April was the hope before spring plowing, and spring spread across the fields. To the northeast of the Yucatan Peninsula, the kingdom's exploration fleet was resting at Ekab Harbor. Everyone was repairing the ships and recovering their strength, preparing to cross the sea eastward to Snake Island in Cuba. On the Mexican plateau, tens of thousands of Totonac captives were being escorted by the Alliance's warriors, traveling southwest all the way to settle and farm outside Shuigu City.
Long winds blew in gusts. Following the road the captives had come by, four hundred li east from Shuigu City brought one to the source of many of them. This fertile mountain forest land was locked in slaughter, thick with villages, rich in water, with farmland spread across the wilds, and it also held the Totonac people's western stronghold, Five Mountain City.
At this moment, eight thousand men of the Feather Goose Legion were stationed along this four-hundred-li road, transporting captives, covering the grain route, and catching tribal people along the way. Several thousand kingdom warriors formed the army's sharp edge, spreading out around Five Mountain City to seize captives. In teams of several hundred, they broke through villages and towns, capturing young men and women everywhere. As for Black Wolf Toltec, he personally led four thousand of the Guachichil Legion, four thousand surrendered Mixtec troops, and one thousand Imperial Guards of the Artillery Battalion to besiege the tottering Five Mountain City.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Ten Sun God Eagle Cannons were deployed outside Five Mountain City and unleashed roaring thunder! Stone shot flew up and smashed savagely against Five Mountain City's walls, like the stone-throwing of giant beasts. From time to time, a fierce stone ball shattered a wooden shield on the battlements, bursting into a spray of flying wooden blades and