The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
Fafulika was worried, when there was a "dong dong dong" banging sound outside the door. The craftsman asked the young wife to hide at home with an eight-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy, not to say anything, and wanted to This time he deceived the Quito soldiers. However, a fire broke out in the roof of their house, and the fire got bigger and bigger. The thick smoke made them unable to open their eyes, and made them cough. Seeing that the fire was about to collapse from the roof, they quickly opened the door and ran out of the house. When they ran out of the house, they saw that the entire village was burning, and there were Quito soldiers holding hatchets and torches everywhere. They burned houses when they saw them and killed people when they saw them. When Fafulika came out of the house with his wife and two children, a group of soldiers swung their axes and slashed at him and his family without saying a word. The wife and children immediately fell into a pool of blood. Fafulika was also hit on the forehead with an axe, and then fell to the ground.
At about dawn in the middle of the night, it rained for a while, and the cold rain woke Fafulika up. He opened his eyes hard and saw that the rain had almost stopped, the entire village had been reduced to ashes, and some ruins were still emitting black smoke. And in the rainy field beside him, dead people were lying everywhere. He wanted to get up from the ground, but he felt no energy in his body, so he lay on the ground for a while. But because there was water on the ground, Fafulika still forced himself to get up from the ground. However, as soon as he stood up, he felt dizzy, dizzy, had flashes of light in his eyes, and wanted to fall down. So, he supported himself on a big tree that had been burned with only its trunk left, so that he could relax. At this time, he felt a severe pain in his forehead. When he touched it with his hand, he found that it was still bleeding and the blood had condensed into a paste. He covered the wound vigorously and began to walk towards the outside of the village.
It was very dark in the village, and all the houses were burned to ashes, exuding a strong smell of burning. Corpses littered the ground and blood flowed into rivers. He stepped on the mud, walked around the corpse, and arrived at the entrance of the village. He saw that the tall building at the entrance of the village that they were proud of and dedicated to commemorating the first Inca king Manco Capac had collapsed. This reminded him that although the residents of the village were not authentic royal nobles, they were given the surname "Inka" by Manco Capac, and the surname "Inka" was what King Inka could give to non-royal persons. The highest reward and gift. Perhaps it is because they are the subjects who are most loyal and loving to the king except the royal family members, so they are hated and killed by the Quito people.
When he passed through the villages of Yucai and Tempu, which were only two or three kilometers away from Urkos Village in the dark, the scenes in the villages were as miserable as the scenes in Urkos Village. He hurriedly passed by the village and walked another two miles before arriving at Mayu Village. Mayo Village and Sampa Village are connected together. The people in this village specialize in making clothes and working as handymen for the Inca royal family and princes and nobles. Although they were not given the surname "Inka", they were favored by King Inka.
His parents-in-law live in this village. He had been worried that his parents-in-law's family would also be killed. However, there was nothing unusual in the village. When he came to his parents-in-law's house, they saw that he was covered in blood and there was a large wound on his forehead. They asked questions and asked their youngest daughter Doatina to clean and bandage him.
Doyatina is only sixteen years old and is the youngest sister of Fafulika's wife. She has been learning to weave clothes in the palace since she was six years old. Not only can she dye wool, but she can also weave the dyed wool into soft fabrics. Clothing with beautiful striped patterns. She also ran away from the palace a few days ago to escape the war. She was originally going to marry a young and handsome prince, but that prince was killed by Quito.
Fafulica told them about the massacre of villagers in Urcos, Yucai and Tempe villages by Quito soldiers. He also said that his wife and children had also been brutally killed, and asked his parents-in-law to go out and hide as soon as possible. Hide, because Quito will definitely not let go of Mayo Village and Sampa Village, because the villagers of these two villages are also serving the Inca King and the princes and nobles. So, his father-in-law asked his mother-in-law to make more corn biscuits and prepare to take them to a cave on the mountain to hide for a few days.
They originally wanted to wait until dawn, quickly leave the village after breakfast, and hide in a cave three kilometers away from the village. However, when it was just dawn, the village was already surrounded by Quito's army. Although Yukai Village was not given the surname "Inka", it was favored by King Inka, and it has been engaged in the work of doing handymen for the princes and nobles. Therefore, it was also favored by Atahualpale. into the realm of reckoning and revenge.
When the Quito soldiers entered the village, they did not immediately set fire or kill people, but shouted loudly for everyone to gather in the square. Fafulika's father-in-law and his family wanted to hide in the house and not go out. However, a group of soldiers kicked open the door of the house, forced their way in, and forced them to leave with hatchets and machetes. A soldier saw that Doyatina was young and beautiful, so he left Doyatina in the house. Doatina refused and insisted on coming out with her family. However, two soldiers pounced on her, pushed her down on the bed, and tore her clothes apart. She shouted desperately, but no one could help her.
