America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 349 The age of heaven has passed, but the spirit remains forever

Chen Jianqiu led a cavalry team of about 150 people to capture the Peruvian army's camp in the north of Iquique.

Except for an unlucky guy who didn't stop when he rode in on horseback, hit the tent, fell off his horse and broke his arm, the rest of the people were only slightly injured at most.

The Peruvian soldiers who stayed at the camp were originally old, weak, sick and disabled.

In the dark night, this group of people could not judge how many people were attacking.

After the officer was shot dead, the remaining people raised their hands and surrendered.

While Chen Jianqiu adjusted the layout of the military camp with the soldiers, he sent a soldier back to Iquique to report the victory.

At dawn, more than a hundred Peruvian soldiers who had saved their lives in the Iquique Bay, led by a temporary commander, appeared not far from the main camp.

A group of people were in shock.

Although we were far away on the ship and couldn't see clearly what was going on at night, the gunshots and screams coming from the opposite coast were very real.

The wooden boat came back without bringing back a single landed soldier.

The rowing soldiers hurriedly climbed onto the ship, and they described the situation on the shore with great detail.

According to them, on the opposite shore, there was either the main force of the Chilean army, or there was some supernatural power hidden in the darkness.

The DuPont ship sailed back to the city, and then dropped the soldiers on a coast not far from the main camp.

But when the Peruvian soldiers walked toward the camp dejectedly, they were greeted by a row of bullets.

Several more soldiers walking in the front fell.

"What's going on?" the temporary commander was horrified.

He originally wanted to organize the remaining soldiers to resist, but when he turned around, he found that no one was around.

These soldiers were so frightened that they moved from the rear to the front and ran away risking their lives.

He grabbed the clothes of a soldier who was running slowly. He was about to speak, but the soldier broke away.

"Run! Sir! We are finished!" The soldier's eyes were full of fear.

The temporary commander was stunned.

"Run? In which direction? Do you know where to run?" he shouted.

"Don't worry, just run back, where the bullets can't hit you." The soldier broke away from the temporary commander's hand and continued running.

"damn it"

The commander cursed.

He turned around and ran away without hesitation.

Because if he doesn't run away, he will be the last one alive.

Of course Chen Jianqiu would not give these people a chance to escape back to Peru.

When it comes to things like war, you either don't fight it; if you do, you have to kill it, and there is no room for any soft-heartedness.

"Mount your horse! Chase!"

Chen Jianqiu gave an order, and more than a hundred cavalry rushed out of the camp.

Their target was the fleeing Peruvian soldiers.

On a wide plain, it would be a disaster for infantry to face the pursuit of cavalry.

Chen Jianqiu and his cavalry shot and slashed like tigers rushing into a flock of sheep, quickly killing all the soldiers.

At this point, more than a thousand Peruvian soldiers in northern Iquique were completely wiped out.

Chen Jianqiu and the cavalry returned to the city with the prisoners and trophies.

Before he entered the town, he saw flags fluttering outside the town and hundreds of soldiers in brown clothes standing outside the town.

Chen Jianqiu took a closer look and found that something seemed wrong about the big flag in the center.

This large yellow flag has a lifelike dragon embroidered on it, but it is different from the royal flag of the Qing Dynasty.

This dragon is front-facing, and together with the flag, it dances with the sea breeze blowing from the South Pacific.

Chen Jianqiu saw this flag on the bottom of Zhang Danian's box. It was the flag of TPJ.

What he had seen in Ong Derong's barracks before was the flag of their "Brown Shirt Army". What does it mean to re-establish the TP flag now?

Chen Jianqiu continued to move forward with his cavalry until he was in front of Weng Derong.

Unexpectedly, the old man took a step forward and knelt on the ground with one knee.

His voice was deep and resonant and could be heard clearly within a radius of one hundred meters.

"The remaining members of the South American TPJ, pay their respects to the young master!"

