Chapter 8 Chapter 7 Hamazur Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part 2)

The Chinese built the Great Wall to resist the Huns, so the Huns invented the airplane. - "Yale History of China" Pre-Qin Volume On November 10, 205 BC, the offensive and defensive battle of Hamazur officially started.This is the first official battle of the Yin Shang Legion after setting foot on the American continent. The Hamazur ruins are located in the central part of what is now the Yutanca Peninsula and are the largest Maya settlement in this area.Archaeologists speculate that the attack by the Yin Shang Legion on the city-state of Hamazur was the key battle to determine the ownership of the Yutanca Peninsula-although neither side was aware of this until the end of the battle.

The first to discover the Yin merchants were some farmers in Hamazur, who were doing farm work in the fields outside the city.Of course, "farm work" here means squatting next to a field of wild pods, picking and eating all the cooked ones, and then coming back the next day to see if there are any cooked ones.In fact, Maya's "crops" refer to all wild edible plants that are easy to pick, so the Maya's agriculture has only two processes: wait for maturity, and then pick. Chatting about the strangely ugly captive in the city, the farmers carelessly sowed the grass, hoping to find a few more ripe pods.At this time, they heard footsteps, and quickly looked up, only to find more than 20 strangely dressed humans.The peasants had never seen such a creature, but they recognized the dagger at the soldier's waist, the menacing sharpness of which required no translation.

The scouts of the Shang Dynasty also discovered these farmers at the same time, and the officers who led the team could already see the towering pyramids in the distance.He knew that in order to ensure the suddenness of the start of the battle, these people must be caught, and they must not be allowed to escape back to the city to report.So the officer waved his hand, and the twenty or so soldiers formed a semicircle and rushed towards the farmers. The farmers, petrified by the sudden hostility, did the standard Maya response—covered their eyes with their hands and ran toward the city. The soldiers of the Shang Dynasty, who mainly ate meat, were naturally better than the Mayans, who mainly ate green fiber food; but the Maya's familiarity with tropical jungles offset this advantage.These barefoot Mayans ran like apes, shuttling between the mountain depressions and dense forests with ease. Although the scouts could barely keep up, they were still unable to overtake them. The two sides ran evenly.For a moment, figures flickered in the jungle, and there were chaotic footsteps everywhere.

Seeing that the Mayans were about to flee, the scouts hurriedly took out their respective boomerangs from their waists and threw them out.After flying out, these boomerangs seemed to have eyes, brushed Maya's shoulders and flew forward, then turned around suddenly, and hit the face of the fleeing man heavily.Immediately, four people were knocked down with a scream, and only one lucky guy escaped behind a palm tree. This kind of boomerang is made of fir wood, shaped like the letter V, and both ends are rounded.After this weapon is thrown out, it will automatically turn around, and it is quite a formidable weapon after mastering it. The name "Huilong dart" was given by Commander Youhouxi, but actually it was learned by the Yin merchants from the local natives in Australia.In order to master the throwing skills, the scouts killed many koalas and kangaroos who were unfortunately targeted.

The scouts finally saw that one escaped, so they had to carry the other four unconscious Mayan farmers back to the team.At this time, the only farmer who escaped returned to the city-state of Hamazur, and told the city-state guard what he saw in horror. "I saw it!!" the farmer yelled hysterically. He almost fell down just now, so he had to stretch out his hands to hold the tree trunks on both sides. What you see doesn't exist" as an excuse to escape. "When you move your eyes, things have changed, we can't eat the same coconut at two times." The captain of the guard pointed out his mistake.

"It's the enemy, a lot of enemies!" "The real enemy is yourself, my boy," said the captain kindly, the most philosophical man in Hamazur. "Did the people from the Naheim tribe come to take revenge?" Another guard asked curiously. He never thought that the inferior people in Naheim were qualified to be called city-states. "I don't know, they are weird people. Anyway, they are approaching the city." "Oh, don't be alarmed. There is a distance between those enemies and our city-state. In order to approach us, they must pass the midpoint of the distance. When they pass the midpoint, the new distance will create a new midpoint. They'll just be chasing the midpoint in vain forever, nothing to worry about...coconuts?"

The captain took out a half-cut coconut and handed it to the farmer. He was very calm. Calmness was a virtue in Mayan civilization.They believe that there is no need to be anxious if something is not in danger; if it is in danger, it is useless to be anxious.Someone once simplified this concept into eight words: resign yourself to fate, and live with the situation. "Oh, thank you." The farmer took the coconut, and his breathing eased.Since the guards in front of him were so calm, the situation he saw just now might be just an illusion. The Maya could easily convince himself. When the farmer regained his composure and walked into the city, the captain of the guard lazily called one of his companions, and used a shell to draw a short report on the stone, and asked him to send it to the nobleman of Hamazur who was in charge of defense.

