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Melgarejo commanded a good battle, but his luck was not very good, when he held La Paz, the city was well defended and the troops were abundant, and the Chinese Independent Army did not dare to attack rashly.

However, the favorable situation did not last a few days before news of the coup d'état in Adolfo came. As a last resort, Melgarejo led his troops back to Sucre, while La Paz was occupied by the Chinese Independence Army.

After attacking Sucre for most of the day, Melgarejo's troops ushered in a good opportunity to break the city, and more than 200 rebels inside the main gate launched an attack on the gatekeepers, and the rebels were once less than ten meters away from the city gate. If the troops outside the city find out about the situation at the city gate and send additional troops to attack, it is likely to break through the city gate in one fell swoop.

However, the situation changed here, and Melgarejo, who had not slept all night and rushed to the battlefield to direct the battle in person, was unable to personally direct the siege because of the relapse caused by the eight days of continuous raids and the blow caused by the loss of La Paz.

Therefore, Melgarejo temporarily handed over the command of the army to his brother Baliviaan, and went back to rest for a while.

The Balivian fought against the Native Americans, but was not quick to react to major wars.

Some of the defenders on the city wall rebelled and withdrew from the defense area, causing a weak joint in the defense of the city wall.

The siege officer noticed the situation and directed his soldiers to attack the weakly defended areas while passing the news to Balivian.

The presence of weak areas in the defensive positions of the defenders was either deliberate by the enemy, or there was an unexpected situation in the city, resulting in insufficient defensive forces.

For most of the battle, there were many casualties on both sides, and deliberately giving up the position of the city wall and letting the opponent into the city was undoubtedly an act of death, and Balivian ruled out this possibility from the beginning.

Therefore, there is only one possibility that something unexpected happened in the city.

The defensive battle of Sucre entered a white-hot stage, and the position of the city wall was sometimes broken through by the siege troops, and Balivian judged that the pressure on other defensive areas of Sucre was too great, and the defenders of the city wall drew troops from other defense lines to support, which led to the hole in the wall defense line.

Ballivian was correct, but he did not anticipate the possibility of a rebellion by the defenders of the city, so in the face of a new defensive weakness in the walls, Ballevian sent reinforcements to this one in an attempt to break through Sucre's defenses.

Balivian's decision was not wrong, but he only saw the direct cause of the hole in the city wall, and did not consider the deeper reasons, and the result was that Adolphus personally supervised the battle with the few remaining guards around him, resisting the attack of the siege troops, and the troops sent to the city gate and the remaining city gate defenders flanked back and forth, quickly annihilating the rebel soldiers.

The fighter plane was fleeting, and Balivian did not take the opportunity of the rebellion of the defenders in the city to break through the city gate, giving the Sucre defenders a chance to breathe, and it was even more difficult to conquer the city gate next.

The war continued, the roaring artillery fire drowned out the shouts of the battlefield, the shells and bullets were poured into the opponent's position without money, and the soldiers who died in the battle did not have time to transport away, and they were densely distributed on the positions under the city, while the wounded soldiers simply bandaged and picked up their rifles and re-entered the battlefield.

As the red sun began to sink in the west, Melgarejo stood on a high ground outside the city with a telescope and carefully observed the battle.

The battle was a contest of wills, and the quality of the besieging troops was much higher than that of the defending soldiers, and they showed good combat power in the initial attack.

However, no matter how powerful the army was, it could not survive a long-term, high-intensity German battle, and when it arrived outside the city of Sucre, it entered the battle without rest, and continued to fight for a day without making a significant breakthrough, which not only affected the morale of the besieging soldiers, but also Melgarejo felt a sense of loss.

Putting down the binoculars, Melgarejo gave an order: the attacking troops suspended the siege of the city, and all the soldiers withdrew two miles away to repair.

The order was passed to the front-line siege troops, and the officers who commanded the attack in each department breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ordered the soldiers to retreat, while the defending soldiers also cooperated and did not attack the retreating soldiers.

The battle lasted all day, not only the siege troops were weak in attack, but the defending soldiers were also exhausted, and the soldiers of the two sides who were also at the bottom fought each other based on the different camps they belonged to, and they were both white descendants and they did not share the hatred, and the temporary truce was what the soldiers on both sides wanted to see, so the soldiers on both sides of the front quickly disengaged, and soon there were no attacking soldiers under the city.

As night fell, a bonfire was lit in the barracks two miles outside the city, and seven or eight soldiers who were lucky enough not to be injured lay together and rested around the campfire.

The temperature difference between day and night in the Bolivian highlands is quite variable, and soon after the sun sets, the temperature begins to drop, and by eight or nine o'clock in the evening, the camp outside the city is a little cool.

The battle was fierce during the day, with 830 killed and 1,072 wounded by the 6,000 besieging troops, bringing the total number of casualties to 1,900, or one-third of the total.

In the nineteenth century, with the formation of modern armies, the degree to which the casualties of the troops was greatly increased, and some elite troops could still hold on to fighting if they suffered more than half of the casualties.

And the siege force suffered nearly a third of the casualties, already close to the red line of collapse, Melgarejo did not dare to risk ordering the troops to attack.

Since taking power, Melgarejo has put a lot of resources into the construction of his troops, and good weapons and sufficient training have made the troops of more than 5,000 people not many in number, but they have obvious advantages in the face of the same enemy.

Of the 830 men killed in the battle, 570 were the remnants of the soldiers brought by Medellín, less than 260 soldiers who really belonged to the line of Melgarejo, and of the more than 1,000 wounded, more than half were able to force the enemy.

If all the soldiers were organized, there would be a total of 4,600 combat-ready soldiers under Melgarejo's command.

As soon as he retired from the battlefield, Melgarejo planned to recuperate for a while and then continue the attack, but when he heard the news, he reluctantly gave up on the decision.

When he received the news of the fall of La Paz, Melgarejo sent soldiers to reconnoiter the whereabouts of the Chinese Independence Army, and just as the soldiers arrived, the vanguard cavalry of the Chinese Independence Army had advanced to a distance of less than fifty miles from Sucre, and the enemy's cavalry troops were only a hundred miles away from their side.

What is the concept of a distance of 100 miles? As long as the enemy moves at full speed, the two sides will meet head-on in less than half a day.

The Chinese Independence Army was marching faster than Melgarejo had expected, and it was already dangerous to continue the offensive at this time.

The longer a person has been in a high position, the more he does not dare to take risks, and Melgarejo is now in the same mindset.

In the three years he became president of Bolivia, he not only provided a large number of excellent equipment for his army, but also accumulated a lot of money for himself, the fall of La Paz and Sucre caused the loss of more than half of Melgarejo's property, but the money deposited in Peru and other countries was still enough for him to spend his life at large.

Wake up to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of beauties. Losing control of a country is heart-wrenching, but it is still a relatively good option to hold a large fortune compared to losing the war and being sent to the gallows.

The attack on Sucre was unsuccessful, the Chinese Independence Army was coming, and Melgarejo had little chance of a comeback.

After all, he is a big warlord and political tycoon who has been involved in the Bolivian military and political circles for more than 20 years, and Melgarejo quickly recognized his situation.

Knowing that stubborn resistance to the end would only make his death worse, Melgarejo made a practical decision: to make peace with Adolfo and the Chinese Independence Army.