Home is a curse for Chinese, with a home there is a root and security, ancestors can have a place to worship, descendants can have a place to raise, their past and present lives, their ancestors and descendants have been linked and inherited in one family word.

For the sake of a family word, Chinese can give up everything and even their lives!

Weng Derong threw this bombshell at the most critical moment, and soon the more than 7,000 Taiping troops on the battlefield all knew the news.

At that moment, their eyes radiated a wolf-like light: "I'm his ancestor's! Don't say it earlier, it turns out that the front is our home, and we will have roots after Iquique!"

The veterans who were full of enthusiasm and heat tore their shirts and ran forward naked, carrying explosives bags, and at that moment what supported them in the battle was not the brainwashing of the false worship of God, let alone the upper body of some strange god, they had only one thought in their hearts.

In front of me is my house, so I have to go home!

The 7,000 Taiping army was 7,000 madmen, almost all of them lost their weapons, all of them carried explosive bags on their backs, and they even emptied all the explosive bags prepared for this battle.

The ground was covered with naked Taiping soldiers like ants, there were shaking pennants everywhere, the drums in the rear were already dense like thunder, and the Chilean soldiers who were screaming were like ashes.

"Chinese crazy! Why aren't they afraid of death? What the hell are they fighting for? They are not human, they are not human beings from the same planet as us......

Tang Lei burst into tears with excitement, and he said with a trembling mouth: "You don't understand, you people who have been colonized for more than 400 years and have forgotten the glory of their ancestors will not understand!"

"You have given up your long-standing glory and have chosen to bow to reality, and you have willingly taken for granted under the colonial rulers...... You people will not understand the proud soul of the Chinese!"

"We don't want to be enslaved, we weren't born to be slaves, two thousand years ago we Chinese knew that the prince and the prince would have a kind of reasoning, you may be able to temporarily bully us, but you will never let the Chinese accept the fate of slaves!"

"The Chinese are not you indigenous people who accept their fate, and the descendants of China will never be slaves! If I have a family, I will be a person who stands up to the sky! This is the spirit of fighting to the death!"

The veterans of the Taiping who were like moths to the flames swept down by pieces of artillery fire and bullets, but there were also pieces of lucky people who broke through the fire net and rushed under the fortress, and the explosives bags were already piled up more and more under the horrified eyes of the enemy.

The explosives wrapped in these oilcloths are so helpless that even if you pour water on them, they may not be able to destroy the oilcloth, all they can do is to keep firing and reduce the number of soldiers who charge up, so that the number of these explosives bags is reduced, at least after the explosion, there will be no serious damage.

Weng Derong ran wildly on the battlefield, the largest flag inspiring more soldiers to move forward, and the rhythm of the entire battlefield was completely controlled by the Taiping flag.

"Brothers...... Where there is a family, there is peace...... Where there is a family, there is peace!"

"If you have a home, you will have a ......" At this moment, suddenly there was a rumbling sound in the sky, as if a carriage had run through the air.

Immediately after that, there was a boom around Weng Derong...... The three shells exploded almost simultaneously, and the smoke and smoke engulfed everything and the Taiping Banner.

The battlefield suddenly froze, and Tang Lei and Silapizo were stunned for a moment, "General Weng...... Brother Weng ......" The two shouted in unison.

"Hurry up and save people, go to General Weng ......"

The Taiping troops around the explosion point on the battlefield couldn't believe their eyes, they ran like crazy towards the smoke of gunpowder, how much they hoped that a miracle would happen at that moment.

But war is war, and death will not show mercy to anyone, and when the smoke clears, all people see is the corpse of Weng Derong like a blood gourd, covered in shrapnel, but his hand is still tightly clutched to the flag.

The Taiping flag was planted on the sand at a 35-degree angle, and the broken military flag pointed directly at the opposite fortress, and at that moment people seemed to be able to hear the shout of Weng Derong charging.

The "Big Brother ......" suddenly fell to his knees on the battlefield, and the big brother who led the uprising of the pig miners finally slept in this land, dying.

"Ah......" the people let out a wolf-like roar, "Avenge the big brother! Revenge, ......" The explosives were ignited one by one, and the earth trembled with a loud rumbling sound.

The fortress due south was captured, the fortress due east was blown open, and the fortress to the northeast was severely damaged...... At this point, four of the seven Iquique satellite fortresses have been uprooted.

Syrapizo had tears already left, and he silently drew his sword and said to the officers around him, "This is obviously our war, why are we not as brave as these Chinese?"

"Chinese a general died in battle, are our Chilean officers cowards......! We're going to have to shed some blood for this war!"

"Blow the horn of the attack, our Chilean army...... We will win the battle to the death!"

Syrapizo dropped his scabbard, stepped forward with his sword in his right hand and a pistol in his left hand and began to stride forward. He was flanked by equally inspired Chilean officers, who drew their swords and threw their scabbards off, swords in hand and pistols in the other, clustered around the general's flanks.

Then the generals' guards, guard battalions, and even logistics engineers followed, and the whole battlefield was filled with an extremely tragic atmosphere.

At this moment, it was eleven :20 in the morning, and the reinforcements from Tietoutuo and Chen Yonglu in the east also arrived, and the two of them were speechless when they saw this scene.

The Peruvian Navy knew that the situation was urgent, and they gave up chasing the remnants of the Chilean warships, and swarmed towards the sea, and the guns of the warships that had just reached the effective range began to roar.

"Blow up these Chileans...... Kill those Chinese mercenaries...... Fire, fire!"

"Give them a taste of power with our large-caliber naval guns...... In this era, firepower is king!"

After the end of the naval battle, the Peruvian side could still bomb 19 warships, and the firepower of these warships was close to the output of two army artillery regiments.

In the era when warships were king, why did ironclads become strategic weapons? It was because of the large number of artillery pieces and the large caliber and powerful caliber.

The ironclad ships floating on the sea are actually huge mobile batteries, and the recoil of the guns can be effectively transmitted to the sea through the hull, so as long as the keel is strong enough, you can theoretically add a giant cannon of any caliber.

What's more, the ironclad ship can also move, and there is no problem with hitting and running or running while fighting, which is an advantage that the army artillery regiment cannot match.

Land artillery, if you want to pursue a large caliber, you have to give up mobility, if you pursue mobility, then you have to reduce the caliber and power, this is a dilemma.

Only steel warships can balance the two difficult problems of firepower and maneuverability, which is the fundamental reason why the doctrine of big ships and giant artillery was rampant in the world before the advent of aviation weapons.