"It seems that there is such a thing..." For some reason recently, Emperor Leopold, who has always had a bad memory, finally remembered this order he had given.

However, he still didn't understand something, so he frowned and asked in a low voice: "But... why did Montezuma let people burn the city of Kusala, and also burned all the nearby villages and manors? Why didn't he take it for himself?

That city, and then grant those villages and manors to the nobles who support them?"

After hearing this question, Queen Therese of the Spanish Empire couldn't help but sigh softly.

Although she is not beautiful, she is a woman with well-developed limbs and brains. It is really painful for her to spend all day with an old, ugly old fool, and this old fool is still the same as today.

The emperor of the Spanish Empire, one of the two great empires of Christendom!

By the way, this Eleonore Magdalene Therese and the Spanish Emperor are not close relatives!

Because the Habsburg family likes inbreeding so much that it seriously affects reproduction... So when Leopold I died of his second wife, Claudia from the Tyrol branch of the Habsburg family,

There are not many Habsburgs left in the world.

Therefore, Leopold had no choice but to marry Therese, the daughter of the Count of Palatinate-Neuburg, a small German lord, as his third wife... This woman had a high IQ that the Habsburg family could not match, and she was well-educated.

He has a good education and is well-read, even reading the book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Magic".

In addition, she is also very strong physically and is good at giving birth. She has given birth to several children for Leopold with very normal IQ and appearance. She even has two bodies that are very rare for the Habsburg family.

A healthy son brought the Habsburg dynasty back from the brink of extinction.

Therese, who had a better brain, thought about it for a moment and understood what King Montezuma wanted to do?

"My Majesty," she said to Leopold, "this King Montezuma who surrendered to the devil wants to coerce the Indians around Cusala and march towards Mexico City! The purpose of burning the cities, villages and haciendas is to cut off those

The Indians' retreat route. Now that they don't even have a home, they can only follow King Montezuma to the end on the road of betraying God."

This is actually the basic operation of the Chinese rebels, and it is clearly written in the "Anti-Jing"! Although Montezuma has not read "Anti-Jing" thoroughly, Su Zhanyang, Huang Feiyu and others have arranged everything for him.

"God, how could he do this?" Emperor Leopold looked very angry, "And those Indians are too stupid, how could they follow such a leader? Won't they resist?"

"Your Majesty the Emperor," Empress Therese shook her head and reminded, "They are resisting! Those Indians are resisting with the most decisive attitude!"

"Resistance?" Emperor Leopold was confused, "Who are they resisting?"

"Resist you! My Majesty." Queen Therese said, "In order to resist to the end, these crazy Indians will not hesitate to burn their homes!"

"Resist me? Why?" Emperor Leopold still didn't understand, "What did I do to disgrace them?"

"It's not that you did anything wrong, but because they betrayed God and believed in the devil!" Therese crossed himself on his chest.

The Spanish queen was very smart, but she was also a fanatical Catholic... In this regard, she and Leopold had a common language. In her view, rebelling against the emperor was not unforgivable, but betraying God

It is absolutely sinful to take refuge in the devil!

Leopold also remembered this, and immediately gritted his teeth and said: "These madmen who betrayed God deserve to go to hell!"

At this time, Ludwig, the emperor's attendant, suddenly interjected: "My Majesty, in fact, those madmen are already living in hell... From the moment they betrayed God and the Spanish Empire, they have been in hell.

Got it.

And they also blatantly beautify hell...depicting hell as a country of death with a stable society, orderly order, and a prosperous economy! This is why you ordered the Aztec country to become a country of hell!"

"Beautifying hell? This is absolutely unforgivable!" Queen Therese's face was cold: "Your Majesty the Emperor, it seems that you are too wise to call the Aztec country the country of hell."

She crossed herself on her chest and said, "May the Lord forgive them...although those who think they are living in hell and are keen to resist God and the Spanish Empire are not worthy of salvation and forgiveness at all!"

The Spanish Emperor nodded heavily: "Yes, they do not deserve forgiveness! Moreover, the only thing waiting for them is destruction!"

"Your Majesty," asked the Queen of Spain, "are you prepared to send troops immediately to destroy King Montezuma?"

"This..." Emperor Leopold thought hard, "No, not right away. According to the plan drawn up by the military committee, we will first eliminate the weaker Incas, and then deal with the more powerful Aztecs."

"Are the Incas weak?" Queen Therese didn't quite understand - she had just arrived in Mexico City from Cuba half a month ago, and before that she had been staying in Cuba to help his underage son Joseph govern him.

The Grand Duchy of the Caribbean.

"Of course!" the Spanish Emperor replied very affirmatively, "According to the reconnaissance of the Atlantic Front, the nomadic Incas on the Texas grasslands were very backward. In addition to herding and hunting bison, they only had some very simple handicrafts... Although they

There are also some muskets and artillery produced by the Shang Dynasty, but the number is not large. Most of the Inca nomadic warriors are using bows and arrows, and even arrows made from animal bones, which shows how backward their handicraft industry is.

The spies sent by the Atlantic Front also reported that except for young children, almost all the Incas were proficient in using bows and arrows... This can also prove that they had few muskets, so they relied heavily on bows and arrows when grazing and hunting.

.”

"That's great!" The Queen of Spain finally smiled, "The Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill will definitely be able to completely eliminate these Inca people who have betrayed God and are living in hell!"

"Therese," the Spanish emperor said with a smile, "you are wrong this time... The Incas in North America did not betray God, because none of them had ever believed in God, and they did not have a hellish person.

