The loss rate of 1:7.5 was a big victory, but when the casualty data of the Chinese Independence Army was placed in front of Li Mingyuan, he was not happy.

More than 2,000 people were lost in one battle, followed by ambushes in Moyendo, Cusco, and Arequipa, according to this casualty ratio, another three or four thousand people were lost.

The Chinese army was difficult to replenish, and Li Mingyuan was not at ease to recruit South American natives as soldiers, so he felt a headache in the face of the casualties of the Chinese Independence Army.

At the end of the battle at Emmodut, Li Mingyuan called Liu Pu to hear if he had any good way to reduce the casualties of the Chinese Independence Army.

"Shizi, the losses of our army in this battle are indeed not small." Liu Pu has always been responsible for the statistics of the battle, so after listening to Li Mingyuan's words, he directly admitted the fact that the Chinese Independence Army had suffered losses.

"However, there is a reason for the casualties of more than 2,000 people in this battle, and the good combat effectiveness of the Peruvian army is one thing, and the rapid expansion of our army has led to a decline in the average combat effectiveness of soldiers is also a factor that has to be considered."

"There is indeed a problem with the rapid expansion of the Chinese Independence Army, and after the capture of Arequipa, all the troops will have to repair for a while." Li Mingyuan nodded.

"Shizi, I have a question, I don't know whether to say it or not," Liu Pu said tentatively.

"You know who I am, if there is a problem, I won't be angry."

"Since the prince intends to use southern Brazil as the base of our army, why should he delay time in Peru, as far as I know, the three Brazilian countries are stepping up their attacks on Paraguay, and I am worried that the Paraguayans will not be able to resist the attack and surrender of the three countries, and at that time we will not be able to defeat the armies of the three countries even if we add tens of thousands of troops."

"The Paraguayan army is stubborn, and it is not so easy for the three Brazilian countries to make López Jr. surrender."

It was now January 1868, and there were still more than four months before López Jr. broke through from the Humeita Fortress, so Li Mingyuan did not rush in.

"Shizi, after the annihilation of the three-way reinforcements, Moyando, Puno and Cusco, do you want to send troops to occupy them?"

"The three-way reinforcements have been wiped out, and these three places are not heavily defended, so of course we must take the opportunity to occupy them." Li Mingyuan said subconsciously, not understanding the meaning of Liu Pu's words.

"Shizi, not to mention the loss of our army after this battle for the time being, after occupying these three places, a total of no less than 25,000 troops need to be stationed, plus Arequipa, Barangca, Duraya and other places that need to be defended, the defensive strength of the occupied area alone will occupy about 50,000 troops, so that there are not many troops that can be assembled to deal with the Peruvian counteroffensive army."

Li Mingyuan frowned, he ignored the problem of garrison defense, now the area occupied by the Chinese Independence Army belongs to a sparsely populated mineral area, so leaving some second-line troops can deter the Peruvians in the jurisdiction,

However, with the victory of this battle, the Chinese Independence Army will definitely expand its sphere of influence, and while occupying a vast maneuver space, the Chinese Independence Army will have to leave enough troops to defend the place to prevent the Peruvians in the occupied area from rebelling.

"Dispersing the garrison is not a good idea, our army has always been able to achieve victory by relying on flexibility and mobility, and dispersing the garrison will limit our limited army to various towns and towns, giving the enemy every chance to break through."

After thinking about it, Li Mingyuan admitted.

"Shizi, after annihilating the Peruvian reinforcements and searching for Chinese workers in the newly occupied areas, the total number of Chinese under our army can reach 120,000. At this time, there were not many Chinese laborers left in other parts of Peru, so I suggested that after relieving the Chinese laborers in Puno and Moyendo, our army quickly withdrew from the occupied area and moved into southern Brazil after repairing in Arequipa for a month. ”

Li Mingyuan originally did not plan to occupy Arequipa and other southern Peruvian regions, so he considered luring the enemy deep and exchanging captured Peruvian soldiers for Chinese laborers, but now the situation has changed, and there are not many Chinese laborers left in the hands of the Peruvians, and waiting to exchange Chinese laborers with them is a bit more than worth the loss.

"It is necessary to withdraw from the occupied areas, but it is too cheap for Peruvians to give up the occupied areas for nothing." Li Mingyuan said.

"We take the supplies from the occupied areas, and the Peruvians get empty cities, and they don't get much cheap."

"Well, after this campaign, all the captured supplies will be transported to Arequipa City in batches, and the rest of the occupied areas will be gradually abandoned."

Although Arequipa City is still in the hands of the Peruvians, it is only a matter of time before the largest Peruvian reinforcement is resolved.

At the end of the battle at Emmodut, Chen Guozhu's soldiers were attacking Moyando's reinforcements.

