In the evening, when it was just dark, the Taiping soldiers in the mine had already eaten their meals and stood in the open space full of energy, waiting for Li Mingyuan to issue the order to march.
"Brothers, yesterday under the guidance of Heavenly Father, we captured the bloody exploiters of the mine. Now we are about to set out to rescue other brothers who are still suffering. Tell me, are you confident in defeating the Peruvians?"
"Yes," the soldiers below made a loud voice. Yesterday, they launched a riot, and the Taiping Army only killed no more than ten people before attacking the Peruvian supervisors. And this morning, the prince bought a large number of weapons. Now they are holding
The muskets are better than those of the Peruvian overseers. Yesterday, the Chinese workers captured all the Peruvian overseers without any weapons. Now that the muskets are better than them, how can they not be able to defeat them?
Although it had only been one day, Li Mingyuan was completely different in the eyes of ordinary Taiping soldiers. In the past, they would respect Li Mingyuan, but that was because Li Mingyuan was the son of the Shiwang. They treated Li Mingyuan better because they respected the Shiwang.
But one day later, the situation completely changed. First, Li Mingyuan led everyone to successfully riot, and then this morning he brought a large number of weapons to the Taiping Army. If yesterday's uprising was somewhat of a coincidence, today's events cannot be explained by common sense.
Now, the old Taiping soldiers, including Chen Guozhu, all believe that Li Mingyuan can achieve success only with the guidance of Heavenly Father. They don't need to think about what Li Mingyuan said and subconsciously think it is correct.
The morale of the Taiping Army was high, and Li Mingyuan was very satisfied. At this stage, the Taiping Army was still in a disadvantageous position. Only by gathering all the Chinese together could they survive the subsequent Peruvian counterattack.
The Duraya mine is about forty miles away from Allen's mine, and there are about 3,000 Chinese workers in it.
Li Mingyuan aimed his primary attack target at the Duraya Mine, not only because of its proximity, but also because the main reason was that Duraya, as Peru's logistics base in the saltpeter producing area, stored a large amount of supplies.
The Taiping Army could gain a solid foothold and then arm the surrounding Chinese workers.
At three o'clock in the morning, deep footsteps sounded in the woods outside the Duraya mine.
"Your Majesty, the soldiers from all battalions are in place." Chen Guozhu reported in a deep voice from the edge of the woods.
"Hide in the woods and don't make any noise." Li Mingyuan observed the mine road ahead.
Chen Guozhu walked lightly towards the back,
"Don't move, lest you be discovered by the Peruvians," Chen Guozhu warned as he walked.
The soldiers passed each other around, and the soldiers behind quickly became quiet.
"Xiaoshan, lead the reconnaissance company and kill the sentries around the mine."
"Yes." Wang Xiaoshan saluted with a military salute, ran to the reconnaissance company's position, and led the soldiers to attack.
As a logistics base, Dulaya has a thousand Peruvian regular soldiers stationed. Unlike the last supervisor, Li Mingyuan would have to spend a lot of effort to eat them.
"Li Sandou, Chen Guozhu, Zhang Ansong."
"Here," the three people whose names were called responded in a low voice.
"Chen Guozhu, Zhang Ansong, your battalion is responsible for the main attack. I will send the artillery platoon and half the machine gun platoon to you immediately. Within two hours, you can seize the main entrance of the mine."
"Promise to complete the task." Chen Guozhu and Zhang Ansong said loudly.
"Li Sandou, take your battalion and three machine guns to block the entrance to the valley to prevent reinforcements from the troops stationed in the valley."
"Your Majesty, let go of a Peruvian soldier. I'll come and see him."
"Uncle Li, most of the Peruvian garrison is in the valley. Only blocking them can give Uncle Chen time to capture the mine, so I hope the brothers can withstand the attack." Li Mingyuan said solemnly.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, Lao Li has also been fighting for more than ten years. If these Peruvians want to break through Lao Li's defenses, they will have to learn a few more years."
"I'll leave it to Uncle Li for the defense line in the valley."
Li Mingyuan bowed to Li Sandou.
It was quiet in the woods. Li Sandou and his soldiers had rushed to the valley to set up blocking positions. Chen Guozhu and Zhang Ansong also led their troops towards the mine gate.
Outside the mine gate, several ghostly figures moved quickly in the darkness.
With a "plop" sound, a sharp knife stabbed a sentry. The soldier from the reconnaissance company behind him covered his mouth with his right hand and dragged the sentry back.
There was a "pop" sound, hitting the place where the sentry was standing just now.
"No, the enemy has a secret sentinel."
Wang Xiaoshan already knew it without the scouting soldiers reminding him.
"You two lead people to kill the hidden sentry." If a sneak attack fails, we can only attack by force.
"Yes." The squad leader next to him called to his respective soldiers and crawled forward.
The secret sentry fired two shots and was killed by the soldiers of the reconnaissance company who caught up behind him. However, the sound of the secret sentry's gunshots had already alerted the Peruvian army in the mine. It would be impossible to seize the gate as easily as last time.
"Daniu, please inform the Crown Prince that the sneak attack failed and ask the Crown Prince to send troops for reinforcements."
"yes"
In a Chinese labor camp in the Dulaya Mine, a strong man in his thirties quietly rubbed an iron rod on a stone.
"Brother Luo, we are unarmed. Even if you shape an iron rod into an iron gun, you still can't beat the Peruvians." A Chinese worker in the tent said.
"Shut up, haven't you suffered enough? I would rather follow Brother Luo and fight the Peruvians than suffer the consequences alive."
"You two, don't argue," the strong man glanced sideways at the two of them from the corner of his eye, and neither of them said anything.
The man put down the iron rod in his hand and said solemnly, "The Peruvians don't regard us as human beings. More than half of the thousand people who came from the mainland died, haven't you had enough?" The man's words became louder and louder, and the voices of the nearby tents were heard.
Chinese workers also sneaked out to listen to him.
"We Han people have a saying, do princes and generals have the right to live together? We don't have high demands, we don't ask for a king or a general, but if I were to die in a mine like a pig or a dog, I would never want to." The man paused.
After a pause, he glanced at the Chinese workers around him: You are all well-known men. Are you willing to work with Lao Luo?
"Grandma, I've had enough for a long time. I lost my head and had a big scar. Eighteen years later I became a good man again. Brother Luo, Zhao Yunshan did it to you."
"Count me in, I've lived enough anyway."
Looking at the angry Chinese workers, the man waved his hand to stop the following voice: Brothers, we can't defeat the Peruvian army now, so we have to slowly develop our strength, and when they are negligent, we will take action again.
The man's name was Luo Linshan. In the original history, in 1870, Luo Linshan led the Chinese miners to launch a riot. The unbearable Chinese workers joined his team one after another, and the number expanded from hundreds to thousands, and they were even beaten at one point
In Baranca, an important coastal town in Peru, due to the large gap in strength between the enemy and ourselves, the Chinese laborers were wiped out and Luo Linshan was also killed.
Although this uprising failed, the Peruvian government's view of the Chinese has greatly changed, and the social status of the Chinese has improved a lot.
"Brother Luo, there were gunshots at the gate, and most of the troops supervising us were taken away."
The Chinese workers who were sentrying came back in a hurry.
Luo Linshan listened carefully and heard gunfire, and the gunfire became more and more intensive.
"Brothers, this is a God-given opportunity. All the Peruvians have been transferred. Our opportunity has come. Everyone rush out with me."
Luo Linshan led the Chinese laborers to annihilate the small group of Peruvian troops who stayed behind, seized more than a dozen muskets, and led the gathered Chinese laborers to rush to the place where the gunfire was the fiercest.