The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
After defeating the Sanku people, King Atahualpa set up camp in Sanku Village and sent people to the Haliya tribe to persuade them to surrender. However, the Halians not only refused to surrender, but sent people from time to time to demonstrate and harass the Quito army.
During the day, there were always some Haliya tribesmen holding bows, arrows and javelins, standing on the hill opposite the Quito military camp and shouting; at night, there were always shadows of torches swaying in the woods around the military camp. This made King Atahualpa very angry, but there was nothing he could do. So, in a rage, he led an army to wipe out the Hariya village.
However, when the army arrived at the village, the entire village was deserted. However, the village is surrounded by deep mountains and dense forests, with rivers crisscrossing it, which is not conducive to the movement of large troops or the pursuit of small troops. In this regard, he could only ask the troops to strengthen their vigilance, stick to the military camp, and send out sentries and patrol teams to guard and patrol around the village to guard against sneak attacks and harassment by the Hariya tribe.
However, that night, torches were seen flashing back and forth around the village, disturbing the troops and keeping them in a state of alert and combat readiness, which kept the king awake all night. At noon the next day, hundreds of barbarians were seen standing on the hilltop opposite, wielding swords, guns, bows and arrows, shouting and shouting. So, the king sent Tashi Guye to lead his troops to pursue him. However, by the time the troops caught up, the group had long disappeared.
This happened for two or three days in a row, which made Quito's army tired and upset, and also made King Atahualpa restless and restless. Although he was angry and angry, there was nothing he could do. That afternoon, the king had slept, suddenly sat up from the bed, called Tashiguye outside the door, pointed to the hilltop opposite, and said, "Go and hang all the captured Sangku people opposite." on the mountain."
Of course, the school officer understood what the king meant, and quickly said in a tone of great admiration, "The king is wise, the king is still wise!" Then he returned to the barracks to assemble the troops, and first ordered Lieutenant Walizaka to lead a thousand people to the top of the opposite mountain. He carried out defense and security, and led 500 men to escort the prisoners up the mountain. They tied the prisoners into long strings with ropes and walked along a very narrow path towards the top of the mountain opposite.
After the rain, the air in the mountains is fresh, flowers are everywhere, and beautiful butterflies are flying on the grass beside the forest. Flocks of birds were flying around the edge of the forest. But the path up the mountain is steep, winding, and full of potholes, so it’s quite strenuous to walk.
Finally, they reached the forest on the top of the mountain. The forest is damp, cool and dim. But you can see Quito soldiers standing guard every three steps and one sentry every five steps, surrounding the entire mountain forest airtightly. And on those trees in the dense forest, ropes were hung from tree to tree, making people tremble and feel horrified.
Tashiguye asked the soldiers to untie the Sanku men one by one from the long rope and bring them to the tree where the rope was hung. And these poor Sanku men know that they are already lambs to be slaughtered. Therefore, they did not struggle or resist, as if they were obeying the call of the gods and letting the soldiers put the noose around their necks. Then, with a chorus of soldiers pulling hard, he screamed and was sent high into the air. Therefore, it didn't take long for more than 200 Sangku people to be hanged in the dense forest on the top of the mountain opposite the mountain stronghold.
In the next two or three days, there were no more attacks or harassments from the Hariya barbarians. Obviously, they have been frightened by the Quito people's behavior of fighting fire with fire and violence with violence. So King Atahualpa sent a guide to the leader of the Haliya tribe to persuade him to surrender. Ask them to surrender honestly and not to go against King Quid, otherwise, they will suffer the same fate.
In the afternoon of that day, the leader of Haliya sent someone to see the king and asked for his surrender. King Atahualpa not only readily agreed to the envoy's request, but also hosted a banquet in honor of the envoy. The envoy left the village with great gratitude, and the next morning, he brought the Haliya leader with him to pay homage to the king.
In order to show their loyalty to the King of Quito, the Haliya leader also brought the leader of the Sanku tribe as a meeting gift, and presented it to the King of Quito with a large bundle of five-flowered flowers. The king was very happy. Not only did he take them to visit the army's camp and drills, but he also hosted a banquet in honor of the Haliya leader.
After conquering the Sanku tribe and the Haliya tribe, Atahualpa rested in the village for three to five days, leaving twenty or thirty people to carry out legal restraint and social transformation of the Haliya people, and then prepared to lead the army to continue eastward. The Northern Expedition.
On the day the army left the village, the Quito army held a grand military parade in the valley of the village. The entire Hariya village and people from other tribes dozens of miles away came to watch. When the Quito army, composed of nearly ten thousand people, was solemn and majestic, arrayed neatly and solemnly on a gentle grassland in the village, more than a dozen horns were blown majestically.
