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

After several days of such arduous and dangerous marching, they finally saw a small town called Bilkas. This town is an important gateway to the Inca capital Cusco. Usually there are many Inca soldiers here, and everyone entering and leaving Cusco must pass through here. The defenders here are generally guarded by the Inca nobles, and all those passing by here are strictly inspected. Generally, those entering and leaving Cusco capital will have safety passes for the Inca king or the palace, while those entering and leaving the general area must have a pass from the local chief or village chief. These passes are made of knot ropes of various colors and specifications.

On the road leading to Billcas, they seemed to have expected a fierce battle to happen. Because on the road approaching the town, the narrow road was filled with large trees and piled with big rocks, blocking the road so that the cavalry could hardly pass through the road. So the Spaniards had to lead their horses around the road.

Suddenly, a group of Indians rushed out of the forest beside the road, constantly throwing javelins and casting cold arrows at them. These people seemed to have fallen from the sky and caught Spain off guard. The Spanish immediately raised their guns to fight back. However, although these Indian soldiers were not many, they were not as timid as they thought. Moreover, they rushed out of the woods and fought with them face to face with their short swords and battle axes. However, their clumsy and backward weapons caused them to suffer a great loss. The Spanish long sword and the melee gun kept slashing and killing.

The Indians were unable to get close to them, so they could only rely on javelins and arrows to confront the Spaniards. After a short battle, the Indians left a large body and quickly retreated into the woods to escape. The Spanish also died three people, injured more than ten people, and five war horses were killed. It can be said that this was the most severe loss of the Spanish Expeditionary Force in several battles. However, what surprised them the most was the tenacity and courage of the Indians. This was completely different from their previous bluffing and vulnerable performance.

Through this battle, the Spaniards were much more cautious, so when they encountered dangerous passes, they were extra cautious and cautious, not only to conduct reconnaissance, but also to send a team to test.

Not far south of the town of Billcas is an open canyon, and the Royal Avenue passes through this long canyon. According to locals, the fleeing Indian soldiers gathered in the canyon.

At noon that day, after breakfast, Soto asked Santos to take the twelve cavalry team as the vanguard to find out the way for the entire cavalry team. Santos led the cavalry team to walk along the royal road, but after noon, he did not see the shadow of the Indians. The Indian guide said that if you walk forward more than ten miles, you can walk out of the canyon. So, Santos decided to continue the march, and wait for the soldiers to eat and rest while waiting for Captain Soto to come over with a large group of troops.

Just as they walked to a mountain pass, some scattered Indian soldiers were walking towards the mountain pass blindly. When they saw them, they paniced and fled desperately into the mountain pass. These people were about thirty or fifty, with uneven military uniforms and uneven teams, as if they had no leader. They were only three or five hundred meters away. So Lieutenant Santos drew out his long sword and shouted at the soldiers, "Soldiers, rush over and destroy them." So the soldiers chased after him.

However, when they left the royal road and followed the mountain road to chase after him, they came to a bend, but no one was seen. Santos felt puzzled and thought that these people had no wings, so why did they fly away? Just as he was puzzled, he saw that there seemed to be someone shaking at the bend in front. He thought that the group of people was running very fast, and after a while, they actually ran there. So he continued to chase with the soldiers.

When they chased to the bend in front, they found a valley and a flat river inside. There were fifty or sixty Indian soldiers in the middle of the river waiting for them. So they rode their horses to chase them. However, before they could chase them, they had already run towards the mountains. They kept chasing them. When they chased them, the people climbed up the cliff. There was a cave on the cliff, and Indians entered the cave. The Spaniards did not dare to get off the horse, so they did not dare to climb the mountain, let alone enter the cave. They had to breathe heavily and look at the cliff, but there was no way.

At this time, the oxhorn sounded on the other side of the open land. When the Spaniards looked back, they found that their retreat had blocked the Indians. They couldn't help but feel a little scared, so they turned their horses and chased them towards the way they came. However, when they chased them, the Indians dispersed again, and more than thirty Indians came out from the side shouting at them, chasing them and throwing javelins.

Because the distance was too far, the javelins actually did not play any role, but they greatly angered the Spanish soldiers. So they turned their horses and chased the group of Indians. However, the Indian soldiers quickly entered a forest, and on the other side, another group of Indians blew the horns, attracting their attention. Over there, a group of Indians were twisting their butts towards them and dancing a very slutty dance, as if they were humiliating them. They were furious and chasing them.

However, at this time, because the war horses walked for a morning and ran for a long time, they could no longer run. The soldiers had not eaten, so they felt something was wrong with the Indians who had been transferred over, so Santos ordered the soldiers to evacuate quickly. However, their retreat had been blocked by thousands of Indians. The Indian soldiers were holding spears and javelins, gritting their teeth, and pressing towards them with great momentum.

Santos knew that what the Indians were really afraid of was not their soldiers, but war horses. If the war horses did not work, they would lose their powerful deterrence to the Indians. Because in the minds of the Indians, such a tall and galloping animal, was almost the divine object in their divine metaphor. Seeing that the retreat was cut off, Santos asked the trumpeter to blow the charge, hoping that Captain Soto and others could hear the sound of the trumpet to rescue them. At the same time, they also wanted to boost the morale of the soldiers, and rushed over with great enthusiasm and opened a bloody road.

(Please pay attention to Zhang Baotong's contracted work "Poetic Emotion", including short essays, life essays and short and medium-stories. Today, the novella "Women in the Mountain" (4. A Terrible Night)
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