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The Fourth Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 50 The New Norman Conquest History

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    What appeared before the conquerors of the Norman Empire was a great empire in decline.  In its heyday, the population will definitely exceed 50 million.  Now I'm afraid there are less than 10 million left.  And people are terrified.  The most terrifying thing is that during this period, external enemies launched an invasion against them.

    In the north of Central America, on the endless American Plains.  A large army of Chichimecs and Apaches hunted the buffalo.  Attack on Aztec territory.  Their warriors painted their bodies with brown-red dye.  Wearing animal skin or thatch clothing.  Wear feathers as decoration.  Equipped with stone spears, battle axes and bows and arrows.  Some of these elite warriors were equipped with crude armor woven from rattan.

    Although these people are poorly equipped and undisciplined.  But their numbers are too numerous to count.  According to Aztec border sentries, thousands of tribes of Chichimecs and Apaches, totaling more than 200,000 troops, marched southward, burning, killing, and looting.  Almost unstoppable.

    This made General Walter very strange.  No matter how nice you say it in the future, primitive tribes are primitive tribes.  Even if they belong to the same clan, they will kill each other.  The system of primitive tribes is even more backward than the feudal system, and its cohesion and mobilization capabilities are almost negligible.  In this situation.  The other side can assemble thousands of tribes and hundreds of thousands of troops.  What kind of thing is this?  It's simply unimaginable.

    And for the ill-fated Aztec Empire.  The attack of the northern barbarians was not the most deadly - the most deadly was the southern part of the empire, which had been conquered by the empire.  Replaced by the rebellion of the nation.

    The Mayans, a powerful people who once gained hegemony in Central America, raised the flag of rebellion when the Aztecs were at their weakest.  They armed themselves as quickly as possible.  Their cities, fortresses and temples were rebuilt.  Expelled officials from the Aztec Empire.  And killed all the Aztec troops stationed there.  Because of their relatively remote location, they were not so affected by the plague.  This ensures their manpower.

    A total of 50,000 elite Mayan troops equipped with obsidian war clubs, obsidian spears, throwing spears and bows, and heavy cotton armor began to march toward the north.  Their target was Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs, a megacity with a population of more than half a million in its heyday.

    In this way, the interior suffered horrific plagues and rebellions, while the exterior contained a large number of barbarians (for the relatively civilized Aztecs who had entered the slave empire era, the Chichimecs and Chichimecs who were still in the primitive tribal era  The Apaches, indeed savages) invaded.  In such a critical situation, the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II was old and comatose and bedridden.

    No matter how you look at this situation, the Aztec Empire is dead.  Cuytlaque now holds real power over the Aztecs.  The leader of the Jaguar Warriors, the nephew of Montezuma II, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.  Because of the high-pressure rule of the Aztec Empire, it was usually fine.  But when something really happened, residents in various regions were unwilling to continue to be loyal to them.  Only the residents of Tenochtitlan, who have vested interests, can be trusted.

    He sent messengers.  He worked hard to lobby residents of other cities, hoping that they would provide him with soldiers and supplies.  But in the end, very few people responded.  At this moment, the vast majority of the Aztec nobles were in a semi-active state.  Sitting back and watching the emperor who once weighed on them and Tenochtilan in danger, with no regard for their life or death.

    So, finally.  Kuytlak received only an army of less than 30,000 men.  Although he equipped his army with the best equipment he could get - steel axes, swords and bows obtained through trade with the Normans.  But facing a Mayan army that was nearly twice as many as his army, it was still not possible to win.  And facing the hundreds of thousands of northern indigenous people.  He didn't even have the courage to fight.

    Just then, the Normans came.  Originally, Kuytlak didn't want to deal with these guys who were pretending to be gods.  He was not as unsuspecting of the Normans as his foolish uncle.  On the contrary, he is not only wary of these people.  Even to some extent, he regarded these people as the empire's greatest enemies.  He often said to his subordinates and friends: "If one day, the Aztecs really cannot survive, then the reason must be because of those Normans."

    In a sense, what he said is indeed correct - if the Normans had not arrived, there would have been no great plague.  The strength of the Aztecs would not be weakened.  The Mayans would not rebel, and the barbarians of the north would be crushed by the imperial armies.