"Sir, the enemy has an ambush." Manuel lay on the ground to escape the shelling of the Chinese army.

"Fools, fools know there is an ambush."

Rustuath scolded.

"Manuel, I'll give you a regiment of troops to resist the enemy's attack and cover the retreat of the others."

The equipment and combat strength of Lustut's soldiers were not as good as Umato's troops, and the Chinese army retreated after less than 20 minutes of attack, and some Peruvian soldiers surrendered with their heads in their hands.

"Sir, there are too many enemies to resist their attack, so I will retreat with the large army to protect your safety."

Just now you said that let me be your successor, and now when I am in danger, let me block the gun, so that I will not be so stupid, Manuel cursed in his heart, but he made excuses for not resisting the enemy.

Chen Guozhu and Zhou Daniu were four times the number of the Peruvian army, and the Peruvian army was powerless to fight back when the Lustuart army was unprepared.

Seeing that the army was defeated, it was impossible for Lustuat to organize a counterattack, so he did not hesitate to run towards the western desert.

As soon as Lustuath ran, the rest of the Peruvian soldiers followed suit, scattering and running in all directions.

"Brigade Commander Zhou, you lead the soldiers to deploy in all directions, and you can't let go of another Peruvian soldier."

Not to mention, Rustuat's soldiers were not good at fighting, but they were very good at escaping, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Chinese army's charge, more than 100 Peruvian soldiers escaped from the encirclement through the gap left by the charging Chinese soldiers.

"Yes, the third regiment, the fourth regiment will follow me." Zhou Daniu shouted, and the soldiers of the third and fourth regiments who were charging immediately stopped, turned around and ran towards the original defensive position.

After letting go of more than 300 Peruvian soldiers, Zhou Daniu led his troops to block the exit where the Peruvian army fled.

"Sir, there are enemies all around, and we can't escape." Because there were more than 500 soldiers gathered around Luth, Zhou Daniu specially surrounded his team, causing Lustuart not to run away.

"Don't run away, Manuel, you go and tell the Chinese rebels, just say that we are willing to serve them, and ask them not to hurt our soldiers again."

Luce paused to catch his breath and said.

"Sir, I don't know Chinese, so you better let someone else go." Manuel grimaced, afraid that he would be killed by ordinary soldiers before he could see the commander of the Chinese troops.

"I have a soldier here who understands Chinese, let him accompany you."

Manuel was about to excuse himself, but seeing Lustuart's unkind face, he hurriedly stopped what he had not yet spoken, and obediently took a translator to negotiate with the Chinese troops.

"Division commander, the Peruvian army sent two people with white flags, and they said that they would defect to us and serve the Chinese Independent Army."

"Haha, it's the first time I've met a Peruvian army willing to serve us," Chen laughed.

"You go and tell them, lay down your arms, and we accept their refuge"

"Division Commander Chen, the prince did not allow the Peruvian army to accept the formation to serve, so it's not good to do this." Zhou Da Niu Road.

"Brigade Commander Zhou, you don't understand this, let them lay down their arms and surrender first, as for the matter of surrender, we will report it to the prince, and it will be none of our business how the prince decides at that time."

"The soldiers are not tired of deceit, and they are still the commander of Chen." Zhou Daniu said suddenly.

Because Lustuath took the initiative to surrender, the battle to ambush Moyendo ended in an hour.

Chen Guozhu and Zhou Daniu's men suffered a total of 98 casualties, of which only seven were killed.

The results were much richer, with a total of 3,600 enemies annihilated, of whom more than 3,300 surrendered voluntarily, and less than 200 were killed in the battle.

"Haha, the prince will be very happy to see our battle report." Chen Guozhu looked at the sorted post-war data and laughed.

"Destroying 3,600 people, our army suffered less than 100 casualties, although there are reasons for the enemy's active surrender, the results are still very dazzling." Zhou Daniu said happily.

"That's right, I'm going to send someone to send the battle results data to the prince now, and make the prince happy."

Chen Guozhu said.

"Sir, we said we were going to take refuge in them, but why did they treat us as prisoners?" Manuel asked, standing in a wooden fence.

"It's all your good deeds, I asked you to talk to them about surrendering, you came back and said that they agreed to our surrender, so I ordered the troops to lay down their arms, but now they are holding us in, who do you blame for this," said Rustuat, still angry, kicked Manuel in the body, if he didn't have a pistol in his hand, he would have killed Manuel a long time ago,

The Peruvian soldiers who were captured around them looked at Manuel angrily, believing that it was his failure to negotiate with the Chinese that led to their current fate.

Manuel couldn't say that when Rustuat forced him to discuss with the Chinese Independence Army about taking refuge, the matter was good, the Chinese did not admit it, and all the Peruvian soldiers blamed him, which really fulfilled an old Chinese saying: young people have no experience and deserve to be deceived.