Aztec Civilization: Destiny to Conquer America!

Chapter 2121 - 1548: No Matter Which Garrison, Devour Them!

"The source of these books? Yes, the kingdom has already come across the traces of the Great Ming Han Tribe Alliance... In the vast Black Water Forest, we’ve discovered ’castle ruins’ left by the Ming Dynasty. And the Maha tribe that allied with us is stationed at a Ming ruin called ’Nurgan...’""In the presence of the Chief Divine, although this Maha tribe consists of only a few hundred people, their combat power is exceptionally strong. The warriors of the tribe can all wield heavy bows, their archery is excellent, and they even have charging cavalry! They live by hunting, exhibiting extreme ferocity, unafraid of life or death. They use heavy bows and arrows to hunt and can kill a particularly large ’Osellor’ jaguar in the forest and consume raw meat and drink blood..."

"Currently, the Zuwaro High Priest has married the Maha Chief’s sister, and the Maha Chief has conducted an ancestral witnessing conversion ceremony, leading the tribe to convert to the Chief Divine. The Kui Huo Priest is preaching within the Maha tribe, managing logistics for the entire tribe, making the Maha tribe thrive and capturing warriors for the kingdom..."

"Their tribal origins? These forest sea tribes migrate southward from the north, appearing to have diverse origins without clear tribal affiliations, labeled as ’Shengshu Jurchen’ by the Southern Great Tribes Alliance. Yes! They are much like larger, stronger Wilderness Dog Descendants, having great bows and horses, and are an extremely excellent source of warriors!..."

Nightfall is dim, the bonfire bright. Most of Northeast Asia’s ’West Sea Map’ has been marked, reaching the final ’Black Water Forest.’ Loshanda had a serious expression, gesturing as he described the Shengshu Jurchen tribe he had seen. Then, he called over two horse breeders of Shengshu Jurchen descent, had them pull the ten-strength heavy bow, and then dismissed them. This demonstration finally piqued the interest of the two High Priests, who asked solemnly.

"With the Chief Divine’s protection! Indeed, they have an astonishing physique, excellent for tribal warriors! Loshanda, in the Black Water Forest, do these Shengshu Jurchen Chichimec have large tribes and city-states? How many of them are there, and do they have any divine beliefs?"

"My two teachers, these Shengshu Jurchen tribes are not large, following ancestor worship and nature reverence. They often number only in the dozens or a few hundred, migrating south from the endless ’North Mountain Forest Sea,’ constantly fighting along the way. The Black Water Forest is at more than 50 degrees north latitude, very cold, and the winter is terrifying, with tribal food supplies being extremely tight, unable to support very large tribes. The more brutal aspect is the chaotic fighting in the forest! Numerous small and large Shengshu Jurchen tribes are surging south, seeking warm and prosperous new territories, just like recorded in the Heritage Tablet, similar to the era when the Dog Descendants migrated south four hundred years ago!"

"Oh? The Dog Descendants migrated south four hundred years ago? That was an era where countless Dog Descendants overwhelmed the old gods’ Toltect Kingdom, causing the collapse of order across the highlands. After that, the Tepanec Tribes and the Prepetcha Tribes moved south to resettle and gradually rose—are you implying that a similar upheaval is happening in the vast Da Ming on the Western Sea Continent?..."

Hearing Chimere’s inquiry, Loshanda scratched his head. This question clearly exceeded his capacity for thought. After a moment, he hesitated before responding.

"Under the Chief Divine’s watch! The kingdom’s fleet has only ventured into parts of the ’Black Water Forest,’ not towards the ’White Mountain Forest’ in the south, nor has it reached the ’Great Ming Border.’ But according to the noble Jurchen who have converted to the Chief Divine, the Ming has an impassable ’Ten Thousand Miles Wall,’ with tens of thousands of ’Frontier Army soldiers,’ unimaginable to all the southward forest sea tribes, let alone breakable!"

"The only force capable of breaching this ’Ten Thousand Miles Wall’ would be the ’Mongolian Kingdom’ on the more western steppes. Yes, exactly as mentioned in Your Majesty’s prophecy, the ’Northern Yuan Tribe Alliance.’ It’s said that the warfare between Mongolia and the Ming stretches four or five thousand miles, involving armies of one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, or three hundred thousand—a truly frightening, apocalyptic scale Divine War! Such warfare has been ongoing for a hundred years, waging through three cycles of 52 years each."

"A war stretching four or five thousand miles, involving hundreds of thousands of troops, sustained for over a hundred years in a Divine War?!"

Upon hearing such astounding figures, the two High Priests looked at each other, finding it quite hard to believe. Chimere pondered for a good while before solemnly instructing.

"With such powerful forces in the Southern Great Ming and the Western Mongolian, when you come into contact with them, be sure to exercise extreme caution! Especially concerning Divine Kutadai Port, which stores large quantities of gold, do not expose its presence lightly, lest it invites attacks from these powerful tribe alliances..."

"Indeed! The Zuwaro High Priest has always been very careful... It’s said that while the Southern Great Ming is strong, their Confucian Priest Group keeps both the Female Snake Eunuch and Military Merit Nobility tightly restrained, unlikely to launch expeditions thousands of miles away, nor wage ’succession wars’ or ’external captures’... For now, with the vast forest sea and expansive ocean separating the kingdom’s stronghold from Ming and Mongolia, apart from direct contact with the Japanese, we have no concerns about other large southern tribes..."

Loshand tried his best to explain for a while. But regarding the complex political structure of the Southern Great Ming, he could only see a glimpse and could not truly understand it. However, concerning the Jurchen tribes of the forest sea region, he had a better grasp.

"Oh! By the way, south of the Black Water Forest of the Shengshu Jurchen is the White Mountain Forest Sea of the Shushu Jurchen. These Shushu Jurchen tribes have better weapons and armor and larger settlements and fortresses but lack the ferocity of the Shengshu Jurchen. Currently, battles between the Shengshu and Shushu Jurchen are continually occurring throughout the forest sea. The surging southward Shengshu Jurchen tribes, like hound-driving cold wave disasters, are pushing the already settled Shushu Jurchen tribes further south. These southward-migrating Shushu Jurchen tribes are akin to the first southward-migrating, then settled on the highland Nava canines four hundred years ago..."