The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
At this time, a soldier came to report that many llamas were found on the grassland beside the stream at the mouth of the valley, and there was a hidden cave next to it with a lot of food piled in it. Zhaxiguye took people over to take a look. Apparently, the grain and llamas were stolen from the Quito army. However, there was no one in this cave.
So, the school officer returned to the threshing floor and continued to ask the woman, "When did the men come here?"
The woman said, "I came here last night. After delivering the stolen llamas and food, I didn't even take a break before leaving."
The school officer Tashiguye asked, "Where are they now?"
The woman said, "I don't know."
Tashiguye pulled out another young woman from the crowd. The woman was naked and holding a two-year-old baby in her arms.
The school officer asked the young woman, "Where are the men now?"
The young woman just shook her head but refused to reply.
Seeing that the young woman didn't speak, the school officer couldn't help but feel a little angry. He put a short knife on the young woman's neck and threatened, "Will you tell me?" But the young woman held her head high and showed a serious attitude. He looked as if he was dead and still refused to speak.
"Grab her baby." At some point, King Atahualpa, escorted by about two hundred soldiers, had arrived here. Seeing that Colonel Tashi Guye couldn't even subdue a woman, he loudly gave orders to the soldiers beside him.
The soldiers rushed over and snatched the baby away. But the young woman held on to the baby for dear life. So, two more soldiers went over and pushed the woman to the ground, allowing the soldier to snatch the baby away.
The king pointed to the baby and said to the soldier, "Cut his head off."
The soldier hesitated for a moment, then threw the baby to the ground.
The baby was thrown to the ground and cried. The young mother shouted, "My child." However, before she could shout, the hatchet raised by the soldier had fallen. I saw the baby's head rolling on the ground like a ball a few times, and then bright red blood spurted out, dyeing a large area of the ground red.
People present were so frightened that they screamed. Some people even covered their eyes with their hands or turned their faces to the side. Others were so frightened by this scene that they cried nervously.
The young woman watched her child's head being chopped off, crying desperately and struggling desperately to rush towards the child. However, he was pinned to the ground by two soldiers and could not move. He could only cry and curse like crazy.
King Atahualpa said to the soldiers, "Hang this woman up for me."
So, several soldiers went over, blocked the woman's mouth with hay, tied the naked woman's feet with ropes, hung her head down, and her legs spread apart, hanging from a tree next to the grain field. On the big tree.
Seeing the King of Quito being so tough and decisive, Colonel Tashi Guye seemed to be inspired. He felt that he must be ruthless and hard-hearted and show off to the King, otherwise, the King would regard him as a human being. A soldier who is indecisive and lacks courage. So he pulled out an old man from among the people and forced him to find out where all the men had gone.
The old man looked about sixty years old and was already in his twilight years. He was pulled and pushed by the school officer and fell to the ground. But the old man quickly stood up and leaned on the ground and crutches. He glared at the school officer with a fierce look and said, "You stupid pig! Be careful of the retribution of the gods."
When the school officer heard that the old man was scolding him, he was so angry that he didn't even ask any questions, so he said to the soldiers, "Burn him to death."
So, several soldiers tied the old man with a rope under a big tree, set up a pile of firewood, lit a fire, and burned the old man alive. The old man was burned by the fire and screamed hysterically. Almost everyone was stunned by this frightening scene and turned their backs, not daring to look at it. It wasn't until the fire burned for a while and all the piled firewood was burned out that people turned around and saw that in the thick smoke, the old man had been burned into a huddled black charcoal body, emitting a very unpleasant smell. the smell.
At this time, the school officer Tashiguye pulled out a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old from the crowd. This might be the oldest boy here, because if he were older, he would have gone to fight with other men. .
The school officer grabbed the naked, thin boy by his hair, glared and asked viciously, "Where are all the men? If you don't tell me, I will burn you alive." After saying that, he took the boy to In front of the fire, he looked at the old man being burned into black coals by the fire, and threatened, "Where are the men? Tell me quickly!"
The thin boy was so frightened that he fell to the ground and cried. Seeing that the boy was frightened, the school officer Tashi Guye grabbed the boy's hair hard, pulled the boy up from the ground, and asked fiercely, "Speak quickly, or I will burn you to death."
The boy cried timidly, "I said they are all in the villages to the north."
The school official asked again, "How many people are there?"
The boy said, "There are more than three hundred people."
The school officer reported what the boy said to the king.
The king then said, "Let the boy lead the way."
Therefore, Colonel Tashi Guye left five hundred people waiting in ambush in the village, and led the rest of the people to leave the small village in the valley and walk along the path between the slopes towards the top of the mountain. After reaching the top of the mountain, they returned to the fork in the road where the corpses of many Quito soldiers lay, and then walked straight to the northeast. When we reached a mountain pass at the junction of two mountains, it started to rain, but it wasn't heavy and it stopped soon.
Not long after crossing the mountain pass, we came to the mouth of a valley. The boy leading the way pointed to the village in front and said to the school officer, "That's the village where they live." The king asked the school officer to stop the team and took dozens of guards to the edge of the dense forest to inspect the terrain across the valley. I saw a suspension bridge hanging over the deep ditch of the stream at the mouth of the valley. On the opposite side of the suspension bridge, there are two naked men holding bows and arrows sitting next to the suspension bridge chatting.
