Chapter 9 Chapter 8 Hamazur Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part 2)

This is not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning after all. ―Winston Churchill, 1942 The basketball culture of the Mayan civilization has always been talked about.At the same time, when other civilizations were still struggling with the alloy ratio of bronze smelting and rice planting methods, the Mayan civilization took the lead in evolving professional activities purely for entertainment. There is no difference between Mayan basketball and modern basketball in essence, only slightly different in equipment and rules.The Mayan basketball court is a rectangular field with a length and width of fifty by twenty, with vertical stone walls on both sides, and a stone basket is placed on each wall.The texture of basketball is divided into two types: rubber balls are used for training, and stone balls are used for official games. Because the opponents in the game are not their own, they should be replaced with more lethal ones.

The rules of Maya basketball are very simple. Players are allowed to use any part of the body to send the ball to the opponent's basket, and the opponent is also allowed to use any part to block it.The game time is unlimited until all players on one side lose their combat effectiveness, so each game often turns into a large-scale brawl.Some people once raised doubts that the term basketball is not accurate enough, and that this sport is closer to rugby or unlimited Sanda.The translation of this word is still controversial to this day, so this book will use the old translation. No matter what the sport is called, it can't change its bloody nature, and almost every game will kill or seriously injure someone.The Mayans were obsessed with this brutal and bloody sport. Even in a city-state with deformed aesthetics like Hamazur, basketball games were also enthusiastically sought after.According to investigations, the Mayan civilization circle already had a basketball game with the prototype of a league. Each city-state had one or two basketball teams, and they would regularly travel to other city-states to participate in the competition.The number of players in each team is amazing, usually around 30 to 40 people, because this sport consumes too much personnel; and once they accidentally win the game away, forty people A large team size can ensure that at least one-third of the team members can survive the siege of the audience.

There is still a Mayan document about the rules of the Mayan basketball league in the British Museum.If the away team has an accident on the way to the city-state of the game, such as being attacked by a beast or a poisonous snake, and cannot participate, the home team will get two points. The most puzzling rule of Maya basketball, especially for shareholders of NBA teams, is: the captain of the winning team must be killed after the game, and the body is placed on top of the pyramid until it rots completely and becomes a skeleton. In 2790, the owner of an NBA team said in an interview with the Discovery Channel: If such a judgment is made on the captain of the losing side, I fully agree with it, and I really want to do it. Son's existence value!But why did the Mayans execute the captain of the victorious side?If they don't want him, they can sell him to another team for a lot of money

In all fairness, the team owner's statement is close to the essence of the problem.The purpose of the Maya's execution of the winner was precisely for transfer. According to Mayan mythology, the Feathered Serpent God and the Sun God also love basketball, and they will send beautiful girl elves to the basketball court to collect the souls of dead basketball players, and take them to the training ground in the sky for training.At the end of the world, the two teams of the Feathered Serpent God and the Sun God will compete in the final, and these heavenly fighters and souls will fight for their respective gods.Therefore, the Mayans earnestly hope that their heroes can return to the sky as soon as possible, so that they can fill the vacancy of the God Realm team and increase the thickness of the bench to please the gods, so that the world will be in good weather and the family will be safe.

Later, a group of Indians who moved north spread the Mayan myth to North America and Canada, and was later taken to the Arctic Circle by the Eskimos of Alaska. Those unfortunate Eskimos were later ransacked by Viking pirates.Those Nordic barbarians did not deeply understand the essence of sportsmanship in this myth. They just thought the idea was good, so they adjusted it according to their own preferences, changing the basketball player into a warrior, and gradually formed the Nordic Valhalla. pull the myth. This academic research achievement was unanimously resisted by the Scandinavian countries, while the Central American countries were optimistic, and even considered pursuing the copyright responsibility of the Scandinavian countries.But they finally gave up, because the copyright of the work is only 50 years, and they can't find the Mayans who made up this myth.

