America 1881: Legend of the West

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

"Mr. Mback Swanson, I don't know whether you represent the U.S. federal government or DuPont."

The commander of the Peruvian army, a mustachioed Hispanic man, looked directly 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 and handed it to the translator standing beside him, who then handed it to the commander.

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

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

Swanson took 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 arrogantly.

But his arrogance is justified.

Swanson himself graduated from West Point Military Academy, was a student of Henry Dupont, and also served in the Union Army.

The reason why Peru was able to organize a very effective counterattack after the capital was captured was "indispensable" to DuPont.

As the representative of DuPont in South America, it's not like he hasn't thought about talking to the Chileans.

But the Chileans didn't seem to want to talk to him for the time being.

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

Since there is no reply, you can only go and get it back yourself.

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

Swanson twitched his nose, with a look of hatred on his face.

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

As a former federal soldier, he completely disdained the recent behavior of the Peruvian army.

The Peruvian commander's face was ashen.

"Mr. Swanson, thank you and your company for providing us with weapons and funding, but this is not a reason for you to insult me ​​and my motherland."

"My soldiers and I both have a high will to fight. You don't need to blame us for this!"

Swanson still continues his arrogance:

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

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

"Although they were just a group of miners before, they were recruited by the Chilean army, equipped with new weapons, and defended very tightly!"

The commander unfolded the map and said to Swanson.

When he heard it was a group of Chinese miners, Swanson almost laughed out loud.

He was about to taunt the commander further, but after thinking about it, he remained silent and continued to listen to the commander's explanation of the situation.

"There are defense lines on the north and east sides. We have tried but failed!"

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

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

It would take at least one thousand to two thousand people to attack Iquique. If these people bypass the defense line along the coast, it would be difficult not to be discovered. But if they land by boat, where will there be so many boats?

Swanson was about to speak when he heard something moving outside the camp.

"Is there anyone outside?" he asked.

"My soldiers are patrolling, there won't be anyone else," the commander said. "Maybe it's a rat."

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

Being driven out of Iquique, DuPont's ships were all parked in the north, neither leaving nor leaving.

"You don't have to worry about the wooden boats landing! Just find a day when the tide is high, get on our boat, and then go poke their butts!"

Swanson felt that Henry was right to send him to deal with these matters in South America.

The tactical imagination of these South Americans is really terrible!

Now that the ship's problems were solved and there was an order from the headquarters, the Peruvian commander said nothing and started preparing a landing plan with his subordinates.

And in the northwest of Iquique, there are mounds parallel to the coastline by the beach.

Li Sifu came galloping from the direction of the camp on horseback.

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

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

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

Chen Jianqiu started to look at the map.

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

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

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

He pointed to the empty space in the middle of the sandbag: "Bring the Maxim machine gun over later and set it up here."

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

Pointing a machine gun at the sea seems silly.

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

A few days later, Sean returned.

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

The security and confidentiality measures of this group of Peruvians were really messed up. Sean stayed in the military camp for three consecutive days without being discovered.

Not only did he get the news that the Peruvians planned to launch a sneak attack from the sea, he also got the landing location, time, and number of people.

The Peruvian army was preparing to take advantage of the high tide three nights later to march out in full force and land on the northwest beach, numbering about a thousand people.

"Where did they get the boat?" Chen Jianqiu thought thoughtfully.

"DuPont." Sean took a sip of water and answered.

According to the black man's point of view, he also had to thank the DuPont official.

Precisely because of him and his translator, if you want to understand the information, you don't need to know Spanish at all.

Chen Jianqiu was still wondering if there was any work by these people here, but they came to the door first.

"It seems that these guys are planning to get out first." Chen Jianqiu had a slight smile on his lips.

He called Li Sifu, Zhang Danian and Camilla over.

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

"Why not just go to the tenth level?" Li Sifu asked.

"That's enough." Chen Jianqiu answered simply, "There are only forty to fifty people on the beach."

"Then where are the rest of the people going?" Zhang Danian asked with some confusion.

"The rest of you should be prepared, feed your 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 attacked their camp on the same night!"