After the boy from the Great Dynasty asked about the terrain in the valley, he asked the school official to send two teams of troops along the tops of the two mountains to quietly surround the entire valley and cut off the back roads of the village. After about half an hour, someone came to report that they could descend to the stockade from the tops of the mountains on both sides. When the king heard this, he was overjoyed and asked the school officials to send people to lurk in the dense forest. As long as someone escaped towards the mouth of the valley, he would rush over and block the suspension bridge so that no one could escape from the suspension bridge.
With that said, the king led a large group of guards and soldiers towards the top of the mountain in the north. There is a very narrow path at the top of the mountain. The path is covered with moss and is very slippery to walk on. When we climbed to the top of a peak and looked down, we saw that the village in the valley was not big, with a few simple farmhouses and huts scattered around. The other side of the hut was also quiet, as if there was no movement at all. Maybe those people had just fought last night and were already tired and were resting and sleeping.
The valley is not big, and you can see the whole thing at a glance. At this time, each team had already secured the intersection on the mountain and began to quietly advance from the two mountains toward the valley to encircle them. The king sat on the top of the mountain, observing the movements in the valley, and commanding each team to besiege the stronghold.
Within a minute or twenty, Tashiguye led his team to the farmhouses in the valley, and then suddenly broke in through the door. Although the room was not big, it was packed with people sleeping in all directions. The Quito soldiers handed over their weapons and shouted at them to get up. These Sanku people seemed to have woken up from a nightmare and were escorted by Quito soldiers to a flat land in front of the house.
Soon, the encircling troops from the other side also brought many Sanku people from the cottages on the other side and escorted them to the lawn here. The soldiers tied these two to three hundred Sanku people into a string with ropes and made them squat on the ground to wait for the king of Quito to deal with them.
Not long after, Atahualpa arrived in a sedan chair. The school officer Tashiguye immediately reported to the king, "Report to the king, everyone in the village is here, and no one has slipped through the net or escaped."
The king nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good." Then he said to the school officer, "Call me their leader."
Colonel Tashiguye asked a prisoner not far from him, "Who is your leader?"
However, the man looked at Tashiguye with a ferocious face, gnashing his teeth, but refused to answer. The guide who acted as an interpreter went over and punched the man hard in the face and asked, "I'm just asking you, who is your leader?"
The man was a little scared now, and while wiping the blood on the corner of his mouth with his hand, he gasped and said, "The big-headed man took people out to contact the people in Haliya Village. The two-headed man took people to harass the people stationed in the mountain col. The Quitos over there are gone.”
At this moment, someone came to report that a team of nearly a hundred Sanku people were walking towards the suspension bridge at the entrance of the village. As soon as the king heard this, he asked Colonel Tashi Guye to immediately lead people to let those people cross the suspension bridge, and then surrounded those people. So, the school officer immediately led the people to run quickly towards the suspension bridge at the entrance of the village. However, before he could bring the people to the edge of the suspension bridge, he saw that those people had already crossed the suspension bridge and were strutting towards them.
Colonel Tashiguye issued an order to the soldiers to prepare for battle. The soldiers slowed down, held spears and axes in hand, drew their bows and arrows, and moved forward step by step. Soon, the group also discovered them. Seeing that there were many more people than them, they hurriedly retreated. However, when they retreated to the suspension bridge, they saw hundreds of Quito soldiers rushing out from the dense forest opposite the suspension bridge, blocking their retreat and preventing them from crossing the bridge.
At this time, Colonel Tashi Guye also led nearly a thousand soldiers to pursue and surround them, surrounding them at the edge of the suspension bridge. The two sides were at war with each other, facing each other with swords and guns, only seven or eight meters apart. Those barbarians were not so much soldiers as they were a group of naked savages armed with swords, arrows and clubs.
Colonel Tashiguye shouted at the other party, "Put down your weapons, kneel down and surrender." However, these barbarians not only refused to put down their weapons, but instead let out angry and ferocious roars. So, the school officer shouted to the archers, "Fire the arrows." In an instant, dense arrows poured towards the soldiers of the barbarian tribe. After a while, nearly a hundred barbarian soldiers were seen falling to the ground.
Colonel Tashiguye ordered the archers to stop shooting arrows and rushed over with the soldiers. However, the short arrows used by the Quito soldiers were not very lethal, so the ground was filled with Sanku people who had fallen to the ground after being hit by arrows. These savages are ferocious and cruel when they take up arms, but when they are injured or captured, they cry and cry, greedy for life and afraid of death. Seeing the Quito soldiers rushing over with hatchets and daggers in their hands, they trembled with fear. Some even knelt down and cried and begged.
However, the Quito soldiers who were angered by the Sanku people's brutality ignored their kneeling and begging for mercy. They stepped forward and kicked them to the ground. They raised their axes and struck their necks and heads with force. Cut it off. After a while, the severed bloody heads rolled all over the floor.