So when Commander Youhouxi's trebuchet hit the stadium in Hamazur, the effect was equivalent to hitting a powder magazine. The audience's emotions were completely ignited by that stone bomb, and a wave of riots swept the entire city-state . The only ones who remained awake in this commotion were the twenty or so Mayan warriors headed by the captain of the guard.They gathered at the entrance of the city for the first time, and then saw the dense array of wealthy merchants outside the city. The Yin Shang army also spotted them at the same time. The heavily armed Yin Shang warriors drew out their short knives, took a step forward, and shouted at the same time.There are thousands of them, and there are only twenty opponents, so there is no suspense about the outcome.

The guard captain’s subordinates all looked terrified. The huge armed group in front of them had never been seen before, and those huge machines shining with metal light were even more mysterious and terrifying. The largest weapon of the Mayans was only 150 centimeters long. Bamboo spears are nothing more than the concept of trebuchet far exceeds the limit they can imagine. The law of nature is very fair. If he makes a nation excellent in one aspect, it will inevitably balance it in another aspect.The Germans have a rigorous mind, so they lack a sense of humor; the Italians have an artistic temperament, so the sewer pipes in Rome are messy; the Japanese have a long right leg, so their left leg is relatively short.So when the Mayans were unique in entertainment activities, it is understandable that they lagged behind in armament technology.

Neither of the two armies moved, and the situation fell into a stalemate for a while. Only the catapult soldiers of the Yin Shang still leisurely loaded stones into the cart, and then smashed into the city with a whoosh.The Mayan warriors were ashamed. They always thought that the stone rain falling from the sky was the punishment of God, but they did not expect that it came from these strange humans. The captain of the guard stepped forward, rushed down the blade of the jade knife in his hand, and raised his right hand, which was a gesture of the Maya showing no hostility.The soldiers of the Yin and Shang dynasties made a commotion, and suddenly moved out of the way, and then there was a rumbling sound of wheels crushing the soil, and a chariot pulled by a group of people drove over. On the chariot were Commander Youhouxi and his wife. Rong.

The chariot stopped in front of the captain of the guard, and the captain recognized that four of the people towing the cart were farmers from the city.Fu Rong jumped out of the car and yelled at the captain in Maya script: The supreme ruler of the Yinshang city-state asks you, what is the current situation in the city? Finished the game as usual.The captain replied calmly, and then added: But what is the situation, how can I know?Every time I look away, the situation will have a new change, people are always behind the reality, can only repeat the past. Fu Rong, who had experienced gossip, was still a little uncomfortable with such a conversation. She translated the captain's words to Commander Youhouxi, and Commander Youhouxi frowned. He thought this guy was obviously delaying time.

The supreme ruler of the Yin Shang city-state asks you, where is the supreme ruler of Hamazur? The captain replied leisurely: Everyone is the supreme ruler of their own minds. Only by knowing yourself can you reach the kingdom of freedom. Commander Youhouxi regained his spirits upon hearing this, you still have a kingdom of freedom here?Where? The captain pointed to his heart. When we step into the realm that truly belongs to Mayan history and is dominated by the Maya, we have entered the kingdom of freedom. Commander Youhouxi was furious, this damn guy was obviously delaying time by talking nonsense, maybe now the city has woken up from the chaos and is organizing forces to fight back.You have to put some pressure on this bastard.Commander Youhouxi thought of this, and gave instructions to a messenger next to him.

