Invincible urban management

120 Eight, Cortez's end

In June 1520, the city of Tenochtitlan was bathed in strong wind and heavy rain.

Thick dark clouds covered the entire sky, gradually engulfing this troubled city by the boundless gloom.

The strong mountain wind swept over the water of Lake Texcoco, dispelling the smell of corpses and smog that permeated the city all day long; the silver light danced in the dim sky, and then turned into a torrential downpour, washing away the wide and messy streets .

The muddy rain mixed with corpses and blood stains slowly flowed through the streets and alleys of the city.Spanish longswords, obsidian machetes, and scrapped crossbows were scattered on the ground, and the bodies of Tlaxcalans, Aztecs, and Spaniards were mixed together, and the faces of the corpses began to rot, and it was impossible to distinguish them. .The magnificent palaces and altars collapsed in the endless street battles, and the pungent smell of corpses permeated every corner of the city, almost suffocating people.There are blood and traces of death everywhere, showing a kind of desolation and tragedy like purgatory.

——The unprecedentedly brutal urban street fighting has been going on continuously in Tenochtitlan for three months, and it still hasn't ended.

After the Aztec rebels united with the pseudo-emperor Essie Trisiozito successfully crossed the lake along the long embankment and invaded this prosperous and magnificent city on the lake, Cortes sent people to destroy it. They cut off the fresh water supply of the resistance forces in Tenochtitlan. At the same time, they raided and burned many granaries in the city, trying to starve the stubborn Aztecs alive. Die of thirst.

But the tenacious residents of Tenochtitlan deserve to be called the fighting nation that dominates Central America.Even if the emperor who led them had died in battle, even if they could only drink nitrate lake water and eat grass roots, grass seeds, and calla lilies, they still insisted on fighting the enemy to the death.Although the invaders with an army of tens of thousands gradually occupied most of the blocks and main buildings, they were still unable to completely quell the remaining resistance in the city.

Next, in order to meet the rapidly approaching expeditionary force of the Honxiutizgan Kingdom, Cortez and his allies had to withdraw most of their troops from Tenochtitlan and transfer them to Otunba Village to organize battle.

The Aztec army in Tenochtitlan took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. Taking advantage of the relative emptiness of the enemy's troops, they gradually recovered half of the city's blocks, making the battle situation gradually turn to safety.After the victory of the Battle of Otunba and the news of the crushing defeat of the Spanish expeditionary team and the rebels, the Aztec warriors who persisted in fighting in Tenochtitlan were even more rejoiced, thinking that the hope of restoring the country right in front of you.

These warriors who have fought tenaciously among the rubble and ruins for several months are eagerly waiting for their new leader, Emperor Kuohtmok, to return as soon as possible with reinforcements from all walks of life, and then lead them to start a vigorous battle. Counterattack, use the blood of the enemy to wash away the shame of the fall of the capital!

However, the hopes of the Aztec warriors were doomed, and there would never be any more grand battles in Tenochtitlan.

Because, almost at the time when the Spanish rout and remnants of the rebels fled to Tenochtitlan in a hurry to join their remaining troops in the city, a terrifying and intense plague suddenly broke out in the city, " "just" took the lives of most of the people on both sides of the war at the same time.

——The brutal street fighting that lasted for several months made almost every street and alley in Tenochtitlan full of rotting and maggot corpses, and no one cared to clean them up, reducing them to all kinds of germs An excellent hotbed for breeding... As a result, the plague broke out especially violently here!

After the Battle of Otunba, there were still a group of Spanish soldiers around Cortez, plus the left behind troops, there were nearly 40 in total.But within ten days after fleeing back to Tenochtitlan, these direct troops of his died in the plague, leaving only more than 300 people.And the [-] Indian confederates he left in Tenochtitlan either died of illness or fled during the plague, and only about [-] remained in the end.

Logically speaking, this should have been a godsend opportunity for the Aztecs to launch a massive counterattack against the enemy and regain the entire capital in one fell swoop.But the problem is that the speed at which the Aztecs died in this plague was even faster than the Spaniards under Cortez!

——Because of being seriously damaged by the arduous defense of the city and poor dietary conditions, and less immune to these strange germs than the Spaniards... As a result, the city of Tenochtitlan was littered with dead bodies for a while, becoming The lives of tens of thousands of Aztecs were instantly evaporated in the plague like dewdrops in the morning.

The few lucky ones who were lucky enough not to be infected had to flee to the suburbs in a canoe with tears in their eyes, not daring to stay longer in this city of death.

Tenochtitlan, which once had a population of 30 to [-] before the war, quickly became a deserted ghost town.Except for some of the most stubborn Aztecs who would rather die than leave their homes, and some unlucky ones who have nowhere to go, almost everyone avoids this place in fear.

And Cortez and his last handful of men are among the unlucky ones trapped in this ghost town with nowhere else to go.

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In a magnificent megalithic palace in the center of Tenochtitlan, there is a stench everywhere and garbage is everywhere.Drunken Spanish soldiers, deliriously carrying wine bottles and swords, staggered around in the courtyard, corridors and halls.Even though it was daytime, their incoherent laughter and scolding, as well as the screams of the local aboriginal women being abused could still be heard everywhere.

