ps: I have to review the exam recently, and there are not many updates, so forgive me

"Boom Boom"

Three garrison artillery guns fired their first shots, and the shells hit the dense crowd of attackers, causing more than twenty casualties.

The first test firing of the three guns achieved good results, which gave a lot of confidence to the Bolivian soldiers on the city walls.

"After the test firing is completed, the departments are preparing the first round of salvo fire, targeting the enemy siege ladder."

The artillery officer defending the city commanded his artillery to prepare for shooting, and then the command flag in his hand was suddenly lowered,

"Launch"

The command fell, and eight heavy guns and a dozen light guns fired shells one after another.

The cannon roared, and more than 20 large and small shells smashed into the Indian army formation besieging the city, which immediately disrupted their offensive formation.

The open space outside the northern city is wider than that outside the east and west city walls, but more than 6,000 Indians and Chinese soldiers attacked together, which still made the open space not very wide.

"Don't mess around, keep the offensive formation, and rush forward another hundred meters, the enemy's shells will not be useful! Brothers rushed forward with me. ”

The shells roared, and the Chinese officer commanding a ladder ordered loudly.

"Boom"

A shell landed seven or eight meters to the left of the Chinese officer, directly destroying a moving ladder, and most of the Indian soldiers who set up the ladder lost most of them.

"Platoon commander, are you alright?" The waves from the shells knocked the Chinese officer to the ground, and the soldiers behind him hurriedly stepped forward and helped the Chinese officer to his feet.

"Don't help me, keep going, stay here and only be a target!" The Chinese officer stood up, ignoring the roar in his ears, and ordered loudly.

"Yes"

The Chinese soldier noticed that the commander was fine, and quickly returned to his position and pushed the ladder forward.

On the walls of La Paz, Medellín condescendingly observes the battlefield.

Advancing under enemy artillery fire, the attacking troops reached within 80 meters of the northern city of La Paz, less than 100 meters from the city walls, and the threat of the Bolivian defenders' artillery to the attacking troops weakened, at this time, the soldiers of the two sides fired at each other across the walls.

Fifteen Chinese soldiers armed with shields formed a small team, guarding both sides of the ladder to protect the soldiers below the ladder from enemy threats.

Sixty meters, thirty meters, ten meters, the huge ladder and logs finally arrived at the edge of the city wall, the ladder was raised, and it was erected on the city wall with a bang, and the Chinese soldiers below began to climb up along the ladder.

On the walls of La Paz, Medellín, who personally supervised the battle, became more and more ugly, is this still the uncivilized Indians of the past? Normally, the Bolivian army would fire a burst of muskets and the Indians would break up and flee.

However, these Indians in front of them, under the leadership of a small number of Chinese officers, not only dared to take the initiative to attack the Bolivian army, but were even able to persist in attacking despite the death and wounding of five or six hundred people.

The more Medellín thought about it, the more he was afraid, now it was difficult for the Indians under the command of the Chinese troops to deal with it, and if the main force of the Chinese Independent Army attacked, how many days would La Paz City be able to hold out?

Ladders were set up one after the other on the walls, and the Bolivian soldiers hiding behind the firing traps felt increasingly overwhelmed.

"General, there are more and more enemies, and my subordinates are about to be unable to resist, so I implore the general to send reinforcements to support."

Leaving the task of defending the city to his deputy, the commander of the defense of the northern city ran to Medellin for support.

"There are no reinforcements, there are enemies attacking in Dongcheng and Xicheng, and the last one is ready to be sent to support Xicheng, and now I have no troops to send."

Medellin Road.

"General, the enemy's offensive force in Dongcheng is weak, and it is too wasteful to place a large number of troops in Dongcheng, so I implore the general to transfer reinforcements from the east gate, otherwise it will be difficult to protect Beicheng."

The battle in Beicheng was fierce, although there were also enemies attacking in the east and west, but the intensity of the attack and the number of enemies could not be compared with Beicheng, therefore, Medellín thought that the main attack direction of the Chinese Independence Army was the North Gate, and wasting troops elsewhere at this time would be unfavorable to defend the city, so Medellín agreed to his subordinates' suggestion to transfer troops from Dongcheng to support Beicheng.

