Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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Although Meng Chuang's "surrounding the castle from the countryside" can help them occupy a large amount of land, it is difficult for them to obtain a large amount of supplies, especially weapons and equipment from these rural lands...so it is impossible for Meng Chuang's army to wander around the countryside all the time , Still have to lay down some cities.

Therefore, strict defense of the city can slow down Meng Chuang's march to Mexico City, and can also consume Meng Chuang's vitality.

And this series of measures finally worked during the siege of Guadalajara!

The city was the third largest in the New Spanish colony, after Mexico City and Havana.There are a large number of whites, mixed-race whites and Catholic Indians living in the city.

Moreover, King Mengchuang's army did not fly out of Guadalajara all at once, so the defenders and residents of the city also had time to strengthen the city's defenses, raise food and grass, and train and equip the militia.

So when Meng Chuang's army arrived outside Guadalajara, the city had already become a fortified city!

Meng Chuang and Huang Feiyu commanded the army to fight several times, but they found that they couldn't move. At the same time, they also found that their troops had been continuously transferred to battle, the consumption of supplies was huge, and the number of personnel was rapidly expanding. The edge of Mexico City's march.

However, the Mengchuang army still has an advantage in the wild, and they have accumulated a huge reputation on the way to Mexico City, which is enough for them to run wild around the city of Guadalajara.

Therefore, Montezuma and Yellow Flying Fish changed their strategy of rushing towards Mexico City, and instead established bases between the city of Guadalajara and the city of Leon.

So Meng Chuang's army was divided into two groups, one led by Montezuma himself, using the camp on the north shore of Lake Chapala as a stronghold, while besieging the city of Guadalajara, while sweeping Lake Chapala and Daguada La Jara surrounding the countryside to establish an Aztec stronghold.

The other route was led by Huang Feiyu, who slowly approached Leon step by step, building bases while advancing, and besieging cities that were well fortified by the Spaniards, and then cleared the surrounding area, waiting for these cities to run out of food. surrender.

Although this set of dismissals is a bit slow, there are benefits to being slow... Slowing down can expand the base area, allowing more oppressed Indians to be liberated and join the rebel team.

From the perspective of national liberation and the establishment of a new Aztec country, this "slow pace" is actually more valuable than "quick victory".

Because "quick victory" will make those oppressed Indian serfs and slaves lose their use value... Without value, it is naturally impossible to truly be liberated!

King Mengchuang and his followers are likely to quickly degenerate and become new feudal rulers riding on the heads of the Indians.

And "playing slowly" can allow more Indians to participate in the "liberation" process.

Those Indians who were once oppressed can now personally participate in the struggle to overthrow the colonists who enslaved them.

In order to mobilize them to participate in the rebellion, King Meng Chuang and his team also had to earnestly divide the land and promote the most holy religion-the current situation is that the rebellion has not yet succeeded, and the Aztecs still need to work hard!And they also offended the white colonists to death... Not only betrayed the emperor, but also betrayed God, it is impossible to be forgiven!

If they cannot win, the consequence can only be death!

In such a situation where victory can be expected, but no one can bear the consequences of failure, a situation of "it is also contradictory" can easily appear.In less than a year, the vast land around the city of Guadalajara has become the land under the "waving black and white flags"!On the way from Lake Chapala to Leon, the movement of "dividing land and land to believe in the Holy Spirit" is also in full swing. As of the summer of 1695 in the Western calendar, at least 20 households have lived around Lake Chapala and The Indians on the line from Lake Chapala to Leon got the land and converted to the Most Holy Church!

An "Aztec base" stretching hundreds of miles across has already appeared on the vast land between Guadalajara and Mexico City!

And the number of the Aztec Kingdom's army also exceeded 25 because of the large number of recruits!

In addition, the firepower of the Aztec army has also increased.While developing their base areas, they also established artillery factories and nitrate fields in the camp on the north shore of Lake Chapala.A large number of 12-pound bronze cannons were cast using the bronze bells seized from churches in various places, and a large amount of gunpowder was prepared with the fire nitrate produced in the nitrate field.

