America 1881: They Call Me Legend

In the north, the camp of the Peruvian army, the command tent, is brightly lit.

"Mr. Mbak Swanson, I don't know whether you represent the United States federal government or DuPont."

The commander of the Peruvian army, a Hispanic with a mustache, looked straight at a white man sitting across from him.

The attitude of white people is very arrogant.

He took out a piece of paper from his pocket, handed it to the translator standing beside him, and the translator handed it to the commander.

The commander took it, and looked at it by the light of the kerosene lamp, his face suddenly changed.

"The herald from the headquarters should arrive in an hour. Your superior is very disappointed in you."

Swanson fished a handkerchief from another pocket and wiped his nose.

"It doesn't matter whether I represent the federal government or DuPont, and you don't need to ask."

he said haughtily.

"Boss, you don't really think that those Peruvians will swim over?" Li Sifu glanced at his mouth.

According to the negro, he had to thank the DuPont official.

"There are defensive lines on the north and east sides. We tried, but they didn't work!"

"Although they used to be just a group of miners, they were recruited by the Chilean army and equipped with new weapons. The defense is very tight!"

At least for the Iquique mine that originally belonged to DuPont, Chile did not give him any reply.

"Boss! The camp of the Peruvian army has been found!" He jumped off his horse and handed a marked map to Chen Jianqiu who was digging a ditch. "It's about [-] kilometers to the north!"

"Where did they get the boat?" Chen Jianqiu was thoughtful.

Now that the ship's problems were resolved and there was an order from the headquarters, the Peruvian commander didn't say anything, so he and his subordinates began to prepare for the landing plan.

Hearing that it was a group of Chinese miners, Swanson almost didn't laugh out loud.

He was about to taunt the commander further, but after thinking about it for a while, he still didn't speak, and continued to listen to the commander explaining the situation.

"What about here?" Swanson pointed to the coastline in the northwest of the town on the map, which was exactly the same as the location Chen Jianqiu had pointed to before, "Can't you directly bypass their northern defense line from here?"

"Carry six Maxims to the beach." Chen Jianqiu gave the order, "Water and ammunition are ready."

Swanson himself, graduated from West Point Military Academy, was Henry Dupont's junior, and also served in the federal army.

Chen Jianqiu began to look at the map.

In front of the top of the ditch, there were piles of sacks filled with sand.

"My fighters and I have a high will to fight, and you don't need to blame this!"

"It seems that these guys are planning to get out first." Chen Jianqiu smiled slightly.

"Don't you just want a boat? We have it!" Swanson said angrily.

"It's from DuPont." Sean took a sip of water and replied.

"My soldiers are on patrol, there will be no one else," said the commander, "probably rats."

Swanson continued his arrogance:

Attacking Iquique requires at least 2000 to [-] people. If these people bypass the defense line along the coast, it is difficult not to be discovered, but if they land by boat, where are there so many boats?

But his arrogance is well-founded.

As DuPont's representative in South America, he hadn't thought about talking to the Chileans.

As a former Confederate soldier, he completely despises the recent behavior of the Peruvian army.

"We've been trying to attack that port city to try to take it back, but there's a Chinese-Chilean army there."

Pointing a machine gun at the sea seems pretty stupid.

"You don't have to worry about the wooden boats that land! You just find a day when the tide is high, get on our boat, and then go and stab their asses!"

"Mr. Swanson, thank you and your company for providing us with arms and funding, but this is not an excuse for you to insult me ​​and my country."

A few days later, Sean returned.

"Dig trenches, that's what the Americans did during the Civil War." Chen Jianqiu put away the map.

The tactical imagination of these South Americans is really terrible!

He lived up to expectations and brought the news Chen Jianqiu needed.

The security and secrecy measures of this group of Peruvians were really a mess. Sean stayed in the barracks for three consecutive days without being discovered.

Swanson is absolutely right, Henry sent him to deal with these things in South America, it is really right.

Because of the existence of him and his translator, I don't need to know Spanish at all if I want to understand the information.

And in the northwest of Iquique, on the mound parallel to the coastline by the beach.

Driven out of Iquique, the DuPont ships are all parked in the north, neither going nor not going.

He called Li Sifu, Zhang Danian and Camilla over.

Chen Jianqiu was still wondering if there was any handwriting from this group of people, but they came to the door first.

But the Chilean doesn't seem to want to talk to him for the time being.

He not only got the news that the Peruvians planned to attack from the sea, but also got the landing place, time, and number of people.

"Why don't you go directly to the top ten?" Li Sifu asked.

"I don't know, move two here first." Chen Jianqiu picked up the shovel from the ground again, "I'll talk about the rest when Xiao En comes back."

Swanson twitched his nose with a look of resentment.

The commander unfolded the map and said to Swanson.

Li Sifu galloped from the direction of Daying on horseback.

The face of the Peruvian commander was livid.

He pointed to the vacant space in the middle of the sandbag: "Move the Maxim machine gun over later and put it here."

"Sir, are you kidding me? That's the coastline! We don't have a boat!" The commander had a headache, and he felt that the adult in front of him was completely whimsical.

The Peruvian army was going to take advantage of the high tide in the evening three days later, to come out in full force and land on the northwest beach, with a number of about 1000 people.

"Boss, what are you doing?" Li Sifu looked at the soldiers who were digging ditches and Chen Jianqiu who was covered in dirt.

The reason why Peru was able to organize a fairly effective counterattack after the capital was captured was due to DuPont.

"If anyone in the United States dares to set foot on our soil, I will sweep them out like garbage."

"A high will to fight? I don't think so?" He sneered.

"Iquique is your own land, the Peruvians. How can you sleep now that it's been occupied? It's really spineless."

Just as Swanson was about to speak, he heard movement outside the tent.

Since you don't reply, you can only grab it back yourself.

"How many people are there?" Chen Jianqiu dropped the shovel in his hand, wiped his hands on his pants, took the map, and asked.

"Is anyone out there?" he asked.

"It's not clear yet. Brother Xiao En is still around there. He said he'll check it out at night."

"Enough." Chen Jianqiu replied very simply, "Only forty to fifty people are arranged on the beach."

"Then where are the rest going?" Zhang Danian asked a little puzzled.

"The rest of the people are ready to feed their horses and prepare dry food." Chen Jianqiu took out the map.

He pointed to a large circle on the map, which was the location of the Peruvian army camp in the north.

"Others, on the same night, rushed to their camp!"