"The main force will rest at Stone Carving City for three days, then keep marching! Our next target is Lake Sacrifice City, along the lakeshore more than a hundred li away! Once we take that city-state, Hidden Snake City will be right before our eyes!..."
"Main God bless us! Haaha! For the New Year Grand Sacrifice in early January, I'm spending the new year in Lake Sacrifice City!..."
The December sun was bright and clear, and the army marching by the sea rolled forward in a mighty tide. Four thousand Totonac vanguard troops and six thousand Dog-kin warriors trekked along the coast, passing seaside swamps and jungle as they advanced east. Thousands of Tribal Surrender Army troops carried long shoulder poles and heavy bamboo baskets, following with difficulty behind them as auxiliary soldiers transporting supplies and equipment.
Along the coast, one or two hundred double-hulled and single-hulled Canoes were under the command of the Eastern Sea Water Fleet, transporting the truly large-scale grain and military supplies. And in White Bay Village and Cone House City to the rear, likewise, dozens to over a hundred transport boats shuttled back and forth without pause. To maintain the frontline supplies for a legion of more than ten thousand, the jungle terrain on land was far too difficult. The coastal transport boats thus gradually became the main force of logistics, the army's lifeline.
In early January, Black Wolf finally led the legion to the foot of Lake Sacrifice City. Ancient brick walls more than four meters high, small pyramid temples towering tall, colossal head statues standing strikingly in the open field, Olmec ruins visible everywhere, and an extremely vast sacrificial lake all entered Black Wolf's sight together!
Seeing the Kingdom's legion arrive, the walls of Lake Sacrifice City were packed everywhere with defending warriors