Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Sea Iron-armored battleship roared, billowing black smoke into the sky. The projectile's trajectory flew one after another in the sky, and the rumbling explosion spread on the ground.

Those fortresses that had just been captured by the Chile Army became the focus of the battleships' firepower. Smoke and fire filled the air, and the soldiers who had just charged in suffered heavy casualties, leaving the survivors with no choice but to retreat.

Even with a strong will for war, a weak human body could hardly withstand the destructive power brought about by industrial civilization. The war mode of the Middle Ages had gradually faded away. Perhaps in some special occasions, the battle experience that was passed down for a thousand years could still bear some results.

But in the face of iron and fire of industrial civilization, the traditional will be swept into dust.

Tie Toutuo's army couldn't change the situation because none of them had any effective means to fight the battleships. The Chile's navy had already lost, and the shore defense cannon was still under the control of the Peru's army.

How could he fight this battle? I can't fight anymore... A battalion of soldiers rushed into a block with huge casualties. With just two or three shots from the warship, the entire block had already collapsed countless houses.

Just as the 100 + strong company rushed into the Ikek's tax hall, a 148 artillery shell followed closely from afar into the hall. After a loud explosion, there were only 20 to 30 survivors.

Such a tragic sacrifice was something the Taiping Army's veterans could not bear. But with victory right in front of them, just a little bit more and they would have to give up, no one could say it out loud.

Four of the seven fortresses had been captured, while the remaining three could not even form a crossfire. The city area of the Ikek had already become a dead city, and there were at most two thousand soldiers defending the docks.

The battle had reached this point, and retreating was a crime!

The battleship in the ocean was a difficult problem that had no solution. Back then, when the English and French attacked the Great Qing, the backward Qing Dynasty and the Eight Flags Soldier met with this problem.

There was no way to counterattack. If one wasn't experiencing this for himself, he or she wouldn't be able to feel how useless he or she was!

The first ones to not be able to hold on were the Indigenous soldiers s in the army. They themselves lacked a sense of belonging to this war, and in their hearts, whether it was Chile, Bolivia or the Peru, they were all considered a nation.

Their language was the same, their culture was the same, people were free to move about, and intermarriage was also very free. It was very difficult to form a common enemy spirit in this kind of folk atmosphere.

No matter which country a city belonged to, it was just a change in the fluttering of the flag. As for the profits from the land and minerals, it had nothing to do with them.

This war was purely motivated by money. The rewards for victory were publicly announced, and the pensions of the dead and wounded were also publicly announced. Whatever price you offered, they would give you as much loyalty as they wanted.

However, no matter how much money he had, there was still a limit. If he found out that victory would be too far away from him, then saving his life would be his first mission.

The ones who started to sneakily escape were the engineers, medical personnel and the militia in charge of logistics. The killing in the distance frightened them greatly, and the earth-shattering bombardment shattered their last bit of victory fantasy. They looked at each other and didn't say anything, but suddenly dropped what they were holding in their hands and ran away.

The fleeing soldiers quickly spread out like a virus, and at the end, those warriors who were charging at the front unintentionally turned around and saw that the retreat had already started. Those cowards had already abandoned them and left.

The courage that was inspired by the countless number of victims was immediately vented out!

"Run!" We can't win this war... The enemy's cannons are too powerful! " Very quickly, the deserters collapsed like an avalanche.

Xi Lapizuo angrily shot towards the sky, but the terrified soldiers did not care about the threat of the general at all, they could only run as fast as the mud horses on the South America.

"Coward!" With three slaps, Xi Lapizuo emptied all the remaining bullets in his revolver. The deserter in front of him fell down into a pool of blood while clutching his chest.

"Gendarmerie! Prepare to shoot! Those who tried to escape would be killed without mercy … "Ouch!" Before he could finish his sentence, a black stone smashed into his forehead, causing blood to flow out.

"Run!" Let's not work for these white men! "We need to go home …"

How many are there in the gendarmerie? Facing thousands and thousands of deserters, they did not dare to suppress them. If they were to kill them to their heart's content, these hundreds of gendarmes would not be enough to fill their teeth.

The Chile Army had collapsed, and in a short span of twenty minutes, it had turned into an avalanche. All the Heaven veterans on the battlefield were dumbstruck as they looked at this group of f * cking mud horses.

"Are they all f * cking pigs? "What kind of f * cking battle is this …"

"Go up!" Now that they have fled, those brothers of theirs have died in vain, and they have sacrificed themselves in vain! "

"Oh, Brother Weng!" "Your death was not worth it, this is not a group of f * cking soldiers, they are just a group of pigs!"

Tie Toutuo closed his eyes helplessly. He sighed and said, "Don't make unnecessary sacrifices, save some of your vitality for us! "Let's leave as well …"

Chen Yonglu shouted loudly, "Are our brothers going to die for nothing? The other side is the Ikek, our future home! "

Tie Toutuo's tiger-like eyes opened wide, "Then what do you want me to do? What are you going to do with the fleet at sea? Let's not talk about our ten thousand over people, how was the Heavenly Kingdom back then? So what if it was the current Manchu dynasty? Even with hundreds of thousands of troops, they still could not handle these Iron-armored Ship teams! "

"Brothers!" The era of war was no longer an era where one could win just by being hot-blooded. The Prime Minister was right! In the future, when the battlefield is in the ocean, whoever does not have a strong Iron-armored Ship team will always be bullied! "

"We are only temporarily moving, we cannot defeat the enemy's battleship, but we can attack inland. All the elites of the Bolivia have already been eaten by us, let's kill our way back, cross the desert, and go to the capital!"

"We won't give up on Ikek. There will be a day when the Prime Minister brings the invincible Iron-armored Ship team to support us. At that time, our cannons will be able to bombard these bastards in the sea! Let them have a taste of this too! "

Chen Yonglu was sobbing in helplessness, "Who else can we trust? Who else can we count on? Since there are only so many of us left, one dead, one missing, our big brother is going to leave first. Sooner or later, that day will come … I hope that before I die, I can see the Iron-armored Ship showing off his strength! "

"I hope that the Prime Minister Xiao you mentioned will not lie …"