Soon, two thousand Yin Shang soldiers lined up, with twenty ladders at the front of the line.Commander Youhouxi snapped his fingers, and two thousand people shouted together and rushed towards the stone wall of Hamazur. Soldiers carrying 20 ladders rushed to a place three meters away from the city wall and began to erect the ladders in accordance with the Yin and Shang infantry regulations.As a result, they found to their dismay that the city wall of Hamazur was too short, only four meters high. In order for the ladder, the vertical city wall and the ground to form a closed right-angled triangle, the length of the base had to be lengthened now.So the ladder soldiers had to step back and quickly calculate the base of a right-angled triangle with a hypotenuse of twelve meters and a height of four meters. In the Shang Dynasty, there was no concept of trigonometric functions, so the calculation took a lot of time.The other pawns waiting to board the city got impatient and simply climbed up by themselves.The walls of Hamazur are very rough, the surface is uneven, and there are many stone protrusions, which are very suitable for rock climbing. As a result, when the ladder soldiers got the correct answer and set up the ladder according to that distance, almost all the infantry had successfully climbed the wall and looked into the city eagerly.The ladder soldiers had no choice but to comfort themselves by saying that at least they didn't have to climb the wall when they came down. Commander You Houxi turned his face to the captain of the guard, his expression was very clear: Your city-state has been completely exposed in front of our army, as long as I give an order, it can destroy this place, you should surrender quickly. The captain of the guard still said unhurriedly: When you stand on a high place and overlook everything, you will find that human beings are insignificant in the universe, and you will find that you are powerless. Do you want to eat coconuts?He took out a coconut from his arms and handed it to Commander Youhouxi. The latter seemed to have lost his patience. For the first time, he realized that philosophers are more verbose than public relations experts.He drew his sword and cut off the head of the captain of the guard very simply.The coconut fell to the ground with the human head, and then rolled into a grass nest, where it was not discovered until many years later.Archaeologists judged by the capacity of the skull that this person had a high IQ, but a relatively low EQ. When the twenty or so soldiers who came out with the captain of the guard saw that the leader had been killed, they were so frightened that they all lay down on the ground, covered their eyes with their hands, and pouted their buttocks high.They are not philosophers, and the tragedy in front of them, instead of inspiring their urge to die for the truth, scares them out of their wits. After killing the captain of the guard, Commander Youhouxi jumped down from the chariot, and coldly gave the order to launch a general attack: Go and attack as much as you want, the city-state of Hamazur, full of beauties, is welcoming you with open legs. The Yin Shang soldiers had been looking forward to this moment for a long time, and their infinite longing turned into a huge impulse. They flocked to the city of Hamazur like a tide, and the soldiers who had just climbed on the city wall couldn't wait to jump down. Shouting banzai while waving a dagger. At the same time, the catapult fire also began to extend to the city, and they aimed at the proud Mayan pyramid of Hamazur.To pay their respects, these artillerymen engraved words of blessing on the stone bullets. The frenzied citizens in the city regained their calm because of the influx of soldiers from the Shang Dynasty. Most people have not realized that the city-state of Hamazur is facing foreign invasion until now.They showed an extremely great gentleman spirit in times of crisis, which is inseparable from the almost paranoid pursuit of beauty of the Hamazur people. The male citizens spontaneously dragged all the female citizens who had not been crushed to death to the bottom of the pyramid, where It is the residence of Queen Hamazur.Another group of male citizens bravely faced the menacing enemy and told them with a fearless attitude: We don't know where the women are, please don't go under the pyramid. Yin Shang soldiers were busy looking for beauties, and no one wanted to undertake the work of escorting male prisoners of war, so they chose the most labor-saving solution, knocking those guys unconscious.According to statistics afterwards, about 20% of the people were directly knocked to death. For this waste of labor, Commander Youhouxi held a court-martial. As a result, the accused soldiers argued that when they were knocked to the ground , did not remind us that the strike was too heavy, so everyone was acquitted. Yin Shang soldiers continued to rush into the city from the city gates and walls, flowing into every street and every building in the city like mercury pouring down the ground.Unlike the barbaric Westerners, they have always maintained rational restraint, because there is really nothing to grab: except for worthless clay pots, and even less valuable cassava.Of course, there were many finely crafted jade ornaments, but in Mesoamerica, where there was neither an integrated market nor a unified currency, such things were of little value. None of the Yin and Shang