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Just now, I received an urgent military report from the Military Council, saying that the Aztec king Montezuma had captured the city of Kusala...but he didn't stay there for too long, but in Three days later, he led all the Indians there to continue southward, approaching Mexico City.And he also let people burn down the city of Kusala and all the nearby villages and manors! "
Chapter 860 The Aztecs had hell, but the Inca only had cowboys
"It seems that there is such a thing..." For some reason recently, Emperor Leopold, whose memory is not very good, finally remembered the order he had issued.
However, he still didn't understand something, so he frowned and asked in a low voice: "But... why did Montezuma let people burn the city of Kusala and all the nearby villages and manors? Why didn't he own it himself? That city, and then seal those villages and manors to the nobles who support themselves?"
After hearing this question, the Spanish Empire Empress Treze couldn't help sighing softly.
Although she is not beautiful, she is a woman with well-developed limbs and mind.It was a bit of a pain to put her in the company of an old, ugly old fool who was also the emperor of Spain, one of the two great empires of Christendom!
By the way, this Eleonore Magdalene Therese is not a close relative of the Spanish emperor!
Because the Habsburg family liked inbreeding so much that it seriously affected reproduction... So when Leopold I died after his second wife, Claudia from the Tyrolean branch of the Habsburg family, There are not many Habsburgs left in the world.
Therefore, Leopold had to marry Therese, the daughter of the count of Palatinate-Neuburg, a small German lord, as his third wife... This woman has a high IQ that the Habsburg family cannot match, and is well-educated. He also read a lot of books, and even read the book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Magic".
In addition, she is also very strong physically and good at giving birth. She has given birth to several children with very normal IQ and appearance for Leopold.Even including two healthy sons who are very rare for the Habsburg family, it can be regarded as dragging the Habsburg dynasty back from the brink of extinction.
Treze, who had a better brain, thought for a while, and understood what King Montezuma wanted to do?
"My lord," she said to Leopold, "this king of Montezuma, who has turned to the devil, wants to take the Indians around the city of Kusala and march on Mexico City! Burning cities, villages and estates is to cut off those The retreat of the Indians. Now that they don’t even have a home, they can only follow King Montezuma on the road of betraying God to the end.”
This is actually the basic operation of the Chinese rebels, and it is clearly written in the "Anti-Classic"!Although Montezuma hadn't familiarized himself with the "Anti-Scripture", Su Zhanyang and Huang Feiyu had already arranged everything for him.
"God, how could he do this?" Emperor Leopold looked very angry, "And those Indians are too stupid, how could they follow such a leader? Wouldn't they resist?"
"Your Majesty," Queen Therese shook her head, reminding, "They are resisting! Those Indians are resisting with the most decisive attitude!"
"Resistance?" Emperor Leopold was at a loss, "Who are they rebelling against?"
"Resist you! My lord," said Queen Therese. "In order to resist to the end, these crazy Indians will not hesitate to burn their homes!"
"Resist me? Why?" Emperor Leopold still couldn't figure it out, "What did I do to offend them?"
"It's not that you did anything wrong, it's because they betrayed God and believed in the devil!" Therese made a sign of the cross on his chest.
The Spanish queen was very intelligent, but she was also a fanatical Catholic... In this regard, she and Leopold have a common language.In her opinion, it is not unforgivable to rebel against the emperor, but it is absolutely unforgivable to betray God and take refuge in the devil!
Leopold also thought of this, and immediately gritted his teeth and said, "These lunatics who betrayed God deserve to go to hell!"
At this time, Ludwig, the emperor's attendant, suddenly interjected: "My lord, in fact, those lunatics are already living in hell...they have been in hell since the moment they betrayed God and the Spanish Empire In the middle.
And they blatantly beautify Hell...Depicting Hell as a country of death with a stable society, well-ordered, and prosperous economy!That's why you ordered the Aztec kingdom to be a kingdom of hell! "
"Glorifying hell? This is absolutely unforgivable!" Empress Therese said with a cold face, "Your Majesty, it seems that you are too wise to call the Aztec country the country of hell."
She drew a sign of the cross on her chest, "May the Lord forgive them... Although those who think they are living in hell and are keen to rebel against God and the Spanish Empire are not worthy of salvation and forgiveness at all!"
The Spanish emperor nodded heavily: "Yes, they are not worthy of forgiveness! Moreover, what awaits them must be destruction!"