With the 12-pound copper cannon and sufficient gunpowder, the Aztecs now finally have a certain ability to attack.A big city like Guadalajara could not be conquered for the time being, but the small cities around Guadalajara and the castles along the road from Lake Chapala to Leon were defeated by the Aztecs one by one. occupied by people.

The place where King Mengchuang is now is on the wall of a small city called San Miguel... This city resisted the Aztec army for several months, and now it has finally been concentrated by the Aztec army. The 12-pound gun was broken!

And captured this San Miguel, located in the fertile plain of the Turvio River, Leon, the sixth largest city in New Spain, founded in 1576, is already in sight!

Thinking of this, King Montezuma turned his head and asked Huang Feiyu beside him, "Military Master, should we prepare for the decisive battle in Leon?"

Leon is the place where Leopold must defend and must fight!

Not to mention losing Leon, even if Leon is besieged, Leopold will lose the silver from the Zacatecas silver mine!And once this silver mine falls into the hands of the Aztecs... the consequences will be disastrous!

Huang Feiyu waved his feather fan, pretended to count, then nodded and said: "My lord, everything is in our plan now! There will be a decisive battle in Leon... and Leopold will definitely concentrate all his forces against I fought against Leon. The king just took the opportunity to lead tens of thousands of elite soldiers to enter Mexico City on the southern front! If Leopold recalls the main force of Leon, then we can defeat Leon and cut off Mexico City and Zacateca Silver Mine. If Leopold does not recall the army, Mexico City will be besieged!"

King Montezuma laughed and said, "That Leopold is very cowardly. If he doesn't recall the army, he will definitely leave Mexico City and go elsewhere...by then Mexico City will be at your fingertips!"

Huang Feiyu cupped his hands to King Montezuma and said, "Then congratulations to you for overcoming the old capital and restoring the Aztec homeland!"

"Wahhahaha..." King Montezuma, feeling extremely happy in his heart, looked up to the sky and laughed.

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"Crash..."

Queen Therese had just walked outside the door of Leopold I's study when she heard the sound of porcelain and glassware being smashed inside.

She stopped quickly, and then glanced at a handsome attendant beside her.The attendant shook his head and didn't speak, so the two of them stood outside the door together and listened.

Leopold's roar came from inside: "God, open your eyes and see... What kind of pope is this? What kind of Frank emperor is this? I was fighting the devil's believers in Mexico, and Louis actually wanted to An illegitimate daughter married to a devil's son! This is betrayal!"

It turned out that Cardinal de la Magala of Mexico City sent someone to send an urgent secret letter to the emperor, in which he reported the progress of the Versailles Conference... This meeting with its own ghosts was so exciting. Be discouraged!

A group of emperors, empresses, tsars, kings, consuls, popes, and bishops who claimed to believe in God discussed for several months, but they did not make a decision to send troops to the New World, and they did not make a decision to declare war on Ming Dynasty. Trade sanctions against Ming... but what's the use?Can trade sanctions defeat the devil?Are you kidding me?That's the devil!Not Dutch profiteers.

Moreover, while Louis sanctioned Daming, he married his most beautiful illegitimate daughter to the son of Emperor Ming!

Is this what it looks like to be sanctioned?No matter how you look at it, it looks like you are betraying Spain!

And the most hateful thing is that Louis's illegitimate daughter wants to marry the son of the great devil, but in the name of Leopold's daughter-this is to let Leopold go to the devil to make a deal, and Louis takes it by himself. All the benefits!

Co-author Leopold is an unlucky guy who takes the blame and goes to hell?Can God allow such a thing?Can Louis and Urban IX avoid hell?

