BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ARMY OF ECUADOR.
subject who originated this fratricidal war, were tied to a tree and killed by arrows.”5 By knowing in Cuzco the defeat of his army, Huascar appoints Huanca Auqui new commander of the forces that had to be renewed and strengthened. In the vicinity of Tomebamba, possibly in mid-1529, another formidable confrontation was staged. The initiative of Atahualpa and his generals to attack by surprise in the early morning, he made his adversaries were declared in defeat, left the battlefield and even the city of Tomebamba, and headed Cusibamba, where he made another confrontation. Cieza de León briefly narrates this battle: “In the province of the Paltas near Coxobamba (Cuxibamba), found each other... they say that Atahualpa was placed in a Cerrillo (climbed a hill). Atahualpa was victorious killed one another, more than 35,000 men and many were injured.” In this battle, according to the version of the Spanish chronicler, Atahualpa controlled and directed the battle from a hill, and using messengers gave the relevant provisions.
WAY TO CUZCO. The defeated forces Huanca Auqui fleeing south, concentrated in Cajamarca where ten thousand soldiers Chachapoyas were incorporated. In this regard, Luis Andrade Reimers, transcribed fragment chronicler Cabello de Balboa: “It could get Guanca Auqui to Cajamarca where found, mandated by Huascar, medium and reinforcing his army, especially Chachapoyas found ten thousand Indians who were famous and marked “6 In Cochahuaila confrontation occurred. Quisquis attacked chachapoyas they were outnumbered, producing them eight thousand casualties, and then the rest of the 5 Carrión, Benjamin, “Atahualpa” Ariel Classics No. 38. 6 Reimers Andrade, Luis, “The Heroic Century” N ° 23, 24, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces.
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