Aztec Civilization: Destiny to Conquer America!

Chapter 2098 - 1534: Montezuma II, You May Call Me

"Chief Divine witness! Montezuma Suomak, is this the corpse of the Yun Chen Leader?""Yes... Xiulote Priest Elder, after the captives identified him, he is indeed the Mixteco people’s Tratuoani, Yun Chen Leader!..."

It has been three days since the arrival of the envoy from the Royal Tent and the Xiulote Priest Elder. The funeral to appease the remnants of the Mixteco, and to divide their hearts, concluded yesterday. The Western Army had gathered all the Mixteco warriors’ corpses and finally found the remains of the Yun Chen Leader. When this "Mixteco Divine Race" corpse was revealed from the white cloth, it signified that the conquered Mixteco Tribes had completely lost their sole leader capable of rallying hearts and had no chance of revival...

"Montezuma Suomak, we are of similar age, and your brother Little Quetzalcoatl calls me ’teacher’... so you may call me ’brother’."

"Hmm, Xiulote... brother, look! The teeth of this corpse are uniquely perfect among the Divine Descendants. The markings on his face are the most esteemed cloud patterns of the Mixteco people..."

Hearing Xiulote’s words, the deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Western Army, Montezuma Xocoyotzin, also known as Montezuma II, hesitated slightly and lowly called out "brother," though he appeared not very close. He merely looked reflectively at the middle-aged warrior’s corpse covered in white cloth on the ground, gazing at the blue wave-like cloud patterns on the face. He lamented the brave death of this Mixteco Divine Race warrior, praising sincerely from the heart.

"Chief Divine witness! According to the report of a team of warriors in the army, they saw this ’Mixteco Chief’s’ leather armor was exquisite, and over ten confidants fought desperately to protect him, chasing him all the way into the forest in the west, up into that mountain... Eventually, they trapped him halfway up the mountain, where he drew an Obsidian Dagger and stabbed it into his heart to die! Truly a warrior who values death over life, worthy of being the most revered Cloud Divine Race among the Mixteco people! Unfortunately, he died by suicide, not in the sacred ’Flower Battle’..."

"Montezuma Suomak, did this Mixteco Yun Chen Leader leave any farewell poetry before dying?..."

"Hmm? Probably not, right? Chief Divine witness! My warriors said he seemed to just shouted ’Ancestor, Ancestor’ a few times! Then stabbed himself in the heart with the dagger..."

"Montezuma Suomak, do think carefully? Before dying, did Yun Chen Leader say ’It was not the Alliance that destroyed me, but the Mixteco nobles that harmed me’, ’The Alliance conquering Mixteco is the Chief Divine’s will’, ’Before dying the Chief Divine guided me, I shall go to the Chief Divine’s Red Divine Kingdom’?"

"Uh! Xiulote Priest Elder? Are you planning to forge the Yun Chen Leader’s last words? How could such a warrior be... be disrespected casually? Before dying, he pierced his heart, clearly not wanting us to sacrifice him, not intending to go to the Chief Divine’s realm, but to release his spirit early to go to the Rain Divine’s realm! To violate this brave warrior’s wish by assigning his spirit to the Chief Divine is truly excessive!..."

Seeing Montezuma II’s clear resistance, Xiulote subtly frowned. This valiant cousin in the Royal Family is indeed cultivated by the oldest noble factions in the Alliance. This cousin’s "valor and resilience," and adherence to tradition, lack explicit support for centralized reforms, which aligns with the most traditional noble traits of the Mexica Alliance, earning the affection of the traditional royal family and city-state nobles!

In the original history, after this cousin succeeded to the alliance throne, he waged an extended campaign against Tlaxcala, conducting various ceremonial "Flower Battles." After capturing notable warriors from Tlaxcala, he organized a grand "dueling ceremony," fair weapon-clubbing duels. This "fair duel" allowed the opponents to successively kill more than ten outstanding Alliance warriors, even permitting them full rest to recover endurance. Until the Tlaxcala warrior died in battle, he personally penned lauding poems to honor the fallen enemy warrior, causing the Alliance army besieging Tlaxcala’s morale to plummet! This was far too politically unwise...

It must be known, Divine King Avit, although claiming to respect warriors, venerate the Alliance’s "tradition," in practice, places politics above all, using every means necessary to achieve political goals!

Therefore, in Xiulote’s view, this cousin "Montezuma II" has commendable military strategic command in warfare, mediocre internal alliance intrigue, but when it comes to political and diplomatic grand strategies, falls significantly short, showing a distinctly indecisive, corrupt tendency, indicative of severely insufficient vision and method.

Otherwise, historically he wouldn’t have alienated the Alliance warriors, nor disobeyed royal decrees from the northern and southern regions. The Lake Region’s Texcoco and Tlacopan also secretly rebelled... In the end, he made the foolish move of "inviting Spaniards into the Lake Capital City, to suppress the great nobles within the Alliance using the guise of white-skinned divine spirits," ultimately bringing "smallpox" to the city, dooming both himself and the Mexica Alliance...

"Chief Divine protect! Since this corpse is confirmed as Yun Chen Leader, I can take it back to report to the Divine King! As for Yun Chen’s last words, they relate to the subsequent governance of Mixteco Land, and the morale of the Mixteco Tribes... the Priesthood will naturally divine the results then print them to be promulgated among the submitting Mixteco Tribes... Montezuma Suomak, this also paves the way in advance for the governance of your future fief, smoothing the people’s hearts. Do you understand? Answer me!"