The military law of the Inka kings stipulates that if a soldier insults others or steals in a certain area, he will be severely punished immediately. The King of Inka enforced the law extremely strictly in this regard, and would severely punish even his own sons without mercy. Especially among the people who accompanied King Inka on tours, if anyone dared to break into farmland or other people's homes, King Inka would order him to be executed even though he did not cause much damage. However, at this time, the Quito soldiers had obviously received permission to indulge. They broke into residents' homes alone or in groups, killed and robbed arbitrarily, and raped and gang-raped women and girls crazily.
Because Fafulika had a wound on his forehead, he wore a hat to cover the wound. Walking on the road, you can see villagers being escorted by soldiers from all directions to the village square. The men wore simple tunics that reached above the knees, with loose cloaks on top, and straw sandals or leather shoes on their feet. The women wore hats and folded strips of cloth in their braids. They wear ankle-length skirts, often with braided belts. And the clothing materials are all made of wool. The children looked at the Quito soldiers wearing red military uniforms with fear and curiosity, and held their parents' hands tightly. When they arrived at the square, many people had gathered in the square. They looked panic-stricken and fearful, clinging tightly to their relatives and family members, like a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
After a while, poor Doatina was also brought over by the soldiers. Her top was torn and her crotch was torn. She held her clothes in one hand and her trousers in the other, shedding tears and lowering her head, standing silently beside her parents. And some young women were escorted over naked by the soldiers. Their family immediately took off their coats and put them on them. People were looking at the Quito soldiers with blood-red eyes with extreme fear.
A Quito officer walked to the front of the crowd, raised his hand arrogantly, and shouted loudly, "You are all slaves and servants of the Inca royal family. You are the watchdogs of the Inca royal family. Your ancestors have been loyal to the Inca royal family for generations. Now the Inca The king has been captured, and the Inca royal family is finished, so there is no need for you to stay in this world."
After hearing this, the people knelt down and begged, "please have mercy on me, army, and forgive us?"
The officer hesitated for a moment and then said, "Although you are not given the Inca surname like the villages of Urcos, Yucai and Tempu, you have also served the Inca king and the Inca princes for generations. I I can forgive you, but your masters are almost all dead. You should be buried with your masters and be loyal to them! Otherwise, your masters will be so lonely living in the underworld." Listening to these words, people were simply frightened. At a loss.
The officer asked all the men, women and children in the village to stand in a row, and then asked them to count one, two, three, one, two and three, and asked everyone who counted three, regardless of gender, to stand up. As a result, one-third of the people in each row stood up. Fafulika and her parents-in-law had a total of five people in their family, and poor Doatina and her eleven-year-old brother Lacero were reported as three, so they were immediately pulled out of the queue by the soldiers. Then, the soldiers pulled all the villagers who had counted three and stood in rows in front of the people, and in front of each person stood a soldier holding a tomahawk. At this time, people realized that these people might be killed by soldiers. Because each family had four, five, or seven or eight people, two or three people from each family were pulled out of the crowd by the soldiers.
Among those who were pulled out, women and children began to cry. And their relatives also began to cry, causing the whole square to cry and become very chaotic. Some people want to rush out of the crowd to retrieve their children and women. Fafulika's mother-in-law also cried and shouted and rushed over to pull her precious son and daughter back, but was immediately grabbed by Fafulika. When the commander saw that the crowd was in chaos and some people had already rushed out of the crowd, he ordered the soldiers to suppress it. As a result, the soldiers slashed and killed, and dozens of people fell down immediately. Those who rushed out immediately retreated to their original places.
Then, the commander ordered the soldiers to kill the villagers standing in front of them. The soldiers swung their battle axes and slashed at those people. Just listen to the screams of the people who were chopped down and their relatives. Those who counted three all fell in a pool of blood. Seeing this scene, everyone in the crowd burst into tears.
Then the soldiers held torches and began to burn the house. They still burned one out of every three houses, burning one out of every two houses. After a while, the entire village was in flames and ablaze.
After that, Quito soldiers began to liquidate and retaliate against the villages outside the capital city of Cusco. Based on their close relationship with the royal palace and the princes and nobles, they burned, killed and looted the residents of these villages, and took five measures. Selective killing of one person or ten people. All villages within more than 20 kilometers around the capital of Cusco are in extreme terror.
