For the three South American countries, this war has entered the most critical moment, not to mention Peru and Bolivia joining forces against Chile, but because Chile's previous strategic response was very clever, the initiative of the current war situation is on the Chilean side.

First of all, the Chilean president had a very close relationship with the British, which received indirect support from the British, and although the British did not pay a penny for a soldier, they succeeded in keeping the other European countries neutral through various diplomatic pressures.

Needless to say, at least the arms trade in these three countries was monopolized by British merchants, and Henry was the leader of these arms dealers.

Due to the intervention of the British side, Henry's arms trade was a bit skewed, and the weapons given to Chile were higher in price and performance than in Peru and Bolivia.

Although the one given to Chile is already a huge profit, it is at least much more favorable than those two countries.

Immediately after that, Britain also gave some intelligence support, and the Chilean side always got the latest information from the other two countries, which was like a tiger adding two wings.

Not only that, the brutal rule of the Peruvian mines over Chinese laborers finally forced a new force for Chile, this heavenly army that is not afraid of death, is simply a gift package from God to Chile.

It is precisely because the grand strategy did not make mistakes that Chile is still not left behind with one enemy and two enemies, and the main striker has now approached the Moguac area and pointed to the port of Iquique.

As long as the important port of Iquique is captured, then the supplies in the rear of Chile can go north unhindered to support the main force, and Iquique's garrison can also threaten the Tacna and Arica regions at any time, if these two deserts are taken again, then eighty percent of the saltpeter and struvite production of the entire Atacama Desert will be in the hands of Chile.

This upcoming battle is very important, for Chile every reinforcement is a treasure, and the newly arrived 10,000 Taiping troops are simply a long drought for them.

"How is the quality of the soldiers, and how is the combat effectiveness of the 10,000 people compared to the soldiers of Mr. Weng and Mr. Chen?" asked Sirapizo nervously.

Weng Derong smiled, "What are we, this iron general in front of you, his rank in the Taiping Army is much higher than ours, and he has been in the army longer than us, I dare not call myself a veteran in front of them!"

This is not his modesty, the fact is really the case, Weng Derong and Chen Yonglu and others are the subordinates of the servant king Li Shixian, and the servant king Li Shixian is Li Xiucheng's brother, both Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian are generals who only emerged in the late period of the Heavenly Kingdom, and they are not comparable to the group of people like the winged king Shi Dakai.

When Yiwang Shi Dakai was in charge, these people were just middle- and low-level officers in the Taiping Army, and they were not of the same generation at all.

Therefore, Tietoutuo and others, who participated in the First Northern Expedition, are really much higher than Weng Derong and them in terms of qualifications. In fact, not only that, the overall quality of the Taiping army left behind in Southeast Asia is also higher than that of the soldiers who fought in South America, because a large proportion of the soldiers there are veterans who have experienced the rise and heyday of the kingdom of heaven.

Silapizo looked at them incredulously, "Oh God, are you kidding, are you even more elite than you?" At that moment, there was a bit of horror in his eyes.

Tang Lei hurriedly took over the conversation, "But it is a pity that these soldiers are gathered from all over Southeast Asia and do not have their own weapons, so I hope that the Chilean side can provide weapons and equipment as soon as possible...... I guarantee that their combat effectiveness is very strong, as long as they go through half a month of adaptation training, they will soon be able to go to the battlefield!"

Silapizo nodded, "Oh, the equipment of the 10,000 army! I will do my best, I will definitely do my best......"

Seeing that Silapizo's face was bitter, Tang Lei hit the snake with the stick, "Your Excellency General, I still have a business I want to talk to you about carefully, I don't know if you need some cheap arms?"

The soldier behind Tang Lei took a tarpaulin package from his back, and after opening it on the table, the Chilean general excitedly shouted: "Oh my God! Ninety percent new Enfield? Eighty percent new Springfield? Good thing......

Tang Lei showed a profiteer-like expression on his face, "How is it good, you see that the rifling is all new, there is not much wear and tear at all, I can equip more than 11,000 people with such a weapon, and there are also a lot of bullets, are you interested in eating it?"

Syrapizo was not easily fooled, he smiled and said, "Mr. Tang, when did you become a merchant? But although these weapons of yours are good, they are all second-hand, and they can't be ...... at a price."

"Hahaha, I can't hide anything from the general, these second-hand goods are eliminated from the American Civil War, and then our Ryukyus purchased them through relations, although they are not brand new, but at least they can guarantee that the average is eighty percent new, which is already very rare! I think it is more than enough to deal with the armies of Peru and Bolivia......

"No, no, Mr. Tang didn't understand what I meant, I just regret to tell you that our Chile is in financial difficulties now, I'm afraid we won't be able to eat more than 10,000 rifles!"

Sirapizo sneered in his heart: "You want to do business with me? You are still very tender, so many weapons you pulled from the Ryukyus, who else can you sell them to me? Sell them to Peru and Bolivia? Let them slaughter you Chinese?"

"If you can't sell it, can you still pull the Ryukyus the same way? Are you child's play to cross the Pacific? Hehehe, God really favors me, this business will definitely be very cheap......"

Just when he was full of joy, Tang Lei's words directly choked a mouthful of wine in his mouth into his trachea.

"The general misunderstood...... Who said I asked you for money? I won't ask for a single gold coin for this deal!"

"Ahem, cough, cough......" Silapizo choked on the spirits, and his face was flushed, "What do you say? You don't want gold coins? Do you want to give us Chile for nothing?"

"Cut!" a group of people looked at him like idiots, "The general is really joking, more than 10,000 rifles we give away for nothing?

"At a fixed price, I brought twenty clippers this time, five of which you filled me with silver, five with saltpeter, and the remaining ten with copper ingots, I want these things, and you will have them all when you fill these more than 10,000 rifles!"

"No, no, no...... This is so embarrassing, you are blackmailing!" exclaimed Silapizo.