"Your Majesty," asked the Queen of Spain, "are you going to send troops at once to destroy King Montezuma?"
"This..." Emperor Leopold thought hard, "No, not right away. According to the plan formulated by the military council, we will first eliminate the weaker Inca, and then deal with the stronger Aztec."
"Are the Inca weak?" Queen Teresa didn't quite understand—she just came to Mexico City from Cuba half a month ago, and she had stayed in Cuba and helped his underage son Joseph manage him before that. of the Caribbean Duchy.
"Of course!" The Spanish emperor replied very positively, "According to the investigation of the Atlantic Front Army, the Incas who grazing on the grasslands of Texas are very backward. Apart from grazing and hunting bison, they only have some very simple handicrafts... Although they also have some merchants. There are muskets and cannons produced in China, but the number is not large. Most Inca nomadic warriors are using bows and arrows, and even arrows processed from animal bones, which shows how backward their handicraft industry is.
The spies sent by the Atlantic Front also reported that except for young children, almost all the Incas could use bows and arrows proficiently... This can also prove that they have very few muskets, so they rely heavily on bows and arrows when grazing and hunting. "
"That's great!" The Queen of Spain finally smiled, "The Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill will definitely wipe out these Incas who betrayed God and lived in hell!"
"Terez," said the Spanish emperor with a smile, "this time you are wrong...the Incas in North America did not betray God, because they never believed in God, and they did not have a hellish country, they There are only one or a few nomadic tribes! But they are the most powerful tribe in Texas. As long as the Incas in Texas are eliminated, we can turn the rich and vast Texas into the Grand Duchy of Texas, and then give it to our daughter Maria Yi Lisabeth!"
The Maria Elizabeth mentioned by Leopold was his first child with Queen Therese, and the Spanish emperor and queen planned to use the Grand Duchy of Texas as her dowry in the future.
……
Texas, Maria Elizabeth Island.
This is a long and narrow island that clings to the Texas coastline. This island and another unnamed long and narrow sandbar come together just outside a sunken bay on the Texas coastline, thus forming a natural sheltered bay.
And places with natural harbors are usually the first places colonists visit.
The Spanish Empire's invasion of Texas had actually been underway for nearly two years, beginning shortly after Emperor Leopold established the Grand Duchy of the Caribbean.
The navy of the Grand Duchy of the Caribbean, whose capital is in Havana, Cuba, is responsible for carrying out the invasion. The aggressive spirit of the Germans in Cuba who immigrated from the European continent is much stronger than the Spaniards who have conquered too much land and have begun to lie down and enjoy themselves. up!
However, since the total number of Germans entering the Grand Duchy of the Caribbean is not large, and there are Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Grand Duchy of Florida across the sea from the Grand Duchy of the Caribbean (the Grand Duke is Joseph’s younger brother Charlie, that is, Maria Te Reza's father) can emigrate, so the aggression of "Cuba" against "America" is very slow.
After invading for almost two years, they occupied a small piece of land on the coastline of Texas, which is probably Galveston Island and Galveston Bay in later generations—now Galveston Island is named Mary Elizabeth Island, while Galveston Bay is named Maria Elizabeth Bay.
But after the expeditionary force of [-] brigades led by the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill arrived one after another, the process of "Cuba"'s aggression against "America" has obviously accelerated!
Just when Emperor Leopold and Empress Therese were outraged by the approach of the Aztec kingdom of hell, a huge simple bastion named Fort Maria Elizabeth had been erected!
Camps, ports, forts, and even a small town were built around the bastion.
The chief exorcist of the Holy See and the chief justice of the Inquisition, Cardinal Philip, even built a small Catholic church in the town on Elizabeth Island... This church is incredible, that is Philip The position where the Archbishop and the Great Devil Zhu of the Ming Dynasty fought!
The "real" Longinus gun is now enshrined in this small church called "Holy Spear Church", exuding invisible magic power all the time, protecting the believers of God who have landed in Texas.
In addition to worshiping the Holy Spear, Archbishop Philip these days has also fooled into Christians several leaders of the Karen Kawa Indian tribe near Maria Elizabeth Island-this tribe was active and active before the arrival of the Spanish Imperial Expeditionary Force. Western pirates in the Caribbean have been in frequent contact, and that Maria Elizabeth Island was an island where pirates hid earlier.Those pirates often traded with the Karen Kawa Indian tribe, exchanging Western firearms, weapons and other items for food and fur.And the Karen Kawa Indian tribe would exchange the ironware obtained from the Westerners with the nomadic (hunting) Indians in the interior of Texas for supplies.
