The sea surged without cease, and the seven-thousand-li Gulf of Mexico converged beneath the fleet's comings and goings, from the northern savannas all the way to the dense jungles of the east. This was the northern part of the Mesoamerican world, like the world's "Conception Vessel" that had already been opened, symbolizing a coastline joined into one.
In the south of the world, another crucial "Governing Vessel" was still locked in slaughter on the scale of a hundred thousand troops! If the Sierra Madre Mountains, spanning all of Mesoamerica, were the "spine of the world," then the Oaxaca central plateau, formed where the long Sierra Madre Mountains met the Mixtec Mountains, was like the "world's tailbone" behind the waist.
At this moment, Yodzocahi Fortress, which had been tightly encircled by four Mexica Legions for a full year, stood at the center of the mountain plateau, at the most vital Coccyx Point! As for the two kings who had personally stirred up the winds and clouds and opened the world's "Conception and Governing Vessels," they sat securely at the center of this chessboard of the world, playing another "true game of chess."
"Xolotl, cannon strikes tiger!"
"Move ship sideways to take cannon."
"Tiger takes ship!"
"Advance ship to take tiger."
"Ha ha! Xolotl, you lost one tiger and one ship, while I only lost one tiger and one cannon! Your military momentum has weakened quite a bit!..."
"...Teacher, your sharp spirit is surging, pressing straight ahead, catching me off guard. You truly are as brave as a fierce tiger!..."
"Ha! As a commander, that is exactly how one should be! A chessboard is like a battlefield. Once you see your target, you should press straight ahead, at any cost, like a heavy Obsidian War Club smashing through a formation!... But you,