, I have deployed more than 10,000 blockading warriors, and I will hand over their command to you. They will work with you to block Tisok!" Avitt smiled slightly and handed the young man a talisman.
"Stanley, you also follow Shulot, protect him, and be careful of Totec!"
Stanley knelt down on one knee and bowed his head respectfully to accept the order.
"Tisoke is Totec's belief in fighting. Don't think about capturing him alive, just shoot Tisoke to death! Don't fight Totec in close combat! Protect yourself." Avitt finally lowered his head slightly and whispered in the young man's ear. , and then reached out and touched the young man's head.
Shulot also knelt on one knee and bowed his head to accept the order. After a series of battles, the teacher is now the only king. He needed to show respect for the king in front of the generals.
Avitt nodded, then held the boy's hands up and watched the boy leave. He wants to stay here, continue to collect the surrendered troops, and suppress the Eagle nobles.
A thousand elites immediately gathered.
Shulot straightened his chest and looked at his subordinates with confidence: the elite warriors held bronze spears, long bows and war clubs, and Stanley, Bertard and Orosh all bowed to listen to the orders.
The young man is energetic and high-spirited. This is the first time he has led an army alone, and it is also the first time he has gone to capture a king!
"Generals, listen to the order!" The young man did not have a magic staff, so he could only wave the war stick in his hand to the south: "Go south to hunt for the enemy, life or death!"
Thousands of troops accepted the promise with a bang, and then rushed southward, like a pack of wolves in pursuit. This is the final hunt!
