"Sir, it's still fifty miles from Arequipa, should we hurry up?"

A Peruvian officer addressed Lustuat, the commander of the Moyando garrison on horseback.

"Manuel, you're too young to understand what's going on in this matter." Lustuath rode on his horse, looking calm and breezy.

"Please also ask the chief for advice." Manuel leaned forward like a studious student and asked politely.

Lustuat just liked Manuel's deferential appearance, which would allow him to regain the dignity he had lost in front of Thomas Gutierrez.

Lustuate was not a direct descendant of Thomas, he was originally a subordinate of Mariano Ignacio Prado, who was also a major warlord in Peru, who came to power in April 1865 by a coup d'état, but after more than two months in the presidency, Mariano Ignacio Prado was ousted by someone else.

Lustart, who had no backer, threw himself into Thomas after Mariano Ignacio Prado stepped down in order to keep his position.

Thomas looked down on the half-hearted Rustuat and often laughed at him in front of others, while Rustuart, who was attached to Thomas, could only barely smile, but hated Thomas to death in his heart.

"Manuel, do you know how our army differs from that of Ikidok?"

"I don't know what I do."

"Hehe, you know it in your heart, but you don't dare to say it."

"I don't dare." Manuel thought that Rustuat was dissatisfied with him, and hurriedly expressed his position.

"Don't be nervous, I didn't doubt what you meant."

Lustuatt helped him, and continued, "The biggest difference between us and the Iquitok army is that the Iquitok army is Thomas's descendant, while we are a ragtag army. And although I am the commander of the garrison of Moyando, according to the customary law, the tax revenue of Moyando's port trade should be under my control, but Thomas specially sent a tax officer, who said that it is not good for the military to interfere in economic trade, and the military expenses of Moyando's army are paid by him every month. ”

"Sir, wise." Manuel duly slapped a sycophant.

"Manuel, I said these words to you to train you as the heir of the army, you have to think more about things in the future, don't be sold by others and count the money for others, now do you understand the reason why I postponed the rescue of Irekipa?" Lustuat encouraged him, thoughtful.

Hearing that Rustuat had the idea of appointing him as the successor of the army, Manuel's mood immediately became excited, carefully considering Rustuat's question just now, and said cautiously, "Does the commander mean to let them fight in front, and when the two sides are almost finished, we will go up and pick up the cheap?" ”

"That's right, if we get to Arequipa too soon, and after fighting the rebels, no matter who wins or loses, our army will definitely suffer heavy losses, and without the army in his hands, Thomas will be afraid of us, and he will definitely find an excuse to drive us out of the army, and then divide the rest of the army among his men."

"The chief is far-sighted, and there will definitely be a day when he will soar."

"Haha, I hope this day will come soon." Rustuat laughed and followed the troops.

Thanks to the timely support of Peruvian artillery, the crumbling position in the east of the town of Emodute has been temporarily stabilized, but the temporary security is in danger of destruction.

The headquarters of the command of the Independence Army, Li Mingyuan, after discovering the enemy's artillery positions, immediately ordered the cavalry regiment to assault.

"Commander Li, the enemy's heavy artillery has a longer range than the artillery I captured, so you can only rely on your cavalry regiment to destroy the artillery position."

"Rest assured, the humble post will definitely complete the task."

"Immediately when you attack, I will order the artillery to bombard the enemy's positions violently to provide you with cover."

"Humble duty understands."

After solving the problem of coordination, the more than 900 cavalry of the cavalry regiment immediately went out and rushed to the battlefield like a whirlwind.

The Peruvian artillery unit was located in a large open space in the center of the town.

Repelling the attacking troops from the east, Umato's artillery ordered the artillery to suppress the Chinese artillery units, the artillery units of the two sides were too far apart, even if the range of the artillery of the Peruvian army was greater than that of the Chinese Independent Army, but the specific location of the opponent's artillery could not be seen, the Peruvian artillery could only fire by feeling, and the two sides fired at each other, but there were few results.

Emmodute is on all sides, the east is the main direction of attack of the Chinese troops, the west and south are respectively in charge of Zhang Ansong, Luo Linshan's troops, only the north is not arranged troops, the north of the town is connected to a valley, Li Mingyuan arranged 10,000 troops around the valley, under the personal command of the chief of staff Liu Pu.

Liu Pu, as a strategist-type talent beside Li Mingyuan, is the first time to lead the troops to fight, but he is still very confident in the final combat mission this time.

The victory and defeat have not yet been decided on the battlefield, but with the exposure of Peruvian artillery units, Liu Pu knows that the defeat of the Peruvian army is not far away.

In order to enhance the strength of Liu Pu's troops, Li Mingyuan strengthened Wang Xiaoshan's garrison regiment and one of Feng Erhu's regiments to him.

Feng Erhu was originally the platoon commander of the machine gun platoon, and later with the expansion of the troops, Li Mingyuan split the machine gun unit into various infantry regiments, and Feng Erhu was assigned to the infantry unit as the regiment commander.

Although Feng Erhu no longer brought machine gun soldiers, he still attached great importance to the use of machine gun tactics, and when Feng Erhu was the commander of the infantry regiment, he specially asked Li Mingyuan for an extra machine gun platoon, so that his regiment had two machine gun platoons, and the other infantry commanders looked at him with a straight eye.

After arriving at the ambush site in the valley, Feng Erhu gathered the machine guns of other troops, there were a total of four machine gun platoons, two of the four machine gun platoons were directly arranged in the middle of the road in the valley, and the other two machine gun platoons were arranged on the mounds on both sides of the valley.

Feng Erhu is ready to use his best skills to show his might, and Wang Xiaoshan also wants to prove himself through this battle.

When he first arrived at the ambush position, Wang Xiaoshan put down his words, "I made a mistake in the last reconnaissance and was pushed to the end by the prince, and now the prince has given me a chance to atone for my crimes. ”

After Wang Xiaoshan's encouragement, the morale of the soldiers of the garrison regiment was high, and they waited for the Peruvians to come and kill them.

"Chief of Staff, why haven't the Peruvians come yet?"

Feng Erhu said a little eagerly.

"Captain Feng, it's almost there." Liu Pu said and pointed to the cavalry troops rushing outside the town of Emmodut.

Li Dawei led the cavalry regiment in a circle and broke through the western position in charge of Zhang Ansong.