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

After nearly two days and nights of travel, Inca King Manco finally returned to the Tambo Palace with his princess and soldiers. Wakikar learned that the Inca King was back and went to the foot of the palace to greet him. He took Manco back to the palace and took the Inca King and the princess to watch the entire palace.

Before you get close to the palace hall, you can see from a distance that the entire palace has been renovated and has a new look. When you walk towards the palace from the stone steps at the foot of the mountain, the first thing you see is the roof of the palace. The roof of the palace has not been replaced with new grass for several years, and the color of the grass has turned moldy gray due to the wind and sun. Moreover, in the last Spanish attack, the fire broke out for some of the roofs of the palace hall in front of you, and some of the roofs of the palace hall in front of you have been replaced with neat and stout new grass, which exudes a warm and soft tone under the golden sunlight.

Going up further, you can see the courtyard wall of the outer courtyard. Although the courtyard walls were built with huge stones, they were the main position for the attack and defense of the two armies. Therefore, many stones fell off and were damaged. Even the huge stone gate was pushed down. Now everything has been restored, and even the stone gate that was pushed down by the Spanish has returned to its original place.

When you enter the courtyard wall, the palace hall is in front of you. The palace walls are also made of huge stones, and these smooth and hard brown stone walls have been painted with a layer of bright red paint, shining with a translucent and dazzling light under the sunlight.

Follow the walkway to the hall and you can see many houses in the palace. Most of the houses on the outer floor are lived by soldiers. The houses are empty but cleaned up because most of the soldiers sleep on the ground with some animal skins or hay. Some houses live in many soldiers, and several houses are piled with corn and some weapons. Judging from the food reserved, it can be eaten by a thousand troops for at least half a year.

Further inside is the house where the prince lives, with a bed and a few tables and stools in the room. The room in the middle of the palace is the bedroom where the Inca king lives. The room not only has a relatively large double bed, but also has brand new red tape on it. There are two large wooden boxes for clothes beside the bed. There are two large wooden chairs and a small table opposite the bed. Next to the bedroom is the concubine's house. There are only a small bed and a wooden box. Opposite the Inca king's house is a relatively large room, with three large tables and more than ten wooden chairs. This is the chamber of the palace. It is specially used for the Inca king to summon ministers and hold meetings. There is a small house next to the chamber, with a table and a few chairs in the room. This is the restaurant of the Inca king and the princess.

Manco had been walking for nearly two days and was already a little tired, so he checked roughly the entire situation of the palace and said to Prince Vakicar, "Very good. I want to appoint you as the Minister of Interior of the Palace." When Vakicar heard this, he said, "Thank you." Manco returned to the door of his room, suddenly stopped and asked Vakicar, "How many soldiers are there in the palace?"

Vakicar said, "Four or five hundred soldiers." Manco said, "If four or five hundred men want to withstand the attacks of hundreds of Spanish cavalry, they can only hit the stone with eggs."

So he pondered for a moment and said to Vakicar, "You must do a good job of defense in the palace, because the Spanish cavalry may soon pursue it. Then, you will immediately send someone to contact Mokva and ask him to take the troops back to the palace quickly." Vakicar said, "Yes, please rest assured, the king."

However, what made Manco happy was that Commander Mokva led more than a thousand soldiers to come over at noon on the third day.

It turned out that they rushed back to Guamanga from Haoha early the morning after the Spanish attacked Guamanga. As a result, when they saw the street corpses everywhere and the whole town was filled with blood, they knew that a fierce battle had just happened here. They heard that the Spanish cavalry had already pursued the Inca King on the path north, so they did not dare to stay in the town, so they followed the royal road all the way south and met the people sent by Vakicar in Abankai. Only then did they know that the Inca King had returned to the Palace of Tambo.

In order to prevent the attacks of the Spaniards, Manco asked Mokva to divide the only 1,500 people into two places to guard the front and back, especially the backyard of the palace as the focus of the defense. Because the Spaniards' several attacks were all from the back of the palace as a breakthrough.

However, just as Mokva and his soldiers returned to the palace, someone came to report that the Spanish cavalry had also arrived here and were resting in the flat grass in the Yukai Valley. Upon hearing this news, Manco immediately rode his horse, took Mokva and five hundred soldiers, from the forest beside the Yukai Valley, and carefully observed from the woods to the place where the Spanish rested.

The afternoon sun was very warm, and the river flowed quietly beside the grass. On the grass at the berth, there were a few white tents. Some soldiers played around the tents, some lying on the grass, and some were singing leisurely. The war horses were exiled on the grass, and some even ran far away. Judging from the number of people in Spain, they had about 200 people, all of them were all cavalry. However, from their loose and casual appearance, they did not seem to be here to fight, but they seemed to be here to play.

Manco said to Mokva beside him, "What's wrong with these Spaniards? It doesn't seem like they are going to attack us." Mokva said, "The Spaniards may be tired, so they can take a break and then attack us at night. It's their best bet to launch an attack at night."

Manco said, "Yes, tonight, we must be on guard against the attack of the Spaniards." Mokva said, "Yes, my king." After watching in the woods beside the Yukai Valley, Manco stayed a few of them here to continue to closely observe the Spanish movements, and he and Mokva took the soldiers back to the palace.
Chapter completed!