Chapter 78: Misjudgment

A few strands of cooking smoke rose from the woods on the southern shore of the tidy Lake Titicaca. Looking carefully, under the wood was a humble thatched hut. The rising cooking smoke was produced by the owner of the house.
In the front of the thatched house is an empty meadow, with seven or eight hundred children in a circle.
I watched over thirty young men with muskets in front.
"Bang, bang," made more than thirty gunshots in succession, ammunition hit the big tree in front, and blasted some withered wood debris.
"Lord, you see, the rifle ammunition shot into the tree." After the shooting, a young Indian was surprised.
The Tatar Indian patriarch picked up the bark that was shot down by the musket, and looked at the damage caused by the musket to the big tree. A tense smile appeared on the tight face.
"Friends from afar did not deceive us. The muskets they sent were very powerful."
"With these muskets, we can hunt more prey, and the children in the village do not have to go hungry." An old hunter said happily.
不 "No, these muskets are not used for hunting. I want to use it to protect the village."
明 Li Mingyuan gave them outdated backward weapons, but these weapons seemed very precious in the hands of the Indians.
Because it was a eliminated musket, Li Mingyuan sent out 1,500 bullets, with an average of 50 bullets per rifle. If they hunt with muskets, these bullets can be used for a period of time.
白人 "White people are greedy hungry wolves. They invaded our land and drove us to the desolate mountains and deep forests. We can no longer trust their lies and use our own weapons to protect the village."
"Patriarch Bamosa, give me these muskets, I will teach the warriors in the village to use muskets."
A strong Indian man with a feather in his head shouted.
"Bennady, you are a warrior among the Aymaras, and I believe you will lead a group of brave warriors."
The Indian with feathers on his was named Bernardi. When the army slaughtered the Indians a few years ago, Bernardi killed two Bolivian soldiers and escaped from the city of Barras, so he was respected as a warrior.
五 Fifty or six miles away from the Indian village, the Bolivian army marching heard a sound of gunfire.
哪里 "Where's the gunshot?" The lead officer asked after the gunshot,
报告 "Report to the sir, the gunfire came from the forest in the north."
"Which Indian tribe is north?"
"The Aymara tribe lived in the forest in the north. Their original gathering place was near Balas, but they were later rushed to live in the mountains."
哦 "Oh, Aymara, they are the barbarians of the Indians. When the last rebellion was suppressed, a dozen soldiers died in the hands of Aymara."
"Sir, you suspect that the Aymara attacked Major Baavi's forces?"
不错 "Yes, didn't you hear the gunshot?"
"But the sound of gunfire is sparse, unlike the sound of more than two hundred troops."
"Probably Major Barvey is about to end the battle, so the gunfire is thinned out." The lead officer began.
"Sir, please take us there, things that are late will be snatched out by Major Pavi's men."
I heard the words of my parents, the soldiers immediately came to spirit.
It is profitable to follow the others to grab the fruits of victory without taking risks. Of course, the enthusiasm of the soldiers is high.
"Major Bavi has defeated the Indians in the front. I am afraid they are catching people all over the mountains now," the army officer led a loud rendering of the benefits in front of them waiting for the soldiers to take them. After the soldiers heard it, they shouted to go Help allies.
精神 The spirit of the Bolivian soldiers was mobilized, and the leading officer did not pause, and immediately led the soldiers towards the Indian village.
杀 "Kill, grab an alpaca, grab a woman!" The excited Bolivian soldiers yelled before entering the Indian village.
"What's the sound?" Benardi, who had just distributed the rifle, asked.
"Benaldi, look! It's whites and Messito! (Mestis is an Indian name for a biracial in Bolivia.)"
"Basang, please tell the patriarch that the white army is coming to attack us." Benardi held the musket in his hand and yelled at the Indians around him. retreat."
Bolivian soldiers attacked abruptly, although their identity was revealed in advance, but when Benadi led an Indian young man with more than 100 people to the fence surrounded by wood, more than 20 Bolivian soldiers had turned over Fence, preparing to dash towards the village.
"Shoot." Benadi shouted, and then fired. "Bounce" seven or eight Bolivian soldiers were shot by muskets and fell to the ground.
The sudden shooting delayed the Bolivian soldiers' offensive speed, and they did not expect that the backward Indians also had muskets.
The Tatar Indians' first-round shooting results were not ideal. More than thirty muskets only injured seven or eight enemies, and the hit rate was very low.
成果 The results of the first round of shooting were seen in the eyes of Bernardi, which made him very anxious.
Few Indians use muskets, even those who are proficient in musket shooting skills. There are more than thirty temporary musket hands, and fewer than ten people have touched them before. Nadi killed two Bolivian soldiers, and then trained them with rifles that he had snatched. Only eight or nine Indians were exposed to them.
"Quickly stop them." When the Indians were firing, Bolivian soldiers outside the fence continued to pour in. When the Indians finished firing the ammunition in the musket, more than 20 Bolivian soldiers entered the fence.
Tochigi fences are the most advantageous protective tool for Indians. If the enemy is allowed to cross the wooden fence now, the Indians in the village will end very miserably.
An Indian who was stuck in front of a wooden fence by a cricket was besieged by two Bolivian soldiers. When he blocked a soldier's attack with a bayonet on a musket, the other soldier pierced the bayonet into his body. The pain was abnormal. The Indians wanted to fight back, but were stabbed into the heart by the soldiers who were behind them and fell to the ground weakly. UU Reading Book www.uukanshu.com
Bolivian soldiers are shooting while moving forward. Within a few minutes, less than half of the more than one hundred Indians who arrived first can stand up.
However, their sacrifice is meaningful. The sacrifice of more than 50 Indian youths earned time for the Indians who came later. Under the leadership of the patriarch, all the men who could afford weapons in the entire Indian village rushed to the two sides to fight At that time, the Indians used the advantage of numbers to temporarily drive the Bolivian soldiers out of the fence, and the two sides temporarily suspended the war across the fence.
The brief confrontation caused a lot of casualties to both sides. As the offensive side, Bolivian soldiers who entered the fence in front killed more than 40 people and injured more than 20 people. Indians suffered even more casualties, with more than 180 people. Injured, with fewer deaths than Bolivian soldiers and more than 30 killed.
During the intermission, the old patriarch looked at the people who suffered heavy casualties. He couldn't help grief. He didn't understand why the white officers and men attacked them. There were more than 400 soldiers outside the fence. People, in the fighting just now, more than 200 Indians have been killed or injured, and the men who can stand up to the enemy's attack are less than 600.
It is impossible for more than 600 old and weakly wounded soldiers to repel more than 400 Bolivian soldiers. Even though Bolivian soldiers are just ordinary security forces, their weapons are still stronger than Indians holding bows and arrows and a small number of muskets.
The contrast between the enemy and our forces is too disparate, and the old patriarch was sad and angry: "The great Sun God save your people!"
The sun is the most worshiped deity of the Indians, but when the Western colonists slaughtered the Indians, the gods were not manifested, let alone this time.
The old Patriarch was sad and sad, and his face was still comforted with a calm expression on his face.