Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 26: Fierce Battle III
"Everyone retreat from the positions and make way for the cavalry regiment." Zhang Ansong shouted loudly, looking at the advancing cavalry soldiers through a telescope.

After the Peruvian artillery counterattack, Zhang Ansong's soldiers had already broken contact with the Peruvian army on the opposite side. After the order was given, the soldiers retreated quickly.

"All cannons fire immediately." Just as the cavalry regiment attacked, Cannon Luo immediately ordered the artillery to bombard the Peruvian army positions to the west.

The Peruvian army in the western position was attacked with a relatively low intensity, so the Peruvian soldiers on the position were constantly transferred to reinforce other directions.

Suddenly, they were hit by a round of saturation fire from the Chinese artillery. The Peruvian soldiers on the position were stunned for an instant and hid behind the bunker with their heads in their hands.

The cavalry soldiers arrived in a flash, quickly breaking through Zhang Ansong's defense line, raising a cloud of dust.

"You damn cavalry regiment, you dare to make me eat dust. I'll teach you a lesson next time I see you." A soldier was blinded by the dust raised by the cavalry regiment's troopers, and cursed while rubbing his eyes.

Other soldiers whose throats were choked by the smoke and dust also cursed in the direction the cavalry regiment was running.

"Commander, our division only defended the position and did not attack, and in the end we had to give the position to the cavalry regiment. Isn't this bullying?" Qiu Mingzhang, the commander of the first regiment under Zhang Ansong, said dissatisfiedly.

"What's the point of you complaining to me? If you have the guts, go complain to the prince. I'm already pissed off."

Qiu Mingzhang didn't expect that his usually peaceful commander would get so angry. He lowered his head and dared not speak.

Zhang Ansong was indeed furious. When the troops set out, he was thinking about having a big fight with the Peruvians. However, before the attack, Li Mingyuan suddenly ordered that the east should be the main attack direction, and the other two directions should be feint attacks, with the aim of tying down the Peruvian troops in their respective directions.

Zhang Ansong was dissatisfied, but with a big battle ahead, he had to keep his dissatisfaction to himself. The complaints from his regiment commander ignited his dissatisfaction, so he got so angry.

After scolding, Zhang Ansong felt better. He said to Qiu Mingzhang who dared not speak, "Why are you still standing there? The cavalry regiment has already attacked. Lead your regiment to attack with all their strength. Don't let the cavalry regiment's brats take the limelight."

"Yes, commander." Qiu Mingzhang was scolded by Zhang Ansong, and he was holding his anger and was ready to vent it on the Peruvians.

The cavalry soldiers charged at full speed, and only reacted when they were almost in front of the Peruvian position.

The artillery regiment of the Romanian artillery fired a round of shots and stopped before the cavalry regiment rushed to the Peruvian position.

More than nine hundred war horses rushed at full speed, making the rumbling sound of a huge earthquake.

A Peruvian soldier hiding in a bunker heard the vibration and walked out of the bunker to see what was happening, only to see thousands of war horses galloping towards him.

"Enemy attack." The Peruvian soldier shouted a warning and raised his musket to shoot, but was killed by a big man who rushed over with a knife.

"Leave the enemies on the position to the infantry behind. All cavalry soldiers should not fight to the death. Follow me directly to the artillery position." Cavalry commander Li Dawei ordered loudly after killing an enemy.

The Peruvian army on the western position did not expect that the Chinese Independence Army would send out cavalry to attack. They were in a panic for a while, and their defense line was completely penetrated by the cavalry regiment.

The troops in the western position were led by the commander of the Second Brigade under Umato. Faced with a situation where they were bound to lose, he did not have the courage to face death. He immediately led more than 200 soldiers around him to surrender, fearing that if he surrendered too late, he would be mistakenly killed by the Chinese Independence Army.

"Captain, the Peruvian garrison wants to surrender to us."

"I don't have time to accept their surrender and ask them to surrender to the infantry behind them."

"But there is a brigade commander among them."

"Commander Zhang has helped us a lot, so we will give the position of Peruvian brigade commander to him. Let's go and capture the leader of the Peruvian army." Li Dawei said generously.

The Peruvian brigade commander and more than 100 soldiers stayed in place, waiting to surrender to the cavalry regiment, but when the cavalry soldiers passed by them, they ran straight past without stopping, which frightened the Peruvian brigade commander and made him think that the Chinese troops would not accept their surrender. They were not relieved until the infantry troops behind them captured them.