    Of course, the indigenous people don¡¯t know these things.  He is no different from the average Aztec of this era.  It is also common to associate malignant infectious diseases with divine punishment and the like.  It was completely unexpected that the Normans had anything to do with this.??The relationship between plagues.  Naturally, the low-level sailors among the Normans didn't understand either.  And well-informed businessmen or officials.  Even if he knew, he would never tell these poor Aztecs.

    ????????????????So Kuytlak is not outstanding in wisdom or foresight.  It¡¯s just that my intuition is very sharp and accurate.

    I heard that at such a critical moment for the empire, the Normans still came here slowly to do business.  Kuytlak felt depressed.  I just wanted my subordinates to ignore them.  But I heard the subordinate say something else.  Only then did he really take this matter seriously - the subordinate said it.  This time, not only Norman merchants came to the empire, but also a large number of warriors.  Said the person who went to inquire about the news.  There are tens of thousands of these warriors.  They were riding hundreds of warships.

    When Kuytlak heard about this, he was surprised.  Then he asked: "What do these Norman warriors want to do here? Do they also want to be our enemies?!"

    ?Although he is wary of the Normans.  But he also knew that these Normans did possess some technologies that were almost like gods to them.  Those huge fortress-like battleships.  Those steel weapons that even the most perfect obsidian sword cannot match.  There are also those full-body armors that can be called invulnerable, and creatures that the Normans call "horses" that can run much faster than humans.  Especially the kind of black powder that can explode, almost destroying the palace in one fell swoop

    Although he didn¡¯t want to admit it, Kuytlak knew it.  These Normans were extremely powerful in battle.  Even the sailors, pirate crews and caravan escorts who were not regular troops were much better organized than the Jaguar warriors he was proud of.  Not to mention their legendary professional troops who conquered countless cities and countries, the army of the terrifying Emperor Egil.

    Therefore, although intelligence shows that these Norman troops are smaller in number than the barbarians in the north and the rebellious Mayans.  But Kuytlak didn't want to underestimate them.

    "Send envoys over immediately and ask them what they want to do? Remember, try to be friendly. Don't anger them!"

    Soon, the crown prince of the Aztec Empire issued an order.  The messenger flew away and presented as gifts a large number of feathers, the finest cotton textiles, and gold and silver vessels.  Later he was summoned by General Walter.

    After seeing that General Walter was a kind-looking man, the envoy still did not dare to be careless.  He respectfully asked General Walter the purpose of his visit.

    ¡°And General Walter is worthy of being a top talent regulated by the system.  At this moment, he laughed and said what he had just thought of as if it were true: "It's because the Lord heard that your country is unstable. So he was worried about problems in the empire's plantations here. So he sent me.  Come, lead the army to protect our property."

    The plantation that General Walter mentioned was the Daxing Manor run by the Normans and using Aztec manpower for production.  There is a lot of sucrose, spices and cocoa produced.  Transport back to the empire.  The Aztecs could also see the importance the Normans attached to these estates.  So General Walter's reason sounds reasonable.

    After receiving such an answer, the messenger said a few more polite words.  Then I went back to report the situation.  After Kuytlak heard about this, he thought for a while.  Indeed, after the empire fell into chaos, the Normans themselves were responsible for the security of several coastal plantations.  With their small number of troops, they repelled the attacks of many armed mobs.  But the next opponent is likely to be the Mayans who have a regular professional army.  These Norman irregular forces were not necessarily sufficient.  It is understandable that the army was sent because of this matter.

    Although that is what I say.  But Kuytlak still found this thing strange.  It's just that the current situation doesn't allow him to think too much.  So, he ordered his men: "Continue to pay attention to the movements of these Normans. If there is any situation, report to me immediately." After that, he went to do other things.  Recently, several cities in the north have been lost.  Those barbarians are getting closer and closer to Tenochtilan People are still debating whether to take the initiative to fight or to defend the city.  There's a lot to keep busy with.

    This is a reason that can be said, but the other reason cannot be said - that is, even if Kuytlak wanted to deal with the Normans, it would be impossible.  A broken Aztec Empire simply cannot provide enough power!  ~!

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