What are some of the classic battles in history in which less wins more? You might think of the Battle of the Giant Deer, the Battle of Chibi, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Midway, and so on, but 5 centuries ago, there was such a bizarre battle in South America: more than 100 rabble-rousers, crushing 80,000 troops, taking the emperor prisoner, and incidentally destroying an empire.
In 1532, the illiterate Spaniard Francesco. Pizarro, with an irregular army of 168 men, embarked on a journey to South America, preparing to invade the Inca Empire, which was home to 6 million people. It sounds like a fantasy, but the paradoxes of history are always so unexpected.
Pizarro preached to the locals: "We have come with peace, take us to your chief." On 16 November, he successfully met the Inca Emperor Atahurpaio at Cajamarca, a long-planned conspiracy by Pizarro's fellow Spaniards to wipe out the Aztec Empire and sweep through most of the Caribbean islands.
The Inca Empire knew nothing about it at this time, and to them, this group of pale-skinned, thick-haired people seemed to be from an alien planet, they were small in number, their military discipline was not strict, and they did not look threatening at all. The People of the Inca Empire were convinced that they already knew the whole world, and could not believe that there was such a group of people named Spain.
However, it was such a group of "ragged" Spaniards who rushed into the tents of the Inca Empire, looking east and west, with a glint in their eyes that the Incas could not understand, and they seemed to be shocked by the neatly groomed ranks of the Inca army and the tents that spread over the mountains.
Indeed, the Spaniards were all terrified and overwhelmed at the sight of the Inca army, so many men, so many non-commissioned officers, and although the weapons they were holding looked ridiculously cheap, even a single spit would drown them. But by now, they couldn't show cowardice or turn away, or the Incas might have killed them on the spot.
At noon, they finally met the Emperor of the Inca Empire, who sat in a splendid palanquin decorated with bright feathers, dazzling gold and silver, and carried on the shoulders of 80 lords dressed in blue. Emperor Atahualpa himself wore an embroidered brocade and a crown full of jewels. Pizarro looked at him darkly, like a pig with a plank.
Pizarro arranged for others to ambush in the courtyard and asked a monk to talk to Atahualpa. Holding a cross in one hand and a Bible in the other, the friar proudly proclaimed to the Emperor that he should obey the authority of Jesus Christ and be loyal to His Majesty the King of Spain. He stepped forward, through the heavy Inca troops, and handed the Bible to the emperor.
Atahualpa took the Bible, but he didn't know how to open it, he had never seen the book, and thought it was a box of treasures for the Spaniards. The monk wanted to help, but the emperor was furious and punched the monk in the arm. When he opened the book himself, he found that there was no treasure in it, and angrily threw the Bible on the ground, his face flushed.
The monk returned to Pizarro and shouted, "Come out, Christians, someone dares to throw the Bible to the ground!" Rush to them and let these blind guys get punished! ”
Suddenly, the Spaniards, who had been ambushed in advance, suddenly rushed out, took out their muskets, and fired indiscriminately at the Incas. The blade-wielding man frantically slashed at the soldiers with stone axes and wooden sticks. The Incas were stunned, and for a moment they did not know how to react, and they could only run away in a frenzy, crowding people, bumping people, stepping on people, and killing and injuring countless people.
These Incas were as unarmed as the Spaniards were, and with panic and fear, the Spaniards slaughtered them almost without danger and at will. Even if some of the slightly more heroic Incas organized skirmishes, they still could not make waves. They found that the armor worn by these Spaniards seemed to be invincible, and their stone axes instantly disintegrated when they touched the steel knives of the Spaniards, and the most terrifying thing was that the Spaniards held iron rods that could ignite, and every time the flames flashed, accompanied by a huge rumble, an Inca in the distance fell to the ground.
Atahualpa was now retreating in a panic under the protection of several loyal guards, but was caught by the sharp-eyed Pizarro, who rushed to the emperor quickly, easily killing several guards and capturing the emperor of the Inca Empire.
The emperor's captives made the Incas lose their souls and flee in terror, while the cruel Spaniards did not intend to spare them, and they were in a relentless pursuit of them and unilaterally slaughtered them, and if it were not for the nightfall, these tens of thousands of Incas would have all been buried here. According to historians, about 6,000-7,000 Incas died in this battle, and Pizarro's troops were almost unharmed.
Pizarro's massacre of the Incas is only a microcosm of the horrific aggression that Europeans have committed against the Indians since the 16th century. Since the Discovery of the American Continent by the Spaniards, groups of Europeans have gone to the New World to "pan for gold", and soldiers, criminals, and hooligans have plundered and slaughtered Indians again and again, and centuries later, almost the entire continent of Indians has survived.
And what is most infuriating is that for hundreds of years, these Europeans have never had any remorse for their ancestors who committed heinous crimes. They have enjoyed the wealth they have plundered for generations, based on the blood of Indians, but they can shamelessly accuse China of "human rights problems" and "genocide", which is really ironic!