Tom Holland

I mean, you might get a lucky blow in.

What about one of those pieces of string with stones on either end and you throw them?

Oh, yes.

And they go around the hooves and bring them down.

That's what I would do.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

In a film, that's what they would have.

I mean, they would do the excellent slingshot action.

I mean, they do have slings.

But they just are never able to bring any of these people down.

So we're now up to November 1533, and now a massively important figure enters this story.

So a day or so after the last skirmish at Vilcoconga, a group of locals approach the Spanish camp.

And one of them, and I quote, looking like a common Indian, I mean, obviously all through this story, the Spanish call the locals Indians.

He identifies himself and he says, I am Manco.

I am the younger brother of the late Huascar.

I'm a son of the late Emperor Huayna Capac.

I am the new candidate of the southern faction, the Cuzco faction in the Civil War.

How old this guy is, we don't quite know.

Some Spaniards said he was 15.

Some said he was 20 but looked younger.