The distance between the east city and the north city is not far, after receiving the order of Medellin, the east city defenders immediately divided a thousand soldiers to reinforce the north gate, with a thousand fresh troops to join, the north city defenders immediately launched a counterattack against the Chinese soldiers and Indian soldiers who climbed the city wall, constantly forcing them to the edge of the city wall, temporarily reversing the unfavorable situation of the La Paz defenders.

In the battle between the two armies, not only Medellín personally commanded the battlefield, but Li Mingyuan also observed every move on the battlefield behind the attacking troops.

The feint does not mean to make a show, just to attack a wave and then retreat, the feint can also be used as the strength of the main attack to fight, after mobilizing the enemy's vital forces, a little breakthrough, and then take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy's defense line is destroyed, bet on all the combat forces, bloom in all directions, and every direction of attack can become the main direction of attack.

"Shizi, the enemy's Dongcheng strength is empty, and the opportunity for our army to wait has come, do you order the troops to attack immediately?"

Liu Pudao.

"Well, tell them they can do it." Li Mingyuan put down the binoculars and said with a smile: "After a few days of soldiers in La Paz City, it's time to pull out this nail." ”

"Take La Paz, there should be no large-scale fighting before fighting the Brazilian army."

Liu Pu sent a herald, and then answered.

"The attack on La Paz consumes a lot of ammunition, and I will have to compensate for it when I enter the city."

Before the battle of La Paz, Li Mingyuan did not plan to loot Bolivian cities, but after the conflict with the Melgarare country, Li Mingyuan changed his mind.

La Paz is one of the largest cities in Bolivia, and the only one who can be equal to La Paz in the entire Bolivia is Sucre, so it would not be too stupid to put such a big trophy.

Li Mingyuan's words were very straightforward, and Liu Pu naturally understood,

"Forget about the ordinary residents of La Paz, after all, the troops still have to march a short distance in Bolivia, and if the soldiers are allowed to loot the Bolivian residents, it will have a detrimental effect on the march behind the troops."

"Well, after entering the city, the troops will only confiscate the property of the Bolivian government, and as for the ordinary residents, as long as they are not enemies of our army, they will not be bothered."

Li Mingyuan said.

……

Before the capture of La Paz City, Li Mingyuan and Liu Pu began to discuss the issue of occupying the city, but the two of them did not consider the problem superfluous, and after the order was given, the troops attacking Dongcheng soon launched an attack.

Two light guns were placed on the mound outside the eastern city, and because the map of the fortifications of La Paz was obtained by the Chinese Independence Army, the two artillery pieces were put to use, and according to the data marked on the map, they launched an artillery bombardment on the eastern city.

The accurate artillery fire of the Chinese Independence Army destroyed the defenders' artillery hidden behind the city walls, and soon after the attack began, several artillery pieces of the defenders of Dongcheng were named and reimbursed by the two guns of the Chinese Independence Army.

There was no artillery support, and the Dongcheng defenders were insufficient, and half an hour after the attack was launched, the Chinese attacking troops attacked the eastern city wall, and as for the Dongcheng defenders, except for a small number of escapers, the rest were either killed by the Chinese soldiers or surrendered.

At the beginning of the news of the loss of the eastern city, Medellín also tried to piece together 800 people to support, but after less than ten minutes, less than half of the reinforcements sent out returned, and they were followed by more than 200 Chinese soldiers.

The last attempt to defend La Paz failed, and Medellín gave up hope and fled quickly towards the south gate, escorted by hundreds of soldiers around him.

As soon as Medellín ran, the other warlords in La Paz were not far behind, and they successively withdrew the walls and fled through the south gate.

The Chinese Independence Army had only a limited number of people attacking the city wall at first, and they had to divide their forces to encircle the remaining defenders on the wall, so they had no chance of preventing the enemy from escaping through the south gate.

The Bolivian soldiers ran away, and Li Mingyuan didn't care much about this, he valued the wealth and materials in the city, because these things were the most helpful to the Chinese Independence Army.

As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold. War is the best means by which a power grows.

In the early days of the uprising of the Chinese Independence Army, they were poor and white, and it was by constantly fighting and seizing the minerals, weapons, and wealth of the Peruvians that they had today's elite troops.