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

After the charge sounded, the soldiers rushed towards the Indian soldiers who were approaching him. However, the horse could no longer run, but he was breathing and refused to run. Some soldiers even stabbed the horse with spurs, but the horse still refused to run. Santos knew that he had fallen into the Indian plan and called on the soldiers to fight to the death.

However, before the soldiers rushed forward, the Indians rushed in front of him. So he led the soldiers to slash with their swords. However, the Indians had surrounded them, and without much effort, they picked them off with their spears and fell heavily to the ground. Then, they tied them firmly with ropes. At this time, he saw that several soldiers had died in battle, and several soldiers fell to the ground, and were tied up by the Indians with ropes.

After a while, he and several other injured soldiers were taken to an old man sitting on the hillside watching the battle. The old man was about fifty or sixty years old, thin and thin, wearing Indian casual clothes and sitting on a small wooden chair. Santos knew that he would have no hope of survival when he fell into the hands of the Indians, so he held his head high.

This old man was Pumatanka, the general of the Indian army. When he learned that the Spanish cavalry sent a twelve cavalry team to reconnaissance, he used the method of luring the enemy into the deep mountains and valleys, and then adopted an elusive war of attrition, which made the Spanish war horses lose their powerful impact and then siege the Spanish.

Now that his tactics and strategies have been successful, the Spanish cavalry squads all fell into his trap. It can be said that this was the only battle to win in the battle with the Spanish, which made him feel a little proud. He looked at the arrested Spanish, touched his beard and smiled slightly, and said to an adjutant next to him, "It can be seen that these Spanish people have left the power of the horse, and there will be no more gods to protect them." The adjutant next to him asked Pumatanka how to deal with these Spanish and war horses. Pumatanka looked stern and said, "Kill all sacrifices to the gods." After that, Pumatanka said, "Hang their heads at the intersections and towns that the Spanish passed by, so that they could see them. They were scared during the day and had nightmares at night."

The adjutant said, "Yes, general." Then, he shouted to the Inca soldiers who were escorting Spanish soldiers, "The general has an order to behead all the war horses and prisoners to worship the gods, and hang them at the intersection of the town to show their lives." The Indian soldier replied loudly, "Yes, obey the order." Then, an Indian soldier stabbed a horse with a sharp short knife and saw the war horse fall to the ground motionlessly, but the horse had not yet

Completely dead. At this time, another soldier waved his short axe and chopped hard at the horse's neck. The horse's neck was immediately cut out of a deep mouth, and blood splashed everywhere, dyeing the ground a large area red. Soon, the horse closed its eyes dyingly. After killing a horse and preparing to kill a second horse, Pumatanka walked over and waved to stop it, "We can still use other horses to stay." Then he asked the soldiers to lead the other horses away.

Then, the murder began. The Indian soldiers first pushed a tied Spanish soldier to the ground, then waved a short axe and chopped off the soldier's head in an instant.

The soldier's head rolled a few times on the ground, and the blood splashed out splashed the man all over. This tragic scene was extremely cruel and unbearable, so Santos simply turned his face to the side and did not look at the tragic scene of his soldiers being killed by beheading. Finally, it was his turn. When he closed his eyes, he was pushed to the ground by the Indian soldiers, waiting for beheading. As the Indian axe fell, the Spanish lieutenant's head also fell to the ground.

At this time, Soto led the cavalry team all the way through the canyon and came to a village next to the valley, but he never saw the cavalry team of Santos. Seeing that it was getting dark, he had to order the soldiers to stop and rest, and then send people to dress up as locals to go out to find out. It was very cold in the mountains at night, and it was already snowing outside, and the entire mountain area and the road seemed to be covered with a layer of silver felt.

All the people in the village have run away, and almost all the things they can use have been taken away, leaving only one empty house. In addition, the Indians in the mountains are very poor, and there are basically no beds at home. They always sleep in the ground. Some people may have a skin at home. Only those village chiefs or ten-person homes may have a bed like a house. But no matter what, these houses have not been burned yet.

However, the soldiers did not bring a bed and entered the house, and still seemed to have entered an ice kiln. Soto asked the soldiers to find some firewood and rice to cook, but there was nothing in the whole village. The soldiers could only sit in the house and sleep on hungry. The night was cold, and the long night was long. The soldiers sat in the cold and dark room with guns in their arms, and entered their sleep.

Captain Soto asked an Indian to pull his horse in a room, and asked some soldiers to cut back some branches, put them in the middle of the room, and light a fire with matches. However, the branches were too wet, and the matches were cut one after another, but they couldn't be lit. There was no way, Soto had to ask the soldiers to pull out the cotton from the cotton coat to attract the fire. This was what a fire was lit.

Soto sat by the fire, smoking cigarettes, and anxiously waiting for news from Santos and the others. However, at about midnight, the soldiers sent by the two men came back on horseback and reported to Soto that they had not received any news about the Santos squad. Soto sighed deeply, so he had to let the two soldiers go back to sleep. He also laid a coat next to the fire and fell to the ground and fell asleep.

After dawn the next day, the snow in the mountains became heavier. Soto asked the soldiers to join forces around the cliff to cut many branches, burned fires in each house, and dug some potatoes from the farmers' fields, washed them and placed them in the fire to eat. This allowed the soldiers to be freed from the predicament of starvation and freezing.

Originally, this place was not a place for a long time, but there was no news from the Santos and their squad, so this made Soto very worried and uneasy, and wanted to stay here for a day or two more to find out about the Santos and their squad. However, just when they were worried and uneasy about Santos, a cavalry squad led by Almagro arrived here and told Captain Soto that when they passed through the town of Billcas, they saw the heads of twelve Spaniards hanging from the big tree at the entrance of the town.

Soto knew that Santos must have died, so he immediately led thirty cavalry straight to the town of Billcas. When he arrived at the entrance of Billcas, he saw twelve heads hanging from the trees on both sides of the road. Soto asked the soldiers to take these heads off the tree. When he saw that the heads of these people were cut off from the base of his neck, the blood was blurred, and it was terrible. But they all were full of eyes wide open and their eyes were still alive.

Soto held these heads one by one and looked at them carefully. Seeing that the soldiers who were still alive and lively two days ago have now become sacrifices for the Indians, they were extremely sad and angry. He asked the soldiers to dig twelve pits on the roadside at the entrance of the town, buried them one by one, cut down some trees, made wooden monuments, engraved names and dates, inserted them in front of the tomb pile, and then asked everyone to line up to whistle and show their condolences.

(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" (5. Women's Little Lover)
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