Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 31: Encircling the Peruvian Cavalry
The large military horse farm discovered by Sun Yanming was the private property of the Peruvian warlord Thomas. When Arequipa was surrounded, Thomas ordered Morabassi, who was in charge of the supervision of military horses, to concentrate and hide several major large horse farms.

Thomas and Morabassi underestimated the strength of the Chinese Independence Army. They thought that with the help of three Peruvian reinforcements, the Chinese army would be quickly defeated. Therefore, Morabassi simply moved the war horses to a mountain three hundred miles away from Arequipa, wanting to wait until the Peruvian reinforcements defeated the Chinese Independence Army before returning.

"Lord Morabasai, there has been no news from the people sent to Arequipa. Is Arequipa City in danger?"

"The city of Arequipa is well defended, and General Iquidoc has 7,000 elite troops under his command. Even if we cannot leave the city for a decisive battle, we will have no problem defending the city gates." Morabase did not believe that the Chinese army could capture the city of Arequipa, but he had not received any news from Arequipa for two days, and he was a little worried.

"Send two more groups of soldiers all the way to Arequipa and find out the whereabouts of General Umato."

According to the distance from Puno to Arequipa, Umato should have arrived in Arequipa a day ago. Now there is no news. Could it be that he was delayed for other reasons? Morabasai thought to himself.

Six Peruvian soldiers, each with two horses, galloped out of the military horse farm and headed straight for the cavalry regiment.

"Captain Fang, take a platoon to stop them. Remember to capture them alive." At the exit of the mountain, Li Dawei said to the reconnaissance captain.

"Understood," said the reconnaissance company commander Fang Minhong, who pulled his warhorse and led thirty cavalrymen to encircle the Peruvian cavalry on both sides.

The Cavalry Regiment is the spearhead of the Chinese Independence Army, and the Cavalry Regiment's Reconnaissance Company is the sharpest of the spearhead.

"There are enemies. The Peruvian missionaries spotted the Chinese cavalry coming from both sides, raised an alarm, and the six of them dispersed.

The standard equipment of the cavalry soldiers was a rifle and a saber.

Fang Minghong is different from ordinary cavalrymen. In addition to a sword and a gun, he also has a bow and arrow.

Bows and arrows have withdrawn from the historical stage of war after the popularization of firearms. However, as a cavalry officer, Fang Minghong believed that a true cavalryman must be someone who understands archery, so he always carried his bow and arrows. Even when he came to South America to work as a miner, he buried the bow and arrows not far from the mine.

After Li Mingyuan launched the Chinese workers' uprising, Fang Minghong joined the Chinese Independence Army. Because of his excellent riding skills, he was appointed as a reconnaissance company commander by Li Daweiyuan.

Fang Minghong rode his horse to chase a Peruvian cavalryman.
It was totally useless for the six Peruvian cavalrymen to flee separately. Fang Minghong put down his right hand and made a gesture of free fighting. The surrounding soldiers immediately understood, turned their horses around, and chased the six Peruvian soldiers separately.

The soldiers of the reconnaissance company were quite capable, but the Peruvian cavalry sent by Morabasei this time were no mediocre soldiers either. The six Peruvian cavalry charged left and right, constantly mobilizing the Chinese cavalry who were blocking them, and they were actually on par with the thirty soldiers of the reconnaissance company.

These six Peruvian cavalrymen are authentic descendants of Indians. Unlike the descendants of European immigrants such as Thomas, they still retain some of the original fighting blood of their nation.

"Brothers, leave one or two alive and kill the rest." Fang Minghong was worried that if they continued like this, the Peruvian cavalry would escape, so he gave the order decisively.

Just now, considering Li Dawei's order to leave some people alive, the thirty soldiers of the reconnaissance company used the tactics of encirclement and blockade, with five soldiers from the reconnaissance company forming a group to encircle one Peruvian cavalryman.