After eavesdropping outside the door for a while, Queen Trese of Spain finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked into Leopold's study with a just-received military report. After curtseying, Trese He said to the Spanish Emperor: "My lord, the Duke of Lorraine has just sent an urgent military report... The Aztec rebels have captured San Miguel and are currently marching towards Leon. Its vanguard has entered the plains on both sides of the Turvio River, and the decisive battle is about to begin! The Duke of Lorraine hopes that we can send more reinforcements..."

Chapter 891 The Spanish emperor guards the country, and the Aztecs conquer the king and order more soldiers!

"What? Need reinforcements again? More than [-] troops have been gathered around the city of Leon, and he has recruited all the white and mixed-race white adult men in the cities of Leon and Encarnacion de Diaz as militiamen. Why do you need reinforcements? "

When Emperor Leopold heard Queen Therese talk about the Duke of Lorraine asking for reinforcements, his ugly face became even uglier.

The Battle of Leon did not start suddenly, but after a long period of preparation and deliberation, the battle started slowly.And because the Aztecs adopted a strategy of advancing while advancing towards Leon, while mobilizing the Indian poor and lower-middle peasants to fight white skins and establish Aztec bases.Therefore, the process of Aztec's march into Leon was playing the bright card, and it was very slow.It's so slow that everyone knows that they will use a step-by-step method to march to Leon first, and then to Mexico City...to recover the land lost by their ancestors!

Even Louis XIV, who was far away in Europe, knew the intentions of the Aztecs, and even sanctioned Ming Dynasty for this.Not to mention Leopold and the Duke of Lorraine in Mexico?

Since the strategy of the Aztecs is obvious, Emperor Leopold and the Duke of Lorraine are so good at fighting, of course they have to deploy accordingly!

First of all, they ordered resistance on the road from Lake Chapala to Leon, and fortified everywhere in order to slow down the Aztecs' advancement.

Then, the Duke of Lorraine, who came to the front line of Leon in person, took advantage of the time gained by the successive fortifications, and began to organize and arrange the battlefield on the plains on both sides of the Turvio River.

The so-called tidying up the battlefield, of course, is to make a big effort to clear the fields on both sides of the fertile Turvio River, and take all the old, weak, women and children in the Indian villages who are not loyal to God and the Spanish emperor to the Mexica Valley as hostages, and then These hostages were used to coerce strong Indians to help them with work.

According to the order of the Duke of Lorraine, these coerced Indians, under the supervision of the Spanish Royal Army, first cut and destroyed all the crops on the plains on both sides of the Turvio River.Then the land was abandoned, and all the Indian villages and white and mixed-race white manors were razed to the ground or transformed into strongholds that could be held firmly.

After finally successfully turning the fertile plains into a piece of white land, the Duke of Lorraine brought these Indian slave laborers back to Leon and Encarnacion de Diaz, two larger cities, and let them live in the two cities. Under the supervision of white and mixed-race white militiamen, the city walls were built and housing was built-many white and mixed-race white landowners and magic sticks who originally lived elsewhere have recently fled to these two big cities with their families.Of course, the Duke of Lorraine would not allow them to go to Mexico City again. These people are not willing to serve as soldiers, but their position is absolutely reliable, and it would be perfect to train them as militiamen defending the city.

Although King Montezuma declared that he would treat people of all colors equally, how could a white man who is used to being a lord be willing to sit on an equal footing with Indians?It's hard to say whether those Indians who betrayed God can still be regarded as human beings... Besides, who are these white masters?Don't look at their own martial arts, but their ancestors were fierce people who exterminated tens of millions of Indians!

And things like extinction are still happening in many places on the American continent!

Can they trust Indians in power to treat whites equally?

So these whites, as well as those mixed-race whites who own property, are almost the group of people who hate the Aztec kingdom the most, especially those mixed-race whites who don’t understand, they hate the rebellious Aztecs to the bone.

The difference between the so-called mixed-race whites and mixed-race Indians is actually whether the white father loves them or not!If they can have a father who loves them more, they can get a white surname and a piece of property, that is a mixed-race white person, who can be treated as a native white person, or else a mixed-race Indian...