The King of Quito walked to the front of the army in a gorgeous and majestic dress and said to thousands of local tribesmen who came from various villages to watch, "Our army in Quito is here to spread the grace and glory of the Sun God according to the order of the Sun God." , is here to rescue you from poverty and ignorance. Therefore, you must obey the will of the Sun God, abide by the law, and maintain peace. You must not resist the law, violate the law, or deliberately conspire. Otherwise, the Quito army will kill you. Rush here, burn all the villages to the ground, and kill all the people."
In order to confirm what he said, he ordered the soldiers to hang the leader of the Sangku tribe on the spot in front of everyone, and gave all the women captured in the Sangku village to the garrison soldiers stationed there. At the same time, in order to express his friendship with the leader of the Haliya tribe, the king also specially invited the leader of the Haliya tribe to sit in a sedan chair, accompanied by General Tubatu, to the capital of Quito to worship the sun god. The leader of Haliya was invited by the king, and he was very gracious, so he happily left the village of Haliya with his concubine in a sedan chair carried by eight people.
Colonel Tashiguye led three thousand soldiers, led by a soldier named Gawo who could speak the local indigenous dialect, over mountains and ridges, through dense forests, and finally found a path in a gentle mountainous area. So, they walked along the path in a northerly direction. But this path is winding, disappearing and appearing, extending endlessly in the empty wilderness mountains and dense forests. No matter how many miles we walk, we don't see a single person. Jackals, hares, and raccoons often appear on the roadside and in the forest. Various butterflies and poisonous snakes can be seen everywhere.
After walking about thirty or forty miles, it was almost noon before the troops arrived at a very small village on the edge of the virgin forest. There are only three to five houses in the village. The houses are almost all made of wooden boards and are very simple and shabby. Sitting in front of the door was a woman in her forties or fifties and a young woman. They were naked, dirty and dark. The older woman was eating a small piece of raw meat while the younger woman was breastfeeding the baby in her arms. Seeing so many soldiers coming from the village entrance, the two women were so frightened that they looked at these strangers with fearful eyes.
Seeing this, the school officer Tashi Guye asked the older woman, "How many people are there in your village? What are the men doing?"
But the two women shook their heads inexplicably. It was obvious that they did not understand the school officer's words at all. It was the guide named Gavo who translated the words to the older woman. The older woman said that there were only twelve or three people in the village, and the men had all gone hunting. When Tashiguye continued to ask further questions, the two women just looked at them with wary and suspicious eyes and refused to say anything else.
The school officer first asked the soldiers to sit where they were and rest, then took a few guards and Gawo out of the village to find the man who was out. Because the school officials knew that if the men were farming, they would not go far. They left the village and walked towards a path heading northwest. Not far away, I heard the sound of someone cutting down a tree.
They walked towards the sound and saw a naked man chopping down a thick tree with an ax in a forest. Several guards quietly gathered around, suddenly appeared in front of the man, pointed their spears at the man, and snatched the ax from his hand. The man was shaking with fear and sat on the ground in panic. The school officer immediately signaled to the guards not to embarrass him, and then asked the guide to question the man.
The guide asked the man where there was a larger village nearby. The man shook his head and said he didn't know. The guide whispered something to the school officer. I saw the school officer yelling at the guard, "Hang this man up and beat him hard."
So, several guards tied up the man with a rope and hung him on a tree with his head facing the ground. They waved a short knife in front of his eyes a few times and then stabbed his cheek. The man was frightened and cried. He pointed to the northwest and said there was a village over there with many people living there. He also said that he originally lived there, but escaped here because he broke the rules. The school officer said to him, "Then you lead the way for us." The man nodded quickly.
The school officer asked the guards to put the man down from the tree, untied him, took him back to the village, locked him in a hut, and then ordered all the officers and soldiers to seize the time to eat, take a rest, and prepare for the road. .
The large army of three thousand people spread out in the forest next to the small village. They sat on the ground and began to take out the potatoes and tortillas they had brought with them and ate them with water and dried meat. After dinner, the school officer Tashi Guye asked the bugler to blow the horn to gather on the road.
The primeval forest became denser and denser as we walked, and the forest paths disappeared as we walked. Relying on that man to lead the way, we walked forward with knee-high grass. If this local man leads them into a dead end or runs away halfway, then they may be trapped in these wild and dense forests, not knowing where to go. Therefore, the school officer asked the guards to tie the man with a rope, and a guard held the rope to prevent the man from running away.
