"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"
Deafening thunder roared, and an unbroken barrage of cannon fire rang through the sky! A full twenty Sun God Eagle Cannons and forty Rain God tiger-crouching Cannons stood in neat rows beside the Great Temple, unleashing the power of thunder into the heavens! And at the sight of this astonishing, magnificent scene, the nobles and warriors of the Royal Capital all dropped to their knees as one, crying out the divine name of the Main God and praising the mighty Divine Force!
"Praise Our God Huitzilopochtli! He has sent down irresistible thunder and flame, and bestowed upon us the Supreme God-King, incarnation of the sun!... Praise God-King Ahuitzotl! He will lead the Mexica People to conquer all under heaven, and none shall be able to stop him!..."
"Praise the Main God! Praise the God-King!"
Amid the thunderous cannon fire, Prince Xolotl lowered his head and, together with Acap beside him, prayed in a deep voice for a while. He looked at the full sixty large and small Copper Cannons before him, green smoke curling from their mouths, and a hundred thoughts turned through his mind. He also truly felt the formidable military might Ahuitzotl had deliberately chosen to display!
These cannons, made for storming cities and taking strongholds, for clashes in the open field, showed not only the Alliance's bronze-forging strength, but also the Royal House's astonishing ability to mobilize and requisition. With the Alliance's cannon-casting skills inferior to the Kingdom's, the yield rate of usable Bronze Cannons was probably one in twenty. And to cast sixty usable cannons, who knew how many thousands upon thousands of Laborers and craftsmen had to be called up, how many hundreds or thousands of clay molds had to be made, before they could be produced one by one...
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