The "white content" of these people is not enough - some are really not too white!Because many Spaniards are of North African and Arab descent, they are not very white in the first place, and when they mix with Indians, they almost all become "brown and white".And in order to show that they are white, these "brown and white people" are particularly cruel to Indians who are not as white as them!So this group of people is also most afraid of being settled by the Indians, and they hate being equal to the Indians the most...

And in the process of dividing the land among the Indians, the number of white landowners and mixed-race whites executed by the Aztecs was also quite large... For ethnic equality, let's talk about survival first!

Because of the joining of this group of people, the available soldiers of the Duke of Lorraine have reached an astonishing 15!

So many soldiers were not enough, no wonder Leopold was a little annoyed.

"Leopold," Queen Therese handed the Duke of Lorraine's appeal letter to the Spanish emperor, "The Duke of Lorraine said in the letter that the number of Aztec rebels probably exceeded 30... 30 Wan is twice as much as 15, and the Duke of Lorraine is not sure of victory. The Duke of Lorraine also said that he must divide the limited force into two parts to ensure the safety of the silver mines in Leon and Zacatecas."

With that said, Queen Therese took out the letter of appeal written by the Duke of Lorraine and handed it to Emperor Leopold.

Emperor Leopold took the letter, read it carefully, and felt that the Duke of Lorraine's troops were not enough.

Emperor Leopold, who has rich military experience and is proficient in mathematics, of course knows that 30 is much more than 15!

Moreover, the Duke of Lorraine has to prevent the Aztecs from bypassing Leon and going directly to the Zacatecas silver mine to grab silver, so it is impossible for him to pile up all the 15 people on hand near Leon, but to score two troops. At the same time, hold Leon and the city of Encarnacion de Diaz, which is about twelve Spanish miles away from Leon.

The number of soldiers is small, and they are divided into two places, and that one is 25... The Aztecs can gather [-] people to besiege one of the two Spanish imperial armies.

Thinking of this, Leopold said to Queen Therese: "It seems that the Duke of Lorraine does have a little less troops... I will take another 5 people from the city defense force in Mexico City and send them to Leon. "

"Drop 5 people from Mexico City?" Queen Tereser asked, "How many defenders are there in Mexico City? Can we still get 5 people?"

"The guards plus the militia have a total of 7 people." Emperor Leopold said with a smile, "After drawing 5 people, there are still [-] left."

"There is only so little left," Queen Therese was a little worried, "Is it too little?"

"No, quite a lot." The Spanish emperor replied, "As long as the Battle of Leon can be won, there is no possibility for the enemy to attack Mexico City. Therefore, the army left behind in Mexico City was originally prepared to be used for military operations after the Battle of Leon." The counterattack is just sending them to the battlefield in advance."

It turned out that Emperor Leopold was planning to conquest himself after winning the Battle of Leon, so he also recruited [-] militiamen from the whites and mixed-race whites in Mexico City, which really cost money!

"That, that's good." Queen Therese was finally relieved, and now that she was relieved, she could leave, so she said to the Spanish emperor: "Leopold, I think I should go back to Europe and meet Louis in person." and Urban IX to express our opposition to the arrangement of marrying Sophie Maquis to the Devil's Son in the name of the Spanish princess."

Leopold nodded heavily: "Well, we should show the position of our Spanish Empire to Louis and Urban, two traitors who betrayed God! I am not only opposed to marrying Louis' illegitimate daughter to the devil's son in the name of a Spanish princess , I am also opposed to sanctioning Daming... because it is meaningless to use trade sanctions to deal with the devil!

And while clamoring for trade sanctions, the act of marrying off her daughter is completely unreasonable, which doesn't show the determination to break up at all!Louis and Urban must be confused! "

Queen Therese nodded and said: "Yes, they must be confused. I will definitely explain the position of the Spanish Empire to Louis and Urban."