Hundreds of brown-shirted soldiers behind him also knelt down in unison.

Their voices were deafening.

"The remaining members of the South American TPJ, pay their respects to the young master!"

Chen Jianqiu seems to have seen this scene somewhere.

He glanced at Zhang Danian, who was also half-kneeling aside, and knew that it was probably the old man or Xu Ajiu who had spilled the beans.

Of course, the probability is higher for the old man.

Chen Jianqiu got off the horse, walked to Weng Derong, and helped him up.

"Are you also a subordinate of the King of England?" Chen Jianqiu asked doubtfully.

Weng Derong shook his head: "To tell you, young master, I am a subordinate of the King of Serving, but I have an old relationship with Brother Danian."

He pointed at Xu Ajiu: "He is a subordinate of King Yi."

Then he pointed to the hundreds of soldiers behind him: "Most of them are from different units of TPJ, or after TPJ."

"Then why do you want to worship me?" Chen Jianqiu asked.

Zhang Danian worshiped him, but he still understood.

Or maybe he is Hong Xiuquan's son, so he can understand.

But he couldn't understand that these soldiers from different factions bowed their heads to the orphan of the British King.

"If I had known your identity before yesterday's battle, I might have only respected you, but after yesterday, I, Weng Derong, can only worship you."

Weng Derong put a fist in his palm and said.

"More than forty men wiped out nearly a thousand enemies on the coast, and led their troops to attack the enemy camp at starry night. The King of England could only do this while he was alive!"

Chen Jianqiu's face turned slightly red.

"The brothers here have gone through a lot of hardships. They were stuffed into the cabin of the ship like piglets, sold here, and worked like slaves! They lived a life worse than pigs and dogs!"

"Young Master, lead us to regroup and revive TPJ's majesty!"

The more Weng Derong talked, the more excited he became, and together with Zhang Danian next to him, he burst into tears.

Chen Jianqiu glanced at the two old men in front of him, and then at the soldiers behind them.

With thin faces and sallow skin, these wandering souls in a foreign country no longer have a home.

"The era of TPJ has passed." Chen Jianqiu held onto Weng Derong's shoulders and said softly, "I am just an ordinary businessman now."

The expression on Weng Derong's face was frozen.

"but."

Chen Jianqiu clenched his hands into fists and said loudly to the soldiers:

"But the spirit will last forever! I will give you a home! A place to stay! A place of your own."

His words reached the ears of every soldier and entered their hearts.

"Also, don't call me Young Master. I don't like this title." Chen Jianqiu said.

News of the great victory in Iquique quickly spread throughout northern Chile.

The Chilean army suddenly discovered that the thousand or so people who threatened the port and needed to be dealt with by themselves were suddenly gone!

And the shocking news that followed came one after another.

The Chinese Brown Shirt Army in Iquique turned from defense to offense and began to launch an offensive on the western front against Peruvian armed forces in the region.

Although they only had about a thousand people in total, their fighting power was astonishing and their strategies were extremely unrestrained. They quickly swept away the entire west coast from Iquique to Lima.

The captured Peruvian soldiers were sent to the Chilean army barracks in batches.

Their minds and bodies have been severely damaged.

The troops of the puppet government of Chile and Peru, the Iglesias government, quickly responded and began to cooperate with the Brown Shirts' march, wiping out the last resistance force in Peru.

A few months later, the Union army approached the city.

The main force of the rebel army was completely defeated.

The leader of this army, Cáceres, was forced to flee Argentina.

After the defeat of this army.

The Iglesias government and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancon.

According to the treaty, Peru ceded the southern Tarapacá region to Chile, and Peru also handed over the southern provinces of Tacna and Arica to Chile for ten years, after which their ownership would be decided by referendum.

In the end, the Saltpeter War ended with Chile's complete victory.

However, Chen Jianqiu didn't care about these things.

He wants to talk to the Chilean authorities about their previous commitments.

(End of chapter)