Since the grammar of the Maya language is extremely complicated, and only the priests can master the correct grammar rules, the civilian guards used ancient hieroglyphs in this letter: he drew a few monkeys and a pyramid, and took the trouble to draw Outlined the humble, wretched and overconfident expression on the monkey's face.It took the guard a long time to craft, and he was pleased with his idea of ​​comparing the people of the Naheim tribe to monkeys. Finally the letter was delivered to the nobles.The aristocrat was watching a basketball game and was so enraged by an unfair call by the referee that he threw the artwork on the court, killing a ball boy.

So the first warning was ignored in the casual minds of the Hamazur. While the guards were painting the monkeys, the Yin Shang scouts escorting the four captives saw Commander Youhouxi.Commander Youhouxi eagerly asked the four guys what happened to Qi, and he was relieved after hearing the confession. From a man's point of view, that kind of torture was nothing at all.Moreover, his anger towards Hamazur City weakened, replaced by an inexplicable excitement. Beauties like Qi are considered ugly, so how beautiful are the beauties in Hamazur, and they are plural! The good news spread throughout the legion in a very short period of time through the efforts of public relations experts and parrots.The morale of the soldiers was boosted, the marching speed was greatly increased, the homosexual partners in the ranks began to disintegrate, and those who wavered between the same sex and the opposite sex all firmly returned to the normal side, and everyone was full of infinite fantasies: In the depths of the jungle, a city full of stunning beauties, oh yeah... This makes the few guys in the team who have weak control but rich imagination transform their psychological impulses into physical impulses, and finally get their legs hairy by themselves Weak, had to retreat to the back to act as a reserve.

The only thing that worries Commander Yuhouxi is that a Mayan farmer has escaped, and he may warn the defenses of the city-state of Hamazur.In this regard, he had to adopt a cautious strategy to restrain the group of soldiers who were about to fall into another kind of fanaticism.Commander Youhouxi is not a reckless person, he is used to thinking about everything with economic principles: try to use the minimum cost in exchange for the highest profit. He even considered negotiating. Such a huge force was enough to break the courage of the Hamazur people, forcing them to hand over Qi...and all the beauties in the city, and hand over the control of the city-state.