So through this Karen Kava Indian tribe, Archbishop Philip, the Duke of Lorraine, Lieutenant General Churchill and others will be able to obtain a lot of accurate information about the "Inca nomadic tribe"!
"Duke, Lieutenant General, you are here just in time... I have something good to show you!"
At noon that day, when the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill walked into Philip's church, Archbishop Philip was talking to the leader of an Indian tribe named Andre.Seeing the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill, the cardinal hurriedly greeted them to the side of the altar.
"What is this? Is it a bow? It looks so strange."
"It's called a recurve bow, and the Turks and the Tartars make bows like this... Is this really made by Indians?"
The attention of the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill was attracted by an unstringed recurve bow and a bag of feathered arrows placed on the altar, and then they began to comment.
Lieutenant General Churchill had never competed with the nomads in the East, so he had never seen a recurve bow, and the Duke of Lorraine fought against the Turks and Tatars all the year round, so of course he recognized the recurve bow with the bowstring removed at a glance. bow.
Archbishop Philip said to an Indian in Western clothes beside him: "Andre, tell the Duke and the lieutenant general what this is? Where did you get it?"
The Indian named Andre bowed to the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill, and then told them in fluent Spanish: "This is our caravan exchanged from a tribe that was broken by the Incas." Come. Those brutal Incas launched a sneak attack before dawn, shot many people with this powerful bow and arrow, and then took many women and horses, and then left. Several of them An Inca fell off his horse during the attack and lost some of his weapons... This very strange bow and this very powerful bag of arrows are part of it."
The Duke of Lorraine drew another arrow at this time, looked at the arrow, and frowned: "It's an iron arrow...it looks very hard and sharp!"
Lieutenant General Churchill asked Andre in a bit blunt Spanish: "Are there any firearms from the Incas?"
"No," Andre shook his head. "These Incas from the western mountains rarely used firearms, and they probably didn't use them at all...they are best at shooting arrows on galloping horses! And they are very cunning , whereabouts are strange, often launching surprise attacks or laying ambushes, and rarely engaging in direct combat."
The Duke of Lorraine frowned even tighter, "Why does it sound like a Tatar?"
Lieutenant General Churchill said with a smile: "What about the Tartars? Now is the age of firearms, and it is no longer the age when nomads on horseback and archery can dominate... Duke, if those Incas really They can use bows and arrows as proficiently as the Tatars, which means that they really rarely use muskets, maybe there are not many muskets and artillery!"
The Duke of Lorraine finally raised his eyebrows: "They probably don't have many gunpowder weapons, otherwise they wouldn't be able to play bows and arrows so well. They are not Mongolians..."
Chapter 861 No guns, no cannons, only revolvers!
Cars rattle, Ma Xiaoxiao, pedestrians with foreign guns on their shoulders!
Texas is now in the hottest summer season, and the prairie forests on both sides of the Colorado River (which has the same name as the big river that flows into the Pacific Ocean) are lush and lush.Among the rich green, from time to time, groups of bison can be seen leisurely flowing among the grasslands, forests, and rivers.In the sky, flocks of North American passenger pigeons are flying around.Everything here seems to be telling people from afar how rich this undeveloped wild land is!
On the banks of the Colorado River, on a road most likely trodden by migrating buffalo, a rather large army was walking at this time.Infantry carrying flintlock guns or long guns, cavalry on tall horses, artillery following horse-drawn cannons, and baggage soldiers driving wagons full of goods, and some of these soldiers from the civilized world The Indian guides and warriors hired by the conquerors formed a rather large army.
Because the terrain of the Colorado River is very open, the main force of this army—the twenty battalions of fusiliers, all formed a dense battalion-level column, and marched forward in unison, accompanied by the sound of passionate drums. , one after another.Among these infantry formations, there are teams of artillery and baggage vehicles, and there are cavalry guards on both sides, which look quite powerful!
In the middle of this army, a large group of knights in bright costumes surrounded the Duke of Lorraine, Lieutenant General Churchill and Archbishop Philip—all three of them had victorious smiles on their faces!
Although the war between them and the Incas has not really started, they all firmly believe that victory is within easy reach!
How could it be possible not to win?
Their strength is so powerful, the coalition of ten brigades of the Spanish Royal Army and the English Army has dozens of 3-pound regiment guns and 6-pound field guns, and the cavalry companies of each brigade add up A thousand of the best light cavalry in America!
