Chapter 5: mobilization

In the evening, it was just dark, and the Taiping Army in the mine had already eaten a good meal, standing in the open space full of energy, waiting for Li Mingyuan's order to march.
"Brothers, yesterday, under the guidance of Heavenly Father, we captured the exploiters of the mine. Now we are going to rescue other brothers who are still suffering. Tell me, do you have confidence to defeat the Peruvians?"
有 "Yes," the soldier below made a trembling sound. The riot broke out yesterday. The Taiping Army killed no more than ten people and hit the Peruvian supervisor. And this morning, Shizi bought a large number of weapons. Now they have better muskets than the Peruvian supervisor. Nothing was in yesterday ’s hand. In the case of weapons, the Chinese workers captured all the Peruvian supervisors, and now the muskets are better than them, how can they not beat them.
Although only one day has passed, Li Mingyuan is completely different in the eyes of the ordinary Taiping Army. Before, they also respected Li Mingyuan, but that was because Li Mingyuan was the son of the king, and they respected him better.
But one day later, the situation completely changed. First, Li Mingyuan led everyone to a successful riot, and then this morning brought a lot of weapons to the Taiping Army. If yesterday ’s uprising still had some clever elements, today ’s events cannot be explained by common sense. Now, the soldiers of the Old Taiping Army, including Chen Guozhu, believed that Li Mingyuan could only succeed if he received the guidance of Heavenly Father. Regardless of what Li Mingyuan said, he did not think that it was correct.
The Taiping army has a high morale, and Li Mingyuan is very satisfied. At this stage, the Taiping army is still in a disadvantaged position. Only by bringing together all the Chinese can it survive the Peruvian counterattack.
The Mt. Duraya mine is about forty miles from the mine where Allen is located, and there are about 3,000 Chinese workers.
Li Mingyuan targeted the primary attack target at the Duraya mine, not only because of its short distance, but the main reason was that Duraya, as Peru's logistic base in the saltpeter producing area, stored a large amount of materials and laid down Duraya. The Taiping Army can get a firm foothold, and then arm the Chinese workers around.
三 At three o'clock in the morning, a deep footstep sounded in the woods outside the Duraya mine.
"Shizi, soldiers of all battalions are already in place." Chen Guozhu reported in a deep voice on the edge of the woods.
"Hide in the woods and don't say anything." Li Mingyuan watched the road in front of the mine.
国 Chen Guozhu walked slowly back,
"Don't move to prevent being discovered by Peruvians," Chen Guozhu warned as he walked.
The puppet soldiers passed on to each other, and the soldiers in the back soon calmed down.
"Hill, lead the reconnaissance company and kill the sentries around the mine."
"Yes," Wang Xiaoshan saluted a military salute, ran to the position of the reconnaissance company, and led the soldiers to attack.
Duraya, as a logistic base, stationed a thousand Peruvian regulars. Unlike the last supervisor, Li Mingyuan must spend a lot of effort to eat them.
"Li Sandou, Chen Guozhu, Zhang Ansong."
"To," the three of them named whispered.
"Chen Guozhu, Zhang Ansong, your battalion is the main attack. Immediately I will send you artillery platoons and half machine gun platoons. Within two hours, take me to the front of the mine."
"Guaranteed to complete the task." Chen Guozhu and Zhang Ansong loudly.
"Li Sandou, take your battalion and three machine guns to block the entrance to the valley to prevent reinforcements in the valley."
"Son, let go of a Peruvian soldier. I'll raise my head and see."
"Uncle Li, most of the Peruvian garrison is in the valley. Only by blocking them can they provide time for Uncle Chen to capture the mine, so I hope the brothers can withstand the attack." Li Mingyuan solemnly said.
"Saizi rest assured that Lao Li is also a person who has fought for more than ten years. These Peruvians want to break through Lao's defense and have to learn a few more years."
"Come on the valley line, please, Uncle Li."
明 Li Mingyuan bowed to Li Sandou.
Quiet in the woods, Li Sandou and his soldiers have rushed to the valley to set up a blocking position, and Chen Guozhu and Zhang Ansong also led their troops to the gate of the mine.
Outside the gate of the mine, several ghostly figures quickly moved in the dark.
He slammed, a sharp knife struck a sentinel, and the reconnaissance company behind him covered his mouth with his right hand, dragging the sentinel's body back.
There was a crackle of gunshots, hitting where the sentry was standing,
不好 "No, the enemy has a secret whistle."
No need to warn soldiers to remind, Wang Xiaoshan already knew.
"You two lead someone to kill the secret whistle." The sneak attack was unsuccessful.
"Yes" the squad leader greeted their soldiers and leaned forward.
The dark whistle fired two shots and was killed by the reconnaissance company soldiers who came up behind, but the sound of the gun in the dark whistle had alarmed the Peruvian army in the mine. It was impossible to capture the door as easily as last time.
"Daniel, inform Shizi that the attack failed and let Shizi send troops to reinforce him."
"Yes"
In a Huagong camp at the Dudura deposit, a thirties man in his thirties quietly rubbed an iron rod on a stone.
"Brother Luo, we are defenseless. You can't beat the Peruvians even if you twist the iron rod into an iron gun." A Chinese worker in the tent said.
闭 "Shut up, haven't you suffered enough? Lao Tzu would rather fight with Brother Luo and Peruvians rather than suffer alive."
"Do n’t bother you," the big and powerful man glanced at the two of them with a slant, and they stopped talking.
The man put down the iron rod in his hand and solemnly said, "Peruvian people don't look at us as people. From the mainland, more than a thousand people have died. Are you still not fed up?" The words of the man were getting louder and louder. UU 看书 www A Chinese worker in a tent near .uukanshu.com also ran out to listen to him.
"We Han Chinese have a saying, Wang Hou Jiang Xiangning has a species? We don't ask for high, we don't ask Cheng to be a general, but if I let Lao Tzu die like a pig and dog in the mine, Lao Tzu would never want to." A quick glance at the Chinese workers around: Everyone is a loud man, willing to work with Lao Luo.
"Grandma, I've had enough. I broke my head with a big scar. Eighteen years later, he is a good guy. Brother Luo, Zhao Yunshan did it with you."
"Including me, I have enough life anyway."
Looking at the angry Chinese workers, the man beckoned to stop the following voices: Brothers, now we can't fight the Peruvian army, so we must slowly develop our forces, and when they are negligent, we will start again.
The man's name is Luo Linshan. In the original history, in 1870, Luo Linshan led Chinese miners to riot. Unbearable Chinese workers joined his team, and the number expanded from hundreds to thousands, and even hit once. In the coastal town of Peru, Balanga, in the end, because the gap between the enemy and us was too large, the Chinese workers were annihilated, and the Mount Rollin was also killed.
Although the uprising failed, the Peruvian government's perception of the Chinese has changed significantly, and the Chinese's social status has improved a lot.
"Brother Luo, there are gunshots at the gates, and most of our army has been taken away."
The Chinese workers who sent the whistle hurried back.
Luo Linshan listened carefully, and sure enough he heard gunfire, and the gunfire was getting denser.
"Brothers, God-given opportunity. Peruvians have been transferred, our opportunity is here, everyone rush out with me."
Luo Linshan took Chinese laborers to destroy a small part of the Peruvian army left behind, seized a dozen muskets, and rushed to the place where the gunfire was most intense with the Chinese laborers gathered.