1034 Iquique General Attack
According to the final statistics of the Battle of Ossaka, the Bovian army suffered more than 5,000 casualties and nearly 5,000 wounded, and the combat attrition of 10,000 was unprecedented, which was unprecedented in the history of South American warfare.
South America has never had a single war with so many casualties since its history, and the distant antiquity is no longer available, and during the reign of the Mayan and Inca civilizations, those warriors dressed in animal skins could fight a melee of about a thousand people can already be recorded in the poetry of the world, and the winners are legendary heroes.
In the era of Spanish colonization, hundreds or thousands of colonists armed with muskets could already rule a province or even a wider land, and the intensity of war at that time was basically concentrated in about 1,800 people.
The people here have never seen the big scene of hundreds of thousands of people being strangled together, nor have they seen the tragedy of hundreds of thousands of people being slaughtered in an entire city, and in their minds the war even has a bit of romanticism.
On the battlefield, the enemy and the enemy shouted wildly, and then lined up a few rows of muskets to shoot some crossbow arrows, and finally the brave heroes rushed up to intimidate the enemy with an invincible spirit, and watched the enemy flee in fear or kneel on the ground and sing conquest, this is the war they want.
But today, these gods of death from hell have taught them a lesson, war is never romantic, let alone a job that can be messed around, standing on the side of death, don't fantasize about being lucky.
The land of death and life, either life or death, if you want to mix, I am afraid that the last thing you will mix is your life.
The whole desert is full of corpses, and those poor worms who are seriously injured and can't run, and the more than 10,000 routs fleeing from afar will eventually become more than 10,000 viruses that release fear, and they will spread the news that Chinese cannot go to war and that Chinese are devils everywhere.
First Bolivia, then Brazil, Peru, Colombia...... Eventually, the whole of South America will be infected by this terrible virus.
This is what we want, and if these veterans of the Heavenly Kingdom and their descendants want to live well in the future, it is still necessary to have an appropriate atmosphere of fear.
10,000 soldiers directly fought and attrition, and the remaining 15,000 soldiers will be difficult to go to the battlefield in the short term, this killing has caused them a serious psychological shadow, and the sequelae of the war can not escape, even if some of them can barely go to the battlefield, but these people no longer dare to confront the Chinese army.
After the battle in the desert, Chile and China dubbed him the Ossaka Oasis Victory, while the Elk and Bolivian sides angrily called the Ossaka Massacre.
As for the local people, they directly renamed the oasis the Blood Pool, and for a long, long time no one dared to drink the water of the Osako Oasis.
Twenty-five kilometers was an hour or so for a fast horse, and two and a half hours was enough for Ondejong's vanguard to reach Iquique for a soldier marching on foot.
The cavalry who reported the news and the five thousand elites that Onderong had taken away set off from the oasis at about the same time, and Tietoutuo looked at the time on his pocket watch, it was exactly seven o'clock in the morning, and at this moment, the artillery battle in Iquique should have lasted for some time.
"Old man, the cavalry should have brought the news of the victory to Iquique an hour later, that is to say, the general attack on Iquique would begin at eight o'clock...... Tell the brothers not to be afraid of being tired, hurry up and hurry up, Tang Lei's brothers need support, the veterans with the strongest combat effectiveness are on our side, their strength is too weak!"
"Don't worry, General! Give me two hours, I'll be on the battlefield at nine o'clock! We'll be eating seafood and drinking wine in the city of Iquique tonight!"
"Brothers, let's go......" After saying that, Weng Derong rode his horse and ran to the west, followed by 5,000 Taiping soldiers and sags.
Chen Yonglu watched the old man leave with envy, turned around and yelled at his subordinates, "Hurry up and treat the wounded and clean up the battlefield...... Hurry up, we'll still get some soup to drink, and we won't be able to eat anything if it's too late!"
At this time, the artillery battle of Iquique City was at its most intense, and both sides had stored a large amount of ammunition in order to prepare for the battle, and the commanders on both sides did not have to think about the consumption of ammunition at all, and the land and the city had been covered by the fire and smoke of the explosion, and the sky had turned gray.
The Peruvian side relied on the forts to be strong and well-stocked, and the resistance was very brave, while the Chilean side also fought tenaciously with the superiority of the navy.
Wounded soldiers were constantly being carried off the battlefield on both sides of the enemy, and the military doctors in the rear were already busy with their feet touching the ground, and the screams were deafening.
Silapizo clenched the hilt of his sword tightly, and said anxiously, "Why hasn't there been any news yet? Will there be an accident? Am I too light, 10,000 ambushes and 25,000, how can I agree to such a big gamble......
"God willing, merciful God, please bless us with victory!"
Opposite Cirapizzo was the commander of the Peruvian garrison, who stood more reverently on the lookout of the fortress, and from a distance he seemed to be observing the enemy, but when he walked in, he would definitely surprise you.
This guy is facing east, clasping his hands together and holding the cross on his chest, praying, "God forbid, bless the reinforcements are coming, God forbid!"
Everyone asks God for victory, but who will God help?
Just when Cirapizzo's nervous palms were full of sweat, a team of fast horses came running from the rear, and no one dared to stop the surrounding Chilean troops, and the horse team rushed straight in front of the general.
"Report to the General! Ossaka's victory! Oasis victory! The 25,000 Bo army has completely retreated, and Iquique's reinforcements have been eaten by us!"
At that moment, it seemed that the entire battlefield was dead and silent, and there was silence in Cilapizo's ears, and he looked at Tang Lei in disbelief and muttered to himself, "Great victory?
Tang Lei rushed up and grabbed Cirapizo's hand and shook it desperately, "Victory, this is a wild victory! More than 10,000 people were killed, and all the rest fled in fear, and even the establishment was lost...... We're completely victorious, our flanks are safe!"
"Hooray!" the Chinese army in Chile suddenly erupted in a frantic shout, and the morale of the army suddenly swelled like the tide of the sea at the time of the full moon.
Silapizo let out a long breath and shouted haughtily, "I announce...... The general assault begins! Brave soldiers, let's go into the city!"
At a quarter past eight o'clock in the morning, the general offensive of the Chilean army officially began, and the soldiers like a tidal wave shouted and charged forward, and the seven fortresses encountered great pressure at the same time.
The entire battlefield was filled with Spanish shouts: "Surrender! Bolivian reinforcements have been defeated by the Browns...... You don't have any reinforcements......"
"Ossaka Oasis Victory...... All 25,000 troops were killed...... Surrender, you're doomed!"
With a thunderous roar, the faces of the Peruvian army were as white as dirt, and they didn't dare to believe it, because the cavalry of the brown army had already brought a blood-stained battle flag, that is, the battle flag of the Bo army, which was the evidence of iron.
Watching the battered and blood-stained Boesvian battle flag waving proudly in front of every fortress, all Peruvian soldiers felt a deep sense of despair.
But at this time, something unexpected happened on the sea.