124. Ambush in danger
"The Inca Lesson" (Fiction) "The Demolition of the Inca Empire" Volume 2 Zhang Baotong
At this time, a spy came in and reported, "Bingbao King, thirty Spanish cavalry have left the town of Billcas this morning, and are gathering towards Guaman, and they are probably going to arrive here in the evening." When Manco heard this, he said to himself, "It's good to attack me at night." So he said to the attendant prince in front of the door, "Send someone to call Mokva immediately." The attendant prince said, "Yes, my king."
Seeing that the king was about to prepare for the war, Prince Vakicar stood up and said, "The king is busy, and the subordinates are inconvenient to disturb him, so he said goodbye." Manko did not try to keep him, so he said, "The prince worked hard all the way, please go slowly." As he said that, he asked the guards to send Prince Vakicar out.
After a while, Mokwa came, Manco said, "There are more than 30 cavalrymen who want to attack us, and they may be able to arrive here after dark. What do you think?" Mokwa said, "The best way is to ambush halfway." Manco said, "It's good, but where do you think the ambush should be best?" Mokwa said, "It can be at the dangerous pass on the top of the mountain, or in the deep ravine passage."
Manco thought for a while and said, "Just at the dangerous pass on the top of the mountain." Mokva said, "Yes, my king." Manco said, "You bring two hundred people to set up an ambush at the top of the mountain, and I will lead eight hundred people to cut off their retreat." Mokva said, "The king is wise." Speaking of this, Manco said, "Okay, let's act immediately and arrive at the pre-determined place before the Spaniards." Mokva said, "Yes, my king." At this time, the troops had finished the entire team on the road at the entrance of the town. Manco, the Inca king, came to the next army with Mokva and several followers. With a wave of his hand, the troops began to act.
There are several dangerous passes from Guamanga to Bilkas, and this ambush can only be set on a mountain near Guamanga. On both sides of the mountain are a small stone-chiseled path, which is very steep and has barriers surrounded by ropes. There is a relatively flat road on the top of the mountain. There is a cliff on one side and a deep valley on the other side, which is very dangerous.
After Manco led a large group of people to the top of the mountain, he went down to the bottom of the mountain toward the mountain road. At the bottom of the mountain was a deep valley, and a small river flowed rushing across the royal road. There were several deep canyons on both sides of the road. So Manco divided the large army into two branches, hiding in two valleys not far apart, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Spanish cavalry.
On the top of the mountain, Mokva was also ready. He hid more than 200 soldiers beside the cliffs on the top of the mountain or on the path behind the top, and prepared a pile of boulders and tree trunks at the top of the mountain to give the Spanish cavalry a fatal blow.
About afternoon at dusk, a team of Spanish cavalry appeared in a long queue on the royal road. Under the leadership of Lieutenant Carlos, they slowly entered the valley. At this time, they suddenly stopped and looked around the valley for a long time. Then, they sent three cavalrymen to explore the road and walked forward. After the three cavalrymen walked to the intersection on the mountainside, the other cavalry began to follow quickly.
Then they all came down from the horse and started to go up the mountain with their horses. They kept walking towards the road up the mountain. When they had just reached the top of the mountain, they heard a sudden sound of the horns, and then the huge rocks and trunks fell down the steep slope from the top of the mountain. Immediately, the Spaniards and horses walking in the front were smashed to the ground or fell into the deep valley on the side of the road. Seeing this, the Spaniards retreated in panic and rushed to escape. However, the Indian soldiers on the top of the mountain chased them while continuing to throw the huge rocks and trunks towards them.
The Spaniards immediately died and injured a lot, and the others did not care about resistance and retreated to a relatively flat road. At this time, they were far away from the dangerous area on the top of the mountain, and under the command of Lieutenant Carlos, they stopped retreating and prepared to resist and counterattack. The Indians' boulders and tree trunks were not easy to play, so Mokva organized soldiers to rush down the road and shoot at the Spaniards with short arrows and javelins. Because the Indians were condescending and kept shooting dense short arrows and javelins, the Spaniards had no way to effectively resist and counterattack. They used their horses to cover and cover while continuing to retreat to the bottom of the mountain. Some even stabbed the horses with long swords to sprint the buttocks of war horses with long swords, causing the horses to rush towards the road up the mountain like crazy.
Under the fierce attack of the Indians on the mountain, more than half of the Spanish, who were killed and injured, finally retreated to the bottom of the mountain. Just as they were about to get on the horse and flee, they saw two people rushing towards them. Some of the Spanish cavalry had already got on the horse, but most of them had not yet come down from the mountain road, so they were caught in the middle by the Indians chasing them on both sides.
Seeing that they were surrounded by enemy soldiers and had no way to escape, the Spanish soldiers who had already ridden on horses held long swords and rushed towards the team led by the Inca King with determination to fight to the death. They were soon surrounded by Indian soldiers. The Indian soldiers kept shooting at them with short arrows and javelins. The short arrows and javelins shot on their bodies and legs, but they were seriously injured, but they fought tenaciously and cut down a large area of Indian soldiers. However, another group of Indian soldiers rushed over and surrounded these Spanish cavalry tightly. However, a seriously injured Spanish soldier broke out from the siege, got rid of the Indian soldiers' pursuit, and fled on horseback.
After this battle, no Spaniards dared to pass here on the royal avenue leading to Lima and Cusco. After that, Manco led his soldiers to attack some Spanish settlements and brutally killed all the Spaniards, leaving the entire Peru in a terror and panic.
But in Guamanga town, there is another peaceful and lively scene. You can always see groups of soldiers walking back and forth on the streets of the town, especially around the barracks at the end of the town, and you can often see Indian soldiers singing and laughing and dancing to celebrate victory. It is precisely the arrival of these soldiers that the peaceful and peaceful town suddenly has a cheerful atmosphere.
(Please pay attention to Zhang Baotong's contracted work "Poetic Emotion", including short essays, life essays and short and medium-stories. Today, the short essay "When We Are Still Girls" and the novel "Cuihu Villa" (84. A deserted hotel (continued))
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