In this country, they only have one or a few nomadic tribes! But they are the most powerful tribe in Texas. As long as the Incas in Texas are eliminated, we can turn the rich and vast Texas into the Grand Duchy of Texas, and then give it to our daughter Ma

Leah Elizabeth!”

The Maria Elizabeth that Leopold was talking about was the first child he had with Empress Therese. The Spanish Emperor and Empress planned to use the Grand Duchy of Texas as her dowry in the future.

...

Texas, Maria, Elizabeth Island.

This is a long and narrow island close to the Texas coastline. Together with another unnamed long and narrow sandbar, this island is just outside a sunken bay on the Texas coastline, thus forming a natural shelter.

Places with natural harbors are usually the first places colonists visit.

The Spanish Empire's invasion of Texas had actually been underway for nearly two years, beginning shortly after Emperor Leopold established the Grand Duchy of the Caribbean.

The navy responsible for executing the invasion was the Navy of the Grand Duchy of the Caribbean, whose capital was in Havana, Cuba. The aggressive spirit of the Germans in Cuba who had migrated from the European continent was much stronger than that of the Spaniards who had conquered too much land and had begun to lie back and enjoy themselves.

Got it!

However, because the total number of Germans entering the Caribbean Grand Duchy is not large, and there are also Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Grand Duchy of Florida across the sea from the Caribbean Grand Duchy (the grand duke is Joseph's brother Charles, that is, Maria Teresa)

Lesa's father) can immigrate, so "Cuba"'s invasion of "America" ​​proceeds very slowly.

The invasion lasted for almost two years, and they occupied a small area of ​​land on the coast of Texas, which was later known as Galveston Island and the Galveston Bay area - Galveston Island is now named Mary

Elizabeth Island, and Galveston Bay was named Maria Elizabeth Bay.

However, after the expeditionary forces of twenty brigades led by the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill arrived one after another, "Cuba's" invasion of "America" ​​accelerated significantly!

Just when Emperor Leopold and Empress Therese were angry because of the approach of the Aztec Hell Kingdom, a huge simple bastion named Fort Maria Elisabeth had been erected!

Camps, ports, forts, and even a town were built around this bastion.

The chief exorcist of the Holy See and the chief justice of the Inquisition, Cardinal Philip, even built a small Catholic church in a town on Elizabeth Island... This church is incredible

, that was the battle position between Archbishop Philip and the Devil Zhu of the Ming Dynasty!

The "real" Longinus gun is now enshrined in this small church called the "Church of the Holy Spear". It exudes invisible magic power at all times and protects the believers of God who have landed in Texas.

In addition to enshrining the Holy Spear, Archbishop Philip has also deceived several leaders of the Kalenkowa Indian tribe near Maria Elizabeth Island into Christians these days - this tribe was already active before the arrival of the Spanish Imperial Expeditionary Force.

Western pirates in the Caribbean came into frequent contact, and Maria Elizabeth Island was an island where pirates hid in the early days. Those pirates often traded with the Kalenkowa Indian tribe, exchanging Western firearms, weapons and other items for food and furs.

The Kalenkowa Indian tribe would use the iron tools obtained from the Westerners to exchange materials with the nomadic (hunting) Indians in the interior of Texas.

Therefore, through the Karenkawa Indian tribe, Archbishop Philip, Duke of Lorraine, Lieutenant General Churchill and others can obtain a lot of accurate information about the "Inca Nomadic Tribe"!

"Duke, Lieutenant General, you are here just in time... I have something good to show you!"

At noon that day, when the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill entered Philip's church, Archbishop Philip was talking to the leader of an Indian tribe named Andre. Seeing the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill, Cardinal

He quickly greeted the two of them to the altar.

"What is this? Is it a bow? It looks so strange."

"This is called a recurve bow. Turks and Tatars both make such bows... Is this really made by Indians?"

The attention of the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill was attracted by an unstrung recurve bow and a bag of feather arrows placed on the altar, and then they began to comment.

Lieutenant General Churchill had never competed with the nomads in the East, so he had never seen a recurve bow. However, the Duke of Lorraine had been fighting with the Turks and Tatars all year round. Of course, he recognized this recurve bow with the string removed at a glance.

bow.

Archbishop Philip said to an Indian wearing Western clothes beside him: "Andre, what did you tell the Duke and the Lieutenant General what is this? Where did you get it?"

The Indian named Andre bowed to the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill, and then told the two of them in fluent Spanish: "This is the exchange of our caravan from a tribe that was conquered by the Incas."

Come. Those brutal Incas launched a sneak attack before dawn, shot many people to death with such powerful bows and arrows, and then robbed many women and horses before leaving. Several of them

An Inca fell off his horse during the attack and lost some of his weapons... This very strange bow and this bag of very powerful arrows were part of it."

The Duke of Lorraine took out another arrow at this time, glanced at the arrow, and frowned: "It's an iron arrow...it looks very hard and sharp!"

Lieutenant General Churchill asked Andre in somewhat blunt Spanish: "Are there any Inca firearms?"

"No," Andre shook his head, "These Incas from the mountains in the west rarely use firearms, probably basically none... What they are best at is shooting arrows while riding on galloping horses!

Moreover, they are very cunning and move strangely. They often launch surprise attacks or lay ambushes, and rarely engage in direct combat."

The Duke of Lorraine frowned even more tightly, "Why do you sound like a Tatar?"

Lieutenant General Churchill smiled and said: "What can even the Tatars do? Now is the age of firearms. It is long past the time when nomadic people riding horses and archery can dominate...Duke, if those

The Incas can really use bows and arrows as skillfully as the Tatars, which means they really rarely use muskets, and maybe they don’t have many muskets and artillery at all!”
Chapter completed!