Hernando Pizarro had persuaded Chalcuchimac, camped with…
September 1533 CE
Hernando Pizarro had persuaded Chalcuchimac, camped with an army of thirty-five thousand in the Jauja Valley, that he had been called to Cajamarca by Atahualpa after the Battle of Cajamarca.
Chalcuchimac had also also been arrested by the Spaniards, who feared he might resume hostilities.
Once Atahualpa has been executed, Pizarro had advanced with his army of five hundred Spaniards toward Cuzco, accompanied by Chalcuchimac, then Manco Inca Yupanqui, after the death of Túpac Huallpa.
Pizarro’s small army marches towards the capital, encountering resistance at Jauja, Vilcashuamán, Vilaconga, and Cuzco, in each case successfully pitting a few score horsemen against thousands, or tens of thousands, of natives.
The natives have attacked these troops several times with such spirit and discipline that the Spaniards suspect Chialiquichiama is in secret communication with the Indians and directing their operations.
There is a rumor that Quizquiz, the leader of the native resistance, had received communications from his imprisoned colleague Chialiquichiama, letting him know the Spanish force is divided and how best to profit by this circumstance.
The suspicions, though not sufficiently proved to justify his fate, are enough to decide it, and Pizarro sentences him to be burned alive.
Like Atahualpa, the general is offered a less painful death if he will become a Christian, but he refuses to be baptized, and dies according to the sentence, remonstrating to the last moment against the injustice of his condemnation.
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