1025 Defending against others is indispensable
Tietou Tuo listened, "Damn! This is okay? Then can't we go sideways here?"
Tang Lei shook his head, "No, on the contrary, we should be more low-key, because our enemies are not only on the battlefield...... The stronger our fighting power is, the easier it is to attract the attention of the West, and the Chilean side does not absolutely believe us. ”
"Now we are still useful to them, so we are like pearls in the palm of our hands, but what about the end of the war?
Chen Yonglu nodded, "That's right, so before Lord Tang leaves, we will agree that this war will fight the prestige of our Taiping Army, so that they are afraid that we must not really regard this war as our war, don't really make any effort!"
Weng Derong smiled, "If we really want to end this war as soon as possible, our 8,000 death squad can go north by boat and capture the rear of Peru with lightning speed, and it is not impossible for the troops to come to the capital, but is it necessary for us to work so hard?"
"General Tie! If we really end this war alone, how will Chile settle us when we turn around? I'm afraid it's just a sneak attack, a massacre!"
"Needless to say, just half a month ago, Silapizo also expressed to us the president's goodwill, saying that as long as the war is over, the Iquique region will be given to us for autonomy...... But I rejected it on the spot, this is all a stinky ploy of our ancestors, and they are still pretending to be ghosts in front of us?"
War is the best teacher of mankind, don't look at Chen Yonglu and Weng Derong, they don't read many books, but the experience they have learned from a lifetime of crawling on the battlefield is simply not found in books. In addition, the struggle for power and profit in the later period of the Heavenly Kingdom was serious, and there were assassinations, coups d'état, and civil wars again and again...... Let these people be full of doubts about everything in their hearts.
"Phew...... Iquique gave us autonomy? Dream of it! Chile gave us autonomy for nothing? Fools know that it is a conspiracy, so I refused, and Cirapizzo was still a little unhappy at that time!"
Speaking of this, Tang Lei suddenly spoke: "Since this is the case, then our plan needs to be adjusted......!
The heads of the four high-ranking officers of the expeditionary force came together, and the surrounding Taiping soldiers automatically formed a circle to guard the tavern, and the boss had already been thrown into the back kitchen.
"Since Chile is on guard against us, then the 10,000 reinforcements in the rear can't go ashore so aggressively, fortunately, I have an extra heart for them to stay on St. Felix Island, if they go ashore directly, I'm afraid it will really be a big deal!"
"The current 8,000 Taiping troops are so guarded, and now that there are 10,000 more soldiers at once, they still want to sleep? Not to mention that the prime minister also provided 10,000 weapons and ammunition before!"
"Don't sell it, just say it!" Iron Toutuo urged.
"Well, I suggest that the soldiers and weapons and equipment be separated, the reinforcements will land with their bare hands, and the weapons and equipment will be sold to Chile as goods! Don't be in a hurry to listen to me, just now Brother Weng and Brother Chen have introduced the war situation here very clearly, the three countries in South America are poor ghosts fighting, half of the soldiers in the army have muskets, and they are also primitive front-loading smoothbore guns......"
"Those Indian mercenaries, the best weapon is the European crossbow, to deal with such an army, equipment is not the key point, as long as it is not weaker than them......"
"Our brothers came all the way here to help him fight in Chile, and they are obliged to provide us with weapons and equipment, so we might as well sell these muskets and ammunition brought by the prime minister directly to Chile!"
"We've also inspected before, the arms trade here has been completely controlled by the British, and the weapons given to them by these black-hearted merchants are the lowest-grade goods and extremely expensive...... The most important thing is that these Britons only want gold to be traded and nothing else, which adds enormous pressure to the finances of the three countries......"
"We don't want gold, we only ask Chile to fill our 20 clippers with copper, silver and saltpeter, these minerals are as cheap as picking up in Chile, but the profits from shipping to the Ryukyus are not only ten times and twenty times the profit, and the profit of this trip is enough to buy another 40,000 people of weapons and equipment......"
"In this way, not only will Chile get cheap arms, but Ryukyu will also get scarce ore resources, and more importantly, this will greatly reduce Chile's vigilance against us...... What do you think, brothers?"
The four of them looked at each other, "Okay, listen to you!" This is indeed a good way, Chile is planning a war against the port of Iquique recently, and these weapons are still worth a large part of our final score, we will not suffer!"
Just when the four of them were in full swing to finalize the details, the voice of the guard sounded outside the door, "My lord, General Silapizo has brought someone here...... The four of them quickly changed their relaxed expressions and drank wine and waited for the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army.
Celapizo is not of South American descent, he is actually a descendant of European immigrants, with deep eyes, a nose, light brown hair, and a tall build. Perhaps it was the bloody battle of the Taiping Army that won his respect, so after entering the house, there was no Westerner's unique rebelliousness, but he enthusiastically stretched out his hand to Tietoutuo, "Welcome friends from afar, at the most critical moment of the war, your assistance will be engraved in the annals of Chile!" God bless you!"
After a brief greeting, the Chilean regular army and the heavenly army surrounded the tavern, and the whole street did not dare to pass by, they looked in horror at the Chinese god-killing brown army and the regular army with all Western-style equipment, and did not know what crime the owner of the broken tavern had committed.
But on the roof of a two-story inn not far from the tavern, a well-dressed English gentleman was drinking pineapple juice, and behind him a charming indigenous beauty was flirting on his shoulder.
"Reinforcements from China? This unproductive Silapizo actually put chips on the Chinese? It seems that I will have to increase the price of another 10% for him next time!"
"Do you want to make a quick decision? Hehe, what are you kidding, you guys are quick to decide, where can I go to make money?"
Henry, a British arms dealer, stared at the secret meeting in the tavern with a cold look in his eyes, his own intelligence network had reported to him that many soldiers from the East had suddenly arrived on the island of St. Felix, and he knew more about the great gathering of veterans of the kingdom of heaven in Southeast Asia four months ago.
But he didn't expect these people to come so quickly!