Upon hearing that there were only one or two survivors left, the soldiers of the reconnaissance company stopped circling around with the Peruvian cavalry and opened fire directly on horseback.

The accuracy of shooting on horseback is not as high as aiming and shooting on the ground, but if five or six Chinese cavalrymen shoot together, one or two will always hit the target.

The Chinese soldiers started fighting and the Peruvian cavalry could no longer hold on. After two rounds of shooting by the reconnaissance company, only two of the six Peruvian cavalry were still on their horses. They were surrounded on three sides by rifle fire from the reconnaissance company soldiers. Only Fang Minhong was riding a horse on the south side.

The remaining two Peruvian cavalrymen glanced at each other and rushed towards Fang Minghong at the same time.

Fang Minghong smiled. He was waiting for the Peruvian cavalry to fall into his trap. He whipped his horse and charged at the two Peruvian cavalry at full speed.

Fang Minghong closed the distance between himself and the two Peruvian cavalrymen to within 100 meters. Holding the reins in his left hand, he raised his rifle with his right hand and pulled the trigger. Using the inertia of high-speed impact while riding a horse, he shot the right hand of the Peruvian cavalryman in front of him who was holding the gun. The Peruvian cavalryman whose right hand was hit felt the pain and fell off his horse. He was captured and tied up by the soldiers of the reconnaissance company who were following closely behind.

The remaining Peruvian cavalry showed a look of shock. With pursuers behind and powerful enemies in front, he had no time to hesitate and immediately raised his rifle to shoot at Fang Minghong. The Peruvian cavalry lost his aim due to panic and the bullet missed Fang Minghong by two meters.
When the Peruvian cavalry raised their guns to shoot, Fang Minghong had already reacted. He threw away the rifle in his hand and quickly hid behind the horse. After the Peruvian cavalry fired a shot, he pulled the longbow to its full extent and shot an arrow, aiming directly at the thigh of the Peruvian cavalry.
With a scream, the Peruvian cavalryman was shot in the leg and fell off his horse.
When Fang Minghong was shooting arrows, his first target was to shoot the horse, because the horse would surely throw the Peruvian cavalryman off the horse after being hit by the arrow. This was much easier than shooting a person.
But Fang Minghong thought again. If he shot the horse, Li Dawei would definitely scold him given his temper.
There was no other way. The Chinese Independence Army did not have many horses. Li Dawei wanted to use all the horses that Li Mingyuan had allocated to senior officers as cavalry. If Fang Minghong shot and killed a war horse for no reason, he would be angry.

After dealing with the two Peruvian cavalrymen, Fang Minghong breathed a sigh of relief. The life of riding and shooting arrows was exactly what he liked.

"The company commander is a great shooter. He took down two Peruvian cavalrymen in one go." The soldiers from the reconnaissance company who arrived praised.

"Captain, you are such a great archer. When will you shoot down an Andean condor for our brothers to see?"

"Yes, Captain. The injuries of the sacred eagle shot down by the prince a month ago have all recovered. Last time I saw the prince training an eagle in person."

Every soldier wants to own a war horse or an eagle, and Fang Minghong is no exception.

"No problem. When the troops are resting, I will ask the commander for permission and we will catch the eagle together then." Fang Minghong said with a smile.

Taking away twelve military horses and two captured Peruvian cavalrymen, Fang Minghong returned to the cavalry regiment's hiding place.

The soldiers of the cavalry regiment interrogated the two Peruvian cavalrymen in various ways, and they immediately told them everything they knew.

"Captain, they don't know yet that Arequipa has been captured."

"In order to conquer other places smoothly, the prince imposed martial law around Arequipa, so the news did not spread." Li Dawei said.

"We have figured out the enemy's situation. Commander, give the order to attack."

While Fang Minghong was rounding up the Peruvian cavalry, the other three squads joined up with Li Dawei one after another.

With sufficient manpower, Li Dawei did not hesitate and immediately ordered an attack.

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