When she said this, she suddenly hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Leopold, now thousands of immigrants from Germany and other parts of Europe arrive in Cuba every month, and most of them come to attend the Spanish Imperial Palace. Army... There are many veterans among them! But the Grand Duke's Palace in Havana failed to accommodate them well, so that the public security in Cuba fell into chaos. Would you like to go to Havana and arrange the gathering there yourself? German veterans?"

"No, I'm staying in Mexico City," said Leopold. "The Aztecs are aiming for Mexico City! So I must personally defend the capital of the empire... As for the little trouble in Cuba, I Confidence in the ability of the Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Cuba, Duke Antonio Caraffa."

"Okay then..." Therese said again, "Leopold, I want to leave with Charlie. He should go to his principality to see."

Charles, the second son of Leopold and Therese, was made Grand Duke of Florida, but he never visited his duchy.Therese was going back to Europe this time and happened to be passing through Florida, so it was reasonable to take him to see it along the way.

"Okay, that's it!" said Leopold. "Charlie has been talking about going to Florida too, and you just took him. After he has been to Florida, let him go to Havana to live with Joseph for a while. Wait for Mexico If the defense of the city is won, let him return to Mexico City."

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While Leopold was busy dispatching troops, Queen Therese left Mexico City with her son Charles.On the big playground outside the Chapala camp, there was already a chilling scene at this time.

An army swearing-in ceremony is in progress.

Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Aztec Jaguar Army wearing tiger-headed hats, tiger-striped clothes, ears on the hats, and tails sewn on the back of the trousers are flying the Feathered Serpent flag and various other The flag stands erect in the playground.The musket is on the shoulder, the bayonet is shining.

These Aztec warriors who seem to be "violent and mighty" are either elite soldiers who have followed all the way from the north of the gate of hell; The base areas near and east of Lake Chapala can also be divided after Mexico City; or the Indian poor and lower-middle peasants who enlisted in the Lake Chapala base area.

No matter what the origin of the Aztec tiger warrior is, at the moment, his chest is protruding and his waist is stiff. Citizens of the free and independent Indians of the modern state!

Most of them would still have weak calves when they saw white people a year ago, and they would shout "my lord" or "my lady" in Spanish...that's really from the bottom of their hearts Scared!Afraid of being beaten to death by white people, and afraid of going to hell after death!

But now, the "white phobia" of these Indians has been cured by more than half-they now have a backstage!

The devil is their backstage!

Although there is God behind white people, God does not appear!Even the Holy Spear was snatched away by the devil's believers, and the chief exorcist of the Holy See was captured... God didn't come out to help.And the devil is really willing to show up at the critical moment!

So the Indians who are with the devil are not afraid of the white people... The white people are afraid of the devil, the devil is now the "boss" of the Indians, so I ask you white people are not afraid?

And judging from the situation of going all the way south from the ghost gate, Baipi is obviously afraid of the devil—fleeing away from the devil!

In addition to having a backstage, they now have faith.Don't believe in God, convert to the devil... no, it's holy!Also known as Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu!

That portrait looks amazing - a bearded man sitting on the ground, wearing a turban, wearing a robe, wearing a sword, and a bazooka leaning against a wall behind him!

And they don't expect to go to heaven anymore, but ask to go to hell, no, it's hell!After they die, what they want to go to is a hell world where ghosts are equal, fair and just, and black and white are distinct, not a heaven controlled by God.

Now that these Indians have the backing of the devil, they are not even afraid of going to hell. How can they be afraid of those white people who run away from the devil and only dare to hide their faces in the castle?

Aztec king Montezuma rode a big gray horse, wore a blue cloth robe, a white pointed felt hat, and a red cloak. Surrounded by him, he appeared in front of his Tiger Legion officers and soldiers.

