After discussing the problems exposed in the battle, Li Mingyuan started preparing to expand the army. The Dulaya Mine rescued 3,200 Chinese workers. Except for more than 200 of them who were weak and needed a certain period of recuperation, the remaining three
Thousands of people can join the army.
Except for the first few hundred Taiping Army family members, the Chinese laborers in South America were all young and middle-aged men, and there were almost no Chinese women. Therefore, Li Mingyuan now does not have to worry about the burden of old, weak, women and children, and can rest assured to reorganize the army.
Three thousand miners plus the original 1,500 Taiping Army. Even if there were 200 casualties in this battle, the total would be 4,300 troops. The 4,300 troops could be organized into two regiments, but Li Mingyuan did not plan to do this.
Do.
Soon the Taiping Army will attack other mines and plantations, and the number of Chinese troops will increase.
It would be too troublesome to reorganize each new member of the Chinese labor force, so Li Mingyuan planned to reorganize the army when the army grew stronger.
Now the newly joined Chinese laborers are mixed with the original Taiping Army, replacing the old with the new, rapidly increasing their combat effectiveness.
Before mixing, the first thing Li Mingyuan had to do was to expand artillery, machine gunners and other technical arms.
Because he had captured six heavy artillery pieces used by the Peruvians to defend the city, Li Mingyuan prepared to form a separate heavy artillery company with a strength of 120 people. In addition to the more than 70 artillery pieces of different specifications in the Duraya warehouse, it was expanded to
Artillery Battalion.
The newly established artillery battalion has one heavy artillery company, two three-pounder companies, two six-pounder companies, one nine-pounder company, and a company of twelve artillery pieces. There are a total of seventy-eight artillery pieces and a strength of 570.
ten people.
During the siege, Luo Cannon failed to kill the enemy's heavy artillery due to insufficient artillery range. However, he performed well when supporting the Taiping Army, so Li Mingyuan directly promoted him to artillery battalion commander.
A lot of machine guns were also captured this time, but Li Mingyuan did not plan to use them intensively like artillery. In addition to retaining an expanded machine gun company, other machine guns were distributed to four musket battalions, adding a machine gun platoon to each battalion.
, the full strength of the Musket Battalion reached 610 men.
After the success of the first riot, Li Mingyuan planned to set up a special force in the manner of later generations of special forces.
However, due to time constraints and lack of manpower at the time, Li Mingyuan only gave a basic explanation of special operations to the fifty guards around him.
Now that he has enough manpower, Li Mingyuan will not waste the opportunity. In his plan, the original candidate for the commander of the special forces was Wang Xiaoshan.
However, this time Wang Xiaoshan made a mistake and was excluded. After thinking carefully for a while, Li Mingyuan was ready to let the new guard commander Zhao Yongzeng be the chief officer of the special forces.
Zhao Yongzeng is calm, courageous and careful, which prevents him from making careless mistakes like Wang Xiaoshan when leading the special forces.
The special forces have strict requirements, and Li Mingyuan doesn't have high expectations. He only needs to be able to select 50 people out of more than 4,000 people.
After things were arranged, Li Mingyuan left the meeting hall and went to Wang Xiaoshan's tent to visit him.
"Your Majesty, why are you here?" Wang Xiaoshan was lying on the bed. When he saw Li Mingyuan walking in, he struggled to get up and salute.
"Don't get up. I brought you the golden medicine. Lie down and I will help you apply the medicine."
"Your Majesty, this is a minor injury and it will be fine in a few days." Wang Xiaoshan said with a forced smile.
"Lie down when I tell you. Do you dare to disobey my order?" Li Mingyuan pressed Wang Xiaoshan down, who was about to get up, and took out a bottle to apply to the wound on his back.
"Xiao Shan, being careless on the battlefield will not only harm you, but also drag down the entire army. I am punishing you now to remind you not to make similar mistakes in the future. Can you understand my intention?"
Li Mingyuan said while applying wound medicine,
"Your Majesty, this subordinate has failed to live up to His Majesty's expectations." Wang Xiaoshan was very moved by Li Mingyuan's act of applying medicine to him, and he couldn't help but say with red eyes.
"Haha, a man who bleeds but doesn't shed tears, don't let me look down on you." Li Mingyuan chuckled.
"Yes, Xiaoshan will never let the prince down again." Wang Xiaoshan said seriously.
"The medicine is gone. You can rest peacefully and recuperate first, and then follow me to fight after the injury is healed." Li Mingyuan patted his body and said...
"Brother Luo, it's great to follow the eldest son. As soon as eldest brother came to join us, the eldest son made you the battalion commander. It seems that the prince values eldest brother very much."
On the way back, one of Luo Linshan's men spoke.
"Well, the Crown Prince treats his subordinates fairly and strictly. His cronies will be punished if they make mistakes. Following the Crown Prince is a clear path." Luo Linshan nodded.
"I heard someone say that the Crown Prince was summoned by Heavenly Father two months ago. Since then, the Crown Prince has become different. Not only has his skills become more powerful, but he is no match for others in battle."
"Maybe." Although Luo Linshan joined the Taiping Army, he didn't believe in the God-worshiping religion, so he was vague.
Two days later, in a large plantation in Peru,
A Chinese worker looked at the young man next to him and asked curiously, "Brother, are you new here? Why haven't I seen you before?"
"Brother, come here and talk." The young man pulled the Chinese worker to a hiding place and whispered, "Brother, didn't you hear the news?"
"What's the news?"
"His Royal Highness the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has arrived in South America and is now leading the Taiping Army to attack the Peruvian mines and rescue Chinese workers."
"Don't talk nonsense. His Royal Highness has been dead for three years. I was a member of the Taiping Army back then."
"My eldest brother is also a member of the Taiping Army, so we are a family. Let's be honest. Sun Qisheng, squad leader of the Taiping Army, has come to inquire about the news on the orders of the Crown Prince."
"The Crown Prince? Which Crown Prince?" the man said in shock.
"Of course he is the only son of His Royal Highness," Sun Qisheng said with admiration, and then told the man what had happened recently.
"God will not stop our Taiping Army. I never thought that His Royal Highness would be succeeded by someone who would make such a big impact here." The man sighed.
"Brother, the Crown Prince will lead a surprise attack on the plantation tonight. Are you willing to serve the Crown Prince?"
"It goes without saying that I have been waiting for this day for a long time."
At night, the Chinese workers who were already asleep gathered together and planned big events.
"Zhang Song, Zhou Qiang, have you taken out your weapons?"
"Twenty muskets and thirty long knives have arrived."
"Okay, brothers, the brothers of the Taiping Army are waiting outside. As long as we seize the city gate and let the Taiping Army enter the city, we will be free. Do you dare to do it?"
"Listen to Brother Sun, we will also follow the prince to conquer the world." Hua Gong on the side said excitedly.
"These are the weapons we smuggled in. Brothers with good skills come forward to collect them." Sun Qisheng pointed to the weapons piled together.
The Chinese workers around him rushed forward and snatched up all their weapons in two minutes.
"Brothers with weapons go ahead. Now everyone comes with me to seize the city gate."
Sun Qisheng said hello and took the lead towards the city gate.