With the rapid spread of the plague and the desperation of the situation, the last group of Spaniards trapped in this place have begun to completely abandon themselves. Military discipline and order are all decadent - taking advantage of the fact that they have not yet suffered from the plague Death, with wine, food and women around them, they drink and indulge in alcohol all day long, in short, they can be happy every day...as long as they can drink tequila while hugging the indigenous people they robbed before The girl is happy, it will be worth it if she catches the plague and dies tomorrow, or is stabbed to death by the Aztecs with a javelin.

As for the last few Spanish commanders who survived by chance, they drank their sorrows all day long, drank their lives and dreamed of death, and had no intention of restraining their subordinates at all.

——Anyway, everyone will go to see God together soon, so why not take advantage of this last day and indulge yourself?

At this point in time, they had long given up hope for Cortez's grand plan to conquer Mexico.

But the problem is that the team at this time has fallen into a difficult situation.Whether it is the expeditionary forces led by the Aztecs, Tlaxcalans or the Chinese, and even Navaez, the commander of the Cuban dispatched army for the Spaniards, they are now completely unwilling to leave them a way out.Those low-level soldiers and miscellaneous servants surrendered and were generally accepted, but Cortez's cronies and cronies were all executed.These senior commanders are on the back of a tiger and can't get off at the moment, so they can only live and die with Cortez and see if they can wait for some miracle.

Hernan Cortez curled up in a thick blanket, frowning and seeing his subordinates drinking and making noise all around.

Out of his past habits, he really wanted to stand up and scold him, to show his majesty as the supreme commander.However, his extremely weak body and hoarse and sore throat made him unable to stand up and cry out, so he could only close his eyes and sigh helplessly.

——In the fateful battle of Otunba, Cortez "bravely" tried to use a spear to fight against the [-]th truck of the traverser, but was knocked out on the spot, breaking the bones of his right leg and Several ribs.After finally escaping from the battlefield and being rescued by his cronies back to Tenochtitlan, Cortez contracted malaria again, and his whole body kept shaking from morning to night: he felt hot all over, He was sweating profusely as if sitting on the stove; after a while, he fell into an ice cellar, so cold that he was wrapped in a thick blanket and kept shivering...

Therefore, in the face of this smoky and decadent scene, Cortes also had neither the heart nor the power to control it.

What's more, deep down in his heart, he was just as decadent and desperate as his subordinates.

When the plague just broke out, Cortes also tried to abandon the sick and escape the city of death with his healthy subordinates.

However, the city of Tenochtitlan is located on an island in the center of Lake Texcoco. If Cortez's expedition wants to leave the city, they must either take the long embankment connecting the island to the mainland, or they can only Take a boat by water.

However, the canoe fleet of the Aztecs still controlled the lake, and the Spaniards didn't even have a raft in their hands, so the waterway was impossible.The long embankment they walked on before entering the city was also firmly blocked by the advance troops of the Aztecs and the expeditionary force of the Hunxiutizgan Kingdom. The Spaniards, whose troops were greatly reduced, failed to break through after several attempts. To go out, he can only retract into the city again, waiting to die.

The city of Tenochtitlán, which Cortés had labored so hard to capture months before, now became a strong prison for himself.

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ps: About how Director Ma was honed to become an auspicious experience, I did learn from a joke I saw on the forum before, and adapted it based on the idea of ​​a single person traveling multiple times, but the content has definitely passed own adaptation.The author's signature was not given on that post. If an enthusiastic reader hadn't pointed it out today, I really wouldn't have known that the original author of this joke was a special white senior from Qidian.

Especially Senior White, I borrowed your idea without saying anything in advance, I'm really sorry, please forgive me.

In short, in my setting, several members of Wang Qiu's team have their own very striking personality traits, and their personalities also have their own origins - the top leader, Director Ma, is an extreme Nationalists, the causes of their character have been described in the previous chapter.On the other hand, Commissar Yang Wenli is a traditional old revolutionary, an internationalist fighter, adhering to the concept of "uniting the proletarians of the world", which can also be said to be a red "universal concept", in many ways They are all opposed to Director Ma, and the reasons for their character will be explained in the following content.

Therefore, in the face of Director Ma's anti-humanity and anti-civilization extreme behavior, as a veteran, Political Commissar Yang left in anger.

At the beginning of the novel, Wang Qiu is just a mediocre ordinary college student with a little courage and adventurous spirit, and his character has yet to be tempered.Ma Tong, on the other hand, has the attributes of a rotten girl, a lily girl, and a greedy money. She likes to play tricks occasionally, but she is not evil in her heart.On the surface, Captain Cai Rong looks like a crazy little girl and an otaku, but in fact... Well, I will talk about this later.

Finally, the old old Wang is here to ask everyone to vote for a few Sanjiang votes. After all, the ranking on the list is too ugly. Please don't bother, thank you!If you can vote for this book one more time, and then ask your friends to vote again, Pharaoh Wang will be more motivated to write.