In this night battle at the oasis, the biggest mistake made by the commander of the Bolivian army was this counterattack. Their troops were originally more powerful than the Taiping Army. Twenty-five thousand people fought against ten thousand Taiping Army. As long as they adopted a steady and steady strategy and tactics, they would not suffer too much at all. Big loss.
If they choose to hold on in a circular military formation, then after dawn, the Taiping Army will not be able to take advantage no matter how crazy they are.
Although the Bolivian army has not slept all night, and the sleepiness of the soldiers will reduce their combat effectiveness, don't forget that this place is only 25 kilometers away from Iquique. It will be over after a while. When they join the Peruvian army in Iquique, they will be able to occupy the absolute Take advantage of it and rely on those fortresses to get through life slowly.
It was obviously already till four o'clock, and the sky would be bright if they persisted for another two hours. However, in order to save face and morale, the Bolivian army finally chose to attack.
More than 300 Taiping troops and the Bolivian army in the protrusion were strangled together, artificially creating a protrusion in the southwest. Once the defensive circle protruded, the direct consequence was that the battle line was lengthened and the troops were dispersed.
The thousand soldiers led by Weng Derong took this opportunity to quickly break through the enemy's defense line like a hot knife cutting through butter, and began to massacre inside.
The Bolivian army felt like it had a hole in its belly and quickly mobilized surrounding troops to support it. Now the number of defenders in the direction Chen Yonglu was facing was getting smaller and smaller.
While your illness is killing you, Chen Yonglu jumped up and shouted, "Brothers, come with me... The decisive battle is today! If we win this battle, we will have a good life for the rest of our lives! Follow me and kill..."
"Taiping Army... kill!" Two thousand crazy veterans launched a fierce attack with red eyes. They had already broken through the enemy's defense line with just one charge.
This was incredible. More than 3,300 Taiping troops actually opened a huge gap of more than 150 meters in the 25,000-strong Bolivian defense line, and the front completely collapsed.
The Heavenly Kingdom veterans who are proficient in hand-to-hand combat use the most traditional Chinese bead curtain tactics. They slaughter the Bolivian army in a rhythmic manner, always maintaining a state of melee and chaos. This makes the enemy forces in the rear unable to concentrate their firepower for fear of accidentally injuring friendly forces. .
However, the collapse of the friendly forces had to be rescued. The Bolivian army commander could only peel off layers of soldiers from the inside of the circular defense array to add fuel and jealousy, which caused chaos in the military arrays in other directions.
Tietoutuo opened his pocket watch and saw that it was already past five o'clock in the morning. Now is the best time for a decisive battle. "Brothers! There is no need to keep reserves! The whole army will attack and tear apart the enemy's defense line...Decisive battle! Decisive battle!"
The more than 7,000 reserve troops hidden in the darkness had already built up their energy. The general gave the order and the group of tigers and wolves rushed forward with howls. The shrill sound of horns and the sound of attacking drums resounded throughout the entire desert. It completely exploded.
In the core area of the camp, on the edge of the small oasis, more than a dozen aboriginal families from Osaka crowded into a broken house, listening in horror to the sounds of fighting outside.
The Bolivian army stationed troops here and requisitioned their houses, leaving only the most dilapidated small house for these dozen families. These aborigines thought that the army would leave tomorrow after some sleep, and no one cared about it. However, they never expected that they saw a brutal massacre that they would never forget.
There are gaps in the walls and windows of the mud house. Those who dare lie down in the gaps and look out, while women and children hide in corners and pray desperately to God and the primitive gods.
What a terrifying picture of hell this is. In the light and shadow of the beating bonfire, the brown-clothed soldiers who were killed like gourds of blood chased and slashed the frightened Bolivian army. These efficient killing machines, composed of ten people and eight people in a group, were ruthless and cold. .
Three or four elite veterans armed with peace knives must be followed by five or six long-range troops armed with crossbows or muskets. They form an efficient killing team, without any need for superior command, and can find their position purely by battlefield intuition.
The artillery position was given special attention, and after a hail of swords and arrows, corpses were scattered all over the place. Those field guns quickly turned their muzzles and fired at the densely populated areas of the Bolivian army.
The lion fights the rabbit without mercy. On one side are veterans who have fought many battles, on the other side are farmers who have just been armed. On the other side are bloody battles for survival with no retreat, and on the other side are soldiers who are just dawdling for military pay. Comparing the two, the battlefield situation suddenly becomes A one-sided massacre.
At first it was just a rout of a small unit, but half an hour later there was an organized rout of companies and platoons. The oasis residents in the adobe house watched a Bolivian soldier fall under the wall, and before he could get up, it was peaceful. The knife slashed from behind.
The bloody arrow on the neck spurted out more than half a meter high, followed the gap in the wall, and even rushed into the eyes of the peeping "Ah! God save me, save me..."
"There is someone in this house! Break the door!" There was a loud bang and two soldiers rushed in with the smell of blood. The women and children in the house screamed in surprise.
"It's the common people! Don't worry about them when you leave..." When the two murderers saw that there were women and children inside, they turned around and left in disappointment.
At this moment, the situation of victory and defeat could no longer be reversed. The aboriginal people in the house who had a chance to escape discovered that these murderous gods only killed soldiers and not civilians. They gradually became more courageous. They opened the windows and boldly looked out. .
The east has turned white, and the desert is no longer pitch black. These aborigines covered their mouths for fear of shouting. They found that the oasis they relied on for a living had been dyed red with blood, and the corpses had blocked the springs. .
The ground was covered with corpses, and there must be five or six thousand of them scattered everywhere. The Bolivian army that fled in the desert in the east threw away all their baggage and even their muskets. They kept their heads down and ran for their lives. It was all because their parents did not give birth to two more. Legs out.
The brown-coated army had long since turned into the red-coated army and the blood-coated army. They chased after them like herding sheep and drove the defeated soldiers deeper into the desert.
A bald general who was as strong as a mountain walked heavily to the edge of the oasis. He frowned at the pool of blood and spoke a few words in a language that the indigenous people could not understand. Then a group of soldiers began to clean up the edge of the spring. At the same time, a gong sounded on the battlefield.
"Is it going to end? God bless us, we finally survived..." More than a dozen families of indigenous people hugged each other and cried.
The sound of drums means advancement, and the sound of gold means retreat. The pursuing Taiping soldiers finally stopped after hearing the sound of gongs. They looked at the Bolivian army in the distance, running faster than alpacas, and suddenly erupted like a roaring mountain and a tsunami. Roar.
"Victory! Great victory! Long live..."
Weng Derong and Chen Yonglu came to the edge of the oasis covered in blood and said with great excitement, "We have won, a great victory! We veterans of the Kingdom of Heaven can still fight, we can still fight!"
Tietutuo patted them both on the shoulders, "It's not the time to celebrate yet. Lao Chen stayed behind to clean up the battlefield. The old man and I worked hard and selected thousands of elites to support Iquique... Do you know? Just when the war started Previously, the President of Chile has promised us that after the fall of Iquique, half of the city will be allocated to us as a Chinese concession for a period of one hundred years!"
"We finally found a way out for these more than 10,000 brothers. It's not easy!"