Montezuma looked at the phalanx formed by as many as [-] tiger warriors one after another, and his eyes were a little moist. He drew out his sword, pointed to the east, and shouted loudly: "Aztec warriors We, my sword points to the place where our ancestors' royal city Tenochtitlan is located... Now, there is the capital of the Spanish bandits in the New World. Last night the most Santo dreamed to me, saying that we are Aztecs The time has come to recover Tenochtitlan! Let us march together, under the blessing of the Holy One, plant the black and white holy flag on the head of Tenochtitlan!

Almighty bless, long live the Aztecs! "

Chapter 892 The devil is coming, the emperor resists!

In the midsummer of 1695 in the Western calendar, in the darkness of night, a fire dragon with a length of several tens of miles was winding and rolling along the mountain road that traversed the volcanic belt in central Mexico.

Mexico is a country of plateaus, which are the three Sierra Madres in the east, west, and south, plus a transverse volcanic belt and a large fault, which together encircle a large plateau that is flat and wide, like a tabletop.In addition, on the east and west sides of the Sierra Madre, near the sea, there are some fertile plains. Among them, the plain near the Pacific Ocean is very narrow, while the plain near the Gulf of Mexico is quite open.

On the east, west, and south sides of the Mexican plateau, the terrain is relatively steep and dangerous. Especially in the southern part of the plateau, there are also transverse volcanic belts, large faults, and the Sierra Madre del Sur, which is really a mountain. Connected to the mountains, there are endless mountains.Moreover, the climate in the southern part of the Mexican plateau is hot and humid, with dense vegetation.When the Spanish conquered Mexico, this area was the last refuge of the Indians in central Mexico.Although it was finally taken down by the Spaniards, the power of the white colonists in this area is still weak, and there is no gold and silver to dig, so the Spaniards did not spend much effort to eliminate the soulless Indians in this area.Just put a little smallpox virus casually and it will be brought down.Later, not many Spanish lords went to the mountains to enclose land as manor owners, so in the Hengduan Volcanic Belt, apart from some towns that were regarded as the ruling centers by the Spaniards, there were some Indian villages scattered in various valleys and slopes.Although there are also Catholic churches there to protect the souls of Indians, the power of white people there is weak after all.

And after the Aztec Kingdom established a base around Lake Chapala, the Spanish missionaries in the Hengduan Volcanic Belt turned to Mexico City one after another—not because they were timid and afraid of death, but because of the Aztecs. There are devils there!Even the Pope Alexander VIII and the chief exorcist of the Holy See who held the Holy Spear and the Inquisition Judge were killed by the devil. How could these low-level priests with low mana dare to fight the devil?That would be suicide... Suicide is going to hell!

These Catholic priests all fled from the devil, and the Indians below certainly know that god (demon) is more worthy of worship!

With the help of these Indians across the volcanic belt, the "tiger soldiers" of King Montezuma were finally able to march tens of miles or hundreds of miles at night, holding torches, and aggressively went to find the Spanish emperor Leopold De I settled the score.

However, even with the help of the Indians who cross the volcanic belt, it is still a bit difficult to go through the mountain road through the volcanic belt to the Valley of Mexico-although the Spaniards have ruled Mexico for more than 170 years, and they are still quite good. .But they only built some infrastructure around a few big cities, a few ports, and some silver mines and gold mines, and built some roads connecting the big cities, ports, gold mines, and silver mines.

As for other places, just deal with it casually... Spaniards, except for building churches are more serious, other places have nothing to do with infrastructure madness.

And this road through the Hengduan volcanic belt is not only narrow and simple, but also undulating up and down the mountain. The high point has to pass a mountain top with an altitude of 2000 meters, and the dangerous point even passes the edge of a cliff.

And the Aztec officers and soldiers in tiger clothes were advancing at the speed of a rapid march on such a road.Everyone was sweating profusely from walking, but their footsteps did not mean to stop at all.

Along with these "tiger soldiers", there were thousands of native Indians carrying loads and donkeys.They are all Indians in the Hengduan Volcanic Belt. They have already betrayed God and turned to the devil, so now they are helping to lead the way and carry the luggage.

With their help, the Aztec army approached Mexico City mightily!