Therefore, when the Yin Shang army reached the outer edge of Hamazur, they stopped temporarily. There is still controversy in the historian circles about the beginning of the offensive and defensive battle of Hamazur.One point of view is that there was a negotiation between the Yin Shang Corps and the Hamazur authorities, and when the negotiations broke down, the two sides fought; there is another point of view that the Yin Shang Corps did not negotiate at all, and they did not hesitate at the beginning launched an attack.There is also a third kind of conspiracy view of history who believes that the two happened at the same time. A paleographer made his own speculation from another angle.He believes that technically speaking, it is extremely unlikely that the Yin Shang Corps and the city-state will reach an agreement.First, writing Mayan text is very complicated, and it took ten artists three days to complete the writing work; moreover, this is a formal agreement text, and the agreement must be engraved on the wall of the pyramid to be considered effective.For this they have to build another pyramid, which will take two to three months; second, the Mayan text is a hieroglyphic script, in which all the strangers are drawn in the shape of a dog's head, the proud Commander Youhouxi Such insults would not be tolerated, indeed by no civilized person - except the Egyptians. In short, whichever view is closest to the truth, peace did not come that morning. Commander Youhouxi lined up all the trebuchets and placed them 800 meters away from the city wall of Hamazur, and arranged a hundred guards under each trebuchet to guard against the Mayans. sneak attack.At the back was the stone bomb delivery vehicle, and other siege equipment and humans stood behind the catapults. The soldiers were drooling and looking at the buildings and pyramids on the other side of the city wall. The wizards did the last divination before the battle. They burned the animal bones and observed the cracks on the animal bones according to the habit of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.If the crack is to the left, it means that the Yin and Shang army will win a big victory; if the crack is to the right, it means that the Yin and Shang army will defeat the opponent; There is nothing to say.Here's what public relations experts tell them to keep the job. "Dear soldiers, you traveled all over the South Pacific last year, and made all the natives of the island countries prostrate at our feet. In front of you is the pyramid of Hamazur. Go there and wash your war bodies." Youhouxi The commander's pre-battle declaration was short but powerful. He stood up from the chariot and waved his arms. The soldiers in charge of operating the trebuchet quickly tore away the stay rope, and with several muffled bangs, dozens of stones formed dozens of parabolas with different arcs in the air, and fell into Hamazu, who did not yet know that disaster was imminent. Seoul city-state.One of them happened to smash the guard who was guarding Qi to death. Konstantin Novich, the author of the first edition of "The Lost Yindian Civilization", wrote this when writing this period of history: "When the Yin Shang's trebuchets brought the city-state of Hamazur into range, the Mayans still attacked them. Ignorant and ignorant of the fate that lies ahead." This quote was later quoted many times in different ways. The first volley of the Yin Shang trebuchet killed only one guard, several beauticians and more than a dozen government noble officials; apart from the guards, the city of Hamazur did not suffer any substantial losses. But this time the deterrent shooting caused great chaos in the city, because one of the stone bullets happened to hit the basketball court, and several nobles sitting in the first row—including the noble who was in charge of defense—were on the spot. It was smashed into a photo.At this time, the game was at its most intense moment. Fanatical spectators mistakenly thought that this was a good deed by the supporters of the opposing team, so they threw their things into the stadium one after another. On the other hand, the fans of the other faction did not show any weakness, and fought back forcefully with pre-prepared clay pots, berries mixed with foul language.Maya, which lacks logic, has a unique advantage in swearing.The stadium immediately fell into a chaos of language and order. Many people were trampled under their feet, and more people were knocked to the ground by clay pots or stones.Everyone is intent on finding an opponent to vent on. Under the guidance of the coach, the players on the basketball court fought strategically. They hit each other's skulls and thighs with the stone balls used in the game, and stuffed the opponent's players who were alone into the blue basket.The behavior of the team members pushed the riot to a new climax. The only voice that could be heard clearly in the entire venue was the Mayan priest who was in charge of commentary on the high platform. !" In this chaos, no Maya noticed that the shape of the stone bullet that killed the nobleman was completely different from the Mayan sculpture, and no one noticed that it was thrown in from the outside. Several other stone bombs hit the ground, and the effect they caused was only a few sunken craters, kicking up a cloud of dust.Only one stone bullet deftly passed several cheap houses and rushed into a beauty salon. Two beauticians who were trimming the nails of a fat beauty were killed on the spot.The beauty was applying plant fibers extracted from gardenia and hibiscus to her face. This kind of face covering would take three hours at a time to be effective, so although she felt something was wrong around her, she still didn't move. In fact, none of the Hamazur realized that the sudden attack was from an external enemy. Therefore, when Konstantinovitch revised the second edition of "The Lost Yin Dian Civilization", he changed his famous sentence to read: "When the Yin Shang's trebuchet brought the city-state of Hamazur into range and carried out a After the salvo, the Mayans were still ignorant of their impending fate. After the first volley, Commander Youhouxi found a huge commotion in the city-state. He didn't know that it was the Maya's own civil unrest, and thought that the deterrent shooting worked.He was satisfied with this, and asked the trebuchet to continue to work, and the shooting could not stop until the city-state of Hamazur sent envoys to surrender or lunch. Before setting off, the Yin Shang catapult soldiers prepared nearly ten bases of stone bombs. These stone bombs came from various sources. Some of them were collected from Shandong in East Asia and small islands in the South Pacific; Excavated from nearby mine veins, so the composition, purity and hardness of the stone bullets are not the same - the catapult soldiers only care about the last technical parameter - so that more than two thousand years later, a joint US-Mexico archaeological team based on Sevan When stepping into the ruins of Hamazur under the guidance of Tiss' notes, one of the geologists looked at the scattered rocks scattered all over the city and shouted: "This is simply a natural periodic table of elements!!" Among these stone bombs, the most powerful one is of course uranium-238 ore.This kind of thing is extremely hard, and it is difficult for the catapult soldiers to break it into small pieces, so they had to throw these cumbersome guys out, and several buildings were smashed by these things weighing more than a hundred catties. collapse.This is the first time in human history that uranium was used as a weapon to strike an enemy, 2,786 years earlier than the Americans. The chaos in the city is intensifying. The riots in the stadium have spread to the whole city. The men are venting and shouting everywhere, and the women are lying on the wooden carts and playing with their huge buttocks, waiting in horror for admirers to pull them to a safe place. When the trebuchet volley reached the seventh formation, the gates of the city-state of Hamazur facing the Yin Shang army opened, and dozens of fully armed Hamazur guards led by the captain appear on gates and ramparts. The Hamazurs are fighting back, or at least Commander Youhouxi thinks so.