"The Inca Lesson" (Fiction) "The Demolition of the Inca Empire" Volume 2 Zhang Baotong

Soon, Ulamaha rode a horse and chased after more than 400 soldiers. He said to Manco in a very self-blame tone, "Good King, I forgive my guilt, I can't protect several princesses, they have fallen into the encirclement of Spain." When Manco heard this, he felt that Ulamaha could not blame him, because let alone the princess, even he almost let the Spanish surround him. He was silent for a moment and said in a low voice, "It's not your fault, as long as you can get from it.

It was not easy for the Spanish to rush out of the encirclement." Then, he asked, "The Spaniards didn't chase after him?" Uramaha said, "They chased them very tightly, but I asked the deputy commander to lead 400 people to stop them on a ridge." Manco said, "It's great, but we have to leave quickly. When the Spaniards who captured the palace came to reinforce, we couldn't even run away." Uramaha said, "Yes, the king."

After retreating for about half an hour, someone chased after him from behind and reported, "The deputy commander asked me to report that the Spanish brigade was coming soon, and the attack was fierce, and the soldiers could not defend it." Uramaha said to the messenger in a very firm tone, "Go and tell the deputy commander and let him guard until dawn no matter what." The soldier replied, "Yes, my commander."

At this time, it was dawn, and the sky was dark, and the sleepy moonlight shone on the ground in a daze, and the distant mountains and rivers were confused. The Inca king and the Uramaha prince walked side by side, but they didn't speak and just rushed. The soldiers around almost trotted all the way, because they knew that the Spanish cavalry were chasing behind.

After a while, Uramaha suddenly asked, "King, where are we going?" Manko said, "Machu Picchu." Uramaha listened, slowed down, and said in a suggestive tone, "Can't go to Ayakucho? There we can recruit a lot of soldiers." Manko knew that Ayakucho was the hometown of Uramaha, but he still said in a very firm tone, "Machu Picchu is close to Cusco. We retreat today, and we will fight back to Cusco in a while." Uramaha said, "The King is wise."

When he came to a wooded area, Manco felt that he should ambush a team here and attack the Spanish cavalry, which would slow down the pursuit of the Spanish cavalry. So he stopped and said to Uramaha, "My commander, you can arrange a force here to ambush the Spanish. It can not only attack them, but also stop their pursuit."

When Ulamaha heard this, he said, "The King is wise." Then he shouted to the back, "General Chichabuta." A middle-aged general ran over and responded, "Arrival." Ulamaha ordered, "Take a hundred soldiers here, bring more short arrows and javelins, and launch a sudden attack on the Spanish cavalry, and then enter the woods to deal with them. He should hold them as much as possible." Manko also said to General Chichabuta, "Put more trees on the path as roadblocks, so that the cavalry and horses are inconvenient to pass." General Chichabuta said, "Yes."

Ulamaha led more than 300 Indian soldiers under his command to protect King Manco and retreated quickly to the depths of the mountains more than 20 miles away. The mountains are high and dense, with no one in the desert. Only two paths can be seen forked from the valley not far away. One leads to the northeast and the other leads to the north. The path is sometimes up and down in the mountains, sometimes up to the top of the peak, and sometimes down to the bottom of the cliff. Manco called a soldier who was familiar with the local situation and asked where the two strips led. The soldier said that the path in the northeast leads to Ayakucho, and the path in the north leads to Urubamba.

Manco asked the soldiers to walk in the north. However, Ulamaha said to Manco, "Great King, after walking all night, the soldiers were so tired that they could not walk anymore. Can they let the soldiers rest here and then go?" Manco saw that the soldiers were sitting or lying on the ground and gasping for breath, and felt that they had walked dozens of miles, and probably had already thrown away the Spaniards, so he nodded.

At this time, it was already bright and the valley was filled with a humid and cool atmosphere. Seeing that the soldiers were lying on the grass and resting, Manco rode his horse along the path north to the top of a mountain. He wanted to climb high and look up to see if there were any Spanish chasing him. At the same time, he also checked the terrain so as to set up an ambush here and block the enemy soldiers.

The mountains in the early morning were very peaceful, with the freshness and tranquility of the light shining on the mist. Standing at the high point of the mountain, you can see that the path leads to the far downstairs. On the winding mountain path they had just walked along, some were so quiet, and the sun shining on it was like a golden streamer like a dream.

He couldn't help but think that if the Spanish could send forty or fifty cavalry to come for a long distance, they would probably die without a burial place, because in the depths of this mountain, there was almost no place to hide except the mountains and deep ravines. Moreover, he also saw that just now he was a good place to block the enemy soldiers. As long as dozens of soldiers were sent to guard this narrow and dangerous ridge, there were more stones and short arrow javelins. Not to mention dozens of Spanish cavalry, even hundreds of cavalry could not pass from now on. Thinking of this, he decided to let Ulamaha send 100 soldiers here to guard it, and then lead the remaining more than 200 soldiers to continue to retreat along the path towards Urubamba.

Just as he was happily down from the mountain, he saw Princess Okoro riding his horse along the steep road toward him. He couldn't help but be stunned, thinking whether Spanish cavalry were chasing him. So he stopped on the slope and waited for Okoro to ride his horse to the top of the slope.

Before he could ask, Okoro shouted breathlessly, "Master, Prince Uramaha, went to Ayakucho with his soldiers."

When the Inca king heard this, he became angry and said, "Why don't you stop him?" As he said that, he wanted to go down the mountain to chase him so that he could get him back. However, Princess Okoro immediately stopped him and said, "My king, there is no need to do this. Since he has changed his mind, even if you chase him, he will not follow you. If you force him to force him, he may harm you."

Manco felt that the princess was right, and he had no reason to force others to follow him, because almost no one who followed him had a good ending so far. He either died in battle or was chased by the Spanish. Now even he himself was driven out of the palace by the Spanish, and his future was uncertain. How could he force others to continue following him?

(Please pay attention to Zhang Baotong's contracted work "Poetic Emotion", including short essays, life essays and short and medium stories. The love story "First Meet with Love" and the novel "Cuihu Villa" released today (72. Gathering together)
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