warriors noticed a detail. Suspicious oils flowed out from the bottom of some huge stone bombs. The white flowers on the surface of these oils are somewhat different from the usual olive oil and soybean oil.At that time no one knew what the omen meant. It didn't take much time to suppress the entire city. By noon, the entire Hamazur, except for the pyramid in the city center, had been controlled by the Yin Shang army.Commander Youhouxi sat on a chariot and made an informal entry into the city. Unfortunately, there were almost no people on both sides of the street to watch them either die in street fighting or escape to the bottom of the pyramid. This disappointed Commander Youhouxi. At the same time, two soldiers ran over to report to him.The first soldier said that he had found the cell where Madam Qi was held. Hamazur women are hiding there. Commander Youhouxi made a decision at the moment. He ordered the public relations experts to immediately train a parrot that can say hello and send it to Qi there, and then went to the pyramid to direct the final siege operation. After arriving at the pyramid, Commander Youhouxi saw that there was a basement under the base of the pyramid. The door was so wide that it would not be a problem for two Yin merchant chariots to drive side by side.But the gate was closed, and it was a very thick stone gate. It could be seen that the last survivors of Hamazur were going to die. The soldiers of the Yin and Shang swarmed at the door, with passionate desire in their eyes. They are now only one step away from their dreams.It's a pity that these light infantry have nothing to do with this stone gate.Commander You Houxi immediately ordered two battering rams to be dispatched, and took two prisoners who were still alive by the way. Soon both of these things arrived.The battering ram began to slam into the closed stone chamber, which was quite hard work for the soldiers in charge of pushing the carts, but the other soldiers who were eager to see the beauty did not hesitate to lend a helping hand to their comrades, so the battering ram attacked, and then Attack, Shimen has already had fragments splashed out. The prisoner confessed that this was the bedroom of Queen Hamazur.Every solar year in Hamazur, there will be a beauty selection, and the most beautiful woman will be embraced as the queen and live here.When Commander Youhouxi heard this, he ran back excitedly to the basement, personally supervised the battle, and conveyed the order to every soldier: the queen will be left to him. Commander Youhouxi was in such a hurry that he didn’t hear the words behind the captives: The rule of Hamazur’s beauty pageant is to compare weight The battering ram was beaten continuously for more than two hours, and finally the stone gate finally collapsed.At the moment of the collapse, there was a deafening cheer from the soldiers on the outskirts, and there was a scream in the basement, which was unmistakably a female scream. Then, a female panicked voice came from the basement. After Furong's translation, she shouted: Please don't kill people in our city-state. I, including myself, prostrate under your great throne, and impart our beauty techniques without reservation. Commander Youhouxi was eager to see the queen, and he had no interest in other things, so he agreed. The area around the pyramid became quiet in an instant, the dust at the door of the basement hadn't cleared away, and the squeaking sound of a moving car came from the end of the wide corridor.Everyone held their breath. Soon the smoke cleared, and dozens of flatbed carts slowly drove out of the passage. The male citizens pushing the carts showed expressions of regret and humiliation. They were dedicating their women to foreigners in order to survive. Lying prone on the leading flatbed cart was a majestic and bloated lump of meat, with a few strands of cloth hanging on the loose and pale skin, which did not serve as a cover at all, and had an oily luster.There is also a small piece of meat hanging in front of the piece of meat. This small piece is just a relative concept, which looks like a late-stage tumor. The fat on it is choppy, rising and falling, submerging the facial features without a trace, leaving only one mouth open and closed.The top of the piece of meat wears a crown full of feathers and jade, showing its unique status. At the back of this car, there is a creature with a similar shape lying prone on each flatbed. These creatures are extremely large in size, but their limbs have degenerated to the point where they are almost unrecognizable to the naked eye. They can be called a miracle in the history of evolution along with whales. The leading piece of meat said to Commander Youhouxi: On behalf of the people of Hamazur, I would like to kiss the back of your feet.After speaking, it drooped its slender neck, and was about to touch him with its thick lips, Commander Youhouxi yelled in panic and took dozens of steps back.He has an instinctive aversion to obese reptilian creatures both physically and psychologically. This is a terrible signal for Yin Shang soldiers who are about to collapse.Emulating their commanders, they hysterically threw everything in their hands at the nightmarish tumors and turned away in terror, which eventually turned into a spectacular rout. When Konstantinovich discussed this period of history in "The Lost Indian Civilization", he quoted a nutritionist. Obesity is the enemy of human health.