"New gunpowder, digging through earth to blast down walls, Cloud Snake Mountain City."
The sky gradually darkened, and bonfires were lit. Xolotl ate fresh tender corn, his mind still turning over the possibility of taking a city with gunpowder.
With the October harvest, the great camp at southern Shuigu City had once again brought in a bumper crop. A farming camp of a full hundred and fifty thousand people had cultivated eight hundred thousand mu of fields. This October, the grain harvested from the military farms was enough to supply the four legions in the north and let them continue their campaigns for another year!
It was precisely because they had harvested this great batch of new grain that Xolotl had the confidence to take the legions east to attack Golden Bay City.
Truth be told, the Tlaxcala Basin was blocked by mountains and had moderate rainfall; unlike the kingdom, it was not prone to floods. This basin, like the Valley of Mexica, was a rich highland granary, and would remain so in later generations. As for these tender ears of corn, Captain of Warriors Bertad had harvested them early and sent them over, exactly in keeping with His Highness's dietary preferences.
"Ekat, have the Divine Inspiration Priests doing the surveying determined the angle of Cloud Snake Mountain City?"
"Patriarch, the Divine Inspiration Priests with the army surveyed the terrain of this mountain-city fortress. It really is far too high! Even the newest mortars would have difficulty bombarding Cloud Snake Mountain City. If we push the mortars to the foot of the mountain, they probably won't be of much use..."
Hearing that answer, Xolotl furrowed his brow and silently ate his corn. Cloud Snake Mountain City had been built on solid stone mountains; the method of digging through earth to