In addition, more than a thousand warriors from Indian tribes who had been bullied by the Incas from all over Texas volunteered to serve as guides and pioneers-those Incas were obviously more savage than the Aztecs of King Montezuma, who were already very savage It was really bad luck for the nomadic and hunting Indian tribes in Texas to meet them. All of them were beaten to death by these invincible Incas!
Under the recommendation of Andre, the leader of the Karen Kawa Indian tribe, throughout the spring of 1692, the leaders of the beaten Indian tribes continued to join the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill with their soldiers. , the expeditionary force led by Archbishop Philip.
After meeting with more leaders of Indian tribes, the Duke of Lorraine, Lieutenant General Churchill, and Archbishop Philip have completely confirmed that the Incas appearing in Texas are backward and barbaric nomadic tribes... There must be guns, they After all, they are vassals of the merchants, but the quantity is very limited, and the gunpowder may not be enough, so they are rarely used.At least the Indian tribes they attacked in Texas never used gunpowder weapons in large quantities.
In addition, some spies sent by the Duke of Lorraine, Lieutenant General Churchill, and Archbishop Philip (converted to the Indians) even brought them back a bunch of equipment that was said to be used by the Incas to exchange horses and beef with the Indians in Texas. Feather arrows of bone arrowheads—although they are only arrows filled with bone arrowheads, the processing technology is not something that the Indians in Texas can master.
The bone arrowheads are polished very finely and sharply, and the shafts are also straight, and the feathers stuck to the shafts are neatly trimmed, which is particularly craftsman-like at first glance.
However, no matter how strong the craftsman spirit is, it can't change the fate of the Incas who are bound to be beaten when they fall behind!
Not to mention the bone arrowheads, even their iron arrow clusters would definitely lose against the foreign guns and cannons of the Spanish Royal Army!
Although they had the certainty of victory and an overwhelming advantage, the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill, two famous generals trained in the European battlefield, still adopted the most despicable and shameless sneak attack without declaring war.Not only did they fight without declaring war, but in order to paralyze the Incas, they also sent Andre, who believed in God, as the special envoy of the Spanish Empire, to walk along the Colorado River by water to find the nomadic Incas in the upper and middle reaches of the Colorado River.And also brought dozens of barrels of rum produced in Cuba as a gift... If those Incas drank too much, this sneak attack would be easy to succeed!
Of course, no matter how clever the strategy is, it may fail!Losing the engagement was out of the question for the Spanish imperial army now marching along the Colorado River.But the Incas seem to have become nomads now... They don't stay anywhere for long. If they "swim" away from the Colorado River, the Spanish imperial army will be defeated.
The Great Plains in central North America is almost boundless. Once the Incas "swim" away, it will be difficult to find them.
Just as the Duke of Lorraine, Lieutenant General Churchill, and Archbishop Philip were hoping in their hearts to meet a group of Inca drunks by the Colorado River, a rush of hooves came from ahead.The three of them followed the sound and saw a knight in Indian costume galloping towards them.A guard of the Duke of Lorraine galloped up to meet him, checked the password with the person coming, and then led the person to the Duke of Lorraine, Lieutenant General Churchill and Archbishop Philip.
The man was a mixed-race Indian, a low-ranking priest under Archbishop Philip, and he was very devout to God. He saluted on horseback, and then reported loudly: "Your Highness, Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Your Excellency...Our Lord... People have found the camp of the Incas, and they are in a bend in a river twenty Spanish miles (equivalent to more than 110 kilometers)!"
The Duke of Lorraine, Lieutenant General Churchill, and Archbishop Philip couldn't help cheering when they heard the good news.
"Great!"
"Thank God!"
"This is the Holy Spear performing miracles!"
……
Beside a bend in the Colorado River in Texas, a large stretch of cowhide tents appeared at some point.
These tents look very different from those of other Indian tribes on the Great Plains of North America.
First of all, these cowhide tents look very big, and each one is almost like a super-sized steamed stuffed bun buckled on the grass!
Second, these cowhide tents look very strong. The frames under the cowhide are made of high-quality wood, and the whole tent is fixed on the ground with very strong ropes and stakes, which can definitely withstand the hurricanes on the North American Great Plains.
