After Bawe and his adjutant escaped, they also led the cavalry of the reconnaissance battalion that was chasing them outside the Indian village.
Bawi warned the Bolivian officers who were attacking the Indian villages in advance, hoping that they would leave before the enemy troops arrived. The Bolivian officers did not believe it at first and sent more than a hundred soldiers to eat the more than 20 reconnaissance battalion cavalry that came over.
, but the enemy failed to catch him, and he suffered more than thirty casualties on his side.
After personally experiencing the power of the Chinese Independence Army, the Bolivian officer decisively ordered the troops to retreat, and only then did the scene that the Indians saw just happen.
The troops attacking the Indians were local security forces, all infantry. Therefore, although they escaped some time early, they were overtaken by the cavalry troops led by Li Mingyuan not long after.
More than a thousand Chinese cavalry surrounded the Bolivian soldiers like ducks. However, the surrounded Bolivian soldiers lost all the excitement of attacking the Indians just now. They nervously held their muskets but did not dare to shoot.
"Go, let their commander come out, I want to talk to him." Li Mingyuan greeted, and Zhao Erlang stepped forward to act as the messenger again.
During the battle that took place in the morning, Zhao Erlang reacted quickly and lay down on the ground in time. Fortunately, he escaped from the Bolivian soldiers' shooting without being hurt at all.
With the lessons learned from the battle in the morning, Zhao Erlang, who once again acted as a messenger, was much more cautious. He secretly considered that he should not get too close to the enemy when delivering the message this time. If the situation went wrong, he would run back immediately.
However, Zhao Erlang's worries were unnecessary this time. The Bolivians who were surrounded by Chinese cavalry were afraid of offending the Chinese cavalry, so why would they seek death and shoot him? After Zhao Erlang loudly shouted Li Mingyuan's request, Bolivians
The soldiers became restless, and after a while, a Bolivian officer came out of Anne's circle. It was Bawi who had just escaped.
Among the besieged Bolivian troops, Bawi had the same rank as the commander of the security forces. However, Bawi was a direct subordinate of Balivian, so he was elected as a representative to negotiate with the Chinese Independence Army.
The Bolivian soldiers dispatched representatives obediently. Zhao Erlang breathed a sigh of relief and took Bawe to the back to meet Li Mingyuan.
"Your Majesty, people have arrived."
A group of cavalry moved out of the way, and Bawe saw Li Mingyuan on horseback.
"Zhao Erlang, I heard about what happened at noon. You did a good job. Now I appoint you as Du Company Commander of the Third Company of the Reconnaissance Battalion and Commander of the Third Platoon. As for the soldiers, they will be selected from your original village."
The reconnaissance battalion, like other field troops, is understaffed, and the third platoon of the reconnaissance battalion promised by Li Mingyuan does not exist. Zhao Erlang needs to recruit all his men from scratch.
After Zhao Erlang and the Chinese descendants in his village joined the Chinese Independence Army, they made great contributions to helping the Chinese Independence Army detect intelligence. So Li Mingyuan took this opportunity today to appoint Zhao Erlang as the deputy company commander of the reconnaissance battalion, which was also considered a great contribution to the Peruvian Ming Dynasty.
The affirmation of the merits of human descendants.
"Thank you for your humiliation, prince," Zhao Erlang excitedly knelt down and bowed to Li Mingyuan.
Zhao Erlang and the Chinese descendants of the Ming Dynasty in the village looked different from the Chinese. Although the Chinese Independence Army accepted them, they still felt a little inferior. Therefore, when faced with the orders issued by the army commander, Zhao Erlang always did it seriously and strived to complete the task.
Finished better.
But now Li Mingyuan personally recognized his contribution and promoted him to the position of deputy company commander of the reconnaissance battalion, which caused Zhao Erlang to be so excited that he knelt down and worshiped him, which had been abolished long ago.
"We are all brothers in the army. It is enough for superiors and subordinates to perform military salutes. In the future, kneeling salutes are not allowed."
The backbone of the Chinese Independence Army belongs to the survivors of the original Taiping Army. Among the original Taiping Army soldiers, the humiliating kneeling ceremony has generally been abolished. Only some Chinese workers who have just joined and the Ming Dynasty survivors represented by Zhao Erlang are not used to it.
, he knelt down and bowed to Li Mingyuan in excitement.
Li Mingyuan gave Zhao Erlang a serious lesson before turning his eyes to Bawei standing in front of him.
"Who is the highest military commander of your army?"
After Li Mingyuan spoke, Zhao Erlang immediately translated for Bawei.
Bavi honestly gave Balivian's name, and then explained Balivian's relationship with Bolivian President Mariano Melgarejo.
Li Mingyuan heard Bawe's intention to threaten him with Melgarejo, but he didn't care at all.
The strength of the Chinese Independent Army is shown here. No matter what Melgarejo decides, it will not cause fundamental harm to the Chinese Independent Army. And the worst result is just to delay the Chinese Independent Army's transfer, resulting in
The Chinese Independence Army postponed its support to the Paraguayan Humeita army.
The Fortress of Humeita is the core defense fortification of Paraguay. Historically, it took Brazil and Argentina more than three months of siege to conquer it. And this was achieved when Paraguayan President Lopez Jr. took away a large number of the main troops.
Arriving late in the Paraguayan battlefield had little impact on the final outcome of the war. Li Mingyuan negotiated with the Bolivian government in order to reduce the casualties of the Chinese troops during the transfer.
Therefore, Li Mingyuan did not beat around the bush with Bawi and said directly: "Our army is not hostile to your army. This conflict is just a misunderstanding. I hope you will inform your minister of our sincerity. As long as your army gets out of the way in Bolivia, the Chinese will be independent."
The military promised to leave Bolivia as soon as possible and never participate in Bolivia’s domestic affairs.”
Knowing from Zhao Erlang's translation that Li Mingyuan had no intention of annihilating the besieged Bolivian army, Bawe temporarily let go of his tense heart and replied: "I will truthfully report your conditions to the superior. I hope your army can let me and my soldiers go."
The men left safely."
"Of course, you can leave now. We will also let the captured Bolivian soldiers leave later."
Li Mingyuan ordered the cavalry to release the siege of the Bolivian troops and leave a road open.
Bawe saluted Li Mingyuan, took two steps back and was about to leave.
"Wait a minute, people can leave, but the muskets and ammunition must stay."
Bawe turned around and wanted to argue with Li Mingyuan, but when he saw the Chinese cavalry looking at him angrily, Bawe gave up the idea of bargaining with Li Mingyuan. Anyway, his men's weapons had been confiscated and it was impossible to return them.
And the weapons they want to confiscate now do not belong to their own troops, so why should they take risks for the benefit of others?
Bawi thought he was right, turned around, and told the news to the Bolivian soldiers who were surrounded.
The commander of the security forces was not happy at first. He had to raise funds to purchase most of the weapons and equipment for his troops, otherwise he would not be able to remain his own little warlord.
Without this batch of muskets, a lot of money would have to be spent bribing superiors for replenishment.
Of course he didn't want to, but his opinion was no longer important at this time. When his soldiers heard that they could leave after putting down their muskets and ammunition, they put down their muskets and ammunition one after another, and after passing the inspection of the Chinese soldiers, they were the first to leave.
Seeing that he could not restrain his soldiers, the commander of the security forces had no choice but to accept the reality, took out the short gun from his waist, and left after being inspected like other Bolivian soldiers.