Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 81 Disarm
ps: Thanks to the lazy readers for the reward

After Bavi and his adjutant escaped, they also led the cavalry of the reconnaissance battalion that was chasing them to the outside of the Indian village.

Bavi warned the Bolivian officers who were attacking the Indian village in advance, hoping that they would leave before the arrival of the enemy's main force. The Bolivian officers did not believe it at first, and sent out more than a hundred soldiers to eliminate the more than twenty cavalrymen from the reconnaissance battalion who were rushing over. As a result, they failed to catch the enemy and suffered more than thirty casualties on their side.

After personally experiencing the power of the Chinese Independence Army, the Bolivian officer decisively ordered his troops to retreat, which led to the scene the Indians had just seen.

The troops attacking the Indians were local security forces, all infantry. Therefore, although they escaped some time in advance, they were soon caught up by the cavalry troops led by Li Mingyuan.

More than a thousand Chinese cavalrymen surrounded the Bolivian soldiers like herding ducks. The surrounded Bolivian soldiers had completely lost the excitement they had just had when attacking the Indians. They held their muskets nervously but did not dare to shoot.

"Go, ask their commander to come out. I want to talk to him." Li Mingyuan called out, and Zhao Erlang once again came out to act as a messenger.

During the battle that took place in the morning, Zhao Erlang reacted quickly and lay on the ground in time, luckily avoiding the shooting of the Bolivian soldiers without suffering any harm.

With the lesson learned from the morning's battle, Zhao Erlang was much more cautious when he acted as a messenger again. He secretly thought in his heart that he should not be too close to the enemy this time. If the situation was not right, he would run back immediately.

However, Zhao Erlang's worries were unnecessary this time. The Bolivians in the encirclement of the Chinese cavalry were afraid of angering the Chinese cavalry, so how could they seek death by shooting him? After Zhao Erlang shouted out Li Mingyuan's request, the Bolivian soldiers became agitated. After a while, a Bolivian officer walked out of the encirclement. It was Bavi who had just escaped.

Among the besieged Bolivian troops, Bavi had the same rank as the commander of the security forces, but Bavi was a direct subordinate of Balivian, so he was elected as a representative to negotiate with the Chinese Independence Army.

The Bolivian soldiers sent out their representatives obediently. Zhao Erlang breathed a sigh of relief and took Bavi to the back to meet Li Mingyuan.

"Sir, the person has been brought here."

A team of cavalry made way for him, and Bavi saw Li Mingyuan riding on horseback.

"Zhao Erlang, I heard about what happened at noon. You did a good job. I will now appoint you as Captain Du of the Third Company of the Reconnaissance Battalion and the Platoon Leader of the Third Platoon. As for the soldiers, they will be selected from your original village."

The reconnaissance battalion, like other field troops, was understaffed, and the third platoon of the reconnaissance battalion promised by Li Mingyuan did not exist, so Zhao Erlang needed to recruit his men from scratch.

After Zhao Erlang and the Chinese descendants in his village joined the Chinese Independence Army, they helped the army to gather intelligence and made considerable contributions. So Li Mingyuan took this opportunity today to appoint Zhao Erlang as the deputy company commander of the reconnaissance battalion, which was also a recognition of the contributions of the descendants of the Ming people in Peru.

"I thank you, Your Highness," Zhao Erlang excitedly knelt down and saluted to Li Mingyuanxing.

Zhao Erlang and the descendants of Ming Dynasty Chinese in the village look different from the Chinese. Although the Chinese Independence Army accepted them, they still feel a little inferior. Therefore, when facing orders from the army commander, Zhao Erlang always takes them seriously and strives to complete the task better.

Now that Li Mingyuan has personally recognized his contribution and promoted him to deputy company commander of the reconnaissance battalion, Zhao Erlang was so excited that he performed the long-abolished kneeling ceremony to kowtow to him.

"We are all brothers in the army. You can salute between superiors and subordinates. You are not allowed to kneel down to show respect anymore."

The backbone of the Chinese Independence Army were the survivors of the Taiping Army. The humiliating kneeling ceremony was generally abolished among the original Taiping Army soldiers. Only some newly joined Chinese laborers and Ming Dynasty survivors represented by Zhao Erlang were not used to it and in excitement they knelt down to Li Mingyuan.

Li Mingyuan gave Zhao Erlang a serious instruction before turning his gaze to Bavi standing in front of him. "Who is the highest military commander of your army?"

After Li Mingyuan spoke, Zhao Erlang immediately translated it for Bavi.

Bavi honestly gave the name of Balivian, and then explained the relationship between Balivian and Bolivian President Mariano Melgarejo.

Li Mingyuan could tell that Bavi was threatening him with Melgarejo, but he didn't care at all.

The strength of the Chinese Independence Army is here, no matter how Melgarejo decides, it will not cause fundamental damage to the Chinese Independence Army. The worst result is just to delay the time for the Chinese Independence Army to move forward, causing the Chinese Independence Army to postpone its support for the Paraguayan Humeta Army.

Humeta Fortress is the core defense fortification of Paraguay. In history, Brazil and Argentina besieged it for more than three months before they captured it. And this was achieved when Paraguayan President Lopez Jr. took away a large number of main forces.

Arriving late at the Paraguayan battlefield had little impact on the final outcome of the war. Li Mingyuan negotiated with the Bolivian government in order to reduce the casualties of the Chinese troops during the transition.

Therefore, Li Mingyuan did not beat around the bush with Bavi and said directly: "Our army has no hostility towards your army. This conflict is just a misunderstanding. I hope you can inform your minister of our sincerity. As long as your army clears the Bolivian domestic roads, the Chinese Independence Army guarantees to leave Bolivia as soon as possible and will never get involved in Bolivian domestic affairs."

After learning from Zhao Erlang's translation that Li Mingyuan had no intention of annihilating the besieged Bolivian army, Bavi's tense heart was temporarily relieved and he replied, "I will report your conditions to the commander truthfully. I hope your army can let me and my men leave safely."

"Of course, you can leave now. We will also release the captured Bolivian soldiers later."

Li Mingyuan ordered the cavalry to lift the siege on the Bolivian troops and leave a path.

Bavi bowed to Li Mingyuan, took two steps back and was about to leave.

"Wait, you can leave, but the muskets and ammunition must stay."

Bavi turned around and wanted to argue with Li Mingyuan, but when he saw the Chinese cavalrymen glaring at him, he gave up the idea of ​​bargaining with Li Mingyuan. Anyway, the weapons of his men had been confiscated and it was impossible to return them.

And the weapons they want to confiscate do not belong to their own troops, so why should they take risks for the interests of others?
Bavi thought he was right, so he turned around and told the news to the surrounded Bolivian soldiers.

The commander of the security forces was not happy at first, as he had to raise funds to purchase most of the weapons and equipment for his troops, otherwise he would not have been able to be a small warlord in peace.

Without this batch of muskets, it would cost a lot of money to bribe superiors for replenishment.

Of course he was unwilling, but his opinion was no longer important at this time. When his soldiers heard that they could leave by putting down their muskets and ammunition, they put down their muskets and ammunition, passed the inspection of the Chinese soldiers, and left first.

Seeing that he could not control his soldiers, the commander of the security forces had no choice but to accept reality, pulled out the pistol from his waist, and like the other Bolivian soldiers, he was inspected and left.

(End of this chapter)