Thirdly, these tents are set up very neatly, not only neatly, but also divided into "small areas", each area is surrounded by carts, and there is a place for raising livestock in the circle of the carts.Outside the cart circle, there are passages for the brigade of cavalry to advance and retreat freely, and there are some carbine-repelling guns on both sides of these passages-as long as these repelling guns are moved, the passage can be blocked at any time!
Fourth, low walls that can be used to cover shooting were piled up on the periphery of these tents, and fences that could block the enemy's infantry and cavalry were also erected. Sections of trenches were dug outside the fences-these trenches were not circles. circle, because it would be difficult for the people in the trench to fight back, so the truly experienced army would dig the trench outside the camp into sections, leaving a bit unbroken every other section to form a passage, which will be used during the battle. You can use the carbine refusal gun to block it when you need to fight back, and just move the carbine refusal gun when you need to fight back.
Fifth, although this camp is located in a bend in a river, it is not too close to the river bank, but maintains a very clever distance from the river bank...not too far, not too close, easy to get water, and It forms a cover, but it will not be bombarded by the 6-pounder and 9-pounder field guns on the other side of the river to the camp.
Finally, several extremely tall watchtowers were erected in this camp!
When Andre, the leader of the Karen Kawa Indian tribe, and several other mixed-race Indian officers led a dozen canoes of the Karen Kawa Indian tribe filled with rum to the "Inca River Bend", I was also stunned by the huge Indian camp in front of me, which was almost comparable to the European military camp.
The Indians... can actually build such a strong and huge camp!
Just when they were surprised by the Inca camp in front of them, there was a sound of horseshoes, and then they saw more than a dozen Incas wearing "exotic costumes" coming on galloping horses.The reason why these Incas wear exotic clothes is because their clothes are not Inca at all.I only saw these people wearing white fat robes, wearing cymbal hats (like a cymbal), and wearing double ponytails.
A little Indian look there?
Waiting for some Incas to approach, Andre and the others finally saw their faces clearly, and they were even more surprised.Not to mention the stout figures that are almost the same as the door panels, but their fair complexion, small nose, slender eyes, flat face, and short beards, it is impossible to tell that they are Indians... ...Could it be that the mixed blood is too mixed, and the seed is lost?
When Andre was surprised, an Indo-European mixed-race officer named Perez, who came from the Viceroyalty of Peru and was really half-Inca, suddenly spoke up: "Andre, did you find that they were carrying guns?" ?”
gun!The gun is the key!
No matter what kind he is, he can't defeat the Spanish Royal Army without a gun.
Andre quickly took a closer look... There was no gun!Everyone is carrying bows and arrows, as well as very un-Indian waist knives, but they are not carrying guns, and they don't seem to have grenade hammers on their belts!
Obviously, these Incas who look very "non-Inca" are indeed still in the age of cold weapons!Even if they have a small number of muskets and artillery, it can't change the fact that their equipment is backward and they can't beat the Spanish Royal Army.
"No guns, they don't have guns!" Andre gritted his teeth and said to Perez, "These hateful Incas are going to die!"
As a Texas Indian, he really hated the Incas!
Unlike the Mexican liberator "Meng Chuang Wang", the Incas who broke into Texas were completely murderous and arsonous robbers-although the Spaniards drew Texas on the map, they did not actually conquer it.After all, there are a large number of hunting Indians in the interior of Texas, not to mention the abundance of martial arts.
Therefore, the relationship between the Texas Indians and the Spanish is not too bad, and there is no need for national liberation.
At this time, those "mixed-breed" Incas had galloped to the river, and did not take down their bows and arrows or draw their waist knives, but stood on their horses, holding the reins in one hand, and stretched in the other through the opening of their robes, On the thigh... what kind of pose is this?
Not to mention that Andre couldn't understand it, even that half-Inca Perez couldn't understand it either.Although he didn't understand, he still spoke the Inca language: "I am Perez from Peru, a descendant of Tawantingsuyu (the official country name of the Incas), and I come to meet Sapa Inca (the official name of the Incas). The official title of the Emperor of the Empire) and Intipu Churin (the son of the sun, a title that can be given to male members of the Inca royal family), and brought gifts."
His Inca finished, but the only answer to him was silence!
Those "hybrid Incas" were all stunned there, as if they couldn't understand what he said at all?
Andre also saw that something was wrong, so he hurriedly asked Perez: "Lieutenant Perez, do you speak the Inca correctly?"
"Of course!" Perez said. "My mother is an Incas, and I was brought up by my mother..."
"But why can't they understand?"