"Commander, we caught a big fish. He is the brigade commander of the Peruvian army." A soldier said excitedly.

After the cavalry regiment broke through the western defense line, the Peruvian soldiers on the position did not offer much resistance and surrendered to Zhang Ansong's troops under the leadership of the brigade commander.

"Bring him here. I want to see what the Peruvian brigade commander is like." Zhang Ansong said with satisfaction. There were originally 4,000 Peruvian soldiers on the western defense line. Later, more than 1,000 were transferred away, leaving 2,700. The battle on the western position was not fierce, so the Peruvian army suffered only more than 200 casualties when surrendering, and the other 2,500 were all taken prisoner.

"Please ask him why he surrendered so quickly." Zhang Ansong said to a Chinese officer beside him who knew Spanish.

The officer asked him a question and then relayed the Peruvian brigade commander's words to Zhang Ansong.

After listening to this, Zhang Ansong immediately realized that the position of Peruvian brigade commander was given to him by Li Dawei.

Zhang Ansong had fought for more than ten years, so he never asked for credit given to him for nothing. He left 500 men to guard the prisoners and led the rest of the soldiers to attack the town.

"Commander, the enemy has breached our western position. Let's retreat quickly."

The artillery battalion commander at the artillery position advised.

Umato stood on a high place and saw the cavalry regiment attacking.

It would be difficult for the Peruvian troops in the east, west and south to retreat now, and Umato was struggling violently in his heart.

"Commander, if we retreat now, we can still keep some soldiers. If we retreat any later, all the brothers will not be able to get out."

"Figrandet, you and I will retreat together. Order the artillery battalion and the guard troops to block the enemy on the spot."

Time was urgent, and Umato had no choice but to sacrifice the car to save the driver and gave the order immediately.

"Yes, sir." Figrande handed the sniping mission to the chief officer of the guard force and quickly fled with Umato.

When Umato fled, he left behind all the machine guns with him. When the cavalry regiment arrived, the Peruvian machine guns caused them a lot of trouble.

The cavalry regiment and the broadsword team were both treasures in Li Mingyuan's heart. Li Dawei did not dare to consume too much cavalry. In the situation where a strong attack might result in considerable losses, he stopped and waited until Zhang Ansong's infantry arrived before capturing the position.

"Where is your top commander?" After the battle, Li Dawei grabbed the chief officer of the Peruvian guard force and asked.

"Captain Li, he said their commander has run away."

Said the Chinese soldier who knew Spanish.

(Peru was originally a Spanish colony, and the official language is Spanish.)
"Brothers, follow me on horseback and capture the Peruvian leader."

Before the attack, Li Mingyuan told Li Dawei the intelligence obtained by the soldiers of the reconnaissance company.

The Peruvian artillery battalion, like the Chinese Independence Army, was directly under the command of the headquarters. When the artillery battalion played a major role in the battle, the Peruvian army commander would definitely place the headquarters not far from the artillery unit and command the artillery unit nearby to provide support to other areas.

The chief officer of the Peruvian army was let go, and the artillery unit was captured by Zhang Ansong's troops. Li Dawei fought for half a day without gaining any benefit, so he was certainly not satisfied, so the cavalry regiment chased in the direction of Umato's escape.

To the north, Umato deployed 2,000 troops. Together with the troops that joined during the escape, when they arrived at the ambush site set by Liu Pu, Umato's troops had more than 4,700 people.
Umato breathed a sigh of relief after nearly one-third of the army escaped. It was impossible to rescue the city of Arequipa. Now his first priority was to get more than 4,000 people out safely.

"Commander, the road ahead is blocked by the rebels." Umato had just sat down to rest when he heard some bad news.

"Everyone." Umato fired a shot into the air and shouted, "Brothers, the road ahead is occupied by the rebels. Only by defeating them can we return home safely. Do you want to go home?"

"Think," Umato's unit was known as the elite of Peru, but after two days of emergency marching, they were attacked fiercely by the Chinese Independence Army before they had time to rest. The more than 4,000 soldiers who were lucky enough to escape now only want to return home safely.

Don't pursue a desperate enemy. In order to return home safely, more than 4,000 Peruvian soldiers burst out their last bit of strength and attacked the positions of the Chinese Independence Army without regard for their lives.

(End of this chapter)