"Believe me, there is nothing that the Prime Minister made that cannot be fulfilled! When he knew that you were fighting alone in South America, it only took more than two months to gather more than 10,000 veterans of the Nanyang Heavenly Kingdom to cross the Pacific Ocean......

"Back then, he said that he wanted to teach the foreigners who bullied us a lesson, and as a result, we slapped both the French and the Austrians in Europe!"

"The French Expeditionary Force is a hairy, and it hit its head like the SAR in the Ryukyus...... Needless to say, brother, I have played martial arts in front of the Taihe Palace in the Forbidden City! The Tartar Emperor and the prince were all frightened......

"The prime minister is the true dragon who rode the wind and thunder, he was born to bring us miracles!

Tietoutuo patted Chen Yonglu's shoulder, turned his head and said to the army: "Take the remains of our brothers, let's withdraw first! Don't cry and mourn, they Chileans lost, but we Chinese did not lose!"

"Go back and eat and drink enough, cultivate your physical strength and replenish supplies...... Since our army crosses the sand sea and reaches Bolivia, I don't believe we won't be able to fight a big piece of territory!"

Morale was finally stabilized by the encouragement of the Iron Heads, and the people sighed that since Iquique could not be captured, it would be a good idea to look at the enemy's weak army.

The Bolivian elite has just been scattered, and now is the time to fear the Chinese, and it is not impossible to take a few cities while the iron is hot.

If the elite of the Bolivian army is the same as last night, then even an attempt to attack the Bolivian capital is not out of the question.

In contrast to the frantic retreat of the Chilean army, the Chinese retreated in an orderly manner, covering each other and taking away the equipment that could still be used on the battlefield, carrying the remains of the wounded and dead brothers, and beginning to leave the artillery bombardment area in a very orderly manner.

The Peruvian soldiers in the ruined fortress breathed a sigh of relief, and at this moment even bursts of cheers rang out from the Peruvian Navy warships.

On the other hand, the Chilean army's mourning and Chinese grief and indignation, who have shed all their blood and are now going to shed tears, how did this battle that should have been won become this nest.

"It's past twelve o'clock, and the war is finally over......" The lookout of the Lima looked at his pocket watch, and stretched out a big stretch while standing on the lookout, but at this moment the corner of his eye suddenly flashed, and a faint smoke band suddenly floated from the southwest direction of the sea.

"What is it?" the lookout quickly took out his binoculars and looked around, "There is a ship, a steamship is coming quickly...... There are unidentified ships in the southwest, and they are extremely fast!"

"The smoke strip is pale white...... It's definitely a good quality anthracite that must be burned......!

The roar shook the officers on the battleship, and people looked in an incredible south-west direction, speculating about what kind of ship it was.

The port of Iquique faces the Pacific Ocean, which is geologically the confluence of the Pacific and South American tectonic plates, and the high Andes Mountains are squeezed out by the Pacific Tectonic Plate, which is located close to the coastline with a deep Chilean Trench.

Because of the existence of the trench, the islands in this area are very scarce, especially due west of Iquique is an endless sea, and the main channel does not lead directly to the west.

Therefore, the incoming ship cannot be a merchant ship or a civilian ship, and then look at the clean smoke belt, only the most expensive white coal, that is, anthracite burning, can make such a smoke belt, and the old sailors can distinguish it.

"Battleship! It must be a battleship! But why is there only one? Is there still a killer in the Chilean Navy? Or is there a madman among the naval commanders who are not willing to fail?"

"Whoever he is, send two warships to stop him, and if you dare to open fire, sink him immediately...... Stupid guy, what does a battleship want to do? Die......"

The Suns and Vascaran ironclads quickly broke away from the main force and headed southwest to meet them, two heavy frigates with a displacement of 1,200 tons, who had achieved outstanding results in the naval battle just now, and their morale was at the height of the moment.

The young captain felt that he should add another stroke to his credit book, so he did not mean to warn at all, but just shook his hand and ordered, "Shoot T-shaped after approaching two thousand meters, and the bow of the ship will meet the enemy with the guns on the starboard side to the south...... There is no need to warn, just sink it!"

The sailors on the battleship began to prepare busily, the 148mm main gun and other rapid guns were loaded, and waited for the ship to turn and deal a heavy blow to the invading enemy.

But as the battleships got closer and closer, the commanders of the Sun and the Vascalan suddenly felt that something was wrong, the warships in the distance were surprisingly fast, and they had reached a speed of 17 knots by sight, while their own warships were only about 14 knots at full speed.

"What kind of ship is this, how is it so fast...... And the shape of the hull is also very strange? Is it the main gun in front of it? Why are there so many barrels? How can it be arranged like this......

At this moment, the mysterious battleship suddenly flashed with fire on the bow, followed by a thunderous sound that quickly passed through.

"The enemy opened fire? Four kilometers away, they are crazy...... "No one could have imagined that the enemy ships would fire at such a distance, four thousand meters is actually not far for rifled guns, but this distance is no longer accurate for the artillery of that era.

More importantly, is this battleship ready to destroy the enemy with its bow guns? Is it ignoring our Peruvian Navy that he did not change his posture and fired his guns on the side to meet the enemy?

The Peruvian captain felt that his dignity had been ridiculed by the enemy, and that only one or two small-caliber naval guns could be placed in the bow and stern guns of the ship design at the time, and the real main guns were in the left and right side branches.

The enemy does not use the main artillery but uses the auxiliary artillery to attack, to put it bluntly, it is a great disdain for the Peruvian army, this is contempt for people.

"Damn! speed up...... Rush up and sink him......" Before the words fell, a loud bang was heard, and a huge fire suddenly erupted on the bow deck of the Vascalan, and the shock wave swept through everything on the deck.

The thin iron armor was torn apart, the sailors flew into the sky like rag dolls, all the glass in the command room shattered, and the sharp glass ballast pierced the captain's chest, and blood gushed out.

The first shot hit, and the first shot destroyed the 1,200-ton displacement ironclad battleship, and the parallel Sun 200 meters next to it lost its voice in fright, and the telescope in the captain's hand snapped and shattered.

“210…… Oh my God! It must be a 210 caliber gun, otherwise how could it be so powerful?"

"Am I dreaming? How can there be a battleship equipped with 210 caliber guns? God! What kind of madman actually put shore defense guns on the ship? Circumvent ...... Immediate S-shaped circumvention ......"